NINTENDO UK ADDS MERCHANDISE CATEGORY
Launching with over 170 new merchandise lines, including both exclusives and items previously only available outside of Europe, the Official Nintendo Online Store is a treasure trove gonintendo.com gamingeek
Face-Off: Child of Light
360, PS3 and Wii U versions hold up equally well against each other and feature the same high-quality assets and effects work as their PS4 and Xbox One counterpartseurogamer.net gamingeek
Satoru Iwata on finding new business platforms
"We have decided to establish new business platforms not for being pessimistic about the future of the video game business, but to prepare for a challenging situation"gonintendo.com gamingeek
Iwata on tailoring hardware for new markets
"We will be making changes to our approach for the new markets on the premise that we need something specific for them"gonintendo.com gamingeek
MS: Why the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One
"Xbox 360 owners enjoy their systems more than PlayStation 3 owners do, so they are less inclined to upgrade"gamespot.com gamingeek
VG24/7 MK8 review: another solid reason to invest in Wii U
"A slick, enjoyable and thoroughly pleasant experience that favours old school simplicity over bogged-down mechanics and needless padding. It’s perhaps the best reason to buy a Wii U today"vg247.com impressions gamingeek
CVG Review: Mario Kart 8 leads the pack
9/10 - "This is Nintendo serving up unprecedented helpings of joy as only it can"computerandvideogames.com impressions gamingeek
Eurogamer Mario Kart 8 review
10/10 - "Bold, accessible, deep and rich, Mario Kart 8 is premium video game development. It feels expensive"eurogamer.net impressions gamingeek
Mario Kart 8 Gonintendo review
"The racing AI is top-notch, the visuals are unbelievable, the handling is too good to be true and the music gives you a grin from ear to ear"gonintendo.com impressions gamingeek
Mario Kart 8 (8.0) Review
Mc Shea'd! ...because over 30 characters to choose from is a "weak selection."gamespot.com impressions phantom_leo
Mario Kart 8 (9.0) AMAZING! Review
"...the fast and furious pace of racing with friends both locally and online is what really kept me coming back." ign.com impressions phantom_leo
I used to play SNES Faceball quite a bit with a friend that owned the system. I marveled at the digitized speech that said "Have a nice day!" when you lost, almost as much as I hated the smug, asshole tone the game programmers gave that bit of speech.
Interesting that to eurogamer this is low billing story.
The Nintendo losses had a picture and was in the popular now quite quickly, sonys losses that are more worrying due to being bigger, for a longer time, and with no credit rating.... small story.
I would say its we know Sony were going to make a loss, but we knew it with Nintendo as well... because they said so beforehand.
interesting that the stories are handled differently
This is something being noticed rather a lot recently. It was pointed out by commenters that among others, the story of the free game with Mario Kart 8 was very low priority. For some reason. There have been others.
@vert1go Yep it seems to happen a bit, not gonna say its a weird form of editorial bias, more likely tailoring content to the people who read it most. You can see from the hostile reaction to any negative Sony comments or the massive change in attitude now its shown at ps4 can't run watchdogs at 1080p that there is a vocal Sony readership. Nintendo doing badly is something they like , Sony doing badly something they dislike I guess.
Resolutions are news now. What I think that means... #1
Time and again when we have a thread about a game's resolution I get told that 'no one' cares outside of GAF. Yet there it is reported as a major story on every mainstream gaming site. There it is reported on websites like Digital Spy, who's main headline right now is that Beyoncé reposted someone else's Instagram photos.
Why are such sites reporting on this, all of a sudden? I presume because the stories are generating discussion and traffic. If it generates traffic for one site, other sites are going to start running the story. Whether your average gamer knows exactly what those numbers mean doesn't really matter, they know that 1080p is better than 720p. They know that 900p isn't as good as 1080p.
