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The Ghost of RubangB said:

Again, Kudo Tsunoda is just talking crazy and trying to downplay all non-Kinect gaming.  First it's as revolutionary as Mario Bros., then he says "rumble is rudimentary," Kinect is the next big step after games becoming non-linear sandboxes, and now it's going to be the next revolution in re-imagining traditional genres for new control schemes...

like Halo did?

 

That's some double Kool-Aid right there, considering Halo couldn't even outsell GoldenEye, which came out 4 years earlier.

I'm sorry, what does Halo and GoldenEye have to do with anything? Halo's much bigger than GoldenEye ever was, making your point irrelevant anyway.



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My friend plays Crysis and L4D2 all the time. Actually to think about it he only games on his PC. 



Scoobes said:
Darth Tigris said:

Seriously, man, you're the only person here that is not acting reactionary.  

Kudo is likely a very smart guy to have gotten where he is, so paying attention to what he MEANS is the most important thing.  Instead overly sensitive gamer types here respond like he called their mother a ho.  Same thing on Kotaku and neoGAF.  Sad state we're in ...

Thing is, when you're in his position, you can't make such blundering PR statements as the gaming media feed on this stuff.

His overall point may have been somewhat valid but he has to choose his words more carefully. At the end of the day, that single sentence is false, even if his overall point is valid.

But what he said isn't factually wrong, just a quick generalization.  If we look at just sales, is it wrong to say that 90 % of FPS games sales are on the consoles?  This is VGChartz.  It wouldn't take much to settle that.  Unless PC game sales aren't tracked for some strange reason . . .



Darth Tigris said:
Scoobes said:
Darth Tigris said:

Seriously, man, you're the only person here that is not acting reactionary.  

Kudo is likely a very smart guy to have gotten where he is, so paying attention to what he MEANS is the most important thing.  Instead overly sensitive gamer types here respond like he called their mother a ho.  Same thing on Kotaku and neoGAF.  Sad state we're in ...

Thing is, when you're in his position, you can't make such blundering PR statements as the gaming media feed on this stuff.

His overall point may have been somewhat valid but he has to choose his words more carefully. At the end of the day, that single sentence is false, even if his overall point is valid.

But what he said isn't factually wrong, just a quick generalization.  If we look at just sales, is it wrong to say that 90 % of FPS games sales are on the consoles?  This is VGChartz.  It wouldn't take much to settle that.  Unless PC game sales aren't tracked for some strange reason . . .

PC games aren't tracked.... I don't get what your trying to say. Unless you have some sort of proof to back your percentage, then your generalization is irrelevant. He also said that 'hardly' anyone plays FPS on PC anymore, which isn't true at all, if over 500,000 people play FPS on PC's a day, then I don't think that is an insignificant amount. I'd even go so far as to say that more people play PC FPS online than PS3 FPS online and yet I'd bet that if we cancelled out all the FPS sales that the PS3 sales have gotten this gen, it make FPS on consoles much more insignificant. The FPS genre on PC is still popular and just because consoles  have a couple of big FPS's (Halo and COD), it doesn't negate the PC's big FPS's (TF2, Crysis, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead 1 &2, Battlefield etc). Kudo is an ass, people should stop defending his every word just because he backs the console they prefer.



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

zgamer5 said:

bullshit! people dont buy pc games. but they play it! in my country of 4 million people i can assure you that more then 1500 people play fps games on pc.

i dont know why hes boasting about consoles. consoles will never have blizzards support, consoles will never havw warcraft/starcraft, i only use my pc to play warcraft and starcraft, while im mainly a console gamer, never have games given me an experience as amazing as warcraft/starcraft. the foundation of the games are great, but then you go to the custom games! every single one is amazing.  and the lamest one(tree tag) wipes the floor of every other game. id rather play warcraft all my life then get other games.

i agree fps games arent that popular on pcs anymore compared to 5,10 years ago, but for me and for everyone whos been playing forzen throne for the past 6 years(not sure about that number) the console is the wife, but the pc is the host mistress waiting for you in a hotel in hot lingerie.

 

never say never my friend, there is always a chance.  Never know what the future will bring.

 



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gergroy said:
zgamer5 said:

bullshit! people dont buy pc games. but they play it! in my country of 4 million people i can assure you that more then 1500 people play fps games on pc.

i dont know why hes boasting about consoles. consoles will never have blizzards support, consoles will never havw warcraft/starcraft, i only use my pc to play warcraft and starcraft, while im mainly a console gamer, never have games given me an experience as amazing as warcraft/starcraft. the foundation of the games are great, but then you go to the custom games! every single one is amazing.  and the lamest one(tree tag) wipes the floor of every other game. id rather play warcraft all my life then get other games.

i agree fps games arent that popular on pcs anymore compared to 5,10 years ago, but for me and for everyone whos been playing forzen throne for the past 6 years(not sure about that number) the console is the wife, but the pc is the host mistress waiting for you in a hotel in hot lingerie.

