I just find it really hard to believe that you all can't imagine that some people don't have access to smart phones or iDevices or a computer or a console. You can't seem to imagine or comprehend that market, but its clearly there. Whenever any of you post about Angry Birds on a handheld selling well, it just reveals how sheltered you are and how "first world" all of your problems are. Call me the troll, but you people really need to be taken down a peg, because the i...
1) Not everyone has a smart phone.
2) Not everyone has an iDevice.
3) Not everyone has ready access to a computer
Are you people really this THICK, that you can't imagine these things?
I think its just fine to eSHOP a game that you plan to play for hundreds of hours and will never have any intention of selling...
The problem with streetpass is that it has always assumed that you live in a big city. It then also assumes that people that you regularly streetpass with have the games that you have. I'm a negative on both of those, so Streetpass has been pretty lackluster for me. Streetpass can only go "up" because there is hardly anyone using it, as the article explains. I know dozens of people who have it who have no interest in it and never set it up.
Sales say otherwise. All that needs saying.
And I do intend to be constructive, not mean.
I want good game writers to succeed. The biggest turn off to me is when game writers write to too specific of an audience. This usually manifests itself as personal opinions being projected unto other gamers. Its great that you have personal opinions. But it also doesn't help when you evaluate a game on your personal opinions only. Jim Sterling is a good example of an extreme of how not to do it. The only opinion that ma...
"at least half of it are titles gamers don't care about"
Its statements like these that make me not want to visit your site now, honestly.
If you took the three seconds needed to post some of the niche games that a lot of people who come here care about we might have a reason to read your work. Etrian Odyssey 4 has had a lot of buzz from the target audience on n4g, and to say that its "not worth mentioning" hurts your cause.
All indications point to yes. It sold very well in Japan. There are quite a few previews out. Very full featured game.
Midnight purchase. I do that very, very, rarely, but FE is THE game that I have been waiting for on 3DS.
You're putting games up on a pedestal. You're thinking just like game companies do. It appears that, in your mind, the game designer deserves MORE from life than the construction worker, the auto salesman, the book writer, the musician, etc.
Some of us think that game designers are flawed human beings, not Gods. If you think my arguments are "spin", then you aren't reading your own.
Let's say that there were some way to transfer that movie to something physical that you could own and view at home. That would be pretty amazing. You would essentially be able to play that movie as many times as you want, FOREVER. When you got sick of it, you could sell that mystical physical copy to someone else. Surely that would crash the movie industry.
Oh wait, those are called VHS, DVD and Blu Ray. They actually exist. And they are frequently sold and traded,...
I've lost all trust in game publishers. The same publishers saying things like this also say that used sales are destroying their business. Yet, used car sales didn't sink car manufacturers and used home sales didn't sink construction businesses. Game publishers seem to think that their product is more valuable than cars or homes to the tune of wanting to eliminate a used industry. The truth is that game publishers do not make games that people can afford to keep at the price ...
This wouldn't end the way the author thinks it will. He'd play the "new" Red and Green, figure out how antiquated the mechanics are, and then regret suggesting it. A majority of games do not hold up into the era. All of the mechanics advances that happen between your nostalgia moment and modern games inevitably ruin the older games.
You've pretty much summed up exactly why the Vita struggles. All of the games you've listed are very niche games, for the handheld market, demographically. They appeal to 15 to 25 year old males. People younger than that and older than that are not interested in a glut of violence, which is what Vita games mostly are. Look at the catalogue. Yes, you get your odd sports game or your odd Gravity Rush, but most of the catalogue is just shoot stuff and beat it up.
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Crimson Shroud is a minimalist homage to tabletop RPGs and it does it pretty well. The graphics are pretty bad...and that's great. Its a text driven adventure and it about the number mining.
Not as long as the industry is driven by first person shooters and graphics quality is a top criteria for judging games.
Don't ever get into business.
His problem is that he doesn't really understand the gamer demographic. He's an economic analyst and economics is a social science for a reason. The entire field is based on the idea of understanding the likes/dislikes and therefore purchasing habits of the target demographic. Gamers are a diverse group and he type-casts them. He thinks he understands our market desires.
Re: the whole "Mario" thing, this is a problem in gaming as a whole. Companies pour...
A boat allows you to move on water only. If you live in the inland United States, there is a very limited set of places that you can go with your boat. Some rivers and lakes representing a very low area of travelling real estate. An SUV can move on land, sometimes when its a little wet too. An SUV can get you to a LOT of places that a boat can't go.
The boat market is doomed. The only possible way that the boat market can compete with the automobile market is to buil...
I would hope that we can all agree that tablets haven't "killed" the handheld gaming platform market, as out of touch industry "analysts" have said. You can't kill one market with a different market. Speedboats didn't "kill" the fishing boat market because they are at a different price point, aimed at a different demographic, and they do a different task. Good luck getting your 30 foot speed boat in a lake in Iowa. ;)