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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #775 on: February 08, 2013, 06:16:17 PM »
Deathwatch, Games Industry. This is a pretty big acknowledgment that Vita is tanking. I've seen numerous articles now parroting the PR line that all the industry needs is a new gen to toot up, but the fundamentals are looking less and less sound.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #776 on: February 08, 2013, 07:39:15 PM »
If you are quiet enough you can actually hear a giant guillotine being raised for the entire gaming industry. The wave of companies going bankrupt is only going to get more intense as budgets continue to grow. Even the major console makers are not immune to this dilemma, and Sony is the best example of this. Once the FPS bubble bursts then developers like Activision might go bankrupt.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #777 on: February 08, 2013, 07:53:32 PM »
Kytim, EVERY generation you have developers and publishers go out of business. And you have new ones take there place.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #778 on: February 08, 2013, 09:40:02 PM »
If you are quiet enough you can actually hear a giant guillotine being raised for the entire gaming industry. The wave of companies going bankrupt is only going to get more intense as budgets continue to grow. Even the major console makers are not immune to this dilemma, and Sony is the best example of this. Once the FPS bubble bursts then developers like Activision might go bankrupt.

Well in the case of Sony it wasmismangmwnt as a company and not being able to compete in other dovsions as well. The PS3 debacle got accelerated a decline that was already happening.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #779 on: February 13, 2013, 01:21:28 AM »
My inner Aliens fan wants to predict that Gear Box will be on the chopping block by next year, or by the end of this one. 
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #780 on: February 13, 2013, 01:25:48 AM »
My inner Aliens fan wants to predict that Gear Box will be on the chopping block by next year, or by the end of this one.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #781 on: February 13, 2013, 01:27:28 AM »
Speaking of Gearbox Software, Aliens: Colonial Marines is getting SLAMMED by reviews. The Xbox 360 version has a 50 average on Metacritic (1 positive review from EGM, 17 mixed reviews, 9 negative), PlayStation 3 has a 46 average (0 positive reviews, 4 mixed, 6 negative), PC has a 44 average (1 positive, 8 mixed, 11 negative).
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #782 on: February 13, 2013, 03:31:19 AM »
Gearbox placed their bets on the WII U version :cool;
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #783 on: February 13, 2013, 03:53:05 AM »
Speaking of Gearbox Software, Aliens: Colonial Marines is getting SLAMMED by reviews.
That was a good call to delay this game on Wii U.

Now i don't need to buy it, thanks Gearbox!
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #784 on: February 13, 2013, 04:07:02 AM »
Gearbox is no where near close to dying.

They still have Borderlands, what ever furious four has become, and a proper brothers in arms game on the works.

Though it is interesting that they have put out Twp really bad games and are still here. That can't be said for most guys today.

Expecting to see Insomniac on this list if dues bombs and they aren't bought by Sony.

Also expecting sadly to see that game company as well.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #785 on: February 13, 2013, 10:53:47 AM »
I'm sort of curious if Demiurge Studios I believe are the ones making the WiiU version are going to make a none broken version.  That would indeed be hilarious.  WiiU: It may take longer to get the game but at least you can play it right.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #786 on: February 13, 2013, 11:48:57 AM »
Is it bad that I still want Aliens: Clonial Marines on the Wii U? It's practically review-proof for me.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #787 on: February 13, 2013, 10:55:04 PM »
Is it bad that I still want Aliens: Clonial Marines on the Wii U? It's practically review-proof for me.

It was on my maybe list, so please let me know how accurate the bad reviews are.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #788 on: February 21, 2013, 09:09:31 PM »
Gearbox is no where near close to dying.

They still have Borderlands, what ever furious four has become, and a proper brothers in arms game on the works.

Though it is interesting that they have put out Twp really bad games and are still here. That can't be said for most guys today.

Expecting to see Insomniac on this list if dues bombs and they aren't bought by Sony.

Also expecting sadly to see that game company as well.


