Jun 08 2012
The Morning Link: Five Ways to Destroy Your Beloved Game Franchise
“Unfortunately, not all of the promises for extreme grittiness are going to be fulfilled. Indeed, the video game industry has a history of underdelivering on such promises; there’s a long list of massively anticipated games that didn’t come out until years after their initial announcement at E3.”
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Great pull quote. I own a PS3, Wii, and 360, and prefer the 360, so I’m always in those arguments with my PS3 owning friends about the pros and cons of each, and it’s a recurring theme of mine to point out that it’s not so much I dislike the PS3 as it seems Sony seeks to actively piss me off, showing great looking games at E3 that all the fanboys will start their “we’re getting all the games!” rants about, and come next E3, they’re showing the SAME games, because they STILL haven’t been released (FF Versus XIII? Last Guardian?), and half the time when they do they go multiplatform so the developer can make some extra scratch for the extended development time. At that time, I usually wind up getting it for 360, and completely pissing off my Sony-centric pals.
Bouncing over to read that article now…