Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will introduce video games for its Zune music player within 18 months to match features available on Apple Computer Inc.'s dominant iPod.
Peter Moore, a vice president in the company's Xbox video- game business, confirmed the plan yesterday, saying the Zune's large screen will offer a better way to play handheld games. He didn't specify what games would be offered.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
only a year and a half behind the competition. good job MS at creating the "iPod Killer"
With the kind of dough behind the big MS why aren't I seeing an MS-iPhone? The world didn't need another iPod, it needed a better convergence product.
I read this after the iPhone article but I stand my ground on the iPhone's practicality. If you are a current Mac user this was the peripheral we've all been waiting for.
i bet themart has the bill gates wallpaper for his zune
"the device might provide competition for handheld gaming devices such as Nintendo Co.'s DS and Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable"
I doubt any games zune can bring could even be competition for GBA. The only kind of gameplay I expect for this device would be comparable to an prettied-up cellphone game.
I mean serioulsly a little clicker wheel thing between a ply button and back button?
They are so behind.