Actually this is the #1 topic discussed by almost every manufacturer in consumer electronics circles. A standardized game system. Just as a VCR or DVD player. I honestly believe that Sony was close with the PSOne and Nintendo made a strong push with the GC, but both fell short. A couple DVD players tried to incorporate simple game systems in the hopes of hitting on a winner in years past, with no luck.
This time around Nintendo is, IMO, in perfect position to nail it. Cost, size, standard/mature development, and the perfect tie in with the TV's remote control.
This is a topic not really touched on in the public, and one I like to get out there and in the consumers mind as often as possible because it has great potential. It will happen, it is just a matter of when and who manages to get it right. For years now this has been one of the hottest inside topics, and one I have a lot of interest in. We would all win. Shelf space and development costs are high, standardizing has major implications and a lot of proponents. Retail stores, rental chains, support, and developers would all win and are very behind setting a standard that would have some longevity and provide a stable platform that will be around for some yeas and to a very wide audience. The days of marketing solely to the relatively small geeky, "hardcore" gamers are numbered. Gamers (and I myself am included) like to think of themselves as this huge force, we aren't. More profit was made from Barbie dolls than the entire videogame industry last year. The audience needs to widen substantially, and this is the golden ticket for one lucky company... and of those the only long-time, ubiquitous, stable and mature company in gaming is Nintendo.
That is my prediction, I could be totally wrong, but in a few years I hope to be pointing folks to this post and saying I called it.:)
It was true of the PS2 and still is... it is a bear to work on. There was a nother console in history that parallels the PS3, the Saturn. It failed miserably due to development issues.
I'm no fan of the PS3, but I am also no fanboy of any other system in the game, the Xbox360 is expensive and laborious to work on as well. The Wii is the system I am holding out all hopes of becoming a runaway success and causing a major shakedown of the industry. Before this industry becomes any more Hollywood-like and loses all sense of fun and innovation, it needs to happen.
Sony is shooting itself in the foot, I believe with the PS3, and Microsoft is not doing any better with their announcement that they are giving up on backwards compatibility for the Xbox/massive declining sales in Japan/and EA cutting prices to try to move product. Nintendo is in a great position to sweep up, and dare I say maybe a new entrant to step in as well and shut Sony and MS out for good. (no, not the phantom;)
About two years ago I decided to leave my post as a reviewer/tester for Sony. I had close ties with them for over 4 years and I began to have major misgivings on the direction and quality (lack thereof) that was being pumped out. I have been around the gaming industry long enough to know the beginnings of massive problems and they began a few years back.
Everyone close to me in the industry said I was crazy and that this would all smooth out and Sony would easily retain its market share if not grow more. I wasn't buying it and stuck to my guns, I'm pretty happy about my decision almost daily since day 1 of E3 this year.
I was against UMD from the beginning, yet everyone claimed that the sales were stellar. Looks like they weren't and they are proprietary, expensive, unwieldy little discs that no one wants to deal with. The "cell" processor was without a dobt my turning point, I have ZERO faith in it or the architecture and it will not become this ubiquitous omnipresent processor as so many claim, even IBM has major problems with it and designing compilers and dev software for their own product. Control schemes have been radically changed from initial proposals, and too quickly to be properly tested... that is a bomb yet to go off. System price and dev costs that are just too high for our current economic situation as well as for widespread adoption. There are more issues, but top it all off with a new unproven media that is also expensive and offers no real consumer advantages and you have the high risk of a catastrophic failure that could hurt Sony and IBM even more than they are already hurting.
The best that can happen is that companies finally lose the DRM/proprietary/Closed nature of their consumer electronics. Stop treating customers as criminals and start to offer them affordable and accessible entertainment that is convenient. I'd actually prefer consoles to standardize and become built into consumer electronics so that developers and consumers can really get to work on a stable and long lasting platform. Imagine the possibilities. There is a lot to be said for standards.
No, actually I was a Sony employee and covered Sony only videogames for over 4 years. I am as far away from a Nintendo fanboy as can be. I have never even played a Zelda beyond the original NES version. Hate Metroid, and there are very few Mario games I enjoy as well.
