Ben Dutka writes: "Earlier this week, Denis Dyack said that our current multiple console format in the industry is slowing us down, and that we should take a step forward, learn from the movies, and produce a universal console that would play all video games."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Multiple consoles will always exist.
If there was one platform, there'd be no competition, and therefore, the universal console company could charge any amount of money for it and there'd be no competition against it to make it keep its prices reasonable.
A single console monopoly is baaaaaad.
i hate monopoly
it would just go from "My console is better than yours!" to "I'm better than you!".
I can't believe anyone in the industry really thinks this will happen. The closest equivalent I can think of is the television. New TVs are all set up to receive the same content, but there are vast differences between TVs of different prices. Consoles, being hardware, would have the same basic features with different options depending on how much money you want to spend. Games, being software, would be programmed to take advantage of the basic console features. Some games though, would be made to support features that all consoles didn't have, thus defeating the purpose of a single console format. That's what I think anyway.
"Will A Universal Console Promote Maturity?"
No.
"Maybe we can move past the hundreds of so-called "journalists" with not-so-hidden agendas."
No.
"Maybe those of an adult age might start acting like adults."
No.
"Of course, certain sites that only exist to promote adolescent flaming and raving over this subject (and you know what they are) would disappear overnight."
Um, no.
"We'd be able to stop dealing with the kids who read the name of this site, the headline, not a word more of the article, and immediately launch into a superiority complex-driven, self-righteous rant of depressing proportions."
A. No.
B. I don't think you'd want that because you'd quickly realize that for the most part, it's not your site name or your headlines that turn people off.
C. That last bit's the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?
"In short, with the advent of a universal console, maybe everyone would just grow the fu** up."
Of course. Because all of the immaturity on the internet is the direct result of videogame competition.
"Sure, we might still have the people who support BioWare over Square-Enix or something... but at least we will have removed the tumor that ails the gaming community and shackles our ankles."
No.
"There is no moving forward with this level of childishness permeating ever last corner of the social gaming community."
Yeah, those young whippersnappers today will never get ahead in life with their cell phones and their rap music and their different game consoles.
"I'd almost be willing to take a cut in quality to eliminate such a tumor. It would be an agreeable sacrifice in my eyes. No longer would a person's sole purpose in life be to dissect every last editorial written in an attempt to spot bias."
Yes, gaming's direction should be decided entirely by how it will affect arguments on the internet.
"No longer would every last "debate" erupt into pathetic flaming and other personal attacks."
You think that would happen? That's cute.
"It might force everyone to abandon such idiocy, simply because the option won't exist anymore."
No.
"And because we clearly can't fend for ourselves, a higher power might have to strip away the cause of the problem."
Having choices leads to arguments on internet message boards, therefore we should eliminate individual choice. That's the answer. Yes.