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Official Video Games Thread VII: The 7th Generation Comes To A Close

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Twitch Boy said:
The dubstep gun. My life is complete.

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Oh. My. God.
 
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Amazon-exclusive Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition includes free year of NFL Sunday Ticket

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The Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition, which will be available for $99.99 at Amazon on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, includes a copy of the game as well as exclusive content for Madden Ultimate Team, the series' popular digital trading card mode. Anniversary Edition buyers will receive 17 special Ultimate Team packs of cards, one for every week of the 2013 NFL season, with each pack containing two rare players, four silver players and four bronze players.

But the real draw of the Anniversary Edition for football fans comes in its special offers for DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket service, which allows subscribers to watch every out-of-market NFL game on Sundays during the season.

DirecTV non-subscribers can sign up with a promo code for $10 off each month of service for their first year, as well as a free full-season subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket Max. As the higher of the two tiers of Sunday Ticket, Max usually costs $299.95 for the five-month NFL season; Max also enables access through the NFL Sunday Ticket app on PlayStation 3.
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Finally broke down and picked up Bioshock Infinite this week. Beat it on Wednesday afternoon. If you are a bioshock fan you should like this one. I preferred the new locations to the dark and dreary underwater worlds. Good story with an interesting ending. Not as "OMG WTF" as the end of Red Dead Redemption, but still good.

Also got the season pass, so I await the 3 future DLC.
 
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So, the XBox One...believe it or not, I'm actually impressed.

Sure beats what Sony and Nintendo are trotting out. The Kinect is still a bit gimmicky, but I like how the system integrates with the TV with the side widget, etc. Looks like Microsoft is going to be the one to go all-in on the "one stop media center" trend. If the rumors of always-on DRM getting scrapped are true, they might have found a niche here.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
So, the XBox One...believe it or not, I'm actually impressed.

Sure beats what Sony and Nintendo are trotting out. The Kinect is still a bit gimmicky, but I like how the system integrates with the TV with the side widget, etc. Looks like Microsoft is going to be the one to go all-in on the "one stop media center" trend. If the rumors of always-on DRM getting scrapped are true, they might have found a niche here.
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Don't know about DRM, but every game is a one-shot deal with some yet unannounced way of "trading in".
 
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Twitch Boy said:
So, the XBox One...believe it or not, I'm actually impressed.

Sure beats what Sony and Nintendo are trotting out. The Kinect is still a bit gimmicky, but I like how the system integrates with the TV with the side widget, etc. Looks like Microsoft is going to be the one to go all-in on the "one stop media center" trend. If the rumors of always-on DRM getting scrapped are true, they might have found a niche here.
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Well, that went to hell in a handbasket...that thing is straight outta Orwell.

All Nintendo has to do at their next convention is this:

Empty stage. Enter Reggie Fils-Aime stage right holding a copy of NSMBU. Enter another exec stage left. Reggie crosses the stage and hands the copy of NSMBU to the other exec.

"Sharing games with friends: a Wii U exclusive."

Scene. Mic drop optional.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Well, that went to hell in a handbasket...that thing is straight outta Orwell.

All Nintendo has to do at their next convention is this:

Empty stage. Enter Reggie Fils-Aime stage right holding a copy of NSMBU. Enter another exec stage left. Reggie crosses the stage and hands the copy of NSMBU to the other exec.

"Sharing games with friends: a Wii U exclusive."

Scene. Mic drop optional.
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I am getting old because I have no idea...
 
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Slap Shot said:
I am getting old because I have no idea...
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Twitch Boy said:
Well, that went to hell in a handbasket...that thing is straight outta Orwell.

All Nintendo has to do at their next convention is this:

Empty stage. Enter Reggie Fils-Aime stage right holding a copy of NSMBU. Enter another exec stage left. Reggie crosses the stage and hands the copy of NSMBU to the other exec.

"Sharing games with friends: a Wii U exclusive."

Scene. Mic drop optional.
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Nintendo has basically given up at this point. They're not even really doing anything at E3. Developers have given up on the Wii U at this point too.
 
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Like I've been saying for years, even though a few people vehemently disagreed, Nintendo is a dying company. I predicted the Wii U to be a complete disaster.

I posted this almost exactly a year ago today. Six months before it was released.

dxmnkd316 said:
The more I read about the Wii U, the more I think Nintendo is a dying company.
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dxmnkd316 said:
After the novelty of the Wii wore out, all I could think about Nintendo is, "The only way this company survives is if it switches over to a games-only company. Their role in the hardware side of things is going to be nonexistent."

Nintendo peaked with the N64. Since then, they've been dying a slow death. They bet on innovative interfaces over hardware power. They chose poorly.
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It's sad too. Just this week I stumbled across an image on Reddit showing the cover of the last Nintendo Power. It brought back a lot of great memories. It also made me sad to think that Nintendo absolutely blew it with the Wii U and, to SOME extent, the Wii. The Wii was great, until Kinect and Move came out. Then the Wii was not only obsolete, it was obsolete by a generation and a half. Nintendo as a hardware company is not going to survive until the next generation.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Like I've been saying for years, even though a few people vehemently disagreed, Nintendo is a dying company. I predicted the Wii U to be a complete disaster.

I posted this almost exactly a year ago today. Six months before it was released.





It's sad too. Just this week I stumbled across an image on Reddit showing the cover of the last Nintendo Power. It brought back a lot of great memories. It also made me sad to think that Nintendo absolutely blew it with the Wii U and, to SOME extent, the Wii. The Wii was great, until Kinect and Move came out. Then the Wii was not only obsolete, it was obsolete by a generation and a half. Nintendo as a hardware company is not going to survive until the next generation.
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I never understood the appeal of the Wii U... "we've added another interface to make your life harder"... yeah, dual screens are the wave of the future :rolleyes:

Make... things... that... work. PSx for all the issues here and there know that the core is a working product that people can use. The last iteration may have been insanely priced but that's the goal.
 
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Nintendo still has a dominant hold on the handheld market. Although that is a dying market as smartphones and tablets advance.

There were calls during the GameCube era for them to become software only and then they came out with the Wii. So who knows, maybe they just slog through this next gen and wow us in the next next gen. They're not in the desperate straits that Sega was with the Dreamcast.
 
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The Last of Us has more tens than Nadia Comaneci. So it seems good...
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Nintendo still has a dominant hold on the handheld market. Although that is a dying market as smartphones and tablets advance
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I'd almost argue they've already lost that over the past year or so to the android and iPhone market. It's sad to see such a giant dying a slow and painful death.
 
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Imagine seeing Mario on the PS4...from what I've heard though, Nintendo doesn't want to do that.
 
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