Sure the RPG, Magic & Demon elements of the game are going to rock hard but what have they done that is FPS?
I'm not knocking the game or the developers in anyway (I am looking forward to the game) but I've seen this happen one to many times. A Major person that is responcable for a killer franchise leaves the company that owns it, starts his own and takes a couple of the people with him (for whatever reason)
They promise the greatest game ever in a genre they never made a game for, naturally it isn't the greatest thing ever but it's not a horrible peice of garbage either, it's just not what people were expecting.
Each game you listed was a point and click dungeon crawler & an RTS, those are harder to do then an FPS but that doesn't mean they can make the worlds best FPS on their first try.
Narrator: In A.D. 2006, war was beginning.
Bush: What happen ?
Cheney: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Secretary: We get signal.
Bush: What !
Cheney: Main screen turn on.
Bush: It's you !!
foreign terrorist: How are you gentlemen !!
foreign terrorist: All your base are belong to us.
foreign terrorist: You are on the way to destruction.
Bush: What you say !!
foreign terrorist: You have no chance to survive make your time.
foreign terrorist: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Cheney: Captain !!
Bush: Take off every 'F-16' !!
Bush: You know what you doing.
Bush: Move 'F-16'.
Bush: For great justice.
replace foreign terrorist with hacker, script kiddy ect.
you forgot about the Wii with the supposed price of no more then $250.
If you see a PS3 for $599 an Xbox 360 for $399 and a Wii for $249 there won't be much of a decision maker for your average person to see that the Wii would be the best for the price.
When I used to get magazines they were filled with a lot of great info, now a days though they are filled with far to many ads then what they were filled with.
I understand it's either that or up the subscription price but if it ment I could get more articles and information out of a magazine for a higher price I would rather do that then be stuck with a magazine that doesn't give me anything but ads upon ads for less.
There won't ever be lag-free online play. Not aslong as there are people who don't like getting their asses handed to them and decide to cheat the system.
don't forget everyone of those companies can sue microsoft (and you know they would) for violating the DMCA even though it was just to get the program to work in vista saving them time and money.
Everything is called *Insert biggest thing* killer
every FPS that came out after Halo was dubbed the "Halo Killer" and not one of them worked.
Every MP3 player that came out after the iPod was dubbed an "iPod killer" they never managed to put a dent in it.
it never fails, whenever there is something big people will associate The Next Big Thing from a Big Company as the killer of the competing product.
I doubt this will hurt sales of the iPod or PSP in any way, The main point is that you know it is going to cost more then a laptop, if they plan on including everything they say it will have there's no way they can have it compete with the PSP or the video iPod.
Second, Maximum PC has A LOT of ads. I know ads bring in revenue (I work in print media), but there's a point when mags have an article followed by three pages of ads--MaxPC has reached this point. It's time for them to have more content or charge more for their ads. They've got a decent subscriber base, they just need to make their advertisers aware of it.
well that's what sucks about this day and age, It used to be about providing content to people, Now it's just about making money.
The few magazines I have subscribed to I have seen bulk out over the years and they add nothing to what they were doing before, they just increased the size because they added more ad's, the articles were all the same length as before.
that's why I have switched to just reading stuff online, atleast with those ads I don't notice them and they don't overtake an article. It is rather sad when an article that takes 4 pages suddenly jumps to 6 or 7 pages because of ads, there seems to only be one magazine that I still get that balances it out correctly and that's Game Informer, they will give you a good article then a couple pages of ads then a few pages of reviews a couple more pages of ads then a mixture of reviews and ads the others I used to get just see to be like sports, They give you 3 ads, 2 pages of something, 4 pages of ads, 3 pages of something, 2 pages of ads, 5 pages of something, 5 pages of ads 2 pages of something. It just get's out of hand and it's sad to see so many things that were once great reduced to just trying to make money without offering anything people would want.
Movies they are still VERY proud to display that "UNRATED" version in clear view for you and stock a hell of a lot more of them over the R rated countered parts.
