cozeny • Comments

• The Club retrospective

• cozeny 14/04/2013

  hidden gem; amazing game Reply +5

• Gears of War: The Board Game review

• cozeny 10/01/2013

  Nice. More of this kind of stuff, please.
  
  No ratings, though? Reply +2

• iPad 3 release in March, iPad 4 in October - report

• cozeny 06/01/2012

  @INSOMANiAC avatar quote Reply 0

• Games of 2011: Saints Row: The Third

• cozeny 26/12/2011

  crank, the game Reply 0

• Mario Kart 7 3DS UK price roundup

• cozeny 02/12/2011

  @skowhegan just bought MK7 in tesco in-store. £29.90 Reply 0

• Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection HD

• cozeny 08/09/2011

  might actually buy a PS3 for this. am I a mongo? how much is a ps3 these days? does it still... have no games? Reply -21

• Mobile Games Roundup

• cozeny 27/04/2011

  just want to add to the chorus of praise for coin drop
  
  59p too! Reply 0

• 3DS out in Europe and US in March

• cozeny 29/09/2010

  well, that's killed my launch day boner Reply +3

• Pay Street Fighter experts for lessons

• cozeny 10/08/2010

  I'll teach you Rufus for £11 per hour. Reply +4

• Sly Cooper Collection sighted at E3

• cozeny 15/06/2010

  I'm claiming credit for this!!!!! Reply +4

• Rock Band 3 has real guitar, Pro mode

• cozeny 10/06/2010

  Sounds hard (and I can play guitar.) Reply 0

• Yakuza 4 heading to Europe in 2011

• cozeny 08/06/2010

  Slow. Forum beat you to it. Reply +2

• Joe Danger

• cozeny 08/06/2010

  JonFE, afaik, there's no PSN demo. Sucks, I know. : / Reply 0

• cozeny 08/06/2010

  WiiWare please. Reply -4

• cozeny 08/06/2010

  Port-begging is NAGL. Reply +2

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

• cozeny 08/06/2010

  You misspelled 10/10. :) Reply +13

• Planet Minigolf - first 15 minutes

• cozeny 07/06/2010

  Surely: "Includes the first FOREteen minutes (plus one other.)"? Reply +1

• Modern Warfare 2: Resurgence Pack

• cozeny 04/06/2010

  1200pts out of 10. Reply +24

• Pure Football

• cozeny 03/06/2010

  At last - some competition for PES 2010. Reply +7

• cozeny 03/06/2010

  The worst thing about this game? The completely low res images on the back of the packaging! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them. So poor, and so cheap looking. Reply 0

• Call of Duty: Black Ops

• cozeny 29/05/2010

  1st! Reply +4

• Play selling DJ Hero for £35

• cozeny 26/05/2010

  Wait, have I accidentally stumbled onto hoteurogamerdeals.com? Reply +9

• Super Mario Galaxy 2

• cozeny 24/05/2010

  And the console with the most interesting library this generation goes to... the Wii. Reply +4

• New PAL Releases Roundup

• cozeny 21/05/2010

  Quiet week. Oh well. Reply -1

• New Virtual-On game for Xbox 360

• cozeny 20/05/2010

  Having done a bit of digging, this seems to be the gist of it: obviously these are not the facts, but here's my basic theory... after the original Xbox flopped amazingly hard in Japan, Microsoft wanted to make a better effort to be competitive with the 360. One of the ways they did this was apparently to reach out to some of these niche / hardcore publishers and probably incentivise them to work on the 360, as they also did for some Japanese RPG developers (to mixed results, see Blue Dragon, etc). For a small publisher like Cave, obviously some extra dough to help with development or marketing would be appealing, but also the fact that the 360 would be much easier to program for, very similar to what they were used to, especially compared to the PS3, which requires learning a whole new programming skill set (which obviously would be hard for a niche company), as well as the higher costs associated with Blu-Ray. There's also some thought that since Microsoft reached out and tried to get these companies and Sony ignored them / took them for granted, these smaller companies felt flattered and that working with Microsoft seemed like it might be a good thing, enough to offset the thought that the Playstation machine would be more successful in Japan.
  
  As to region coding, until very recently, I think the idea just wasn't something these companies even thought about. Cave really feels their games appeal to Japanese gamers and, shortsightedly (realistically?), they didn't really think about the rest of the world and the bigger market they could reach. Reply -2