Izuno

"When God shuts a door, he opens a window." - Homer Simpson Sounds like you will be landing on your feet so congrats to you. Hopefully everyone impacted will find something.

A great question. We don't really know the true elasticity of the demand curve on games. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics)) Clearly, if $40 was the new $60 then more people would buy more games for sure. Publishers are terrified to lower the prices of software for fear they won't make up the profits. They assume that demand for a game is fixed based on quality (metacritic) and some measure of buzz and then ad spending. We know it's not like that in reality, but when you get lots of suits and MBAs in a room... So anyway, I firmly believe that if $60 went to $50 or $40 there would be these um, how shall I put this, primal explosion of gamerlove for new console games, retail and digital. The problem is quantifying the, um, volume of such gamerlove. So until that is provable (which I doubt it truly is) we're all going to twist in the wind. Notice how both MSFT and Sony did not announce software prices?

Hey, easy on the lady. Yeah, maybe she'd had a few too many of those starbucks drinks but if she's buying video games at all, that money helps out the industry. And since you were also at the show, you know damn well she's at most 1/3 the size of some other people attending.

Was just going to post that. Very interesting read.

It's all you need, folks. But if it's too expensive, here's your consolation: Kinect does seem improved. But do you care? Maybe you do.

This was in the EA booth...these people were watching everyone's screen at once as well as looking at a live overhead map of the battle.

Former EA CEO John Riccitiello checking his phone on the South Hall lobby on Thursday: Forza 5's car on display at Microsoft booth: ...and of course Sony's car on display for GT6: DayZ at the show: Anyway...will post various other photos in other threads.

Guess who gave me a demo at the Sony booth? And here IR is demoing for the person before me:

Played it yesterday on show flow...they had at somewhere between 16 and 20 kiosks for the masses to play right in the middle of the Sony booth. Every time I went by it was basically packed around it. Thankfully I only waited 10 minutes to play for 10 minutes. 1) Aye, Mazy, visuals felt a little rolled back from Uncharted and a lot of people were commenting on it but not complaining about it...as in from what I could tell people weren't nerdraging at the show about it. 2) The pacing seems excellent and varied...and I like my slow moments in action/adventure games where you get a feel for your characters. 3) The tone is very different from Uncharted's snark. Refreshing, I felt.

Sadly I did not, Geoff. I had a meeting right before at another publisher that ran a little long (couldn't get out of it) so I was late and missed my demo slot set up by EA's PR agency. Really, really, bummed since I'm getting a ton of questions from investor types about it, too (mainly @ impact on both EA and ATVI and then the Sony exclusion part etc.) Tell your crew you have stirred up the hornet's nest (in a good way). Otherwise I ran into Robert in the Nintendo booth and congratulated him (and the whole team) on what I have seen of it. If you guys have an analyst/press event anytime between now and ship my God would I love to be there.

1) "Cat and mouse" in titan vs. pilot is really interesting to me. It reminds me of an original CoD map (maybe CoD United Offensive?) that was a busted city with multi level buildings, wide streets and tanks. They had RPGs scattered about and it was just soooooo cool. It was slow paced than what we're seeing in Titanfall but damn....soo cool. I don't play much BF so maybe that's nothing special. 2) Campaign multiplayer...I'm really wanting to see how this works. If done right I think that could be cool to draw in people like me who just don't play much MP in shooters anymore. 3) Dedicated servers? Nice.

Tomorrow I am clear of all meetings....nothing but Sony booth tour, playing games and seeing demos. Will try to hit all over both halls and take photos with this

I've played about 45 minutes of almost ever MGS game since MGS2. I just cannot get into them, as much as I want to. Played about half of Patriots...and bailed. But this...the more I watch of it...could this be the first MGS game I go all the way with? Wait...what did I just type? Anyway, what Thrik said.

http://www.strikevector.net/ - Using UDK - MP combat focused - Kotaku story said this was created by 4 people. http://kotaku.com/you-wont-believe-this-is-an-indie-combat-game-512755897 And some in game footage. Music is...well not the best but impressive what 4 guys and UDK can do it seems.

Are women objects to you? Hmm....no. I am a fan of the game.

Have to say at the MSFT press conference Titanfall got a lot of silent, approving nods. It's familiar (COD with double jumps and mechs as Mazy said) and it looks good but probably not the most cutting edge possible. However gameplay it does feel evolutionary, not really revolutionary...but honestly how much was revolutionary at the MSFT conference so I can't really knock Titanfall. I'd play it. One question...is it MP only? I haven't the time to really parse through that but just curious. Still looks fun.

<---------------- that. Thus, I'm in.

This: All hail president Kang. I mean, all hail President PS4. Edit: And..... starts at $399. Boom, headshot?

I am in love with where this game is going. Open world gaming...mmmmmmmmm.

Damn will have to watch the playback later. Must....feed and put kids to bed!

When they said $499 the crowd had a "......................whuh? Really? ....................................shit." kind of moment. Priceless.

Ok...sorry for the rant above. Was cranky. Back to my senses...and off to Microsoft Press conference. Hope it doesn't suck but that's a different topic than Titanfall.

[rant...because someone (not at mapcore) said Respawn was just ripping District 9 art style (or were they on about Hawken? There is no emoticon to express how I rolled my eyes. Oh Anyway...] Suppose Respawn does indeed go with a District 9 or whatever other vibe. What if it feels like almost dirty in how closely the art direction and some set pieces feel to previously released media, be it past films, TV or games? If the gameplay is good, if the visuals look good, if it all comes together well, then I think that "vibe" they go with is an excellent idea. Think about it. This is the same crew that took SPR and basically replicated some aspects of it (using the tech available at the time) into Medal of Honor. Rinse/repeat with Band of Brothers into Call of Duty. Those are good things, I say. They let me get a bit of essence of those movies/TV shows I loved in playable form. This is what they are experts at and what the entire Call of Duty brand was about. Even Treyarch figured it out with Black Ops. Crap all you want on where CoD is today, these guys took the idea of inspiration from other media and knocked it out of the fucking park. I am PRAYING Respawn's 1st game reminds me of moments in or vibes of films that I've always wanted to play but never really was able to with a super high level of polish. That's so much of why we love AAA games. So fuck yeah, I cannot wait to see this thing up close. Hope it kicks ass. [/end rant]

Valve often goes to E3...just never on the show floor. They've had meeting rooms on the upstairs often. One year (maybe 4 years ago?) I almost got run over by Gabe and his entourage walking between meetings. He had this look of "One of us is moving out of each other's way. It will not be me." It was awesome.

Honestly I am excited to see what Respawn can do with Source. Hopefully I can get a look at it next week.