Lather, rinse, repeat. Especially repeat.
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Category Archives: Seriously This is THE Year
Managing expectations
Sony, positively brimming with confidence over the looming Move launch:
“Am I expecting a massive day one? Not particularly. We didn’t with EyeToy, either. It went on to be massively successful.”
Remember when Nintendo said the exact same thing about the Wii? And when the hell did EyeToy become “massively successful?!”
Doorstop
Sony: “The PSP has life in it yet”
Aside: Anyone else remember “Baghdad Bob?”
Lock in
Portable gaming, now with more cellphone contract!
Sacked
The original was just fine, but every time I see “exciting” new media for LittleBigPlanet 2 I keep thinking of how the first one was supposed topple the Wii and bury Nintendo forever.
Obvious
Sony’s EyeToy creator talks about the “limitations” of controller-free technology like Kinect without actually saying Kinect.
Gee, I wonder what he has to say about it?
Salesmen
Call me a pessimist all you want (nothing new), but every time someone says there’s going to be a “Mac gaming renaissance” I always think of the Linux desktop.
Doom and gloom
Nintendo posts a quarterly loss. Surely, all major executives will be fired by this evening.
Timing
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.
Failure
When you have to tell people to go to the eye doctor before playing your industry revolutionizing product, it has already failed.