I suspect Xbox one to sell for $300 with some type of fee you'll need to pay which will equate to $450-$500 a yr total. Similar to when you buy a new phone from T-mobile for $50 and then pay $20 a month for 2 yrs which ends up costing you $500. Sony's system will probably be ~$430 and I think they'll introduce a system similar to Xbox Live but separate than PS+ that offers the spectating and other new features, but will probably be ~$8.99-$9.99 a month. Either way, I suspect everyone can expect to be paying about $500 total for the first yr. Although, they could likely give you the first year for free.
I thought the point of games was to make you feel like you're part of the story, not a friggen dave and busters skee ball game. That thing might be cool for young players, but it seems super distracting to me. Maybe its a gimmick to distract you at the lack of system upgrades. Who here has a reasonably dark space to play in? I have reflective stuff all over. I'd be like a dog chasing squirrels trying to play that. I'm also waiting for a law suit for some poor kid to have a seizure with all the flashing lights.
@fredyellowone I think that's partly due to the fact that sony's 2nd dev kit only came out in Jan, and supposedly there was one more version coming out before they started manufacturing them. Also at another game site a journalist said he saw something related to the ps4 he wasn't supposed to see and was bursting at the seams to tell folks what he saw, but said we'll have to wait till e3 but he was super excited. The context made it sound like it was something specifically about the machine.
I'm pretty sure they had to use that place to build their machine to keep manufacturing costs down, just so they can make more $ off folks. Apple did the same thing and made ridiculous profits. MS will still charge folks a sub fee and the machine's still going to run ya at least $500 or more just like T-mobile does when they sell you a phone for $50, but makes you pay $20 a month for 2 yrs conning you out of $500, plus fees for breaking the contract. It's not going to be cheap.
I hear what you're saying Tom, I haven't actually played a MOH game since my PS1 so I don't know how they play now a days, but one of the things I picked up regarding the franchise from back then in the several I played, they did choose to reenact familiar story's and battles with their games to make it almost a spectacle arcade FPS game. It was never meant to be in the same category of say The Last of Us, where the world is based upon realistic brutality. I can see where the disconnect is between the authenticity between realistic weapons, and unrealistic game play mechanics. Although, I think to some degree you have raised some good points with a title called Warfighter, my mind also leans towards the idea that it would be more realistic. However, at the end of the day, they are making the games for the fans, and if they are successfully still making these games after 15 years or more, they must be doing something right for the fans to keep buying them. For the record, I wish they didn't glamorize war in games either. I think games like CoD and Black Ops, are legitimately being used as marketing tools to have our young men and women tricked into thinking war is fun, there's sexy technology you get to use, and you get to run around being a bad ass. That's pretty much all a lie, they get lured in with promise of quick promotion and free money for signing on bonuses or tax free incentives to reenlist while in combat zones, only to come back home to broken relationships, kids who don't even recognize their dad anymore, etc. There's maybe 1-2% of the service or even less that have those types of jobs. So kids play those games and then go sign up and ship them out. Often times not doing anything remotely similar to what they are playing. It's sad, but I don't fault the developers, they are in the entertainment business, and trying to make a fun game where people can be a bad ass mofo. Doesn't make it right or wrong, it just one of those things developers do to keep the game play moving, especially for multiplayer.
