Topic: Microsoft and GDC

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Originally posted by: segagamer12
But you did make it sound like Halo 3 beta wont be a big deal when  in fact it already is. Bt whatever thats all besides the point, which you seamed to miss again.

I missed none of your points. I just laugh at Halo fanboys.
You've misunderstood my laughter for laughter at Halo 3, which will be "Bigger than Jesus" according to Jesus himself. I hear he's running around with the gamertag "CampingSonOfAlmighty" these days. But you won't find him, because he's that good!

Summary: I don't care. I've played online games from various genres, and I'd take playing with friends over internet games any day.

Look at this month's news that Crackdown was the number 1 selling game.Sorry, my facts are wrong. The correct title for the game is here    

[segagamer12]

Ok well it seamed to me you were scoffing at Halo, so I misunderstood you.  

[Ceric]

For the love of MIke.  I don't want GDC to become a press event.  I'm sorry I'm all for developers conferences being for developers.  If next year they want to bar the press from most of it I may be disappointed by the lack of news but I think it wouldn't hurt GDC.
Personally I believe that if I was a company and I had a choice to:

A) Have a major press event be my focus and talk with/try to bring over developers much less.
or
B) Get in their and really do some developer recruitment and helping.  What the press gets the press gets.

I probably choose B because I can always hold my own Press, people whose job is to find news, event but its much harder for me to gather such a large diverse collection of developers, people whose job and schedule is dictated by game developement.

Especially since E3 will be a more focused humongous press event.

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Originally posted by: Arbok

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Originally posted by: segagamer12
yeah but Japansese people are compulsive so...

Well hello stereotyping.

That's not fair: the Japanese are a wonderfully compulsive people. They know what they want and they go for it.

There's a lot of fruitiness in their culture which makes it hard to swallow for some, but I personally think it's Japan's compulsory nature which makes the Japanese such incredible storytellers and designers.

Seize life by the balls. That's the Japanese way.

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Originally posted by: Professional 666 Amerikins are slooo so they're harder to convince and need freebies to show them the way.

It's not that Amerikajins are slow, it's the dichotomy between personal entertainment electronics and their target markets which make such a difference between US and Japanese adoption rates.

In Japan, buying Nintendo products equates patriotism. In the US, games are viewed as being for a very specific audience, and the media paints that picture accordingly.

The reason why the Wii took off so well in the US is because Nintendo knew that Wii Sports was the Trojan horse in their plans. Wii Sports gets into a household via means of a hardcore gamer buying the Wii, other people see it being played and say "I could do that!", they tell their friends, and the viral chain takes hold.

It was a brilliant move for Nintendo to have it as a pack-in, not because people wouldn't buy it on their own but because they knew they had to have Wii Sports running on every Wii in the US because the US market views games differently than Japan does.

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
STOP THINKING

Would if I could but I can't so I won't.