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#275848 Mario Kart 8 advertising starts in Japan

Posted by Zinix on 05 March 2014 - 08:38 AM

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http://playeressence...-adverts-begin/

 

 

Commercials should be rolling in anyday now. This game is going to be amazingly fun.

 




#275736 Rocksteady/WB on why Origins exists: 3 years was a long time for Batman fans to

Posted by Gnomishek on 04 March 2014 - 06:18 PM

So let's milk the franchise and come up with a new Batman game every year. I think this trend is getting tiresome.




#275115 whats invovative about ps4

Posted by DexterousGecko on 28 February 2014 - 01:38 PM

umm Nintendo is getting 3rd party support

 

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That bird on the right sums up exactly what I'd look like playing it :)




#275109 whats invovative about ps4

Posted by NintendoReport on 28 February 2014 - 12:34 PM

You mean they'd end up like Nintendo?

 

umm Nintendo is getting 3rd party support

 

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#274901 whats invovative about ps4

Posted by PyroKinesis on 27 February 2014 - 08:37 AM

And that's what's so great about it! No stupid features you don't need. Just gaming, gaming, and MORE gaming!




#274295 Sony: Fake Applause During Japan’s PlayStation 4 Launch Event

Posted by Ghost on 23 February 2014 - 11:41 AM

Somone is  ratheer defensive towards Sony today and ooh brought out their best insults.

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SailtheSeas is protected by the power of BASEDGOD Pachter, don't mess.

 

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#272607 Sold my wii u

Posted by Happy Monk on 15 February 2014 - 12:12 PM

I'm foaming at the mouth because of rabies, not Mario Kart 8 or Smash Bros or X or Bayonetta 2.

 

You have to admit though that the Wii U lacks that killer app that will get gamers foaming from the mouth. 




#272565 Investors want new Microsoft CEO to abandon the Xbox divison

Posted by Azure-Edge on 15 February 2014 - 08:04 AM

It's more that I want Banjo Kazooie than I want Rare.

 

BIngo. The big ticket item is the IPs, namely Banjo Kazooie and Killer Instinct. But then again, considering that Nintendo can't even use their own IPs effectively, I question how they'd do with more. :/ 




#271752 DKC: Tropical Freeze has some TERRIBLE loading times.

Posted by Abcdude on 11 February 2014 - 08:08 PM

Those loading screens are so bad, I thought the game froze.

 

 

 

I'll let myself out...




#271290 The 1983 crash Dejavu

Posted by Hank Hill on 09 February 2014 - 07:47 AM

I think the problem with this analogy is that the 1983 crash and the current situation are really two different things.

 

With the 1983 crash, we have

  • 9 home consoles all competing with each other, all with extremely similar/expensive games (Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, theMagnavox Odyssey2, the Mattel Intellivision, and the GCE Vectrex.)
  • Home computers had just started to become available in-stores, while before they were mostly a mail-order affair. By 1982, personal computer sales were booming and the TI 99/4A and the Atari 400 were both at $349, Radio Shack's Color Computer sold at $379, and Commodore had just reduced the price of the Commodore VIC-20 to $199 and the Commodore 64 to $499, while home consoles at that time would've cost as much or a fair amount more than that
  • Inflation (which had reduced the quarter's spending power by a third in the early 1980s) was making it difficult for gaming companies to turn a profit
  • Loss of publishing control among third party developers in a retail market, leading to clone after clone after clone of the same game...not unlike iPhone games, but at $60+ a pop, this became a problem
  • Repeated high-profile game failures combined with accusations of embezzlement pointed at Atari's CEO at the time
  • The publishers were contractually required allow retailers to return the games for a refund. This practice drove many third party developers, such as Games by Apollo, out of business. For example, Atari's E.T. sold 1.5 million copies in record time. However, retailers ordered 2.5 million copies. Over 1 million copies were returned to Atari at Atari's own expense. This is the primary reason that most third party publishers did not survive the crash​.
  • A massive industry shakeout resulted. Magnavox abandoned the video game business entirely. Coleco's Colecovision would have slow sales and would withdraw by 1985. Imagic withdrew its IPO the day before its stock was to go public; the company later collapsed.
  • Additionally, the toy retailers which controlled consumer access to games had concluded that video games were a fad. That fad, they assumed, had ended, and the shelf space would be reassigned to different products; as a result, many retailers ignored video games for several years.

    • That doesn't at all look like the current problems. Yes, the gaming market right now does have its own issues, but it's nowhere near like it was in 1983. Will we be seeing more developers possibly throwing in the towel? We could, provided they don't wisen up. But I don't see the cataclysmic industry-wide explosion that ends all video gaming as we know it until somebody somehow "saves" things.




    #270768 3rd Parties Alive and Well on Wii U

    Posted by NintendoReport on 06 February 2014 - 07:19 AM

    http://www.amazon.co...91699947&sr=1-3

     

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    #270553 DK Tropical Freeze: Gameinformer 9.25

    Posted by nbond3040 on 04 February 2014 - 07:03 PM

    not going to buy it but thats a good thing for DK fans




    #270562 Bravely Default 3DS Collector Edition Unboxing YUM

    Posted by Zinix on 04 February 2014 - 08:24 PM

    Asian girl could get the D. 




    #270039 Nintendo 3rd Party Revolts Continues - Batman Arkham Origins DLC Pulled

    Posted by Hunter on 02 February 2014 - 08:52 AM

    ass creed is boring

     

    Apart from 4, yes they are pretty boring. But messing around the seas as a pirate is fun. You really dont need any knowledge of the previous games whatsoever for this one.

     

    Thanks to all the nintendo fanboys who never buy anything but mario we probably wont get the pirate spinoff game which makes me sad.




    #269523 Mario kart 8 Release date Announced

    Posted by Pjsprojects on 30 January 2014 - 08:06 AM

    Blimey how fast do you lot complete games? I'm still working on AC Black flag at 28% and that's from around launch day.




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