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LordTheNightKnight on 28 November 2008
clerk said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
clerk said:
I actually wish Nintendo would start to enforce some kind of minimal standards for games on their consoles. Some of the games some 3rd parties has put out on the Wii, simply should not be played by anyone, anywhere.

 

It's not the shovelware that's the problem. It's the lack of major third party games to balance it out. The PS2 got Ninjabread man first, and loads of other ultra cheap games. Did you complain about it then?

 

 

While that's true to some extend, I think the amount of shovelware on the Wii has become problematic on it's own right. It's already much worse than it ever was on the PS2.

 

Got any hard numbers to back that up?



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leo-j on 28 November 2008

As the HD TV adoption rate increases, so do the sales of HD consoles.



 

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Diomedes1976 on 28 November 2008

Technology drives this business.If it didnt the PS2 would still be around and kicking everyone in the arse in multiplattform releases.

Each new generation people want to play new iterations of the old games and new games alltoghether ,but they must look way better and have some improvements in the play mechanichs .Another way would be making the control input very different so its "new " in itself and people run all over it ...as the Wii .It is working this generation ,we will see if it works in the future .

The credit crunch can hurt gaming ,but no more that other business ,in fact gaming is one of the industries that is managing better results in the current turmoil.A severe credit crunch could have badly hurt developers acquiring expensive development kits etc ,but right now most major developers have their development tools ,licenses already paid ,game engines developed or licensed and their fees paid in advance ...the credit crunch can hurt the industry but not destroy it.In the worse scenario in christmas 2009 there could be not a massive avalanche of good HD games as right now but a good dozen or so ....still not bad.



FJ-Warez on 28 November 2008
leo-j said:
As the HD TV adoption rate increases, so do the sales of HD consoles.

Got any hard numbers to back that up? (Thanks LoTNK)

 



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Millennium on 28 November 2008

The fall of HD gaming will come as more and more people realize that the HD consoles are churning out nothing more than glorified reskins of the same games they've been playing for the last ten years, simply because the consoles allow devs to do this. Only one console has any clout when it comes to driving gaming forward this generation, and it isn't HD.



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Bodhesatva on 28 November 2008

I'm locking this. The actual contents aren't quite so inflammatory -- the analysis is based in real evidence -- but the thread title is so objectionable that it needs to be closed. I'd be absolutely cool with the original poster starting up a new thread with the exact same thread contents but with a more reasonable thread title.

And no, I can't just change thread titles. That's why you need to start a new one.



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