I suppose the only thing more powerfull then walmart is Hollywood.
so you are saying you are all for loss of information?
you said it yourself that it's not the end of the world and not important if you can't lend a book to someone, so what happens when that day comes? the book is lisenced to only you and it requires your finger print to even open it, someone else tries to read it and nothing happens other then "Unauthorized user" shows across the cover. you open it for them but as soon as you hand it to someone else it closes on them and displays the same error message.
That's the route these companies want to go with DRM, so if this isn't worth fighting for where you spend your earned money on something that you can't even lend to a friend anymore, then why bother fighting for privacy rights? Why raise a big stink over what the US government is doing? it's not worth fighting for, it's not the end of the world, it's not important since we will forget about in in a couple of months anyways right?
you know how fast Opera/Mozilla/anyone would get sued for having that feature as default?
The widgets are ok but they clutter up the screen something feirce. I installed the weather one (only one that appealed to me) and it's more of an annoyance then a helper. It covers up a good chunk of the screen (enough to cover a 5 line block of text) and then when I put it to hide there is no way for me to just click to bring it back to the front so I can check.
Where as with the weather extension for firefox it just sits nicely down in the lower right of my screen for me to hover over and see what the weather is or if it's going to be severe weather I am told about it in a little popup.
after that I have the Video Downloader, Tab browser preferances & image zoom. The Video downloader won't be installed as default cause it would get the opera people sued again (since it allows you to download videos from places you aren't allowed to), the other two could be done by default.
so out of the 5 extensions I use 3 can be done by default (if not already done by default, I never use Opera that often to find out) but 2 would get them sued for being installed by default cause it would be their responsability, where as being extensions they can't get sued because they didn't make the extension.
Even when I used to have a ton of extensions installed (before I got calm and got only the ones I needed) Firefox never went slow for me because of them. Sure it slowed down but that was because i either opened a page that had Java or a Windows Media embeded player in it (still can't figure out what screwed up the WMEP but whenever I reinstalled windows it would fix it) and I used to have 15-20 extensions.
the only thing was Sega was thinking of the gamers at that time.
They didn't really want to release a new system when the genesis was doing just fine but they wanted to upgrade the gaming ability, so they release the SegaCD and 32x, both enhanced the Genesis gaming ability by a lot but as you said no one really bought them, to bad no one realized that's what it was, a Cheap upgrade into next gen, I never did find a SegaCD addon for sale but I did see a 32x when it was flushed down the crapper at Toys R us for like $15 new, only problem was there was 3 games for it.
A hell of a lot more then a retail job. Also what do people who have a high school diploma then go off to collage and study something for 4 years have to look forward to? everything points to studying IT if you want a job, yet every other day there is something about how the IT industry is slowing,anymore it almost seems like you don't need a diploma cause it won't get you a job anywheres.
a game that doesn't have guns, cars or any severe violence is WORSE then a game where you can go around killing people for no reason? if anything I would think they would stay for Bully and leave over GTA.
both versions actually come with Linux pre-installed (it's to get around paying taxes), the $600 model comes with HDMI ports The Card reader and a 60gb hdd as default, the $500 model only has a 20gb model and you have to buy a card reader addon and there is no support for HDMI.
oh I'm not saying the iPod is good or bad, just that it's odd to continue getting a product (either by buying or through warrenty, though I've never had much luck with those) that has failed you that many times, it is a mass produced product so there will be faults in it (just like anything that is mass produced).
I've never owned one (since they cost to much for my tastes and the video ipod just doesn't appeal to me) but they do look sleek but like you said that shine could be to easy to scratch up (my TV stand looks to have the same kind of finish and it scratches from just looking at it).
Have you ever owned one? I've owned four and between click wheels that fail, batteries that drop down to 30mins of play time, failed headphone jacks, firmware/softwar bugs etc. - I've never owned bigger pieces of electronic crap.
so wait, you call the iPod a peice of crap yet you bought 4 of them? Why? after 2 most people would move on to something more reliable.