that was the wrong article, that was the governors reply. This was the full article. Although I notice the site keeps going down a lot. http://ireader.olivesoftware.com/Olive/iReader/ProvidenceJournalWithAuth/SharedArticle.ashx?document=TPJ\2012\05\29&article=Ar00100
here's full story from my link below, explains what the heck happened to Curts company! http://blogs.wpri.com/2012/05/29/watch-chafee-responds-to-schillings-comments-blaming-him/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Here's some info regarding the 38 Studios stuff from one of their staff. The amount of copies to sell was not 3M The governor lied. The staff said it was no where near that many copies. Here's something posted today that I'm getting my info from, the employee's comments were taken from the comments section replying to the angry RI people who seem ignorant to what was happening. http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/05/sa-editing-schi.html?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:21c8984e-1936-45fb-a908-e094f9a5fe84[QUOTE]so far from true so far from true. wasn't time we needed. Was Chafee to shut up. One local investor said flat out; to much politics so we're going to back out. That deal was sitting on the table nearly done even after Chafee had started his hunt. It paid for many may months of development.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]huh? we playtest the ENTIRE world GAME as a company every week. As in, 300 people log in and play the full game.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Actually, his statements are quite true. I'm happy he has removed the weight of his "advisers" and come forth as the talker that he is known to be. Few things1. 38 Studios took 49 million from a private lender and sunk every penny back into RI economy. What no thanks? 2. 38 Studios has not spent a tax dime yet, but have invested 49 million in your RI economy. Read teh papers. Shops around the studio are laying off and changing hours. 3. Nearly 50 homes purchased, by our staff in RI. 90% of our staff resides in RI. Lots of money being pumped into YOUR pockets and yet, not a tax dime yet. 4. Chafee released extremely sensitive data about ship dates and and company finances. Yes, investors walked away, a few in fact. Most likely to return when the corpse is cheaper. 5. Schilling didn't run this company folks. Joking about how he has a baseball career, and a junior college degree just make you sound silly. There was a seasoned executive staff with teams made up of the best in the industry. Beyond that the company had a board of directors made up of some of the most successful business people around. Investigate before you spew uneducated words talking about how someone else is uneducated or unable to run a business... 6. No matter. You are the folks that get on line and scream from the rooftops even though you have no idea what your screaming about. Nothing Curt or I says will help. or change your mind. If you only took a moment to accept the truth and realize that this literally did not need to happen. 7. My neighbors, friends of their's, post office workers, grocery clerks, mechanics my realtor, my boys school teachers. They have come together to show support for us. We are them: RI residents, dealing witha crappy govt. The only thing we had up pn them was the fact that someone had recently injected $49 million at no cost to the RI taxpayer. 8. There was no cost until now...your first month of unemployment will be $660,000. Not including medical. We had 4 babies due this week. Seems as though 1.125 million and a quiet governor would have saved you tons.[/QUOTE][QUOTE]Lastly, here is how the bounced check went down. Us: Hey Gov, we're about to close a deal. Where are those credits we need them for payroll until this deal closes? Gov: Oh great, yah, we'll get the tax credit processed. and we know you don't have the 1.125 mil so we'll do a swap. You bring us a check. When you cash our check for X then we'll cash your check...ya know, cause after our check clears you'll have the funds to pay us the 1.125 million in addition to payroll. Us: awesome, were in! Hey, why did your attorney just hangup mid transaction. He wont answer his phone. Gov: Dunno, why did you give us a check with insufficient funds.. Us: but ummm, wait...huh? It was that very moment that cost 400 people their livelihoods and you the tax dollars. I bet you didn't go look up a single fact after reading my original post. Familiar with Mr. Corso? Ya think we had a fighting chance with that guy running the show for RI...[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Its almost as if you are simply incapable of trying to look at the other side. We had the deals on the table. 2 large public RI corporations decided they did not want to be involved in the politics. You, sir, have no idea how it works. Yes, he needed to be quiet about our private fiances. If you had any understanding of how investing works then you know that revealing that info puts the company in a much weaker position to negotiate a deal. Sure, game industry is tough and getting financing takes time. Th key here is that WE had it. Then Chafee released so much private sensitive information. On top of that he speculated numbers which were different than investor numbers causing concern. we didn't ship 400k copies we shipped nearly 1.3 million copies. How would you see that as an investor "wait, only 400k, but they said 1.3 million in the meeting...I'm backing up a bit". Do you not have it in you to consider a full story before you open your mouth?[/QUOTE]
I don't know who to believe anymore, the media says one thing, analysts says 20M one week and 30M another week for Reckoning, and Curt Schilling says they sold over 1.2 million copies. Wouldn't it make more sense to report from the guy who knows? I thought the point of journalism was to find the truth and report it.
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