You are completely wrong, but it is nice to try to judge people anonymously online with no real information to make said judgement.
Thanks a bunch, I must have missed that. Exactly what I was looking for. The 3 demo's and a couple others also are a bit of a stretch, but it does come out to 27.
The crazy thing is that only about a handful (3-4) titles actually appeal to me. I really was hoping to be blown away, instead I walked away slightly happy with hope for the future to be brighter.
Oh, my dear boy, you've obviously forgotten who's company you are in. *No* one here would be angst filled losers, or incapable of having a sense of humor, or unable to find humor in sophomoric jokes/content... Seriously, that pretty much sums up/. yet in cases like this all these lame-ass buggers have to act like they are soooo mature and that this is all far beneath them. Puh-lease, the Slashdot crowd is mainly losers with a high IQ and an affinity for geeky passions... why some have a hard time coming to grips with this is beyond me.
I'd be the first to walk up to your grandfather and give him props for wearing that shirt, I'm also the one who will gladly reply to "what were you up to last night?" with "not much, I played with my Wii for a while."
I find it uber funny that people 'round here associate their game console with their machismo... Xbox, PS2, Wii... THEY ARE VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS! They all make you a pussy to the real world. Regular folks don't differentiate between the systems as being cool, cooler, coolest... they see them all as a middle aged geek playing and getting excited over a video game.
I'll be buying a Wii the day they release and it will be the only next-gen console I buy... I guess that makes me more of a wuss than an Xbox 360/PS3 player.
Yeah, I was figuring on that, but even still I came up with about 20-22 games even counting everything individually. I'm not saying this is a huge deal, or sucks to Nintendo... I was truly just trying to figure it out and have been since E3.
I was just hoping someone out there had the answer to where 26 came from and if it was accurate. (or 27 I can't remember exactly which number they had said)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I have no doubts about that on/.:) but I could have sworn I heard during the Ninty press conference at E3 that they would have 26 or 27 games playable on the show floor... however I have not seen nor any site that actually played or listed more than 8 or so... what were the other 19?
Make it so that gamers are randomly inserted into "guilds/clans/groups" instantly upon logging in the game and from there make it possible to move about or join other groups. That way all new players start off with some sense of the first two letters of MMO.
There is nothing worse than starting a new game and having to go around trying to make virtual friends to let you in their clique. When I pick up a fun looking game that none of my friends play, I just want to be able to jump in and play.
It is the clique-y-ness of MMO's that put a lot of people off. Either make the group huge and assign new players to it automatically based on their character choice, or at least have some sort of initial grouping system to quickly play and build friends.
I think www.democracygame.com has been on sale in Iraq for a couple years now with lackluster results, so we've changed our marketing strategy to a more forceful approach.:)
Don't jump all over me, it's a joke, and I tend to lean right... so please just laugh.. no flamewars needed.
I've already posted once with my displeasure of Zonk and his "reviews" but I will add that you are totally correct in Zonk's complete lack of actually _playing_ the games he reviews. I worked as a reviewer for a few years and my complete lack of respect for Zonk and actually/. for allowing this to continue.
The writing is sub-par, the games are rarely played past maybe 4 hours tops, there are glaring omissions and errors, and they would not make it past even slightly discerning fansite editors let alone a site like Slashdot that should have some higher standards if they are going to run this kind of non-news stuff. I actually find it offensive to all those writers out there who have real talent and no major outlet who would kill to write for/. for free and _this_ junk is trumped up and actually makes front page "news" on a routine basis.
Sad. and FWIW I'd give NSMB a 7/10 and I enjoy it greatly.
I don't understand your point, but whatever. I wasn't asking for pity or sympathy... and my grasp of the English language is fine. All I was asking is why in the name of Jeebus these "reviews" continue when they are a total disgrace, that was all. And I simply wanted actual input from those who would mod me down for saying so.
It's all good, agree/disagree no big deal, just explain why.
Flamebait, eh? Well I called it, let the down-modding begin... however, my only small request is that when you mod me down please reply with a reason why I am wrong or how I am flamebaiting.
