This makes no sense... Person from Ubisoft leaks information to her... She reports it... She's now an attention seeker. Any other journalist would've reported it too if they had that information.
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Rumor: BG&E2: Odyssey is a Switch timed exclusive (12 months, then PS4/XB1/PC)
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This makes no sense... Person from Ubisoft leaks information to her... She reports it... She's now an attention seeker. Any other journalist would've reported it too if they had that information.
It is when talking about series already selling millions.
AHA-Lambda
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Yeah, you are. Take a chill pill.
Do you get this worked up every rumour and leak you see?
Not really considering the argument was that third parties never do well on Nintendo but if you really want I could name some of the other successful IPs on 3DS?
Press sneak fuks and attention seekers are everywhere!
IronicSonic
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People really think Nintendo will announce BGE2 as "timed exclusive"? It read that way
Wandering Robot
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I don't know how being a timed exclusive would work out for the system or the game, but it certainly makes the Switch's library more appealing.
finalflame
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Good. Switch needs as many exclusives as it can get.
Jaded Alyx
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Eh..something tells me it'll have no problem in that area.....
Jonneh3003
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Being an exclusive will give it some spotlight, the original sold terribly.
Besides it isn't a permanent exclusive so we all get to play eventually
BlueBomberX
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After years of the company telling the consumer they need to buy their games for PS3 and 360 in order to make the sequel, they're making it a Nintendo exclusive? Thanks for ensuring it's the end of the series and no one will play it.
I'll wait for the ports. I've already waited years, and I'd like to play one of the better versions on halfway decent hardware.
I'll wait for the ports. I've already waited years, and I'd like to play one of the better versions on halfway decent hardware.
Thats nothing new. The first game bomb.So BG&E2 will bomb as well?
Sure.
Lord Ghirahim
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Can't wait for Epic Mickey-tier graveyard threads.
The following are million sellers:
Dragon Quest
Monster Strike
Puzzle and Dragons
But we can exclude them if you really want and just list stuff like:
Youkai Watch
Fantasy Life
Bravely Default
Those are just ones of the top of my head.
McGruber21
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I think this makes a lot more sense than Bayonetta 2 did, so why the complaints? BG&E is more in line with what Nintendo produces than Bayonetta was, and the first game released on a Nintendo console, unlike Bayonetta.
Also anyone asking why Nintendo would want this as an exclusive, clearly hasn't seen Nintendo's recent 3rd party game lineup. They will take anything they can get, and of all of the current games in development hell, BG&E just makes sense for Nintendo to pull a Bayonetta 2.
Also anyone asking why Nintendo would want this as an exclusive, clearly hasn't seen Nintendo's recent 3rd party game lineup. They will take anything they can get, and of all of the current games in development hell, BG&E just makes sense for Nintendo to pull a Bayonetta 2.
DriftingSpirit
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I see what you're saying but it isn't going to matter in the long run. Gaf is going to Gaf regardless. Sure, some of the excitement and anticipation will have dissipated for online forums like this but Nintendo and the devs can absolutely deliver.
As a dev, I would just look at it as being part of the internet culture of today. It sucks but you just do what you can do for the presentation to the rest of the market outside of internet forums.
Sure, but you have to start from somewhere. Beggars can't be choosers.
Pancakes R Us
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You mark this post bro, because it'll happen on the 21st of NEVER.
SolidSnakex
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But who is it really going to appeal to outside of hardcore fans. And are those hardcore fans going to be willing to buy another platform to play it? It doesn't seem likely. Kinda like with Bayonetta 2. It has a hardcore following, but those hardcore fans probably aren't going to spend several hundred dollars in order to play it.
I'm not even salty about it as I defended the rumor that surfaced early last year suggesting that it was a full exclusive to the Switch. But this timed exclusive thing? That really doesn't make any sense.
Bayonetta made far more sense. B2 wouldn't have been released without Nintendo stepping in. Sega had abandoned it and it would've gone unreleased. That's why it's exclusive to the Wii U. This being timed exclusive means that UBI is willing to fund its development, but they're willing to give it to Nintendo for a year of exclusivity. Which doesn't really make a lot of sense.
thisisvlad
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"Nintendo needs to court third parties and money hat games"
*Nintendo does*
"This timed exclusive is a terrible idea"
*Nintendo does*
"This timed exclusive is a terrible idea"
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God I love these kind of post, they always deliver.
