Comments on: Confirmed – Future closes PSW

By: scratchy69

scratchy69 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:58:50 +0000

It’s sad – it was genuinely funny at times. Mostly when I wrote stuff for it.

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:22:20 +0000

From a quality standpoint, it was a typically amateur gaming magazines that suffers all the conservative pitfalls of the average gaming magazines, such as bad writing and poor scoring, and for that reason alone, it won’t be missed and it can only be a blessing to have one less shitty magazine on the shelves.

Still, it’s never nice for people to lose their jobs. Good look to these guys in finding new work.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:01:30 +0000

I just always wondered why Future was allowed that take over considering it would mean they’d basically own the entire UK gaming magazine market, including publishing it’s own competing magazines.

Maybe I should make a complaint to trading standards.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:58:11 +0000

Is one of those titles on borrowed time as well, then? Or is it just Playstation mags that are underselling?

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:54:02 +0000

Future have multiple Xbox mags as well, three I think. There’s OXM, 360World and something else.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:44:37 +0000

Can’t future be accused of unfair competition in the gaming market though by having several playstation magazines?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:42:28 +0000

I see. I’m obviously not marketing-flavoured. Thank Christ.

By: OrphanageExplosion

OrphanageExplosion — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:37:30 +0000

@Blerk – about having multiple PS3 mags – it’s all about market share. The more market share you have, the better the ad deals you can secure. PSW has presumably died now because the ad deals for games in print aren’t worth the aggravation any more.

To illustrate how important this is, or rather was, Future spent five million quid on the two Computec mags just to gain that critical mass in the PlayStation and Xbox markets.

By: rrod360lol

rrod360lol — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:37:47 +0000

I’m going to start a band called ‘the dum commets’

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:36:08 +0000

Yeah… but don’t tell him, because while he doesn’t know…

He’s like, the life of the party!

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:33:30 +0000

BDH has no idea that Console gaming makes 5x+ more income than PC game per year does he?

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:21:15 +0000

He’s making more and more sense!

FUCK YOU DEVELOPERS!

LAZY, GREEDY AND STUPID!

Why don’t they just quit making games altogether? That would make everyone really happy.

By: oi oi oi

oi oi oi — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:20:07 +0000

Shut up!

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:18:03 +0000

COMETS!

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:09:27 +0000

One word greed! Oh they like to back stab their fan base too with dum commets. One more thing console gamin will never ever make the kind of money pc gaming does ever.

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:06:17 +0000

Wait, Crytek are now developing console versions of their games, after openly highlighting how many PC sales they’ve lost due to games piracy.

Why are the developers of top-of-the-range PC games going into the console market, if that market’s got less than a year to live?

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:59:17 +0000

Blerk, re multiple single-format mags – To sell more ads.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:52 +0000

Oh really, it cheaper to make 360 games what a joke.
It’s fact it cheaper to make a pc game than it is a console game. It’s also why console gamers pay more for their games too. Oh and that price of games is going to get bigger as pubishers lose more money on consoles.

the very reason pc gaming has more games than console is because you don’t have the same kind of fees that consoles do.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:52:33 +0000

So even if that’s the case, surely the 360 is easier and cheaper to develop for than the PC?

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:50:52 +0000

Oh I see, I must hve miss that article.some how I still don’t beleave it cost 20 million for sony to make. not when they have a crazy hard cell to code for.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:49:12 +0000

No, but you like to read (VGChartz) reports wrong. It said 60 million.

And then reports came later that it cost just over 21 million.

Which is the average for an HD generation game, on the PC as well as the console.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:46:16 +0000

wow people like to put words in my mouth

it cost not 60 million to make killzone 2, It cost sony 50 million to make that game. Kill zone 2 is not in par with crysis sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWRskYLdno

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:45:24 +0000

No sooner do TEA and G1GAHURTZ become awesome, and Shatner leaves. A proper crazy arrives.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:44:40 +0000

@Blerk xD

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:44:29 +0000

Oh christmas sales are not going to be good. nintendos console gaming will be dead. Ps3 will not have a good come back even with the ps3 slim.

this console gen is finshed

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0000

Killzone 2 will NEVER have cost 60 million (as the reports stated). Believe me, I have had this conversation many times.

But Crysis will have been much the same, becuase it was couple with engine and technology development.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:43:03 +0000

What do we think VG247 will be posting about once gaming’s dead?

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:41:39 +0000

August 13 2010 -let’s all meet here again, a year from now, to discuss the (by then) recent death of the console games industry.

Or, alternatively, to laugh at bdh.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:36:53 +0000

you can think what you want but truth speaks for it self!I expect a bigger decline never year. I have been right about the decline. In fact I have been right a number of things.

So call me names all you want, call me troll all you want it’s not going to stop the decline in sales. It’s not going to stop the rising costs. It’s not going to stop companies from going bankuprt.

right now I am laughing at some people at edge web site that did n’t think that a console decline would not have happened.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:36:08 +0000

Don’t feed the troll guys!