I thought that the renaissance of EA started in 2004 with James Bond: Everything or nothing, Burnout 3 and then, in 2005, Need for speed: most wanted. You might say that the first game was very linear but the production values were still pretty good.
If Sony had wanted more casual gamers to notice, or care enough about, the existence of the PS3, they could have urged developers to stop making PS2 versions of the same PS3 game. It was probably the right strategy though as they continued making money from casual gamers with the old hardware and money from the hardcore gamers with the new hardware until the price of the new hardware was low enough for casual gamers.
However they could have insisted though that all adverts for ...
I haven't played many games this generation but last generation I enjoyed EA's James Bond: Everything or nothing and Need for speed: Most Wanted. Maybe they currently feel that single player experiences aren't their future but there'll certainly always be a future in single player experiences because, essentially, we are individuals who sometimes or often want an individual experience.
'It could also be argued that although the N64 revolutionised gaming with classic titles such Super Mario 64 and Ocarina Of Time, the GameCube never had a 'killer app', a title that people would buy a GameCube for in order to experience something innovative.'
It seems to me that lots of people, even if they first played it on PS2 rather than its launch console the Gamecube, still think about Resident 4. Some people say that they weren't scared by that game but there were defini...
There's a great Resident Evil 5 level that you can see on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Aw thank you for praising my elementary combining of selected Rare franchises over the years.
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Yes, one of the features of the Wii that has disappointed me is the lack of choice of colours. I wouldn't be surpised if they'd decided that maintaining a safe, minimalist, image was appealing to enough people to make the Wii a permanent fixture under the main household TV. Personally, I find it deliberately bland. Just like the celebrity adverts for its games, Nintendo decided to draw a deep lines in the sand between themselves and their competitors to mark their product, like the Famicom (N...
I've only played one Ratchet and clank game - the demo of Tools of destruction. Based on that, the universal praise (and I mean UNIVERSAL- I can count on the fingers of about one finger the number of criticisms I have seen of the series) puzzles me. It seems that there are a lot of sci-fi shooter platform hybrid fans. I don't doubt that, for them, Ratchet and clank may seem good. But surely there must be more people who feel that you can't beat the likes of the fairty tale themes of Banjo Kaz...
It could have been the kind of quirky game that the Playstation likes to throw up from time to time and which gets cult acclaim (like Ico- but that didn't sell that well) but they'd have had to make it look more like some of the concept art i.e. more like Bioshock to stand a chance of getting great sales on either the PS3 and the Xbox360.
Although the Wii might seem like the safest bet saleswise, and has the most owners, the bad news is that quirky games like Mad World- and man...
Jet Set Radio Future, perhaps not suprisingly given that the Xbox was initially aimed at a very hardcore gun game-loving buyer (and yet I still bought one because of the technology and the promise of games by Rare and the likes of Outrun 2) wasn't a great sales success or often mentioned by many Xbox owners, even when it was bundled with the Xbox.
I liked the Xbox game but, in a way, I prefer the look of the Dreamcast game. Too much shading can detract from the starkness of the...
The Xbox360 doesn't come out as especially distinct in terms of games from this article. If the Xbox360's strength is its blockbusters then the PS3 has arguably beaten it so far with the Uncharted series, a very classic cinema experience. However it's in the numbers of third party adventure games over the last few years that Xbox360 may have an advantage.
'Art house' might not necessarily mean just about deep relationships between people but also unusual concepts, artistically ...
Strong games have strong sales.
Sometimes - Donkey Kong Country and Rare's games on the N64 sold very well and deserved to.
However the Dreamcast perhaps epitomises why strength of games does not necessarily turn in to sales. No doubt it had some big sellers but Jet Set Radio didn't sell massively, nor did it again when Jet Set Radio Future was released on the Xbox.
The game was finally bundled with the Xbox. However the game definitely secured its...
Personally, I don't think that having a Bluray add on would do the identity of the Xbox360 much good, especially as there have been various messages - that HDTV should be the choice of consumers, that digital streaming should be the choice of consumers and now, in a switch, that Bluray consumers should be the choice of Microsoft.
Too many add ons can confuse the original aims of the console, harming a company, as happened to Sega for a while.
Incorporate a Bluray player ...
Yes with the original Xbox they targetted the hardcore gamers. That strategy would be doomed to fail in the long run with the Xbox360 given that it no longer has significantly more hardcore graphics than the Sony equivalent. But they also know that they could never be as completely focussed on the casual market as the Wii has been. Its key advantage is that it can give a similar kind of graphical level
as the PS3, whilst having stripped down Wii approach in other matters, keeping its p...
Nintendo had already had several runs at testing ideas that they would use in the Wii so they may have taken an educated guess that it would be somnewhat bad luck to only have the sales figures that the Gamecube had.
First of all, they used the Gamecube to test peripherals like the Donkey Konga bongos. I don't think that it was a given how popular this kind of social gaming would be on the Wii, as it had only really last been seen on the Dreamcast with peripherals like the Samb...
Nothing wrong with the photograph at all if it was an accurate representation of the product by the way - if it was advertising a family Disney game for instance.
What a hideously cliched photograph. Do you remember that the original Xbox started off being marketed as the ultimate 'macho' console- all guns and blood. This is still the bread and butter of the image that Microsoft rely on. But ever since the Wii became so popular, Microsoft have concentrated more on promoting a family image.
They want to go from bloodthirsty to family friendly in the blink of an eyelid. They have zero subtlety and no consistent brand promotion.
I hate the majority of the public and the mainstream media's lack of intelligence in analysing videogames and the culture that videogames have created. However, whilst someone who conducts interviews with people who make the games and feeds this back on their website, hopefully including some intelligent analysis of this, can call themselves 'journalists', I think that it should still be remembered that this does not necessarily mean that their own opinions are any more insightful or well arg...
I think that it was the DS v PSP sales comparison that would have encouraged Nintendo to create the Wii. Although hisotry actually showed that any handheld was very unlikely to sell more than a Nintendo handheld, the PSP would have had the best shot at it purely because there are so many PS2 gamers. But maybe it's partly because the PSP seems so close in screenshots to the PS2 that more people didn't see the need to get one. The Wii, on the other hand, does clearly have better graphics than t...