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Also them announcing that they're ALSO hiding online beyond paywall was a MAJOR turn off. They obviously timed this announcement to ride that MS hate wave to sneak this in.
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Be it Destiny or Titanfall -- both look meh to me, i also don't understand how MMOFPS gonna work. Wall running and jumping in Titanfall looks good though, reminds me of traversal tricks from UT2003/2004.
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Knack -- i've watched like 40 minutes of the game, it just look so boring.
Dark Sorcerer -- a demo. I don't even know what it is. Movie making tool of sorts?
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On Mario Kart 8 hover mode, am i the only one who liked how wheels turned horizontal like Delorean did in BTTF 2? On the game itself -- looks great, lightning is amazing, but eh. Will probably skip it.
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It's a shame that they're charging for Art Academy instruments for MiiVerse, i mean paying for possibility to draw with more colours than just b/w... I think this should be free, cause artists on MiiVerse are drawing absolutely mindblowing pieces everyday and they're promoting your system and now they're trying to get money from them to add more colored crayons and brushes. It's kinda low.
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Talks about "winning" next-gen based on sales are stupid. Especially if you break your own rules in your "analysis" by excluding THE biggest factor turning your already flawed premise of measuring company e-peens into complete joke.
Alright let's do this now that I have it trimmed a little.
On the PS+ Multi Pay wall I mention as much both times we recorded this segment, the lost and the published. In general the feeling is that PS+ is such a good deal anyway you probably should have had it already. I do agree that the PS3 version of PS+ is a good deal if you have the time and space but, that doesn't necessarily mean the PS4 one will be as good. Now if you can do gaming as a subscription for ~$13 a month (WoW Subscription) that might be another story.
Yeah, there is a dynamic that just doesn't allow a lot of play for encounter designers when everyone has a ranged weapon. Rift and SWTOR tried to do it. I actually played their classes that attempted it. Its interesting using a gun to heal someone but, very much only for a certain type of person.
Knack looks better in some of the later stuff but, I'm personally probably going to wait till it goes to the $30 or PS+ freebie level. I want to play it but, by no stretch does it look like a $60 game to me.
Dark Sorcerer is just a tech Demo. They wanted to see what the system could do. Its amusing enough on its own. Though it be more interesting if it was like Nintendo's Zelda demo from E3 2012 where you could move the camera in the scene and switch the lighting.
I do like that the wheels goes horizontal. Though in general I don't like the Kart Designs since Mario Kart Wii. They don't have the Whimsy that DS and before have. Especially Double Dash. I hope they use the extra time they have to get the karts back to fun rather then realistic like.
Artists, in general, are use to paying a premium for premium tools (see Copic Markers). As long as Nintendo keeps the barrier to entry low I think it will help keep down people just doodling bloody drawings for the kicks of it. I don't think $2-5 dollars is a bad price since it seems to have chalk and some different things like that as well.
Now to the last one. What would you measure it by? Seriously enough. How do you quantify winning a generation? From a Business Perspective its whoever made the most profit. Nintendo, from the numbers we have, can enjoy Victory in most generation by that metric.
From a Gamer Perspective its who has the most content that appeals to you and the majority of other gamers. Using that perspective it actually would not be very hard to argue Sony or Microsoft.
Is it the Legacy of the Console? Using that metric I could argue that the Dreamcast won its generation. It has a far reaching legacy. (Obvious influence on the XBox controller for one.)
Sales is the most pure of the numbers for this. Its just a count of how many units were sold and by rough extension how many people have the console in question. It is the only number that we as a community have regular access to to make that determination. On the flipside the Platform holders have much better numbers then we have. They now how many are sold. How many check in, make no mistake ALL the systems will check in at some point. The numbers from things like Club Nintendo. Even how much time people spent on different games.
As a community we feel the need to declare a winner. Which as a community we really do by feel. Sales numbers are just a way to back are guts interest. Though Wii is the clear winner of this last generation. Anyone argueing otherwise is in the Hardware level school of thinking for Generations. Which if that is the case then GBA might have beat Super Nintendo, DS proabably beat Playstation, and 3Ds has a chance at dethroning the PS2.