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The big interview: Phil Harrison on Xbox One...
...Kinect, indie games and red rings.
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Sid Meier's cultural victory
"If there's anything in reality that's not fun, we will change it."
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This is how Xbox One game trade-ins will work, apparently
you're thinking far too narrowly here.
1 - discs are still going to exist this generation. They'll certainly be less important, but publishers will still want to shift stock, and that means they'll still reduce prices when they realise that 2 million people don't want to buy Brown Zombie Shooter4: The return for £40, but would happily pick it up at £15
2 - Look at the Steam model. New release games are released at high prices to snag early adopters, and then gradually reduce in price from that point, ultimately ending up for just a pound or two in one of the frequent sales.
3 - This generation, the publishers haven't felt able to challenge the games shops, as they still needed them to market / sell the products for them to a large extent, particularly at the start of the generation. Next generation, this is an increasingly less important factor.
Essentially, stop listening to the deluded ramblings of the more entitled members of the gaming fraternity, and start looking at how Steam works. Then ask yourself why MS/Sony won't be doing something very similar with their system? Reply -1
The £35 fee does not. Most games can be picked up for £15 within weeks of release. There is no way an activation fee will be considerably higher than this. Reply +44
BioShock Infinite sells "significantly" more than series predecessors
I guess you can also include things like Lego games, and a lot of the Kinect/Move/Fitness type stuff that isn't aimed at 'us' but seems to sell reasonably well from the charts.
The difficulty area is the mid-range 'gamers' game (I'm thinking things like Darksiders / Alpha Protocol / Asura's Wrath / Metro 2033) that have reasonable development costs, but don't get a huge marketing budget. That's the sort of thing I don't see as having much of a future, as those devs will increasingly move to XBLA/PSN/Steam type releases, as they simply can't compete with the big franchise juggernauts. Reply 0
Next Xbox won't require an internet connection for single-player games - report
the big thing you are missing here this time is the prevalence of downloadable games.
In the past, BC hasn't been quite so relevant as people haven't had a load of games tied to a specific machine. That certainly isn't the case this time, and the ability to carry your copy of Trials / Limbo / Fez etc. onto the new machine could be a new 'killer app', particularly in the early days of the new console before the decent new releases start to arrive in large numbers. Reply +1
After children rack up huge bills, UK government announces investigation into "aggressive" in-app purchases
No, you've got it all wrong.
This thread has taught me it's entirely the fault of the people who have fallen for these scams, who are BAD PARENTS (won't somebody think of the children).
The companies raking the money in from these scams are completely blameless. Reply +4
Next Xbox reveal due 21st May, costs $500 or $300 with a subscription, reports suggest
fair point.
If most of these rumours are true, it looks like one console will be aiming for the core market, the other will be aimed squarely at casuals / entertainment box / COD/FIFA types.
Whilst one is obviously more appealing to posters here, I'm yet to be convinced that MS haven't got the better commercial strategy of the two.
In any case, with a backlog of 30 or so games at the moment, I've personally got no plans to buy either machine much before summer 2014 or so at the earliest by which time we'll have concrete information to go on rather than rumour/speculation and fanboyism. Reply +8
"Why should we ask how long a game is?"
and that's fine.
We'll ask him to add a section where you have to travel back through the same area you've just played through to collect a McGuffin in the middle, and that'll add another couple of hours.
We can also add a bit where the guy who needs the McGuffin has moved back to the start of level 2, so you can replay that one in reverse as well.
Maybe there could be another section where you have to collect widgets hidden in obscure corners of a level for an hour or two as well.
Those three changes would undoubtedly improve the game because a 12-14 hour game is always better than a short one isn't it? Reply -2
As a working adult, the limit on my gaming is time, rather than money.
As such, a really tight 6 hour experience (eg Limbo / Vanquish etc.) suits my needs far better than a half decent 6 hour game padded to 12 hours (eg Singularity / Alan Wake etc.) due to some pathetic concept of 'greater value for money'
Very few devs have the talent to keep a game fresh and interesting for a long period of time, and even many of the top games of this generation have sections best described as filler (eg Red Dead Redemption in Mexico / the Bioshock escort mission etc.)
