Re: Sleeping Dogs
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:37 pmSpokane wrote:Oh yeah, that thing is riddled with spoilers although the very beginning is hilarious.
But I am glad I didn't spend 60 bucks on it personally. Doesn't mean you will, I still hate missing out of course until I can get it, but that is another subject. I read an article slamming the game industry for always doing what happened this Tuesday, releasing the two biggest games of the summer on the same day. This hurts both companies more than it helps. Granted Darksiders II was delayed but they could have chosen another date a few weeks before or after Sleeping Dogs and could have pulled it off. I would have got both if I could have afforded it, but instead I had to chose. I'll tell you when one of these games should have been released, the middle of September. That's between the biggest release of the summer and the release of Dishonored and Assassin's Creed 3.
That is the way the movie industry works moreso. Yes you have competition, but films that are targeted at the same audience are released weeks or months apart. For example this year The Avengers and Batman, same target audience.
The problem with video games is they mostly have the same target audience, both these games were mature, they both came out on the PS3 and 360 and PC so we have the same formats even. Now here we have me a guy who wants both, but can only afford one on release day, one of those companies loses out because now I have to wait awhile to afford it and by then the price probably will have dropped or can get it used, good for me, bad for the companies. The next thing I will want new is Assassin's Creed III now also, that will be the next thing I get. If Dogs would have came out in June or DSII like it was suppose to then I would have ended up getting both.
I know there is probably flaws in this logic but I just typed all that and felt the need to vent.
It has to do mostly with getting a game out the door asap to try and make some of the money a company dumped into development back, other times it has to do with a publisher wanting a return in their investment in a studio. In either case it would be more beneficial to space out releases a bit better and get a better handle on development.
Thne again, when a company is going out of business or hurting financially they'll pull all of their digital releases instead of just putting them on sale, so people in the gaming industry have some fucked up logic.
Peter wrote:Segata Sanshiro Jr. wrote:
Ryo, after he finally got a haircut at Zhangyus Shop in the Three Blades Qtr, stands on the road of the Golden Quarter, pondering wether or not to go into the Pine Arcade to spend the rest of his Hong Kong Dollars.
