Man who invested a lot of money in Oculus says that Oculus is better than the competition.
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Yes. The VitaTV and the Fire TV are essentially the same thing except Sony's offering has better games and can act as a streaming device for the PS4. They need to bring it to the US.
I fear that low sales numbers in Japan is scaring them about its chances. This device was made for Western markets except they released it in Japan instead. Go West young Sony. Go West.
He just never had the face/voice for tv or video. His voice was always grating and really harsh. He also tended to stammer a lot and sound a little neurotic when he was saying anything not scripted.
What sent it over the top for me was his phoney outrage about the name of a trophy in God of War Ascension. That was the stupidest most ginned up controvery ever. I hope nobody really uses the advice from his "consultancy" business.
50+ hours? WTF?! I'm already trying to catch up with games... I mean, I just finished Stick it to the Man. Now I'm trying to solve Fez. Sigh... I'm never going to get through all of these.
I love my Vita. It's probably the one console I play the most because it's so easy to just pick it up and play. Plus with all the free games from PS+, there is a ton of stuff to play. In fact, my back log on the Vita is so big I'm not sure I'm going to get anywhere close to getting through it. And if you look at the list of games coming... I'm screwed.
I know some people complain that it's becoming a handheld for "indies" but if FEZ is the kind of gam...
It's good, but it's not near-perfect good. The ending was, strange. It was fun, but god really tedious at times.
And what was the deal with the town? The girl in the saloon, was there any point to her? and everyone else was just a salesman of some kind. I was hoping for some variety there.
More than that. For a game of this quality and you get it for the Vita, PS3, and PS4, I would honestly pay $60 for it. Well... at least $50.
It's such a relief to hear that this game is great on the Vita. I've been holding off on playing it because I always thought it would be the perfect game for the Vita, but when I heard nothing about the game and there were no early reviews, I thought it must run like crap. Really happy to hear that isn't the case.
I'm getting it right.... now.
Do you think people would have had as bad a reaction if Facebook had just invested in Oculus instead of just outright buying them? I get the feeling they probably wouldn't.
Microsoft didn't buy Facebook early on, it just invested in them. And where would Apple be today if IBM had just bought them back in the day?
I think the big problem is that everyone loves a David vs Goliath story, and in this case, David joins with Goliath. We want to see the little guy rise up and succeed, not join the huge behemoth.
He comes out with the news that Call of Duty was going to be a lower resolution on the XB1 and everyone laps it up. He makes a wrong assertion about why a director left a studio and everyone wants his head on a spike.
It's a great game... that was supposed to be out four months ago.
Second, why all the stupid secrets? The guy leaves the studio for personal reasons but nothing is ever said so neogaf starts speculating. Then Col jumps in to correct all the mistakes and everyone is so sorry for speculating. Would it have killed him just to say, "I'm leaving to spend more time with my family" and then be done with it in the first place?
You live in a world where you want to ...
Ever hear a conversation that goes like this:
"You're fired!"
"You can't fire me because I quit!"
So to the one side, the guy was canned. To the other, he left by his own choice. Of course you're going to get a different story from the Col Rodgers. Do you think he's going to brag to his buddies that he got fired from his job?
The truth is that he was the accountable director for a high-profile launch game fo...
He can downplay this one comment, but the push back against the idea of Facebook buying Oculus isn't isolated to just Minecraft. The people who backed Oculus in the first place feel betrayed, and when you do that to your earliest supporters, I can only imagine it would make them extremely bitter. Are those people, the people who were willing to put their money on the line for this dream, going to now support the Facebook branded product? I have a feeling they probably won't.
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Or, it was the month where Sony finally did some house cleaning and did what needed to be done for years.
Jack Tretton left, and despite his E3 presentation this year, I get the feeling that the PS4 is succeeding despite him, not because of him. The support for the Vita in NA has been a joke and its failure here is his responsibility. I think he left because he wanted more money than Sony was willing to pay.
Amy Henning was a great creative director at Naughty Dog, but so is ...
I listen to Podcast Beyond, but it's tough. Somewhere between Colin's talk of the Jets/ The Islanders and Greg's obsession with his own celebrity, they manage to talk about PlayStation for a few minutes.
But no, Colin does not have any love for the Xbox.
Right. Correct. They are trying to create demand at a lower price because it wasn't in demand at the asking price.
But the assertion that the Xbox One is selling great and the only reason for these price drops is "retailers competing with each other" is just absurd. If Item X is selling great, then you don't have to lower the price to bring in customers because the customers are already coming in to buy that product.
It's the behavior of RETAILERS??? What? Has everyone gone mental? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Retailers do not lower the price of items in demand.
I know, everyone wants to say that all these retailers are lowering their prices to drive in customers, but that's not the case here.
Nobody wants to think making games is a business, but it is. These studios put out one product every few years and if it's not great and doesn't sell then everybody suffers. Sony has taken too long with releasing games that don't sell well and it's time to reign it in.
Naughty Dog had too many creative directors so one had to go.
Seth Killian is a fighting games expert at a studio not making a fighting game, so he had to go.
Drive Club was a launch titl...
I was in middle school when Genesis and SNES were duking it out, however the way it played out at my school was different. There were no fights about what the better system was and nobody ever argued about it. There was the Genesis and nothing else. If you were a kid with a Super Nintendo, you sure as hell didn't talk about it and you certainly wouldn't defend it. The Genesis was the cool console to have and the Super Nintendo was what your baby brother played with.
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