Thoughts “round-up”…
Posted by James | Filed under Gaming, Opinion
I haven’t been posting much recently but that doesn’t mean i haven’t been thinking…. er, about the site!
Mark Rein (of Epic Games fame) has officially stated that there is at least half of all current gen 360 owners playing on SDTV sets. This validates my point (which i ranted about in one of our podcasts 
) about developers supporting type faces that display properly on SDTV sets…. and which, in my opinion, are often still too small on HDTV sets anyway. Rare backtracked on their oversight and fixed the font sizes in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts but there are lots of games out there for which the writing is just illegible and fuzzy on SDTVs.
It’s just pure laziness on the part of developers to not test this stuff and discrimination on the part of developers against people who have less and perfect eyesight. You shouldn’t have to wear glasses to play games when you don’t to watch TV or a DVD/Blu Ray disc on your HDTV. Looking at other HD content, you’ll notice that the writing in programming doesn’t have decreased screen real estate – so why does it in games?
Next up, the Wii sales decline…
Following on from the price increase of the Wii, Nintendo are still not considering re-lowering it. Despite decreasing sales and a competing product that undercuts it (the 360) Nintendo surprisingly aren’t considering the fact that now their product is over-priced (especially in its life-cycle)… no. Instead they’re blaming the dip in sales of console hardware on a lack of big titles on the Wii. I find this funny because Wii Sports Resort is out, now, meaning that the casual gamers (i.e. the majority of Wii owners) should be lapping this and the Motion Plus hardware up like the proverbial ‘hot cakes’ – which would drive word of mouth and thus sales of the Wii console…
Despite all this, i’m going to predict that the Wii will see a price reduction within the next 6 months. Why? Partially due to this sales decrease…. but mainly because they brought those extra production facilities online to account for the huge demand and those facilities are presumably still pumping out Wii components which will be piling up somewhere by now. Having lots of unmovable inventory is not good business (just ask the car manufacturers!) and to head off any complaints from share holders i believe that there’ll be a modest price cut within 6 months because i can’t see demand increasing to the levels it was at during this economy and at their level of installed base.
2 Responses to “Thoughts “round-up”…”
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Destrin Says:
August 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pmIt’s also pure laziness on those dinosaurs who refuse to upgrade to HD
Get with the 21st century guys! -
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