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Takao · (12-31-2011, 06:25 PM)

Two thirds of the way in

Also, Wii U is evidently not a next-gen platform.

Happy New Year!

Drkirby · (12-31-2011, 06:26 PM)

I sometimes wonder if Apple is just buying these people off, or they really think the iDevice is the holy grail of gaming. Or maybe they are really that desperate for hits. I mean, who visits cnet?

AceBandage · (12-31-2011, 06:26 PM)

Welp, pack it up.
Time to move back to Pogs.

PSFan · (12-31-2011, 06:27 PM)

I really hope this iOS fad ends soon

Gravijah · (12-31-2011, 06:27 PM)

ps2, ps1 retroactively canceled.

fly high ~ayunite~ · (12-31-2011, 06:27 PM)

What if he's right though

Ranger X · (12-31-2011, 06:27 PM)

Ok this shit is reaching common histeria. WTF

EloquentM · (12-31-2011, 06:27 PM)

I'm not sure what I'm hearing here exactly. Would someone care to explain?

Heavy · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

Wait I just saw an Opiate post and now it's gone??

Relaxed Muscle · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

That means that people won't even had to cancel their pre-orders.

Wario thread obsolete.

Quote:

Molly Wood is an executive editor at CNET, host of the Buzz Report, Buzz Out Loud, and Tech Review at CNET TV, and author of the Molly Rants blog. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.

It's a trap!!

Hyuga · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

Originally Posted by Takao:

Two thirds of the way in

Also, Wii U is evidently not a next-gen platform.

Happy New Year!

A whole new thread for these shit "news"?
Really?

echoshifting · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

Ridiculous claim. They're after your click.

Sadist · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

This is getting out of hand. Seriously.

Gravijah · (12-31-2011, 06:28 PM)

Originally Posted by Heavy:

Wait I just saw an Opiate post and now it's gone??

i can sell his post to you for 10,000 zenny

cw_sasuke · (12-31-2011, 06:29 PM)

Seems like you can write about anything these days....

AceBandage · (12-31-2011, 06:29 PM)

Originally Posted by Heavy:

Wait I just saw an Opiate post and now it's gone??

Gold Members can still see it.
:P

iKeepPlaying · (12-31-2011, 06:30 PM)

Originally Posted by EloquentM:

I'm not sure what I'm hearing here exactly. Would someone care to explain?

Keep throwing shit to the wall and something will stick.
That's what happening.

You should wonder if: Someone is paying them for writing this kind of articles. Or, they're just looking for hits.

bdizzle · (12-31-2011, 06:31 PM)

When you think about it, iOS is really all you need. Why spend $60 on a game when you can get 60 games for 99 cents each!

Omiee · (12-31-2011, 06:31 PM)

god this is getting annoying

Luigi87 · (12-31-2011, 06:31 PM)

... Wow, they really did claim that.

Well, time to do what's expected...
My prediction for 2012 is journalists will still be making asinine predictions regarding certain trends.

SolarPowered · (12-31-2011, 06:31 PM)

We should make an all encompassing "Doooooomed" thread that covers the gaming industry as it is viewed by the mass media. Leave normal GAF prediction/speculation threads and level headed news coverage out of it and we are golden.

This is some ridiculous and misinformed ish.

Vicros · (12-31-2011, 06:31 PM)

Originally Posted by Sadist:

This is getting out of hand. Seriously.

First thing I said too. Can't remember the last time I saw so much panic and doom. I mean there's always panic and doom in this industry, but damn.

Kimosabae · (12-31-2011, 06:32 PM)

Doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

meppi · (12-31-2011, 06:32 PM)

Originally Posted by PSFan:

I really hope this iOS fad ends soon

iOS isn't the problem though, far from it actually.

The problem is idiots believing that it can replace the type of games that one gets on most dedicated gaming devices.
It might in the future, don't get me wrong, but with the current design it's not going to happen. Unless they find a fix for the virtual controls and the mess that goes along with it.

Every device has it's place and strengths as well as weaknesses. The problem is idiots hailing the shiny new item and automatically predicting the death of everything that resembles a system of old.

ASIS · (12-31-2011, 06:32 PM)

3DS: DOOOOOMED *ends up selling about half a million in one week... in one country*

PSV: DOUBLE DOOOOMED *Prediction?*

DMeisterJ · (12-31-2011, 06:32 PM)

smh

JaseC · 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Heavy:

Wait I just saw an Opiate post and now it's gone??

Not to imply anything nefarious, but I would prefer there was more transparency - in regards to reason - when mods/admins move/delete posts (and close/delete threads). I understand that explaining a thread move or deletion (or, alternatively, a post move/deletion) is an inability owing to software, but it takes all of about five seconds to post why you're closing a thread.

Edit: Edited to seem less world-ending. :p

hardcastlemccormick · (12-31-2011, 06:32 PM)

Not only will the Vita never come out, but it also will have never existed.

electroplankton · (12-31-2011, 06:33 PM)

Originally Posted by Hyuga:

A whole new thread for these shit "news"?
Really?

It needs to be brought to attention.

