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ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

That’s definitively untrue, and why would Nintendo take that deal anyway?

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business

This is a fighting game without offline multiplayer. Brilliant decision.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Secret actor behind Metal Gear Solid 3’s EVA revealed after 20 years

She was not credited as Jodi Benson for years.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Two of the best VR games ever just launched, and you need to play them – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for October 2024

I’d love to, but I’m not buying anything from Meta. They’re exclusive-ing this market to death.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31%

The Switch starts at a lower price point, it’s available at Walmart, it’s more durable for the average child to handle, and Mario/Pokemon/Zelda are what someone like Warren Buffet might call a “brand moat”, where nothing’s really going to interfere with that business model.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w Batman: Arkham Origins (2013) - TV Spot [YouTube]

And the multiplayer was surprisingly good. I heard that some enterprising modders managed to revive it, and I’d love to play it again someday.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

Concord? No, it didn’t, but this article isn’t so much about Concord.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

For the New York Times, that’s not really their incentive system compared against their subscription model. Still, it’s a disparaging difference between how they treat both industries. Losing hundreds of millions of dollars would be news in any industry.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

Like I said though, they do have some really great articles in gaming, just not with their own header, so they’re harder to find. And they do know what isn’t covered by other outlets, because they tend to do profile pieces rather than news coverage. But if Joker’s sequel is worth writing five articles about, surely the largest failure we’ve seen in games is worth one, you’d think.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

I didn’t move the goalposts. I brought up some of the other publications listed in the article.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

How about CNN, ABC, BBC, etc.?

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

I agree that theater is something that New York has in abundance over most areas, but are there not movie focused sites better delivering those articles on movies as well? Is it not worth covering something at all just because it’s at other news sources? If it wasn’t, any news outlet would only print exclusives. And this extends beyond the Times, as the article points out; that’s just the outlet I personally have a subscription to, and their circulation extends far and wide regardless.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

Do you think more people care about the average video game story or the average story about the theater? Live performances, not movies. Theater, Dance, and Visual Arts all get their own sections in the NYTimes, for instance, but video games are demonstrably bigger and don’t get the same attention. There’s rarely even a mention of the likes of Call of Duty in mainstream media when they do exceptionally well, let alone exceptionally poorly, and that’s really the crux of the article.

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

Sounds familiar…

ampersandrew, 4 miesiące temu do games w A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

I think it’s a story when it’s perhaps the largest flop in the medium, much like John Carter. It’s somehow worth writing five articles about the Joker sequel flopping.