I really don't like how so many are falling for this hype and it makes me wonder just how gullible people are.
This conference is the same reason the 360 is (arguably) doing better in sales than the PS3, not the year head start and not the cost. Microsoft's marketing is ridiculous and it's the biggest smoke-and-mirrors act
since Houdini. They literally trick people into buying AND buying into
their products.
Case in point:
They started their conference with a
15 min concert for Rock Band:Beatles edition. WTF is that? Not only are
they simply eating time that could be used to show games they're
boasting a multi-platform game as though it was their own.
They bring out Steven Spielberg as if he has anything to do with good video games and who was that chick showing off Twitter?
Natal will become what it will become but they showed it in it's alpha
stage just to create buzz that it doesn't deserve, yet.
Kudo... I don't even need to bring him up. BAM!
That, was it shadow complex? Had a major glitch on the show floor and it's releasing how soon?
Their PR guy had to start the round of applause by clapping himself MORE THAN ONCE and hardly any joined in when he did.
They were FULL of faults
Rising is a multi-plat, spit on, spin-off. (not that it can't be good
but it's in no way a "stolen sony exclusive". As it was created with
the thought of the 360 fanbase in mind.
FF13 showed a "summon for the first time" but in the PSN video we got to see two.
One thing they should have announced but didn't make time for was their full XBOX 1 full game downloads and Perfect Dark in 1080p with online support.
1080p instant streaming is a BIG promise and many are skeptical, they
showed nothing as to how they'd be doing this and just expect us to
take their word on it. It's not unbelievable but connection speeds
should have been mentioned.
Twitter facebook. 1.Casual
2.Sony web browser: That's twitter face book, you tube, myspace and any
other site that doesn't purposely make their site ps3 unfriendly.
Left for Dead 2 is welcomed in one way but the fans expecting an expansion are unpleased.
The smoke-and-mirrors leave you in awe when you first see it but at
some point you're going to look back at what just happened and realize
you've been fooled.
The exclusive: Splinter Cell
Conviction is their ONLY crowning achievement. And with it's shot setup
it looks a little too easy. I love the Heroes story title-esq
objectives. The game seems to be the game version of the movie "Taken"
and that's not a bad thing.
"They had a great conference."
No, they just tricked a lot of people into believing they did.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
This was stupid. But thanks for trying FG :)
You made some good points. Yeah the PS3 has a browser and can already use twitter, Facebook, and Myspace. I wonder why no one is getting on Microsoft for not having a browser, but want to integrate stuff in the dashboard like it is a big deal. I stream movies off my PS3 Browser all the time.