"Aren't you people gaming journalists?"
Sure they are. That is largely the problem.
This is a little off topic, but to put it in slightly less pithy terms, it's not just IGN -- even though in many ways they are probably the worst offenders -- but game journalism as a whole has been on the decline for a number of years in terms of quality, style, originality, consistency, and general purpose. Ten years ago, you would have been laughed at for suggesting t...
"Is a better-designed game really "better"...?"
If a better-designed game yields a more appealing, more fun experience, then yes.
As a small qualifier, I enjoy stuff like killer7 and the original NMH as much as the next guy, and I think that the stuff like the 8 solid hours of grinding is a success as an object of contemplation and as a philosophical work, but the problem is that we're talking about *games* and from a *gameplay* standpoint, th...
More specifically, it means that all the programming is finished and the game is ready for mass production.
People don't make misinformed opinions, people have misinformed opinions.
Most opinions are based on information. When that information is correct, the opinion is informed. When that information is incorrect, the opinion is misinformed.
Similarly, Mr. Sapieha's opinion of Desperate Struggles is based off a number of assumptions about Suda51. These assumptions are wrong. Therefore, he is misinformed.
"So... if my opinion of your comment is that...
"You mean people with opinions?"
More like 'people with misinformed opinions'.
No More Heroes and its sequel are both satire -- they're designed in large part to poke fun at the very kind of game that Mr. Sapieha is claiming Desperate Struggle to be.
"White Men Can't Jump?"
Don't forget Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
"your assuming they suck as a dev team."
I don't think anyone is assuming anything about HVS, as they have a large number of published games that we can look to as a gauge of their worth as a dev team.
It just so happens that playing those games is like chewing tinfoil.
Thank goodness that it only took them fifteen years to get around to this.
Interesting to see T v. C Ultimate All-stars there. I guess they had a Japanese re-release of the Western version of a year-old game that was originally a Japan only release.
Wait, what?
"both de Blob and Saints Row will see new titles in the coming years"
Yes! Yes! A million times, yes!
"I just don't get where HVS is aiming with this one."
They're aiming at the same audience they've aimed every single game they've ever made at: people who don't have very high standards. :/
"Sales are massively down"
So, I take it we're ignoring the whole 'December NPD' thing, eh?
"MH3 hitting 1.15M is actually really low compared to it's predecessors which hit 2 million within two weeks in Japan."
So, the series should really just stick to portables. Maybe the next game we can get a DS or iPhone version.
"Parse words all you want and play silly semantic games."
I don't follow. You're the only one who seems to think this is a game.
"Fact is what I stated originally remains true "
Not really. You said Sony is making a profit on the PS3. To that end, instead of actual concrete numbers, you have some guys theorizing that they are. And I just pointed out that according to your own link, the logic behind that theory is faulty.
"But it has seen sales of its PlayStation 3 game console grow sharply after a price cut earlier last year"
Yeah, but increased hardware sales doesn't mean much if they're losing money on each sale. As your Gamespot link notes, "However, an iSuppli report in December indicated that the publisher still loses $36 per console sold."
"the Nikkei said"
So your logic is 'Some guy said it will happen, so it will happen'?
"think I need to send you a reminder....here it is"
Um, that's an editorial that says the same thing as the Gamespot link: a bunch of guys were given a survey and they said 'Yeah, we think Sony overall is going to make a profit of this amount'. Although the Gamespot link was at least honest enough to point out that market consensus is that the Nikkei guys are full of it.
So, uh, you've reminded me that Gamespot writers have more integrity than Gamethir...
"no links or facts refuting the information I provided"
What is there to refute? You didn't post a link saying "Sony's Game Division made a profit on the PS3", you posted a link saying a bunch of guys believe that the company as a whole is going to make a profit while some other guys believe that Sony's still losing 36 bucks on each PS3 sold. So what? Okay, so someone believes in one thing while other people believe something else. People believe in lots of ...
"Who trusts EA because they're EA?"
No one, really. But that's the perception that people have. The idea is that you can move games based purely on brand (or in the case of stuff like The Conduit, based purely on 'It's hardcore!'). You can't -- thirty years of gaming has proven as much -- but it's a very persistent school of thought that endures in the face of all logic. Kinda like how people believe that companies magically create shortages by keeping supply low.
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"I still can't believe extraction is the metric."
I don't think Extraction itself was ever really the metric, per se. EA's ability to push the game seems to have been, because, well, they're EA. They have a reputation and boatloads of money to promote the game, so that alone should be enough to guarantee sales. The problem with this logic is that all the resources and publisher clout in the world doesn't mean anything if none of it is allocated competently.
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Hope everyone jumped on this when it was timely, because it's looking like they figured out that people were using the 15% coupon on games that haven't come out yet. The pre-order loophole is closed. :/