So, we see Activision totally disassociating itself from Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified, saying that the main game's developers have nothing to do with the Vita product beyond checking the fiction remains true. How pathetic is that? Here's the most successful franchise in recent history and they've passed it off to a competent (but hardly leading class) developer in Nihilistic, disavowed all knowledge of it and taken no interest in its development.
That reeks of Sony wanting the game, paying for its development and Activision taking the cash and running. I would love to proved wrong, but the secretive development, clear lack of polish and ambition on the title (based on what we've seen so far) just seems to back up my position.
Then we see EA and the bizarre arrival of Madden on the Vita. I understand perfectly that it won't be quite on the level of Madden 13 on PS3, basing it on last year's engine is fine. But at least take the time to update the rosters, to fix some of...
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By that logic, Kojima is ashamed of Revengeance because he did exactly the same thing, and Insomniac never put a game on handhelds as far as I know but somehow they're "ashamed" because they didn't make it?
Grunger is right that if this sells well, the Vita might see more CoD, sure, but it'll also boost Nihilistic if they can do it right. But CoD and I aren't on speaking terms, so I wish them the best of luck!
About ea Nfs and assasins creed seem to be looking good and you forgot about FIFA 13 we haven't got so much as a screenshot or preview from the game I hope its good because FIFA 12 was promising on the vita.
Activision is another talk, they don't care about COD BOD at all. It's a shame if you ask me.
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No Im fine thank god. What are you talking about? ;)
No offense, but you guys need SERIOUSLY to consider buying a website already. Make it a bit more proper for your fans, at least.
Add in quality video camers, mics, video editing software and your easily looking at 3-5 thousand dollars.
Unless you have a real long term business plan your return on investment is almost nothing.
Some people just like to write their opinoons and share them with others isnt that part of the point N4G?
Then all you have is the domain/hosting cost each year.. which is easy to gain back via ads.
As for 'equipment' writing should be the main focus for journalists, equipment etc second. If your pieces are good people will visit, if people visit you gain more from ads and possibly even sell ad space to companies(which nets you even more) then you think about how to expand and equipment. You also don't need anything special for a camera mount the latest smart phone on a tripod!
A host with a $50 price tag won't be able to handle the kind of traffic of those who make it to the top 5 stories. No. I'm sorry. I'm speaking from experience here - on a peak day, 4,000 people can come to your site via 5 hottest stories. If you're #1 hot story, it's twice that and then some more.
I also ran an Xbox website with a friend of mine a several years ago, I invested $150+ for around a year's worth of hosting. Guess how many times the server went offline? 3 Times. Maybe even more.
I got lucky a few months later to have a friend who happens to have a dedicated server and lend me help.
You may think it's easy to just throw away $10 per year just for domains. Ads will pay this back no problem. But if you want a high level niche website, you're going to need to fork over a few thousand just to own it.
For example, MW3Blog costed me $480 just for an undeveloped website. Luckily, because I'm a marketing guy, I can turn this 'loss' into a positive revenue stream for me. Because now, next few weeks, I'm getting a handsome $100 check.
A good designer for a wordpress design WILL cost you a thousand dollars. It's not a joke. There aren't too many [good] gaming themes out there right now. When you find a good theme that's free, you'll be restricted in many ways than one.
Yep your spot on and if you want custom feature like an interesting review system that doesnt currently come with the theme you have from wordpress you can see up to $500 gone on just that one feature.
Also to get higher google rating you need to reserve your domain for at least 5 years which will be a lot more. For me its all the added feature i want viewers to have that is costing so much. I want them to get more out of the experience.
And, what's worse is that there isn't a CMS that allows for game info column - which I think is absolutely required for any gaming site. It's sad, because this is the way you make game companies respect your site enough to come to you for advertising. Because that column of a CMS lends "free" branding to the company.
I know some coders who charge people for these features into a CMS over 10 thousand dollars just for the whole CMS itself. Sometimes, even taking full admin control of the site. This is more or less a good thing and a bad thing. Because you still owe the person, and when you don't. He locks you out because the CMS was designed by him.
As for google rankings - Age has nothing to do with your position on google. How popular your site is - does. Because these people are backlinking to your site. The more people search the keyword you want, the more google indexes your site - that's another way. So, SEO is required - and there's a great SEO plugin for free on literally every single software there is on the market today. If it's not free, then the person is providing a wonderful service with regards to SEO. :)
Oh, and Content is King!
Thankfully, CouchGamers is coming out.
Yep your right on about the game info, I was lucky enough to find a theme that's no longer sold that had the game info feature but it was missing so much. I've had to pay through the nose to get everything else added on and I still have a bit of a way to go. My site name is the same as my user name.
I'll have to look into the SEO plugin for my site and get it incorporated before my site get's a full proper public launch.
