Monday, June 29, 2009

Analysis: GameSetWatch looks at the strength of SCEA IP

It's no assail that the PS3 is sight a enthusiastic turn of hold with a brawny roster of example first-party titles, but whatever wager this strategy as a difficulty that capableness actually be symptom the PS3, not serving it. According to an in-depth example over at GameSetWatch, Sony's strategy for the PS3 over-emphasizes newborn properties and its first-party titles as grouping sellers, but is finally not doing sufficiency to vantage in consumers when compared to the another consoles.

Look at the interpret above and study SCEA-published titles to the exclusives for another consoles same Halo 3 (which oversubscribed more than 4.8 meg copies in its prototypal year) and Mario Kart Wii (which has oversubscribed over 6 meg units). Cleary, SCEA isn't anywhere nearby Nintendo's or Microsoft's drawing (all figures excluding clump sales), but ground can't SCEA games attain that variety of take of sales? GSW points discover it's mainly because of Sony's pore on venturous newborn IP instead of innocuous bets (like sequels), noting third-party franchises same disposition of Duty: World at War (1.1 million), Grand Theft Auto IV (1.7 million) and Metal Gear Solid 4 (1.1 million) hit every oversubscribed better.

It's every a kinda engrossing rendering of the NPD income data, and there's modify boost psychotherapy to be feature over at GameSetWatch. Head over there for the flooded read.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

EA reveals Battlefield 1943 release date [update]


Hey, advert when we gave absent every those codes of Battlefield 1943 meet after E3 and there was a discernment of fault near when you could ingest them -- er, ya know, actually endeavor the game? Don't worry, we were potty too, but according to June's authorised EA Newsletter, the daylong expected online expert from DICE module be touch your digital accumulation shelves on July 9th.

Interestingly, the mettlesome statement no individual lists a PC version, making the suspended process of Battlefield 1943 that such inferior of a existence -- a fantastic digit at that, considering the franchise's PC roots. Either way, those of you that snagged codes for the mettlesome backwards in primeval June should move effort primed for effort by conversation to our friends in the JPAG and environment up a mettlesome night. Talk most digit tastes that discernment enthusiastic together.

Update: DICE shaper Gordon Van Dyke said today on EA's UK forums that "We are near to confirming our dates (Xbox 360 fellow & PS3 date), but ease requirement to resolve a some secondary things." Looks as though the promulgation fellow traded in the account is ease unconfirmed, unfortunately. Sorry, folks -- and thanks to everyone who dispatched this in!

[Thanks, Iain!]

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Natal, PS3 motion wand inspire new wave of plastic props

Do you intend the sense that Project metropolis is ... absent something? Accessory felon dreamGear does. The concern of much essentials as the 3-In-1 Player's Sports Kit for Wii, the 7-In-1 Player's Kit for Wii, the 10-In-1 Player's Kit for Wii, and the 15-In-1 Player's Kit for Wii is already hard at impact disagreeable to alter its enhancements for Microsoft's upcoming change profession release. "One of the large challenges for peripherals firms is keeping up with dynamical technology, specially the way toward mutual gaming started by Nintendo and today embraced by Microsoft's Project Natal," dreamGEAR COO Richard lensman explains to MCV. Molding a impressible steering rotate that fits in everyone's hands is a true challenge, you see."From every the past revelations at E3 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, change perception devices and add-on accessories for these devices module be the important focus in the future," Logic3's income trainer Paul Croucher frighteningly foretells. So then, the snooker stimulant adhesion for the PS3 wand confirmed? Please, make it STOP.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Capcom opens 'Shadaloo Lounge' for Street Fighter IV exhibition this Thursday

If you springy nearby Chinatown in Los Angeles, and crapper grub Hadoukens with the prizewinning of them, then grab your gi from discover of the closet and nous downbound to the Mountain Bar tomorrow period from 7pm - 10pm for a Street Fighter IV competition. Sponsored by i am 8-bit and Capcom, this one-night competition module wager Bison's shadowy methodicalness verify over Mountain Bar for a competition featuring cardinal of the prizewinning brawlers duking it discover for a $2,000 change prize.And, hey, if you don't springy on the West Coast, don't condensate it. We'll hit someone there attractive pictures and asking everyone what a Spinning Bird Kick is.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dead Rising 2 skips PAX, shambles to TGS

Capcom is ease worried most every of this Swine Flu business, apparently, as MTV Multiplayer revealed that the company module not alter Dead Rising 2 to upcoming PAX (or Games Con, either). Instead, Chris Kramer, senior director of communications, revealed that the incoming looking of the mettlesome module be at the Yeddo Game Show, in New September. We tracked downbound Kramer ourselves and asked him what the care was. He said he couldn't provide us with anything another than to wait something on the mettlesome around TGS. We further inquired ground the denomination would be missing PAX, but Kramer remained tight-lipped. We have a opinion the mettlesome is skipping the show because Capcom is ease worried most every of this Swine Flu business, and not because Dead Rising 2 is a intense mettlesome or anything. Duct-taping chainsaws to dirtbikes and ending zombies with them sounds same the oppositeness of intense to us.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Peter Moore on the state of EA Sports, motion control

Gamasutra has publicised a rattling long discourse with EA Sports guru saint Moore, in which he discusses the underway plans of the adjudge and the strategies behind sports mettlesome utilization and publishing. Perhaps most engrossing are Moore's thoughts on the newborn change curb profession revealed by Sony and Microsoft during E3. histrion speaks most the possibilities of the newborn change controllers, locution they will effect EA Sports "very positively."Moore says that the consort is already making plans to alter its "licensed product" and its "fitness product" to these newborn interfaces. Specifically, histrion imagines how a mettlesome aforementioned Fight Night or the upcoming EA Sports MMA would impact with them, saying, "if it were in a first-person fashion it would be rattling rattling cool." Agreed. He calls the newborn change controllers a "huge opportunity."Other topics in the discourse arrange from the possibilities for smaller, regional titles (like cricket), the future of the Madden program and how EA plans to ready EA Sports Active ... um ... active in consumers' minds. Incidentally, this is the aforementioned discourse in which histrion stated that Metacritic scores aren't necessarily germane to the income of Wii titles.

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