New Games on the Horizon (the video game thread)

Xbox One is up for pre-order on Amazon. Anyone taking the day one plunge?

Last of Us comes out this Friday. While main stream reviewers get it wrong on occasion it's still ridiculously hard to post a 96 out of 100 (67 reviews) on Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/the-last-of-us).

This is a game I've been looking forward to for a while so it'll be interesting to see if it can live up to the hype.
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This is the biggest wait and see for me.


I think I've said it before that I love getting games digitally. For example recently with the Last of Us I canceled my preorder on Amazon when I found out I could download it from the PSN Store on launch day. I also said that I would have gladly payed $60 for a digital copy of Halo 4 instead of the $40 I got it at in disc form.

With PC the adaption to digital gaming has been made easy with larger hard drives and cheap prices on Steam and Amazon. With the Xbox store and the PS Store the price up to this point rarely seems to go below the standard $60 price point. Plus most people aren't willing to upgrade their hard drives even though affordable and easy options exist for both consoles.

I think games have been heading towards digital copies anyway. The thing that companies need to do is be more flexible with their pricing. Having games like Madden sell for $60 digitally a month before the next one comes out is obviously not going to fly. Even now while typing this Madden 13 is selling for $40 retail and $60 digitally. Stubborn gamers like me might drop the extra $20 on games they really like but for the majority of gamers as well as people like me who are on the fence about any particular title it's probably not going to work.

Regardless if Microsoft and Sony remain committed to addressing the concerns gamers have over pricing and ease of access the transition will go seamlessly and everyone will win, except for maybe Gamestop. However if they put up road blocks and make games harder to play as well as more expensive then things will get ugly in a hurry.

It's certainly worth taking a wait and see approach. The consoles could either knock it out of the park if they follow in Steam's footsteps or they could really hurt themselves if they are greedy and stubborn in the transition to digital delivery. I think they'll end up somewhere in the middle.

In the end I don't think anyone can blame them for making this move. All media has been moving this way for years.

E3 was today.

Seems like most people were still meh about the Xbox One. Sony is currently on stage right now.

Xbox One is up for pre-order on Amazon. Anyone taking the day one plunge?

What is the price points on these new consoles?

What is the price points on these new consoles?

$499 for the Xbox

There was a rumor that PS4 could start at $399 (I'm assuming different memory levels) but that hasn't been confirmed yet.

I'd guess if the PS4 is cheaper, it won't be by $100, more like $50

No pre-owned game restrictions or always online needed for PS4.

Kingdom Hearts 3.

Shots fired.

Sony wins. Flawless victory.

So u now need PS+ for multi-player? Did they just sneak that in there?

I was wrong, PS4 will be $399 after all

Pretty aggressive move

I think I'm going to pre-order them both and make a final choice as November gets closer

Unless Microsoft pulls an ace out of their sleeve further down the road, I think Sony may end up beating Microsoft in sales.

Now I just gotta figure out how to cough up $400 by the end of the year. Hm.