Baconsammy
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Always good to be a Scrooge on Xmas and put restrictions on what your kids can do with their brand new gifts? Wonderful parenting.
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Wonderbook: Book of Spells |OT|
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Always good to be a Scrooge on Xmas and put restrictions on what your kids can do with their brand new gifts? Wonderful parenting.
Goldenroad
Member
You can buy your kid a lot of real books for $80. Regardless, I guess it's something for that kid that already has everything (ie. My nephew).
"DISCLAIMER: MAGIC SPARKLY EFFECTS DO NOT ACTUALLY FLY AROUND YOUR HEAD."
This looks much better than i was expecting, to be honest. My kids are still a bit too small for it though, maybe next year the oldest one will be fascinated by it, but now it will not hold his attention for long, because he has not yet been immersed into Harry Potter universe sufficiently.
They did a spot on this on Bloomberg TV at lunch time.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sony...ure-of-publishing-S34DvCNIQFSeTBHhXp3u6A.html
A bit at the end pretty much confirms there IS a trademark issue for them around using 'harry potter'. Not so surprising after seeing the ad.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sony...ure-of-publishing-S34DvCNIQFSeTBHhXp3u6A.html
A bit at the end pretty much confirms there IS a trademark issue for them around using 'harry potter'. Not so surprising after seeing the ad.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
So thats why they didnt call the game Harry Potter's Wornderbook!
LOL
Seems that the game, little has about the Potter universe or Hogwarts itself, by what the review says. Rowliang only appears in the credit's thanks.
Its like they didnt want to really pay royalites for the the real universe things and characters, or EA didnt let them use it.
In fairness, I believe she did all the writing for it. It is part of the same Potter universe, albeit staged in the past so they could avoid using the characters of Harry Potter and embroil themselves in licensing issues. As you note, another pub has the video game rights for HP.
I believe according to the lore, this book was found 200 years or so before Harry Potter was even born. Something like that.
Yes, that is strange, why isn't Harry Potter mentionned in a book that was written 200 years ago? Miranda Goshawk itself is the link to the universe, like a Harry Potter would know.
Cornbread78
Member
I wonder is there is a Wonderbook page in Facebook I can "Like" to stealth underground market for it. Looks pretty cool and really cool tech for the holidays....
NoirVisage
Banned
pharmboy044
Member
No competition. I'd take the thing that actually works.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Well, then that review is wrong, for not saying it was 200 years before. Not my fault.
Or maybe... that was the excuse to not pay any royalties to use the harry potter name and characters!
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Good trailer? Never heard of this game
Baconsammy
Banned
Grammatically or for some other reason? It's a perfectly fine sentence.
It's a bit of a weird sentence, yeah.
You'd EXPECT the most enthusiastic player to have finished it quick.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Americans eat Turkey traditionally for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes Ham but that is more reserved for Easter. Most times families will eat around 2pm instead of a later dinner so what he means is that it only has a few hours of entertainment before they will get bored of it.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Baconsammy said:
Its the sort of grammar that only passes muster when checked by a machine. The placement of "even" is all wrong - it looks like he's made a sentence out of a fragment, as in it should have been a run-on starting ", it's even likely that..."
As it stands, it reads to me that he's really stretching to be as uncomplimentary as possible.
I don't like Dan's reviews generally though, so maybe I'm being harsh, but it scanned really weirdly when I read it on EG, and seeing it in isolation on here made me want to comment.
It's fine, yours is horrible and changes the "even" into something that applies to the whole idea of something being likely, when it originally applied to the phrase "the most enthusiastic player."
Baconsammy
Banned
It works fine grammatically, but he could have just as easily said, "It gets boring after 4 hours. Don't buy it. 5." and gotten his point across more clearly.
MCV has a retailer supplement out for Wonderbook, which details the marketing plans for the UK.
http://content.yudu.com/A1zrgr/MCVb...ad/read-the-mcv-wonderbook-supplement/0106364
I think SCEA will probably be sending it out to die, but they seem to be making an effort in the UK. It looks like it'll be in and on quite a lot of mainstream magazines and TV programmes from now up to Christmas (Blue Peter, BBC News Round, Stephen Fry Gadget Man, CNN, Hello, OK, Sunday Times mag etc. etc.) along with the more usual kids tv/cinema and outdoor advertising.
http://content.yudu.com/A1zrgr/MCVb...ad/read-the-mcv-wonderbook-supplement/0106364
I think SCEA will probably be sending it out to die, but they seem to be making an effort in the UK. It looks like it'll be in and on quite a lot of mainstream magazines and TV programmes from now up to Christmas (Blue Peter, BBC News Round, Stephen Fry Gadget Man, CNN, Hello, OK, Sunday Times mag etc. etc.) along with the more usual kids tv/cinema and outdoor advertising.
