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Video Game Industry Thread: December's done, time for the next one
cloudeagle
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Hi! Welcome to the video game industry thread. Here we discuss things like sales figures, game development, studio closures, executive quotes, marketing and general business stuff. Also poop jokes. And frequent references to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCZ07hwoZ4
NPD December 2011 Top Ten
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(1) Call of Duty: MW3
(2) Just Dance 3
(3) Skyrim
(4) Mario Kart 7
(5) Battlefield 3
(6) Madden '12
(7) Assassin's Creed: Revelations
(8) NBA 2K12
(9) Super Mario 3D Land
(10) Batman: Arkham City
NPD Annual 2011 Top Ten
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(1) Call of Duty: MW3
(2) Just Dance 3
(3) Skyrim
(4) Battlefield 3
(5) Madden '12
(6) Call of Duty: Black Ops
(7) Batman: Arkham City
(8) Gears of War 3
(9) Just Dance 2
(10) Assassin's Creed: Revelations
360 moved 1.7 million units, down about 8% from last December.[/quote]
gaf calculates from various hints that the Wii and PS3 both sold about 1 million even (Wii: 1.05 mill, PS3: 950K).
The Wii is down 55% Year over Year; the PS3 is down about 22%. Bring on the price cuts and the new consoles!
Edit: Some additional info from gaf:
-“We get asked a lot about how Skylanders is performing. If you combine the sales of software bundles with the character packs which are tracked in the accessories category, the title would rank 4th in December, and 11th for Annual 2011 on dollar sales.”
-“Star Wars: The Old Republic was the 14th best-selling title in December, and it was released only on PC. While the collector’s edition sold less than the regular SKU, the SKU’s both generated about the same in dollar sales, thanks to a hefty price point that fans were willing to spend on this well-loved franchise.”
-“There is one title that would have fallen in the top 10 for December if we were ranking on an SKU basis rather than on a combined platform basis as we do now: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was the 10th best selling software SKU for the month of December.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCZ07hwoZ4
NPD December 2011 Top Ten
=====================
(1) Call of Duty: MW3
(2) Just Dance 3
(3) Skyrim
(4) Mario Kart 7
(5) Battlefield 3
(6) Madden '12
(7) Assassin's Creed: Revelations
(8) NBA 2K12
(9) Super Mario 3D Land
(10) Batman: Arkham City
NPD Annual 2011 Top Ten
=====================
(1) Call of Duty: MW3
(2) Just Dance 3
(3) Skyrim
(4) Battlefield 3
(5) Madden '12
(6) Call of Duty: Black Ops
(7) Batman: Arkham City
(8) Gears of War 3
(9) Just Dance 2
(10) Assassin's Creed: Revelations
360 moved 1.7 million units, down about 8% from last December.[/quote]
gaf calculates from various hints that the Wii and PS3 both sold about 1 million even (Wii: 1.05 mill, PS3: 950K).
The Wii is down 55% Year over Year; the PS3 is down about 22%. Bring on the price cuts and the new consoles!
Edit: Some additional info from gaf:
-“We get asked a lot about how Skylanders is performing. If you combine the sales of software bundles with the character packs which are tracked in the accessories category, the title would rank 4th in December, and 11th for Annual 2011 on dollar sales.”
-“Star Wars: The Old Republic was the 14th best-selling title in December, and it was released only on PC. While the collector’s edition sold less than the regular SKU, the SKU’s both generated about the same in dollar sales, thanks to a hefty price point that fans were willing to spend on this well-loved franchise.”
-“There is one title that would have fallen in the top 10 for December if we were ranking on an SKU basis rather than on a combined platform basis as we do now: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was the 10th best selling software SKU for the month of December.”
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/39237/PlayStation_Vita_Launches_In_Japan_Requires_Immediate_Firmware_Update.php
Didn't they promise not to have 47 firmware updates per week anymore?
It was conditional on hackers not breaking their security 46 times per week.
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/star-wars-the-old-republic-server-queues-upset-players-6347847?tag=topstory;title
Server capacity, schmerver capacity. I just want the game to save my UI options after each death or logout.
I'm just curious because I guess many people have spent quite a lot of money on purchasing games for the PS3 over PSN, and apparently, if your PS3 breaks, your replacement console can never be seen as the "original" one and as such after 5(?) breakages your games are lost forever, I think? And the PS4 has sort of been confirmed for next year now, which I wonder if it will have backwards compability with at least PSN titles or not?
