1UP writes:
"After Microsoft and Sony introduced their motion controllers at E3 this year, one of the most frequent comments I heard was that the presentations felt like they belonged at the Game Developers Conference rather than a marketing-focused show like E3 -- that they (for the most part) lacked games and seemed designed to showcase potential rather than execution. As a result, everyone got excited for a few weeks, but since neither publisher is planning to actually release anything until next year, at this point the conversation has moved behind closed doors as developers experiment with ideas
So while we wait, I tracked down four developers who have experience with this kind of thing, and presented each with the same series of questions about where they see motion controls heading in the near future."
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.
It's kinda interesting that Wii remote/Sony wand ports could end up being easy; we're used to seeing PS3/360 ports, but that could change next gen.
Another thing I thought was weird was the devs saying the cost of developing on HD consoles would limit the risks people would take (thus limiting or delaying innovation). Well, the Wii is currently the cheapest console to develop for, and it's taken third parties until NOW to really start exploiting the hardware.