It would be the exact opposite of strategic to announce a price drop after the biggest shopping day of the year. Considering PSX is in December, I would expect nothing more than 2016 game announcements, and maybe even some things planned for 2017, since that would be acceptable to announce at the tail end of 2015.
The PS4 is just finally gaining traction in Japan. Price cut or not, the biggest issue since the system launched was the fact that Japanese developers were making every game cross generation that they could because they didn't want to rely on a new system. I guess they didn't trust the PS4 since it didn't absolutely catch fire with no real system seller games for the Japanese audience for awhile. But by doing that, it only ensured that people would continue to buy for the system t...
There are ever so slightly cheaper codes on eBay for anybody that wants one. The download codes have been floating between about $11 and $15 for well over six months now. After the holidays last year, it seems like there was a massive influx of extra codes with not nearly enough demand to sell them all at anything resembling MSRP.
It probably doesn't help that, even now, I don't think it's especially difficult to get a Last of Us PS4 bundle. I picked one up about ...
Half the list includes games that haven't come out, and if we're really tossing Mario Party 10 into the mix, I feel I need to revoke the list maker's right to ever making a list like this again.
I skimmed the article because I'm tired and want to sleep, but I'm guessing what this comes down to is the fact that companies, both for games and movies, can really suck at making trailers. It's like how with most comedy films, the first trailer you see will hold sometimes the only funny parts of the movie. Or trailers that show you clips from the beginning, middle, and end of the movie, basically condensing everything you need to see to a minute and a half.
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If they put a usable one out in or two games, I still wouldn't be okay with it for the same reason. It's a crappy, consumer hating practice that makes no sense. Just do DLC like everybody else. It is a perfectly good and functional system. Nintendo doesn't need to pull their unique bullshit with everything they do. Sometimes going with an industry standard is actually a good thing.
Amiibos are a cancer, not that Infinity and Skylanders are any better. What offends me about all these figures is the way that they've come to lock content behind a plastic figure that has limited supply in an increasing number of games. What is worse is that Nintendo, as they experiment with the idea of DLC, has adopted poor DLC practices like this, locking content behind amiibos on Splatoon, Yoshi's Woolly World, and encouraging Yacht Club Games to do it with Shovel Knight. Not to m...
As cool as this is, I really, really wish people would consider more strongly where they share fan projects like this. The more public the venue, the far more likely it is that the wrong parties will hear about it, and then here comes the Cease and Desist notice and another project never seeing the light of day.
Of course, in general, I wish people doing fan projects like this would hold back on announcing anything until the finished project was ready. Get it into the wild wh...
To add more perspective, in the last German weekly numbers released, 30 PS4 titles were in the top 50, with nine of the top 10 titles being PS4 games, with a PS3 game keeping it from being a full PS4 sweep for the top 10. Only 1 XBO game charted, with the rest being split between some PS3, some Wii U, some 3DS, and some PC.
I would share the official site with the numbers, but they're one of those places with a paywall.
I was going to agree on the volume of reviews comment at first, but at the same time, this game has proven that it deserves to stay relevant for a decent amount of time. People like it, want to talk about it, and from what I've heard, it's a game that has wider appeal than a person would think at first glance. I honestly wasn't expecting such a large number of critic reviews to roll in on metacritic for it, or for fan reception to be so great prior to release. I hoped, I was just ...
The Vita TV is a good alternative if you don't want a full Vita. Only a handful of games don't play, though that does include Uncharted: GA and Gravity Rush, and even if you can't play Netflix, it doesn't really matter. I mean, who doesn't own at least three things that can access Netflix anymore?
In terms of the game collection, you have PS1 classics, PSP games, indies, localized Japanese titles, and the line up of first party titles from the first two ye...
Although I know it can be hard for people to get into, speed running is such a great thing to watch. I didn't really appreciate it until I watched AGDQ last year and saw how insanely skilled you have to be to pull off a lot of these speed runs. Whether it's employing glitches or simply being awesome, it still takes practice and diligence.
I know some people will say there are better things to do, but hey, these people are working to master the games that they love. It...
Although I do get what the author is saying and agree with it to a certain extent, I think it ignores the very important fact that PC optimization has, on average, gotten leagues better over the course of the past decade. For every Saints Row 2 or Arkham Knight, there are far more games that, at the least, offer a positive PC experience, even if it isn't absolute optimization perfection.
On a different note, the article practically slaps you with the fact that an extremel...
"Is it worth it?" Do you need a new PS4 controller? I mean, seriously, unboxing videos are worthless for the vast majority of things.
Hidden gems don't get talked about as much as Until Dawn. The reason a hidden gem is hidden is because of the fact that it didn't get proper coverage for as many people as possible to learn about it.
Because he probably has GameFly and forgot to add the game to his queue three years prior to release so that he could be anywhere near the top of the list for it.
Do you understand the cost of a reasonable PC that can outperform a console? For as much as people complain, I spent $450 on this laptop that was on sale, cut down from $650 as a special back to school thing. It could maybe run The Witcher 3 at an unstable 25 FPS on low, and that's a pretty big maybe. I know it's a laptop, but what matters is hardware to price, as I'm beyond positive this outperforms any $450 tower you could put together. My PS4 that I spent $400 on simply runs th...
To be absolutely fair, Zombie Vikings had the misfortune of being named like a bad smart phone game, and the only videos available at the time of the voting process didn't exactly make the game look good. My impression was that the game looked simple, relied on (what seemed like very hit or miss) humor, and wouldn't have been something I would have even bothered spending time on.
Personally, I wish Armello had made it. That game has single player, multiplayer, looks f...
Oh c'mon. The game can not have been that horrible. I've played a game I positively hated to review. It was a review code too from the publisher, so no backing out. You know what happened? I looked at the title as objectively as humanly possible with such vehement hatred and gave it what I felt was a fair rating without voicing my heavy biases within the review itself. I did that for free too. I wasn't getting paid for writing yet.
I get if this just wasn't th...
Oh boy, a trailer that might be around 50% footage we haven't already seen. At least seeing emo looking protagonist hugging crying king pa wasn't the primary focus this go around.