You can reply as AC, that's fine. I would really love to know how/why no one on/. can say anything about this whole "game review" B.S. without being beat up for it.
The reviews are sub-par. Period. I could care less what website they were on or who wrote them, they would still be garbage. That's all I'm saying.
Well for being the clueless one here, I know the resolution and the full specs and information of the units. IT'S ON THEIR PAGE. All of the information has been available for some time about these laptops. Teh intarweb is amazin'
Nintendo has the best idea for game sales in years with the Wii. Different price-points. Smaller games == smaller price. Mega-hits == normal price. Downloads == (?) but most likely reasonable/free/promotions.
Used games are about the only majorly profitable area for places like EB/Gamestop. So this move will only help push away customers and retailers. This is a sinking ship, and FTR about a year ago at this time when I jumped ship from working with Sony and claimed that they were going downhill quick and everyone here on/. said I was a fanboy and soooo wrong... well we shall see real soon, my guess is that I was pretty damn close to right on the money.
Seriously your "reviews" make me cringe at least 3-4 times each. Your mastery of the English language mixed with your wanna-be reviewer prose == hurt. "Penultimate" eh? Maybe check the real meaning of that word.
It is a disgrace to real reviewers, and insults my intelligence. I know people will mod me down and claim Zonk does a great job, but I always hope that someone, somewhere, will realize that Zonk's "reviews" are pure garbage not fit for even the most basic fansites.
Umm, a 12" screen is more than enough, in fact a 7.5" screen would work. These are for third-world countries, they don't need 16x12 resolution on 15" screens... me thinks you have no clue. When you are the one cranking the thing for power, and not sitting in your big chair with cheeto fingers with a dual screen LCD setup you would be pretty damn thankful for the design.
For what it is, these things are amazing. The idea is a great one. It may or may not work, but instead of just dropping boxes of food and having them scrounge it up like animals this may actually open up whole new worlds/ideas/educational opportunities. Open up your mind for a minute and try to see the bigger picture here.
I can count on one hand how many tickets to concerts/shows I have bought from Ticketmaster. I choose to support smaller clubs and more intimate venues. Ticket prices are more reasonable, the overall experience is better, and I have never waited hours in a line *hoping* to get a *chance* to buy a ticket.
I know how hard it is though for some to resist seeing the new "American Idol" concert tour of barely talented marketroids, or the latest boy band, or lip-synching barbie doll... and to them I say auction away!
Seriously, Sony last year runs cut-scenes as in-game footage, makes fun of the Wii controller only to hastily copy it, and this is the best that people can use to take jabs at the Wii?!?
C'mon. Normally I could care less and stay far away from this "console war" marketing crap, but this is just re-damn-diculous. People need to realize that no matter if _they_ will buy a Wii or if they even hate every game released for it, that the Wii is the single greatest thing that could happen to their beloved industry as it will cause a rapid break from the never ending sequels and stagnant genre's that have been dead and beaten continuously for years now.
Sure, except _Sicilians_ which I am have been the lowest of the low. Read up on it. You totally missed my point. Northern Italy is the upper crust, close to France and high class. Sicialians are considered lower in every way, poor, dirty, etc. No different than white/black issue in the U.S. In fact Sicialians have dark skin from the closeness with Africa and the many different takeovers and military occupations of Sicily. So for someone to accuse me of being racist is the stupidest thing in the world, expecially since when I trace my ancestry there is a direct link to africa and blacks. Not to mention the two black members of my family. I am certainly no racist, what I am trying to get across is the fact that EVERYONE of all races and nations needs to learn to lighten up and have a little fun at your own expense some times. The direction we are going it will soon be illegal to say damn near anything about anyone good or bad. That is insanity.
