Defcon Going Retail in the U.S.

By: Derek Yu

On: April 9th, 2007

NextGen is reporting that Defcon, Introversion’s multiplayer nuclear war game, is heading to U.S. retail:

“US publisher Encore will be responsible for bringing the well-reviewed title stateside, and has ordered an initial 50K copies of the game for retail. It will sell for $29.99.

The game, branded as “the world’s first genocide-’em-up,” is also currently available to download on Valve’s Steam digital distribution service for $14.95."

And as much as I respect Introversion for what they do, I wish they’d stop marketing themselves as “the first” and “the last” of things. Because when you hear that “the last of the bedroom programmers” has created “the world’s first genocide-’em-up,” it is slightly disrespectful to 1. all the bedroom programmers that come after them, and 2. Nuclear War!

Posted in Community | Tags: Introversion

PoV

Will anybody please think about the bedrooms!?

And besides, do they even work from bedrooms anymore? Last I heard they had a team of 8 or something, and probably some sort of office space or gathering area.
Xander

I think I’d prefer to work from my bedroom just for the enjoyment of not having my creative juices clogged by overly constricting and contextually unnecessary pants.

The Defcon guys do seem to get a little ahead of themselves, but I suppose if you’re going to try and sell yourself into the world of retail gaming you do feel inclined to release the PR equivalent of a wonder bra. Although having said that, I can’t really see the business sense in asking people to pay twice the price other people paid for the same game that was released months ago.
mut

$29.99 ?
A mook

they think of themselves as the last new, but to me they are the new last.
Radix

An interesting price. The only way to win is not to pay.
Optrirominiluikus

Nuclear War! Valid point. Man, that was un. Was there ever a hotseat mode in NW?
Optrirominiluikus

And also this: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=2012
Global Thermonuclear Warfare, 1994.
Heavy Stylus

…and lets not forget:

http://www.treality.freeserve.co.uk/domination.html

http://www.treality.freeserve.co.uk/radioact.html

Both programmed by the same coder as GTW.
Heavy Stylus

Whoops. Radioactive can be found here:

http://www.treality.freeserve.co.uk/superstar2.html
Mord

Odly enough I was in Frys Electronics yesterday and swear I saw it on shelves already. I didn’t give a second thought to why it would be on shelves in a store, I just thought how it was odd their box looked different from mine :P
ZombiePixel

OMG, finally an opportunity to dig up the corpse of my first game:
http://www.gametunnel.com/gamespace.php?id=150&tab=3

I went retail, too. Only my publisher decided the game should cost 50 cents from a Russian street vendor rather than go for an expensive American release.