G4's Adam Sessler hinted in his June 17, 2009 soapbox topic that the Wii's anticipated Super Mario Galaxy 2 looks like "the castoff levels of Super Mario Galaxy." In other words, a rehash. Since he was already frothing at the collapse of civil fan culture (again), he didn't spend much time on it. But he did imply that it could be a future rant. What is especially ironic about his side comment is that it was made during a finger-wagging at the L4D2 Boycott community.
Whatever the hype surrounding either game, they both look pretty similar to their previous iterations. Check out preview footage here and here. Given the superb quality of the originals, who cares if the sequels look similar? Why is a sequel to one excellent game better or worse than another excellent game? In a more clear defense of Galaxy 2, I believe Game Revolution’s Chris Hudak sums up the basis of an argument for a sequel in his review of the original Galaxy: “Every time you remember to breathe, Super Mario Galaxy introduces some new, wonderful, weird-ass mechanic that keeps the experience fresh and interesting.” Galaxy was a platformer for the ADD. It featured so many twists on both classic 2D and 3D Mario gameplay that it never got stale. Galaxy built a fantastic foundation for a perfect rehash. It doesn’t necessarily have to offer anything new. It can simply flesh out the original’s mechanics and still come up with another great gaming experience.
After all, isn't this what jaded Nintendo fans have been clamoring for? The incapacitated Wii is in serious need of a AAA injection because, frankly, it's flatlining. Hell, it's dead on the table.
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.