 

never say never my friend, there is always a chance.  Never know what the future will bring.

 

i will not believe!!!!!!!



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

Doobie_wop said:
Darth Tigris said:
Scoobes said:
Darth Tigris said:

Seriously, man, you're the only person here that is not acting reactionary.  

Kudo is likely a very smart guy to have gotten where he is, so paying attention to what he MEANS is the most important thing.  Instead overly sensitive gamer types here respond like he called their mother a ho.  Same thing on Kotaku and neoGAF.  Sad state we're in ...

Thing is, when you're in his position, you can't make such blundering PR statements as the gaming media feed on this stuff.

His overall point may have been somewhat valid but he has to choose his words more carefully. At the end of the day, that single sentence is false, even if his overall point is valid.

But what he said isn't factually wrong, just a quick generalization.  If we look at just sales, is it wrong to say that 90 % of FPS games sales are on the consoles?  This is VGChartz.  It wouldn't take much to settle that.  Unless PC game sales aren't tracked for some strange reason . . .

PC games aren't tracked.... I don't get what your trying to say. Unless you have some sort of proof to back your percentage, then your generalization is irrelevant. He also said that 'hardly' anyone plays FPS on PC anymore, which isn't true at all, if over 500,000 people play FPS on PC's a day, then I don't think that is an insignificant amount. I'd even go so far as to say that more people play PC FPS online than PS3 FPS online and yet I'd bet that if we cancelled out all the FPS sales that the PS3 sales have gotten this gen, it make FPS on consoles much more insignificant. The FPS genre on PC is still popular and just because consoles  have a couple of big FPS's (Halo and COD), it doesn't negate the PC's big FPS's (TF2, Crysis, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead 1 &2, Battlefield etc). Kudo is an ass, people should stop defending his every word just because he backs the console they prefer.

It was a throwaway comment in a LARGER point he was making and all we're doing is focusing on the throwaway comment.  Sorry, but I think that's petty and unfair.

The reality is that bloggers and faux journalist make their living off of traffic grabbing, inflammatory headlines that generate strong emotional reactions in people.  That's why we're talking about this instead of the point of the article from where this quote was taken.  We're acting like a bunch of tools and blaming Kudo for it.  People are even attacking him wearing sunglasses, even though he has a condition called photophobia that forces him to wear them.

Its not about defending Kudo.  Its about defending his overall point.  I won't pick apart you listing a bunch of multiplatform FPS games as big PC FPS's because that's missing the point of what you're saying.  It annoys me when people do that because its like they're just LOOKING for something to take a shot at someone for.  We should be better than that.



Darth Tigris said:
Doobie_wop said:
Darth Tigris said:

But what he said isn't factually wrong, just a quick generalization.  If we look at just sales, is it wrong to say that 90 % of FPS games sales are on the consoles?  This is VGChartz.  It wouldn't take much to settle that.  Unless PC game sales aren't tracked for some strange reason . . .

PC games aren't tracked.... I don't get what your trying to say. Unless you have some sort of proof to back your percentage, then your generalization is irrelevant. He also said that 'hardly' anyone plays FPS on PC anymore, which isn't true at all, if over 500,000 people play FPS on PC's a day, then I don't think that is an insignificant amount. I'd even go so far as to say that more people play PC FPS online than PS3 FPS online and yet I'd bet that if we cancelled out all the FPS sales that the PS3 sales have gotten this gen, it make FPS on consoles much more insignificant. The FPS genre on PC is still popular and just because consoles  have a couple of big FPS's (Halo and COD), it doesn't negate the PC's big FPS's (TF2, Crysis, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead 1 &2, Battlefield etc). Kudo is an ass, people should stop defending his every word just because he backs the console they prefer.

It was a throwaway comment in a LARGER point he was making and all we're doing is focusing on the throwaway comment.  Sorry, but I think that's petty and unfair.

The reality is that bloggers and faux journalist make their living off of traffic grabbing, inflammatory headlines that generate strong emotional reactions in people.  That's why we're talking about this instead of the point of the article from where this quote was taken.  We're acting like a bunch of tools and blaming Kudo for it.  People are even attacking him wearing sunglasses, even though he has a condition called photophobia that forces him to wear them.

Its not about defending Kudo.  Its about defending his overall point.  I won't pick apart you listing a bunch of multiplatform FPS games as big PC FPS's because that's missing the point of what you're saying.  It annoys me when people do that because its like they're just LOOKING for something to take a shot at someone for.  We should be better than that.

Problem is his throwaway comment shouldn't have been made or should have been worded appropriately. With the state of gaming journalism and his position you'd think he'd know this.

Fact is, he made a small but stupid comment and gaming journalists picked it up and now we have threads like this one.



PR, yawn, just because you point at somebody slutty and say she has herpies, it doesn't mean she really has it. /shrug I'd still hit it.