"The promise of third-party support is one that will bring many back to Nintendo’s fold. While the company has always shown a knack for creating innovative IPs, the support has been lacking for Nintendo since the middle years of the Gamecube cycle. Looking ahead, the Wii U could be the console that Nintendo always meant to create to compete with more mainstream gaming alternatives Microsoft and Sony."
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
I just have one thing to say! All of these articles are coming forth from Iwata now, I wish he would take this time to get me more excited about the WiiU then talk about PS4 & 720. Those systems are vaporware as of right now and don't physically exist
E3 was your chance to bring back the core audience. You blew it. No excuses.
I'm certainly not getting a Wii U at launch.
He has gumption, you wont here the other 2 saying how bad there conferences were, they will just ignore it
But I think alot of people are missing the bigger picture....
The conference was bad, but all the playtestings and things of that nature were great.
So really isnt that whats most important? A conference will be forgotten, trying the system and understand it for yourself wont be.
People are like MOAR POWER MOAR POWER
but whats the cost of that?
Do we really want to buy a 400+ dollar system, that costs so much to dev for, it might destroy the system?
I am not sure.....
I mean how much better can realism get? Id prefer more artistic directions, which dont require the power to supply a small city
my 2 cents