robio said:

I think it would have been more of a money grab if they forced you to buy all the games at once again. Its done a la carte so you can choose exactly what you want and discard the other games. I would never play boxing or baseball again, and now I won't have to get them. Most people only had a few games they liked anyway and now they can just get those.


I'll admit pricing is a little high for people who'd want all the games so hopefully they'll offer bundle pricing. And i assume the new games will just be rolled out as they're ready. If you want it you pay $10 or $2 to rent it or you pass it up and wait for what's next.

$2 lets you rent all the available games at once for 24 hours.  You mention boxing as a game you didn't like much, but I can see this being drastically improved upon with motionplus.  I can see myself paying $2 to try them all out, or just paying the rental fee when I have friends over for a gaming night.

robio said:

I think it would have been more of a money grab if they forced you to buy all the games at once again. Its done a la carte so you can choose exactly what you want and discard the other games. I would never play boxing or baseball again, and now I won't have to get them. Most people only had a few games they liked anyway and now they can just get those.


I'll admit pricing is a little high for people who'd want all the games so hopefully they'll offer bundle pricing. And i assume the new games will just be rolled out as they're ready. If you want it you pay $10 or $2 to rent it or you pass it up and wait for what's next.

I like the segments but the individual price is too high yes. Weird it feels like Wii Sports will finally be the game it should have been in 2006. With motionplus boxing might be all right? I would be more excited to see new sports or sports resort stuff I never got to try before.

Dvader said:

It takes months to make Wii Sports HD and even then only two of them? Why is Nintendo so slow.

Very interesting idea though. ONLINE! In a Nintendo game not named kart or smash! Yay for features from 2003! Still a sweet idea, so now I can beat you guys at Wii Sports.

I feel like a rube for even considering it but the whole play for your local club in tennis tournaments appeals to me. The north london massive vs the Miami club?

robio said:

The $2 rental is brilliant. So many people Wii Sports was a game you just played when friends come over. This let's them have access without having to buy it. Online rental = brilliant.

I never thought of that but when you put it like that it makes sense, because you all pony up 50 cents each for a night. Intriguing, but I can't get past the fact that it's just repurposed segments of a game we already own. IMO they should have bought the Super Tennis IP from Konami and done it with super deformed chibi characters and online modes et al.

Konami is so stupid. Keifer will not do a better job, its not his character.

Dvader said:

Sega bought Atlus, woah.

Get ready for Shin Megami x Sonic.

Dvader said:

Its like GS has an entire staff of reviews with every single trait I dont agree with. They are the most whiny bunch of people of all time, any little thing that stops them from a boring simplistic but easy to play gameplay experience they get all upset about. They can never get frustrated once cause they go cry in a corner it seems like. They complain about every stupid story issue, or any little thing that even slightly offends them and everything offends them.

Well....at least they liked Witcher 2!

Dvader said:

Konami is so stupid. Keifer will not do a better job, its not his character.

I am honestly surprised that Konami haven't had to merge with someone else yet. What keeps them afloat?

I read that a few minutes ago...pretty good read.

Goldeneye was and still is lightning in a bottle. This is why I go out of my way trying to get Goldeneye Source and Perfect Dark Source running. These games were huge events for me that still mean something. I still think Goldeneye has more replay value than any other game I have ever played....Nintendo should consider themselves INSANELY lucky to have had it on the N64 with so few games available on the console. Nothing new to play? POP IN GOLDENEYE! Like I said the other day, they haven't had a title like that to rely on since. Evergreen.

I haven't played Dark Souls yet. Been wanting to, but just haven't been up to the challenge. Resident Evil 4 and Red Dead are solid choices as well.

robio said:

God I really can't wait to have a golf game again. I've told the story before, but one of the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had was playing Wii Sports Golf with my dad and son. Looking forward to doing that again.

I have been looking for a used (or new actually) copy of a Tiger Woods game for this generation in my local gamestop for months now.  You'd think the aussies would be all over golf.

edgecrusher said:

This is an interesting article....the guy mentions something that I have thought about recently. That is, that maybe the only reason Nintendo decided on this HD port of Wind Waker is to test the waters and see if people are more willing to accept the graphic style nowadays, because they seem determined to use it.

http://www.gengame.net/wp-content/cache/supercache/gengame.net/2013/06/nintendo-is-obsessed-with-forcing-unpopular-art-styles-in-zelda/index.html.gz

Nah.  See Earthbound (in terms of Ninty not using these kinds of things as indicators of interest).  This was the easiest way for Nintendo to get out a tent-pole franchise in time for Black Friday.  I don;t understand how Nintnedo can have so many employees, and build that super big new facility and still not have the chops to make HD games (see iwata's comment about their difficulty with grappling hd development)

I'm really not good at this vacation thing.  Woke up at 3:30 today to work on the podcast etc...

Dvader said:

Biggest budget in game history, rockstar more than tripled what they put in in one day

That's revenue, not profit.  But even if it is revenue, and say they made a third of the $800 million, TakeTwo would have made their money back almost exactly: $266 Million.

Um guys, TGS is happening right now.


I am watching someone play Deep Down!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/deepdowntgs2013?utm_campaign=ustre-am&utm_source=15943149&utm_medium=social

MGSV presentation in a few minutes!!!