Even if they couldn't identify something as 1080p, it's in their head that 1080p is better. Thanks to TV manufacturers. Thanks to Blu-Rays. Thanks to competing streaming services. When they see a story like 'Game X is this on PS4 and less on Xbox One' they understand that it means the PS4 version is better, even if they don't understand anything else.
Most gaming sites didn't even report this stuff in headlines last gen. It's happened this gen off the back of some pretty serious system wars and multiplatform games suddenly becoming stronger on the PS4 when they were usually weaker on PS2 and PS3. As a long time participant in threads comparing different versions of multiplatform games, we've gone from a few pages to multiple threads on the topic that balloon to thousands of posts.
I don't think the genie is being put back in the bottle. The news is out there now. It's having an effect whether people understand it or not... and many people don't even here on NeoGAF.
But I don't think there is any turning back now. I don't think we're going to stop seeing resolutions make for major headlines. Bemoan it all you like, but that's where we are. These stories are going to effect sales. Will they slow the sales of a 900p game down? Maybe not, but the platform with the lower number is going to be impacted at least slightly.
I've been reading the entire Sony fiscal year thread on gaf and seem to have a general understanding of what it all means. When I get home I will make a big thread on it.
The whole Kinect thing was a big joke. I'm sorry, I don't like talking to my games console like a fucking moron to get it to do things that I could just push a button to do. It has been out for ages, then they tried a big push with Xbox One to make it a staple feature out of the box and STILL nobody has developed any kind of really compelling reason why this glorified camera is needed, or how it makes games any better (better with kinect....lmao). Better with Kinect according to.....who? The guys at Microsoft that greenlit the thing in the first place?
And to charge an extra $100 fucking dollars for your console just to force this into my hands?!
I'm tired of dumb gimmicks like this being FORCED onto gaming and hyped up as the next big thing when in reality all it is is a prayer ball to try and hit the same lightning in a bottle that the Wii managed. The Wii did what it did though, because at the end of the day it was STILL a functional controller. Not a camera you talk to and wave your hands at.
Stick to reality, guys. Stick to realistic innovations and the stuff that makes sense. Don't try to force me to believe a dumb gimmick is the greatest thing ever made, or that it makes my games better when it clearly doesn't. And don't ruin once proud developers like Rareware by turning them into a factory to pump out gimmick games for a gimmick peripheral.
"Adrienne LaFrance reports at the Atlantic that if you've tried listening to any of the old CDs lately from your carefully assembled collection from the 1980's or 1990's you may have noticed that many of them won't play. 'While most of the studio-manufactured albums I bought still play, there's really no telling how much longer they will. My once-treasured CD collection — so carefully assembled over the course of about a decade beginning in 1994 — isn't just aging; it's dying. And so is yours.'
Fenella France, chief of preservation research and testing at the Library of Congress is trying to figure out how CDs age so that we can better understand how to save them. But it's a tricky business, in large part because manufacturers have changed their processes over the years and even CDs made by the same company in the same year and wrapped in identical packaging might have totally different lifespans. 'We're trying to predict, in terms of collections, which of the types of CDs are the discs most at risk,' says France. 'The problem is, different manufacturers have different formulations so it's quite complex in trying to figure out what exactly is happening because they've changed the formulation along the way and it's proprietary information.' There are all kinds of forces that accelerate CD aging in real time. Eventually, many discs show signs of edge rot, which happens as oxygen seeps through a disc's layers. Some CDs begin a deterioration process called bronzing, which is corrosion that worsens with exposure to various pollutants. The lasers in devices used to burn or even play a CD can also affect its longevity. 'The ubiquity of a once dominant media is again receding. Like most of the technology we leave behind, CDs are are being forgotten slowly,' concludes LaFrance. 'We stop using old formats little by little. They stop working. We stop replacing them. And, before long, they're gone.'"
The hell?
So unless you vacuum pack you CDs, everything's going to rot within 20 years. Given our ages now and imagine when you started buying optical media, that means that stuff you bought in the 90s could be dying right now, including games.