You are correct sir. However there is one other way it would happen. A major security disaster that really eats nearly everyone's data on the Windows platform in such a way that it can never be recovered and backups won't work because the fundamental OS itself is completely at the mercy of the cracker(s) who staged the attack. At that point, people won't want to use Windows and would be forced to move. Of course, something like that could never happen now, could it?;)
but then you still have the problem of the backups not being compatable with Macs or any others because of all the DRM people didn't know about on the Windows Machine, So then you are back to square one. People will think Macs & linux/BSD/Whatever is stupid because they aren't compatable with the stuff they have amassed over the years.
Then you have people with little kids who like to play games, you can't exactly pop in the disc and it automatically installs the game like on a windows machine (if it will even install at all), for most people a computer is a computer, only the names are different, so they don't know anything about system requirments, With macs not being cheap by any means it wouldn't suprise me to hear a number of them are returned for simply not working being the majority of the complaints.
Sure they can go on and on and on about how it's more secure, but a story will come along not to long saying some website's encryption was cracked and lots of user data was stolen. It doesn't really seem to matter what OS you are using, aslong as assholes who think it's cool to create malware, spyware, viruses and so on exsist it will always be there and whatever the most dominant OS is that will be the main target. Sure Macs are safe for now because how big is their market share? 5%? 10%? Linux has even lower while Microsoft controlls the remaining %, so naturally people are going to target it cause it has the most impact.
Just like when someone robs a place, Macs and others are like Banks, they have tighter securty but there is a bigger payoff (by being able to say you were the one that broke it) but Windows is like the little shop on the coner, there's a whole lot more of them and they have cash right there in front of you and are lacking in security. So naturally you are going to take the easier place to rob...especially when you act like a 12 year old who thinks you are "1337" because you ran a script.
well I was thinking like the controller, only cut out about 30-35 buttons on it.
you have the ejector button but that would end the game (naturally), The peddels and just two joysticks with the buttons you need.
sure it would be more simplified but is there truely a need for 40 buttons on a controller? there isn't a ton of games that use all the buttons on a standard controller as it is (or atleast in some cases not very well) and that's only 10 buttons.
Mainly I was thinking of the peddels and joysticks for any mech game released in the arcade, cause that's the kind of interactivity needed for arcades, when you go to the arcade it used to be about games looking better and playing differently then what you got at home, when you get the same or even better experiance at home then you do at the arcade you don't really keep people.
Take Afterburner for example, if you played the real arcade version (there's two version I know of, the sit in model and then a standing model) then you get jerked around everytime you move the stick and it does it's best to immerse you into the game as a fighter pilot, where as at home you just had the controller and nothing more to immerse you into the game (Granted Yu really knew you had to immerse people or provide a really great game (or both of course) to get them coming back), wow...trying to think of a lot of games that immerse you I keep coming up with his, The only other one I can think of is Time Crisis series. At the arcade I LOVE this game, if I see this anywheres I just HAVE to play it, when I saw they had it for the PS1 & then PS2 it just wasn't the same, not having that peddel to step on to open fire on people just didn't immerse me into the game as much and it was the exact same game that was in the arcades (even the lightgun that came with it had the kickback to it).
The major drawback to the arcades though, is they cost so much. I went searching for Time Crisis 3 arcade game, the only one I could find was the dual screen one (that had a price anyways) and it was $13,000. now this was for two TV's that would cost you AT MOST $500 (and that's for 2 and stretching it, they were only 20 inch screens) and the cabnit. This is why you don't see to many new arcade games anywheres, the only one that seems to even make it's money back is DDR but they are just as expensive.
So you have to wonder, if Time Crisis 3 with two 20 inch screens costs $13,000, how much is HOTD 4 going to cost with it's 52inch Plasma or LCD TV going to cost somewheres to put into place? more importantly would they even bother with it? (looking at best buy the cheaest 52inch TV they have is $1499.99 so right off the top you have double that cause the monitor has to be custom made for the system) sure in the past it was easy to just write off a broken arcade unit since they were only $5000 at most, by the time they broke they made their money back and enough to buy another replacement unit but once you hit that $10k mark they need to be rather durable and not break for quite a long time, If a $13,000 arcade game let you play for $0.50 a pop (that's how much it cost me to play TC3) you would need 26,000 plays to break even on the unit...now I don't know about the average arcade game but 26,000 plays is going to take a rather heafty toll on the game no matter how strong the unit is, so god help you if it's not a popular game and god help you if it is, cause either way you are going to lose money on it.