Actually I'm Italian. Not only that but Sicilian. For the uneducated the Sicilian is one of the lowest "rank" of Italians (sometimes not even recognized as Italian) due to their closeness and "breeding" with Africans which lend us our dark skin. I know about opression, I know about jokes/comments/racism, I also have the ability to differentiate words and a little light-hearted poking fun. I believe that people need to get out of this brainwashed political correctness bullshit and just live. Be who you are, be proud of it, identify with it... the good and the bad. Confronting stereotypes and being able to laugh at yourself are very powerful things, shielding yourself and others and pretending otherwise is damaging and the true evil of PC'ness.
Like dude, could we stop pushing this lame political correctness crap? No one group should be excluded from having a bit of fun poked at it, instead of restricting any speech to the point where no one can say anything about anyone or anything... let's go the other way and make each and every one open to the same jokes/comments and learn to LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP.
You've missed one other key point in the uselessness of this study. The gamers who are opposed to in-game adverts are _not_ going to take a freaking survey about advertising! So the entire premise is wrong and completely pointless.
In another post on this topic I brought up the CS Subway ads, way more than 15% of players complained about it... so I am certainly not alone in my aversion to in-game ad's as are quite a few others.
I happily make up a small part of that 15%. I play games to escape real life, not to be thrust right back into it with ads for Subway and other out of place product placement.
The _only_ exception I would make would be a completely free MMORPG that was subsidized with some sort of innovative advertising. MMO's are not all that immersive in the first place due to the people who play them and their actions for the most part, so being able to casually play an MMO for free would be something I'd be willing to bend on.
It needs to stop. A clear message needs to be made about it and quick, before games and gaming become another Hollywood filled with garbage.
I'd also say that the complaints about the Subway ad were way over 15%, so I'm quite sure I'm not alone and that the actual number is higher than 15%.
Exactly. And further, the player choice titles can then go to $10 and become the easiest continued sales ever.
With gas prices as they are, renting becomes more and more expensive especially with the time involved as well.
Nintendo has stated that the game prices will be variable, which is actually the best way to handle this. Some games may be $40-50 for truly in-depth and extensive games, and some will be sold at a fraction of that for quick pick-up and play titles. I believe it was Iwata who stated that not all games need to be novels as they are now, and that there is a place for a magazine/periodical in the market.
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Actually this is the #1 topic discussed by almost every manufacturer in consumer electronics circles. A standardized game system. Just as a VCR or DVD player. I honestly believe that Sony was close with the PSOne and Nintendo made a strong push with the GC, but both fell short. A couple DVD players tried to incorporate simple game systems in the hopes of hitting on a winner in years past, with no luck.
:)
This time around Nintendo is, IMO, in perfect position to nail it. Cost, size, standard/mature development, and the perfect tie in with the TV's remote control.
This is a topic not really touched on in the public, and one I like to get out there and in the consumers mind as often as possible because it has great potential. It will happen, it is just a matter of when and who manages to get it right. For years now this has been one of the hottest inside topics, and one I have a lot of interest in. We would all win. Shelf space and development costs are high, standardizing has major implications and a lot of proponents. Retail stores, rental chains, support, and developers would all win and are very behind setting a standard that would have some longevity and provide a stable platform that will be around for some yeas and to a very wide audience. The days of marketing solely to the relatively small geeky, "hardcore" gamers are numbered. Gamers (and I myself am included) like to think of themselves as this huge force, we aren't. More profit was made from Barbie dolls than the entire videogame industry last year. The audience needs to widen substantially, and this is the golden ticket for one lucky company... and of those the only long-time, ubiquitous, stable and mature company in gaming is Nintendo.
That is my prediction, I could be totally wrong, but in a few years I hope to be pointing folks to this post and saying I called it.
It was true of the PS2 and still is... it is a bear to work on. There was a nother console in history that parallels the PS3, the Saturn. It failed miserably due to development issues.
;)
I'm no fan of the PS3, but I am also no fanboy of any other system in the game, the Xbox360 is expensive and laborious to work on as well. The Wii is the system I am holding out all hopes of becoming a runaway success and causing a major shakedown of the industry. Before this industry becomes any more Hollywood-like and loses all sense of fun and innovation, it needs to happen.
