G4 Cancels Videogame Programming
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G4 is still around eh? bummer :/ I'd thought the plug would a been pulled on that waste of air space by now
G4 is still around eh? bummer :/ I'd thought the plug would a been pulled on that waste of air space by now
Living in Australia I have Good Game, which is just one show as opposed to an entire channel, but from what I see here it's better than the entire of G4 combined. You can find episodes online if you're interested.
I'd love for this to be the opportunity for a new gaming channel to emerge. Maybe even do something interesting like have it as an app on the 360 or something like that. I'd like to have a channel to have on in the background while gaming that could be on 24/7 like G4 was whenever I PC or handheld gamed. Wishful thinking on my part, though.
Hmmm, I always wonder about things like this.
I'm wondering if G4 is giving up on the video game programming pre-emptively due to the new console generation being on it's way. Every once in a while I hear all this stuff about how intergraed it used to be, and it makes me wonder if the gist of things is that most video game programming is probably going to be through the game systems themselves, so it's pointless for TV to try and compete. Dropping this stuff early in theory would give the hosts doing this now a chance to get involved in/ready for the new format.
I don't really watch G4, and I guess it's been gradual, but it seems like a pretty odd transition overall. With MTV you could at least understand the issues to some extent, only so many new videos being produced (which were increasingly expensive, with little return to the artists unless they sold the viewing rights to the network), and oddly the increasing role of MTV as a sort of youth culture channel, which is what it exclusively became after a while. G4 doesn't really seem to be following a clear path towards transitioning into something else as far as I can tell. Who knows, maybe it's just dying.
I'm wondering if G4 is giving up on the video game programming pre-emptively due to the new console generation being on it's way. Every once in a while I hear all this stuff about how intergraed it used to be, and it makes me wonder if the gist of things is that most video game programming is probably going to be through the game systems themselves, so it's pointless for TV to try and compete. Dropping this stuff early in theory would give the hosts doing this now a chance to get involved in/ready for the new format.
I don't really watch G4, and I guess it's been gradual, but it seems like a pretty odd transition overall. With MTV you could at least understand the issues to some extent, only so many new videos being produced (which were increasingly expensive, with little return to the artists unless they sold the viewing rights to the network), and oddly the increasing role of MTV as a sort of youth culture channel, which is what it exclusively became after a while. G4 doesn't really seem to be following a clear path towards transitioning into something else as far as I can tell. Who knows, maybe it's just dying.
I've been watching G4 since it early origins as web/audio shows on the Psuedo network(All Games Radio|AllGames Network). Neal Tiles basically killed G4 when he stepped in 2005. He was solely responsible for the program changes. "Guys like to play games, but not necessarily watch a bunch of shows with games on the screen,' Tiles says. 'So what we're doing now is expanding G4 from a network solely defined by videogames to one inspired by them.'"
When he stepped down and Adam Stotsky replaced him and refused to go back to a gaming channel, that was the final nail in the coffin that Kevin Pereira and Adam Sessler decided to leave.
When he stepped down and Adam Stotsky replaced him and refused to go back to a gaming channel, that was the final nail in the coffin that Kevin Pereira and Adam Sessler decided to leave.
Yeah, it was like watching a family member die slowly. Morgan Webb should have left right after Sessler instead of hosting that BS show G4 Underground.Tony said:
I remember back on AOTS when they would race two top of the line CPUs be seeing which one would complete its start up first.
ANd X-Play when they would review 5-7 games an episode instead of 2 games and then talk about news that had been on the internet weeks in advance.
I watched G4 back in the golden days near and around the Techtv merger and loved the show but they lost me when they replaced Diane Mizota with some generic blonde on Filter and it killed my interest. After that I dropped cable and from what I hear I have missed nothing.
Anyone who is familiar with G4's history will know that this like CNN saying they don't do news anymore. Then again, anyone familiar with G4's history probably isn't really surprised.
Two-bit channel weren't no good anyhow.
Two-bit channel weren't no good anyhow.
I removed G4 from my list of channels a long time ago. I didn't even know they were still around. All I saw were bad reruns of the same reality crap from Spike TV. I don't see how they get more ratings that way, but I am sure the production cost is far lower. They are now just another piece of garbage to pass by while flipping through the channels.
Sad that the people working there are gonna lose their jobs. the best parts about both those shows were when they didn't have to read a script and could just truthfully talk about what they liked in games. that's why feedback and sessler's soapbox were great pieces of web content. the network was pretty shitty and unreasonable, however.
I did. While I was sad that Sessler left I still watched the show... until I stopped a month ago.carlh267 said:
Don't get me wrong, the show still kept together for the most part but It just wasn't the same, the show and the channel.
Im not surprized this is happening.
As someone who grew up with X-Play and AOTS, it's a nostalgic sort of sadness to see this nail in the coffin. I mean, it was obvious the channel had been on the decline, but...sigh, I hate seeing this happen. Adam, Morgan, Kevin, Olivia, I salute you. Thank you for your service (At least I get to enjoy seeing Olivia kick major amounts of ass in The Newsroom).
ThisXathos said:
Any way it's sad to see xplay and AOTS heading off into the sunset they provided me with very good memories the sketches used to be hysterical (Emperor gets a job anyone).
But then it all changed the show the opinions were neutered and Xplay became a bland boring and incredibly dull experience.
I think we all saw this coming with the advent of the internet gaming news media Xplay was never going to win and with the recent loss of Adam and Kevin the reduction in originality and G4 switching over to whatever that crap is called we all knew it was finally over.
My only hope is that now these people can get the jobs they deserve goodbye G4/TechTV it was an honour while it lasted.
For the staff many were great gamers and journalists I look forward to the next steps in your careers and hopefully you can find a job that both respects and encourages your opinions.
X-Play and AoTS went downhill long ago. Comparing X-Play episodes during the last year or so to ones from a decade ago, and you can see a striking difference. X-Play went from being a realistic, brutally honest review show to spending months serving as advertising drones, then giving a review.Sheo_Dagana said:
One could even anticipate the review score based on how long after release it took them to release their review - if the review was good, it came out release day. If it was bad, it came out a week or more later.
AOTS hasn't been the same since Olivia left. I'm not a fan of Munn, but her and Kevin had a very good dynamic.
Goodbye and good riddance to this channel.
Then again, I'm old enough to remember Tech TV fondly.