"The average home user will desire it for their PCs once They get to see the difference in quality compared to DVDs"
No. Not at all. Average users *already* chose the MP3 over the CD. More convenient, better price.
Average users *already* make One Half of internet traffic BitTorrent traffic (guess what that traffic is... movies, music, tv).
The *average user* wants CHEAP and EASY. Direct Download IS ALREADY the current leader by early...
BluRay is a MPAA wet-dream.
I'll never buy a single bluray disc, nor a BR player.
Sony spent *hundreds of millions* to kill the vastly-more customer friendly HD-DVD, and i'm not going to give them a single cent for their anti-competitve behaviour, nor their anti-customer move to destroy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of DVD hardware.
Sony killing HD-DVD is the most anti-customer thing even *SONY* has done, and that is very hard to do (for th...
Game of the Year 2008.
Yes, better than GTAIV. Better than MGS.
These guys are at the top of the game.
Yeah, right.
Nice troll.
I cant agree more. That was just *exceptional*.
A bio-luminescent underground - fantastic.
Interesting thought. Think about this in light of the "Xbox 360 emedded" talk.
The rumour is that MS is going to sell an "Xbox 360 embedded" hardware design, this will go into TVs (and other devices). A good deal of that would be for the purpose of Windows Media Center -- at a bare minimum, there are tens of millions of households and devices where an "Xbox 360 embedded" could be used/needed for Marketplace, Causal Games, Messenger, NetFlix, Wind...
" If this were true... it would mean the Xbox 720 hardware design will not be that big of a leap. The 720 would have a very similar architecture to the 360, just minor improvements for processing and rendering"
Totally ridiculous presumption. There is no reason at all that would be the case. The Xbox 720 could emulate the Xbox 360 game on completely changed hardware -- AND -- still improve the title's AA (for instance).
The Xbox 720's Xbox 360 DirectX...
"Well I would like a better frame rate and draw distance on Gears. Its a shame you need a new machine to do it though."
There is nothing wrong with Gears frame-rate and draw-distance **RIGHT NOW**. Nor will there be anything wrong with them in Gears of War 2.
Stop talking FUD, or take it to the openzone.
"using DVD in general for their games."
No, no they dont. DVD is simply a storage medium. The game developer doenst care *where* the data is stored, just that he can get it.
Do you think it is more or less trouble to A) master a game disc with mulitple copies of data in order to reduce read times, B) Create an "install system" or C) Use multiple discs?
"Have you seen 360's HDD price?"
Yes. $19.95 for 20GB.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.co...
Oh, have you seen the price for the PS3 HDMI cable(!)
$53 here at WM:
http://www.walmart.com/cata...
Fable is an *excellent* game (and, available on Xbox Originals).
What some people (including Peter Molyneux perhaps even) promised, doesnt take away from what Fable *actually was*; and it *actually is* one of the best WRPGs of last gen.
Not. Going. To. Happen.
no.
Fantasy RPGs are more "niche" games these days, the advertising is there, but not massive "mass market" marketing.
Metal Gear Solid 4: 3.29m sold
Gears of War: 5.25m sold.
"every 360 owner who i know who have played gears"
Snore.
Funny, but that is 100% opposite of the millions of reviews, and awards that it won.
you must know one heck of an idiot-bunch.
@1.1
There is no "competition".
You're not even in the same league son.
The Halo universe is rich and detailed. There is a massive and loyal fanbase.
Only the worthless gameplayer.com.au (hey mods, why isnt that site banned?) would post such nonsense.
The answer is YES, Halo will work just fine without MC.
Digital Distribution is already *FAR FAR* ahead.
Never heard of Napster? See any stand-alone CD music shops left?
Give it a rest, the internet has killed *all* non-connected data-distribution, that goes for moves, tv, music, software, business data -- EVERYTHING.
Plastic discs are dead. BluRay is pointless and stillborn.
Digital Distribution is the media format of 2002. Get with the times grandpa.