Relaxed Muscle · (12-31-2011, 06:33 PM)

Originally Posted by bdizzle:

When you think about it, iOS is really all you need. Why spend $60 on a game when you can get 60 games for 99 cents each!

But if you think even more about it, Android is really all you need. Why spend 60$ dollars at all, when there are many free games on Android?

Shalashaska161 · (12-31-2011, 06:35 PM)

Man I wanna be a blogger. Trolling for hits = easiest job ever.

pharmboy044 · (12-31-2011, 06:35 PM)

Originally Posted by fly high ~ayunite~:

What if he's right though

I'm pretty sure a device that is less than two months away from release will not be all out cancelled due to how it did in the first two weeks of it's life span in another region.

Takao · (12-31-2011, 06:36 PM)

Originally Posted by EloquentM:

I'm not sure what I'm hearing here exactly. Would someone care to explain?

This is CNET's 2012 predictions podcast and one of the writers decided to bring the topic to gaming. They basically all came to the conclusion that traditional handheld gaming is dead, replaced by smart phones, before the host made the incredibly bold prediction that Vita won't even be released in the US.

As for the Wii U comment, another one of the hosts predicted that 2012 will see Microsoft announce the new Xbox for release in 2013, being the first next-gen console announced. Wii-U? More like Wii-Who are You?

Originally Posted by Hyuga:

A whole new thread for these shit "news"?
Really?

These are the people who write opinion articles on why the handheld market is dead. If they say such ridiculous things like this, no one will ever take their opinion seriously, which is what we need.

Chinner · (12-31-2011, 06:36 PM)

Originally Posted by PSFan:

I really hope this iOS fad ends soon

I hope the 'fad' of bad articles will end eventually (it won't), but not iOS gaming. It owns.

Sammy Samusu · (12-31-2011, 06:37 PM)

Quote:

About Molly Wood

Molly Wood is an executive editor at CNET, host of the Buzz Report, Buzz Out Loud, and Tech Review at CNET TV, and author of the Molly Rants blog. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.

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kittens · (12-31-2011, 06:38 PM)

soooooooooo dumb.

Wario64 · (12-31-2011, 06:39 PM)

So she trolls pretty much everyone? Sounds like my type of girl

Opiate · 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by JaseC:

Not to imply anything nefarious, but I would prefer there was more transparency when mods/admins move/delete posts (and close/delete threads).

Edit: Edited to seem less world-ending. :p

In some cases, this might be a good idea. In others, we would drown in arguments about whether Sony really does smell like dead fish, and why would moderators close it when it's obviously true and the moderators are just suppressing facts about how stupid and ugly Sony is.

A simple thread closing can turn in to a slaughter. I've actually been on the forefront of some of these threads -- where we try and explain our behavior --and it is typically both unenjoyable and time consuming to handle.

Sometimes, an explanation of moderator actions can be helpful. I do this on occasion. In others, it only incites angry, irrational people to be more angry and irrational than before.

Or, put more directly: GAF is not moderated by committee. For those interested, in this case, my comment was simple and snarky. I try to avoid such comments, even when they are obviously warranted, as they are in this case.

legacyzero · (12-31-2011, 06:39 PM)

GODDAMN YOU iOS!!!

TOTALLY buying a Vita

Kurod · 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Gravijah:

ps2, ps1 retroactively canceled.

Turns out the game industry never really recovered from the crash of '83 till all the iDevices saved it from all those icky dedicated handhelds. Eww

tuffy · (12-31-2011, 06:40 PM)

Originally Posted by Relaxed Muscle:

But if you think even more about it, Android is really all you need. Why spend 60$ dollars at all, when there are many free games on Android?

Because I don't have an infinite amount of leisure time to spend sifting through hundreds of free (or nearly free) games, it's more economical to spend $60 on a title that's likely to provide X hours of entertainment.

GQman2121 · (12-31-2011, 06:41 PM)

OP should copy and paste the article so that people don't have to actually click the link.

Wario64 · (12-31-2011, 06:41 PM)

Originally Posted by GQman2121:

OP should copy and paste the article so that people don't have to actually click the link.

It's a podcast.

Ranger X · (12-31-2011, 06:42 PM)

Journalism nowadays is so fucking random...

The Vita is canceled, Beyonce is not pregnant and I am Santa Claus.

Takao · (12-31-2011, 06:42 PM)

Originally Posted by GQman2121:

OP should copy and paste the article so that people don't have to actually click the link.

It's a podcast, so unfortunately I can't really give a run down. I listened to it once just to verify what they said, and left it at that.

Chinner · (12-31-2011, 06:42 PM)

Originally Posted by Wario64:

So she trolls pretty much everyone? Sounds like my type of girl

what if you loved her so much she trolled your heart?

Y2Kev · (12-31-2011, 06:43 PM)

I just got a preorder cancellation email from Amazon. Seems like this is coming true.

Kiriku · (12-31-2011, 06:43 PM)

I predict sony will somehow release vita for ios in 2012

Ridley327 · (12-31-2011, 06:44 PM)

Originally Posted by GQman2121:

OP should copy and paste the article so that people don't have to actually click the link.

It's a podcast.

DXB-KNIGHT · (12-31-2011, 06:44 PM)

We are doomed free+ and 0.99 games is the future