Game Developers: Stop Overpromising

Andru Edwards writes "Recently, there has been a flurry of game developers releasing games which did not live up to expectations the developers set earlier on. Due to this pratice of overhyping upcoming games, gamers have become wary of those games which have major hyoe behind them. Here is a look at which developers are falling victim to the hype, as well as why Nintendo's frustrating strategy might actually be the best approach after all."

Comments

Re:Open letter to the citizens of the United State

[Govno]

Every time I see the name of that newspaper I'm reminded of an old Russian proverb: There's no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

2 words for Sid Meier

[charlesbakerharris]

Civilization 3.

Ugh, what a best-selling train wreck that was.

Re:Stop Overpromising

[ppz003]

Or how about the movie industry? Seriously, how many crap movies are put out each year, with ever last one of them promoted as the biggest, baddest, bestest blockbuster of the year? How many are worth my money, maybe 1 or 2.

Re:If I had modpoints...

[Blakey Rat]

This is Slashdot.org, remember? Don't bother wasting your own moderator points, talking up Nintendo on Slashdot is always worth a +5 informative. God forbid you mod up a PS2 or XBox post, though...