I love getting nice pre-order bonuses. Remember getting something cool that you can actually hold in your hand? I remember pre-ordering God Of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP. When I went to pick it up, the guy at Gamespot handed me an 8 inch figurine of Kratos. I didn't even know about it! Fantastic!
Giving away little presents like that is a great way to encourage pre-orders. Sadly, I have noticed much less of the physical give-aways. Instead of getting something I could put on my shelf, I get a coupon for some "special pre-order ingame weapon". What?? This is happening more and more. Almost every game now gives away special costumes/weapons/levels as a pre-order bonus instead of something you can actually collect....and touch!
Would I rather have my 8 inch Kratos figure or an extra Kratos in game skin? What would you pick?
People don't seem to mind this new trend, so it will continue, and that makes me a Sad Panda...
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I Guess it goes both ways on this, some will rather take in the in game stuff because then they feel they have more in-game value, while some would rather take something completely different, now in days the only way to obtain figures or anything that isn't a scratch off/email redeem code is by buying the biggest and most expensive version of the game, for example, Call of duty modern warfare 2, and Halo: Reach
I would rather get something in-game, like the baseball bat from L4D2, or an extra map, or something like that. I like having special stuff to show off to my friends in the game, especially if they were dumb enough to not pre-order.
Dante's Inferno had a figurine of Dante, though. & Pokemon always have the little figurines. & Lego games always have the keychains. It's not dead yet.
i personally can't stand this practice of having exclusive in-game content for pre-orders. if it changes the the gameplay in anyway, it's a bad idea, and if it doesn't (cosmetic changes) then it's not worth the effort. i really wish they'd stayed with physical incentives, figures/posters/tshirts, whatever.
Is this to much to ask for i don't think so.Give me a tshirt and content i am giving you my money after all.60$ 70 dollars i wont more and not crap like mass affect2/gow3.
I WONT MORE I AM A CONSUMER