Red Steel (Wii)
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| Release Dates |  | 11/19/06 |  | TBA |  | 12/8/06 |  | TBA |
Red Steel is a first person action game developed specifically for the Wii. Players will be able to swing a katana and shoot a firearm using the Wii remote and nunchuck. Using the controller in a tossing motion will determine how a grenade is thrown in the game. Shaking the nunchuck will reload the gun.
The developers say Red Steel will feature a very intelligent AI. AI allies will be able to take care of themselves. Enemies will move with their environment to attack you, such as jumping on a table instead of running all the way around it to reach you. The player will also be able to force foes to submit without killing them by stopping the katana right before impact. This may convert the opponent to instead join the player.
Red Steel uses a modified version of the Unreal Engine 2.5. The developers are working to improve the graphics beyond the screenshots that have been leaked and players should not expect current screenshots to be the final game.
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5We know there are a bunch of people who work at Gamestop and Best Buy here. Perhaps you guys can share a bit on how you guys order inventory and if you guys can return excess copies of games that never sold. I don't know if this is known at the retail level or we need somebody on the supply chain side...but perhaps someone can shed some light here.[ Guru ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 260 ]bids
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5@Laoldar, the current 90 DKP stock price is definitely indication there is doubt that Ubisoft has actually sold 950,000 copies of the game rather than shipped.
If it were just people getting bored of the stock and moving capital elsewhere, the market makers would maintain an at least 95 DKP bid price.
Now that is the market interpretation. Personally, I don't know about this. The statements clearly say sold not shipped. Channel stuffing doesn't mean you sold any copies. Publishers can "ship" as many as they want at launch, but that doesn't mean they have sold them.
I know for sure the retailers don't just pay $42 for each copy of a $50 game at launch for X copies of the game and then hold on to all those copies as they price cut over time (thereby losing $12 on cost of materials when the game is only $30). The retailer gets price protection from the publisher if they decide to budget the game down in price.[ Contributor ] [ Level 12 ] [ Rank: 808 ]bids
6If I'm not mistaken, from the publisher's viewpoint it doesn't matter. Once it's shipped out to retailers, they've received their money. If the retailer doesn't sell it, that's their problem...the publisher has already received their payment. Whether it's sold that week for $50 or 6 months from now for $15, it'll eventually be sold. People shouldn't care about sold/shipped except for tracking trends on games for future sales.
This stock trading below 95 means two things:
1) Most traders feel that the number won't be moving much higher than 95 and their money is better invested elsewhere
2) Many people are confused as to what shipped/sold means to a publisher.
Except in cases like the GTA Hot Coffee recall, I don't believe that games get returned to publishers (unlike DVDs).[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]
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