Morgoth Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaVl1atbUDc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUmJgm56O64l2h7mpFcxKWfw Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 http://vr-zone.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-v-expensive-video-game-production-history-beats-big-budget-hollywood-films/55320.html Bigger is better (?) Can this industry crash already. 2 The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 http://vr-zone.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-v-expensive-video-game-production-history-beats-big-budget-hollywood-films/55320.html Bigger is better (?) Can this industry crash already. It will happen eventually, soon at the rate they're going. AAA games can't keep going like this, the budgets are getting so out of hand that they're reaching the point where it will become straight up impossible to make money off these games, even if they sell 10 or even 15 million copies. The video game version of the 2008 stock market crash is coming, and honestly, I say let it come. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Hm, GTA's budget seems like it might be rather higher than other AAA games - I can see the music licensing costing a chunk, for example. But who knows if it'll crash, people keep on buying them and the pool of players won't shrink that much. 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...
Keyrock Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Hm, GTA's budget seems like it might be rather higher than other AAA games - I can see the music licensing costing a chunk, for example. But who knows if it'll crash, people keep on buying them and the pool of players won't shrink that much. Yeah, but it's getting to the point where they have to sell about 7 million copies just to break even. Less than a hundred games have ever sold 7 million or more copies. That's in the entire history of video games. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordicus Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 (edited) Sony revealed PS Vita TV that's plugged into your TV, has almost all the functions of your usual Vita (except touch screen control), and costs $99 I'd honestly get one, but my monitor is already shared by my PC and PS3. I'd have to get a new monitor to use VitaTV without a hassle and at that point I might as well get a proper handheld version Edited September 9, 2013 by Nordicus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Hm, GTA's budget seems like it might be rather higher than other AAA games - I can see the music licensing costing a chunk, for example. But who knows if it'll crash, people keep on buying them and the pool of players won't shrink that much. Yeah, but it's getting to the point where they have to sell about 7 million copies just to break even. Less than a hundred games have ever sold 7 million or more copies. That's in the entire history of video games. As far as I heard GTA 5 made it's money back from preorders. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 According to wikipedia, GTA IV has sold more than 25 million copies, so having a budget that requires 7 million to turn a profit isn't that big of a stretch. On the other hand, if they "only" needed to sell 7 million copies Rockstar would get $37 for each copy sold. I suspect they get less than that per copy, so the required number could be a bit higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 (edited) Hm, GTA's budget seems like it might be rather higher than other AAA games - I can see the music licensing costing a chunk, for example. But who knows if it'll crash, people keep on buying them and the pool of players won't shrink that much. Yeah, but it's getting to the point where they have to sell about 7 million copies just to break even. Less than a hundred games have ever sold 7 million or more copies. That's in the entire history of video games. As far as I heard GTA 5 made it's money back from preorders. Oh, I'm sure GTA 5 will do fine. There are going to be success stories even with these ridiculously bloated budgets, and spectacular success stories, which is what's going to keep driving these budgets up. The problem is that as the budgets keep going up the percentage of failures is going to increase and the losses these failures incur will continue to increase too. There is only so much money to be made per year by the video game industry as a whole, because there is only so much money people are able to spend. As budgets go higher and higher the amount of money necessary for the game to be profitable, or just break even, increases, but the amount of money to be made out there doesn't, or not at nearly the same pace as the rising budgets. You'll always have your massive success stories here and there which will entice publishers to keep funding these giant bloated productions, because when they pay off, they pay off big time, but the failures will become more and more frequent and more and more spectacular, to the point where the occasional massive success story will not be able to offset the slew of spectacular failures. Or maybe I'm overthinking this. Edited September 9, 2013 by Keyrock 2 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Fulfill your dream of being an SCV. 2 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...
Guest Slinky Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Have to keep my eye on that, might end up being interesting. Though hopefully building stuff is more complicated than how it looks on that video, going from tile to tile with mouse button down is as exciting as leveling out terrain in Minecraft, and that should be considered as a form of torture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Imagine a Space station 13 mod with that... It would be glorious! Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is out today. I'll be wearing my brown trousers tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Really interesting adventure game from Ubisoft. A hyperlink story taking place during World War I/The Great War. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/10/impressions-valiant-hearts/ I nominally abhor point-and-click adventure games (the comically obtuse puzzles of The Longest Journey forever turned me off from the genre ever since), but this has seriously piqued my interest (though it helps from the preview that the goal of the designers is to make actual real-life "situations" to solve rather than improbably contrived adventure game puzzles). I watched the trailer, and I actually cried a tear from that. Edited September 10, 2013 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 GTA V is too brotastic for their budget to be any sort of a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) The soundtrack seems nice, at least. The line about giving one's son's life is pretty funny. Edited September 10, 2013 by Malcador 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...
melkathi Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 For a moment, seeing a satelite in space, I had hopes for a Call of Duty - Dead Space crossover. Unobtrusively informing you about my new ebook (which you should feel free to read and shower with praise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 So Call of Duty is post-apocalyptic now? :> "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 The lore is getting increasingly idiotic.. So russians invade twice - then south americans? with sattelites.. ? Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 CoD has lore? 1 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undecaf Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 The line about giving one's son's life is pretty funny. Oh my god, the delivering of that line almost broke my jaw. 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...
Majek Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Kinetic bombardment in action looks nice. 1.13 killed off Ja2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 CoD has lore? War. War never changes. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 THIS GAME HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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