Oh!!! now I get it xD who uses imperial? :P

Whales are a bad scene because even they have limited funds. If everyone's after their money, you just get a pool of samey games catering to their habits which turn off other kinds of consumers, forcing over-reliance on the whales and general contraction.

The anime industry is only just emerging from a 5-year negative cycle where they went through much the same thing: creating pandering products (shows) specifically to hawk lots and lots of merchandise to deep-pocketed otaku. This was the moe craze that created a lot of anime that appealed mostly to otaku and to few others, and the solution to the lost "casual" revenue was to try to further monetize the otaku.

It's only now that they've started breaking out of it with more general-purpose manga like AoT getting more mainstream attention, to the dimunition of the moe-blobs

I'd hate to see gaming go through the same thing.

oh god you had to remind me of the dark age of anime

thankfully though within the past year that time has of anime has to an end and hopefully video games will come out of it soon

Jim gives us a surprise video on the FaceBook acquisition of Oculus Rift. Enjoy!

Jim being an optimist!? what has the world come to :P
Oculus being bought by facebook imo can either be alright, or really horrible

The Jim Sterling plush doll is awesome.

This week's Jimquisition is up! Today he talks about the lack of true QA in the gaming industry and how the "buyer beware" mentality is a flawed argument against the consumer.

Thankyou for this thread Smeags, must have missed it the first time around somehow. I enjoy Jim and his needless rants, though I get a little concerned with how much I agree with him sometimes!

This week was pretty enjoyable as well. Then again, I've come to expect nothing less now...

This weeks Jimquisition was enjoyable, watched it a few times. I'll post my thoughts after I eat

Ok you can post now.