Thanks for the tips and info.
When I start churning out total crap feel free to kick me in the nads! But for now, I hope I'm offering a decent voice and service.
Haha! (N4G usually does not allow blogs as submissions, of course)
Also, you are confusing my post with that of a person not satisfied in your content.
Any good information on the VITA is information that makes that person valid, my friend. I gotchu
(... I just can't approve anything with blog in it bc it might nullify my n4g rights to approve, post, etc.)
I think if Nihilistic are decent enough that they've been allowed to make two games in top-tier franchises, then we can probably presume the issue here is in the amount of time they've been allowed to make the game in. If that's the case then, like Treyarch, it's only a matter of time until they can prove themselves with a longer development cycle.
Honestly, given the sales potential of a good COD game on Vita I would have thought Sony would have played a stronger part in its development to ensure it lives up to its potential. COD could be a real game changer Vita but only if it reviews and plays well.
you shouldnt compare console madden to portable madden. Youre wrong if you do.
He also played the hell out of Fifa 12 on it (I don't play sports games on the other hand).
Just look at this article as an example. you got one devoted follower who thinks Madden is quality... How sad is that when you own a gaming platform and have to look forward to Madden? Oh and COD is now AAA must own...
When the best games you can come up with are considered garbage by most gamers it says a lot about just how bad the state of gaming for the Vita is...
Just to show further proof of how many blind followers or Sony sheep are out there look no further than my disagrees vs replies proving me wrong.
OT: 600? You mean 250 all in with a memory card and game? Since that is reality compared to the 600 fiction.
As supposed to what to look forward to, those who dont troll the way you do have the following to look forward to:
1) AC3L
2) NFSMW
3) PASBR
4) Killzone Mercenaries
5) Tearaway
6) LBP
7) Warriors Lair
8) Phantasy Star Online 2
9) Street Fighter x Tekken
10) Soul Sacrifice
11) Time Travellers
Odd how you couldnt think of any of the above considering one of them could be the next big thing since MH, the other is one of the best known JRPGs outside of FF and some are crossbuy, making them far more lucrative than a regular purchase on another system.
The Vita is the most powerful, most versatile handheld ever made. That's pretty much a fact, which dispels your "limited" claims. Quoting that price, I get the feeling you're somewhere like Australia, which is a shame for you; pretty much everywhere else in the world, the Vita is the one that's hundreds less than the mobile devices out there at $600.
It's evident that you don't know this, but A LOT of people look forward to Madden each year, and COD is pretty much ALWAYS a big seller.
Still, these aren't the games people are looking forward to playing on the Vita. Teflon and fei-hung mention quite a few, but I'd also add FFX HD, ZoE HD, Jet Grind Radio, Bioshock, Dragon's Crown, the Oddworld HD games, and New Little King's Story. Between our three lists, there are about 20 upcoming games in all sorts of genres that people are talking about. And that's including neither Call of Duty NOR Madden.
And please, stop with the "people disagree, but they're too scared to comment. that just shows they're fanboys, blah, blah." Do you reply to every comment you disagree with? I'm 100% certain that's impossible. By your logic, people should only click disagree if they comment; what about agreeing? What about obvious troll comments(this honestly feels like one)?
Face it: nobody CAN reply to every comment they disagree with, so there are just two things you can deduce from you agree/disagree rate: in the case of high disagrees, either you've said something true that struck a nerve with the crowd reading the article and requisite thread, or you've said something wrong that people are letting you know about.
In your case, it's the latter.
Now as far as this topic goes what we are seeing is two publishers not really taking Vita seriously. It reminds me of the makers of Dark Souls and their attitude towards the PC. Basically a rush job with no real attention to the hardware or the userbase. People may look forward to Madden and Call of Duty games but they certainly don't look forward to inferior ports that aren't taken seriously.
I just hope it doesnt bomb. If it does every other dev will ignore the vita. If the biggest franchise on the planet doesnt sell the platform is as good as dead to dev's.
Sure, you can expect that the VITA's graphics like FPS games will be crappy cause it's hardware is low powered version of a quad core CPU lol.. I can assume that even Single core Intel atom at 500mhz can blow this vita out of the water if we talk about the potential lol...
But sadly, Atom consumes more power than an ARM cpu, and I know only Tablet is the closest gadget that can handle it's power and battery life at least for 7 hours..
I just can't stand seeing how Sony has mismanaged the Vita all along (even that name never seemed right) it should have had some amount of internal memory or at least made it like DS games that had built in memory and had it's exclusive games marketed more, also Sony should be getting it's A list developers to make real numbered games from the biggest IPs that they own and then we would have a worthy successor to the PSP. I hope for the best regardless.
End mini rant.
And Resistance: Burning Skies is pretty awesome, so I have faith in Nihilistic.