This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

wolfzero01 — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:11:19 GMT

Where's Bionic Commando, wasn't it supposed to come out this week, and its pretty funny reading the comments speculating that these two releases are already candidates to be delisted

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

Cynic — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:53:37 GMT

Playing Sudoku with a controller... that'll be fun then. Playing it on my DS with the stylus, free online with a mouse or good old-fashioned pen and paper in the garden all come before dropping 800 points on this I'm afaid. Does anybody sense check this release? Or was it just something easy to code that could be priced highly? You do make it hard not to be cynical at times guys.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

pointless — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:27:05 GMT

2 completely crap games, wsting bandwidth on the servers and a "spot" for other games

whats the point of releasing such s***.

but thinkin bout it, you will remove it in 6 months so s'all good.

s'pose you have to make it look like your providing still.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

WhiskyBR — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:17:57 GMT

I love me some Warlords, but it really needs a spin controller. But we'll give it a shot.

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Quicksilver4648 — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:10:13 GMT

Warlords? HECK YEAH! I loved that game on the Atari 2600. I am sooo going to buy this.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

fuwafuwax — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:06:02 GMT

Will Buku Sudoku be available in Japan? I wonder that because the word "Sudoku" is trademarked here in Japan.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

Dyeus — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:13:10 GMT

I think delisting games is a very very GOOD idea... keep up the good work guys

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No Fear Man — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:58:44 GMT

Johnny Sinister,

You're probably mostly right....however most of these people that are talking about delisting these games are just automatically saying they are bad just because they themselves don't have any interest in playing them. Apparently they think that any game they don't like shouldn't be released. It's rather pathetic really.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

Jenova — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:52:59 GMT

I'd love to see the Genesis Shadowrun game, but it won't happen. I asked the devs of the horrible new game about it on the official forums, and they didn't know how to get permission or something for it. Horrible game.

Sudoku is free in the newspaper and just about everywhere. Why pay 10 bucks for it?

Come on, why is it that people in charge of making and releasing games games are often so far divorced from the reality of gaming? It's like record executives sometimes...

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

ColdMolasses — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:50:17 GMT

these will be delisted 6 months from now...

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

GhStRdR2k — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:48:29 GMT

I thought Bionic Commando: Rearmed came out this week

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

Johnny Sinister — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:42:13 GMT

This whole delisting process is just giving people more to complain about.

Not every game can be a masterpiece, so it will be expected that many games will be delisted. On the other hand, we can wait for Microsoft to pre-evaluate games that worthy to stay on the marketplace, but then you won't get a game every wednesday and certainly not two games like this week. Either way, people are going to complain.

This is the first Xbox live Wednesday since the delisting announcement and there are already tons of speculations about games being delisted that HAVENT EVEN COME OUT YET.

I doubt most people going on about the delisting process have even read the entire article. In order for a game to even be a candidate, it must be out for 6 months. Even then, there is a three month warning period before a game is delisted. That is nine months. Plenty of time for a game to make its expected earnings.

Delisting is not a method of preventing games from hitting the xbox live aracde, but rather a quality control method that keeps quality over quantitiy but at the same time still gives games a chance.

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

Kigmal — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:11:38 GMT

lol they are lisitng games that will be delisted .. nice...

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Galrikh — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:26:38 GMT

If you continue with delisting games then I will no more buy any Arcade-Game. I did like the Arcadegames before and have many of them, but with this delisting 'feature' I don't trust them anymore

re: This week on Arcade: Buku Sudoku and Warlords

sublime78 — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:56:24 GMT

I actually like the old retro 5 dollar games. I wish for more actual console ports from Genesis and arcade ports cause they are easy. We should get a couple of those every week like the Wii and then new more expensive titles like Castle Crashers ever couple weeks or once a week. And serious note to Microsoft and FASA, plese release the Genesis version of Shadowrun, THAT will sell, it goes for a good bit on ebay so why wouldn't people pay. Same with Square's old games... why doesn't Square contribute to the Arcade??

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Kotatsu Neko — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:28:52 GMT

I haven't bought an arcade game since Ikaruga, and this week isn't going to change that. Meanwhile Sony have Echochrome and Nintendo have Lost Winds, Final Fantasy, and Metal Slug. Remind me again, why does Xbox Live cost money to subscribe to?