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[Industry Thread] My movie theater is better than yours sometimes but has more screens.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbIBs0P2t0Welcome to the video game industry thread, wherein we discuss atypical shit regarding video games like sales performances, layoffs, dev studio startups, and all that sorta stuff. On our last episode:
- Playstation 4 sold a billion units, so says retail outlets.
- XBox One sold a billion units, so says Microsoft.
- Wii U will sell a billion units, so says Pachter.
- Steam will deliver us from our Microsoft overlords.
- Steam sucks or something because reasons?
There's some rules to follow. Try not to screw up.
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- This thread is not an uptight business club. As long as you stay chill and don't meander off-topic, you can have a lot of fun discussing this dysfunctional industry.
Not a rule but a suggestion: If there's a piece of news that is absolutely colossal, it probably could use its own thread rather than be locked in here.
Edit - Oh yeah! Starting with November's NPD data, when it's available, I'll try to make it a point to have the most recent NPD data here in the OP. I'd do the same for Mediacrate and all but that stuff updates too frequently.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/11/angry-birds-go-is-now-available-worldwide
Kinda surprised they didn't waddle up to the in-game currency trough long ago.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. But y'know, it just kinda falls in step with something I've been saying recently. Micro-transactions, on the broad face of video games, is the question that went unanswered last gen and will be answered this one. So it's gonna be a bumpy ride on all platforms for a while.
Quick note on Angry Birds, a racing game?
A kart racer, no less. I'm the guy who has downloaded all the Angry Birds games and I'm rolling my eyes on this one.
By which I mean, toys you buy and place on a "portal" to unlock those characters ingame.
pluss I think rovio knows they can slap those birds on anything and sell it. they have successfully merch'd that franchise into toddlers brains.
Yeah, they put "telepods" in the latest Angry Birds Star Wars game as well as the kart racer.
At least in ABSW II, they're easily ignorable since all they do is let you choose the birds for a level rather than use the pre-set ones.
That's a fair bar to set, but Angry Birds is like, the birds and pigs. It's more ridiculous than when Sony was all "we need an All-Star game."
it doesn't sound like we'll be getting another all stars anytime soon though.
Wasn't there some rumblings of Sony trying to make another Sony Smash Bros. with a different developer? Which would be odd since it sold horribly.
PASBR would've been a whole lot better if they just cribbed the % health stuff instead of relying on the "only supers score you kills" silly thing. I was fine with the roster, especially because Isaac Clarke was in the game. The scoring system was dumb, and made the matches a predictable cyclic thing, that usually lasted way too long because everyone just played keep away from the guy who was trying to use a super.
Hexen with Angry Birds? You choose from one of the Angry Bird classes and fight in the realm of OscaerMaeyar against the Pig Riders? Their physics puzzle game Bad Piggies was absurdly well done too. They may be pushing their brand hard but you have to give Rovio credit for at least making sure all their games are good. It almost seems kinda unfair at this point to give them shit about putting out a kart racing game starring their very well known characters if they put just as much effort into making it a solid game (ignoring the stupid microtransactaction crap).
As far as the microtransaction stuff goes, I've noticed that mobile gaming is pretty much the big black hole of awful shit. I completely gave up on it after getting fed up with every other game being a f2p that doesn't just want you to pay to keep playing the rest of the game but to do so in a way that's just downright mean and abusive to the customer. I even saw single player strategy games adopting that shit which is just absurd. Outside of it, most developers seem to be far more sensible about their f2p schemes, at least on PC. I can't really comment on consoles since I've basically given up on them entirely at this point.
What IF Nintendo removed BC from the WiiU? Could that drive the price down enough to where they could do another price drop to bring it to that sweet spot?
I don't know, seems that they don't want to be labelled again as making clone games. I would expect them to look at something like an adventure/RPG style game personally.
Sort of ... but the WiiMini saved some cents by removing ports (for NGC peripherals/accessories). So ...
I don't think there is anything hardware they could remove from the Wii U to do that, the wii BC isn't done via a separate wii on a chip or anything like that. The BC just came as a nice side-effect of staying on the same architecture for 3 generations. So for BC they just turn off 2 of the cores and maybe reduce the cpu clock.
I'm under the impression that Nintendo designed the Wii U in such a way that BC wasn't that hard to do. I doubt it would drop the cost of manufacturing enough that they'd be able to do a big enough price drop to do any good.
As far as the reverse scenario goes, I'm expecting that the PS4 will get PS1 BC added at a later date in a system patch. They've obviously got a decent PS1 emululator by now (that they even got running on the PSP) so I'm guessing the only reason why the PS4 didn't have it at launch was because they were rushing to get more important features working like the Vita remote play. I'm guessing PS2 & PS3 BC is difficult enough that it'll have to be done on a case by case basis (like the PS2 classics on the PS3 digital store) or through remote streaming.
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The article mentions Microsoft refunding people's money for Premium. I might just check with Sony support to see if they're doing the same thing. I thought about sticking it out, but I'd rather just try for a refund and forget about it at this point.
Yeah, I've heard from more than one place that the Wii U literally just loads a Wii emulator to perform its BC. It won't do much for cost at all. It's all about that stupid fucking controller screen and having it sync perfectly with the hardware.
Also I don't think price is the problem people have with the Wii U. I think it's a matter of software. I said this long ago in the last thread, but people want the next Wii Fit. And I don't mean literally Wii Fit, like Wii Fit 3 or 4 or whatever number it'd be. I'm talking about software that's sort of a video game but appeals to everyone ever.
According to Gamasutra the studio has been in limbo (or nearing it) since October.
The games were not that great either.
Edit: I just remembered that Way Forward did a Bloodrayne game for PSN/XBLA. Was that any good or did it sell?
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I went into a local chain store that's kinda like Target in the US (only vastly less full of different stuff), and at the candy aisle there was a whole shelf for Angry Birds stuff.
That franchise has transcended the "gaming" niche and is part of the general populace pop culture consciousness.
I don't think this one can really be pinned on DICE. EA clearly wanted BF4 out before Ghosts and forced the game out long before it was ready.
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It's been that way for quite some time. My wife brought me back an Angry Birds pencil set from Hong Kong, and that was two years ago. Angry Birds is basically this generation's Tetris, in terms of cultural pervasiveness.
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I loved seeing Mario get put back into the public consciousness last generation. Looks like it's Angry Birds' time to shine.
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Bloodrayne was mediocre but hey, boobs. Ghostbusters the game though, that was excellent and they got all the original voice cast as well as Brian Doyle Murray as the mayor, Von Sydow as Vigo again and a few other good actors. It was definitely the third movie, and better than the second no less.
They agreed to the production schedule, both parties are at fault.
They made that game? How do you go from such loving care of a license with Ghostbusters, to just taking a shit over a license with The Walking Dead?
Well,
- They are stuck developing and supporting the other EA devs with Frostbite 3.
- There were 5 SKUs of BF4.
- They are developing 5 DLC packs as part of premium.
- Microsoft wanted early access for Second Assault which was supposed to come out next year.
- Production stuff for Mirror's Edge 2 and SW: Battlefront.
- Not sure if they handle server maintenance for their older games.
- They also planned adding AMD's Mantle support to the PC version.
EA put a load of work on them. I don't know how the LA team is moving.
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