If you’re wondering where episode 652 is, the file was completely distorted, with only one half of a conversation going. So, all the discussion about Sony’s State of Play is lost to the ether.
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Episode 251: The New Crew ReturnsEpisode 251: The New Crew Returns
After last week’s special appearance by Derrick and Jennifer Schommer along with Don Dunn, the regular crew of Jonah Falcon, Jordan Lund and Paul S. Nowak return, and they find themselves with some fascinating news items.
The news items include:
- Blizzard brags Diablo III will have difficulties that are harder-than-hard
- Sony passed on Demon’s Souls because it was “crap“
- Sony credit rating downgraded, “strong recovery in earnings unlikely”
- Tim Schafer raises $1.6M (and counting) to develop an adventure game
- Epic’s Sweeney: Lifelike graphics will come in our lifetime
Paul is also running a contest to earn “Pixie Diamonds” currency for Disney’s Pixie Hollow social networking MMO, with the prize going to the person who can answer, “Who is your favorite Disney Prince or Hero, and why?”
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?
Gaming Podcast 206: Drowning in PhlegmGaming Podcast 206: Drowning in Phlegm
This week we’re a bit sick, but the gaming podcast goes on regardless! We can’t seem to get away from the current hot topics of the week mostly involving Sony and hacking in the same sentences. This week’s news includes:
- Sony Sues Geohot and fail0verflow Team
- Professor Labels Sony’s Suit “Breathtakingly Stupid”
- UbiSoft’s Walfisz Frets About PS3 Piracy
- New PS3 Exploit Features Trophy Hacking
- Modern Warfare 2 “Unplayable” on PSN
- Blizzard: Heroic Cataclysm Dungeons Not Too Hard
- THQ May Continue Price Experiment On More Games
This week Jonah gives out his review on Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled Blitz for XBLA and, giving away his copy of Plants vs. Zombies for the DS. This weeks question of the week, are you going to get a Nintendo 3DS?