03/19/07 - Episode 21: The Race Ain't Over Yet

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 498 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2007

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The February NPD numbers are out, and we take the opportunity to talk about each company's strategy or lack thereof for the upcoming months. Is Nintendo's continued success with the Wii going to peter out at some point soon as PS3 gets its sea legs? What does Sony need to do to emerge from its sales pit? When Game Boy Advance is outselling you, there's a problem.

Next up, we tackle an issue that recently bubbled back to the surface when Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack appeared on EGM Live: How review-y should previews be? Is there a line at which it stops being a preview and starts being a judgement on a game that may be a year-plus away from release? In today's blog/podcast/multimedia culture anyone with a keyboard and an internet connection can share their opinion on a game, and the PR departments of many big publishers will continue struggling to control the message.

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Big Bumpin' (Xbox 360)
Burnout Revenge (Xbox 360)
God of War II (PS2)
Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Worms (XBLA)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Arcade (XBLA)
World of Warcraft (PC)
Motorstorm (PS3)
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Def Jam Icon (PS3)
Next-gen.biz: NPD: February Software Sales Up 28%
Kotaku: February NPD Madness
EGM Live: Denis Dyack interview
TooHuman.net: Why Denis Dyack is Right (And Why Shane Bettenhausen Isn't Wrong)
Gamevideos.com: E3: Too Human Hands-On

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 21 of the Player One podcast for the week of March 19th, 2007.
0:19.8	I'm your host, Chris Johnston, and with me as always is a guy who has the processing power of two Dreamcasts duct taped together, Greg Seward.
0:28.2	Dreamcast 2, 2009. Believe it.
0:31.6	Yeah.
0:32.5	And joining us this week, back from his cross-country journeys, is the real reason Will Wright's arm is broken, Dan Dormer.
0:39.7	Hey, he made me do it.
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:43.8	How did he make you do it?
0:47.3	I don't know. He just gave me an odd look.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.1	He looked at me right.
0:52.8	He gave me the stink eye, right? He'll kick your ass, right? What are you saying? I asked when Spore was finally going to be released because, you know, we keep on seeing it, and, you know, he wouldn't give me an answer. So I had to play rough. Wow. That's, see, that's journalists. That's more game journalists should go after a story with that kind of erasity.
1:12.9	Yes.
1:14.0	That's neo-journalism.
1:15.4	Yeah.
1:15.4	That's new journalism.
1:16.7	New video game journalism.
1:18.8	Tell me when it's coming out or I'm breaking your legs.
1:23.8	Yes.
1:24.8	And you'll also be playing the role of Phil this week, right there, Dan?
1:29.3	Mega Man is the best ever.
1:32.6	That's not a bad Phil.
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