More than any other entertainment industry, the gaming industry runs on hype. Very rarely, a game with little marketing will become a success, and the hype machine fuels a lot of release day sales.
Marketing your game takes a very special vocabulary. A developer or PR rep will normally throw out a lot of words, and most gamers take it at face value, unable to extract the truth from all of the padding.
That's why MEGATONik is here to help: here are the the most annoying words used by the games industry, and what they mean (or whether they mean anything at all).
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
good article.
a nice read.nuff said.
I actually find very interesting how in this gen more than the others the number 1 method of a company to sell you a game and tell you its AAA is based EXCLUSIVELY on hype and hype alone and people eat like popcorn without even questioning.
Ironically the people that is suppose to see thru this the reviewers many times fall for the same trap and achieve the companies goal of making a title AAA out of single spark of hype among a unaware audience