Christmas has come and gone, but David still managed to put out a show. It is a 2 man affair this week with the holidays making it difficult to bring in a special guest and the regulars out of the office, but GamePro‘s John Davison is on.
John kicks things off with an update about what is happening at GamePro and how the WhatThePlay situation played out. This leads into a review of the year in games. Bayonetta gets some time, and the guys move into talking about Q1 releases.
Prediction for 2010 take up the last half of the show. The guys are playing it pretty loose, but this makes for an interesting discussion. The big ones range from a big publisher getting bought to biggest sellers of 2010. John continues to home his idea that the future is quickly heading towards thin-client gaming, but David thinks that it is relatively further out.
Games and topics covered: Game journalism and WhatTheyPlay, new GamePro, year in review, Bayonetta, slipping schedules, predictions, Wii HD, Civ Network, digital distribution and thinner clients, Zenimax buys Valve, biggest sellers of 2010
It’s Christmas time, and the year is winding down. That means an empty office around here, but boisterous Brit and all-around great guy John Davison drops by to talk about his transition back to hardcore games press. He joins David Ellis to discuss the themes that stood out in 2009, and put on their psychic caps to make some bold predictions for 2010. When will the Wii HD be announced? Will the PSP survive the year? When will Facebook take over the games space? Tune in to find out. Merry Christmas!
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Has anyone picked up the most recent Gamepro? I'd like to know if it's worth subscribing to now that John Davison is EIC.
I actually subscribed to it a couple weeks back, so I should be getting this month's issue if I'm lucky. I'll let you know if it's good, in which case I'll probably be eager to spout off about it since I'm generally so dissatisfied with my only other gaming mag, Game Informer.
Great episode. John needs to appear more often before he goes off and produces his own show. He was a little bit pie-in-the-sky on the gaming landscape in 2010, though. Maybe he had a few fortys, I don't know – in any case it's almost forgivable, but I'm concerned that we tend to be a little U.S. centric. Are Sony and Nintendo really willing to forget that massive chunks of their market in Europe and Asia are nowhere near as connected to the internet as in the States? All I hear about from the Australian side of Kotaku is how busted the internet is there. (I mention only Sony and Nintendo as you would think that Microsoft would be the first to push forward on subscription-based models and online models due to their dominance, albeit dwindling, of the North American market.)
For that reason, the idea of Sony scrapping the PlayStation Portable and coming up with a Kindle-like 3G anywhere system is a little ludicrous if you take into account how that would work internationally. I don't think they'd only be looking to sell their next portable system in North America and Japan.
Nevertheless, some interesting predictions. We'll see if they were right. (P.S. Killzone 3/Assassin's Creed III/Resistance 3/Gears of War 3 announced if not released next year; the latter two release next year. Those are my hedges on what Davison mentioned. Any other franchises?)