How is it any less of a system seller if it comes out a year or 2 after the console launches? As long as people know it's coming, it will help sales of the console.
MS used Gears 1 to sell the 360 before the 360 even launched, and Gears didn't come out until a year after the 360 launched.
Their going to dangle Gears 4 in your face enough to keep your attention, and make you wait another year. They won't sell nearly as many copies of the game if no...
I highly doubt that Halo will change to a two year cycle. They've been working on Halo 4 for 2 years already. The only reason Halo 4 is coming out 2 years after Reach is because there was a year of overlap time while Bungie was working on Reach.
I honestly don't think they will be able to do Halo justice with only a 2 year development time, and Frank O'Connor is definitely very passionate about making a Halo experience that the veterans will be able to love.
There is no way they would make Gears 4 a launch title. Microsoft makes a lot more money on game sales than they do on the console itself. They will wait for a larger population of next gen Xbox owners before they release a guaranteed seller like Gears.
Forza 5 as a launch title is more likely I think. However I still think that it will come out 6 months to a year after the next gen Xbox for the same reason.
"It remains to be seen whether or not Crytek's future developments will return to a PC-centric focus or a console one."
Crysis 2 was completely console-centric. And they pretty much already burnt down their bridge with PC gamers. I don't think they'll be coming back to a PC focused game.
I don't mean to be an ass, but Crysis goes up to Very High, not just High.
Wow, this writer is completely clueless as to how computer's/consoles work.
It's simple really, the consoles aren't powerful enough. Devs would rather have 720P with better lighting, more polygons, better particle effects, and reflections etc. They can't just set the game to 1080P and expect it to run at a playable framerate.
Wow, as soon as it get's out that EA is blocking Turn 10 from having Porsche's in Forza, EA goes out and flaunts that they have Porsche's in their crappy game.
Sorry EA, having rights to Porsche isn't going to bring your game to the level that Gran Turismo and Forza are.
Wow isn't that a surprise!!!!!!!
Oh wait, this has happened with almost every single cross platform title on Xbox 360 and PS3...
Um, did you mean to say that they will be announced at E3 2012? Because it's a little to late for them to announce them at E3 2011.
I would expect an announcement at E3 2012, and release holiday 2013. I might die if they release them any later.
But I bet PS3 will still run the game at 30 fps, which unbearable on a Source engine game with mouse and keyboard.
Yeah, you can. But have you ever played a Source game with a keyboard and mouse that ran at 30 fps? It's awful, I can't imagine playing Counter-Strike with less than 60 fps. And because of this, PC players will still rape PS3 players who have mouse and keyboard.
Nope. Need next gen Playstation and Xbox now.
I want to be able to drive a Porsche GT2 RS in future Forza games. That's why I care.
Um, not many Halo fans actually play Call of Duty.
MW3 can keep it's shameful crown. I don't want all those idiots from Call of Duty ruining Battlefield 3 for me.
Piss. I accidentally pressed disagree instead of agree.
Gears 3 will look good, but graphics king? Absolutely not. Uncharted 3 will be graphics king of consoles, but there's no way it will look as good at BF3 maxed out on PC.
Doubt it. That would mean MS would have to pay royalties to Sony.
I think it would be more likely for them to go to a system like PC. Compressing the files so that they fit on a DVD, then having the user install the game on their hard drive. They would have to have a fairly sizable hard drive though.
Wow those first enemies are annoying.
The only problem with the PC screenshot is the greyed-out color, which is easily remedied with a nice monitor or by adjusting the in-game contrast, brightness, and gamma bars.
The foliage looks better, the particle effects and volumetric clouds/smokes is better, higher resolution textures etc.