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Great Moments in Games PR History
Games Radar has a piece up entitled The Top 7 PR Disasters. Focusing mainly on the last few years, it highlights things like 'All I want for Christmas is a PSP', Hot Coffee, and (of course) Uwe Boll. Daikatana makes number 3 on the list: "Daikatana could have been just another mediocre shooter that passed silently into obscurity, leaving no imprint except a valuable lesson for Ion Storm's developers and a vague bad taste in the mouths of gamers. Unfortunately, Romero and his big mouth had to go and hype the s**t out of it, and as a result Daikatana is blamed not only for sinking Ion Storm, but also for sending Romero's career plummeting from stardom to relative obscurity." Though it's not mentioned on the list, elsewhere 3D realms is owning up to the embarrassment that is Duke Nukem Forever .
Oh god how I love being a Playstation owner!
I still have stories and articles saved off from back in the Dreamcast and Xbox days like this one that I go back to and re-read. They are so desperately sad like this one.
So please Dreamcast and Xbox fanboys. Make it good with your posts! Let it all out you may be pathetic enough to be saved off for posterity!
Meanwhile back in the real world:
The 360 continues to sell less worldwide than the first Xbox fiasco.
The 360 is deader in Japan than the first Xbox.
The 360 continues to flounder in Europe.
The 360 continues to have hardware failures at a rate greater than all previous consoles combined.
The 360 online service is getting laughed at by the online gaming community - 50 dollars a year for NO DEDICATED SERVERS WTF?
And Wii sales continue to fall every month.
The Wii only was able to beat out the six year old PS2 by 50k units last month.
Guess that waggle hype is starting to wear off..."None of my friends want to come over and play Wii Sports anymore!"
Come on fanboys! Let's hear it!