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Re: Nintendo Passing on PAX East 2014

shingi_70

I assumed Nintendo would want to distance themselves from the recent batch if bad press the penny arcade guys have gotten. Now if that start skipping stuff like comic con I'd be worried.

Re: 3DS Faces a Renewed Vita Challenge in Japan as Home Consoles Underperform

shingi_70

@Unca_Lz

How much of that is figuring in digital sales.

Good to see the Vita start to pick up momentum. Its looking like it will be a repeat of last generation. The 3DS and its hardware sells into it hits market saturation and than the Vita starts to get massive support.

It makes me wonder when were going to see the successor to the 3DS.

Re: Nintendo Confirms Presentations and Games for GDC 2014

shingi_70

@Emblem

Depends there's still a ton of indie games out or coming that aren't apart of the PS+ program and I've heard about people picking up games like the new awesomenauts.

Vita has been surviving on PS+ content, but beside that the system still has a great attach rate and sales of indie games have been really good. I won't be suprised if the PS4 is the same.

Re: Nintendo Confirms Presentations and Games for GDC 2014

shingi_70

@Peach64

Wii U is getting alot of digital games. The big problem I see is that its not getting high profile ones that push units, While Sony is getting smaller titles as well as the big games coming out.

It doesn't help that the main big support for the Nintendo digital eco system are from the same 3-4 devs who mostly make games for Nintendo Platforms. Even as a indie platform vehicle I find it hard to recommend the Wii U compared to the PS4 which seems to be get announcments every other day.

But more games the better is what I always say.

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Re: Nintendo Confirms Presentations and Games for GDC 2014

shingi_70

@Dark-Link73

Wonderful 101 isn't an Indie game. Nintendo funded it and owns the IP so its not really indie to be honest. I don't consider games like Jounry or State of Decay to be indie either for that matter.

@rjejr

huh didn't know about that. I think its going to be digital only here in the states I'm assuming the price will be at the $15-$20 range of the studio's previous title Mars War Logs.

But its also the reason I prefer the term Digital Download compared to indie.

Re: Nintendo Confirms Presentations and Games for GDC 2014

shingi_70

@rjejr

Well that the beauty of Indie titles you can still have stuff on the lower end of the spetrum like Kung-Fu Rabbit which is a pretty small title. At the same time you can have something like Bound by Flame which would have been on consoles years back.

@MrV4ltor
I prefer getting away from the word indie and use the term Digital Download. I mean technically Crytek is a Independent right.

Re: Electronic Arts CEO Discusses The Company's Plans For Virtual Reality At SXSW

shingi_70

I think any VR headset will probably fail, outside of being a uber niche enthuists thing like Occlus Rift will be. For the most part add-on's made post console launch tend to fail and in all honestly Wii Balance board and Kinect were exceptions to the rule. A VR head set is on another whole level than those two from a pricing model. (Occlus dev kit is $400)

If the PS4 dev VR thing becomes a reality I'll probably pick one up for curisoitys sake, but I'm not expecting it to be any sort of success, other than getting the hardware out their so they can better iterate for next generation which is a longways off.

Re: Wii U Lifetime Sales in Japan Overtake the Xbox 360

shingi_70

@crazycrazydave

Irrc it was before the indie movement and Sony didn't want smaller games not worth their time on system. Cave got the OK from Microsoft and had been on Microsoft platforms ever since.

Guys from Cave even left to form mages last year and are working on Xbox one.

Re: Less Than 5% of Those Polled by the Game Developers Conference Have Wii U Plans

shingi_70

@johndevine

Vita has a strong per unit attach rate that's mostly all digital. Its also easier to port a game to the Vita from the PC or other PlayStation Systems. The 3DS is really unqie usually meaning more money and time out into porting the game. Its a difficult proposition becuase if you hit it big on the eshop you can pull in bank, but for the sane cost you could target more platforms from the outset.

Re: Nintendo Versions Of Mutant Mudds Have Sold Better Than Those On Other Systems

shingi_70

To be fair Jools barley marketed the other versions of the game. I didn't even know the game was on steam and the PS3/Vita versions got buried over a onslaught of more high profile indie games.

Also what's with this Nintendo= Platfimers when the Xbox and Ps3 have tons of high selling inside platforms like Super Meat Boy and Castle Crashers.

Still good sales at the end of the day are good sales.

Re: Renegade Kid's New 3DS FPS Is Moon Chronicles

shingi_70

@Warruz

Pretty sure its a horror Sci-fi FPS.

I have to say I sometimes feel like Renegade Kidd is streched too far in terms of development. But at this point it looks like they should be on track to release a game each season if this keeps up.

Re: Yasumi Matsuno On Board For "Unsung Story" Kickstarter Campaign

shingi_70

@mikeymaster2001

Vita has a a high attach rate for games deapite having a small install base and its easier to run games on the system compared to the 3DS. Otd a reason why a lot of unity games come to vita but 3DS. Plus putting it on Vita would allow them to get the game to PS3/4 quickly of they decode too.

Re: A Third-Party "Secret Developer" Gives an Inside Story of Working on Wii U

shingi_70

@JaxonH

Most PS3 games are around d 50GB its mostly due to Blu Ray allowing for uncompressed assets a d fitting more on a disc. Loco cycle is 20GB ffrom a developer that's made 3GB games but than you realize everything is at 1080p and uncompressed.

All that new hardware and power doesn't have to inflate costs especially since we know developing for the PS4 is pretty much making a PC game.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/01/01/kadokawa-boss-on-ps4-itll-keep-development-costs-low-wonders-if-it-can-revive-consoles-in-japan/

Theyre working on their first internal console game and they've had nothing but good things to say about the system.