Motion controls are coming! Gamers better get used to them. Is this gimmick enough to drive console sales for Microsoft and Sony? Will the Natal and Move cut into the Wii sales? What about shovelware games?
TNS: Based on its most recent ESG data, Nintendo boasts a remarkably low staff turnover rate of just 1.9%, with virtually no reported layoffs.
Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.
Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.
And you make profit off of outdated hardware.
I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has set a new record by selling over 3 million units within 24 hours, tripling the PlayStation 4’s previous launch day sales.
Its crazy that it's both the highest selling console on day 1 and people can walk into a store and buy it with no pre order
Unlike the Switch 2 , the Playstation 4 was not sold on the same day in most regions.
Move will fail because it will be seen as a Wii HD. Natal will be seen as a revolution in motion and will excite people the way the Wii did. No one is going to buy a closet full of bulky crap when they already have that crap for the Wii. Who would buy more than one rod for a whole family? Move simply isn't as advanced as Natal.
Er, we haven't even seen them at their full potential in actual games yet. Motion controls (as well as any control form) prove to do quite well when do properly.
Anyway, if both companies are actually looking to make them a hit, they reallly need to consider the price. I heard the full Sony Move package may be about $100 or something, and heaven knows the price of the Natal. In my opinion, "Major Price Cut Required".
i dont like motion controlls that much but they are cool.
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lol giving a bubble is so easy now that i just gave everyone a bubble in this page. ha
Kinda have been used to them. I mean they've only been around for the last 3-4 yrs now.
As long as the "old school" controller stays, I'll have no problem. I, for one, do not like motion controllers.