As the format war continues it seems that studios are shoring up their allegiances.
In a story from The Digital Bits, we've got some interesting 2007 plans from Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema.
While these companies aren't mentioning specific releases, one can only imaging what they will be releasing considering the direction they are going with the next generation formats...
"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
"The most important games event of Latin America, gamescom latam, has unveiled the finalists for its flagship award ceremony, the gamescom latam BIG Festival, which celebrates the best in the global market of games." - Gamescom.
I'm going to be buying Blu-ray movies pretty soon, and I was kinda pissed that Universal only supports HD-DVD since they have quite a few titles that I wanted to purchase.
I guess they don't want to sale that many movies. HD-DVD will have ten times as many players in households as blu-ray by the end of 2006. Doesn't look good for blu-ray at the moment. I don't support either, i support digitally delivered HD content via Xbox Live Video Marketplace, and I know people who bought a 360 just to download tv shows and hd movie rentals. By the way I think HD-DVD will win, because more people are aware of the name, and it is cheaper. $100 PC HD-DVD drive vs. $600 PC Blu-Ray Drive
$399 HD-DVD Standalone player vs. $699 Blu-Ray standalone player
In the end price is the factor and HD-DVD will be the first to hit the $100 mark, and HD-DVD have both HD and regular DVD formats on one disc something Blu-Ray can't do, which means you can watch HD-DVD discs in regular DVD players until you purchase a HD-DVD player.
my first bluraydisc is gonna be "The Covenant"
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Companies don't like money. For sales just look at amazons lists. HD-DVD is selling far more titles than Blu-Ray. These 2 will most likely end up supporting both formats by mid-year, as money talks louder than Sony executives.