SteelAttack said:

Another Katamari game? I recently bought the first one for PS2, and found it to be pretty meh, besides the awesomeness of the King of all Cosmos' bulge. How many games can be made around the rolling ball premise?

Apparentely the creator left and Forever is like a homage and complilation of levels and isn't very good.

darthhomer said:

Dvader said:

I hate everything right now, damn Dolphins. Who knows how long I will be bummed out. The game I am playing now is Deadly Creatures, that is not a cheer you up game.

Arrrrrrrrrrrgghhhhh.

This will make you happy then. Apparently, the notes of a meeting with Sega and SCEA was leaked, and GAF has the full thing. Now, I'm extremely fucking skeptical of everything here, but if at least half of this is true, I think a lot of people are going to be VERY happy.

SCEA Meeting Aug 5th Notes
Aug 6 2009 – DRAFT FOR COMMENTS

Objectives of Meeting
Dyer agreed to regular quarterly meetings with SOA

Sony PS3
SCEA reiterated plans to sell 13 million PS3s this year
Big announcement back half of year they can’t talk about (potentially price cut of PS3 to reach hardware goals)
SCEA commented on indexing between PS3 and 360 SKUs, should be around 2:1 to garner most favorable treatment.

Motion Controller
Spring 2010 launch (March in JP)
No bundle/pricing details yet, should come Sept 1
Plan on selling 4-5MM units WW
SCEA agreed to provide a list of Sega IP that would work well with the motion controller, Virtua Tennis was an example
Motion Controller support allows easy way to differentiate PS3 SKU
Other differentiation opportunities include PSP/PS3 interoperability – think of features that would make users want to buy both PS3 and PSP SKUs.

Alpha Protocol
Michael Foster, product evaluator, said AP felt barely RPG. Initial level too challenging for players. “Mass Effect felt more RPG.”
Review notes sent to John Merlino a few weeks prior. After meeting Gerald mentioned AP is a high priority for his team.

Planet 51
Sell in of PS3 SKU – SCEA noted that other movie titles on PS3 had underperformed as well (inc. Transformers) this cycle.
Dyer suggests contacting Susan at Walmart and asking what she wants in the pack to sell this SKU (movie tix etc)
Other possibilities are Hybrid movie disc (BD 25 or 50 with Game and Movie on same disc).

Bayonetta
Collectors edition with Bayonetta Action Figure
Novo recommended launching PSN demo around Xmas based off a Jan 5th Ship date with 2-3 week run out to launch.
3-4 weeks is usually ideal demo timing with fresh content every week leading up to launch (trailers, insider video about PG heritage, video blogs).

Vancouver 2010
HOME, Olympic destination would garner a lot of positive attention from SCEA
Should be doing same with Bayonetta, Marvel etc. Easy to launch in all territories.
HOME merchandizing opportunities (clothes etc).

Sonic Racing
Open to DLC to differentiate PS3 SKU – not ratchet and clank but other characters
maybe characters from Rare or Fable universes

Yakuza
Could put Japanese games directly on PSN for download in a special Japanese Import section (pricing $9.99 to $39.99 for full game).
Might need to localize menus at least with subtitles.
SCEA interested in helping on MKTG side if they can have period of exclusivity.

AVP
Another great HOME candidate
AVP avatars
Hybrid BD disc with movie

Iron Man 2
Great candidate for HOME space – explore Tony Stark’s lab etc.
Should have one for Marvel in general.

PSU2
Could do bundle at GameStop with PSP 30-35K units on UMD, Go, or both.

Valkyria 1937
Could bundle with PSP as well.

Vanquish and Aliens: CM
Opportunity for PS3/PSP interoperability (see Eidos Batman, Army of Two, Assassin’s Creed for good examples).
If we offer that SCEA would be really interested in having us at their booth next E3.

Thor
SCEA would like a look at the code soon.

Sonic Anniversary
Could put out collectors edition with all old sonic games on one BD disc.
“Best of Sonic” for around $99.
SCEA would love PSN exclusive power ups/different game modes (like Castlevania’s flip it over/backwards)

PS2 emulator for PS3 (confidential)
SCEA wants to sell all PS2 titles on PSN (GTA Vice City/Sonic/etc)
For co Marketing money show PS3 controller on TV ads – similar to EA Madden Spots, NCAA, etc…

London Olympics
Perfect opportunity for Motion Controller integration.

DC Digital Titles
If we provide a list of DC titles SCEA will let us know which ones they’re interested in having exclusively.
If we give them a long period of exclusivity they’ll give us more marketing support.

PSP Titles
For SKU differentiation it’s best to offer features that are slightly different from PS3 version.
Titles that are coming up on PSP are Assassin’s Creed II, GTA China Wars, Resident Evil, Little Big Planet – all massive franchises.
SCEA has a specific PSP deck which they can send up with their hardware director for a chat.

Thats a magical letter, almost too good to be true. Especially the Yakuza part.

Seems like there is a camera mode

Bad mountains, amazing clouds?

What's with all the games with good clouds recentely? Are they getting better or am I noticing them because of Steel? RE DC, EO2, Jambo, Rage.

gamingeek said:

What's with all the games with good clouds recentely? Are they getting better or am I noticing them because of Steel?  

That's the way it should be. Not everything in this world has to be about cephalopods and krill, you know? Those are some pretty good skyboxes.

gamingeek said:

Water temple > Sky Temple.

Little Zelda reference there, zelda virgin.  

RE6 should be set underwater. GOTY then.

You should give TR Underworld a try.

Archangel3371 said:

LMAO @ Leo's awesome posts. Great stuff. First we have hot cosplay pics then hilarious Star Trek plus funny cat which is the cutest I must say.

Oh yeah blonde Jill hotter then brunette Jill. Fact.

OMG I disagree with you. Brunette all the way.

Dvader said:

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

Water temple > Sky Temple.

Little Zelda reference there, zelda virgin.  

RE6 should be set underwater. GOTY then.

You should give TR Underworld a try.

That one level was ok. But nothing he should be running out to buy. TR3 did underwater better.

That's the only level I've played. Might as well stop there.

Archangel3371 said:

Dvader said:

Archangel3371 said:

LMAO @ Leo's awesome posts. Great stuff. First we have hot cosplay pics then hilarious Star Trek plus funny cat which is the cutest I must say.

Oh yeah blonde Jill hotter then brunette Jill. Fact.

OMG I disagree with you. Brunette all the way.

What!? Oh well I guess we can't agree on everything.

HOBO FIGHT!

Strip naked so we can start taking bets. I bet that Dvaders' werewolf like body hair will be so rough it will cut Archie's skin up. Thus, the man wolf wins.