I guess full compatability across all generations would have been nice for some, I wouldnt have paid more for it though. I have nice memories of Boxxle, F1 Race and Mario's Picross, in fact I still have the cartridges but I have never bothered to plug them in to my SP. I guess is kind of like emulators when I feel nostalgic, its fun for a few minutes but usually I just scratch my head and wonder what I saw it when I was a kid.
Hmm Kutaragi stepped down after a series of blunders as well...
Billions in Losses. Every PS3 overpriced by design. Only 3.6million sold since launch. A sell-thru rate on Bluray disks at less than 2 per player sold. Little Big Planet looks like a boring tech demo rather than a game.
Stick a fork in the miserable disaster that is called Playstation3, it's done.
Not that any of that means anything...but its real easy for a few words to be change the perspective to that of the other sides fanboys. Both have had their problems and probably will continue to, what I don't get it why its so important to some people to have one fail?
Most of MS's problems have stemmed from Moore sticking his foot in his mouth. He has been easily one of the most arrogant "leaders" in the gaming business rivaled only by Kutaragi. Most of MS's pr problems can be directly related to some boneheaded comment by Moore from "3% failure rate" and "Y'know, things break" to this weeks remarks about wanting Final Fantasy as a 360 exclusive. I am guessing the "personal reasons" are more in line with Kutaragi's dismissal from Sony. I certainly dont see this as the "put a fork in it" end of the 360 that the Sony fanboys are wishing for, if anything it will give MS an opportunity to right the ship and perhaps get someone in that position that can be a little more in touch and sympathetic to their audience. I nominate Hironobu Sakaguchi he is already in house and could be the "face" that would give MS an inroad to the Japanese market that has been impossible to attain.
Throw me in with the "I thought it was a gimmick" crowd. I have been a gameboy fan since the old grey brick but didn't think the DS was going to fly. Of course I bought one anyway (I was also one of the suckers that picked up a virtual boy) it was fun and it could play all my GBA games so I was satisfied with it. Then came Phoenix Wright, Lost in Blue, Touch Detective, Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and dozens of others and I found it wasnt so much of a gimmick after all. Nintendo just has this knack for finding new ways to play.
Two years ago the Gameboy had a name recognition that the DS could only dream about. Fast Forward to now and the DS is projected to sell over 100 million in 2007 alone. It took 3 years for Nintendo to get to 75 million with the GBA&GBASP. Everyone who could possibly be interested in a handheld gaming system knows what a DS is.
It will still be sad for those of us who have been gameboy fans from the greyscale years to the GBA. I am curious about Iwata's comments when the DS launched that the DS was not a replacement for the Gameboy and that a new gameboy would come eventually, has that tech been scrapped or just rolled into the next version of the DS. Concidering the DS has backwards compatability his comments never made sense to me anyway, but he went out of his way at the time to say that the GBA was a separate product line. Perhaps it was simply so the GBASP would continue to sell?
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Just wait until the PSN downloads are fully up and running...there are sure to be plenty of holes found there. No console or handheld has ever been hackproof, hack resistant sure, but the challenge only seems to make the pirates and homebrew crowd work harder.
The battery shown so far has been a 1200mah one while the one in the current PSP is 1800mah. If thats the case and it still gets a longer battery life, they have achieved quite a bit. Anyone know exactly what changed to get such a huge bump?
Does Sony pay you to post this crap? I'm pretty sure your the same clueless shill that posts anytime anything less than sunshine and rainbows is posted about Sony since the language of an unsupervised 12 year old seems to be the highlight of each little comment. You should really try harder and at least post something to do with whatever thread your cussing about, we were talking about PR and Marketing with Sony while your ranting about the drives. I fail to see the "fake" outrage or for that matter any outrage at all, I couldnt care less, I dont own Sony stock, I just find it hard to believe that after this much time in the game business they keep finding more and more ways to alienate or irritate their audience (excepting for unsupervised 12 year olds which they are evidently hitting fairly well).
