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Old joke
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. The rumored PSP2 will have a touchscreen and be “incredibly powerful” thanks to some new fangled beefy processor. Sony will undoubtedly say this is a handheld for grownups and that it makes sense that DS owners would “graduate” from their dinky kid’s portable to this far more impressive PSP2. Also, did you see it has two cameras? How original! Arrives in 2011, which is about three years too late to save the PSP brand.
Competitively priced
Rumor has it Natal will be $200. It may also come in white now, but I’m not sure that makes the price tag anymore easy to swallow.
F*%k EA
Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 3 were potential no-brainer purchases for me. Now? Not so much.
In short, Project Ten Dollar was designed to reward people for buying new games. Online Pass is designed to punish people for buying second-hand games. That’s a subtle but extremely important difference in approach. [...] Online Pass also raises a number of awkward questions both for EA and for the console platform holders. For example, is it now reasonable to expect that EA Sports games will have significantly longer life-spans than previously? [...] Additionally, what’s the status of Xbox Live Gold in this arrangement? EA Sports boss Peter Moore was in the hot seat at Microsoft when the company launched the Xbox Live Gold and Silver service tiers, so he knows perfectly well that Xbox 360 gamers already pay a monthly fee to Microsoft to play online. The understanding was always that games which charged an additional levy (such as MMORPGs) would be accessible to Silver members – you wouldn’t have to pay twice. So will EA Sports games, with their paid-for online service, now be available to Silver customers? Or are customers to reach into their pockets twice, once for Microsoft and once for EA, simply to play a game of football against a friend in another city?
Fuck EA.
Double standard
When Nintendo shows us a Vitality Sensor that tracks heartbeat, it’s a stupid gimmick that will fail before it’s launched. When Alan Wake marketers use a heart monitor to promote their game’s “scariness” it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
Curious
If a small time blogger (no offense intended) can assemble a factual, informed analysis of the video game industry using freely available data and graphs, and it is easily eons ahead of what I’ve seen from “paid analysts” in the games field, then what the hell is Pachter using to create his obvious and/or completely inacurate “analysis” month over month?
Anyone who thinks Nintendo would undercut the profits and absurd amount of success presented in that link above with some ill-advised, strategy-lacking “Wii HD” system is at best a moron who has no place giving anyone “analysis” about gaming. At worst? Bought and paid for by Nintendo’s competitors–or at the very least knows that by towing their company lines he guarantees himself page views, fame and speaking engagements with audiences sympathetic to those companies.
Double agent
Why does this quote, from a supposedly unbiased “analyst,” sound so much like what Sony has been saying all year about the Move?
“There is a Wii HD in 2010, it’s just called PS3 with Move.”
Surprise, it’s from bought and paid for asshat extraordinaire Michael Pachter. [via]
Context
This article needs it.
Question
Would you rather be perpetually wrong, or always state the obvious and add nothing to the conversation?
Trick question! You can be both at the same time.
Pachterisms
Capcom profits plummet 72%. Insta-analysis: Capcom really needs to come out with a Capcom 2 system to combat this decline.