April was basically just Splinter Cell and Nier which may or may not have interested people. Most of the Nier people were probably still playing Final Fantasy XIII. The number one reason no one spent money in April..... MAY 18th!!! You could buy an entire game system with the amount of money the industry is asking us to spend on games tomorrow.
You can rent a game for $9 and then just keep it for 12 days. They will call and harass your answering machine but if you can deal with that you will be fine. Just return the game before they charge your credit card. They no longer have late fees. The 2 games for $15 is was a good deal but $10 isn't that great.
I think it would take the promise of a new IP at Activision to lure Schofield away from Dead Space unless there was some bad blood at EA. Or a lot of money>
12-14 year old boys will upgrade when they turn 16, get jobs, and have some disposable income. This guy is kidding himself as for the other 546456089763521065464654 Wii owners are concerned. He should probably give his wife a Wii and a PS3 and see what happens. These bonors spend every night and weekend with their target demographic but are too stupid to figure it out. She will still be taking out Wii Sports once a month a year from now and she still won't know how to hold a PS3 controller or care that there is a new Nathan Drake game out.
Conan did the same thing with each archetype getting a different quest line and it was one of the better features of the game. As long as Bioware launches with all the content in the game I think this will be great. The first 20 levels of Conan were really fun. It was worth playing through all four different quest lines to see how they were related and the voice acting was well done. To get the game out the door quicker Funcom launched without adding in game voice to quests beyond 20 and made the majority of unique quests so few and far between most people quit before encountering more than a couple. Bioware has a history of launching when the games are complete and hopefully this is no different. If so this game will probably find success and I'll buy it but I am still wary of preordering MMOs.
Natal usually refers to a birth and this project is still in its infancy. Tony Hawk has been payed. Don't feel sorry. Activision knew about the project but if there is a chance they can make a buck in the meantime you know they will leap at the chance. I think they have shown that Tony Hawk is one of the franchises that can be exploited on an annual basis. This is just a way to blow a quick breath of air into the corpse until they can refresh the series with the Tony Hawk Natal version. Don't think they aren't thinking it. They get to make money off of Tony Hawk motion twice and they only have to pay to develop the tech once.
I'm not 100% on this but didn't a bunch of porn companies jump on the HD bandwagon? Won't that make a big difference? Isn't that what some people attribute the success of VHS vs. Beta to?
Just wait until one of them hits "Grandpa" as he walks by and induces a heart attack. Sooner or later someone is actually going to kill a family pet with one of these flying Wiimotes. In a sick and ironic twist it will be during a game of Wii Nintendogs!
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