VETTING THE EVER MORE EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAME UNIVERSE

 



http://www.manolith.com/2012/11/16/is-nintendos-wii-u-too-expensive-ubisofts-ceo-thinks-so/


My issue with this new wave of hardware which is now about to be forced into the videogame market is the over-the-top cost of it all.

Money is super tight these days and now that Nintendo has shoved a $300.00 to $350.00 piece of hardware on the world that it will never fully be able to support in the software department, at least enough to satisfy the masses, does this just muddy the waters for what is about to come from Microsoft and Sony?

I mean, really… what are those two companies going to charge for their new gaming consoles. And when you throw in a game to play on the system, plus whatever must have peripherals needed to be purchased to make the thing work properly… well, will these new systems break the $500.00 mark?

Who will be able to afford this stuff? Those few at the top with the money to add still another bank breaking device to their table top? Can the middle class and poor people afford these ever more expensive devices… and then still come up with the money for internet access, the expensive games and food?

Hey Sony and Microsoft, how about making some paradigm leaps in software development. Create a new technology and market it as the new thing for the current systems. How about if HALO 4 had bean marketed as “HALO 4, Paradigm Shifting Technology Edition!” And, you used an actual paradigm changing technology that expanded the technology of visual presentation for HALO 4! How about that, Microsoft?

Dumping new expensive hardware on us right now is a bomb just waiting to explode and maim us all. We can’t afford all this unneeded technology right now. Make your games look better, Sony, and stop draining your financial recourses in unwanted, and unneeded, hardware research and production. Make the games better!

I am playing DOOM: BFG Edition on PS3. The game looks pretty good, but it should look excellent on the PS3! The game has abominable load times. That should never be the case with a PS3 game. The sound is excellent, as it should be. The final thought about this game is… It should be perfection, but it is not. But it should be, Sony! Talk to “id” about these problems.

What is the best looking game on PS3? You decide… but, whatever it is it should look better. Work on your software presentation and we will buy your stuff. But, dumping more and more expensive hardware we do not need is only going to eventually make us rebel against you. It will happen, and I wonder if this latest Nintendo disaster in the making is the beginning of the end.

$300.00 for a Wii U? And 350.00 for a bundle with a game? And almost $180.00 for a separate controller. And the cost of games? And the constant threat of the long term lack of third party support for the system? And the absolute certainty that there will be another Nintendo handheld iteration of what is already available? And what happens when all this derision is transferred to Microsoft and Sony? I see disaster in my video gaming future! And, I don’t like it at all.

RLJ