jammy2211
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The game is on-rails.
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Nintendo 64 Games launched with a £70 price tag 0_o. Even late games like Donkey Kong 64 and Conkers were £60.
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The article has alot of sensationism, and misses out alot of facts. The general theme rings true but it should be taken with a pinch of salt. Anywho, what is causing publishers to lose money more then most is just trying to use last-gen sales trends and practises this generation. The market has changed, consumers buy products in different ways now, EA and Activision need to understand that. They're in the process of adjusting to the new model, then figures will pick up. The articles skips around companies like Capcom, Konami and Ubisoft, who despite the strong Yen, Global Recession, no behemoth HD hits for the year and heavily supporting HD developement are reporting fiscal year profits thus far. Revenue is at an all time high, just profits arn't. Costs of making games are higher, true, but when revenue is highest then profits are potentially highest, it's just a matter of time until EA and Activision's finances reflect this.
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The problem for me is that music is completely subjective, musical complexity (Or how big a drum kit the band has) doesn't make the music and better or worse, because everyone has different tastes and whatever. Whereas, how realistic a game looks is objective. How much it pulls off technically is just numbers and figures. I understand you can get subjectivity with art styles and whatnot but even then, the programmers and artists would probably rather make the best looking cel-shaded game then a good looking cel-shaded game. Companies should be going for a less realistic look with their games though (Albeit they best not go in the direction of that majestic march game lol). It really comes down to the studio in hand on what they want to (And what they financially can do). The reason most people go into games developement is because they enjoy games, and so for most of them (And the ones I've spoken to) they want to go down the PS360 route of developement, as that's what they grew up with.
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I was trying to avoid giving this away in the IGN podcast thread lol. But yeah, definitely a good announcement, very interesting when you consider the sort of market it's aimed at too. Good to see EA branching out further, albeit there is still a bit of cheek to it with Dead Space 2 heading to PS360 (Albeit maybe that'll have a Wii version?) Either way, hard to get too excited before screenshots. Dead Rising Wii sounded promising too...
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Seeing more Mega Man 9 style developement would be awesome, there was something like that on the DS but I think it turned to vaporware. Some minnow developed who probably went bust. But yeah, RPG's need to sort themselves out. I think Square are trying to 'revolutionize' their games but the problem is at the same time they're trying to not alienate their hardcore fanbase, and we're then left with a mish-mash of new innovative ideas which arn't fully realized because they dare not change enough to make it work. For me though I don' think FFXIII is the game they should be changing much. It's Final Fantasy, it's an epic incredible gaming experience and the pretty much represents Square-Enix on the global scale. I'm happy for essentially 'more of the same' provided it's up to the high standards set by all their previous final fantasies. Maybe use Versus to mix things up? I'm not sure.
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http://www.consolegaming.eu/newspost.php?id=1372 Interesting...
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Fiddlesticks.
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Retailers choose how much stock they order, not the publisher. It could sell out it's initial stock and still be a flop, if the retailers just didn't but into the product. It's an irellevent figure to be honest. The game flopped in Japan I'm sure, it's not going to hit 6 figures... I doubt that'll see Namco any sort of a return. Probably come to the west though.
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Oh for god sake, whenever I think of buying a Wii game the sequel is always announced before I get around to it. Same with DS, sigh. Looks cool though, gonna be living in a flat with some mates next year so I'll probably pick this up for multiplayer .
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Can't believe you didn't put a rumour tag on this to begin with. But yeah, bit of a stupid thing to do. Oh well, we'll see if any news that comes from THQ is close to this...hmm.
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Dead Rising didn't flop on 360, it did really well, just Capcom see it as their best money making opportunity, most likely after the success of the Resident Evils. It's the same premise really, shoot zombies etc. Dead Rising 2 is coming to PS360 btw... just encase you're interested As for Zack and Wiki, it sold well (According to VGchartz....) but most of those sales were after retail price cuts, it had an iffy initial reception and once retailers cut the price then revenue is nearing minimal. Nintendo published it in Europe, and DID give it TV advertising, and it struggled even more here, so I doubt Capcom investing millions of dollars into a Z&W advertising campaign would have made any sense. I still think we'll see a sequel... EDIT: Just seen Sven on the Capcom-uninity boards hinted at Zack and Wiki not making a profit too, so it's not just a misquote or whatever supposedly. Guess some figures somewhere are way-off, I'd imagine retailers cut this games price VERY quickly. EDIT 2: Quote from Sven on Capcom-unity (Not in reply to me): Dam you VGchartz *Shakes fist*
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Trailer was great but the music needs to be changed. Interesting non the less.
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Rumor Control - IGN's Nintendo Voice Chat
jammy2211 replied to pedrocasilva's topic in Nintendo Gaming
It wasn't sarcastic. Mmmmmmm. -
Rumor Control - IGN's Nintendo Voice Chat
jammy2211 replied to pedrocasilva's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Dead Space has been EA's best success of the holiday season (Along with Left 4 Dead). It's nearing the 1.5 million milestone (Without PC sales) and still holds it's full retail price, one of the few games to do that at the majority of retailers this Christmas. I'm sure they covered developement costs well before it reached the 500k mark and total costs somewhere around 600k - 700k. The game being a success is as much reason to bring it to the Wii as it is if the game flops. -
Rumor Control - IGN's Nintendo Voice Chat
jammy2211 replied to pedrocasilva's topic in Nintendo Gaming
He's hinting at Dead Space Wii . -
Ubisoft seem amazing at ripping off Nintendo. First Nintendogs, then Brain Ages, then Wii Fit, maybe throw in the Rayman RR game as a Mario Party rip off, and now Smash Bro's. But yeah, this looks pretty forgetable at the moment, will give it more attention once I see gameplay footage. It just looks like a Smash Bros clone with no where near the appeal or anywhere close to the amount of content.
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GTG, here's the link! http://www.consolegaming.eu/newspost.php?id=339
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I'm looking forward to this, great concept. Might not be that great, see how it pans out. A March release seems awfully early for something I've heard minimal about though.
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Yeah, like most betas :/.
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Less competition, I'd guess. I mean, aside from GAME and GameStation (Who are owned by the same company) there are no major game retailers. Sure there are alot of places which do video games but that's about it. Not sure how it is in mainland Europe mind you.
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Fair enough, although I find it hard to believe they're the only games you can possibly be looking forward to on the other systems. But yeah, one mans garbage is another mans treasure, or something like that.
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The first two came to Europe and America so I'd imagine we'll eventually see it. Maybe they flopped hard or something.
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The Producers of The 1UP Show form Area 5: Launch new show “CO-OP”
jammy2211 replied to Cookyman's topic in Nintendo Gaming
I didn't say that, I just said it was pathetic that he wished people with families to feed would lose their jobs just because supposedly they disagree with him. Considering he's never met these people in person it surprises me he even cares, not to mention has such a hatred towards them. And @metroid, they didn't 'go under'. I'm not sure the whole story but some big media company bought them out and then fired most of their staff and is doing some crazy stuff with their site now. -
It took over a week for me to receive Bioshock but that was during the xmas period. Play can takes ages though.