reality check: Apple Inc. Total assets US$ 75.18 billion (FY 2010) Employees 49,400 (2010) Total assets \\\$19,831,519,302.50 (2009) Employees 4,425 (2010) --- iPhone units sold ~100 million DS units sold ~150 million --- The first three highest ranked games of all time are from Nintendo (gamerankings) --- Mario sold ~ 250 million Pokemon sold ~200 million Nintendo is the gaming industry King, they not only know how to make gaming hardware, they know how to make games as well, and they know how to sell it, that's why they have never disappeared. At least from a business aspect, they won't go anywhere.
dude nerds and profs, have you ever played shadow of colossus? it doesn't have more than 10 lines of dialogues, yet it tells a very deep and effective story which arouses many feelings, emotions and sympathy with characters which isn't at all shallow compared to Dostoyevsky's, if not stronger. How great and wonderful was each colossus, and how sad and guilty I was when one fell, by me, I cried so many times. and I doubt that any other medium would have been capable of creating such an enormous story.
shadow of colossus ! p.s. i agree with previous commenters, this list is way short and lacks a lot of good games which are really cheap by now, though, the games that you've added are really nice anyway. happy shopping people :D
oh holy crap! this can be a whole new measure for crapness!!! such a useless article, the most useless one i've ever seen in years in any gaming site, and almost 3000 comments? what's going on? who really cares about a few shadows or highlight when trying to make his/her decision buying a new console?!!! the whole industry is getting filled with crap... i wonder what they're going to compare next, probably the print quality of the box set... stfu plz...
I know ThePaTstER, tell that to GS. They’re becoming more and more conservative day by day, paying less attention to humble or independent games and developers. GS was my first and only stop 3 or 4 years ago, but today they're neither first nor the only one. Even signs of biased articles are appearing here and there. i agree with @roken1. They’re grossing huuuge amount of money, and that is EXACTLY what has made them to become what they're: spending more money on creating games with greater "production value" and greater audience with greater money. These days a game is doomed to be a commercial failure if it doesn’t have great production value and/or doesn't feel and look biiiig or HUUUGE and/or isn't advertised even on body building magazines (world if goo is a great example) tell me, how much hype surrounds a game like persona 4? i can already bet it's going to be on of the best rpg released in last two years, but who cares when there's fallout 3 out there? but anyway whether they're multimillionaire or not, they won't invest their money in games which aren't going to absorb a lot of attention - and money. How a game like persona 4 is going to be a commercial success in US with its super outdated graphics? What’s the point of interviewing with a developer which isn't going to make games anymore? Aren’t they great in their own aspect, sure they're! but is there any hype there? (Blizzard, well, they've their own press, they've their own battle.net, their own gg client, and they've their own wow addicts, they're simply too big to need any more hype added from other medias - not to mention day never really cared that much about medias anyway, but they too do pay a lot of atention to their fans and their money...)
unlike many, i think that the problem isn't that all the things has been invented before, at least i have been proven wrong playing games like b&w, wh 40K or totalwar series. I think that the demand for refreshment has decreased. a couple of years ago the gamers were mostly hardcore gamers, and the gaming wasn't this... causal. but now it ain't anymore. there are many people out there for whom C&C 3 is the first strategy they're going to play, so why should they care that all of this has been done 8 years before this time? they just need the game to be good looking and accessible, and that's why most of the games feel repetitive or shallow these days, not only the strategy genre, fps is exactly the same. in other genre like rpg or adventure there seem to be some new features, but i think they're not meant to appeal to hardcore gamers, at least they don't appeal to me. what they're doing is making games easier (vs more complex and difficult to learn), increasing the pace = adding more action and relying on unlocking ohwhatacoolfeature! (vs more complex and thought provoking which demands you to use your limited options more creatively), better technical graphics (vs artistic intuitiveness), using more similar and widespread world and cultures = Mk - DC (vs creating original and unique worlds) and ... and as publishers and developers have limited financial and time resources, they spent their precious investment on creating the games which looks "cooler" or is more accessible, and there won't be any advancement in other aspects of gaming. p.s. starcraft II alas, Starcraft 2009
yeaaaah man, that's it!!! can't agree with sato2099 anymore! let us be with this whole graphics things! gaming isn't just about that, there many more things involved...
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