Only 2 manufacturers out of approximately 10 are reported to be on track to maintain their actual shipments of next gen players due to a shortage of laser diodes
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
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.
what is up with you Thugbot187. seems like you're only out to post negative news about the PS3, even if they're old. are you on a crusade to destroy the PS3? Lol.
twas a bit weird, he seems to only tick ps3 and industry news with his articles...
I mean if he ticks ps3 how could he not tick 360 as the 360 will be in just as much trouble what with the hd-dvd external drive as the ps3 with the internal drive
but there ya go
NOBODY wants HD movies on blu-ray or hd-dvdd. For the next 5 years HDTV's will only be in less than 20% of homes. It's less than 5% now, so I ask Sony where's the drive. The answer is they think by forcing their format YEARS prematurely into a console they can win the format war.
And if they do who cares, because the consoles life cycle will be almost out and still cost 300-400 in 5 years. Not to mention by that time 4 years from now we'll have the new xbox with a HD drive possibly or a mega HDD.
the industry was expecting people to want to upgrade to a next gen movie format around 2008. but because sony and toshiba couldn't agree on a unified format, analysts have now pushed it back to 2010, as people will not want to get stuck with the latest "beta" or "laserdisk" player.
Did anyone actaully read the article instead of jumping on the PSZero Sucks and Xflop rulz argument. The way I see this is it is good news for the PS3, bad news for BD, HD-DVD and Mircrsofts HD-DVD external drive.