Games Asylum: "It’s a little-known fact that Nintendo granted both EA and Activision reduced GameCube licensing costs. It was a resoundingly pro-active move from Nintendo: around ten years ago the two publishers released big-budget, heavily promoted, titles on almost a monthly basis"
Pay for a demo!? Pah! That would never happen. And if it did, we'd definitely do a little checking before running a story on it... But some demos kick all the ass, and here's 10 we'd happily pay for.
Wouldn't pay for any of them and its not because they aren't good games
i was buying playstation magazines for psx demo discs, i remember playing the shit out of THPS demo.
I rarely play demos as I'm usually sure about which games interest me and which do not, and I don't want to spoil even the slightest bit of the games I'm truly interested in. So ultimately the only demos I try out are for games I know I'm not going to buy. I don't even touch alphas or betas for much the same reason. I don't understand why anyone would pay for a demo.
Except that it was a mistake which has since been corrected. Who likes pesky facts though, eh?
Not 85% (roughly) of the posters on this site thats for sure, they LOVE misinformation. The glossy mag journos of the internet are a rabid bunch :)
Without facts we would live in a lawless society, which I wouldn't mind. The strong or the most cunning will rule and everyone else are fodder.
Since we do have actual facts that are universally accepted, we can come together and have a civil debate.
I highly doubt it was a mistake. Out of all companies. Keep in mind ea and microsoft also have a contract. I am sure it was damage control
I am, and it's free, until I pay 60 euro in September of course. But then I also get a full game. It's a sham US & Canada have to pay for pre-orders but that's probably more to do with the banking/credit card system over there than to do with MS/sony/activision/bungie.
Getting into the destiny Beta also means ordering the full game...no extra nor separate price, you just get to play the game for 10 days a month before release as an incentive or pre order bonus. Not to mention you can cancel your pre order after the beta if you like.
You know the article wasn't being 100% sincere, I think they're being slightly hyperbolic about it.
Lost a few weeks of my life to that MGS2 demo :)
The MGS1 demo was passed around my primary school classroom like the common cold, took me months to get that back eventually! There was one kid who would pretend not be home when I called to get it back.
And speaking of paying for demos, people offered me their pocket money to buy the MGS1 demo off me haha.
I love how everyone took an article celebrating some of the most memorable demos in history and turned it in to a negative discussion. Hats off to you people, you are the bitterness in my morning coffee and I love it :D
Mgs1 demo you had to buy as it came with pro evo if I remember and I think mgs2 came with zone of enders.
"I love how everyone took an article celebrating some of the most memorable demos in history and turned it in to a negative discussion. Hats off to you people, you are the bitterness in my morning coffee and I love it :D"
lol I'm still trying to digest EverydayGuy's bad attempt at sounding profound (comment #2.1.2). I can't even consider an on topic response yet.
I'll move on to the bitterness once I'm done with that.
I'm not paying for a demo, I don't care. Now publishers, what you COULD do to EARN more sales with upcoming games without screwball tactics is what a few games have done back in the day: make a game that you don't expect to make PHENOMENAL sales from, and add a sneek peak/5 minute demo of your upcoming big hit. A game that did that was Zone of the Enders with a sneek peak at MGS2. What's wrong with that?
The AH crew brings you their top 5 easiest 1000/1000 GS games.
i'm not seeing a huge difference... but they did have an extra year to improve it
Jin have you played it on the 360 ? because I have and to be totally and utterly honest I cant see any difference between them ....
Is a dragqueen, I personally didn't see a difference. There will be no difference in graphics a year down the line.
PS3 has greater particle effects performance
XBox 360 has better texture performance
So all in all they have their weaknesses and strengths, I much rather see alot more textures than particle effects.
Keep flipping burgers.
Stop trying to explain something that you don't understand. Only if you were able to understand that what these "graphics" are. Game assets are first made using programs like Maya, 3D studio max and other graphics tools. This translate to the more time developers have to work on these assets the better they will be. Do you actually think they they created every single game asset all over? hah! Consider the PS3 version a FN3.1 since they are using most of the game assets from the Xbox 360 version. Why do you think they call it port? "Also, if the 360 is supposed to be so easy to develop for, why couldnt these graphics be on the 360." for the same reason that no PS3 game look better than Gears Of War and for the same reason why PS2 games today look a lot better than all PS2 launch title. Do you understand? Or I have to explain to you that the console does not magically generates graphics, but that someone has to sit down and do it.
This is the game that alot of people are saying "look at the PS3 difference" I'm looking but it sure ain't obvious. Yes the game looks a little more polished, in other screens I noticed they perfected the sweat. I don't know what else to say. It's a year old game , enjoy it.