I don't care whether GT5P is a "demo" or not, to call Forza 3 a flop when it has sold over 4 million copies is just ludicrous and that was my point.
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Turn10 is probably pretty proud of themselves bringing out a racing sim that effectively competes with the most well known and pedigreed racing sim on the market in a very short timespan. I assume that better than 70% of the people who will purchase GT5 bought GT5P. That doesn't leave much more...
Microsoft has been losing money every quarter since the original Xbox. The profits they have been posting are financial accounting tricks shuffling losses around to different divisions in different quarters to make other divisions seem profitable. The investors wanted Microsoft to quit after the first Xbox fiasco but Ballmer pushed ahead and gave Bach more rope with which to hang himself with. The stock has been stagnant for a decade. Microsoft has been surpassed by Apple for market cap. ...
Forza 3 sold 4 million copies at $60 a copy. GT5 Prologue sold just a little more than that at $40 a copy. How is Forza 3 a flop in any way?
Honestly, if people keep buying console games, keep buying consoles, keep paying for online, and keep purchasing DLC, how is that MS fault? They only make things available, people are the ones buying their stuff. They certainly aren't forcing anything on anyone. People can just not buy the crap if they don't want it. Look at the Saturn and Dreamcast for examples of how people can just say no.
The client is buggy, the UI is attrocious, the DRM is lame, and you need to be online at least once even to go into offline mode.
Steam sales, while everyone rants and raves about how good they are, make up the majority of the revenue when people buy games from steam. This means the sale price is the true value of a non-physical buggy client DRM based copy of a game.
MS has a chance to shine here. LIVE is better than Steamworks for stats and social inte...
has better numbers than the PS2. Seems like the whole world wants a handheld, followed by a super cheap console, followed by a super cheap console with motion controls.
Apparently consoles should be cheap and fun, while hardcore games belong on the PC. I agree with that, coincidentally.
I bought the 360 on the strength of the JRPG library it had. Clearly neither MS nor Sony knows what the Japanese audience wants.
for none of the reasons you say.
1) SATURN left a terrible taste in everyones mouth. Developers for the shoddy and difficult to program hardware. Gamers for the short lifespan, lack of games, and price.
2) Sony bought all their developer support, much like MS buys their 360 developer support.
http://nfggames.com/meat/20...
My burning ring of fire comes after a night of chili and beer.
2 days ago and it was downrated in the blink of an eye.
http://n4g.com/news/645893/...
Now, because PlaystationLifestyle does a report that basically repeats the press release from PS Downgrade website, it gets approved. WTF?
cause haters gonna hate!
Peter made games as good, if not better (subjectively of course, everyone has their own tastes), than ICO LONG before ICO.
Everything under Bullfrog was a critical and commercial success. Every Fable and Black and White under Lionhead has been a critical and commercial success.
Peter's entire gaming career has been marked by innovation, revolution, evolution and success.
I guess he just really likes the simplicity of ICO. It seems...
does not lead to piracy. Piracy is piracy, period. Nothing leads to it except a person's desire to spend more time than money obtaining and playing a copy of a game.
And yes, it is someone's right to modify their console in a way that would allow it to play illegitimate copies of a game. Simply modifying a console in such a way is perfectly legal and within a property owner's rights. Actually pirating the game is the morally reprehensible act.
Firmware modification = piracy.
This is n4g afterall, where critical thinking is not allowed.
I suppose you would say that the tomato firmware for Cisco routers is piracy as well.
Why is this article being reported when I've seen at least 4 articles on Kinect "hacking?"
N4PS3 retards indeed.
but apparently it is considered spam, lame, or other according to the disagrees.
I don't make the jailbreak. I read about this news on NeoGaf today.
What a person does with the console they purchased is their business, as far as I am concerned. If they wish to hack it to play Dreamcast games, or run Linux, or back up their games to the hard drive, or even play illegitimate copies, that is their business and their right. The console is their property...
as a 360 owner. Gamertag - Huge Armed Wolf.
Discussion would be welcome.
I think that MS not making another console is definitely within the cards. A transition to PC based gaming for the hardcore with 360/Kinect as a casual console doesn't seem too far out. Even the suggestion that both the PC and 360 could be used for cloud gaming isn't that crazy.
Kinect will work with both the PC and the 360. Given the multicore CPU/GPU setups available in the PC nowadays, lag and processing power aren't really issues, especially as hardware g...
I can afford to have all 3 systems if I want, but I have yet to play a game on the PS3 that compels me to purchase the system.
My GF has a PS3. We have rented games to play on it and while fun, they are not gotta have it experiences.
I won't lie, when I purchased my 360 it was cheaper and had games I wanted to play. That was a big factor in my decision.
Edit: Paying 600 dollars for a system that promised a lot and delivered very little a...
the wired review now, 7/10.
made me laugh hard as hell, i love it.