Sony is shooting itself in the foot, I believe with the PS3, and Microsoft is not doing any better with their announcement that they are giving up on backwards compatibility for the Xbox/massive declining sales in Japan/and EA cutting prices to try to move product. Nintendo is in a great position to sweep up, and dare I say maybe a new entrant to step in as well and shut Sony and MS out for good. (no, not the phantom
About two years ago I decided to leave my post as a reviewer/tester for Sony. I had close ties with them for over 4 years and I began to have major misgivings on the direction and quality (lack thereof) that was being pumped out. I have been around the gaming industry long enough to know the beginnings of massive problems and they began a few years back.
Everyone close to me in the industry said I was crazy and that this would all smooth out and Sony would easily retain its market share if not grow more. I wasn't buying it and stuck to my guns, I'm pretty happy about my decision almost daily since day 1 of E3 this year.
I was against UMD from the beginning, yet everyone claimed that the sales were stellar. Looks like they weren't and they are proprietary, expensive, unwieldy little discs that no one wants to deal with. The "cell" processor was without a dobt my turning point, I have ZERO faith in it or the architecture and it will not become this ubiquitous omnipresent processor as so many claim, even IBM has major problems with it and designing compilers and dev software for their own product. Control schemes have been radically changed from initial proposals, and too quickly to be properly tested... that is a bomb yet to go off. System price and dev costs that are just too high for our current economic situation as well as for widespread adoption. There are more issues, but top it all off with a new unproven media that is also expensive and offers no real consumer advantages and you have the high risk of a catastrophic failure that could hurt Sony and IBM even more than they are already hurting.
The best that can happen is that companies finally lose the DRM/proprietary/Closed nature of their consumer electronics. Stop treating customers as criminals and start to offer them affordable and accessible entertainment that is convenient. I'd actually prefer consoles to standardize and become built into consumer electronics so that developers and consumers can really get to work on a stable and long lasting platform. Imagine the possibilities. There is a lot to be said for standards.
No, actually I was a Sony employee and covered Sony only videogames for over 4 years. I am as far away from a Nintendo fanboy as can be. I have never even played a Zelda beyond the original NES version. Hate Metroid, and there are very few Mario games I enjoy as well.
You are completely wrong, but it is nice to try to judge people anonymously online with no real information to make said judgement.
G'day.
Thanks a bunch, I must have missed that. Exactly what I was looking for. The 3 demo's and a couple others also are a bit of a stretch, but it does come out to 27.
The crazy thing is that only about a handful (3-4) titles actually appeal to me. I really was hoping to be blown away, instead I walked away slightly happy with hope for the future to be brighter.
Oh, my dear boy, you've obviously forgotten who's company you are in. *No* one here would be angst filled losers, or incapable of having a sense of humor, or unable to find humor in sophomoric jokes/content... Seriously, that pretty much sums up /. yet in cases like this all these lame-ass buggers have to act like they are soooo mature and that this is all far beneath them. Puh-lease, the Slashdot crowd is mainly losers with a high IQ and an affinity for geeky passions... why some have a hard time coming to grips with this is beyond me.
I'd be the first to walk up to your grandfather and give him props for wearing that shirt, I'm also the one who will gladly reply to "what were you up to last night?" with "not much, I played with my Wii for a while."
I find it uber funny that people 'round here associate their game console with their machismo... Xbox, PS2, Wii... THEY ARE VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS! They all make you a pussy to the real world. Regular folks don't differentiate between the systems as being cool, cooler, coolest... they see them all as a middle aged geek playing and getting excited over a video game.
I'll be buying a Wii the day they release and it will be the only next-gen console I buy... I guess that makes me more of a wuss than an Xbox 360/PS3 player.
Yeah, I was figuring on that, but even still I came up with about 20-22 games even counting everything individually. I'm not saying this is a huge deal, or sucks to Nintendo... I was truly just trying to figure it out and have been since E3.
I was just hoping someone out there had the answer to where 26 came from and if it was accurate. (or 27 I can't remember exactly which number they had said)
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I have no doubts about that on /. :) but I could have sworn I heard during the Ninty press conference at E3 that they would have 26 or 27 games playable on the show floor... however I have not seen nor any site that actually played or listed more than 8 or so... what were the other 19?