Uggh I had blocked the goat thing from my mind. After thinking about it things have really been going downhill on the PR side since that whole black vs white and graffiti PSP campaigns long before the PS3, you would think after those they would have shifted gears a bit.
If I was Howard Stringer the first thing I would do is fire the entire marketing staff. So far their advertising and handling of everything related to the PS3 has been bungled. From the crying baby advertisements that were outweirded only by Sega's Dreamcast campaign, the early arrogance in the press, to the latest price cut, its not a price cut debacle there hasnt been one element of their PR that has worked in their favor.
First it was suggested this morning that Nintendo was abandoning hardcore, now we are being told that two of the most "hardcore" franchises are going old school in their gameplay. Hmmm sounds like maybe Nintendo is just playing smart and going after new gamers AND the old fans, nothing wrong with that.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? Even if they attempt simplified Zeldas and Metroids its not going to mean that traditional ones dissapear forever. For the established gamer Zelda and Metroid are franchises to the casual audience its just another game to choose from. If the game doesnt sell to the usual crowd it will either have to stand on its own as enjoyable title or they will no doubt go back to drawing board and try to recapure the audience they already had. Mario is in a different league, its recognized by non-gamers just like Pokemon and Sonic, so thats not a concern with those titles.
The Wii could very well be a gateway console for gaming leading people to the harder stuff down the road. I really cant see Nintendo totally abandoning their established fan base, but I can see an extra emphasis being put on grabbing new gamers. There are still plenty of "hardcore" titles in the pipe. Don't worry about it, no need to be elitish about it, the more people gaming the better.
3.6 Million PS3's have been sold so far and 5.5 Million have shipped so there are just a little less than 2 million out there of the old kind not to mention the ones that are sitting in warehouses waiting to ship. Its not like they are going to run out soon. This is the video game equivalent of the car salesman on tv telling you that everything is marked down and must go but hurry before their all gone. Just a feeble attempt at moving inventory, nothing more.
AT&T forgot to mention how open access would increase competition and reduce their stranglehold on the market. We have been down this path before when AT&T was broken up, anyone old enough to remember having to essentially rent your phone from Ma Bell? AT&T and SBC managed to gobble up Ameritech, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, Bell Shouth and after merging themselves we are right back were we started, yet they have the nerve to call Google's request self-serving. Maybe its time for the FCC to wake up and realize that open access isnt going to inhibit growth, it will enhibit AT&T's version of growth which has always been expand and strangle out competition in markets they want to be in and own enough spectrum to make expansion into area's they may not even see as worthwhile difficult for anyone else to grab a foothold in.
This isnt anything new, there have been years to prepare for it and hardly anyone has done anything beyond whining about it. Drop your commerical music and go with open music, those that want the exposure will follow, sure you wont be able to compete with clearchannel but how else do you expect to change the industry. As long as the bottom end of the music business continues to prop up the existing regimes it will not change. If it means going talk radio or picking a banjo yourself it doesnt matter, what they want is silence and lack of competition.
The comments from Ubisoft this week that they had no intention of creating a playable demo pretty much killed any enthusiasm I had for Assassin's Creed. In the days of broadband and no disk needed demos, there is just no real excuse for not having one. The only thing that comes to my mind is the way movies that refuse advanced screenings for reviewers generally do it to prevent anyone from knowing how bad a movie is before its released. What we have seen of it has looked great, but so does every Michael Bay trailer. Without a demo I can only assume that either the game lacks depth and variety so if you spend ten minutes with the demo you have pretty much experienced it all, or its just lacking in general. Hopefully I'm wrong but this just guaranteed I wont buy it until I see some reviews.
I assume that is what the E.I.E.I.O. thing that Gamecock was planning was all about. They were the last time I read up on it planning to do an actual show next year but this year were supposed to be doing a sort of mini event near the site of E3. I have not seen any press coverage of that though so I am not sure if they pulled if off or not.
I agree with everything you said, my only beef is that in the past the only ones who truly benefited from E3 as far as getting deals done were the small guys...without them isnt E3 a rather pointless dog and pony show for the press?