wow I rambled on there, anyways, Steel batallion would make a good arcade game but they would have to trim it way down on the buttons and make the cabnit easy to get into (maybe model it after the actual pilots seat in the game?) so the immersion of the game is even greater cause that's the only way they are going to get people back, give us an experiance we can't get at home...unfortunatly that means either releasing game ONLY in the arcade and never at home (naturally won't happen) or make the cabnits so memorable that people would rather go to the arcade and play it then staying home to play it.
starting to see some of that impact back on the arcade-side where you can't play in front of a 52-inch screen and have all of the very vibrant color and animation that's part of it -- you can't just do that at home.
you can't get the same feeling of playing a gun game that is released on home consoles (PS2 especially but there was a HOTD on xbox with a gun and it's supposedly coming out on the 360 aswell) because you don't have a 52-inch screen with vibrant colors?
All I keep hearing about with next gen is bigger TV's, "you need a 52inch HDTV to experiance it to the full extent!" "you need this big ass tv to exerpiance it properly!"
Sure before each system said they would support High Def this might of been timely and made sence but right now, it seems like the "Hardcore" videophile/gamer will have a 52 inch TV (or even bigger) with vibrant color and will be playing HOTD4 on their 360 right in their living room.
So the only thing they can do is make arcades with outragius controllers (Steel Battalion would of made a great arcade game) and more immersive controlls (like if it's a motorcycle game you need to be on one, if it's a car racing game you need to be on a car). There really isn't a whole lot they can do to impress people and make them want to go to the arcade anymore, When you look at the price to play a game (upto $2 a pop last I saw and this was like 6 or 7 years ago) you really have to offer something people can't get at home, naturally this isn't going to happen since they want to make as much money possible off the game so they release it for the home consoles and thus negating the arcade experiance (since you don't have to worry about the little shit that wipped his ass on the controlls or if a button will work or not).
Online, more impressive controllers & fun gameplay are the only things that can bring the arcade industry back but when someone looks at an arcade game then a home console game and sees the HCG is better on graphics, length and is cheaper in the long run it's rather hard to convince people to go to an arcade, deal with someone who just doesn't give a shit about you, the arcades or even their own hygene just so you can get a couple minutes of fun from a broken down machine.
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you missed the important part of all that,
Their not FPS.
Sure the RPG, Magic & Demon elements of the game are going to rock hard but what have they done that is FPS?
I'm not knocking the game or the developers in anyway (I am looking forward to the game) but I've seen this happen one to many times. A Major person that is responcable for a killer franchise leaves the company that owns it, starts his own and takes a couple of the people with him (for whatever reason)
They promise the greatest game ever in a genre they never made a game for, naturally it isn't the greatest thing ever but it's not a horrible peice of garbage either, it's just not what people were expecting.
Each game you listed was a point and click dungeon crawler & an RTS, those are harder to do then an FPS but that doesn't mean they can make the worlds best FPS on their first try.
Narrator: In A.D. 2006, war was beginning. Bush: What happen ? Cheney: Somebody set up us the bomb. Secretary: We get signal. Bush: What ! Cheney: Main screen turn on. Bush: It's you !! foreign terrorist: How are you gentlemen !! foreign terrorist: All your base are belong to us. foreign terrorist: You are on the way to destruction. Bush: What you say !! foreign terrorist: You have no chance to survive make your time. foreign terrorist: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Cheney: Captain !!
Bush: Take off every 'F-16' !!
Bush: You know what you doing.
Bush: Move 'F-16'.
Bush: For great justice.
replace foreign terrorist with hacker, script kiddy ect.
you forgot about the Wii with the supposed price of no more then $250.
If you see a PS3 for $599 an Xbox 360 for $399 and a Wii for $249 there won't be much of a decision maker for your average person to see that the Wii would be the best for the price.
and that's the point I was making.
