This week’s episode covers a wide variety of topics, with no set news list save talking about Nintendo Direct’s oddly uninspiring conference. There’s no news list, so feel free to discuss what you found interesting or frustrating about Nintendo’s stream or anything else mentioned in the podcast.
Episode 602: Nintendo Directionless
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Episode 574: Naked People On BikesEpisode 574: Naked People On Bikes
The podcast returns after a week off, and Scott also returns. The Gaming Flashback is another imfamous title, Acclaim’s BMX XXX, something Dave Mirra definitely did not approve of. The news features all sorts of Nintendo Switch items, too.
This week’s news includes:
- Metroid Prime Trilogy listed with June 19th release date
- Platinum insists Bayonetta 3 hasn’t been cancelled
- Pac-Man teams up with Minecraft to celebrate his 40th anniversary
- Ooblets releasing in early access ‘pretty soon’
Let us know what you think.
End of 100 Million Dollar Games?End of 100 Million Dollar Games?
Gigaom had a great writeup about how Grand Theft Auto IV marks the end of “next generation” as we know it, stating, in more words or less, the game is a failure. GTA: San Andreas sold 21.5 million copies during its time on the shelf while GTA IV has sold roughly 9 million copies as of June 7th.
Granted, the game is still on the shelves and will still get sales, but the mass of “hardcore gamers” have had their fill and either purchased it or will not. The end result? A huge tapering of sales numbers for the graphically impressive game. Take-Two spent USD $100 million to develop the game which had great opening sales records but has gone down drastically since.
Imagine the title gains them USD $30.00 per sale in profit (considering distributors get the game for roughly USD $45 to $48.00 USD), taking into account shipping of the product, marketing and all the materials that go into producing a copy, they’d have to sell a large quanity of game titles to break even, which I think they have done.
Nobody is in this industry to break even. A block buster title should make block buster profits, right? Else, why bother to spend the 100-million when a Wii title can double or triple the profits with six months of development?
Episode 252: DuckTalesEpisode 252: DuckTales
This week, Paul can’t make it, so we bring on a Paul substitute, Dan Quick of the PolyCast podcast – and the show doesn’t skip a beat thanks to Dan behaving like Paul without realizing it. This week’s Gaming Flashback explodes like a blood sausage with Wasteland.
This week’s news items include:
- Dashboard update gives Indie Marketplace more visibility
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 outed by Amazon France
- Skyrim DLC won’t follow same model as Fallout DLC
- Electronic Arts terminates “free Battlefield 3 for preordering Mass Effect 3” deal early
- Alan Wake on PC because Remedy “a nagging little kid” to Microsoft
In addition, we have Reader Feedback for Paul’s Pixie Diamonds contest – the winners will be determined next week. The contest’s Question of the Week remains the same: “Who is your favorite Disney Prince or Hero, and why?”