This has less to do with shafting Mac and Linux users and more to do with DRM. BBC is extremely paranoid about its content falling into the hands of consumers outside their control. Look at the website for Torchwood, you can't even view it if your outside the UK. It's not right but it fits with their approach on access to their content. Never mind that people can capture video on their PC's with a 30 dollar tuner card or record shows on dvr's. I wouldnt be surprised if more time and money went into the drm than the actually streaming process itself. Sure they loose a small but decent percentage of their viewers, but at least David wont be able to view Dr Who from the US and Billy wont be able to keep a copy.
Thats great except it didnt really get any manufacturers and industry buyers together that didnt already have their deals in the bag. The limited floorspace and presentation time forced out many of the smaller developers. This wasnt about the big guys not wanting to duke it out with each other is was more about the big guys not wanting to be shown up by the little guys. Development houses like Gamecock, XSEED, Techmo and SNK being a few who were either told they needed an invite or decided it was too much for too little return.
In the long term the ones being hurt by the new E3 will eventually be the consumers. Though the old format was full of chaos, the "fanboy" aspect helped fuel excitement and helped games that would otherwise be overlooked to get a leg up.
I think most peoples problems with UMD stem from Sony's reluctance to to anything with it. At least with minidisc I could record my own. TV out on the new PSP is a nice start but wouldnt it be nice to have a mini umd player you could hook up to the tv or better yet a UMD recorder. The UMD was presented as a media format for the future but hasnt amounted to much at all. When UMD movies hit, most belived there would be eventually be stand alone players, yes the resolution is low but its better than VHS and good enough for smaller tv's. Dorm Rooms, kids rooms and car video systems are places I could see it blossom. Instead most of the movie companies have dropped UMD completely and the format is mostly dead. Sony's lack of vision with their proprietary standards has bitten it in the ass again.
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I guess full compatability across all generations would have been nice for some, I wouldnt have paid more for it though. I have nice memories of Boxxle, F1 Race and Mario's Picross, in fact I still have the cartridges but I have never bothered to plug them in to my SP. I guess is kind of like emulators when I feel nostalgic, its fun for a few minutes but usually I just scratch my head and wonder what I saw it when I was a kid.
Hmm Kutaragi stepped down after a series of blunders as well...
Billions in Losses. Every PS3 overpriced by design. Only 3.6million sold since launch. A sell-thru rate on Bluray disks at less than 2 per player sold. Little Big Planet looks like a boring tech demo rather than a game.
Stick a fork in the miserable disaster that is called Playstation3, it's done.
Not that any of that means anything...but its real easy for a few words to be change the perspective to that of the other sides fanboys. Both have had their problems and probably will continue to, what I don't get it why its so important to some people to have one fail?
Most of MS's problems have stemmed from Moore sticking his foot in his mouth. He has been easily one of the most arrogant "leaders" in the gaming business rivaled only by Kutaragi. Most of MS's pr problems can be directly related to some boneheaded comment by Moore from "3% failure rate" and "Y'know, things break" to this weeks remarks about wanting Final Fantasy as a 360 exclusive. I am guessing the "personal reasons" are more in line with Kutaragi's dismissal from Sony. I certainly dont see this as the "put a fork in it" end of the 360 that the Sony fanboys are wishing for, if anything it will give MS an opportunity to right the ship and perhaps get someone in that position that can be a little more in touch and sympathetic to their audience. I nominate Hironobu Sakaguchi he is already in house and could be the "face" that would give MS an inroad to the Japanese market that has been impossible to attain.
Throw me in with the "I thought it was a gimmick" crowd. I have been a gameboy fan since the old grey brick but didn't think the DS was going to fly. Of course I bought one anyway (I was also one of the suckers that picked up a virtual boy) it was fun and it could play all my GBA games so I was satisfied with it. Then came Phoenix Wright, Lost in Blue, Touch Detective, Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and dozens of others and I found it wasnt so much of a gimmick after all. Nintendo just has this knack for finding new ways to play.
Because Famicom sounded better than Nintendo Geinou Keiretsu??
