Thunderbolt: "While the iPhone has become just as legitimate a gaming device as Nintendo’s and Sony’s portables, Android still struggles to find its place. There are a few major reasons why Android is still lacking."
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And you make profit off of outdated hardware.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.
Oo! Now Android's getting a kicking, where does it end?
There's only Microsoft and Apple left, now which one is going to turn out to be in the pockets of the media?
Gaming wise I think android will be behind iOS/apple because there is no hardware minimum and too many versions of android. I like that android has more choices when it comes to picking a device but I dislike the fact only a few phones can run med to high-end games. I got a LG ally personally its great for running low end emulators (snes,gbc&a,sega) and low-end games but everything else not so much.
Don't get me wrong, Android's fragmentation really doesn't help developers who are trying to ensure that their games run smoothly on most phones. Also, developing for iOS is pretty developer friendly. There's not much work to be done to ensure that your application is compatible across all iOS devices. Thus all in all, you get a very nice user experience on iOS. Fruit Ninja is a good example of a good experience on iOS, which I am afraid didn't transfer well over to Android.
However, I don't think the state of Android is that dire. In the Android 10p sale, I got some absolutely fantastic games, which were high quality. I hadn't purchased anything from the Android store until that sale and now I would be more inclined to. Jelly Defence for instance is a high quality game that I am enjoying. For reference state, I am running these on a Galaxy S2.
Hopefully Ice Cream Sandwich does what it is suppose to do and pulls together Android and reduces the fragmentation. I predict that you'll find much more high quality applications and games arriving on Android in 2012 as the big manufactures start pushing out their Ice Cream Sandwich devices and the uptake increases.
i think android gaming would do alot better if more phone adopted the playstation certified program (or something similar) because it would be a good store and would give some guarantees that the phone will run the apps they sell
iPhone didn't do it first
There were thousands of Symbian and Java ME games long before the iPhone came along. Many of those have since been ported to iPhone and Android.
The main problem with Android with regards to gaming is the same as the problem that affected Java ME, too much diversity and fragmentation. If you want to make money you need to target the lowest common denominator which means not making the best use of the device.