Make it so that gamers are randomly inserted into "guilds/clans/groups" instantly upon logging in the game and from there make it possible to move about or join other groups. That way all new players start off with some sense of the first two letters of MMO.
There is nothing worse than starting a new game and having to go around trying to make virtual friends to let you in their clique. When I pick up a fun looking game that none of my friends play, I just want to be able to jump in and play.
It is the clique-y-ness of MMO's that put a lot of people off. Either make the group huge and assign new players to it automatically based on their character choice, or at least have some sort of initial grouping system to quickly play and build friends.
I think www.democracygame.com has been on sale in Iraq for a couple years now with lackluster results, so we've changed our marketing strategy to a more forceful approach. :)
Don't jump all over me, it's a joke, and I tend to lean right... so please just laugh.. no flamewars needed.
I've already posted once with my displeasure of Zonk and his "reviews" but I will add that you are totally correct in Zonk's complete lack of actually _playing_ the games he reviews. I worked as a reviewer for a few years and my complete lack of respect for Zonk and actually /. for allowing this to continue.
/. for free and _this_ junk is trumped up and actually makes front page "news" on a routine basis.
The writing is sub-par, the games are rarely played past maybe 4 hours tops, there are glaring omissions and errors, and they would not make it past even slightly discerning fansite editors let alone a site like Slashdot that should have some higher standards if they are going to run this kind of non-news stuff. I actually find it offensive to all those writers out there who have real talent and no major outlet who would kill to write for
Sad. and FWIW I'd give NSMB a 7/10 and I enjoy it greatly.
I don't understand your point, but whatever. I wasn't asking for pity or sympathy... and my grasp of the English language is fine. All I was asking is why in the name of Jeebus these "reviews" continue when they are a total disgrace, that was all. And I simply wanted actual input from those who would mod me down for saying so.
It's all good, agree/disagree no big deal, just explain why.
Flamebait, eh? Well I called it, let the down-modding begin... however, my only small request is that when you mod me down please reply with a reason why I am wrong or how I am flamebaiting.
/. can say anything about this whole "game review" B.S. without being beat up for it.
You can reply as AC, that's fine. I would really love to know how/why no one on
The reviews are sub-par. Period. I could care less what website they were on or who wrote them, they would still be garbage. That's all I'm saying.
Well for being the clueless one here, I know the resolution and the full specs and information of the units. IT'S ON THEIR PAGE. All of the information has been available for some time about these laptops. Teh intarweb is amazin'
Peace out, and word to your mother.
Nintendo has the best idea for game sales in years with the Wii. Different price-points. Smaller games == smaller price. Mega-hits == normal price. Downloads == (?) but most likely reasonable/free/promotions.
/. said I was a fanboy and soooo wrong... well we shall see real soon, my guess is that I was pretty damn close to right on the money.
Used games are about the only majorly profitable area for places like EB/Gamestop. So this move will only help push away customers and retailers. This is a sinking ship, and FTR about a year ago at this time when I jumped ship from working with Sony and claimed that they were going downhill quick and everyone here on
Seriously your "reviews" make me cringe at least 3-4 times each. Your mastery of the English language mixed with your wanna-be reviewer prose == hurt. "Penultimate" eh? Maybe check the real meaning of that word.
It is a disgrace to real reviewers, and insults my intelligence. I know people will mod me down and claim Zonk does a great job, but I always hope that someone, somewhere, will realize that Zonk's "reviews" are pure garbage not fit for even the most basic fansites.
Umm, a 12" screen is more than enough, in fact a 7.5" screen would work. These are for third-world countries, they don't need 16x12 resolution on 15" screens... me thinks you have no clue. When you are the one cranking the thing for power, and not sitting in your big chair with cheeto fingers with a dual screen LCD setup you would be pretty damn thankful for the design.
For what it is, these things are amazing. The idea is a great one. It may or may not work, but instead of just dropping boxes of food and having them scrounge it up like animals this may actually open up whole new worlds/ideas/educational opportunities. Open up your mind for a minute and try to see the bigger picture here.
