Hi, Sean.
I know you’ve been busy this days but I couldn’t help myself to sending you these stories.
First, EDGE’s review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Now, I know games are personal experiences and I even don’t care for reviews – but I DO care when I read something that has no real meaning and the shows how some people in the ‘industry’ just want to get attention.
They don’t need to like the game; I’m fine with that. But talking about innovation, Mario Galaxy 2 level designers? I for one loved Galaxy and I know your opinion on that, but I’m way more interested in 2D Marios (hell, I grew up with then!).
The second story is about digital distribution and how many gamers do, in fact, buy products digitally. I think the best part here is that some websites don’t seem to look closely to the graphic and just say “43% of gamers buy digital games”. If they did look closely, they would see that just 16% usually buy and download DIGITAL games. The 43% correspond to something more like ‘Have you ever downloaded a game/level/demo in your life?’. (and Xbox Live, WiiWare or PSN games count, by the way).
http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/index.php/2009/10/26/study-40-of-u-s-console-gamers-buy-games-extra-levels-via-direct-download/
What I don’t understand is why anyone would pay for Edge. What horrible writing.
What I don’t understand is why anyone would pay for Edge. What horrible writing.
As for the gamerinvestments, you bring up an illustrative example. All these people going, “Digital distribution is looking interesting!” are generally seeing what they want to see.
The “Game Industry” has done this before with ‘High Definition’. We were told that Nintendo was doomed because “all TVs sold will be high definition” and what an idiot Iwata was. I believe Matt Cassamassina cried (or something like that) when it was announced that the ‘Revolution’ would not be ‘High Definition’.
They focus on the numbers they like and ignore everything else! And we wonder how such financial monstrosities like the Xbox 360 and PS3 were made!
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