When I used to get magazines they were filled with a lot of great info, now a days though they are filled with far to many ads then what they were filled with.
I understand it's either that or up the subscription price but if it ment I could get more articles and information out of a magazine for a higher price I would rather do that then be stuck with a magazine that doesn't give me anything but ads upon ads for less.
why bother with the downgraded SNES port when you can Get the actual arcade version and play it online?
oh please
There won't ever be lag-free online play. Not aslong as there are people who don't like getting their asses handed to them and decide to cheat the system.
don't forget everyone of those companies can sue microsoft (and you know they would) for violating the DMCA even though it was just to get the program to work in vista saving them time and money.
Everything is called *Insert biggest thing* killer
every FPS that came out after Halo was dubbed the "Halo Killer" and not one of them worked.
Every MP3 player that came out after the iPod was dubbed an "iPod killer" they never managed to put a dent in it.
it never fails, whenever there is something big people will associate The Next Big Thing from a Big Company as the killer of the competing product.
I doubt this will hurt sales of the iPod or PSP in any way, The main point is that you know it is going to cost more then a laptop, if they plan on including everything they say it will have there's no way they can have it compete with the PSP or the video iPod.
The few magazines I have subscribed to I have seen bulk out over the years and they add nothing to what they were doing before, they just increased the size because they added more ad's, the articles were all the same length as before.
that's why I have switched to just reading stuff online, atleast with those ads I don't notice them and they don't overtake an article. It is rather sad when an article that takes 4 pages suddenly jumps to 6 or 7 pages because of ads, there seems to only be one magazine that I still get that balances it out correctly and that's Game Informer, they will give you a good article then a couple pages of ads then a few pages of reviews a couple more pages of ads then a mixture of reviews and ads the others I used to get just see to be like sports, They give you 3 ads, 2 pages of something, 4 pages of ads, 3 pages of something, 2 pages of ads, 5 pages of something, 5 pages of ads 2 pages of something. It just get's out of hand and it's sad to see so many things that were once great reduced to just trying to make money without offering anything people would want.
they only buy censored music.
Movies they are still VERY proud to display that "UNRATED" version in clear view for you and stock a hell of a lot more of them over the R rated countered parts.
I suppose the only thing more powerfull then walmart is Hollywood.
so you are saying you are all for loss of information?
you said it yourself that it's not the end of the world and not important if you can't lend a book to someone, so what happens when that day comes? the book is lisenced to only you and it requires your finger print to even open it, someone else tries to read it and nothing happens other then "Unauthorized user" shows across the cover. you open it for them but as soon as you hand it to someone else it closes on them and displays the same error message.
That's the route these companies want to go with DRM, so if this isn't worth fighting for where you spend your earned money on something that you can't even lend to a friend anymore, then why bother fighting for privacy rights? Why raise a big stink over what the US government is doing? it's not worth fighting for, it's not the end of the world, it's not important since we will forget about in in a couple of months anyways right?
The most used extension for Firefox is Adblock.
you know how fast Opera/Mozilla/anyone would get sued for having that feature as default?
The widgets are ok but they clutter up the screen something feirce. I installed the weather one (only one that appealed to me) and it's more of an annoyance then a helper. It covers up a good chunk of the screen (enough to cover a 5 line block of text) and then when I put it to hide there is no way for me to just click to bring it back to the front so I can check.
Where as with the weather extension for firefox it just sits nicely down in the lower right of my screen for me to hover over and see what the weather is or if it's going to be severe weather I am told about it in a little popup.
after that I have the Video Downloader, Tab browser preferances & image zoom. The Video downloader won't be installed as default cause it would get the opera people sued again (since it allows you to download videos from places you aren't allowed to), the other two could be done by default.
so out of the 5 extensions I use 3 can be done by default (if not already done by default, I never use Opera that often to find out) but 2 would get them sued for being installed by default cause it would be their responsability, where as being extensions they can't get sued because they didn't make the extension.
