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PLAYERESSENCE : NPD 2015 February: PS Vita and PS Vita Sales Numbers (Rumored)

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:01:06 +0000

Most of those units were sold when stores lowered the prices of the Vita TV and the bundle. No one was going to buy that system with no accessories for $100 and the $139 bundle was far more reasonable by the time they lowered the price to $100. Combine this with the limited game compatibility and silent launch, and it really shows that Sony had no confidence about this system at all and brought it over here solely due to Western media attention. I'd only get a Vita only if was going for clearance and even then, only a few games interest me on the handheld (Sony's first-year lineup and Dangan Ronpa mostly). The memory card prices alone are what's making me balk from even getting the system at the moment.

PLAYERESSENCE : NPD February 2015: Top 10 Best Selling Games

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:47:59 +0000

Not going to comment much on this one, but for all of the people who allowed Evolve and The Order to be widely frontloaded (either due to hype or from bile fascination), this is my thoughts on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0Bm_HfX-s

PLAYERESSENCE : Sony is Shutting Down PlayStation Mobile in July

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:00:58 +0000

Heard about this service three years ago, and it's a shame that Sony went into this with absolutely no confidence at all. They never bothered that much with quality control, few third-parties took it seriously and it all felt like a way to shut their mobile investors up. Not even making the dev kits for PSM free, and providing free games from it could give much incentive to support the service considering how Sony badly mishandled it.

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Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:10:25 +0000

Something completely out of random, but Francis, have you ever attempted God Hard difficulty in Vanquish? If you managed to conquer Challenge Mode and collected all of the achievements, then God Hard should be the next logical step. Few people have managed to even beat this mode, and if you managed to, then you'll be a legend among legends.

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Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:37:27 +0000

Sigh, get pokemon2069 outta here. He's doing nothing but shitposting here.

PLAYERESSENCE : Gamers Blast Nintendo's Twitter Account over Wil Wheaton's Casting for Code Name STEAM

Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:12:27 +0000

Shit, just because this guy who probably has a really nasty attitude on the Internet shouldn't mean that I can't enjoy it. I already played the demo and really enjoyed it, and I didn't give a shit that this so-called Anti-Gamergater was in this. He's not even in the same league as the real loonies who happen to oppose GamerGate like McIntosh. Did Adam Baldwin's opinions prevent me from enjoying Half-Life 2 or Mass Effect 2, which he had some roles in? No. Did Doug TenNapel's attitudes towards certain minorities prevent me from playing The Neverhood, Earthworm Jim or his upcoming game, Armikrog? No. Do the attitudes and opinions and behaviours of people like Gene Simmons, Joss Whedon, Vic Mignogna and certain Republicans prevent me from enjoying the music, films, and media they created that I'm interested in? FUCK no. Even if some people are known to be assholes on social media sites and other places, we shouldn't let our prejudices get in the way of our enjoyment of what we watch, listen to, or play. Again like I said with the Tomodachi Life non-controversy last year, vote with your wallet, and it turned out people did with that game.

PLAYERESSENCE : tri-Ace Acquired by Nepro Japan, Becomes Dedicated Smartphone/Mobile dev .....

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:55:19 +0000

I'm actually shocked that most of Tri-ace's standalone work after 2010 never made it outside of Japan.

PLAYERESSENCE : tri-Ace Acquired by Nepro Japan, Becomes Dedicated Smartphone/Mobile dev .....

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:26:37 +0000

We all should've seen this one coming when Resonance of Fate (horrifically underrated game) flopped hard and they were reduced to grunt work on the FFXIII trilogy. Hell, Sega and Konami treated their handheld titles like shit and they were kicked to the curb (since they never even came out of Japan). They deserved a better fate than this. R.I.P.

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Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:08:36 +0000

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/20/tri-ace-boug... The company you once knew as Tri-ace is dead. They've been bought out by a mobile company and will probably barely resemble the old company.

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Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:38:53 +0000

http://t.co/ebrDI8BN31 This link also confirms that the Wii version will come out as well.

PLAYERESSENCE : The Order 1886 Completed in 5 Hours

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:42:28 +0000

I wouldn't mind a short experience as long as the game was good, but this game simply doesn't have anything worth noting aside from the game's production values. The gunplay is derivative and mindless, the game's puzzles are a joke, it constantly takes the controller away from your hands, there are large parts where you don't do anything but watch, and the ending is an insult. Game length aside, there's nothing here that can justify a $60 purchase from me. It's one of those fire-and-forget games that I feel won't be remembered after this year. Edit: What was really insulting was this sequence near the end of the game (http://youtu.be/LMJXArtfcxo?t=4m32s) where they basically copied the same scenario from the start of the game only without gameplay. And the "final boss' is also very similar to an earlier boss in the game. Can't believe the developers would be this lazy in recycling sequences.

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Mon, 9 Feb 2015 01:22:49 +0000

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/564490... Anyone watching AMC tonight will get a chance to see these New 3DS XL commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2hjnQ7Ui0E Please post this ASAP.

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Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:54:05 +0000

You don't have to wait long for Xenoblade Chronicles 3D to come out in NA as it will be released on April 10th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xuRbkXcZ8&f... Codename STEAM, Majora's Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4 and this? That's a fantastic lineup for the New 3DS over here.

PLAYERESSENCE : Club Nintendo is Going out with a BANG! Tons of new Games and Rewards Added

Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:18:35 +0000

If only those servers on Club Nintendo could work for once, then I could actually get my hands on some of those rewards. UGH!

PLAYERESSENCE : Nintendo Creator's Program Bollocks - The Jimquisition

Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:12:56 +0000

In my view, the only worthwhile videos from him are the ones where he plays bad Steam games and (sometimes) encounters meltdowns from their creators since they can't take criticism. I also stopped watching Jimquisition because of what you said actually.

PLAYERESSENCE : Nintendo Creator's Program Bollocks - The Jimquisition

Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:05:59 +0000

Those companies probably acted under the "free advertising" mentality by giving Youtubers money to allow them to make money off the games they were paid to promote while the companies got nothing in return. A scummy business we live in, especially when we saw that WB took an endorsement from PewDiePie to promote Dying Light and yet reviewers can't get review copies of the game before launch. I think I also saw something similar with advertisements for horror games like Evil Within as well. Anyways, Jim should've thought better than to do something like this. It's a growing grey area that more people need to understand better and should've expected when companies (not just Nintendo) started content ID'ing videos of games recently.

PLAYERESSENCE : Sega is Cutting 300 Jobs, Restructuring Process Started

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:11:23 +0000

What sucks most about these recent events is that Sega could possibly pull out of the Western market (or at least slowly retract) with their restructuring in the West and transitions to the mobile market. This was ironically the very same market where Sega had the most success in during their heyday, but then again, Sega wasn't the best managed game company in the first place and that mismanagement came back to bite them hard.

PLAYERESSENCE : Contact Us

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:29:01 +0000

For those who are still complaining, keep in mind that this is still a BETA. So anyone who registers for this service can give feedback to Nintendo so they can refine and improve their Youtube policies before it's official launch in late May. These rules they're enforcing right now are not final and can change by then.

PLAYERESSENCE : The Legend of Legacy is FuRyu's Best-Selling game at Launch

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:27:22 +0000

Localizeitlocalizeitlocalizeitlocalizeitlocalizeit will anyone please localize this and bring it to Western shores?

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Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:34:42 +0000

Confirming one of my fears for this game, Resident Evil Revelations 2 will allow for microtransactions in Raid mode where you can pay to continue playing a mission you died in: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-28-resi...