The big manufacturers love to tout their impressive sales figures at events such as E3, and rightly so as it is a good way to communicate their success and confidence. However, what contingency is there in place for when all of those units they've sold finally become obsolete? What happens to the 140 million (and counting) PS2s when each of their owners "upgrades" to the PS3 as Sony hopes they will?
Evidently, there are questions of what ethical or environmental dimensions there are to gaming. With consumers in general ever more concerned about their impact on the environment and clamouring for a "green economy" (to quote several speakers at the DNC last week) there is also the question of what responsibility is on console manufacturers to deliver that. In particular for Nintendo, if it genuinely wants to create and serve a "mass-market" then it must answer not only their desire for fun but the demands of their conscious also.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
