These concerns may be prove to be warranted. Only time will tell what the effects will be, but I still think it's worth the risk, because it has the potential to produce some really unexpected results by opening the development doors to anyone and everyone.
This obviously leads to the question of how much of a deciding factor exclusive added features like GTA4's (as of yet apocryphal) downloadable content will be in this period of declining title exclusivity. Other than that, all of the discussion surrounding the topic basically seems like a rehash of the similar furor surrounding the DMC4 announcement.
...due to Nintendo's pretty sparse press conference this year. Innovation, huh? Yeah, iterating on Wii Sports is really pushing the envelope. /sarcasm
AC6 sticks are probably tougher to find than Steel Battalion controllers at this point, but I guess this is a cool announcement for the five or so people who actually own one.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who's excited for Valkyria Chronicles. But yeah, Little Big Planet looks great, and it sounds like that presentation sure beats the usual death by power point.
I'd be interested in seeing what more big name developers like this can do with download only titles.
I can't wait to see some ACTUAL CONTENT to this game.
I can't figure out how the actual execution of this is going to work. Six instruments at once? I'll need a hands-on to decide how I feel about that.
I hope that this means they've come up with something as simple and entertaining as the original Wii Sports was. I suppose time will tell.
Yeah, as the article mentioned, the lack of coop is pretty frustrating, especially since I really appreciate the way coop can elevate a mediocre single player game into a phenomenal social experience, but it honestly wasn't designed as a coop game. Complaining about a lack of coop in it is like playing a game of Risk and wondering why there's no single player mode. It'd be nice and relevant to my interests, but it has little to do with the game itself. I wish they had designed it for at le...