Ron Paul FTW.
360 Blu-Ray peripheral?
I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Resident Evil 4 is one of the twenty best games I've ever played. And I've played a LOT of games.
Also, someone GAVE me an unopened copy of Eternal Darkness when I bought my Wii...now I just need to find a Gamecube controller for it.
As for the Wii...it's coming along slowly but surely. Don't forget about RE: Umbrella Chronicles and No More Heroes.
That's not too far-fetched, my good man.
Take your fanboyism to the Open Zone. That's where it belongs.
Well, there's one good thing for HD-DVD owners:
Great clearance deals coming soon. The format will be dead, but there are some good titles if you've already got a player (Bourne, Transformers, BSG, Harry Potter, Heroes, etc.) (I had a friend get tons of VHS from a clearance sale a few years ago (.99 each!), including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Back to the Future, and lots of Hitchcock).
Or you could sell your player and get Blu-Ray.
Memory Stick...
ATRAC...
Betamax...
Minidisc...
UMD...
Those weren't exactly embraced by the masses.
But Sony was smarter this time, and made sure that they had strong studio and manufacturer support. Otherwise, Blu-Ray would have been a footnote like the above formats.
Just make it reliable, Ms; that's all I ask.
That ain't Xbox 1080; that's HAL 9000.
...stink.
Partially true--it depends on the situation. Many years ago, when I worked as a commissioned salesman at Radio Shack, we got a better commission for selling store-brand products than for name brands, even if the store brand was cheaper (and it usually was).
Best Buy employees are non-commission. That doesn't mean that they're immune from biases and prejudices. Like every one else, they have their flaws. BUT, when selling to a customer, they need to leave those biases out of their interaction.
For example: I own a 360 (and recently bought a Wii for the family). I enjoy my 360, and I hope it does well, because its continued success means that there will be more games, services, etc. available for it. But when someone asks my opinion ...
Even though I've stayed neutral in the format war, I've always liked the Blu-Ray packages better than the HD ones. That dark blue just looks cooler than HD's burgundy.
Pretty stupid reason to like something, I know. :)
At this point, the corpse is cold and the grave is dug.
The final nail in the coffin will be when MS drops HD-DVD.
Not as long as you can still find Fable and Halo for $9.99 in stores. As for the rest of the titles? Depends on whether or not you can find them used.
(Psychonauts is worth almost any price, however)
You have my sympathy, bro. I've been through four consoles in less than 18 months. Why do I keep coming back? The games and Xbox Live.
Wouldn't this qualify as a duplicate story?
http://www.n4g.com/industry...
Basically, the same conclusions from the same report.
I think a stand-alone player is more likely than a new SKU with a built-in player. Keep the peripheral at or around $150, and it will sell very well. I'd buy one.
But you may be right...we might see both.
It's amazing that so many people posting here are counting MS out of the race after one month of poor sales...the same thing many other people were when the PS3 was struggling a year ago...
This race is FAR FROM OVER, folks. Less than a year and a half of all three systems being on the market is far, far too early to predict what will happen in a few years.
Pwnage: The universal n00b gag.
Nothing shuts them up faster.