I've been reading the entire Sony fiscal year thread on gaf and seem to have a general understanding of what it all means. When I get home I will make a big thread on it.
its bad but not all bad.
It's not all, bad revenue increased in some areas and the gaming division incurred a very slight loss considering its a new system launch. It should be fine by the next fiscal year. Portables are declining though, I don't know what their next gambit in the handheld space will be. A Playstation Phone I guess that play android games too. Are PS brands enough to bring PS customers to their phones though? Nintendo should probably start thinking about phone hybrids too.
Talking of losses, this is the 4th year of consecutive losses for Sony's Gaming Division - and people were on Nintendo's ass for 3?
But Sony as a whole, still gonna have that half a billion loss next year, so whatever positive there is that's still going to happen. They need to finish this restructuring and survive as a smaller, leaner company. I keep hearing that spinning off the PS brand is good idea but a good idea for who? A large company relies on better performing parts of its business to hold up weaker parts. If they spin off PS into its own company that could be a stake in the heart for the rest of the company as other sectors decline.
According to a credit rating site Sony has a 78% chance of going bankrupt in the next 2 years, I don't think it will happen but what if a situation arises where Sony has to sell off its gaming division to pay off larger debts? Anyone ever consider what would happen then with new owners?
The other night when he acted like a drama queen because he didn't get 50 points? What a douche he is.
Awww boo hoo your reject former Celtic assholes Garnett and Pierce are going to lose AGAIN to Lebron. They are the biggest bitches in the NBA. Lebron can do what he wants he's the best in the world.
The report comes from a survey of more than 7,900 core gamers ages 9 and up conducted in March. The research firm defined "core gamer" as anyone who plays five hours or more on Microsoft or Sony consoles, PC, or Mac, and plays in certain genres (action, adventure, fighting, flight, MMOs, racing, real-time strategy, RPGs, shooters, or sports games) on those platforms.
The NPD Group put the total US core gamer audience at 34 million people, with the average player spending 22 hours a week on games. Two-thirds of them also played games on mobile devices, and 70 percent played multiplayer games at least occasionally.
"Core gamers are really the lifeblood of the industry, spending tremendous amounts of time on their hobby of choice," said NPD analyst Liam Callahan. "With the new console generation off to a great start, we can expect the amount of time spent gaming to increase as more core gamers adopt them."
Awww boo hoo your reject former Celtic assholes Garnett and Pierce are going to lose AGAIN to Lebron. They are the biggest bitches in the NBA. Lebron can do what he wants he's the best in the world.
Hahaha...honestly I don't even like Basketball. Mostly BECAUSE too many players seem like drama queens.
So unless you vacuum pack you CDs, everything's going to rot within 20 years. Given our ages now and imagine when you started buying optical media, that means that stuff you bought in the 90s could be dying right now, including games.
Yeah, I remember reading about this stuff years ago. I kind of put this in the back of my mind.
Nintendo UK twitter.
I used to play SNES Faceball quite a bit with a friend that owned the system. I marveled at the digitized speech that said "Have a nice day!" when you lost, almost as much as I hated the smug, asshole tone the game programmers gave that bit of speech.
I'm not the only one who's noticed Eurogamers handling of financial woe stories.
Eurogamers own users are talking about it:
Interesting Gaf post.
I've been reading the entire Sony fiscal year thread on gaf and seem to have a general understanding of what it all means. When I get home I will make a big thread on it.
its bad but not all bad.
Is it eleventy-billion-in-the-hole bad?
The whole Kinect thing was a big joke. I'm sorry, I don't like talking to my games console like a fucking moron to get it to do things that I could just push a button to do. It has been out for ages, then they tried a big push with Xbox One to make it a staple feature out of the box and STILL nobody has developed any kind of really compelling reason why this glorified camera is needed, or how it makes games any better (better with kinect....lmao). Better with Kinect according to.....who? The guys at Microsoft that greenlit the thing in the first place?
And to charge an extra $100 fucking dollars for your console just to force this into my hands?!
