Using the most expensive game ever made, as an example of how much the typical game needs to profit, is called "spin".
RDR cost 5x as much as the typical HD crossplat. If it needs 4M to break even, wouldn't that mean the typical HD crossplat needs 800K?
Tie Fighter (and X-Wing) was the greatest game LucasArts ever made.
If they remake those games, as more of a free-form X-Wing Alliance type thing (XWA wasn't free form, but fans will understand what I mean), I will be in heaven.
LoL. Nintendo isn't about performance. Nintendo is about profitability, and making a handheld affordable, and durable, enough for a parent to want to buy one for their kid.
The 3DS will probably be not much more than a stepping above a DSi, similar to the DSi(1 133/ 1 66 MHz ARM processors, 16MB RAM) stepping above the DS (1 66, 1 33 MHz ARM processors, 4MB RAM).
I'm calling it: A 266 MHz ARM, and a 133 MHz ARM. 32-64MB RAM. Basically on par with ...
Shenmue would complete my 360.
Egads the legal fees for defending gaming against the ridiculous.
How much of the cost of console games goes to pay legal expenses, do you suppose?
I honestly think that, if you file a civil suit against a party, you should have to pay the winning party the smaller of (their,your) legal fees if you lose. Or maybe a fine, determined by the judge.
This isn't new info. This was always the case.
The 360 was more expensive, if you tricked it out and "played online" (who would do that?) all the way back at the PS3s release. Its even more in the PS3's favor now, but I'd say that even back then, it was cheaper to get a PS3 for many, many gamers.
People balked at the $600 pricetag of the phat PS3, and somehow let the outrageous accessory and feature pricing of the 360 slide. Now its j...
Somehow I feel like this is not going to be the case in the final product.
Looks kinda fun. If it's not $150, I might get Natal for my kids. $150 is kinda pushin' it for a rarely used kids toy, though.
He did work on Black, and his name is Stuart Black. Did he name the game after himself? That would be in line with his commentary. =)
He's currently the creative director of "Bodycount" -- a cross-plat PS3/360 game that is slated to release in 2011 sometime.
Yep. Haze, Lair, SOCOM are all good games.
Lair is pretty unique and cool. I highly recommend it at the discount prices you can find it at these days. The reviewers went overboard with the "bad controls". That's BS.
Haze was meh, but it didn't suck -- there's a difference. You can do a lot worse with a truckload of crossplat shooters.
SOCOM is great, and WKC is fun too. This article == BS.
Honda "copies" Toyota: makes commercially viable hybrid car! Other companies follow suit!
Some dude says "Toyota was first to make this widely available, therefore best, and no one should buy Honda or others!"
Everyone should listen.
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To sum up... Even if Miyamoto said some such combative thing (he didn't), why would it matter? Consumers should pick Nintendo, bec...
Windows profits are good money.
What do you suppose would happen to MS, over time, if a lot of people started saying to their neighbor:
"I just use my PS3/4/5 for email, browsing, facebook, netflix, twitter, etc. Plus it plays great games, CDs, movies, etc., all in my living room on the TV, so I don't even need a computer desk! What do you need an expensive PC with an additional expensive Windows license for?"
The PS3, and to ...
MS is in the console market to protect MS' and Windows' place in the home, by making sure MS has a foothold in the livingroom, which is rapidly becoming a place to surf/search the web, and use other internet services, which have been largely the domain of Windows PCs to this point (like Netflix, Twitter, etc.).
They're not throwing money away, in this regard, even if the books of the EDD division look blood red. The EDD division is chump change by comparison to t...
The PS2 is also the weakest console in this generation. =)
There's no rule that states a console can't be a part of "two" generations. It's still selling... I don't think you can even find a decent reason to count the PS2 out, if you include the Wii.
Did the launch of the 360 "start" the generation, thus invalidating all PS2 sales from then on as "competition"? The PS2 may have actually outsold the 360 during &...
@Alpha
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm going to maintain that the definition of "console war" is completely subjective, and arguing that someone else's definition isn't the same as yours, or some "official" definition someone else told you (lol), is pointless. You can't argue away what they've included in their opinion, by substituting your own opinion.
The PS2 still sells millions of units each year...
I'll believe it when I see it.
Patch Bayonetta, if you've gotten so skilled with the PS3 in the past couple months, Platinum!
I hate to nitpick but...
Can you define "winning the console war", before you claim that the Wii is a participant in it?
From these guys perspective, and that of many many "hardcore" gamers, the Wii is not a serious gaming option -- mostly due to its software lineup, and that's just as fair a perspective as any other. You have to take perspective into consideration *whenever* you read an opinion piece, anywhere. If there were strict ...
The news article that goes with that comic is actually quite positive about MAG.
Interesting.
Its amazing to see disagrees on even the most benign comments from MAG fans. It's as if the disagreeing parties just go through each post, disagreeing, for no good reason.
That or maybe some former MAG addicts blame the game instead of themselves, and want to "save" other people from enjoying it, and getting hooked! :)
I would wager that it didn't have a touchscreen, new system software ("UI"), etc. because that would have cost Sony millions upon millions of dollars, when the PSP Go wasn't anything more than a redesign of existing hardware.
If it was an engineer who told them "hey don't sink a bazillion dollars into this redesign", I think that might be an argument to always have engineers as product leads, which they rarely are.
The PSP Go w...