Microsoft didnt seem too keen on PlayStation Home. But they have bought a big island in Second Life, which indicates that at the very least it's an advertising opportunity, but more likely they see a real future in this type of virtual world.
User's at present are relatively small in comparison to World of Warcraft. I guess one advantage of the PS Home is that its free. But give it time and maybe more and more non-hardcore gamers will be spending time in virtual worlds.
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I remember back in 1999. DVD was hot, new and beautiful and everybody was asking when Star Wars would be released.Then Lucasfilm released a statement that it wouldnt be for years (2005 as it turned out)
The thing is. Star Wars is a mega franchise, and Lucas wants to wait until there are loads of owners of Blu-ray so that the Star Wars products break sales records.
A 4 year wait? why wait? The regular DVD aint so bad!
Looks great. It has unnbelievable features.
-but i only want to carry around one bit of tech. on me. So I want my phone/mp3 player/sat nav combined.
Nokia can do it. Lets hope the maps mean that maybe Sat-nav IS included.
Final Fantasy VII is one of the best loved J-RPGs. Im surprised the Sony compatibility team havent made this work.
-are they holding it back to make the release of the hoped-for remake more special?
I wish!
of course it is bad for players in online worlds to experience uninvited, offensive and sexually crude text/messages/ pictures. It probably is an offence of sorts.
But it is not rape. To say so is an insult to real victims of rape.
This makes sense for GAME as they will now be getting a bigger piece of money spent on games.
Gamestation often do deals that are the best on the high street, particularly with console bundles. Now they are owned by GAME there will be less need to do that and prices will be maintained at a artificial 'happy high' by GAME, Virgin and HMV.
Where are all the independents?
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It's been a month since the European launch of Playstation 3. Oblivion is the first major new release. It received 10/10 from the official PS magazine, and has been advertised in movie magazine Total Film. It's gonna sell.
Probably could have got to number 2 except bad distribution made it a little harder to find!
The Xbox 360 doesn't need HDMI to display games at 1080p - which in PC terms is just a higher resolution.
see above
I've been waiting to get a replacement Xbox 360.
It makes sense for me to get the 360 Elite as I want the bigger hard drive and HDMI will be nice with my HDTV that I will be getting.
But November, if true, is a long time. Almost 6 months later than USA.
NOT the first tune by Justin Timberlake- the second orchestral tune.
im pretty sure its from a film...
Charttrack
good video.
very interesting.
nexgenwars.com site doesnt have access to figures so is bogus.
makingdamage made a good point;
(Q) why doesnt Microsoft allow customers to connect an external drive? (This is MS for God's sake! of course it's technically possible!)
(A) because they want to FORCE US loyal customers into buying THEIR hard drive, and deny us choice.
I understand MS are a business, and need to make money, but it should be by squeezing the wallets of those who have already paid for their products. Come on Mr Gates, let us use the ...
I dont get it.
MS are releasing an updated 360 with hdmi-great. Perfect for HDTV isnt it?
Well, what isnt great is that the technology is cutting corners before its released. It is using hdmi 1.2 which means it cant handle TrueHD Dolby. Why?
Having read this, and also an article about the font used for the xbox 360, Im amazed at the amount of time and money spent in finding the right font for a product - and the ideology behind it.
No wonder it takes so long for developers to actually make a game!
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An August release date for Europe?
That's over 4 months delay.
Is this our punishment for buying PS3s?!
Rockstar have already announced that the game is coming to both 360 and PS3 on the same October day.
Torch, dont be disappointed that David Reeves never mentioned NTSC territories... He is the prez of SCE-Europe so he cant make that announcement for a different territory.
Sony have been promising this for some time, we know its been coming but it would actually be great to have -especially as my local Blockbuster store has closed down!