and a big but COD is no were nearing better online on 360 because every1 and i mean every1 CAMPS!!, its soooo boring and depressing playing a game were no one moves lol

Maybe when you go to big school you can.

. . . wrong as it may be?

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p.p. You CAN kick every droids ass!!!
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They're $5 in your Toy Store's Star Wars isle...

...and your Barbies are MUCH bigger!

Lack of a standard hard drive, and small storage capacity. And now they're abandoning their core audience in order to entice Nintendo Wii owners.

Microsoft screwed over developers by giving them more efficient hardware to work with? Better development tools, and creating an install base of hardcore gamers that actually buy games?

I am pretty sure devlopers would prefer to work without a standard HDD and the faster speed of DVD-9 instead of the almighty Cell and slower Blu-Ray.

Oh and your statement about Microsoft abandoning it's hardcore owners is full of fail. Just because they are now trying to appeal to the casual gamer does not mean they are still not making "hardcore" games. It just means they are trying to expand thier user install base.

Unified Memory Architecture, which is what the 360 uses, involves the CPU and GPU not only using the same type of memory (which stunts performance for either chip), but access the same pool of memory on one bandwidth line. The only other computer you’ll find on the market that uses UMA are the cheap $300 PCs and Laptops, which use UMA in order to save costs.

If you want high performance, you go with Specialized/Split Memory Architecture. That way the CPU and GPU get their own bandwidth lines and memory pools. Running a CPU on GPU memory (as is the case with Xbox 360) is a terrible idea, and is only "more efficient" in terms of cost for the manufacturer.

DVD-9 is limiting because the discs used on the 360 only have 7GB of space available to the developer; the rest is blocked off for security purposes. 12x DVD does have a faster peak data rate than 2x Blu-ray, but only on single-layer discs. Dual-layer discs are read at 8x speed, which is slower than 2x Blu-ray. So really, it depends on the title. But on average, the two formats are read at the same speed.

As for Microsoft abandoning their core audience, I point you to the fact that Microsoft has either abandoned or shut down almost all of their internal studios within the past 12 months. Even Ensemble Studios, a high profile developer with incredible sales figures, is being shut down by Microsoft once Halo Wars is completed in February. All that’s left now is Lionhead, Rare, and an obscure studio in Canada.

no it includes providing a good online worthy experience besides a second life gimmick.

hiptanaka, you have to many bubbles allow me to fix that.

Gears was the only major release this year that enjoyed huge sales figures, while other major exclusives on that platform have had average, if not dissapointing sales figures. If you look at the exclusives for each platform, PS3 has sold quite a bit more. LBP, GT5: Prologue, and Motorstorm 2 are already Million-sellers, while MGS4 sold 4 million. The difference is that PS3's software sales are spread out due to a larger selection than the 360 is currently offering for 2008.

The other significant factor is that Sony is still advertising for games released in 2007, ensuring that their developers enjoy strong sales over a long period of time.

2008 was good for MS: Lost odyssey,Ninja gaiden 2,Gears 2,Fable 2,l4d,etc Halo odst might be an expansion but a whole new single player is really exciting,especially from a different characters perspective in another part of the world. Also don't forget star ocean 4 and ninja blade. I am not sure if alan wake will release next year nor splinter cell convinction. We still don't know some titles and MS always waits till early in the year. Who knows ,the may announced killer instinct 3,pgr 5,perfect dark 2,conker,etc

All I heard was blah blah blah...Alan Wake...blah blah blah.
I don't want any of those games. Nothing there is blowing my skirt up. Perfect Dark was awful...just awful. I tried mulitple times to get into that..set it aside, tried it again. I have no idea how it received the reviews it did. I don't care for racing games, don't like Jrpg's, Splinter Cell bored the piss outta me two games ago and I gave up, never liked Conker, don't need another fighting game. I might check out the Halo 3 expansion, maybe if it's only 20 bucks or so. Other than that...Alan Wake, that's it, and it might not even be out next year. What the hell has happened to my 360 console? Am I the only one left scratching his head?

Every time I see you talking about the 360 you are whining and crying about it. How about you be a big boy and sell it! It's obvious the console is not for you and why anyone would put themselves thru the crap you are appearently going thru is beyond me.

Take action and stop crying about the 360.

I too was a solid 360 guy in 2007 but by the end of the year I was on my 4th console. I went 4 months without being able to play the bulk of my games - that'll change your buying habits in a hurrey. It forced me to play my PS3, which had just been gathering dust and now I love that big, black beast. Now the games are coming fast and furious for the PS3, there's just no comparison to that noisy, glitchy, pay us to play online, out of warranty Microsoft pain in the ass console. And here's the kicker, it's all MS's fault. If my console had worked properly I would still be happily playing my 360, shelling out $60 cdn a year for online and not bothering with a Ps3 at all. Now I'll probably never touch another MS console again. If my 360 dies a 4th time now the warranty is gone, I certainly won't be replacing the damn thing.

now thats worrying... if all the ps3 gamers are X 360 gamers.... then where are all the ps2 gamers, you know the 120 million of them...

anyway, just asking.

at the end of the day its all down to personal taste. the way you guys feel about the 360 is the way i feel about the ps3, except don't moan about it.

i have not had any problems with my 360 ( 3 years ), my ps3 i have bought 3 games for the ps3 ( not including downloads ) RFOM 2, MGS 4, LBP.

RFOM i took back after a week, finished the game, played it online and took it back. i don't need to waste my time bashing the game though, people like different things thats all.

That didn't make any sense at all. Why would anyone want to emulate the least successful console this gen?

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GTA, Resident Evil, Tekken, and Final Fantasy were all Playstation Exclusives at one point in time.

Its also nice to point out that Lips and You're in the Movies are heavily influenced from both Singstar and Eyetoy respectably.

but, I'm sure you knew that already.

How old are you gumgum99?

Did you know that at some point Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, etc where all Nintendo exclusives at one point in time?

So, should we say that Playstation = Nintendo?

These games you mentioned were only Playstation exclusives simply because developers felt focusing on the Playstation was the right thing to do in previous generations... Not because Sony owned these IPs... nor because Playstation was kool... but because of simple business sense... Playstation had the installbase and the gamer demographic developers needed to make money... well.. now that thats not the case.. it's no surprise that developers are going multiplatform or even xbox 360 exclusive like in the case of many games that used to appear on the PS1 and PS2.. but now are exclusive on the xbox 360 like... Star Ocean...

Dont you have some LBP heavenly sword sackgirl panties to buy? go buy some DLC for ....OH WAIT ITS NOT AVAILABLE TO YOU. ur calling me a battery, then u must be sony's tire. u tool

the amount if ignorance in this post is enuff to fuel Enron.