MB1025 said:
Munkeh111 said:
DirtyP2002 said:
"It's most successful game last year was Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade, while titles such as Trials Evolution were big sellers"
Well Halo 4 outsold it by 2 million and with 4 months less on the market.
Retail games will not go away anytime soon. Heck, there are still a lot of CDs out there for music / audiobooks etc. I think the digital distribution will add another option for consumers. I really like my limited editions and BluRay cases, but games like Walking Dead would not exist without digital distribution. I think episodic content on XBLA and a retail release for the full package is actually a pretty good move. Instead of buying a game for $60.
Week one: Epdisode 1 for $10, multiplayer for $10.
Week two: Epdisode 2 for $10
Week three: Episode 3 for $10
Week four: Episode 4 for $10
Week five: Episode 5 for $10 and retail release as the total package for $60
Alan Wake 2 would be perfect for this kind of distribution. CoD not so much. So it really comes down to the game and how it works.
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But that makes no sense!
You can't make the 2nd episode in a week. It is just delaying the launch of the actual game, because it basically all has to be finished for the first week
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If I am following him correctly what he is saying is the developer would make the game and have a retail release. However they would also have an episodic release of the game online for 10 bucks a week. So the game would be already made and they would just release a few chapters of the game a week online or you could buy the entire release in stores.
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He is saying that you can have the full retail package in week 5, I suppose it only really delays the release by a few weeks, but I just don't think episodic gaming really makes sense. I can understand that you might want to make stuff avaliable in episodes, but from a development perspective that is not great. I suppose it might work better if you design your game around it (I haven't played the Walking Dead), but it really just seems a comprimise. I get that you might want to lure people in with a lower initial price point, but it would annoy me if I have to wait 5 weeks so I can have the full physical copy
