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Nintendo Direct, Jack Trettons PS4 Heartbreak, Call of Duty Sales Drop, and More

2013-12-24
this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Linda calm nintendo announces Hyrule warriors why Playstations Jack Tretton has a broken heart call of duty ghosts numbers jon rettinger plays outlast and new game releases let's get out of controller hello and welcome now to controller the weekly TechnoBuffalo show that covers all your gaming news reviews demos and new releases and an easy to digest capsule form I'm your host Ashley sceva it's always a big week in gaming so let's start out with the news yet another Nintendo Direct was held almost a week ago but we're still pretty excited about all the goodies nintendo president satoru iwata had in store for us already announced games featuring kirby yoshi chibi Robo Donkey Kong Luigi and more all had new trailers but we might be most excited about a new Zelda spin-off with the working title Hyrule warriors made by the team that brought you the dynasty warriors franchise Hyrule warriors takes that same action brawler premise and sets it in the world of Legend of Zelda owada though also assured gamers this was not nintendo's new first party Zelda game in case you were worried and it would arrive on Wii U sometime next year if you want but having gotten your hands on a Playstation for you you might have noticed they're kind of tough to come by this holiday season well that fact is not lost on PlayStation us head honcho Jack Tretton who joined PlayStation Blog cast 101 to express his genuine sad at the fact that some folks can't find a ps4 to purchase he said quote it breaks my heart but that was followed by if somebody's got four hundred dollars in their hand and they want one and we can't sell them one so I guess he's not exactly heartbroken for you exactly he's more heartbroken Sony can't take your money either way let's hope for more widely available stock sooner rather than later market analysis firm Cowan and company is reporting sales of call of duty ghosts down nineteen percent compared to a similar time frame for call of duty black ops 2 any other year that might seem like a disastrous drop especially considering we've seen murmurs of gamers using terms like recycled gameplay and tred about call of duty but there are a couple factors to consider before predicting doom for the franchise first it's a console generation shift and some gamers might be waiting on picking up another call of duty until it lands on next gen consoles officially and second Activision apparently pre-warn investors call of duty ghosts might not live up to previous sales numbers let's play as a feature on our gaming channel where a member of a writing staff plays game and talks about it over the footage this week our very own jon rettinger takes on the survival horror indie game outlast and seriously it's like the funniest thing ever to watch him freak out when stuff jumps out at him so you should totally check it out I got to take one second to thank our friends and sponsors at lynda.com you can learn it at Linda calm and online learning company with more than 77,000 video tutorials that teach software creative and business skills membership starts at just 25 dollars a month and you get twenty four seven access to high quality video courses taught by expert instructors with actual real-world experience videos range from bite size tutorials all the way too long comprehensive courses in subjects like web design programming photography business animation and more we have a special offer if you want to check out Linda calm no Buffalo fans get a free 7-day trial by visiting Linda calm / TechnoBuffalo they add new courses every single week so it's always a great time to start that's Linda calm / techno Buffalo finally it's Tuesday which means new games it's a pretty light week because of the holiday but there is one game that dropped last week you might want to pick up nes remix is available on wii u in the eShop and it's kind of like a wacky lab experiment featuring scrambled up game mechanics and new goals for pre-existing stages that have been pulled from nes games that's it for this week's out of controller feel free to give the show a thumbs up if you enjoyed it no pressure and i'm going to give you two channels for the price of one to subscribe to subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel for all the latest and greatest tech news and also subscribe to our dedicated video gaming channel TechnoBuffalo plays for trailers gameplay videos and deeper gaming analysis from our team of experts thanks for watching see you guys next week
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