The
Los Angeles Times has news that Disney has closed Propaganda Games, the Vancouver-based developer of
TRON Evolution, the movie tie-in that the article notes has not set the world on fire since its release (they say it's sold under 200K copies, according to NPD Group). They quote Disney CEO Bob Iger saying this part of a general platform shift: "We've seen a pretty big shift in games from console to what we'll call multiplatform, everything from mobile apps to social networking games," Iger said during a recent earnings conference call. "By putting John Pleasants in to run games, not only will he focus on turning those businesses to profitability, but diversifying our presence in the business." In the interest of full disclosure I'll note that MrsBlue recently accepted a job with Disney, though she has not yet begun working there.
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Well, I for one, am glad to be one of the sub-200k. I didn't think the game was that bad, and got exactly what I paid for: A movie tie-in with decent story and ho-hum mechanics.
I will say this: The biggest atrocity of the game is what it requires to run well. I could not play the game on my Core 2 Duo E6600 w/ a 2GB GTX 460 and 8GB RAM @ 2048x1152. It was stuttery. I had to install it on my wife's computer with an i7 and *lesser* video card to get enjoyable framerates.....highly annoying.
Could really care less what reviewers or anyone else has to say about the game. The mechanics were fine for what it is, regardless of if you're expecting anything new or not. I was expecting them to outright steal stuff from Tron 2.0, and to a degree, they did. So what.
I find it slightly offensive that they have this unknown studio work on a property that valuable, probably UNDERfunded development, and expect an AAA title to come from it, and when it doesn't, they shutter the studio. Typical corporate a-holes. |
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Jan 19, 22:26 |
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Jan 19, 22:48 |
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Jan 19, 23:20 |
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Jan 20, 02:39 |
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Jan 20, 03:47 |
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Jan 20, 08:26 |
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Jan 19, 21:43 |
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Jan 19, 22:08 |
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Jan 19, 22:10 |
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Jan 19, 23:46 |
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Jan 20, 04:45 |
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Jan 20, 08:21 |
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