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Viva Pinata DS announced
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HOLY SNAP!
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http://kotaku.com/gaming/comic-con-07/viva-pinata-ds-announced-283699.php
Known facts:
It's going to be AWESOME
It's the original concept (no party game, platformer, racer etc.)
Top-down view
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Viva Pinata (360)
Viva Pinata (PC)
Viva Pinata: Party Animals (360)
Viva Pinata (DS)
and a show!
Hopefully we shall get a:
Viva Pinata platforming game for the 360 (or DS) very similar to Donkey Kong Country
Viva Pinata racing game for the 360 with downloadable tracks, carts etc. and xbox live
DS to buy Microsoft somthing somthing years?
Microsoft are willing to bring Rare's work to other platforms, knowing that they'll profit from it?
for god's sake, perfect dark on virtual console
and yes, I know this only applies to consoles that aren't in direct competition and therefore that it's unlikely to happen when the wii's involved but hey, let a man dream
if it does actually take off on the DS, i wonder how much that would boost sales on the 360, since there's probably a lot of people that avoided it because it was a bit of an unknown entity. If they suddenly find this fun new game on the DS, i could see a few people going "oh hey, i want more!"
At any rate, this announcement gives me even more hope for future games. Diddy Kong Racing got me wondering, but Viva Pinata is a Rare-owned IP... This kind of ups the ante.
Yeah, no kidding. People here, such as myself, have imported the two best fighting games on the system; Bleach DS and Jump Ultimate Stars. While Bleach DS is getting an official north american release, I don't know about Jump or anything else. There's a pretty wide open market for some good 2D or even 3D fighters on the DS. Arc System Works could have had a hit with Guilty Gear DS, but they decided to make it a wonky party-ish fighting game instead of simply bringing Guilty Gear to the DS. A 3D fighter could work quite easily in the hands of an intelligent group of devs, but I'd really like to see some more good 2D fighters that look good and control easily as Bleach DS does.
Um.
As far as Viva Pinata DS, I think this was a smart move in MS's part.
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Not sure what the sales were like, but VP was one of the best titles for the 360 when released. Not sure it ever garnered the consumer attention it deserved though.
Last I heard, it sold like 35,000 copies.
That's like Killer7 numbers.
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btw: What happened to the old site, e?
gave content to sbg due to lack of time. they are doing some neat things over there, though due to life stuffs im prolly going to be doing less over there going forward...i have a blog that ill prolly use to write about my involvment with the industry as time permits. Yay!
Anyway, on VP...it's one of the few 360 games older than a month beyond release that still gets play time here.
yeah, last i heard, the game really didn't sell well, despite being loved by most people that bought it. The presentation was too childish for most adult 360 owners (that, along with the tie-in children's show), whereas the game itself probably had too much depth for most kids to play on their own. I would hope, as i said, a DS version might sell a few more copies, as there's already a gargantuan install base, and from the titles, it seems like there'd be enough potential buyers for a game like this. That's where i'd be interested to watch sales of the 360 version, to see if they start going up once people have played it on the DS.
It feels like they went out of their way to make it seem like a cheap marketing tie-in. I don't have a 360 and so would have never bought it anyway, but the mere existance of the show biased me against the game. Franchises are things that have to be earned, not created out of nothing.
Mortal Kombat is coming out in October, complete with Wifi play.
35,000 is technically fewer than 200,000, I guess, but I'd think that means at least 150,000.
Hm.. yes, Ultimate Mortal Kombat.
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Fair enough; the 35,000 came from NPD, so that's only USA numbers.
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And Microsoft is really, really trying to get Viva Pinata to take off, eh? Maybe the game will get a better reception on the DS.
I heard the show is doing pretty well and was picked up for a second season.
This is like microsoft's version of Pokemon, which also didn't earn shit it just tossed out a cartoon to go with the game and started to rake in the cash.
I... like the cartoon.
I bred pinatas just to feed to other pinatas so I could unlock new pinatas. The circle of life is violent.
so
you can feed pinatas parents to their children?
bought even harder
And name your pinatas all sorts of terrible things which can make for some rather funny pop-up messages.
"Poop and Hairy Butt are Romancing!" Needless to say my friend and I named their offspring Dingleberry.
>.>
It was funny at 3 in the morning, I swear.
Not even remotely. It's closer to A sims type game, mixed with a bit of Harvest Moon, with a very big side of Monster Rancher. It's also my favorite game of last year.
The whole top down view thing here doesn't do much for me though...
Oh, and in reply to a previous post, there was no online.