Nah bro. People that pile on Sony's difficulties are idiots as well.
As this article actually says.
Does anyone at N4G actually read the fucking articles before bitching about them these days?
Haha, @summons75, you should probably try reading a story before commenting on it.
Phil wasn't telling people not to buy the Wii U because of a few flaws. He was telling idiots to stop gloating over the Wii U's flaws.
Do you know how the games industry works?
Because reading that comment I can tell you're guessing.
Nintendo Enthusiast knows more about the business of the games industry than the CEO of one of the largest games publishers in the world.
Sounds legit.
@aiBreeze - two games do not disprove an entire trend. Especially when both those games have obscene marketing budgets just to make sure they do hit the necessary numbers to break records.
If you look at the actual data, the games industry is shrinking. Hense the lack of investor confidence in the games industry's biggest software publisher.
Because investor confidence in the entire games industry is dropping, is why. Investors are not confident that the industry as a whole can continue to grow when the less committed gamers are now not bothering with buying retail games when they can get stuff on mobiles and tablets.
Shrinking market means dropping investor support. Activision more than anyone stands to lose if these trends to continue. Where EA and the other big publishers are engaging in mobile gaming etc and...
Smart As is a terribly underappreciated game :(
The good news is that it seems to be gone now.
Hopefully for good.
Hardware never makes much money, even when sold at profit. It's an expensive business to be in.
That's why hardware manufacturers sell their hardware at a loss, because the money comes from licensing and first party software development. You need hardware for those two revenue streams to exist.
Ubisoft's only revenue stream is in software. If it loss-lead with software where, exactly, would its revenue come from.
That is the diff...
@CoLD FiRE - you can read Arabic? Neat. Thanks for clarifying. I'm content to take your word for it.
@SageHonor - shooting people is a violent, destructive experience, and yet no one criticises its existence in games.
Sex is a positive, entertaining, constructive (literally) experience, and yet if it exists in a game people who write about it get told to "go get laid for real."
That, sir, is a damning indictment of western culture.
Go and check the website, and if the URL has /en in it, remove those characters.
The actual website is in Arabic or Farsi. They clearly have a (very badly) working internal translator for English-speaking markets. That's why Google Translate thinks golden4games.com/en is an English website.
In fact, the golden4games.com without the /en appears to be Arabic, according to Google Translate.
And apparently English is the only language that exists.
The reason it makes no sense, kiddo, is because the translator is bad: http://golden4games.com/
I'm sure it makes perfect sense in the language the review was actually written in.
In other news Famitsu is a terrible magazine because it uses funny little pictures rather than English letters.
It's a translation from either Arabic or Farsi. That's why it makes little sense. Golden4Games is clearly not an English-speaking website.
Which makes the review next to useless for western gamers, yes, I agree. But since when the fuck does a website have to be in English to be "legit?" Unless you can read Farsi or Arabic you have absolutely no idea whether those reviews are quality or not.
Hey boys the earth is the centre of the universe t...
LOL. It always makes me laugh that people have this reaction.
STOP SHOOTING DA VIRTUAL PEOPLE AND JOIN THE ARMY. Call of Duty fail. Hurr.
I for one am glad that the games industry has developed to the point where it can feature interesting sex scenes. It's a useful plot device and it's a nice change from the focus on killing stuff.
It's like you don't think it's possible for a game to making fun of you.
Edit: to make a little more of a point about this - I've written a couple of papers on Lollipop Chainsaw and how it's a postmodernist criticism of exploitation. The fact that the game laughs at you for looking up Juliet's skirt is one such argument I make.
But then again to actually discuss the game on that level is a more academic discussion. Most people would ...
This is disappointing, since the game itself is actually anti-exploitation.
You can tell @Soldierone hasn't ever been a decision-maker at a major corporation.
So, once again. Armchair experts. If only they realised how embarrassing the crap they say is.
Tell you what. You make a product that is awesome, but costs more to make than brings in revenue for you.
See how long you can keep that up, soldier.
I love how gamers are so quick to criticise game publishers but fail to realise that perhaps, just perhaps, it's not a good thing if a game costs $40 million to make but doesn't turn a healthy profit.
Armchair experts everywhere.
There are 50 PSP games worth playing on the Vita.