ShatterShock

• F-Zero (Those Mode 7 graphics)
• Star Fox (Super FX Chip! 3D models)
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Detailed, textured models at 60fps)
• Panzer Dragoon 2 (Flying and shooting through a detailed, textured 3D environment)
• Super Mario 64 (A 3D world to explore)
• Star Wars Shadows of the Empire (Battle of Hoth, space battles)
• Final Fantasy 7 (CG cutscenes)
• Ridge Racer Type 4 (Better looking than any Playstation 1 game had a right to be)
• Soul Calibur (Models, lighting tricks)
• Shenmue (Full realized city, amazing character models and facial animation)
• The Bouncer (Too bad the actual game sucked)
• Grand Theft Auto 3 (Massive city to explore)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Never had racing games looked so good)
• Halo 4 (The full power of the X-Box 360)

I went out to shop on Black Friday, and I found two standard edition WiiUs at Game Stop (Even with it being packed full of people who had to get in long lines to make their purchases) and two standards with two deluxes at my local Toys R Us (This was 2:00am, long after the door busters were picked clean). However, I didn't purchase one because there are no games that I'm interested in playing on it. Nintendo will just have to accept my 3DS XL monies instead.

Of that list, The Wonderful 101 is the only game that I feel a need to play, and I'm not going to put down $350 ($100 too much, and no I'm not getting the gimped machine) for one game.

I've decided that I shouldn't get any more consoles until they have at least five games worth buying, but by the time Wii U gets to that point, we'll be hearing all about the Durango and Orbis. To Nintendo's credit however, I will be treating myself to a 3DS this holiday season; PSVita is a dead handheld walking and there are now enough 3DS titles I want to play.

You can't imagine all the sad faces I had to see at the local homeless shelter today. They were working on the best game ever, and were ready to set it up for submission and everything. Now this happens and their ticket out of poverty is destroyed forever. :(

@Lucidlife said:

@ShatterShock said:

@WilliamHenry said:

@ShatterShock said:

The internet age doesn't need dead tree magazines, and the end of Nintendo Power is no loss to anybody but the nostalgic.

And the people who lost their jobs right?

Such is the nature of the beast. I'm sure that the people who were good at their job will be able to find positions elsewhere.

You must be very young to think in such a way. No life experience. No fear of making the rent. In short, you must be living with mom and dad because no mature logical thinking person would react that way. It's incredibly scary to lose a job right now. It's even worse if you have a mortgage and a wife and kids to support. So take that apathetic-everything-will-be-okay crap somewhere else. The real world doesn't work that way.

Please, stop swinging at the dark. It makes you look desperate.

I would think a mature logical thinking person would know that technology is a natural job killer, always has been and always will be. Is it bad that people lost their jobs? Yes, and I've never said otherwise. I genuinely wish the best for these people. However I'm not going to give these people a disproportionate level of empathy just because they happen to be involved in a hobby I'm passionate about.

@WilliamHenry said:

@ShatterShock said:

The internet age doesn't need dead tree magazines, and the end of Nintendo Power is no loss to anybody but the nostalgic.

And the people who lost their jobs right?

Such is the nature of the beast. I'm sure that the people who were good at their job will be able to find positions elsewhere.

The internet age doesn't need dead tree magazines, and the end of Nintendo Power is no loss to anybody but the nostalgic.

Something like this is why I never bought anything from OnLive (you know, besides the lag, the blurry, compressed images and not really owning anything). I thought that ultimately, these guys would either be bought out or simply muscled out of the market by companies with deeper pockets. Now it looks like they might not even get that chance to exist that long.

Maybe not enough people are buying enough games to keep the service going as is?

See what you've done Sony and Microsoft? You've held out on making new consoles for so long that you've driven people to absolute madness. The sort of madness that allows one to look at a console with smartphone guts and consider it a good idea, or even a revolutionary one. The sort that makes them spend over $4 million dollars collectively to ensure its existence.

People say the Ouya will be an indie paradise where you'll be free of the tyranny of big successful publishers and consoles, but what happens if this becomes successful? XBLA was once supposed to be a promised land for independent development, but the big publishers saw the opportunity and started making their own small games with resources and established IPs that the indies couldn't match. The most successful indies managed to stick around, but everybody else was shoved off to the indie games ghetto, where they continued making rip offs of Minecraft for the rest of eternity.

I've tried out plenty of OnLive and Gaikai, and while it's sorta cool being able to play current games on crappy hardware and being able to peer in on other people's games as they play them, the lag of the gameplay and the muddiness of the images really kills any desire I'd have to abandon native hardware. The threat of being throttled by my ISP and the complete loss of my rights as a consumer (no more selling, trading or modding) doesn't help either.

That said, this Sony/Gaikai deal could be really awesome if they go all in and make it so that you could play your downloaded PSN games over the cloud with your PS3, PSVIta, PC, Phone and Tablet. Uncharted on my computer? Yes please.