Wed, Mar 02, 2011 | 13:53 GMT

Wednesday shorts, part 2: Dualshock 3 goes candy blue, “Retail PC Gaming Is Dying,” more

The second installment in today’s minor story linkathon lies below. Here’s the first bit from earlier today.

  • Sony’s going to release a “candy blue” DualShock 3 in Japan on April 21, as well as a charging station for the controller. Details on Siliconera.
  • There’s an interview with Obsidian’s Rich Taylor up on GameBanshee, talking mainly about Dungeon Siege III. There’s some stuff in there about the never-released Baldur’s Gate III as well. Thanks, Blue.
  • “It’s Official: Retail PC Gaming Is Dying,” says CinemaBlend. The PC Gaming Alliance said this week that overall PC games retail is up 20 percent year-on-year to $16.2 billion, so whatever.
  • Shank dev Jamie Cheng has told GDC that Xbox 360′s Summer of Arcade promo is “dangerous” thanks to its “king-making” traits. That’s on EG.
  • Enterbrain’s reported that the top selling game for 3DS’s launch weekend in Japan was Level-5′s Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask with 117,598 units. 3DS itself sold 371,326 units of a 400,000 allocation in the same timeframe. More on Andriasang.
  • Jake Kazdal’s been talking about going indie at GDC. He previously worked at EA and Sega Japan on games like Rez: now he’s in a three-man band. More on GSW.
  • Square Enix has hired Mona Hamilton as vice president of marketing for the American branch of the company. Go nuts on Industrygamers.
  • 1Up’s got a massive feature based on a visit to Killzone dev Guerrilla in Holland. There’s some new concept art, photos and more.

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18 comments

#1

typeface
02/03/11, 2:31 pm

I do find the PC gaming article quite amusing. Not because of what they’re reporting but looking at the figures.

PC retail games are dying strongly in N. America is what it truly should read. I mean look at the figures on the link it’s declined like crazy there for retail but everywhere else the decline is mostly negligible (it’s to expected during a new console revision period, could be reversed in the current period). It should be that digital games should have caused a much greater dent but it hasn’t which means people still buy a lot of PC games in stores in Europe and Asia.

Also Japan spends more on PC games than Germany, France and the UK.

#2

Hunam
02/03/11, 2:35 pm

Japanese PC games are weird though.

#3

typeface
02/03/11, 2:42 pm

It’s the visual novel market that probably contributes most to it. But not all of them are weird, some are quite good and have some interesting/entertaining stories.
Of course they also have the whole eroge market but don’t think that’s the strongest genre.

#4

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:21 pm

Game devs are making more from DD than retail. I mean console gaming has rented, piracy and the used game market. on top of that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony get a cut. On top of that publishers are losing money on packaging,shipping and retailers get a cut. DD you skip the middle man.

pc gaming destroys console gaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yncJ98ZRc

#5

Crysis
02/03/11, 6:23 pm

Why would you possibly give a flying fuck about where companies make the most profit, all this loyalty to an OBJECT is fucking pathetic, grow the fuck up.

#6

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:25 pm

more profit means more games for the future. Bankrupt game devs means less games for the future.

#7

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:28 pm

PC gaming is worth billions. BILLIONS! So that is a big deal for retailer.

consoles can’t compete!

#8

Crysis
02/03/11, 6:31 pm

& apparently you know exactly how the entire industry works, you talk about digital sales being more profitable than retail, but there’s a reason as to why that retail still exist, they need to reach as many potential consumers as possible to sell enough copies of the game otherwise they’ll never make up for R&D & if they can’t make up for R&D they’ll never be profitable, consoles magically going away would close more developers than it would save.

#9

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:31 pm

vavle is like 4 billion richer because of pc gaming.

hardware for pc gaming is at 16 billion

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/249802,pc-gaming-on-the-up.aspx

#10

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:33 pm

yep I know the gaming industry vavle 4 billion richer

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newell-videogames-valve-online-mayhem.html

#11

Crysis
02/03/11, 6:34 pm

Stop pretending that you actually know nothing, every time you post you make everybody a little angrier because it seems that you actually believe in your own bullshit.

#12

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:36 pm

I don’t need to pretend, oh by the way I left links for you too.

#13

Crysis
02/03/11, 6:40 pm

Still don’t understand the point that you’re trying to make, you want consoles to die because you personally think that they’re stupid? Am I right?
Every piece of shit you dribble out is “blah, blah PC gaming is awesome look @ pointlesslink.com blah, blah” or “wah, wah console gaming is shit wah, wah” get a life!

#14

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:42 pm

consoles can’t compete and will soon die if they don’t adapt. the writing is on the wall.

#15

Gekidami
02/03/11, 6:44 pm

lol BDH didnt even know Rockstar owns the Max Payne IP. What an industry noob. ;)

#16

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:44 pm

pc gaming is not getting small it’s getting bigger ;)

#17

blackdreamhunk
02/03/11, 6:49 pm

oh and PC gaming hardware spending expected to rocket

http://www.techeye.net/hardware/pc-gaming-hardware-spending-expected-to-rocket

#18

DeathJynx
04/03/11, 8:44 am

BDH… you are some kind of ignorant…

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