Insomniac still has Ratchet & Clank. Yes the series is owned by Sony, but I guess Insomniac still loves it enough to keep making new games.


Now where's my Crash Bandicoot reboot? If Activision isn't doing anything with it, they should give the series back to Naughty Dog.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #789 on: February 21, 2013, 09:56:32 PM »
Now where's my Crash Bandicoot reboot? If Activision isn't doing anything with it, they should give the series back to Naughty Dog.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #790 on: February 21, 2013, 10:08:33 PM »
Those Popeye arms! No thank you. I liked the Tex Avery-style design of the original Crash.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #792 on: February 21, 2013, 11:48:54 PM »
EA shuts down Visceral Montreal.




http://www.ea.com/news/transition-is-our-friend?sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&c=TnL5HPStwNw&LSsiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-lp1E_RHLc_5v7dP7A9Ex2g

Um, that doesn't say that shut down Visceral Games's Montreal studio, just that they let some people in Los Angeles and Montreal go.
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #793 on: February 22, 2013, 12:28:24 PM »
Looks like Ziff Davis is shutting down 1UP and Gamespy and a couple other sites that they recently acquired in the IGN sale.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #794 on: July 12, 2013, 10:24:51 AM »
Electronic Arts has shut down German studio EA Phenomic. The studio developed games like Spellforce and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances and employed 60 people.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-12-ea-phenomic-closed
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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #796 on: September 18, 2013, 07:12:55 PM »
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/capcom-only-has-152-million-going-into-next-gen-focus-on-dlc-and-mobile

As hard as it is to sympathize with them on this situation it still does not bode well for the industry as a whole.

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« Reply #797 on: September 18, 2013, 07:22:05 PM »
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/capcom-only-has-152-million-going-into-next-gen-focus-on-dlc-and-mobile

As hard as it is to sympathize with them on this situation it still does not bode well for the industry as a whole.

Eh is it really bad for the Industry when Capcom squandered everything they had like Square-enix did. Capcom actually started the current gen pretty strong with a slew of established and New IP being hits. It isn't the Industry's fault Capcom was able to squander all of that.

It makes sense that Deep Down and Dead Rising  are being treated as Sony/Microsoft IP at this point. I honestly don't expect either games to go Multiplatform.

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Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2013
« Reply #798 on: September 18, 2013, 07:26:37 PM »
But they still have Monster Hunter which still sells at ridiculous levels. That series is often credited with saving the PSP in Japan. If that can't keep them a fair distance from the red then either they really screwed up or the industry is in worse shape then we thought.

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« Reply #799 on: September 18, 2013, 07:50:18 PM »
But they still have Monster Hunter which still sells at ridiculous levels. That series is often credited with saving the PSP in Japan. If that can't keep them a fair distance from the red then either they really screwed up or the industry is in worse shape then we thought.

It won't one profitable low cost IP won't save the company when you factor in everything else. Hell Monster Hunter nicheness in the west is probably stifling how much the series could be bringing in.

This is the company who's saying that Street Fighter 5 won't be out till 2018 and that's probably their only other franchise other than Monster Hunter that has good will at this point.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2013/aug/05/tomoaki-ayano-street-fighter-5-may-not-drop-until-2018-if-sfxt-characters-usf4-were-copy-paste-theyd-be-strongest-game/

Not sure how much money Capcom gets but they have a problem that most of the gaming populance looking at dead rising/Monster Hunter/Deep Down see them as Capcom games rather than Microsoft/nntendo/sony games.

I think Capcom and Konami for that matter would gain a lot by looking to Sega on how to get back on their feet. As far as Capcom goes I'd day

-Focus on a few tenpole retail games each yea.
-make up the rest in the Handheld/DD space.

I mean demote whoever made Resident Evil 6 and promote the revelations team to the main development studio and give the story a reboot that hinges on its survival horror roots. 

Why the **** haven't they invested in Megaman for the Download space. Mega Man 9 and 10 were successes and Megaman is a concept that didn't take to 3D well.
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