Not to single anyone out, but people like HHG and Ironstar. They do nothing but flamebait or mostly flamebait.
When I see dumb headlines like that I check before I give some fool a hit.
But on topic. Electronic Arts thought they didn't need Infinity Ward too. That's why Medal of Honor is just rising from the grave now.
People always say that only good games matter. Not sales.
Just because they don't call the enemy in those games the taliban, everyone knows they are terrorist. And the big thing that the people that complain ignore is that the troops actually play these games. I'm not sure if they still do but they used to play them while they are actually stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would have been better off doing the usually shark attack thing on a slow day.
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The Supreme Court makes adjustments as times change. So the first amendment may have started out to allow people to protest the government. But over the years it has been reinterpreted to cover an individuals right to speak out.
I don't think Microsoft get most of the profits off of Reach. I think it's even or Bungie gets the most. Microsoft was willing to spend 25 million on an advertising campaign when they were making 500 million on the return. But if Bungie is getting a much larger share, Bungie might feel vidocs are enough to get the market hyped. And MS doesn't feel it's worth it to pay 25 million for ads. The Vidocs worked for me. I wasn't getting Reach until I saw the Forge World vidoc.
A lot of bad information on it. PrimeSense provided a chip not software. The software was made at Microsoft. And Microsoft and PrimeSense entered into their partnership this year. Kinect was in development for several. The part PrimeSense provided was the PrimeSensor.
And 3DV Systems was also acquired this year. In fact, it was in May. MS received their help on the design from PrimeSense and bought 3DV because the tech was similar and they wanted it off the market.
It's the developers. Developers didn't start going out of business when the economy went bad. They did when they started making games that suck though. More power for the consoles raised the expectations for the games. Most couldn't keep up. The video game industry is like life in general, adapt or die. Companies the come up with new ideas will always be around. Some will be around because they hit on something big. Others last because they are business savvy. But good companies w...
I think both Microsoft and Sony will stick with the current architecture for their next console. The Cell was designed to be scalable and Sony could just use several Cell processors on a smaller die size. In a few more years that could be as small as 22nm. Microsoft can use the same basic processor but just add cores. Go with eight or ten and shrink their die down. They could add new GPUs and 2gb of RAM. 2TB hard drives and still keep the cost cheap. Microsoft could do that add a new type of ...
I think it's a Kinect device for the PC. Wasn't there an article last week about the Business Division doing a lot of the development for Kinect. And Microsoft has said Kinect has uses outside of gaming. And most of 3DV Systems applications were for the PC. If not that it could be Surface for the PC. They've been working on that too.
taking the NFL license from EA. I would also get rid of John Madden. Never liked him. I mean the guy sees a runner score from the one and he claims he's the best in the league at scoring in short yardage situations. Next week the same thing happens with a different guy and that guy is suddenly the best in the league at it. He just rambles aimlessly.
People are debating his opinion and have ignored his name completely. Tom Butler. Obviously related to Kevin Butler. I would expect nothing else from him.
But I love Football. The NFL kind. If the NFL played a 52 week schedule, I would never have noticed there were other sports.
I would chant USA...USA. But that would be embarrasing.
Firstly two of his reasons contradict each other. The ability to sell disc and hard drive size. If you're selling them, 2TBs is more than enough.
Reason 5 is wrong because games aren't really 50gbs. Take out all of the video and uncompressed audio and they will be 20 at best. Devs are no going to be making 100gb games. They're going out of business left and right with the budgets for 15gb games. If you miss and a 100gb 100 million game fails to sell, you most li...
The vast majority of sites posted on N4G are biased. And rejected stories go both ways. The fanboys on this site make it next to impossible to get a realistic picture of the industry. Most don't want a realistic picture anyway. They want their own reality.
Only you expand it. I would prefer to go DD. In fact, the devs could take Gamestop's place in the re-sell business. They could offer people credits to return their license for a game. That credit could be applied to another one of their games. Gamestop gives you next to nothing anyway.
Between new game promos and sales, the dev could cancel your license on one game and give you $15 or $20 off of a new title from them. $60 minus retail profit, transportation, packaging, a...
The US actually sucks when it comes to technology relatively speaking. We were dragged kicking and screaming into the HD era. And some are already moving on to higher levels of HD as we just start. But considering most Console owners are playing on line or at least have accounts, it's time to go with at least an option. I would prefer straight DD as I don't trade in games often. The prices are too low. Gamestop is a pimp. But I also have a 250gb limit on my service. Like many people d...
It says the increase in disc capacity is 20 times. 1TB. But no gaming system would need this. Unless people want $100 games in the US. But in order not to kill Blu-ray they would have to wait until 2016 or later.
It sounds like it cuts the pit size of Blu-ray in half and that doubles the capacity. It also sounds faster and more precise in read speeds. This doesn't sound like something that will create a 5TB disc unless they have something else to pair it with. But I don't see how you ask people to start another format anytime soon when they haven't adopted blu-ray in huge numbers.
But it does set up Sony for 4k video.
Sony had a separate games division until recently. MS has always included Xbox in a division with several other products. Most of which make no profit. Some are things like advertising for operating systems that run into the 100's of million a year while the profits 10's of billions in revenue from those products goes to another division. The 360 was sold at a lose in the beginning, they lose on RRoD. But the 360 started being sold at a profit around two years ago. So even in the thir...