Bungie Co-Founder Starts Own Studio

12 responses to “Bungie Co-Founder Starts Own Studio”

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   Blood Apathy

   February 24, 2012 at 10:27 am

   I honestly question how some of these bigger scale game devs would cope with the mobile market. I mean, big ticket titles like some of the fighting games sell well for the higher price. But not sure how many people would pony up 12-15 bucks for a more in-depth experience on their mobile device.

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   djmattyg007

   February 24, 2012 at 10:36 am

   anyone who wants hardcore gaming on their mobile device is deluded.

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   Stephen

   February 24, 2012 at 10:38 am

   Thier are a bunch of in-depth games for a dollar from old game imports from developers wanting to make some extra bucks, so the market already has a vast collection of great games so unless the Mobile Market is truly inelastic than this is doomed to fail.

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   MrGaz

   February 24, 2012 at 10:47 am

   mobile games ≠ core gamers

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      Matthew K

      February 24, 2012 at 10:53 am

      I could argue whether you’re right about that or not, but assuming you’re right, wouldn’t a game company trying to develop really solid games for mobile devices be more likely to improve that, than just letting people buy Angry Birds over and over again?

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      Johnny Sweetbread

      February 24, 2012 at 10:53 am

      My Atari Lynx, Lemmings cartridge and 16 AA heavy duty batteries would disagree with you.

      I also believe:

      Number of Mobile gamers > (Number of Console gamers + Number of PC gamers)

      So what IS a core gamer? Someone with a superiority complex?

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      1. 

         NegativeZero

         February 24, 2012 at 11:32 am

         The best explanation I’ve seen for the divide between the ‘hardcore’ and ‘casual’ games is that it’s all about the mindset you’re approaching your games with, not the games themselves.

         One camp plays games to pass time. The other makes time to play games. Mobile games are dominated by games aimed at the former, but the latter group will play those games too.

         Case in point: the first game I spent time playing on my Vita was Lumines. ‘Hardcore’ system, but Lumines is a simple block-matching puzzle game with a Tetris lineage. However I set aside half an hour or so to play it, I wasn’t just sitting on a bus or something killing time with it.

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            Johnny Sweetbread

            February 24, 2012 at 12:06 pm

            I like your explanation. But I disagree that playing games to pass time does not mean you are a core gamer.

            I think it is much more white than black and white.

            IMHO, anyone who plays games is a core gamer. Platform, time played, reason for playing, game played is irrelevant. I love Words with Friends, just sayin’. Zygote on a triple word score FTW!

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   Bob

   February 24, 2012 at 10:51 am

   Omni should read Oni

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      Tracey Lien

      February 24, 2012 at 11:22 am

      Thanks! Fixed.

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   Fenixius

   February 24, 2012 at 12:27 pm

   The first mention of the new studio has the name wrong, I think? “Industry Toys” should be “Industrial Toys”? ^^;

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      El Kapitan

      February 24, 2012 at 1:30 pm

      Yeah, he’s right, even the headline picture says Industrial Toys 😛

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