Is Fan/Media feedback good or bad for game development? (SCS:41)

Nintendo reveals the SNES classic will be available for preorder at certain retailers later this month

Has Nintendo learned from its previous mistakes?
Does this open the window for other plun-n-play devices to become preorder-able?
Will this even matter? Will there be enough preorders, or will retailers have to cancel because they overbooked?
- Walmart had started taking preorders early, and just about every one of those preorders was cancelled

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Sony Pictures TV to aquire Funimation

Sony will have 95% of the anime distributor for $143 million
Funimation CEO Gen Fukunaga will remain CEO and have a small stake in the company
- Sony already own a smaller subsidary in an anime production company you may have heard of called Aniplex
How could this possible change things for Sony? For Funimation?
- Does this benefit both parties?
Last year Funimation entered a partnership with Crunchyroll
- Will Sony’s new aquisition, do you think this will effect the partnership with Crunchyroll?
- If so (and not for better), keep in mind that Sony and Funimation may lose existing licenses on anime and dubbing
And lastly, how does this affect the Anime industry as a whole?
- Anime is becoming more mainstream with each passing year, will this bolster or recline Anime in the future?

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Opinion Piece: Fan/Media early backlash before a games’ release, and the potential impact it has on a development studio and its game going forward

Pacific Rim: Uprising has unfortunately been pushed back…..for a month. New release date will be March 23rd 2018
Modders have created a Kermit the From skin in Dragonball Xenoverse 2, this new puppet super saiyan is taking the internet by storm
EA’s NBA Live series is coming back this year with NBA Live 18, and for the first time ever in a video game, you will be able to play as WNBA players and teams
Mario is growing up! For the first time ever, a standalone Mario game is getting an ‘E10’ rating, above its ‘E for Everyone rating’. It has not been displayed how or why this rating has come to be
Microsoft reveals 3 new controller designs for its controllers. This is not part of the custom controller line
Square Enix next title in its popular RPG series, Dragon Quest XI, sells 2 million copies in two days! Currently released in Japan for PS4 and 3DS, the 3DS version has sold more that half of that total
Lucas Films has hired a new writer for Episode IX. Jack Thorne will now be the writer and rewrite the script, though it is not known how extensive the rewrite will be for the 2019 film
Capcom announced two more characters for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite! Firebrand and Dormammu.
An apparent leak on the internet shows the possiblilty of new features for the iphone 8! 3D face scanning, a full touch screen face, and the removal of the home button
Niantic ran into a handful of issues during their Poke’mon Go fest this past week. In addition to that, some attendees are suing for reimbursement for travel and other expenses, for lack of the advertised experience from the event.