Of course, for kids / students, the opposite may well apply, and as they're still the main target of the marketing people where games are concerned, we'll continue to have pointless collectathons / now go back and fetch this McGuffin sections polluting otherwise decent games for some time yet. Reply +4
Dead Space 3 review
you missed a whole paragraph in the middle then? Reply +7
Skulls of the Shogun review
tried looking for it and it's neither on the 'new' tab nor coming up on search... Reply -1
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut shows off its newly enhanced gameplay
You'd have thought it was easier to write an audio track all at the same level, rather than including random fading in/out as a bonus.
Really enjoyable game though, and the mini-map function will make it all much more playable.
Along with the already mentioned Nier and Alpha Protocol, definitely one of the flawed gems of this generation. Reply 0
The most popular games on Xbox Live in 2012 were...
interesting that you've just decried Fez / Trials HD as 'blockbusters' yet half the people in the EG GOTY comments thread were complaining about an obscure niche indie title being the 'best of the year' Reply -1
I think you've misunderstood the word 'mainstream' if you were expecting a list of the most popular games of 2012 to be full of niche obscurities. Reply +14
Play.com closing retail business in March
or alternatively, a tax avoiding corporation chooses to shut down one of it's operations, making 600 people lose their jobs rather than choosing to pay a fair amount of UK tax. Reply +6
Microsoft delighted with Xbox NUads, vows increased investment
Didn't think I did too badly!
I think the only one I forgot was 'Conslols / I'm joining the PC master race' Reply +2
What about the games M$
Kinect lol
You pay for Sky and still get ads
They're not that intrusive anyway, I've never clicked on one
repeat variations on the above for 50 comments
Anything I've missed? Reply +33
UK tabloids single out Call of Duty, Dynasty Warriors in coverage of Sandy Hook school massacre
I seem to remember they did suggest a PBM RPG game called 'The Hunting' was partially responsible for Michael Ryan though.
the tabloids have a long record of making things up. Reply +5
Football Manager Handheld 2013 kicks off tonight on iOS, Android
I hadn't played a CM game since CM0102 as I just found I didn't have the time to devote to it any more, but the Handheld version is very enjoyable indeed if you like the earlier versions of the game, with seemingly only minor tweaks since that era, most notably the match engine no longer being text only. Reply +1
Sainsbury's, Napster, Karaoke Xbox 360 apps headed to UK
Is it the turn of
'Gold Members get free stuff, why can't I have it. Wah! Wah!'
or
'MS don't care about the games, I don't I want any shitty apps. Wah! Wah!' Reply -5
Nintendo confirms German law to blame for Europe-wide Wii U eShop 18+ content restrictions
similar to my thoughts, and I suspect the Nintendo shop will now be operating out of Luxembourg or Ireland very shortly.
@ all those saying, it's only digital copies that nobody wants at £50 anyway, I'd point them towards the two best games on XBLA, Limbo and The Walking Dead, both which have 18 ratings and both primarily sold through online distribution. Reply +5
Cancelled Guitar Hero 7 had six-stringed guitar and no band
There were two different pro guitars though, one proper Squire guitar designed for the game that could also be used as a 'normal' guitar, and one version that was basically a more complicated version of the normal RB guitar with 120 or so buttons.
The proper guitar option was made in tiny numbers, and seems to go for £400+ on ebay on the rare occasions it appears on sale (usually in the US.) I could see the point of that version, and from what I understand, it basically does Rocksmith better than Rocksmith does, but the other version seems exactly what Shinetop has described. Reply +2
Xbox 360 mandatory system update goes live
was just thinking the same.
Will keep an eye on whywasibanned.com over the next couple of weeks for comedy value I think... Reply +5
Microsoft retires Facebook and Twitter from Xbox 360, suggests you use Internet Explorer
the ads that everyone is so upset about are for things like 'THQ Sale This Week', 'Buy FIFA 13' and 'Rent Movies through Zune'
The only non Xbox product I've ever noticed advertised was BT Broadband, but seemingly unlike many, I tend to use the Xbox for playing games, rather than staring at the dash and getting offended, so I may well have missed some. Reply +2
This week - Wah! MS just removed Twitter/Facebook. How dare they! Reply +14