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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20343 |  MooseMuffin (109) Apr 08, 2008 - 02:26 pm
| It won't happen, and if it does it will bomb. Even if they do a great job, when parents are looking to buy a console they're going to go with the cheaper console with the recognizable mascots. The wii has this audience locked down.
The only people I can see this being good for are those with young kids who want wii-style stuff and older kids who want xbox-y stuff. I don't know how many people are in that situation, but probably not enough for this to be worth their while. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20229 | MooseMuffin (109) Mar 31, 2008 - 02:31 pm
| I don't think the issue was ever that Creative's driver team couldn't do it, or they were too lazy to do it. I just think management intentionally decided not to do it to encourage people to buy new cards. It's analogous to Microsoft not making a directx 10 for windows XP. They probably could if they wanted, but they'd much rather you spend the cash for Vista instead.
If someone released a homemade dx10 for windows XP, you can be sure there would be no praise-filled job offers coming from MS. Just cease-and-desist letters for crapping on their business model. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19914 | MooseMuffin (109) Mar 10, 2008 - 12:17 pm
| Heh, not really. As much as I want starcraft 2, I was surprised that Blizzard is willing to go back to making a game they can only sell you once. They'll sell a ton of copies of SC2, but I bet it won't even come close to matching the amount of cash they pull in from a year of WoW subscription fees.
My feelings are that they're only doing SC2 in order to renew interest for the franchise. Then world of starcraft will come and pick up the slack once WoW starts to decline. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19811 | MooseMuffin (109) Mar 03, 2008 - 03:18 pm
| I'd argue there was quite a bit of risk chrispyski. They no longer had the guitar hero brand name to go on, and in fact they were competing against the strength of the brand they built. Here's this near-$200 new franchise rock band sitting on the shelf next to the significantly cheaper, established brand of guitar hero. How many people were going to plop down $180? GH3 was released first to massive sales. How many people were going to buy both games? How many people even want a room full of plastic instruments?
Rock band was a pretty significant risk in my eyes, but the profit potential with downloadable songs is massive, and its clearly working out for them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19287 | MooseMuffin (109) Jan 28, 2008 - 09:41 am » Edited on Jan 28, 2008 - 09:42 am
| | As far as I know, the only 9x series card thats coming next month is the 9600. Thats a replacement for the 8600 and below the 8800's in performance, so AMD hs nothing to worry about there. Their real issue would be the rumors of an dual gpu board made up of 8800gt's, but even so, at $450 this card is priced well enough that it could still have its own niche. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19049 | MooseMuffin (109) Jan 09, 2008 - 04:58 pm
| On the one hand, its kinda stupid and they're totally out of place.
On the other hand, major star wars characters in a fighting game with extremely solid mechanics? I'm totally sold. Nobody ever bought a fighting game based on its story and cohesiveness of its setting. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19045 | MooseMuffin (109) Jan 09, 2008 - 09:51 am
| | Why would it have sold at least as many as the PS3? It wouldn't have had a price advantage or launched as soon as it did. Without those two things, it wouldn't have had the big installed base advantage that keeps exclusives out of Sony's hands. That just would have left them to compete on the strength of their brands, in which case the Playstation would have walked all over the 360. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19035 | MooseMuffin (109) Jan 08, 2008 - 01:32 pm
| | I imagine they're thinking that the people who made a killer new IP should be allowed to continue to make killer new IPs. The world has already been imagined, the major characters have already been introduced, and all of the tech is already in place. One of the other teams ought to be able to take it from here while the Irrational guys put their creative juices to better use. Flag this | Edit this post |
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