Wait, you’re kidding. The PlayStation Store Tester reality show where the “winner” gets a “dream job” as a PlayStation 3 games tester is actually an exercise in human torture techniques, right?
Double take
3
Monthly Archives: January 2010
More of the same
Kotaku’s recent “game of the year debate”* means only one thing: They’ve finally decided they don’t want to grow their audience beyond what it is in any way, shape or form in 2010 and beyond.
*Please note: Nintendo has no place whatsoever in a video game of the year debate. Also, as a commenter over there noted, this entire debate is a big Activision dedicated servers-esque “fuck you” to PC gamers.
Failure, in 3D
Sony “pinning its hopes” on 3D technology. I thought they just got through “pinning their hopes” on Blu-ray?
Managing expectations
New Microsoft, just like the old Microsoft:
1. Reveal “groundbreaking” new product prototype that’s “leaps and bounds” ahead of a competitor’s existing product.
2. Go completely dark on specifics, but continue to hype prototype to sympathetic blogger and journalist hacks.
3. As the launch date approaches, commence with the managing of the expectations.
4. (yet to pass) Produce product that woefully underwhelms but hope all the hype was enough to bury your opponent anyway.
In other words, the antithesis of Apple and Nintendo.
…sitting in a tree…
Microsoft promises you a trip to paradise, someday, and eventually sells you a picture, maybe. Apple and Nintendo show you playable products and then sell you…playable products. And we still wonder why these two companies are selling so much kit that they seem untouchable?
Vaporware
So the PS3 wand fell down, and Natal will do doubt come tumbling after. Seriously, did no one see this delay coming?
David
Pocket-God was created by a two-man developer team in one week. It’s one of the higher-reated, respected iPhone/iPod touch apps in the App Store. Watch out mega publishers (and Nintendo), for I foresee a shitstorm coming your way this year.
Prediction
If Uncharted 2 is named the game of the year by gaming journalists, both gaming and gaming journalism are going to crater in 2010.
Stuck in neutral
Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi, no doubt speaking at the behest of Sony, promises us that Gran Turismo 5 (yet another “PS3-saving” game), is 90% complete.
Problem is it’s been 90% complete for like the last three years.
Hey-O!!!
Quality assurance
Hardcore RPG players get a turd dumped on their heads, courtesy Bethesda BioWare and the Return to Ostagar Dragon Age expansion DLC.
And apologies to Bethesda for the slip up. Force of habit when it comes to talking about huge, epic video games that launch with massive game-breaking bugs.