Register Hardware editor Tony Smith reports that the European HD DVD Promotional Group has refused to reveal how many HD DVD players have been sold in Europe, as requested by Register Hardware.
"Unfortunately, we aren't releasing total sales numbers because we feel that it is early days for both formats compared to DVD," a European HD DVD Promotional Group spokeswoman told Register Hardware.
"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.
Did they drop price of HD-DVD in Europe as well?
Stalemate? Sony CEO's BusinessWeek interview taken out of context
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"the European HD DVD Promotional Group has refused to reveal how many HD DVD players have been sold in Europe"
This is just a hunch, but it's possible, just possible that HD-DVD player sales in europe are pretty crap compared to Blu-ray. And we all know that blu-ray disc sales are mopping the floor with HD-DVD
The HD DVD Promotional Group is a complete joke though. When they show Bluray player sales, they don't include the ps3 because 'it's not a true bluray player' which in turn makes HD-DVD look better. However when they show the attach rate for Bluray players, they include the ps3 because that lowers blurays attach rate per unit, which in turn makes HD-DVD look better. The fools!
But at least this article shows that even they know when to, you know, just shut up
Because they are being crushed.
They don't want to tell people how many HD-DVD player has been sold.
Meaning They could have sold 50 and of those 50 players. at least 3-4 HD-DVD movies have been sold with it making the rate look big. I see what they are doing lawlz.