Two years ago the Gameboy had a name recognition that the DS could only dream about. Fast Forward to now and the DS is projected to sell over 100 million in 2007 alone. It took 3 years for Nintendo to get to 75 million with the GBA&GBASP. Everyone who could possibly be interested in a handheld gaming system knows what a DS is.
It will still be sad for those of us who have been gameboy fans from the greyscale years to the GBA. I am curious about Iwata's comments when the DS launched that the DS was not a replacement for the Gameboy and that a new gameboy would come eventually, has that tech been scrapped or just rolled into the next version of the DS. Concidering the DS has backwards compatability his comments never made sense to me anyway, but he went out of his way at the time to say that the GBA was a separate product line. Perhaps it was simply so the GBASP would continue to sell?
Just wait until the PSN downloads are fully up and running...there are sure to be plenty of holes found there. No console or handheld has ever been hackproof, hack resistant sure, but the challenge only seems to make the pirates and homebrew crowd work harder.
The battery shown so far has been a 1200mah one while the one in the current PSP is 1800mah. If thats the case and it still gets a longer battery life, they have achieved quite a bit. Anyone know exactly what changed to get such a huge bump?
Does Sony pay you to post this crap? I'm pretty sure your the same clueless shill that posts anytime anything less than sunshine and rainbows is posted about Sony since the language of an unsupervised 12 year old seems to be the highlight of each little comment. You should really try harder and at least post something to do with whatever thread your cussing about, we were talking about PR and Marketing with Sony while your ranting about the drives. I fail to see the "fake" outrage or for that matter any outrage at all, I couldnt care less, I dont own Sony stock, I just find it hard to believe that after this much time in the game business they keep finding more and more ways to alienate or irritate their audience (excepting for unsupervised 12 year olds which they are evidently hitting fairly well).
Uggh I had blocked the goat thing from my mind. After thinking about it things have really been going downhill on the PR side since that whole black vs white and graffiti PSP campaigns long before the PS3, you would think after those they would have shifted gears a bit.
If I was Howard Stringer the first thing I would do is fire the entire marketing staff. So far their advertising and handling of everything related to the PS3 has been bungled. From the crying baby advertisements that were outweirded only by Sega's Dreamcast campaign, the early arrogance in the press, to the latest price cut, its not a price cut debacle there hasnt been one element of their PR that has worked in their favor.
Yep and Game of the Year edition works too :)
First it was suggested this morning that Nintendo was abandoning hardcore, now we are being told that two of the most "hardcore" franchises are going old school in their gameplay. Hmmm sounds like maybe Nintendo is just playing smart and going after new gamers AND the old fans, nothing wrong with that.
Nope was thinking enable and ended up like that but thanks for pointing it out Akeelah
Is this necessarily a bad thing? Even if they attempt simplified Zeldas and Metroids its not going to mean that traditional ones dissapear forever. For the established gamer Zelda and Metroid are franchises to the casual audience its just another game to choose from. If the game doesnt sell to the usual crowd it will either have to stand on its own as enjoyable title or they will no doubt go back to drawing board and try to recapure the audience they already had. Mario is in a different league, its recognized by non-gamers just like Pokemon and Sonic, so thats not a concern with those titles.
The Wii could very well be a gateway console for gaming leading people to the harder stuff down the road. I really cant see Nintendo totally abandoning their established fan base, but I can see an extra emphasis being put on grabbing new gamers. There are still plenty of "hardcore" titles in the pipe. Don't worry about it, no need to be elitish about it, the more people gaming the better.
3.6 Million PS3's have been sold so far and 5.5 Million have shipped so there are just a little less than 2 million out there of the old kind not to mention the ones that are sitting in warehouses waiting to ship. Its not like they are going to run out soon. This is the video game equivalent of the car salesman on tv telling you that everything is marked down and must go but hurry before their all gone. Just a feeble attempt at moving inventory, nothing more.