I can count on one hand how many tickets to concerts/shows I have bought from Ticketmaster. I choose to support smaller clubs and more intimate venues. Ticket prices are more reasonable, the overall experience is better, and I have never waited hours in a line *hoping* to get a *chance* to buy a ticket.
I know how hard it is though for some to resist seeing the new "American Idol" concert tour of barely talented marketroids, or the latest boy band, or lip-synching barbie doll... and to them I say auction away!
Seriously, Sony last year runs cut-scenes as in-game footage, makes fun of the Wii controller only to hastily copy it, and this is the best that people can use to take jabs at the Wii?!?
C'mon. Normally I could care less and stay far away from this "console war" marketing crap, but this is just re-damn-diculous. People need to realize that no matter if _they_ will buy a Wii or if they even hate every game released for it, that the Wii is the single greatest thing that could happen to their beloved industry as it will cause a rapid break from the never ending sequels and stagnant genre's that have been dead and beaten continuously for years now.
Sure, except _Sicilians_ which I am have been the lowest of the low. Read up on it. You totally missed my point. Northern Italy is the upper crust, close to France and high class. Sicialians are considered lower in every way, poor, dirty, etc. No different than white/black issue in the U.S. In fact Sicialians have dark skin from the closeness with Africa and the many different takeovers and military occupations of Sicily. So for someone to accuse me of being racist is the stupidest thing in the world, expecially since when I trace my ancestry there is a direct link to africa and blacks. Not to mention the two black members of my family. I am certainly no racist, what I am trying to get across is the fact that EVERYONE of all races and nations needs to learn to lighten up and have a little fun at your own expense some times. The direction we are going it will soon be illegal to say damn near anything about anyone good or bad. That is insanity.
Actually I'm Italian. Not only that but Sicilian. For the uneducated the Sicilian is one of the lowest "rank" of Italians (sometimes not even recognized as Italian) due to their closeness and "breeding" with Africans which lend us our dark skin. I know about opression, I know about jokes/comments/racism, I also have the ability to differentiate words and a little light-hearted poking fun. I believe that people need to get out of this brainwashed political correctness bullshit and just live. Be who you are, be proud of it, identify with it... the good and the bad. Confronting stereotypes and being able to laugh at yourself are very powerful things, shielding yourself and others and pretending otherwise is damaging and the true evil of PC'ness.
Like dude, could we stop pushing this lame political correctness crap? No one group should be excluded from having a bit of fun poked at it, instead of restricting any speech to the point where no one can say anything about anyone or anything... let's go the other way and make each and every one open to the same jokes/comments and learn to LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP.
You've missed one other key point in the uselessness of this study. The gamers who are opposed to in-game adverts are _not_ going to take a freaking survey about advertising! So the entire premise is wrong and completely pointless.
In another post on this topic I brought up the CS Subway ads, way more than 15% of players complained about it... so I am certainly not alone in my aversion to in-game ad's as are quite a few others.
I happily make up a small part of that 15%. I play games to escape real life, not to be thrust right back into it with ads for Subway and other out of place product placement.
The _only_ exception I would make would be a completely free MMORPG that was subsidized with some sort of innovative advertising. MMO's are not all that immersive in the first place due to the people who play them and their actions for the most part, so being able to casually play an MMO for free would be something I'd be willing to bend on.
It needs to stop. A clear message needs to be made about it and quick, before games and gaming become another Hollywood filled with garbage.
I'd also say that the complaints about the Subway ad were way over 15%, so I'm quite sure I'm not alone and that the actual number is higher than 15%.
Exactly. And further, the player choice titles can then go to $10 and become the easiest continued sales ever.
With gas prices as they are, renting becomes more and more expensive especially with the time involved as well.
Nintendo has stated that the game prices will be variable, which is actually the best way to handle this. Some games may be $40-50 for truly in-depth and extensive games, and some will be sold at a fraction of that for quick pick-up and play titles. I believe it was Iwata who stated that not all games need to be novels as they are now, and that there is a place for a magazine/periodical in the market.