Famicom Dojo Podcast: Tales of Same Plot

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Dec.09, 2011

Should Nintendo be scared? Since the launch of the iPhone — which encouraged the rise of the Android platform — smartphone gaming is set to become a majority of the handheld market, eclipsing Nintendo for the first time since the release of the Game Boy in 1989. Sean and Vinnk explain their misgivings with GameStop, why they’re sure Nintendo expects Xenoblade to fail (or at least doesn’t care if it succeeds), and actual precedents that should exonerate Nintendo for being so cautious.

Direct Link: Famicom Dojo Podcast 30: Tales of Same Plot

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Tags: DS, Elite Beat Agents, Gamestop, Nintendo, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles

Crade Lit

People hate gamestop for sucking, which is fine, but don’t hate them for selling used games.� The whole “used games are evil” thing is a load of crap / propoganda as far as I can tell.� The used market supports the primary market.� It isn’t evil.� The ability to resell your game adds direct value to anyone buying it new.� Take�away the ability to resell and recoup some of the cost and less people will invest the 60$ on the new version.� If the publishers win and get a ban on reselling your games, it’s basically worthless after you beat it right?� Would you spend as much on games if you knew your collection had absolutely no monetary value at all (since you can’t resell anything)?� Personally I will spend .99 or maybe even 5$ on a throwaway game, but not (usually) 60$
The publishers want�total control over the�market (they’ve already got a monopoly on the new stuff through copyright), but as far as my somewhat limited understanding of economics goes, a free one�should be�better for everyone,�including the publishers unless they have some real sleezy plans for how to use that control.

I love Bioware games, but I don’t consider them RPGs.� To me, RPGs require no reflexes.� Oblivion and Mass Effect and such to me are FPS games with quests and levelling.� I love those kind of games, but they don’t feel anything like RPGs do.� Wizardry is an RPG 🙂

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Er… yeah… we don’t have a problem with used games (it’s how we get most of our stuff!), it’s just the practice of opening games (and/or letting employees take them home to play them, and/or use the one-time codes inside) and selling them as “new” that’s a problem.

But thanks for playing! 😉

Crade Lit

Heh sorry, I didn’t mean to imply�that you did have a problem with used games, just adding my two cents 🙂
I just read this penny arcade comic from your link
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/30
and got all uppitty at how “used games are killing video games” always seems to get lumped in with “gamestop sucks” these days.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Well, that sure isn’t us! �Especially if they price their used stuff so close to the new stuff, for two extra dollars (such as in the example we mentioned during the podcast) we could get the “new” copy — although it’s about as new as any of the used ones.

I guess the only thing that determines to GameStop whether a game is new or used is how much they had to pay for it.

I believe overall I would like to reward the publishers by buying new games, but when they stop printing them then the only option one has is to go used. �Also, as we’ve mentioned on the show before, new games tend to cost too much to get very many of them.

So the answer is somewhere in the middle, I guess: used games aren’t evil, and neither is building a successful business on selling them. �I’d be much happier to buy new games to support the publisher directly as long as they are a) available, and b) are reasonably-priced.

http://www.facebook.com/paul.langland Paul Michael Langland

I want to join your team in making a game. Ok I have no skills not even in art but hey a guy can dream.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

That’s okay, we don’t have an idea or any time to make one! It’ll be perfect.

http://twitter.com/pk_gojira Ryan Huehne

When you were talking about JRPGs, my mind kept screaming PERSONA 4, PERSONA 4, PERSONA 4 at you.� It’s late PS2 game, but has a good turn-base battle system, and a fantastic story.� It’s not pushing the PS2 in terms of graphics, but the design covers it for the most part.� Might be hard to find now, but it’s getting a re-release on the Vita.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Mike has litereally been trying to get me to play that for YEARS.� (I still have his copy.)
Anonymous

I have a copy still shrinkwrapped. �Special edition as well. �Your high recommendation might make this my game of the Christmas break.

BumblebeeZ3

Yes, Odama was released in America.� I snagged it on clearance and it is on my pile of shame along with Baten Kaitos.� When I learned it didn’t actually use the bongos, my interest waned, although I do still want to play it one day.� On a related note, podcast idea: talking to your games/games that use a microphone.
VomitHatSteve

I’m a programmer, and I’m explicitly bad at graphics programming.

I’m totally on board with your game design team!
http://slidingscales.blogspot.com/ TurkishProverb

Hard-copies aren’t dead. �Only the bigger music companies have abandoned them, and even then really only the bigger sellers. �Indy bands, where the innovative or, frankly,�interesting, new music tends to be, are still coming out regularly in�hard-copies..

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