AT&T forgot to mention how open access would increase competition and reduce their stranglehold on the market. We have been down this path before when AT&T was broken up, anyone old enough to remember having to essentially rent your phone from Ma Bell? AT&T and SBC managed to gobble up Ameritech, Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, Bell Shouth and after merging themselves we are right back were we started, yet they have the nerve to call Google's request self-serving. Maybe its time for the FCC to wake up and realize that open access isnt going to inhibit growth, it will enhibit AT&T's version of growth which has always been expand and strangle out competition in markets they want to be in and own enough spectrum to make expansion into area's they may not even see as worthwhile difficult for anyone else to grab a foothold in.
This isnt anything new, there have been years to prepare for it and hardly anyone has done anything beyond whining about it. Drop your commerical music and go with open music, those that want the exposure will follow, sure you wont be able to compete with clearchannel but how else do you expect to change the industry. As long as the bottom end of the music business continues to prop up the existing regimes it will not change. If it means going talk radio or picking a banjo yourself it doesnt matter, what they want is silence and lack of competition.
The comments from Ubisoft this week that they had no intention of creating a playable demo pretty much killed any enthusiasm I had for Assassin's Creed. In the days of broadband and no disk needed demos, there is just no real excuse for not having one. The only thing that comes to my mind is the way movies that refuse advanced screenings for reviewers generally do it to prevent anyone from knowing how bad a movie is before its released. What we have seen of it has looked great, but so does every Michael Bay trailer. Without a demo I can only assume that either the game lacks depth and variety so if you spend ten minutes with the demo you have pretty much experienced it all, or its just lacking in general. Hopefully I'm wrong but this just guaranteed I wont buy it until I see some reviews.
Thats the big question, so far everything I have seen shows more of a digital sandbox than a game. It looks great but is there a point?
So whats the over/under on Thompson releasing a press announcement before the week is up?
I assume that is what the E.I.E.I.O. thing that Gamecock was planning was all about. They were the last time I read up on it planning to do an actual show next year but this year were supposed to be doing a sort of mini event near the site of E3. I have not seen any press coverage of that though so I am not sure if they pulled if off or not.
I agree with everything you said, my only beef is that in the past the only ones who truly benefited from E3 as far as getting deals done were the small guys...without them isnt E3 a rather pointless dog and pony show for the press?
This has less to do with shafting Mac and Linux users and more to do with DRM. BBC is extremely paranoid about its content falling into the hands of consumers outside their control. Look at the website for Torchwood, you can't even view it if your outside the UK. It's not right but it fits with their approach on access to their content. Never mind that people can capture video on their PC's with a 30 dollar tuner card or record shows on dvr's. I wouldnt be surprised if more time and money went into the drm than the actually streaming process itself. Sure they loose a small but decent percentage of their viewers, but at least David wont be able to view Dr Who from the US and Billy wont be able to keep a copy.
Thats great except it didnt really get any manufacturers and industry buyers together that didnt already have their deals in the bag. The limited floorspace and presentation time forced out many of the smaller developers. This wasnt about the big guys not wanting to duke it out with each other is was more about the big guys not wanting to be shown up by the little guys. Development houses like Gamecock, XSEED, Techmo and SNK being a few who were either told they needed an invite or decided it was too much for too little return.
In the long term the ones being hurt by the new E3 will eventually be the consumers. Though the old format was full of chaos, the "fanboy" aspect helped fuel excitement and helped games that would otherwise be overlooked to get a leg up.
I think most peoples problems with UMD stem from Sony's reluctance to to anything with it. At least with minidisc I could record my own. TV out on the new PSP is a nice start but wouldnt it be nice to have a mini umd player you could hook up to the tv or better yet a UMD recorder. The UMD was presented as a media format for the future but hasnt amounted to much at all. When UMD movies hit, most belived there would be eventually be stand alone players, yes the resolution is low but its better than VHS and good enough for smaller tv's. Dorm Rooms, kids rooms and car video systems are places I could see it blossom. Instead most of the movie companies have dropped UMD completely and the format is mostly dead. Sony's lack of vision with their proprietary standards has bitten it in the ass again.