So analysts are pretty excited about Kinect’s $150 pricing, huh? I guess for some reason the time is just “right” for a peripheral like this, whereas in 2006, when they were all dooming Nintendo to oblivion, it wasn’t? Weird.
Timing
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Rock stars
I hear Rockstar is releasing a $450 tell-all art book set that “tracks its decade of game design with hundreds of color photographs, illustrations, wireframes, ads and product shots.”
I wonder, does “company infighting” gets its own volume, or what?
We are all gamers
The term “girl gamer” is about as real a thing as “casual gamers” or “hardcore gamers”—each term was created by marketing departments to segment the only true group, gamers, into sects so that whiny forum dwellers could feel good about themselves.
“Mark Rein is a jerk”
Never met him either, but I’m sure he is. Just look at the chest-thumping, self-important games his company produces. Also, did you know Unreal Engine is god’s gift to gaming? Because it totally is!
Opining
How any video game exec, developer, analyst pundit or whatever Pachter pretends he is can talk shit about, or condescend to, or “advise” Nintendo on the “right thing to do” in this day and age, is beyond me. Facts, they are a fickle bitch when one’s apparent job is to try and promote Nintendo’s competitors, aren’t they?
I guess 2011 is the year Nintendo is going to fail now?
Vanity fair
Peter Molyneux, consummate bulllshitter, throws his development team under a bus and pulls another “Molyneux” all while sounding more pretentious than ever before.
Fable 2 had “huge design flaws” he said. It leads me to ask the inevitable: Was one of them Peter Molyneux?
DOA
No snark necessary. Kinect games are listed at $60 at Walmart, with a bundle weighing in at $200. Want Kinect by itself and a game? Shell out $230.
Failure
When you have to tell people to go to the eye doctor before playing your industry revolutionizing product, it has already failed.
Pattern
Ever notice how Ubisoft is always “that guy” when something new comes out, and is always the one that throws as much shit at it as possible on day one, without much thought? It’s happening again!
Getting people to move from analog to digital in the U.S. was like pulling teeth, yet Ubisoft’s head UK marketing Murray Pannel seems to think the transition to 3D will be such a breeze that “everyone” will have one by 2013. 3D is going to be like pulling off the entire head!
Good problem to have
Nintendo is struggling to define how it will market a new portable, in this case the wildly well-received 3DS, to a market that cannot see the 3D effects on their TV, computer or mobile screens.