Comments on: Showing Slips: Dragon Age, Sims 3, Godfather II

By: kadayi

kadayi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:50:31 +0000

I’m a bit gutted about the Sims 3 delay. It’s cutting it a bit close to the wire with barely a couple of weeks to go. Clearly something wasn’t working, though what they can do in a few months save polish it further is questionable.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:00:32 +0000

Chained? Nay, they are in a system which offers money and great opertunities. But it has side effects, everyone in there is free to go indie if they wanted.

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:54:03 +0000

Well, seems like most analysts seem to believe this is because EA wants their fiscal year to look better, considering that their last one was shit. Must be pretty depressing to be chained like that by wall street monkeys…

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:31:52 +0000

@TheSombreroKid
I’ll be honest, you have me confused.
But, despite the differences in the systems porting stuff is still cheaper than a new game more often than not. Especially if its made to be portable from the off.

@silencer
Imagine a sandwich too good to eat, shoe polish would fix that. “Shit eating console gamers”* and all that eh?

*I’m talking in parody, i used to “eat shit”/”play consoles”** too, so dont be offended that i associated your perfered passtime with the other obviously lesser social group.

**I still play my ds. when i can find it, its lost in the mess of my bedroom atm. ADVANCE WARS FO’ LIFE

By: silencer

silencer — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:55:08 +0000

If it’s already too good to be released, why does it need more polish? HMMMM…

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:03:02 +0000

Development should have turned their back on 100 man development teams the moment they really thought about it. All the art in the world won’t save a bad game.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:55:36 +0000

“Dragon Age was supposed to be Bioware’s one game done with the hardcore PC gamers in mind.”

This. I am pretty upset mainly due to them stating this repeatedly.

By: TheSombreroKid

TheSombreroKid — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:30:22 +0000

oh and i take back my @Heliocentric because the differance is the ps3 and xbox is an either or thing and the pc is an aswell as usually, thus giving you the choice of console r pc but not between the consoles

By: TheSombreroKid

TheSombreroKid — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:27:45 +0000

oh and i all but garuntee id tech 6 will not run on a ps3 and will be out before the ps4.

By: TheSombreroKid

TheSombreroKid — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:25:21 +0000

@Heliocentric
by that logic you’d make your game a ps3 exclusive because piracy on the 360 is worse than the PC

@Haggis
bear in mind this is conjecture but:
PC exclusives are fewer now because the technology is so similar (they ca have thier cake and eat it so why not) as the PC advances and leaves the consoles behind developers will be forced onto the PC to keep up and to turn a profit in the gap between the console generations.

bearing in mind that once cracked (ie at the end of thier life) piracy is easier on consoles and relative sales shrink due to this and the expectation of a new console.

the cost to develop on a console is always a lot more expensive and making a PC exclusive has always been a good way to make a budget cut especialy if it frees you to produce graphics card selling games that NVidia and ATI can bid over giving jucy exclusivity funding and card bundles for garunteed sales.

bear in mind theres a lot of money in cutting edge PC technology for certain companies for them to see the reason for thier market disapear.

imo

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:21:45 +0000

You didn’t understand. He as refering to the end of a console generation. When games run really well on pc’s and get extra features.

By: Haggis

Haggis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:05:40 +0000

TheSombreroKid says:

@Rich_P pc sales go up a lot when console sales go down especially last iteration you also get more pc exclusives as the consoles struggle to keep up and get feature cut versions

TheSombreroKid um no that doesn’t happen, pc exclusives are fewer and fewer and the technological gap cannot be exploited as that is what dug PC gaming into a hole in the first place with you know ballooning budgets and sales that don’t support those kinds of games hence the refocus of the graphic whore studios like iD, Epic, Crytek etc on games consoles.

The idea that a technology edge will save PC gaming is false it will only do it more harm.