@chaosdreams
"if option a requires less sales for the same revenue, they will go with option a."
Not necessarily. Fewer sales means less opportunity for word of mouth advertising, a smaller online community to attract new players, a smaller fanbase that would potentially buy a sequel, smaller numbers that don't sound as good to press/investors, a smaller number of people to buy dlc, etc.
Even assuming, for the sake of argument, ...
Obviously games wouldn't be cheaper to begin with, but as demand died down when games got older, they would have incentive to drop the price, to stimulate demand.
You can call insult ubisoft and EA all you want, but they'd much rather sell 15 copies of a 6 month old game for 30-40 dollars than only 3-4 for 60.
They can't do this right now because it would make their retail partners upset.
Look at how quickly digital prices drop on...
I love how everyone downvotes you and says digital prices won't drop faster than they do now once physical games die out. Clearly these people have no knowledge of Steam.
Even though I'm a Playstation user, I wish MS would have stuck with their original vision for the Xbox One EXCEPT FOR THE ALWAYS ONLINE ASPECT. All digital doesn't require always online DRM, contrary to what many of those desperately clinging to a dying medium want everyone to believe. If they h...
Far Cry 2 is your go-to for a boring game? What is your go-to boring movie, The Godfather?
"Turns 10 this year.". I see what you did there.
@Redbutterfly
Not as much as they've pushed it this year, and in previous years they never let other people play it. Keep in mind Sony has said they are essentially treating this as a first party game, and they are severely lacking in exclusives this fall. Also, it's procedurally generated, so once the engine is in place, it's not like they have to finish building levels, etc, that could drag development time out.
It uses estimates from retailers, so in light of the fact that NPD only provides real numbers for North America, VGchartz is the best comprehensive source available. PC numbers are so far off because vgchartz doesn't track digital sales (which is why their estimates of console game sales won't be as relevant this generation as more people switch to digital) and almost everyone buys PC games digitally now. Consoles can't be downloaded digitally though, so the estimates are more acc...
Why? They've pushed that game like crazy this year (Game Informer cover story, IGN first, stage at E3) and people who have played it say it plays like a finished game. Waiting another year would kill their hype/momentum.
Yeah it probably is over a million with digital, but as the premiere console exclusive during the season it came out, I'm not sure that's a success. Especially since it seems like they actually spent decent money marketing it. As I recall, there were some cool bundles with that game, too.
Also I couldn't blame Insomniac if they were salty over Resistance 3. It was awesome, but instead PS3 players all bought Call of Duty: Whichever one came out that year.
Unfortunately Sunset didn't sell that well. Though I'm primarily a PS user I was hoping it would do really well because Insomniac was so underappreciated on PS3. Obviously it wouldn't come out on PS4 but it would have been nice to get a PC release to see if the game could pick up some Steam. They are a dev team I really don't want to go out of business.
That was kind of a waste of what seemed like it could have been a really cool map. Acts 1, 2, and 4 were great though.
He may just be annoyed by the use of kickstarter by a well-known dev. Some people are pretty strongly against it.
I think that's the point. While exaggerated, though, I do have to wonder how much better a game like Destiny would have been if someone like Bethesda had published it.
I'm going to be interested to see if in a few years a dev essentially tries to combine the two (openness of NMS with more structured missions of Destiny). It would be really hard with millions of planets, but maybe if they made like 50 planets but with more developed cities, NPCs, etc.
It happens on every No Man's Sky article/video (including this one, where it is posted on IGN). So no waiting is required. I love how not wanting to see an awesome-looking game get attacked means I "really don't like people who aren't the same as [me]."
Exactly. I've been sold on the concept of the game since the announcement, just sell me a copy already.
Here is another video explaining what you do in this game. So naturally, I expect a chorus of Xbox fans saying "what do you actually do in No Man's Sky? It looks like it has no point."
Septic is seriously trying to act like RROD didn't cause people to buy new consoles. That's how far this has gone. That's like the equivalent of a Sony fanboy denying that the PS3 was ever $599 by citing to its later lower prices.
Exactly. Sony claims they don't buy third party exclusives, but I highly doubt they didn't pay significant money to Konami to get MGS4 as an exclusive. At the time(back when everyone was talking about the doom of the PS3, lol) that might have made sense, but it has since become obvious, based on both last gen and this gen, that most multi-platform Japanese games sell far better on Playstation than Xbox. So why should Sony pay for the exclusive when the game is going to sell primarily ...