You could pick any game you wanted? How many 360's would sell? Or would if really have an impact on sales at all as they would have sold the unit anyway?
I pick Splinter Cell as my free one.
Although I read that many of the 'gamers' here have been playing consoles and games for years I doubt that many are my age, 40.
I can relate to the aging demographic and the lack of mature (not read sexually) games. Story lines and direction are weak, obvious by an industry that is being led by young males.
The comparison that it is perfectly acceptable for young people to stay up late and watch The Sopranos (filled with obvious inferences of sex, blatant murder and soc...
When Splinter Cell hits the streets there will be a 360 in my house. Before that, I'll see you in line for a new Wii. Awesome.
With the amount of intelligence within MS, why the hell can't they hire a decent frickin advertising agency with the balls to tell these guys the way it is.
When was the last time you ran out the door to buy something you didn't know anything about or could identify with. MS has left the door wide open in the Asian market for SONY (and their incredible marketing endeavours) to roll thee guys. Terrible shame, but you get what you deserve sometimes.
This is one of the games that put the 360 on my high interest list. Provided its not a turn based card type game and more action/adventure, I'm sold.
Over 1 billion people in India with a massive upswing in the economy. MS getting there before the other guys is definetely a head start.
Also very technologically savvy. Lot's of broadband for LIVE.
OK, with the addition of dual sticks 5 years ago where is 'Crazy Climber'? That game soaked me for hundreds of quarters in the early 80's. Damn that was fun.
As a fence sitter waiting for all the consoles to release, this and Splinter Cell are the games that will sell me a 360. I may not wait until Spring 2007 as the rumor mill about an impressive Holiday bundule for the 360 could speed up that purchase. Please dont let the bundle be PGR3.
Mass Effect is a console seller, but it better be out before the monster called Halo 3 (another system seller)
While we are try to balance our cheque books and count our pennies, companies like MS have strategies. Some of these are strategic gains ie. Office, network and OS products. While others are projected and strategic losses ie. Xbox and Zune with obvious intentions of long term positive results. An operating loss over the term of a 5-7 year games console of $1.26B seems insurmountable and bizzare in our world but in MS land; it's dollars and cents.
Don't think for a moment that S...
Like most of you I like coming back and seeing if there are any responses to a previous comment made. All I suggested was that I felt a large portion of SONY's delay in their online service is likely due to ensuring that their trademark and patents are cleared before going public. Not an "us/them" debate.
This is an unusual site with a fair number of less than informed bloggers. It does make it hard to have a reasonably intelligent debate.
The point above about copyright infringement is 'bang-on'. SONY had better tread very carefully into this area. MS has been smacked enough times about unfair trade practices and intellectual property that they could write the book on how to deal with the court system.
You'd have a better chance winning a slip and fall lawsuit against Wal-Mart than going head to head with MS.
I'm sure that a lot of the delay in SONY's online service is due to patent and copyright protecti...
They still make PSP's? Thought I saw them in the bargain bin with the UMD movies. Neat piece of hardware, but another victim of SONY proprietary property. They'll find the magic peripheral someday, just not this one; or Beta or MD or memory stick or ....
I would thik the first reason not to include rumble would be cost. Royalties must be paid and it's clear that Nintendo's intention is to keep costs on hardware down. Xbox 1 could have included DVD but they left the royalty to be paid by the individual remote sale not the unit. The second reason has to be size.
They still make PSP's?
OK that's awesome. Opera rules and the DS brought Nintendo back to the front of the bus.
Gettin' one as soon as they are in english.
And the player remains a worthless peripheral w/o the addition of an HDMI port.
Rental stores like BB and Gamefly dont pay $69.99 for a game like you and I. They are subjected to a heavy license fee that renumerates the publisher for revenues earned by another party other than themselves. I dont think it would be difficult for SONY to develop a separate series of discs that are coded directly onto the disc to identify it as a 'rental'.
The real question will be if these games have to be recorded as a finished rental back to SONY or the distributer for veri...
First and foremost it's about developer support. Developers/Publishers are MS's #1 clients and they need to be serviced by giving their costly projects longevity.
Secondly, is the end user; you and me. I woud love to unload my Xbox to a garge sale or the lake house but I still need it. My library of X1 games is substantially larger then my 360 library(44:0).
My X1 games are essentially worthless and I wont commit to the 360 until I can maintain the depreciated value I h...
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this is exactly wat im talking about
That wasn't a pro/con comment. More of a broad overview of 20+ hours/week average gamer profile comment.
I can't see that happening. Although I didn't renew my subscription (after two years) it is worth the $50 they charge.
Lowering the service fee discredits the great work MS has done to date and would only validate SONY's 'myth' free service.
I'll take the lower unit price anyday.