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Most Reliable Console: Xbox 360
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1. Free online play for everyone
2. Dedicated servers for lagfree online play
Why is such a basic and fundamental concept so hard for Microsoft to understand?
PC gaming Gets It
Sony Gets It
Why isn't Microsoft learning from Sony and PC gaming on how to do online gaming right?
"Lots of ps3fans live in the illusion that Sony is ahead in europe.
Which it isnt. "
Bzzztt!
Sony has reported 10 million in Europe.
Microsoft has reported either 8 or 9 million.
Not that it really matters with the Slim now on sale.
Two reasons:
1. Microsoft is still the only console company that reports sold to retailers, while Nintendo and Sony report sold to consumers numbers
So the 360 sales numbers include all the 360s sitting on store shelves worldwide - around 1 to 1.5 million.
2. RRoD duplicate consoles. When EA is reporting they are making more money off the PS3 and other publishers are making roughly equal amounts it gives a good indication that there are millions of dupli...
"Microsoft Australia's claim of selling its one million Xbox 360 in 2009"
That is wrong.
700k life to date for the 360 in Australia was reported.
1 million was just a goal.
"When it doesn't feature in-built Wifi, Bluetooth, same hard drive storage (upgradable to like over 800gb on ps3!) not to mention a Bluray drive lol."
Just on pure hardware for 299:
PS3
120 gig drive - off the shelf upgrades
BluRay drive
HDMI 1.3
WiFi
Bluetooth
Internal power supply
360
120 gig drive
DVD drive
HDMI 1.2
External power supply
Crazy. And Microsoft is getting ...
These numbers don't appear right.
http://www.microsoft.com/pr...
US Prices:
199 with no drive
299 with 120 gig drive, black, no HDMI cable
I think they are taking the UK prices and converting them back into US dollars. Strange to report UK prices in USD.
February 2007
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
"In an official statement issued to GamesIndustry.biz, Microsoft said that the "vast majority" of Xbox 360 owners have had an "outstanding experience" with the console.
But the platform holder went on to concede: "That being said, we have received a few isolated reports of consoles not ...
Can't really 'stay ahead' when you are in last place in two out of the three major console markets:
Japan - 360 last place
Europe - 360 last place
US - 360 second place
Asking what Microsoft can do to stay out of last place in the final remaining market they aren't does make sense though.
LOL!
At the people talking about how 'great' FFXIII looks. Yes Square does have the pretty CGI that you think was in game.
The only actual in game, non-CGI, footage is almost laughably bad. Virtually no dynamic lighting, primitive shadows, popping character animation, basic particle effects.
Even the junk Capcom is putting out with their lowest common denominator crossplatform PC engine is looking better than the actual in game footage Square has shown. ...
The reason the 360 is getting embrassed by the PS3 this gen are:
1. Microsoft made the single greatest bonehead design decision in copying the PS2's EDRAM setup for their framebuffer - but unlike the PS2 where the EDRAM was big enough to fit all the frame buffers you need along with other data you need for rendering, Microsoft gimped the 360 with only 10megs. Those 10 megs are too small for 720p 4xAA framebuffers. So 360 devs are forced to waste time splitting up their framebuffe...
LOL!
Kojima isn't touching the POS Xbox 360. Some other team is making that fake MGS 'action spinoff' game he has disowned.
GTA started off as a damn PC game and has been on multiple platforms ever since.
Anything else dumb to add?
"Please do not forget that it is the Xbox 360 that has the more advanced GPU and 10mb EDRAM and the CPU in the 360 is actually specifically designed for gaming unlike the CELL cpu. "
My god.
It's like someone is posting circa 2005 Xbox fanboy memes...
"Even if this was a PS3 exclusive, it wouldn't fill the Blu-Ray up O_o"
Wow, what a dumb thing to try to claim.
From the poor quality of what they have shown so far Square is using another generic PC based crossplatform engine.
So sad. Square use to be one of the companies that you would marvel at their technical prowess years ago. Now they have completely given that up.
All that just because Wada decided he cared more about payoffs from Microsoft than gamers. If Square still actually cared about gamers they would have finished the amazing custom next gen PS3 engine. THEN worr...
Yep, gamers love their launch 60gigs like no console before.
Poised to counter?
Sony has kicked Microsoft into last place in both Europe and Japan.
The PS3 is humiliating the 360 like no other has ever before in a single generation with Killzone 2,Uncharted 2,GT5,Heavy Rain,Last Guardian...
Blu-Ray has kicked Microsft's HD-DVD to the trash heap of failed formats
Sony's unparalled mastery of console design and manufacturing now has the PS3 down to 300 dollars - significantly more powerful graphics hard...
"Wot is x-game chat?"
It's basically a silly little feature that Xbox fans pretend to DESPERATELY WANT on the PS3 so they can justify the idiotic 50 dollar a year online fees they are forced to pay on the 360.
Cross game invites are even more pointless. No different than sending a friend a message to come join you in a different game.
As Sony continues to embarrass Microsoft in online gaming with free online play for everyone, dedicated servers...
It's cute you are trying to pretend like it is 'teh Sony fans' hyping some random developer.
Pats Solar on the head.
Insomniac was voted as the best game company in the world to work at.
Universal praise from both the gamer and developer community for their unmatched ability to crank out AAA tiles at a rate that is beyond any other dev house in the world.
And they are the model for how to properly manage developer fan relations.
What a sale!
Lag - Half Price
Hurry why supplies last!
What a bargain. Now you get the pleasure of playing Xbox online games hosted off other player's crap home Internet connections while they have their torrents of porn and music clogging up your games!