Mamoulian War Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 i think its a trend for japanese companies in the past few years to over estimate sales on games. they need to lower expectations and budget accordingly. square needs to make more final fantasy games that attempt to emulate 6-9 instead of pushing for absurdly expensive graphics and full voice acting Although I have enjoyed FFXIII and XIII-2 (they were not the best stuff, but had enough fun playing them, and that's what counts, right?) I fully agree with you on this one, and Square Enix, is not the only one who should follow this advice... Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majek Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Still enjoyed the franchise though (especially the first three games) There's more? ;D 1.13 killed off Ja2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Diablo 3 will be offline for PlayStation... http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/console-diablo-3-playable-offline-real-money-auction-house-removed-not-exac Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSBasilisk Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Pandora: First Contact - Impressions from RPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Diablo 3 will be offline for PlayStation... http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/console-diablo-3-playable-offline-real-money-auction-house-removed-not-exac Color me not surprised. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Some CDPR info, including (re)confirmation of the two smaller titles that were talked about a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Hm, interesting a branch in the US, well if only just for marketing/PR. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 It looks like we may be getting close to an all in one Game of the Year edition for Skyrim. http://dualpixels.com/2013/03/15/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-game-of-the-year-edition/ I for one have been waiting for this for too long now. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh13 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Diablo 3 will be offline for PlayStation... http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/console-diablo-3-playable-offline-real-money-auction-house-removed-not-exac Absolutely!!! Because as everyone knows, every PC player if given the chance will illegally download and steal a game rather than pay for it. It looks like we may be getting close to an all in one Game of the Year edition for Skyrim. http://dualpixels.com/2013/03/15/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-game-of-the-year-edition/ I for one have been waiting for this for too long now. I thought they still had a couple of more major pieces of DLC to go. Perhaps they are going to do an Ultimate Edition further on down the road. You see, ever since the whole Doritos Locos Tacos thing, Taco Bell thinks they can do whatever they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greylord Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Diablo 3 will be offline for PlayStation... http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/console-diablo-3-playable-offline-real-money-auction-house-removed-not-exac I think this was old news. The big question is whether it will be able to be played without being authorized first...aka...simply put the disk in and play...or if you have to put it in, install, authenticate online and then be able to play offline. I suspect it will be the former with the console pressures as they are...but with how Blizz has done other things recently...really hard to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Diablo 3 will be offline for PlayStation... http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/console-diablo-3-playable-offline-real-money-auction-house-removed-not-exac Absolutely!!! Because as everyone knows, every PC player if given the chance will illegally download and steal a game rather than pay for it. >It looks like we may be getting close to an all in one Game of the Year edition for Skyrim. http://dualpixels.com/2013/03/15/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-game-of-the-year-edition/ I for one have been waiting for this for too long now. I thought they still had a couple of more major pieces of DLC to go. Perhaps they are going to do an Ultimate Edition further on down the road. I thought there were no more DLCs? I know they are going all in of their Elder Scrolls online game. The trailer looks great but I just don't do MMOs. Hopefully the article is right. I've held off buying Skyrim but I'm getting tired of waiting. Especially now that I have a computer that will run it well. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaganoosh13 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 I guess Redguard is just rumors. I don't follow it much, but it's hard to ignore some ES stuff coming through on the Fallout boards. You see, ever since the whole Doritos Locos Tacos thing, Taco Bell thinks they can do whatever they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 17 minute long trailer of Battlefield 4. Very graphiccy, spectacular and... yeah. I wish DICE would stop trying to make BF into a CoD-clone and spend all that money and time on just multiplayer instead. Running between covers every 15 seconds to have a 15 second gunfight is pretty boring. It does look like they're taking a cue from Brothers in Arms with telling your NPC's to give you covering fire though, wich is nice. Evolution. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 And Square Enix continues with it's troubles.. Gamespot - Tomb Raider Fails to Reach Sales Target As part of its latest financial earnings report today, Square Enix announced that three of its big-budget titles failed to reach their sales targets. Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million units worldwide since launch this month, Hitman: Absolution has moved 3.6 million copies to date, and Sleeping Dog has sold 1.75 million units since its summer launch. These figures do not account for digital sales. Square Enix said despite a "high critical acclaim" for each title, sales still came up short. In particular, the publisher called its North American sales force "ineffective," noting that title sales in this region made up just a third of the number of units sold in Europe. Another reason each game failed to meet sales expectations, Square Enix said, was due to price pressure being "strong." This forced the company to spend additional capital on channel costs like price protection. Square Enix president Yoichi Wada announced his resignation today amid an "extraordinary loss." "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serrano Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Very graphiccy, spectacular and... yeah. I wish DICE would stop trying to make BF into a CoD-clone and spend all that money and time on just multiplayer instead. Well I mean, I agree multiplayer shouldn't suffer for the single player because that's always been the series' strength but the campaign in Bad Company 2 was a lot of fun and BF3's campaign while being rather bland on story and gameplay was just incredable to watch and I felt worth the effort just for the spectacle. Both of those games had great multiplayer too, I mean people rag on the season pass for BF3 but it was fantastic value for money, you ended up with more maps, modes, vehicles and guns than you would have with an old fashioned expansion pack and all were great fun to play. I'm super excited for this it looks terrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undecaf Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 17 minute long trailer of Battlefield 4. Very graphiccy, spectacular and... yeah. I wish DICE would stop trying to make BF into a CoD-clone and spend all that money and time on just multiplayer instead. Running between covers every 15 seconds to have a 15 second gunfight is pretty boring. It does look like they're taking a cue from Brothers in Arms with telling your NPC's to give you covering fire though, wich is nice. Evolution. The whole thing looks very shiny, very hectic, and very boring. The usual "next gen" FPS splendor. WIll not buy. Perkele, tiädäksää tuanoini!"It's easier to tolerate idiots if you do not consider them as stupid people, but exceptionally gifted monkeys." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSBasilisk Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 (edited) Footage from Age of Wonders III Edited March 27, 2013 by TSBasilisk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 It looks like we may be getting close to an all in one Game of the Year edition for Skyrim. http://dualpixels.com/2013/03/15/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-game-of-the-year-edition/ I for one have been waiting for this for too long now. Yaaaaay, this makes me happy "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 (edited) And Square Enix continues with it's troubles.. Gamespot - Tomb Raider Fails to Reach Sales Target As part of its latest financial earnings report today, Square Enix announced that three of its big-budget titles failed to reach their sales targets. Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million units worldwide since launch this month, Hitman: Absolution has moved 3.6 million copies to date, and Sleeping Dog has sold 1.75 million units since its summer launch. These figures do not account for digital sales. Square Enix said despite a "high critical acclaim" for each title, sales still came up short. In particular, the publisher called its North American sales force "ineffective," noting that title sales in this region made up just a third of the number of units sold in Europe. Another reason each game failed to meet sales expectations, Square Enix said, was due to price pressure being "strong." This forced the company to spend additional capital on channel costs like price protection. Square Enix president Yoichi Wada announced his resignation today amid an "extraordinary loss." The gaming industry becoming more and more ridiculous... Tomb Raider is out less than a month, it sold 3.4 millions without counting DDs and is still not considered as a success??? Seriously What a Flying **** are the Board members of these companies smoking??? Edited March 27, 2013 by Mamoulian War Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 That's baffling, it almost reads like an early April Fool's joke. Those sales numbers seem to be fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Failing to meet targets doesn't have to mean "unprofitable." Though I'd agree that if they failed to meet targets, I'm curious what the hell their targets were! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOK222 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Thanks Notch! Ka-ka-ka-ka-Cocaine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSBasilisk Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Apparently, Squeenix is looking at a project loss of more than $100 million, which means they projected sales of maybe another 2 million at full retail. On an unrelated note, as far as Squeenix is concerned, they sold about 3 million digital versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyourprime Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 (edited) 17 minute long trailer of Battlefield 4. Very graphiccy, spectacular and... yeah. I wish DICE would stop trying to make BF into a CoD-clone and spend all that money and time on just multiplayer instead. Running between covers every 15 seconds to have a 15 second gunfight is pretty boring. It does look like they're taking a cue from Brothers in Arms with telling your NPC's to give you covering fire though, wich is nice. Evolution. They went the "safe" route again with the sp -- follow the corridors and look at all the awesome happening around you. John "killer" Walker said he thought it was 'abysmal' on twitter (His thoughts on RPS). I wouldn't go that far to describe it. It just looks boring... Edited March 27, 2013 by Inyourprime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Who gives a damn. Looking forward to multiplayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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