This is a strange transition phase for me, as an oldtimer and I am, I must admit, rather materialistic or however you'd put it... I still have all boxed games from the 80s and onwards in my garage, and though the systems for them are lost, I still feel like I own the games since I can touch them. But a virtually purchased product which is locked inside a hard drive in my PS3... I don't feel like I own that (and according to the small print, I guess I really don't either). It's very volatile, since I know it will probably be gone soon, and for me, it doesn't make me want to invest as much in such a product.
Am I alone in this crazy notion?
Yes! ...assuming you pay a fee, which varies from $5-$19 per title, to transfer it over.
Sadly enough I'm not kidding.
Me either... Well I had a single queue (I knew what I was doing when I selected a heavily populated server) and that's it. Lag was minimal except in one area where EVERYONE was. I just avoided it and all was well.
I haven't got time to wait for that fucking popcorn to pop. Why haven't they invented instant re-hydration yet?
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That's not true. You can pay $5-$19 to get a digital copy of a UMD you own for the PS Vita (in Japan). Games you bought on the PSN work with no extra charge.
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That fee is for UMDs. Anything bought on PSN will be available. Also Sony said at some point you can deactivate over the web.
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The one thing keeping me from it (well two things, I hate Star Wars) is the combat. It's still very much WoW. I see nothing different.
Woops, looks like I got confused, then.
Actually that just makes the UMD charge just seem more arbitrary.
About one third of the voice acting is just flat out bad, and another third is generic alien jibbajabba. The last third is pretty good, though.
The audio editing is universally awful.
The generic alien jibbajabba is awesome sauce!
The pistol combat is fun, to me. And I love that if you right click an enemy it's set up to use your primary attack.
You couldn't be more wrong reVerse, but you're allowed to have an opinion. Even if it's flat out wrong.
Face it, though... Having a whole one-third of voice acting for a game be 'pretty good' still makes it top notch. What with everybody needing to find a flaw in the game one way or another.
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It's been making me sick to see people across different MMOs saying "LOL IT WIL FAYELL!" Even if it does better than all other MMOs except WoW, people are going to call it a failure. Meanwhile they're playing CoX, DDO, etc.
I mean it's not without it's faults. But it's certainly better than most MMOs I've played out there. And I've dabbled in roughly 90% of the ones that aren't made in Korea.
The voice acting is what gets me though. I absolutely prefer actual cut scenes over a giant wall of text. Plus you still have your "moral" choices. They aren't used for much yet, but I think it's pretty neat you have the option of just straight up killing a dude or letting him live.
Eh, half the voice actors in that are terrible, though.
UMD failed and they are trying to screw over anyone who has a collection of those things to make up for it.
Everybody has a wrong opinion at times, it's okay man you aren't strange.
Even if they have no FUNCTION-function, it helps build a narrative, which is what I give a shit about the most.
But yeah, pointing out faults is one thing, but pretending the existence of faults automatically makes something a failure is absurd. Some people troll with that attitude, and then some people actually believe it. I swear, this industry's consumer base is the most aggressively-retarded.
Don't get me wrong, I loved reading all the quest text in WoW, and I would likely totally get a kick out of the VA work in TOR, but it seems like I'm one of the rare ones, if my experience in WoW is anything to go by. It annoyed the piss out of me when people would be begging non stop. "Where is X/I can't find Y/need Mankirk's wife plz". And I'm having an aneurysm because I just want to scream "It says right there in your quest notes you illiterate yokel!".
I just wonder if they'll come to the dim realization that there's no point in breaking the bank with VA work when the majority of players are going to skip it...
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Not to harp on this, but I really am confused by the transfer fee. Yes, on the face of it it's pretty awesome that UMD owners actually get to move their stuff over. And I can't really begrudge them some compensation for a service that takes up bandwidth and needs security. $5 per game? Eh, not that bad.
But the fact that the prices are all over the place is just weird, and makes the fee more than just paying for the infrastructure. Apparently the prices are set by individual third parties (especially since there are plenty of games that aren't eligible, suggesting it's up to the third parties to put them up there), so it's not just Sony being greedy. So maybe Sony's trying to please the third parties and bow to their demands. But if the third parties really do have Sony by the balls this way, then why isn't there a transfer fee for digitally-acquired games? Why is charging $20 per UMD fine, but suddenly it's awful if it's a DD game?
So very, very true.
I'd like to see the statistics on this. To me it's a selling point.. And I'm willing to bet most people playing TOR are the same people who enjoyed KOTOR or any other Bioware game, which means most of them listen to the chatter. (There is an option where you can literally shut off all the talking... I'll never check it, so I don't know what it does in place of it)
I think they'll come around to saying it was worth it because it's going to convert SOME of the people who normally do that into giving a shit and stopping to listen.
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