@meetajhu
Thank for some technical information. To me this is a bunch of bitching by moistly sheep started by people who fear losing their position in the gaming world. I understand Newell to a certain extent because when PC gaming was dying Valve were the ones that revived it. But all of this bitching about an interface is stupid. Especially if the improvements meet mentions are accurate. Most people I know have s bunch of icons on their desktop. Who cares if they look diffe...
@MoonConquistador
Sony is probably contractually obligated to sponsorship deals. They might be stuck there but they can pick and choose when to do commercials. They did for Killzone 3 and it didn't payoff. TV advertising is really expensive. In DC a 30 second add in the middle of the night cost 10K on the local Fox station. Primetime is terrible. American Idol was charging $950,000 for a 30 second commercial and that was five or six years ago.
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Hammad I think you're forgetting about SmartGlass. A second screen with touch could be used for programmable buttons. It seems a lot of the issues people are bringing up are things that MS might have already thought out. By making all devices compatible just about any potential issues are easy to solve. Hell, they could even make it so that the 720 could stream the game to a low-end PC and you use that mouse and keyboard.
We're moving into new territory. People have...
Silent
MS is not stupid enough to think PC gamers will pay a royalty. We're talking about two different systems working on the same infrastructure. Windows 8 store on the PC and on Xbox. And phone and tablet people will use the same service. It's no different then you walking into a store and buying a Xbox game or a PC game. It's just a store. The PC maynot be able to play Xbox games, but it looks like the 360(it seems) and 720 will play PC games.
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Kaz is trying to fix the company. Can't blame them for doing this. I'm sure they hadn't planned for things to come to this.
Sony can't help the marketing right now. I'm not sure where people think they will; get the money to advertise every release. They just lost over 6 billion. And just lowered their profit projection for this year. The Vita was a big part of those profits and it hasn't sold like they expected.
But on topic this is a good move. Lowering the price on software makes the hardware more attractive. With the coming release of the PS3 re-make and the profit margins on Vita...
Silent
If MS is going to have a Steam-like store within Windows 8 and all their future products will be using Windows 8, why is that so hard to believe? Plus look at this article from IGN. Mainly the correction on a possible release date for the 720. MS states that the Fall update will bring new features and one them them listed is Games on Windows 8. There is no reason to believe that can't include PC games.
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Bintarok
That makes sense. A while back it was rumored that MS was working on a solution that allowed a game from one generation to upscale on a future more powerful system. If the 720 is upgradable, you would need that so that people will be more inclined to buy more modules. Plus the next Xbox will be sold at a profit at launch. Or it will only be priced at $299. It would do volumes for PC gaming though consoles were moving in that direction anyway. I think they are looking...
The update corrects the idea of there being a new Xbox this Fall. But the correction seems to say that Games for Windows 8 is coming to the 360. There are a lot of games from the past that the 360 has enough power to run. It was rumored a few years ago that MS was working on something that would allow a game to scale to the power of the console. If they got that to work on PC games and made it so that even console games you bought this generation would upscale next generation, it would be a h...
Microsoft is in the process of combining all of it's services and products. The push is to move everything including the 720 to Windows 8. Windows 8 is also said to have a Steam like service built in. So it wouldn't be other people running things on Microsoft's network. It will all be controlled by MS from day one. Even Hotmail is being transfered over to Outlook. Still free and you still keep your Hotmail address. But it will all be under outlook in the next few months.
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Balcrist there will most likely be a $99 deal. But there will surely still be consoles sold straight out. The majority will. For the ten million that will pay during the first year. Another two or three million will do the $99 deal because they didn't have the money but couldn't wait to save it either.
So many complain about paying for Live. Mostly they are fanboys just doing what fanboys do. But MS will make Live worth it in the future I believe. Not that it already ...
Shackdaddy
Either someone believes you're lying about your computer breaking or your girlfriend is upset with you.
Not sure how you got a disagree on that.
They would have spent half that or more on marketing. Taxes would have eaten the other half.
THQ is in financial trouble period. Their CEO has said that they are going to make better decisions and look at a more diverse range of titles. More mid-range budgets and lower.
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
I think this year was Microsoft's last CES. They announced that before this years show.
http://www.washingtonpost.c...
I think it will be a separate event also. If we do see a price cut this year, and I think we will, it will say volumes about the possible launch window for the 720. If the 360 drops to $200 for a Premium, we might see the 720 in the first half of the year.
The next generation shouldn't be as expensive as the last launch prices. We might see a Premium with a secondary screen for $400. But the basic, with a harddrive should only be $300. The reason being the small die size...
There is not one EA game that I've bought this generation that has not had major server issues the first month of a new games launch. No way in hell I would let those cheap bastards handle my network. Nintendo should stand their ground. EA IS too greedy to do the right thing for the customer.
The fix for all of those problems is to simply come up with your own ideas or pay the person you got the idea from. The real problem with the patent system is the expense involved in getting a patent. I don't have a problem with people sitting on a patent that they can't make either. If you don't have the expertise or money to move it forward and someone else could use it, let them pay you for it. Or pay royalties to use it. This is a way for a small company or single inventor to ...
I agree. I think developer need to use crowd funding instead of investors. There are other ways to get support too. Investing is gambling with the House having the fix in. Watch the Daily Show segment with Jim Cramer where they show the footage of him telling about the ways he manipulated the market as a hedge fund manager. I have no idea why people continue to trust the markets.
Windows 8 hasn't been promoted much at all. It has been said that it will be less demanding on system specs, but what isn't. The knock on Windows in the pass was that it was getting bigger and bigger and you were forced to buy a new machine to run it. Now they address that issue and they get hit for that too.
I think it's crazy to criticize a company for making moves to address changes in the market. There are few permanent jobs. And at least they placed people w...