You wish.

Metal Gear is already coming to 360, at this point it is more wishful thinking that gears will go ps3 than it is metal gear coming to 360 esp since it is published by Konami not SONY

Just look at the Mass Effect series and Ninja Gaiden Sigma

And the publishing notion doesn't mean anything. Just look how Tecmo got around it. Ninja Gaiden 2 was MS Published. Yet all Tecmo had to do was update the code, add extra weapons,playable characters, online, levels, update the graphics a bit, and finally rename it. Next thing you knew, Ninja Gaiden 2 was on the ps3 in the form of Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma

And sure, they MIGHT love MS advertising. But sometimes the revenue given from that isn't enough. With all the advertising MS gave Mass effect, the series still found its way to the ps3.

And Epic already told us THEY own the Gears IP. Not MS. So anything can change with that. It's their call

to slap some sense into you

Yup!

I want Epic to force MS to make the 720 with specs that Epic want. Just like they did with the 360.

512mb was needed 5 1/2 years ago, but now we need 2gb.

MS could promise Epic they will give them the specs they want in exchange for continued exclusives.

we need 8 tbh so the consoles do not fall behind pcs as fast

Except microsoft give you a new 360 for RROD, they don't count that as consoles shipped. SONY on the other hand force you to either repair for a price or buy a new one if it is out of 1 year warranty.
Unless of course you're saying 360 is still at 25 million sold and is regularly beating PS3 in the software sales department. You mean to tell me EA makes more money off of 360 even with less consoles?? It is either or...make your pick

@FailOverHero- Not everyone replaces their console for free with MS. Most people lose their receipts or their warranty has been expired. I know a couple of people who has bought over 3 Xbox 360 consoles because it has RROD on them. The fact of the matter is, RROD has helped them a little bit with their sales. Another example would be me, I sold my damaged 360 as "working" on GameStop and bought a new one ;)....twice (thank goodness my elite hasn't died)

Oh and about the sales, people who buy a PS3 can have different tastes than those who buy a 360 (I would also say the Wii, but that's a bigger difference). Most people who bought a PS3 are for the amazing exclusives it offers, while those who bought a 360 are for third party games (I mean seriously, MS has barely any first party games, wtf). It could also be the fact that developers are lazy asses and most games tend to look a bit better on 360 than on PS3, so the games don't sell as well as on 360 because of them not being committed to all consoles equally.

Edit: And to be clear, not all third party titles sell better on 360. The most recent example would be Marvel vs Capcom 3, which is selling at a faster rate on PS3 :)

@White-Sharingan,

Max never asked me for a receipt, they just replaced it no questions asked.

And still to this day, if you call Max he will give you a new xbox if its manufacture date is less than three years out, no questions asked.

Well I kinda have to agree, but saying exclusives are THE best is just pure subjective. You can find MORE quality games in exclusivity, that is how I would put it as fact.. Multiplat can be just as good as exclusives, however you can't find many unless you only own a platform or Xbox360(no fanboy duh can't deny the exclusivity is getting drought!), that's when you realize multiplats is so precious lol.

Personally I don't think exclusives = higher quality. I don't care if a PS3 exclusive enhances more graphical power it all comes down to the story, gameplay and such. The things that actually make the game worth playing. I think my goty for ever year this gen has been multi-platform purely because I have overall liked those games for what they did as a game.

Take your sarcasm elsewhere please. I thoroughly enjoyed White Knight Chronicles and put over 500 hours into it.

I'm sorry but you need to start playing the games you like and stop using metacritic to make your decisions for you.

And I liked Too Human. It was aimed at hack'n'slash loot fans. I swear everyone expected something different -_-.

I'll put my money on Resistance3 , Gears3 , Uncharted3 to shit on Battlefield3 anyday! I love Oblivion so I'll leave that game alone..

Uncharted 2 says hi :)
MGS4 says hi :)
Demons Souls says hi :)
Uncharted 3 will say hi :)

that's not to say Skyrim won't be amazing, IT WILL BE, the same level of epicness as the ones mentioned above (not better or worse)

you have seen 2 or 3 screen shots of each game and you think they can't be beat?.....grow up.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".