Comments on: Are you there, Sony? It’s me, a gamer …

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:50:19 +0000

"Thatâ€s one of the problems with introducing new (and expensive) hardware later in a consoleâ€s life cycle. Many people wonâ€t invest in the hardware until there are several games that support it, and most third party game developers simply canâ€t afford to create dedicated games for new hardware before the user base is there." See also: Intellivoice (approx. $100, 5 games supported), The Voice Of Odyssey2 (approx. $150, 9 games supported).

By: lethargic

lethargic — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:01:54 +0000

Kinect is rumored to be 150 and 60 for games.

I don’t have a problem with 150. I’d rather it be 100, but 150 isn’t crazy to me. It’s not like you’re buying a Wiimote or a Movemote, if it ends up doing all the things it’s supposed to do, it’s friggin bananas.

But 60 dollars for the games they’ve showed so far? The vast majority of them looked like nothing but Xbox Live arcade games. They should be 20 bucks at the most, charging 60 would be idiotic. Hell, you should get all those games bundled with the thing. One of the games was Joy Ride and that was announced at last year’s E3 as an arcade game, they never released it, added in Kinect controls and are now trying to sell it as a full game.

The third party games that were showed looked way better, but the Microsoft games were nothing but Live arcade rip offs of Wii games.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:12:37 +0000

That’s one of the problems with introducing new (and expensive) hardware later in a console’s life cycle. Many people won’t invest in the hardware until there are several games that support it, and most third party game developers simply can’t afford to create dedicated games for new hardware before the user base is there. Without some stellar first party games to get these things flying off the shelves, they will die in obscurity and live on in collectors’ closets and trivia books. This is exactly what happened with the PS2 hard drive setup. I “think” only one game officially supported it. If they hadn’t bundled it with th ethernet adapter, I’ll bet they wouldn’t have sold a fraction of what they actually did.

The only reason Microsoft didn’t get my ire this round is because I haven’t read enough about their system (Kinect, is it?) to fully blast it. I just think the cost of admission is too high on Sony’s. $140 for the hardware for one person plus another $60 for a game is too much for a gimmick — plus, anyone with friends or more than one kid is going to end up buying two or more sets.

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:25:01 +0000

The thing that worries me with the trend of doing me-too gimmicks is that they end up being actually widely adopted by game makers. I couldn’t care less about Project Natal/Kinect and it would suck if it became the standard for 360 games.

On the other hand, who knows if it won’t be the opposite results for both Kinect and PS Move — that, aside from Microsoft and Sony’s games using the technologies, third party developers/publishers just won’t use them. See such Nintendo gimmicks as the GBA-GameCube connectivity (used only for a handful of games, like the GCN port of Sonic Adventure 2 and Zelda: Four Swords) and the eReader…

By: icbrkr

icbrkr — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:17:47 +0000

Odd… I posted pretty much the exact same thing on someone else’s thread. Sony FTW!

By: sothy

sothy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:10:25 +0000

ya well ps3 and 360 are trying to gather the idiot casual gamer market not understanding most HURRAH CHICKEN SHOOTwii owners have it in a closet or attic by now.