Last month, January 2012, was the 28th month of decline since the U.S. retail video game industry peaked 35 months ago, in March 2009. That's the context I want to set for a conversation about last month's retail sales estimates, as released by the NPD Group last Thursday.
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
3 theories and not one of them mentions the fact that throughout the world there has been a recession and most people don't have the money to splash on games right now.
Its definitely causing this downward effect towards the gaming industry. Publishers want the Wii U as an extra platform to release their content on (while exemplifying 3rd exclusives, of course).
The industry "needs" new a, innovate console to keep its economy balanced.
Consumers are waiting for new hardware. Stretching the hardware gen beyond the traditional 5 years have bit the industry in the ass.
here we go.........more crackpot theories from dummies
How about the fact there were less releases than ever.............. in january
How about the fact that we are at the end of system cycles?
its all comign together
"The PlayStation Vita, for example, is a $250 handheld launching into a market where a $170 Nintendo handheld with glasses-free 3D effects and two major Mario games can't break 200,000 systems in a month."
Lets be clear. The 3ds has been outpacing every other nintendo system in history in the US ( it outpaced the ds in like 8 months) . So it isnt bad it cant break 200k, thats just some arbitrary made up number
The 3ds was number 1 worldwide in 2011 in 9 months. Selling over 16 million units so far, in less than 1 fiscal year
Over exaggerating
Once the 3ds gets a remodel, it will take off like the ds lite, and then we will see.