I've heard of this kind of stuff happening in Russia after the fall of the U.S.S.R when the mafia essentially took power. Similar too, in Russia the mafia would post "guards" outside of lets say a oil company not letting anyone in until the owner pays the "fee".
Of course the major difference, their is no fee. Everyone was looking at Midway but these companies are losing more then Midway.
Aside from DICE none of those were EA owned studios, how do you know it was not rushed? Also consider those aren't yearly franchises either.
This is why the system needs to change, publishers ask their developers to meet strict and times unthinkable deadlines which the developers are not able to meet. The game then gets reviewed horribly or sells like crap and the publisher ends up blaming the developer almost always putting them higher up on the chopping block list. Eidos did this with Core Design (The Company that put Eidos on the map mind you) and Tomb Raider, EA did this without a few studios as well, etc
Thinks...
$19.99 is suddenly pricey for everyone? Considering the amount of content this is a great price, how much did Bethesda/2K charge for the Shivering Isles expansion which length wise is probably less then or equal to this?
The PS2 was a "shoddy machine" if people recall and look at how well that had sold, the 360 is a crap machine and its selling well.
But its good to see despite the pretty "biased" headline the guy remaned neutral.
DVD made great strides during the Format War as well, companies were able to add more layers to the thing in turn increasing overall storage, a pimped out DVD could be in the realm of possibility.
@DeathroW22: Please get your facts straight, Sony DID NOT have much do do with the creation of DVD. Toshiba, Time Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC created it and it competed with a rival Sony/Phillips product in a test market I believe. The Sony product lost and everyone who was on the "losing" side was brought over to finish up DVD, the DVD has we know it has very little to do with Sony.
Blu Ray is cool and all but just because one console is using it dosen't mean its a standard gaming format. Sure they could use Blu Ray, or they can make a properiatary format specifically for gaming (See GD ROM) hell they could even get their hands on HD DVD discs and tweak the specs to their needs, the licensing would be dirt cheap.
Thats true, I hate the dirty tactics developers have used to get DLC in the hands of consumers, Horse Armor is nothing! EA and a crap load of Japanese developers are notorious for this.
I bought it when I had a unusual amount of points left that I wanted to spend on something. Atleast it makes your horse look cool.
It's possible, the HDD isn't even on their website anymore.
And where did you get this statistic?
If COD 4 could sell what was it a million maps in 24h on XBL I don't think anyone at Microsoft or Take Two/Rockstar are worried.
How is Circuit City able to drop prices on this stuff so drastically when their worse off then Midway?!?!
Although I'm not to fond of Xbox 360 to PC ports, what the hell is wrong with Fanboys? First they say Microsoft ignores the PC and then they do something, albeit not groundbreaking and you turn around and say their doing to little for the 360.
PC exclusive titles would be a good thing from Microsoft, but times have changed and the PC market is not what it used to be.
Of course not, isn't Sony charging for furniture and such?
This list is a epic FAIL! Where's Condemned 2? Even though the game is a broken coaster for me and I'm (along with others) still waiting for Sega to patch it so the saves would break every time....it's still pretty damn scary and screwed up!
Why not? DD is a solid source of income, their Lapboard has also been on a few "most wanted" lists since it's inception. Phantom isn't going anywhere, even if they do the company running the shop will most likely reimburse customers.
Their dedicated that's for sure!
Essentially all services that deal with new games are the same, some might have different content then others being the only true difference.
Over $100 using the low end codecs, and thats only for 1 disc! Price drops on tech at a steady pace, by the time these drop to ATLEAST $60/disc I doubt they'll be of much use depending on the outcome of the new "format war".