Analysts talk: Rock Band and GTA IV will be phenomenal, MGS4 will prove PS3 superiority
Gametrailers is running the Bonus Round show again, as David Jaffe sat down with industry experts Michael Pachter, N’gai Croal, Billy Berghammer and Shane Satterfield to talk about third-party publishers and games.
Electronic Arts (EA), being a major third-party publisher that churns out more titles than we can count per year, was definitely a hot topic. Harmonix‘ Rock Band is going to rock the world, no doubt about it. The big dilemma Satterfield sees is how the peripherals will be priced to make it sell. Will a phenomenal game come at a phenomenal price?
It’s no secret that Guitar Hero appealed to both hardcore and casual gamers alike. Croal believes that hardcore fans will dish out money to purchase the full experience Rock Band has to offer, while their casual friends will walk in to play along before deciding to get their own set of peripherals.
EA also boasts of other long running franchises, but analysts find faults in the giant company’s business model. New titles are going for EA because they want new IPs, but Pachter sees their attempts to be creative as not strong enough. EA kills new IPs that don’t work, which still limits new franchises according to Pachter.
Ubisoft is unavoidable when speaking of third-parties. Analysts find Ubisoft to be very inventive, which will put pressure on EA. Assassin’s Creed is currently a big question mark, but everyone expects it to be very big.
Grand Theft Auto IV is another title that is said to break boundaries and become phenomenal. Analysts have agreed that Rockstar doesn’t even need to hype the game to sell like hotcakes, and seeing GTA IV on E3 is unlikely. Pachter, however, thinks that Halo 3‘s release might weaken GTA IV sales, which will come out three weeks after. He added that Xbox owners aren’t GTA players, and Halo fans will be too indulged in their game to even bother with GTA IV.
Finally, Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots. They called it the killer app, the game, the pinnacle of Sony‘s hardware that will show what their machine is all about, the one that will prove that the PlayStation 3 is beyond Xbox 360’s reach; in other words, it’s the third-party title you can’t miss.
For the full Bonus Round feature, click on the Read link below.
Gametrailers is running the Bonus Round show again, as David Jaffe sat down with industry experts Michael Pachter, N’gai Croal, Billy Berghammer and Shane Satterfield to talk about third-party publishers and games.
Electronic Arts (EA), being a major third-party publisher that churns out more titles than we can count per year, was definitely a hot topic. Harmonix‘ Rock Band is going to rock the world, no doubt about it. The big dilemma Satterfield sees is how the peripherals will be priced to make it sell. Will a phenomenal game come at a phenomenal price?
It’s no secret that Guitar Hero appealed to both hardcore and casual gamers alike. Croal believes that hardcore fans will dish out money to purchase the full experience Rock Band has to offer, while their casual friends will walk in to play along before deciding to get their own set of peripherals.
EA also boasts of other long running franchises, but analysts find faults in the giant company’s business model. New titles are going for EA because they want new IPs, but Pachter sees their attempts to be creative as not strong enough. EA kills new IPs that don’t work, which still limits new franchises according to Pachter.
Ubisoft is unavoidable when speaking of third-parties. Analysts find Ubisoft to be very inventive, which will put pressure on EA. Assassin’s Creed is currently a big question mark, but everyone expects it to be very big.
Grand Theft Auto IV is another title that is said to break boundaries and become phenomenal. Analysts have agreed that Rockstar doesn’t even need to hype the game to sell like hotcakes, and seeing GTA IV on E3 is unlikely. Pachter, however, thinks that Halo 3‘s release might weaken GTA IV sales, which will come out three weeks after. He added that Xbox owners aren’t GTA players, and Halo fans will be too indulged in their game to even bother with GTA IV.
Finally, Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots. They called it the killer app, the game, the pinnacle of Sony‘s hardware that will show what their machine is all about, the one that will prove that the PlayStation 3 is beyond Xbox 360’s reach; in other words, it’s the third-party title you can’t miss.
For the full Bonus Round feature, click on the Read link below.
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