I'm tired of dumb gimmicks like this being FORCED onto gaming and hyped up as the next big thing when in reality all it is is a prayer ball to try and hit the same lightning in a bottle that the Wii managed. The Wii did what it did though, because at the end of the day it was STILL a functional controller. Not a camera you talk to and wave your hands at.
Stick to reality, guys. Stick to realistic innovations and the stuff that makes sense. Don't try to force me to believe a dumb gimmick is the greatest thing ever made, or that it makes my games better when it clearly doesn't. And don't ruin once proud developers like Rareware by turning them into a factory to pump out gimmick games for a gimmick peripheral.
Eat a diseased dick.
The other night when he acted like a drama queen because he didn't get 50 points? What a douche he is.
Congrats on the Hawks....I'm hoping for a Bruins/Hawks rematch if they make it past the fucking Canadiens tonight.
The hell?
So unless you vacuum pack you CDs, everything's going to rot within 20 years. Given our ages now and imagine when you started buying optical media, that means that stuff you bought in the 90s could be dying right now, including games.
It's not all, bad revenue increased in some areas and the gaming division incurred a very slight loss considering its a new system launch. It should be fine by the next fiscal year. Portables are declining though, I don't know what their next gambit in the handheld space will be. A Playstation Phone I guess that play android games too. Are PS brands enough to bring PS customers to their phones though? Nintendo should probably start thinking about phone hybrids too.
Talking of losses, this is the 4th year of consecutive losses for Sony's Gaming Division - and people were on Nintendo's ass for 3?
But Sony as a whole, still gonna have that half a billion loss next year, so whatever positive there is that's still going to happen. They need to finish this restructuring and survive as a smaller, leaner company. I keep hearing that spinning off the PS brand is good idea but a good idea for who? A large company relies on better performing parts of its business to hold up weaker parts. If they spin off PS into its own company that could be a stake in the heart for the rest of the company as other sectors decline.
According to a credit rating site Sony has a 78% chance of going bankrupt in the next 2 years, I don't think it will happen but what if a situation arises where Sony has to sell off its gaming division to pay off larger debts? Anyone ever consider what would happen then with new owners?
Awww boo hoo your reject former Celtic assholes Garnett and Pierce are going to lose AGAIN to Lebron. They are the biggest bitches in the NBA. Lebron can do what he wants he's the best in the world.
NPD has defined the core gamer based on research
GamesIndustry.biz
The report comes from a survey of more than 7,900 core gamers ages 9 and up conducted in March. The research firm defined "core gamer" as anyone who plays five hours or more on Microsoft or Sony consoles, PC, or Mac, and plays in certain genres (action, adventure, fighting, flight, MMOs, racing, real-time strategy, RPGs, shooters, or sports games) on those platforms.
The NPD Group put the total US core gamer audience at 34 million people, with the average player spending 22 hours a week on games. Two-thirds of them also played games on mobile devices, and 70 percent played multiplayer games at least occasionally.
"Core gamers are really the lifeblood of the industry, spending tremendous amounts of time on their hobby of choice," said NPD analyst Liam Callahan. "With the new console generation off to a great start, we can expect the amount of time spent gaming to increase as more core gamers adopt them."
Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ical-games-npd
Nice to see that you aren't counted if you play Nintendo systems.
Just casuals there.
Geez, is that intentional or did he make a mistake in not including Nintendo?
Congrats my team didn't make it to the Final 4 they got eliminated in game 7 of round two against the Rangers.
SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:
Hahaha...honestly I don't even like Basketball. Mostly BECAUSE too many players seem like drama queens.
I know I remember, i just enjoy trashing those two any time I get.
Haha NPD defines core gamer as people who play MS, Sony, or PC for at least 22 hours a week and play core genres. No mention of Nintendo at all. Wow.
Well this isn't the 90's anymore. Nintendo hasn't counted since 2000.
Yeah, I remember reading about this stuff years ago. I kind of put this in the back of my mind.