Even when I used to have a ton of extensions installed (before I got calm and got only the ones I needed) Firefox never went slow for me because of them. Sure it slowed down but that was because i either opened a page that had Java or a Windows Media embeded player in it (still can't figure out what screwed up the WMEP but whenever I reinstalled windows it would fix it) and I used to have 15-20 extensions.
the only thing was Sega was thinking of the gamers at that time.
They didn't really want to release a new system when the genesis was doing just fine but they wanted to upgrade the gaming ability, so they release the SegaCD and 32x, both enhanced the Genesis gaming ability by a lot but as you said no one really bought them, to bad no one realized that's what it was, a Cheap upgrade into next gen, I never did find a SegaCD addon for sale but I did see a 32x when it was flushed down the crapper at Toys R us for like $15 new, only problem was there was 3 games for it.
cause they could get sued for invasion of privacy by the scammer.
:P
So in the end it's a win win for the scammer
you know how much those people make in a week?
A hell of a lot more then a retail job. Also what do people who have a high school diploma then go off to collage and study something for 4 years have to look forward to? everything points to studying IT if you want a job, yet every other day there is something about how the IT industry is slowing,anymore it almost seems like you don't need a diploma cause it won't get you a job anywheres.
even if you don't have kids, 5 hours of driving across nothingness is going to take it's toll on yourself.
wait wait wait...
a game that doesn't have guns, cars or any severe violence is WORSE then a game where you can go around killing people for no reason? if anything I would think they would stay for Bully and leave over GTA.
both versions actually come with Linux pre-installed (it's to get around paying taxes), the $600 model comes with HDMI ports The Card reader and a 60gb hdd as default, the $500 model only has a 20gb model and you have to buy a card reader addon and there is no support for HDMI.
oh I'm not saying the iPod is good or bad, just that it's odd to continue getting a product (either by buying or through warrenty, though I've never had much luck with those) that has failed you that many times, it is a mass produced product so there will be faults in it (just like anything that is mass produced).
I've never owned one (since they cost to much for my tastes and the video ipod just doesn't appeal to me) but they do look sleek but like you said that shine could be to easy to scratch up (my TV stand looks to have the same kind of finish and it scratches from just looking at it).
go figure,
First-Party games (meaning ones made by Sony themselves) won't work on the 360?
When is Microsoft going to come out and say the same damn thing about their First party games not working on the PS3? Samething goes for Nintendo.
Oh wait, they learned that the foot in the mouth routene doesn't work anymore...well not so much with Microsoft.
Then you have people with little kids who like to play games, you can't exactly pop in the disc and it automatically installs the game like on a windows machine (if it will even install at all), for most people a computer is a computer, only the names are different, so they don't know anything about system requirments, With macs not being cheap by any means it wouldn't suprise me to hear a number of them are returned for simply not working being the majority of the complaints.
Sure they can go on and on and on about how it's more secure, but a story will come along not to long saying some website's encryption was cracked and lots of user data was stolen. It doesn't really seem to matter what OS you are using, aslong as assholes who think it's cool to create malware, spyware, viruses and so on exsist it will always be there and whatever the most dominant OS is that will be the main target. Sure Macs are safe for now because how big is their market share? 5%? 10%? Linux has even lower while Microsoft controlls the remaining %, so naturally people are going to target it cause it has the most impact.
Just like when someone robs a place, Macs and others are like Banks, they have tighter securty but there is a bigger payoff (by being able to say you were the one that broke it) but Windows is like the little shop on the coner, there's a whole lot more of them and they have cash right there in front of you and are lacking in security. So naturally you are going to take the easier place to rob...especially when you act like a 12 year old who thinks you are "1337" because you ran a script.
well I was thinking like the controller, only cut out about 30-35 buttons on it.
you have the ejector button but that would end the game (naturally), The peddels and just two joysticks with the buttons you need.
sure it would be more simplified but is there truely a need for 40 buttons on a controller? there isn't a ton of games that use all the buttons on a standard controller as it is (or atleast in some cases not very well) and that's only 10 buttons.
Mainly I was thinking of the peddels and joysticks for any mech game released in the arcade, cause that's the kind of interactivity needed for arcades, when you go to the arcade it used to be about games looking better and playing differently then what you got at home, when you get the same or even better experiance at home then you do at the arcade you don't really keep people.
