The Playstation brand is well established and quickly recognizable to consumers. The most efficient solution to the issues the author raises would be for Sony to simply stop devaluing the brand name. The author calls re-branding starting with a "new slate," but it is more like throwing out over a decade of strategic marketing and investment efforts and starting from scratch. No, I don't think Sony is that dumb.
What? No love for the army? When I'm on a five-star rampage, I want tanks, jets, and soldiers hunting me down; not khaki wearing DOH agents.
Lol I disagree with your statement but laughed at the Turkish Gobble Gobble
This article claimed that Rockstar was going to use the motion capture technology that would have been used in the canceled Eight Days game. I think there are videos of examples in it.
http://n4g.com/news/872958/...
Really? You fought in the Battle of Brest, the largest tank battle in history?
This makes me wonder if they just aren't being efficient with the resources they have or if they are just seriously lacking the financing that these projects obviously need. The one sign that a company has gone profit crazy? Lowering costs to inoperable levels.
These assumption are so misinformed. PC gaming is growing stronger (driven mainly by social network gaming), but to assume that this means a decline in console gaming is ludicrous. Even if console gaming simply becomes a niche market, there will be way too much money in it to ignore. I will say that whoever comes in last next gen may bow out from consoles, but the remaining two will go on strong.
You do realize that PC gaming is now defined by Farmville and Words with Friends more so than Battlefield 3 and Counter-Strike?
The worst part for me are the Splinter Cell linear-style levels. The massive levels in the last Hitman really made the game and I was excited to see how big the levels were going to get in the new installment. I hope whoever is responsible is promptly fired and ran out of town.
The author was using the figure to highlight the fact that the popularity of Twisted Metal has been dwindling, not as a claim of quality.
They make some ridiculous assessments in the article and they fail to elaborate on why they believe we only have one more console generation left. If anything the big three should be playing a survival game right now. I think that the loser of the next generation will probably opt out of the consoles market and the surviving two will go on for another three or four generations. To suggest that consoles will completely disappear makes no sense financially.
Mass digital distribution won't be feasible for another decade or even two. The state of the American internet infrastructure just would not be able to handle the extra load.
I remember the first level in the trenches being fun, but I never even bothered to finish the rest of the game.
Says the person using a computer and internet service provided to him by big corporations.
As long as the company (Square-Enix) projects a decent return if they develop a FFVII remake it wouldn't matter. All the work that would have to go into remaking a game is just a much, if not less, work than creating a new game from the ground up. There is just too much money to be made from this game for a company to ignore. If anything they should sell the rights to a developer wanting to remake it.
Welcome to the video game culture haha.
When you spend more than 30 minutes arguing with another player about the lasting consequences of the Stormcloak rebellion on the whole of Tamriel and if they or the Empire can even make a stand against the Aldmeri Dominion. I'm now on a quest to get a life again.
Yeah XIII was just a little too melodramatic for me and Vanille's constant moaning and grunting ruined every cutscene she was in.
To be honest this sounds like what the James Bond series goes through every time a new actor is announced. Roger Moore's Bond was too goofy, smoked cigars, and drank bourbon. Timothy Dalton's Bond wasn't charming enough. Pierce Brosnan was too Irish.
New directions are a great way to pump life in a stagnant product or to kill it off.
If I remember correctly Take-Two's fiscal year ends in the early half of the year. So the later half of 2012 is part of Take-Two's fiscal year 2013.