The phrase “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” could apply to Kinect in two very different ways.
Double entendre
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Category Archives: Take Me Seriously
E for Everyone
Activision’s insane Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial—you know the one with all sorts of people from every walk of life playing war—perfectly encapsulates how clueless the industry is about approaching non-traditional gamers.
The CoD franchise is a marketing machine, obviously, but it’s not for everyone. Showing chubby girls and Kobe Bryant blowing shit up isn’t how you market games to people who have never played games before.
Choices
Which would be more sad and pathetic?
Another linear, ham-fisted interactive movie in the Final Fantasy series, or, a video game that’s based on Square Enix’s recent fall from grace due to those very same linear, ham-fisted interactive movies?
Commonplace
Remember when video game bugs were a big deal?
Polar opposites
Was mentally comparing and contrasting the 3DS reveal at E3 with the “leaked” PSP2 phone pics over at Engadget this week.
I wish I could think of a word or simple phrase that describes the way the two portables have been received thus far…
Seinfeld money
Microsoft’s about to spend a cool $1 billion to market Kinect and Windows Phone 7. Based on their track record with expensive, convoluted marketing campaigns (the title is a big hint), I’m sure this will all work out swimmingly for them.
Take Me Seriously
Is Medal of Honor everything that’s wrong with video games today, all wrapped up in a single title? Seems so:
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Sound of silence
NPD is eliminating free video game numbers reports. The sound you just heard were hundreds of video game bloggers crying out in unison, as if their biggest story of each month was suddenly snuffed out of existence. Because it was.
Rebirth
Hey look! Google TV breathed new life in the Atari Jaguar controller. First there was 64-bits of power, and now there’s 64 buttons-worth of inevitable consumer confusion and frustration!
Take Me Seriously
Wired’s Chris Kohler, writing at Game|Life about the Medal of Honor “Taliban controversy”:
“Medal of Honor is so fundamentally lightweight and superficial that the Taliban can be effortlessly airbrushed out of it — which is disappointing if not at all surprising.”
And this is an industry that asks us to take it serious enough to be considered art? Laughable and pathetic.
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