RMC said:

This is hysterical...I'm laughing as I'm typing.  I'll let reader Daniel explain the shirt's design.

To celebrate the release of Other M, I created a Metroid t-shirt. It was inspired by a now legendary NeoGAF thread where some poor guy didn't know that:
Samus is a woman
Metroid is not the name of the main character

Foolz said:

Last few pages:

Yeah I agree. I'm on a shit computer, so I can't post much, but the last few pages have been great.

Ravenprose said:

WTF? I never saw that N64 commercial before!

Ravenprose said:

August 28th! W00t! It's my birthday! I'm 27 again . . .  I mean, now! Woohoo!!!


It's Hamsta time!!!

Foolz said:

@ 2nd pic! Thanks, Foolz!

Ravenprose said:

Wired: Why Used Games Aren't Evil

Chris Kohler said:

Are the game industry’s sales woes the fault of jerkface used games buyers peeing in the pool and causing every game publisher not named Nintendo or Activision Blizzard to lose money?

Or is it that not enough people want the games that they’re making for the price at which they’re trying to sell them?

If it’s the latter, then the games business is broken, and attempting to fix the used-games problem while ignoring the root cause would be like putting a Band-Aid on a tumor.

Great article. Sadly, I think the industry is broken right now, and they are charging too much for most games, especially in this shitty economy. The last new game I bought was Red Steel 2, and it'll likely be the last new game I buy for a long while. Considering how many games I've been selling used on Ebay lately, I guess I am a real "jerkface." Screw it. I bought them, I can sell them.

SteelAttack said:

Blaming used sales on the state of the industry without acknowledging more pressing matters such as the tendency of putting all of your eggs in one basket, ballooning up game budgets to sky-high levels, and depending on sales within a very short time span to dictate whether a game is a success or not, is exactly the type of shortsightedness that has so many publishers against the wall now.

aspro said:

Ravenprose said:

Wired: Why Used Games Aren't Evil

Chris Kohler said:

Are the game industry’s sales woes the fault of jerkface used games buyers peeing in the pool and causing every game publisher not named Nintendo or Activision Blizzard to lose money?

Or is it that not enough people want the games that they’re making for the price at which they’re trying to sell them?

If it’s the latter, then the games business is broken, and attempting to fix the used-games problem while ignoring the root cause would be like putting a Band-Aid on a tumor.

Great article. Sadly, I think the industry is broken right now, and they are charging too much for most games, especially in this shitty economy. The last new game I bought was Red Steel 2, and it'll likely be the last new game I buy for a long while. Considering how many games I've been selling used on Ebay lately, I guess I am a real "jerkface." Screw it. I bought them, I can sell them.

If the industry wants to curb used sales and piracy thye should figure out a business model that gets games in the $40 range.  If they can't figur that out they deserve to die off.

When Dreamcast games were $39.99 I used to go to the store every wek and buy what was new.  At the same time, when N64 games were $60-$70 I'd research the game, choose between good and bad, trade off choice between what my wife wanted to play and what I wanted etc...  Same thing happens now.  More than $40 for a game is too much, we've been conditioned to accept $50 as "okay" -- it's not.

Right on.

As for my two cents, well if they had DROPPED the price on software by $10 instead of RAISING it by $10, I guarantee used games wouldn't be such a huge market. The vast majority of people over the past 5+ years have been in tough financial times & cannot afford to buy overpriced consoles PLUS $50 software, let alone $60 software. So the major games get bought in great numbers, while the less popular games get either bought used or pirated....which is another issue.

The used game market & the Pirate market are both backlashes against rising prices.

If new software was priced at $30 to $40, they would no doubt sell more of it, and double the amount of games would benefit. I really thought Nintendo would drop Wii software down to $40 at the very least. & I rmember last gen when Sony was selling ALL 1st-party games at $40, then Microsoft did that at the start of this generation. But greed stepped in. Foolish greed too, because I don't see how they're making more money by raising prices. You're just preventing more people from buying.

Oh, and another thing: NOT ALL GAMES ARE CREATED EQUAL!!!! Not every game is worth the same price. Maybe they should figure that out & start pricing software more based on value, quality, and length?

Nope, the high ass software prices are killing the industry for anything but blockbuster releases.

I never buy used from Gamestop or similar stores...the games they sell used usually look like they went through WW2, and many times don't even play right.

But I've always found Ebay to be a great way to get used games & save some cash. With some looking, you can get mint condition games for cheaper than what Gamestop sells them for, many times.