I had to respond to the cooking analogy. It was too classic not to.
I think it would be more fair to say this: "cooking" for the 360 is familiar like cooking at home. You know all the ingredients and you can kind of get what you want to out of it, without worrying too much about having to mess with the recipe.
The PS3 on the other hand is like visiting someone else and having to use their utensils and ingredients. You aren't quite sure going into th...
Remember macsto, that this is just the U.S. numbers. The 360 is still outselling the PS3, but the margins are narrowing rapidly.
U.S. numbers are well and good, but are just a piece of the overall pie.
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Price eh? So when the PS3 and 360 come "down to it's price" it will die off?
I'm just curious if you understand that Nintendo can drop their price as well. And when they do drop their price it will still be cheaper than the 360 and PS3 for years of price cuts. According to your logic of it dies off when they get to the same price point, that could be 5-6 years down the road and may never happen since they are so fundamentally different.
I really don'...
How can you say "most don't know or care"? Maybe "some" don't know or care, but I think you'd be surprised if you took a poll of the PS3 buyers.
Personally, the inclusion of blu-ray movie watching was a quality selling point to me, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
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As a fellow game collector I might not be able to boast as many list items, but the rarity and actual quality of his items is not that impressive.
There are obvious bright spots there, but as a whole and looking at the games included with most of those systems it's pretty certain he just got whatever he could get.
More power to him though, I just don't understand the motivation to get rid of something that obviously he held in high regard before. I won't get in...
And my wife and I took turns on levels with our kids (9 and 3). We all gave advice and such on what to do next and when the puzzles were solved the kids eyes and faces lit up.
The puzzles so far have been pretty easy for the wife and I, but we always wait a bit to see if our kids can figure them out first, making it a much more enjoyable experience for them.
It's pretty fun. :)
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Since I regularly play those games.
I use it because a wired controller + crazy kids running around = accident waiting to happen. <3 the wireless PS3 and upscaling.
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These are supposed to be games.
Yes it's true to the big wigs of Large Corporations that production costs drive the creativity level in games, but I disagree with it stifling creativity.
What stifles creativity is the masses of people willing to shell out $60 bucks for another Madden or Halo. That is the deciding factor for big companies. How many people will buy the game.
With little devs, that matters very little at first. When they start out ...
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I never understood why Nintendo didn't bring the Star Tropics franchise along to another system. I still have both my carts for the NES, good times they were.
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I shop at K-mart when I want a good deal on something they sell or I want some craftsman tools without having to drive all the way to Sears.
I must be low class, you know, since I shop there.
Hurrah for being obtuse!
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Instead of pouring through a ton of fun scale//eye-candy//art style elements that are subjective in nature the focus of the game review should be a checklist of sorts on the criteria for what makes a game complete. Ask themselves 50 questions broken down into 5 categories of 10 questions. A check off on "passing" grades for that question results in a +1 to the score. Any and all gamers can go look at the checksheet to see just where the game is lacking and decide if it's somethin...
This is a pretty spot-on assessment of the couple Gamestops near me.
Every time I'm in there I see them giving bad or just plain wrong advice to customers that are expecting them to know what they are talking about.
I'd really like to see them lower the used game price and trade-in price as well. It's almost guaranteed they sell the trade-ins for 3-4X what they give you for them. Make it 2X. Give you 5, sell for 10. That's ridiculous profit and they'd get m...
...related to how available the product is elsewhere. If it's able to be bought in stores it's less valueable on Ebay, and vice versa.
Didn't the article state that it's still in the top spot even though it's interest is falling?
Might want to wait a bit to doom it to obscurity. :)
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So it would only be fair to post the straightened out story and give it the same chance for coverage. I'm all for learning both sides to a story, I wish more media outlets practiced follow-ups on their reports with corrected mistakes.
*EDIT* Yes I realize it was a forum or blog post, but it's media to digest none the less and can be used for various reasons...good or bad.
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Since I never forget the old generations. All the previous "glory day" games are still around to play and all the new stuff is being added. So I never understand these polls from a gaming standpoint. From a player standpoint I probably spent the most time playing games in my high school years and into college before I had kids.
So from a time played standpoint, i'd say the 16 and 32 bit gens took the most of my time.
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So of the 3.83 million that bought the game right away, an increase of only 220,000 didn't already have a system. Give or take some there.
In my book, that's not so good for the hype that is there for this game and for the 360.
I'm not dogging the 360, I did however expect HALO to push more hardware sales than it has, and if you got an honest answer from Microsoft I'm sure they'd say the same.
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If you are trusting vgchartz for software sales, you'd also have to trust them for hardware sales. Halo is doing phenomenally well for software sales, but it's just not pushing hardware.
Microsoft has to be concerned about that, considering Halo is THE franchise for the 360 that sells.
I don't know who will win this gen, but HALO 3 was expected to boost more 360 sales than it has, going by vgchartz that is.
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Next week's results will be the true test of how many systems HALO 3 will push. 17% boost isn't indicative of what M$ hopes for, nor what I expect HALO to push for consoles. They'd at least better hope it pushes a ton of consoles. :)
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....and I'll buy it. Pretty simple concept.
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