I'd have thought that piracy and Capcoms's decision to belatedly release what is very much a console game on PC during the summer months evenly share the blame for so-called disappointing sales.
If most consumers currently have little interest in HD, at least Blu-ray will have built up a formidable library by the time they get up to speed. Toshiba's fatal error last year was to prematurely throw the kitchen sink at the mass market when nobody was listening. The BDA still appears to be holding back a full assault for when the right moment comes along, which I expect to be this Christmas. Of course, PS3 will remain a valuable asset and the console is now building up a full head of steam. Blu-ray cannot realistically hope to mimic DVD's success in this digital age, but with upcoming AAA blockbusters such as Wall-E and The Dark Knight, as well as Criterion releasing its first batch of titles, the BDA is now entering a period where that message can be spread to everyone.
Core gamers deserted Nintendo before Nintendo deserted them. After Sega was forced to bow out of the hardware business with the Dreamcast, Nintendo would have quickly gone the same way if it hadn't dramatically changed its gameplan in the way it did. The Gamecube felt like the console of a dying company despite offering fresh takes on the Mario, Zelda and Metroid franchises and new IP.
Again with Wii and DS we've already been given new Mario, Zelda and Metroid releases, it's just that Nintendo's new target audience is one that can not only keep it in the race but lead it. Things could have been much worse for us with both these formats when you consider Nintendo no longer needs us. Sure there wasn't much from Nintendo to please core gamers at E3, but there wasn't all that much to get the newcomers off their balance boards and away from Dr Kawashima. It was simply a bad conference.
Every now and then something happens which rams home the full extent of how Sony and Nintendo hold Europe in such low regard. I suppose we ought to be grateful to them for acknowledging our existence at all. Sony has been better to us than Nintendo over the years (congratulations on that incredible feat, SCEE) and this appears to be the latest side-effect of their inability to get anything right with PS3 as much as anything.
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I'd have thought that piracy and Capcoms's decision to belatedly release what is very much a console game on PC during the summer months evenly share the blame for so-called disappointing sales.
If most consumers currently have little interest in HD, at least Blu-ray will have built up a formidable library by the time they get up to speed. Toshiba's fatal error last year was to prematurely throw the kitchen sink at the mass market when nobody was listening. The BDA still appears to be holding back a full assault for when the right moment comes along, which I expect to be this Christmas. Of course, PS3 will remain a valuable asset and the console is now building up a full head of steam. Blu-ray cannot realistically hope to mimic DVD's success in this digital age, but with upcoming AAA blockbusters such as Wall-E and The Dark Knight, as well as Criterion releasing its first batch of titles, the BDA is now entering a period where that message can be spread to everyone.
Core gamers deserted Nintendo before Nintendo deserted them. After Sega was forced to bow out of the hardware business with the Dreamcast, Nintendo would have quickly gone the same way if it hadn't dramatically changed its gameplan in the way it did. The Gamecube felt like the console of a dying company despite offering fresh takes on the Mario, Zelda and Metroid franchises and new IP.
Again with Wii and DS we've already been given new Mario, Zelda and Metroid releases, it's just that Nintendo's new target audience is one that can not only keep it in the race but lead it. Things could have been much worse for us with both these formats when you consider Nintendo no longer needs us. Sure there wasn't much from Nintendo to please core gamers at E3, but there wasn't all that much to get the newcomers off their balance boards and away from Dr Kawashima. It was simply a bad conference.
Every now and then something happens which rams home the full extent of how Sony and Nintendo hold Europe in such low regard. I suppose we ought to be grateful to them for acknowledging our existence at all. Sony has been better to us than Nintendo over the years (congratulations on that incredible feat, SCEE) and this appears to be the latest side-effect of their inability to get anything right with PS3 as much as anything.
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