The Arcade Random Thoughts Thread

[Maynard]

It's way early in this gen of console 'wars' but this article concerning the sales so far is quite telling. It just popped up in my Google cards feed. As speculated before, the sales reported by Sony (7 mil) are sold THROUGH. The sales reported by MS (5 mil) are sold TO retailers. Big difference. So what is really the gap?

http://time.com/67954/5-reasons-the...les-figures-dont-mean-what-you-think-they-do/

interesting reading there. its no no surprise to me that the gap is larger than it appears. MS is charging more for what i think is a inferior system. most intelligent shoppers go for value and that value is the ps4.

funny that MS sells in double the market and is still getting its ass kicked

 

[ThomasTomasz]

interesting reading there. its no no surprise to me that the gap is larger than it appears. MS is charging more for what i think is a inferior system. most intelligent shoppers go for value and that value is the ps4.

funny that MS sells in double the market and is still getting its ass kicked

They are charging that $100 more for a peripheral that some don't even use, like myself. That certainly plays a part in things right now. I think the gap would be widened if not for the XB1 also containing a Blu-Ray player this time around as well.

 

[Twigg4075]

They are charging that $100 more for a peripheral that some don't even use, like myself. That certainly plays a part in things right now. I think the gap would be widened if not for the XB1 also containing a Blu-Ray player this time around as well.

It's not just the Kinect. They marked that thing up like a mfer so they could make a profit on each one sold, which is unheard of in at least the first year of a console's cycle. Not that I'm surprised in the least.
Apparently making a profit early was more important to them than getting the system into as many homes as possible.


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[Twigg4075]

While I do think Twigg is taking it too seriously, PT always does. I don't know how many times he asks for a link for something in order for him to take it as fact. Then if they don't he jumps all over it saying it must not be true then. So naturally when Twigg asks him for a link and he dodges it, I can see a poor response. Too bad Twiggs persistence that makes him look crazy shadows the actual fact that a link wasnt provided.

The funny thing is that nine times out of ten he would ask for a link as proof when it was something that was widely known to be accurate and the fact that he was asking for proof was laughable. Other people would chime in with "PT,there are numerous articles on Kotaku, Joystiq,etc about this" and he'd claim he was at work and didn't have access to those sites so he still needed a link. Yet I'm asking for proof on his completely bullshit statements that he apparently pulled directly out if his ass and he keeps ducking. I even went tontgevtriuble if searching the tweets like he suggested just to prove what a Xbox defender fraud he is.
But yeah, I'm craaaaaaaaaazy.

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[Maynard]

the other thing that really helps MS is the XBL experience and that friends want to play with the friends they made over the years. there are a lot of 1 system buyers who only bought the xb1 because they know all their friends will be playing it too.

 

[Twigg4075]

the other thing that really helps MS is the XBL experience and that friends want to play with the friends they made over the years. there are a lot of 1 system buyers who only bought the xb1 because they know all their friends will be playing it too.

That is absolutely true. It seems like everyone I know that only has a 360 and now only has an XBone their common response when asked why they made that choice is "That's what my friends had. I upgraded to Xbox One because I'm familiar with Xbox."
Speaking of crazy and insanity, what's the definition of insanity again?

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[Maynard]

i still dont think psn is nearly as good as xbl. psn is very clunky and the friend interaction is still very lacking. of course that opinion is based on 360 and ps3

 

[Twigg4075]

i still dont think psn is nearly as good as xbl. psn is very clunky and the friend interaction is still very lacking. of course that opinion is based on 360 and ps3

I definitely agree with that. But PS4 is almost night and day to PS3. Plus XBOne seemed to regress with its UI and removed a lot of features that made things user friendly on 360. They seem to be slowly bringing those features back with updates though.

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[IamMedellin]

lol

 

[Garrett67]

Gonna fire up Backbreaker later and try this roster.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=663912


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[Garrett67]

Gonna fire up Backbreaker later and try this roster.

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=663912


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Now I remember why I never really played it.


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[Maynard]

garrett just trolled himself

 

[Twigg4075]

Which Griffey game was the better one on SNES? The first or second?

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[Swarley]

Yeah, buddy. Give me that rumored 2D Prince of Persia that runs on the UbiArt engine!

 

[ryne candy]

Which Griffey game was the better one on SNES? The first or second?

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I personally liked the first because of the graphic style. The guy in the video mentions the art style.

 

[Twigg4075]

Thanks. I'm tired of waiting for the RetroN 5. I think I'm just going to plug the SNES in and start a season.

 

[JayDizzle]

Played and beat the story for Octodad: Dadliest Catch.

Two things:

-For less then $12 you can pick in up for PS4 through PS+
-It is ungodly short for what it tries to accomplish.

This being said, the game makes its point and doesn't dwell too long on side-story points and fetch quests.

Basically everything you do in the game has a reason behind it to further things along... but... if you want to dick around and see what mayhem an octopus-in-a-suit can do, there's that option as well.

I won't get a chance to try the co-op portion of the game but I hear-tell each player gets the control of a tentacle to move Octodad with.

I'd say it's worth a buy if you want to get something new to sit down and play for a day and show off to friends as a tech demo.

 

[buckeye]

Played and beat the story for Octodad: Dadliest Catch.

Two things:

-For less then $12 you can pick in up for PS4 through PS+
-It is ungodly short for what it tries to accomplish.

This being said, the game makes its point and doesn't dwell too long on side-story points and fetch quests.

Basically everything you do in the game has a reason behind it to further things along... but... if you want to dick around and see what mayhem an octopus-in-a-suit can do, there's that option as well.

I won't get a chance to try the co-op portion of the game but I hear-tell each player gets the control of a tentacle to move Octodad with.

I'd say it's worth a buy if you want to get something new to sit down and play for a day and show off to friends as a tech demo.

About how long was the game (at least for you)?

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[JayDizzle]

About how long was the game (at least for you)?

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I started at 8 EST and finished the story in 3 hours.

This was after struggling with the controls a bit and restarting a few times when I got stuck in the level.

Nothing major or game-breaking but know that going in if you choose to play it.

Also, if I were the company who made this (Young Horses), I'd put out a timed demo of the Super Market level for people to check out.

Shit's AMAZING.

 

[buckeye]

Damn I guess I'm gonna have to check it out.

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