General Gaming News

[Snow Queen]

This thread by the Activision-Blizzard COO is one of the most desperate things. Not anyone else's fault the Halo show sucked.

 

[Sithborg]

Just had to double check to make sure it wasn't the Bush torture lady.

 

[metaphysician]

The one area where the platform holders might lose out is that game fans who don’t use a given provider’s platform used to tune in to other shows during an all out macro gaming event, but may not bother when they are all separate and stick to the one they use. So they will be good vehicles to hype your existing audience rather than attract new people.

Eh, I'm doubtful. That might apply to a physical convention, but for digital marketing, the other fan bases are never more than a mouse click and a compelling headline away. If anything, its probably easier for Nintendo to get Sony or Microsoft eyeballs online than at a physical convention, since visitors to a convention typically have schedules and planned events and whatnot; you don't only need to somehow attract interest, but enough interest to out compete other shows and events from their own existing fandom.

 

[Iceman]

Eh, I'm doubtful. That might apply to a physical convention, but for digital marketing, the other fan bases are never more than a mouse click and a compelling headline away. If anything, its probably easier for Nintendo to get Sony or Microsoft eyeballs online than at a physical convention, since visitors to a convention typically have schedules and planned events and whatnot; you don't only need to somehow attract interest, but enough interest to out compete other shows and events from their own existing fandom.

Just judging from activity in threads here, the Directs, SoPs and Microsoft’s new events that started this month don’t have the fanfare the shows used to get at E3. But maybe it’s just because the forum is quieter.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Activision Blizzard Settles Misconduct Allegations in a $35 Million Payout
Activision Blizzard Inc. has agreed to pay out a $35 million settlement for allegations that it violated workers’ rights by failing to maintain “adequate” workplace harassment protocols and violated federal whistleblower protection rights, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a press release on Friday.

 

[Sithborg]

That seems way too low.

 

[Sithborg]

I have... questions. Questions that I'm not sure I want answered....

 

[Snow Queen]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

U.K. proposes partial breakup (divestiture) of Activision Blizzard in order to allow merger with Microsoft.

Gov.uk - Microsoft – Activision deal could harm UK gamers
A CMA investigation has provisionally concluded that Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision could result in higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation for UK gamers.

CNBC - Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover in doubt as UK regulator raises competition concerns

• In a provisional decision Wednesday, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority said Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard would lead to a lessening of competition.

• The regulator outlined a notice of possible remedies suggesting Microsoft divest part or all of Activision Blizzard, or terminate the deal completely.

• The Microsoft-Activision deal also faces scrutiny in the U.S. and European Union.

 

[Sithborg]

Meanwhile, in good news.

Bayonetta 3 Has Sold Over 1 Million Units Since Launch

 

[Iceman]

Meanwhile, in good news.

Bayonetta 3 Has Sold Over 1 Million Units Since Launch

Nice. Is the series likely to continue after this? How much sales would it need?

 

[Sithborg]

Nice. Is the series likely to continue after this? How much sales would it need?

Nintendo isn't EA or ActiBlizz or Squeenix. They seem happy when a game hits a million. And really, that is the best the series has sold ever. And with the spinoff, I think Bayonetta is a solid Nintendo property now.

 

[Iceman]

Nintendo isn't EA or ActiBlizz or Squeenix. They seem happy when a game hits a million. And really, that is the best the series has sold ever. And with the spinoff, I think Bayonetta is a solid Nintendo property now.

Oh right, great to hear.

 

[metaphysician]

Something else to consider is that Nintendo actually does believe in genre diversification. They *want* there to be "A ____ game" on the Nintendo platform, for any given genre, since the more 'niche' genres are available on the Switch, the more appealing the platform and the more money they make. After all, they already have mega franchises like Mario and Zelda, those already draw in tons of people and make tons of money; the purpose of a different franchise is less to do the same sales, and more with drawing extra marginal people into the ecosystem. A game like Bayonetta might only sell a million copies, but if even 10% of those sales are to people who bought the Switch *for* Bayonetta, its a huge win. . . because those people will presumably buy tons of other stuff now that they've bought into the ecosystem.

And when it comes to 3D brawlers? The only competition to be 'Nintendo's 3D brawler' that Bayonetta has is Astral Chain, which is *also* a Platinum game, so. . .

 

[Iceman]

Bungie wins $4.4m lawsuit against Destiny cheat seller AimJunkies

 

[Iceman]

Producer Behind M3gan and The Purge Is Entering the Video Game Business
Could be interesting.

 

[Sithborg]

Microsoft keeps on giving Sony the middle finger.

 

[Iceman]

Microsoft keeps on giving Sony the middle finger.

They also signed a 10 year deal with Nvidia to bring games to GeForce.

Nvidia supports Microsoft, Activision merger after Xbox deal to add games to cloud service

 

[Sithborg]

Ooh, Evo 2023 announcement tonight. That will be interesting.

 

[Iceman]

Dead by Daylight is getting a movie adaption

 

[Sithborg]

Pretty much their last hurrah before announcing new stuff.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Siliconera - Yuji Naka Pleads Guilty in Court to Charges of Insider Trading

The geniuses at Square Enix sold Lara Croft for NFT lunch money.*



* Square Enix CEO said in January in his techno-buzzword salad address that NFTs and blockchain are Square Enix's future.

Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda to be replaced by Takashi Kiryu - Gematsu

They did put out some decent games during Matsuda's tenure (2013-present) that I bought. Quite a few of them actually.

 

[Sithborg]

It is interesting that they are doing Tenkaichi Budokai 4 instead of FighterZ 2 for the next Dragonball game.

 

[Iceman]

In case of wider interest posting here too:

Starfield gets September release date

 

[Sithborg]

Capcom is having some insane deals on their games right now.