"What is often lost are the advantages from a gaming standpoint."
The high Blu-ray disc storage capacity means that for more complex games, competing gaming platforms will at times need several discs for one game, while the PS3 will need only one. "It's like the old intermission," with gamers having to swap discs and wait, Tretton quipped. More discs, of course, would also mean higher costs.
Not all that much to say besides the above?
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Where do you get this info from?
Post a credible link....
As far as I've found - Take Two has no official affiliation with ZeniMax Media.
Correction.... If so many people supposedly find PS3 exclusives to be "superior"...then why is it that the biggest Xbox 360 Exclusives are far more popular? SALES prove it.
--> The thing is that most people won't really be able to tell the difference unless they have 40+" screens and even then most people won't care enough to go one way or another other than whether or not they want a physical medium or a digital medium.
Ehhh?
--> Also, just to get it out for once. At E3 they said no waiting, no downloading. Dear Microsoft, as leaders in the IT industry, please don't try and say that streaming doesn't require downloading data...
--> You mean like 3 billion dollars of warranties for the RROD?
Do some checking... Microsoft spent 1.3 Billion dollars.
Sony on the other hand, have bled 3+ Billion dollars in just two years. (2007-2008)
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--> PS1 has been out since, what, 1995? PS2 has been out since 2000. PS3 came out 2006. It's got plenty of time to play catch up to their previous numbers.
LOL - that wasn't the point. I was replying to thi...
You forget though how much Sony went on about full backwards compatibility before the PS3 launched, and how Sony berated Microsoft for only having some backwards compatibility via software emulation? Removing PS2 hardware and software compatibility in the PS3 is a business move of course... but it's also a complete contradiction to what Sony claimed before. Much like Sony's comments about rumble.
Sony previously went on and on about being future-proofed and fully featured... and...
--> Well, the PSN library already has gems like flOw, Flower, Wipeout HD, echochrome, and others...
What about the 360 games? Games like....
Braid
Portal: Still Alive
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
Geometry Wars
Rez HD
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Peggle
Etc...
--> and while I know you can find original Xbox classics on Live, the lineup really can't compar...
You'd have to either delete previous game installs in order to install another mandatory game install with the amount of games exampled in the article... or buy another HD if you're a 20GB PS3 owner. That's an added cost.
And with so many replies saying mandatory PS3 game installs aren't so bad... why then are multiple 360 game discs so bad?
It takes time to install PS3 game data doesn't it? Changing a 360 game disc isn't going to take any longer.
--> They should make it optional, they should just make it a profile\account setting where you can completely disable your achievement\trophies counting.
Errrr... those that really do not care about achievements/trophies - don't try for them. It already IS optional - isn't it?
--> That way people could choose. I think Sony\MS would be surprised at how many people would turn it off to go back to the days of just enjoying the game.
People can already...
And now things are getting even worse for Sony. Activision is the biggest game publisher and their boss is Bobby Kotick. He is not happy with the PS3: “I’m getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don’t make it easy for me to support the platform. It’s expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation”. And this unhappiness be...
Best of Show - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Best Original Game - Scribblenauts (DS)
Best Console Game - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Best PC Game - Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
Best Handheld Game - Scribblenauts (DS)
Best Hardware/Peripheral - "Project Natal" (360)
Best Action Game - Modern Warfare 2 (PC,PS3,360)
Best Action/Adventure Game - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Best Role Playing ...
Well - FF XIV is also coming to the PC... funny how you've overlooked that.
No it wasn't... better go check again.
As for multiplatform development... there's always the PC market.
360 + PC game versions.
Sony says price is right... lots of fans in this site think price is right - But the world's largest 3rd Party Publisher thinks the PS3 is too expensive... and is putting pressure on Sony to drop the PS3s price.
* You'd better re-read Activision's Bobby Kotick’s statement then... it's more current:
“I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform. It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation,” he says.
“They have to cut the price, because if they don't,...
Activision Blizzard is worth almost 19 Billion dollars - ahead of even EA.
Activision Blizzard is the world's largest independant Video game Publishers... so if the PS3 is making publishers so much money - why make a comment like Activision has?
Wouldn't it be happy with PS3 hardware sales - because PS3 software sales are supposedly better than the Xbox 360s?
Apparently those software profits aren't better with PS3 games vs Wii and 360 games, where Activ...
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
Question: Is EyePet one of those products that the cancellation of The Getaway and Eight Days projects has directly benefited?
Shuhei Yoshida: Yes, there are so many things that we want to do, more than we can do with the resources. So when London Studio was looking at the early work on EyePet and the prototype of Eight Days, they knew they co...
I've seen people whine about games/sequels not coming soon enough.
Now some are whining that a game/sequel is coming too soon... it's kinda sad, and kinda funny.
I call BS...
LOL.... the new game engine for MGS: Rising will allow for better graphics than MGS4, according to Kojima Productions. Care to explain those statements away first?
How can the graphics be BETTER than those running on the MGS4 game engine if the MGS4 engine is so superior?
Listen to the podcast if you dare: http://www.konami.jp/kojima...
If you can't underst...