Take Afterburner for example, if you played the real arcade version (there's two version I know of, the sit in model and then a standing model) then you get jerked around everytime you move the stick and it does it's best to immerse you into the game as a fighter pilot, where as at home you just had the controller and nothing more to immerse you into the game (Granted Yu really knew you had to immerse people or provide a really great game (or both of course) to get them coming back), wow...trying to think of a lot of games that immerse you I keep coming up with his, The only other one I can think of is Time Crisis series. At the arcade I LOVE this game, if I see this anywheres I just HAVE to play it, when I saw they had it for the PS1 & then PS2 it just wasn't the same, not having that peddel to step on to open fire on people just didn't immerse me into the game as much and it was the exact same game that was in the arcades (even the lightgun that came with it had the kickback to it).
The major drawback to the arcades though, is they cost so much. I went searching for Time Crisis 3 arcade game, the only one I could find was the dual screen one (that had a price anyways) and it was $13,000. now this was for two TV's that would cost you AT MOST $500 (and that's for 2 and stretching it, they were only 20 inch screens) and the cabnit. This is why you don't see to many new arcade games anywheres, the only one that seems to even make it's money back is DDR but they are just as expensive.
So you have to wonder, if Time Crisis 3 with two 20 inch screens costs $13,000, how much is HOTD 4 going to cost with it's 52inch Plasma or LCD TV going to cost somewheres to put into place? more importantly would they even bother with it? (looking at best buy the cheaest 52inch TV they have is $1499.99 so right off the top you have double that cause the monitor has to be custom made for the system) sure in the past it was easy to just write off a broken arcade unit since they were only $5000 at most, by the time they broke they made their money back and enough to buy another replacement unit but once you hit that $10k mark they need to be rather durable and not break for quite a long time, If a $13,000 arcade game let you play for $0.50 a pop (that's how much it cost me to play TC3) you would need 26,000 plays to break even on the unit...now I don't know about the average arcade game but 26,000 plays is going to take a rather heafty toll on the game no matter how strong the unit is, so god help you if it's not a popular game and god help you if it is, cause either way you are going to lose money on it.
wow I rambled on there, anyways, Steel batallion would make a good arcade game but they would have to trim it way down on the buttons and make the cabnit easy to get into (maybe model it after the actual pilots seat in the game?) so the immersion of the game is even greater cause that's the only way they are going to get people back, give us an experiance we can't get at home...unfortunatly that means either releasing game ONLY in the arcade and never at home (naturally won't happen) or make the cabnits so memorable that people would rather go to the arcade and play it then staying home to play it.
All I keep hearing about with next gen is bigger TV's, "you need a 52inch HDTV to experiance it to the full extent!" "you need this big ass tv to exerpiance it properly!"
Sure before each system said they would support High Def this might of been timely and made sence but right now, it seems like the "Hardcore" videophile/gamer will have a 52 inch TV (or even bigger) with vibrant color and will be playing HOTD4 on their 360 right in their living room.
So the only thing they can do is make arcades with outragius controllers (Steel Battalion would of made a great arcade game) and more immersive controlls (like if it's a motorcycle game you need to be on one, if it's a car racing game you need to be on a car). There really isn't a whole lot they can do to impress people and make them want to go to the arcade anymore, When you look at the price to play a game (upto $2 a pop last I saw and this was like 6 or 7 years ago) you really have to offer something people can't get at home, naturally this isn't going to happen since they want to make as much money possible off the game so they release it for the home consoles and thus negating the arcade experiance (since you don't have to worry about the little shit that wipped his ass on the controlls or if a button will work or not).
Online, more impressive controllers & fun gameplay are the only things that can bring the arcade industry back but when someone looks at an arcade game then a home console game and sees the HCG is better on graphics, length and is cheaper in the long run it's rather hard to convince people to go to an arcade, deal with someone who just doesn't give a shit about you, the arcades or even their own hygene just so you can get a couple minutes of fun from a broken down machine.