I think he means 3rd party.
What it really needs are non-exclusives. It needs to be in the conversation with multiplatform games.
I didn't let monster hunter slide and you pull out dragon quest? Come on. Those others i can accept. Though i never heard of the other two under it. Is one/both of those a mobile games? Anyway better job.
Who said they need to moneyhat?
That's why said you can exclude them and yes those are adaptations of mobile games. I misspoke though Monster Strike hasn't quite yet sold through its one million copy shipment.
James Scott
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Still not too convinced. At least based on Ancel's posts.
Hope that it's good if true
Hope that it's good if true
TheMagician
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The original BG&E will probably be on the GameCube virtual console.
Jaded Alyx
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........................................................................This is a good point/idea.
BlueBomberX
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One look at your post history, and it's clear where you're coming from. Why are you trying to elicit a negative response from me?
How do you think nintendo fans felt when all the profits to ubisoft wii games went to making big budget 360 and ps3 games that never came to wii?
Mass_Pincup
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And you know this how?
So BG&E2 will bomb as well?
Of course. Every one of these vaporwares will end up bombing.
Because they said so?
"Guillemot said the company's casual games business was "extremely profitable" and helped to finance the initially costly development of games for next-generation consoles -- Sony's (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) PlayStation3 and Microsoft's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox 360.
According to the Ubisoft CEO, developing a casual game costs anywhere between 1 million to 4 million euros depending on the number of platforms with which it is compatible.
By comparison, a normal game developed for the Wii costs 5 million to 10 million, and one designed for use with the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 10 million to 20 million euros."
I'm fairly sure Ubisoft flat out said that was their strategy last year generation.http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=184305
What is this actually contradicting? I've been reading transcripts, and the only thing he mentions about hardware is how current hardware can make his vision possible, which implies that was the issue why it wasn't able to get to a point where it could actually be presented on PS3/360.
If the issue is that it's being announced too early as its now entering full development... well, it's not like people waiting for BG&E2 already are going to be particularly surprised.
Apparently this isn't isolated to this forum. Not sure what this is about but its on multiple forums today. (unless same people are cross posting maybe) Makes no sense to me.... 2017 insanity right from the get go!
Mass_Pincup
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I mean in the same article they say that casual games (I assume stuff like Red Steel, Far Cry, or Tenchu doesn't count here) are only accounting for 20% of their revenue.
But I didn't know about that, thanks.
There's been some case of "attention whores" leakers or insiders over here on GAF, which are banned now.
Rayman Legends was originally touted as a Wii U exclusive as the release date came closer the game was delayed and released across all platforms, it launched the same week as a GTAV did, it still sold over 500,000 on Wii U, if I recall correctly(I think PS4 outdid it).
AHA-Lambda
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Eh, if it's timed then it's not really an exclusive.
Plus, let's face it, historically, 3rd party exclusives mean jack shit in terms of sales.
BlueBomberX
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If they felt annoyed in the same capacity, then their feelings were misguided. The reason Nintendo's platforms don't get the same games is because of the limitations of the hardware (the fault of Nintendo); it would require crushing creative vision and gimping titles significantly for three significantly more profitable platforms with much larger user bases.
I also think you may be misunderstanding what I'm saying to some degree. I'm not annoyed that I'm not getting the game for my platform of choice day one per se, it's more that it's going to significantly harm the game's chance of success by alienating many who would buy it via their previous practice. You don't openly demand money from specific platform holders for a specific purpose and then change platforms. No one has ever openly done that to Nintendo gamers (that I'm aware of). Using pooled resources one can assume partially (minimally) came from one platform for future projects is not one and the same and should be expected.
In general, don't support the idea of paying companies to postpone production for other platforms. It's dirty and anti-consumer. Paying to have a game made that otherwise would not have happened (Bayonetta 3), I'm perfectly fine with, however.
Spyder_Monkey
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So BG&E2 will bomb as well?
BG&E2 would sell terribly regardless of the platform.
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