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Weekend Confirmed 153 - PlayStation 4 announcements, Year Walk, Crysis 3
by Jeff Mattas, Feb 22, 2013 11:00am PSTThe PlayStation 4 has been announced, so it shouldn't be a surprise that this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed is all about the new system, services, and software. Though Jeff Cannata is away in Barcelona, Garnett Lee and "Indie" Jeff Mattas are joined by Christian Spicer and Mike Schramm to break down what's exciting, what's concerning, and that which is still unknown about Sony's next-gen console announcements. Though PlayStation 4 is this week's focus, the crew also manages to sneak in some impressions of Crysis 3, and praise for Simogo's moody iOS adventure, Year Walk. Of course, a fresh batch of Finishing Moves brings it all home.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 153: 2/22/2013
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When gamers buy or don't buy games they aren't 'voting' for anything, you can point to COD and Madden and say 'they make them cause gamers buy them' but I could point to Portal, Walking Dead, and Heavy Rain and ask 'where are all the interesting narrative single player experiences that gamers 'voted' for?'
The answer I suspect is that publishers don't make what we 'vote' for, they make what is easier, cheaper, and what they can bleed more money from (there's no real equivalent of map packs, weapon packs, or xp boosts in the Walking Dead, for instance).
Mainly though I hate it because it implies that all we can do as gamers is choose what we want more of from what's already out there. Developers should be looking to give us things we don't even know we want, not reading market data and cranking out more of what's selling.
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They make MORE things like COD because more people buy COD. Those other experiences exist, but more people "vote" for COD. You may not like that COD gets more "votes", but you probably don't like every political candidate that gets elected either.
And people are making new things all the time, they just start with smaller developers who are willing and able to take more risks. That's how it works. It's like politics, you start out in smaller races and move up to national offices when you prove you are a workable candidate that can capture enough "votes".
Seems that voting is a pretty good metaphor for it.
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