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General Discussion / Re: Do you think the x86 architecture of this console generation will give to the PC

« on: February 28, 2013, 11:31:50 PM »

For those who still dream, it will depend on really one thing :

- Development Libraries

OpenGl or directX doesn't really matter when you have a good architecture for development (it matters only for really advanced technologies like orderless transparency (which doesn't exist in OpenGl). A lot of western developer uses the PC to test and create games and test only at the last moment on console (Japanese developper start to do it too, but it takes more time there. We still see "bad" coding from japnese developper with a lot of "magic words").

The real problem will be with what you have to do "for the console" like for example for microsoft xbox, manging the dashboard, the cross chat, the achievement, etc... It will also depends on what console maker asks : if you still have to support/ and non-lcd TVs.

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: February 20, 2013, 11:18:39 PM »

Quote from: maverick375 on February 20, 2013, 08:35:44 PM

Yawn.....

Well... Whatever the heck gets released, it can't possibly be as late as Duke Nukem Forever.
I'll continue to wait patiently.

Sadly it could still be completely put to trash, so it could be worse (or not). my educated guess is that a lot happen behind the screens (and tons of paper / mail) and that SpaceDrake really start to be as impatient as us ;p

Quote from: Ravel on February 20, 2013, 07:39:49 PM

Quote from: SpaceDrake on February 20, 2013, 01:20:25 PM
Miku is plotting to kill us all with green mystery (vegetable) juice.

Glad you liked it

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:38:03 AM »

Quote from: Tsugumi Henduluin on February 20, 2013, 07:09:02 AM

Maybe it's just me, but really I hope that doesn't end up being P4. Not planning on switching over to Windows 8 any time soon... Or ever, if I can help it. :/

Ys has also been released as "windows 8 version" and run flawlessly on windows 7

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: February 20, 2013, 04:19:50 AM »

Quote from: Ravenholme on February 19, 2013, 11:56:11 PM

Quote from: Xmalek on February 19, 2013, 11:26:22 PM
Something is teliing me that this is project 4.

It's a big project (two games to translate, with all project that xseed has now i think they won't have time to translate it by themselves). It could have been announced with Ys but it took some time due to unforseen problems and i could clearly see some "this is madness" joke inside :p

XSEED have said that there is no likelihood of a TitS release for a long time, as the first on PSP wasn't very profitable. However, this could be XSEED throwing out a smokescreen due to their usual "close-to-chest" nature.

I suspected it was TitS, I reckon it's TitS or another Nihon Falcom game like Zwei II or some such. (I would say Xanadu Next, but one of the XSEED guys was involved in Fanslating that, so I guess if/when they release it they'll just use the Fanslation with some coding clean up from Sara)

if my memory is right, Xseed have said that there is no likehood because of the PSP. This port is on PC, which can make the game way more profitable...

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: February 19, 2013, 11:26:22 PM »

Something is teliing me that this is project 4.

It's a big project (two games to translate, with all project that xseed has now i think they won't have time to translate it by themselves). It could have been announced with Ys but it took some time due to unforseen problems and i could clearly see some "this is madness" joke inside :p

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: February 13, 2013, 10:41:19 PM »

Already nearly a month since last failed anouncement, and i'm more and more thinking that we will heard about this project in... 6 months...

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General Discussion / Re: So... do we have any idea what project #4 is?

« on: January 02, 2013, 02:14:24 PM »

Quote from: LilithTome on December 30, 2012, 09:45:58 PM

Quote from: TheSwordUser on December 29, 2012, 09:57:58 AM
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Berry said they're planning to announce most of their 2013 lineup in mid-January, and it includes "a pretty big announcement" for a game that isn't even out in Japan yet.
iwanttobelieve.jpg
I'm having some ridiculous fantasies right now.

it's "Project happiness" which is next Mistwalker big project (Nobuo uematsu played a track of this "not yet annonced mistwalker project" when he was in paris) and it was fucking awesome).

On topic : on twiiter SpaceDrake has said that

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I will definitely be glad to get properly home. Especially since these next few weeks might be among the most important I've ever had.

so i'm guessing we maybe will have news Soon™

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: For the love of god, please bring this to the vita!

« on: August 13, 2012, 10:03:20 AM »

Let's try to be realistic here, releasing it on vita would cost way more money.

Let's say they put a developper and a graphist that do it in 4 months (which i reaalllllllyyyy doubt since it's a pc game port it would usually take at least 6 months seeing how 3d rendering is "bad" on vita) ~2*4*3000$ (cheap programmer btw) + vita devkit price (~2000$ if my memory is right) + 500$ per QA submission to Sony (you need at least one, and you usually need 3 of them) + let's say 3000$ of other people doing the papers / relations with sony / marketing (which means the game has near 0 marketing)

which makes at least 24000$ + 2000$ + 500$ + 3000$ ~= 29500$ let's round it up to 30000$ (which seems really too low)

Knowing that sony take 30% of the sale price and that the first "3000" copies are "for free" (maybe they changed that but for the first psns games it was like that)

if they sold it 10$, they should sell at least 3000 + (30000/(10*70%)) ~= 7300 games sold on PSN for vita, which seems to be quite a lot for a console that don't go "so well".

I don't know if it will goes well but an xbla / windows 8 port seems more "profitable".

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Der Dräkblög / Re: Delays and their causes

« on: January 30, 2012, 10:48:02 PM »

It's good to seee FS at first place but like recetear i doubt it will stay long. I just hope this means ton of money for carpe fulgur and lizsoft.

(wow just see the first page banner on steam, don't know if you pay for that but if you don't congrats !)

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