Uhh wow that's pretty extensive. Good to see them trying.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I'm not a native English speaker, but the sentence seems fine to me.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
On the whole, the majority of Playstation products only get pushed in PAL territories.
There's a longer clip from bloomberg here talking about it.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sony...ney-on-wonderbook-L8GYFCyMQmGVNBv5CG0wNw.html
He says Sony expects 'many hundreds of thousands' to be sold in the UK and well into seven figures beyond.
Hmmm. We'll see.
Bonus (non-)comment on next-generation stuff there too.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sony...ney-on-wonderbook-L8GYFCyMQmGVNBv5CG0wNw.html
He says Sony expects 'many hundreds of thousands' to be sold in the UK and well into seven figures beyond.
Hmmm. We'll see.
Bonus (non-)comment on next-generation stuff there too.
Because saying "even these people" shows that the write thought of possible exceptions and ruled them out.
Gamer.nl 7/10
http://www.gamer.nl/review/402068/wonderbook-book-of-spells
XGN 7/10
http://www.xgn.nl/ps3/review/41278/wonderbook-book-of-spells/
Digital Spy 8/10
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/re...-of-spells-review-ps3-a-real-page-turner.html
Telegraph 8/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...9677232/Wonderbook-Book-of-Spells-review.html
Vandal Online 85
http://www.vandal.net/analisis/ps3/wonderbook-el-libro-de-los-hechizos/16176
Eurogamer Italy 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/20...-il-libro-degli-incantesimi-review-recensione
http://www.gamer.nl/review/402068/wonderbook-book-of-spells
XGN 7/10
http://www.xgn.nl/ps3/review/41278/wonderbook-book-of-spells/
Digital Spy 8/10
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/re...-of-spells-review-ps3-a-real-page-turner.html
Telegraph 8/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...9677232/Wonderbook-Book-of-Spells-review.html
Vandal Online 85
http://www.vandal.net/analisis/ps3/wonderbook-el-libro-de-los-hechizos/16176
Eurogamer Italy 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/20...-il-libro-degli-incantesimi-review-recensione
Could Wonderbook be the most marketable PlayStation product of this Generation?
See I'm not as crazy as I seem to be whenever I make threads about my visions.
I think it can be done really.
So, yeah...
Will dedicate some more time when I'm free and in-between Black Ops II/Declassified and other games (during the weekend hopefully); but I liked what I tried.
Packaging is simple, Wonderbook is bigger than I thought (as seen in the box pic I posted above), there's no intruction booklet of any king but a digital manual that can be seen on the XMB. The inside art of the case/cover shows the Move controller and what it does; so I guess that serves as reference/instruciton booklet too.
It starts with you wit ha small install, setting up Move, camera and book, then you link your account to Pottermore (or not), then you take a picture/clip (i.e. animated picture ala Harry Potter) and choose to be in Gryffindor, etc. Then you're introduced to the Book of Spells and the "author" of it; as she starts to narrate how she wrote the book.
The only sucky thing is having to see my ugly face all the time on screen, but still cool.
Looks and feels ..verry Harry Potter; which I like.
Will dedicate some more time when I'm free and in-between Black Ops II/Declassified and other games (during the weekend hopefully); but I liked what I tried.
Packaging is simple, Wonderbook is bigger than I thought (as seen in the box pic I posted above), there's no intruction booklet of any king but a digital manual that can be seen on the XMB. The inside art of the case/cover shows the Move controller and what it does; so I guess that serves as reference/instruciton booklet too.
It starts with you wit ha small install, setting up Move, camera and book, then you link your account to Pottermore (or not), then you take a picture/clip (i.e. animated picture ala Harry Potter) and choose to be in Gryffindor, etc. Then you're introduced to the Book of Spells and the "author" of it; as she starts to narrate how she wrote the book.
The only sucky thing is having to see my ugly face all the time on screen, but still cool.
Looks and feels ..verry Harry Potter; which I like.
Chuck Norris
Banned
Why did they read that disclaimer out loud? Sony advertising really is terrible, the ad didn't really give any clear idea of how it works
Sony launches Wonderbook TV campaign
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sony-launches-wonderbook-tv-campaign/0106461
Thanks!
UpperCaseN
Member
Mine just arrived from Newegg, I got it with the preorder code so $29.99 total. This was intended as an Xmas gift for my wife who is a big HP fan, but it's really hard for me to keep video game purchases secret from her because she's in the know with video game releases. If I try to hide this, she'll inevitably ask, "Hey, did we get the Wonderbook? It came out last week, I'll go pick it up if you didn't order it"
Not sure if she's going to fire it up right away, we're in the middle of playing other video games, but I'll post impressions once we do.
Not sure if she's going to fire it up right away, we're in the middle of playing other video games, but I'll post impressions once we do.