They are using the industry term AAA, which means that it is a game that has strong support from Sony and will have a heavy marketing push. This is what critics mean when they say AAA as well, and this is why Sony or Microsoft can say that a game is AAA before it comes out, because they MAKE it AAA by putting support behind it.
This is also why they don't include something like Yakuza on a list of AAA games. Because they don't plan to put money/support behind it to the degree t...
I'm just pleasantly surprised people here aren't (yet) claiming that Microsoft paid Sega to make a bad port.
Your argument about the 2-1 sales is a true statement... larger install base is a big part of stronger 360 game sales. However, you haven't made any effort to show us why that matters whatsoever. Game publishers and developers don't make money based on what percentage of an install base buys their game. They make money for the raw number of copies sold, pure and simple. So when a game sells twice as much on 360, regardless of the reason, the pubs/devs ARE seeing double the revenue from the 36...
Oh wow, listening to the Giant Bombcast today I was just reminded that I never got around to buying and playing Shadow Complex. Awesome to see it'll be on sale this month, I definitely won't pass this up.
I can't cite this, but I'm 99% sure they have said at Blizzcon that this will be a new IP.
Bubbles for reading my mind, I was just thinking that right before reading your post. It's hilarious how in the fanboy discussion of Sony vs. Microsoft, one side is always "winning," and the other is "in third."
I'm all for reviewers expressing their honest opinions, and for a scoring system that actually utilizes the entire spectrum (i.e. 7 is a solid score, 5 is average, etc). But there is just no way that when you consider all the crappy games released week after week, that this game is "BELOW AVERAGE", which is how destructoid defines a 4/10. The game has flaws, and even if you are someone who see those flaws as bigger obstacles than others see them, there is no way you can say that thi...
The question though, is whether Last Guardian will be out in 2010...
Yeah, they were giving out real prizes for the final month or so of the beta. Generally consisted of a free $10 game to the top 3 crowd, a $10 game to each member of the mob if they won, and up to 10,000 MS points for the one depending on performance.
It's been on a break for a few months though while they tinker with it post-beta, so who knows if it will be the same.
PSA: Don't feed the trolls!
True. It is Gold only, so you cannot access it without paying for a gold membership.
But I was calling morgan out for saying you have to pay for "Live, and the game". Which is false. Once you pay for live, the game is free.
The game is free. Try to keep the mindless Xbox bashing to topics you know something about, or at least glance at the article you're commenting on?
This article is ridiculous. Its whole point is a slippery-slope logical fallacy. It argues that if Microsoft utilizes Nielsen ratings to better target its ads at its viewers, the 1 vs. 100 ad breaks will quintuple to be 3+ minutes long. There is no reason to think this transaction would cause such a thing.
It's like if I argued that if Sony were to buy EA, the price of video games would shoot way up. There is just no basis for that claim at all.
Also @GWAVE, Hutch's com...
I don't necessarily think vgchartz is a solid source, but you guys are crapping all over it here for no reason. Example:
According to vgchartz...
PS3 sales for week of 10/19/08 - 153K
PS3 sales for week of 10/18/09 - 268K
Percentage Increase = 75.1%
Comparing another week in October yields an increase of about 62%, and it makes perfect sense that sales fluctuate week to week, especially in the holiday release window.
The bottom l...
Seeing as you can vote for the winners here: http://www.spike.com/event/...
These awards are literally a popularity contest. This is the same reason games released before August of this year don't seem to really be considered... your average SpikeTV viewer has long since forgotten about those.
"Do you care less" doesn't even make sense. I suppose it's the logical continuation of the also-nonsensical phrase "I could care less," which people use to mean they don't care when really those words mean they do care.
/languagenazi
I like how you complain the game didn't get a high enough score while people below say it is being overrated. This game sure seems to have divided the community that hasn't played it.
So pretty much like the first one in that respect then. I buy L4D to play with friends anyway.
Agreed, didn't see this coming. We knew it would have long legs like Mario Kart or NSMB on DS, but to start off this strong is impressive.
I was one of the day 1 buyers... it is fantastic.
I'm not sure the word "unanimously" means what you think it means...