Otter from AC writes:
"This year's Game Developers Conference was a month earlier than previous shows. Still, the show is as important as ever with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all trying to start off with the right foot in 2008.Z"
"Let's start off with the market leader, the Nintendo Wii. Although the Wii is setting sales records, many third-party developers are still focusing their efforts on the PC/ Playstation 3/ Xbox 360 combination. It was the same old story for Nintendo: the gaming press was more interested in the HD consoles."
From Horse Armor to Mass Layoffs: The Price of Greed in Gaming. Inside the decades-long war on game workers and the players who defend them.
maybe a real enemy is people who use terms like "the real enemy"
there can be more than 1 bad thing, t's not like a kids show with 1 big bad
Executives seem to often have an obsession with perpetual revenue growth. There is always a finite amount of consumers for a product regardless of growth. Additionally, over investment is another serious issue in gaming.
honestly, the "real" enemy of gaming, is ourselves
if nobody bought horse armor, shitty dlc would have died almost overnight
if we stood firm and nobody bought games from companies that were bad with layoffs, it would be solved
we're the idiots supporting awful business practices, we are the ones enouraging it
Greed and greedy people have and always will be the main issue for everything wrong in the world. Everything is a product to be exploited for monetary gain. Even when there are things that could help progress us along for the sake of making our lives easier that thing must be exploited for monetary gains. Anything that tells you otherwise is propaganda to make you complicit.
I've never thought "DEI" (although the way most people use it doesn't match it's real definition) is the problem with games. Good games have continued to be good when they have a diverse cast, and likewise, bad games have continued to be bad. There isn't a credible example I've seen where a diverse cast has been the direct cause of a game being bad.
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Decent GDC. MS said the most and Nintendo said the least. I pretty much knew Nintendo wouldn't say anything seeing that they never do but still :(
This article really helped me understand what happened this week on GDC since I haven't been to up to date on the conference. (Just recently bought COD4...hehe)
I liked what microsoft showed, they do have a strong exclusive games line up for 08 just like 07, I was worried that their would be no big hitter this year but with gears of war 2 being anounced for november thats changed, the other games will sit nicely around that game, eg Too Human, Fable 2, NG2,and other games that will most likely make it this year Banjo 3, Halo Wars, Alan Wake, Splinter cell coviction,and more will show the light as the year goes on,who said microsoft had little exclusives this year?