Foresight? No, i'm afraid nothing in life is quite as magical as the ability to predict the future. I'm afraid i'm using pure and simple common sense. The original Xbox increased dramatically in sales at the time of the Halo 2 release. It's pretty easy to confirm that yourself. It goes without saying that the 360 wil also increase in sales, and the fact that it is alot younger than the original xbox was at the time means it will increase far more dramatically than the original did for Halo 2....
The sad thing is, I was actually planning to come here and offer praise, but after reading these comments, I don't think so. You PS fans put up with month after month of poor sales, enduring insults from 360 fans, and you get a break, finally, one month where the PS3 outsells the 360 by a narrow margin, and do you show maturity, or logic, and offer others the resepect you should've gotten? Do you stop and wait to see if it's permanent?
No. You all jump around, sacrifice a lamb ...
damn I was looking foward to that. And this effectively means 4 player co-op is completely out of the question.
don't worry cuco, nobody even listens to him anymore. His stupidity is a fact of life now, a bad thing that has to happen with the good, sort of like knowing you're going to die, breathing out carbon dioxide, and taking a crap.
Oh, nice touch coolmatrix. You're going to waste your last bubble spouting the same tired old nonsense, so you hijack someone else's first post in the hopes of getting more attention.
i'd say they're more likely to
*click* neither confirm nor deny rumours or speculation *click*
heh, no but seriously though, they don't have much of a choice. Announcing the exact date a better version of a console will be out would kill sales until then.
whilst we're on the subject of dictionaries Jamaicangmr, look up the use of apostrophes in "you're" and "your"
sure, an unreliable cook who promised to spend the next 4 years taking it back to the kitchen and bringing you another one for free should he get it wrong. With that kind of promise, I really don't mind the occasional burned steak.
See, other people can use kitchen metaphors too. Except ours are alot better.
Almost every parent teaches their children that they shouldn't do these things, however very few teach their children not to want to. Therin lays the problem.
It always pains me to see life going to waste over such trivial matters.
The thing is, he wasn't comparing the 360 to the PS3 was he? The PS3 is underperforming in Japan, because Japan is the PS3's home region. It shouldn't be outsold there, but it is. I really don't see what the complaining is about.
On the other hand, the 360 is being outsold too in its home region, by the very same console. But in both cases it doesn't matter. The Wii was designed to sell units, not to compete. Neither company has to worry about the Wii. Very few people choose the Wii in...
I wouldn't take it seriously even if it was reduced in rating (which apparently it isn't, from the last two comments). Videogame ratings are even more superfluous than movie ratings, and standards for both tend to shift over time.
For example, a movie can still secure a 12 rating even with a couple of uses of the F-word, or occasional use of the word s**t, something which would've instantly made a movie 15 only 5-6 years ago. And movies are often made U now, when they previously would'...
you seem to have once again missed the big picture. Nobody ever denied the Wii will sell more units. At least I never did. As I said in my previous posts, the Wii is "nice and cute" enough to remove the stigma of "nerdiness", and cheap enough to convince the majority market to buy it.
But that's not my point at all. I'm not into gaming for "nice and cute", i'm into gaming for cinematic plots, adrenaline pumping excitement, a captivating way of entertaining...
I was mistaken, I appologise. It was in fact the batteries, not the hard drives.
My original point still stands though.
first of all, I find the concept of being called an idiot by you extremely funny, to say the least.
Second of all, i've never called the PS3 a paperweight, nor have I criticised its ability to function. I refuse to buy one for far more intelligent reasons than that.
And third of all, your resentment for the 360 doesn't change the fact that i've still been playing it and enjoying it practically every day since it launched. Trust me, you're far too slow to change anybody's opinion...
To put it politely, you're highly mislead. There is ALWAYS a chance of human error. During the production of every single computer based component, a certain percentage are practically guaranteed to fail. This percentage decreases as the production process is refined. It is quite easy to fathom a batch of bad hard disk drives being mistakenly included in the component shipping process during mass production.
The most notable recent case being the recall of the Sony laptop hard...
you've never heard of an error in Hard disk drive production? You're kidding right?
alot of people miss the big picture when it comes to the Nintendo Wii and "casual gaming". The Nintendo Wii is a games console, nobody is disputing that. Those who play it are therefore gamers. That much is obvious.
But imagine a world where Sony and Microsoft both realise it's more profitable to make games consoles like the Wii. Instead of the technological battle between the 360 and PS3, we get a battle of cute gimmicks, a battle of who can dominate with the simplest to use...
I think it should be pointed out now before this gets out of hand, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the "red ring of death" failures. It sounds like a bad batch of hard drives isolated to that area.
Now, i'll sit back and watch an estimated 5 million fanboys ignore this fact.
I just had to pause it for a second there, i'm being totally serious, the sounds and the flashes make the game sound awesome. That's not just idle Halo praise, I mean the sounds literally make me want to play the game. Must be psychological.
nice, it would make a nice change for us to get something, particularly without being lumped together with Europe. I might try and attend.