Why should we care?
First, people looking do development as a career will see your post and say "why should I go into a professional where I will not be financially rewarded for what I do".
Second, publishers will continue to take less and less chances on games unless they know they can get a return.
In other news, a bunch of developers lost their jobs this Christmas because gamers rented games instead of buying them.
Building and playing in the real world does not guarantee anything better than building and playing and Minecraft.
Every kid is different in their requirements for real world vs digital interactivity.
I have two kids and the one who is digitally oriented has contributed more to the real world, is more social, knowledgeable, and a better team person than the other one who never plays Minecraft. There is a lot more to living life than going outside. That is o...
@Artemidorus
All these companies are trying to do is create new means to enjoy games.
Whether it is the Wiimote, VR, AR, flight sticks, Kinect, Move, racing wheels etc.
All will have an area where they are strong and some will have broader use then other devices. To call any of them gimmicks is wrong. For example, many saw the streaming demo of Halo 5 on HoloLens and felt that was a really good use of the device. That is no gimmick. That is a soli...
To begin with it is not a gimmick. Even surgeons will tell you Kinect is not a gimmick. NASA is adopting HoloLens.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-...
So I don't think you can say it is a gimmick. And by explicitly saying HoloLens is not a gaming device first they marketing it in the right way.
At least Microsoft is shipping or close to shipping everything they showed at E3.
- Halo 5 - Shipped
- Rise of Tomb Raider - Shipped
- Forza Motorsports 6 - Shipped
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Shipped
- NXOE - Shipped
- Backwards Compatibility for 100 Games - Shipped
- Gigantic - Will ship early next year
- Fable Legends - Will ship early next year
- HaloLens - No promise to ship but devt kits early 2016 have been ...
@OI_G
Did I not say the platforms improves their profitability?
Yep, they paid $2+ billion for Minecraft there is nothing wrong with them making money from that purchase.
If you bought Minecraft you would probably publish it on other platforms as well to get the extra money as being a publisher.
You see, unlike Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft is:
1) Not afraid to publish their games on other platforms because this helps improve mindshare and profitability of the games.
2) Not afraid to sell their console based on its merits rather than trying to force people to buy their console because that is the only place you can play Microsoft Game Studio games.
Only fanboys want to see console vendors only publish games on a specific console. Gam...
So, its wrong for a company that owns a game and is also a publisher to publish the game as well regardless of platform?
Get your head out of the water. MS is just doing what they should be doing for Minecraft on all platforms.
Still very glad I passed on this Day One.
4.66 Million gamers do not understand consumer value.
No single player campaign, and there will be more content in the season pass then the shipping game.
I will pick it up when it is closer to $20 or $30 for the complete edition... (That is, if it doesn't come to EA Access first).
Yeah, instead we now have Star Wars Battlefront. A game that is light on content and no single player campaign. Then, there is a season pass that will provide more content then the retail game!
I like it when they include newly released games (aka Van Helsing this month) because I don't ever have to think about buying it.
And this is where retail games are going.
Publishers and console vendors cannot convince consumers to buy the game new rather than used, rental, or piracy. So, they have decided to keep selling games and put more content in DLC. That way, if you want the full experience you have to buy digital which is not available in the used/rental/pirate market.
Expect more games to do this going forward.
(By the way I don't agree with the approach)...
Well, if you know what you are showing and monitoring what people are expecting from comments that were running around the Internet would it not make sense to adjust expectations before the show so that people didn't watch it expecting God of War IV or something epic like that?
I hope gamers wake up and realize that this industry is harsh on people's lives.
People have no problems complaining about the cost of games, the right to re-sell games they have bought, the right to rent games, and the illegal actions of piracy.
Then, get news like this all the time.
Gamers can't have it both ways. We have to support games being released through the right channels.
Just a question how many games that gamers were looking forward to have actually shipped since shown at E3?
- Final Fantasy VII
- Last Guardian
- No Man's Sky
- Uncharted 4
- Dreams
etc. etc.
E3 seems to be a "coming sometime in the future" show for Sony.
I find it interesting that gamers are willing to buy PS4 at $399 then PS VR at probably around the same price then wait for several years for the great games to roll in.
But, by the time games become good PS4 will be $199 and the PSVR will probably have to drop to the same price.
So, why would anybody buy a PS4 or PSVR right now? I don't get the case to get it now when you can get it when it is good for cheaper.
The logic of waiting for ...
Why should they?
They tell gamers they don't need EA Access...
They tell gamers that in order to play last gen games they have to pay for PS Now...
They tell gamers that they have to pay to play PS2 games on PS4...
They raise prices then put a 2 for 1 sale up...
Yet gamers continue to buy the console in record numbers. If you did all this and your console was still easily the number one seller would you ...