Comments on: 4 Guys 1UP: 12/25/2009 http://www.castmedium.com/2009/12/26/4-guys-1up-12252009/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:50:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: @mgscholar http://www.castmedium.com/2009/12/26/4-guys-1up-12252009/#comment-928 @mgscholar Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:56:36 +0000 http://www.castmedium.com/?p=7398#comment-928 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?) 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?)

]]> By: JonCole http://www.castmedium.com/2009/12/26/4-guys-1up-12252009/#comment-922 JonCole Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:06:59 +0000 http://www.castmedium.com/?p=7398#comment-922 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. 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.

]]> By: AlfredPMcLovely http://www.castmedium.com/2009/12/26/4-guys-1up-12252009/#comment-920 AlfredPMcLovely Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:08:36 +0000 http://www.castmedium.com/?p=7398#comment-920 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. 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.

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