You might remember Pier Solar, the upcoming RPG that is being developed specifically for the Megadrive in celebration of the console's 20th anniversary, and is pinned for a release sometime in 2009.
If you're worried about not being able to play this game because you don't actually own a Megadrive, don't worry, Water Melon Development has told CVG that once development has finished on the Megadrive version they might start thinking about giving Xbox 360 owners a chance by releasing a remake or re-release on the Xbox Live Arcade.
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
I like XBLA, but I do hate that pretty much all the games are "Arcade" games. I mean, I know that's the Vibe MS was going for, but I'd still like some games with a little more depth to them on there and an RPG like this would be great.
Actually, Pier Solar may encounter a bigger problem than the lack of Megadrive / Genesis owner: will it find a retailer that will agree to sell it? Or will it be via a private shop like Postal?
I can't believe that someone actually made a game for a console I owned when I was 6.
I'm not saying this game won't be neat... but who seriously still has a Sega Genesis/MegaDrive laying around?
People make new Atari games quite often, but there's hardly ever any "brand new" Genesis games. Most of the others are localizations that are boxed to seem 'new', like Beggar Prince or something. I don't quite have a 360 as of yet, so I guess I'll be getting this for my Genesis/32x/Sega CD combo. I hear it uses the Sega CD in conjunction with the cartridge for better sound.