I remember my first XBL experience, I played Moto GP in 2003. I had to use the credit card of my mom to do so. She was and is not a friend of the Internet. She actually read every word of the terms and conditions, before giving me her credit card. Now you see a twelve year old guys teabag you and cursing like crazy.
I am in my 9th year right now and I don't want to miss a single second of of it.
By the way, the number can't be correct. Quoting Micros...
Why is an article from "Playstation university" approved. They even write "Micro$oft" or "M$". This is not better than a random forum-post on N4G and N4G is known for the most retarded community in the web.
hum?
800k first week in Europe only.
Just to give you a perspective (All numbers Europe only):
God of War: 317k
Uncharted 2: 296k
Assassin's Creed 3 (PS3): 577k
Resident Evil 6 (PS3): 311k
Fable III: 266k
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3): 449k
LBP 2: 146k
Gran Turismo 5: 991k
Gears of War 3: 700k
These are all blockbuster games and Halo 4 outsold basically all of them in Eur...
Sony has no games for a portable system. It is that easy.
Uncharted, Resistance, Assassin's Creed, CoD are their big titles for the system and they were not able to sell hardware. Those are console games you play at home and not on the go.
Look, I am a hardcore Halo fan, but even I would not like the idea of having Halo on my portable device. On my portable devices I play games like Angry Birds, Ninja Chicken or Diversion. When I am home, I will play Ha...
VGC estimates consoles in consumer hands.
Sony reported 70 million shipped.
So there are 1.68 million PS3s in stores / warehouses all over the world. That is a reasonable number considering we are entering the craziest time of the year. There is a chance that there will be close to 1 million PS3s sold in one week this time next month. So 1.7 million consoles in stores all over the world is not that much, when you think about it.
For example MS repor...
Go Halo!
Well deserved. One of the best games of this generation. Maybe even all time.
quite a healthy boost for the 360. PS Vita is pretty much dead.
true, but these are rumors for the consumer version and not a devkit. So devkits might even have 16 GB RAM.
These are all rumors anyway.
8 GM RAM is quite impressive. 4 times as much as the Wii U.
I played Halo 4, Gears of War 3, Alan Wake and Red Dead Redemption and thought they look great. Now imagine what devs could create on a console with these specs... Crazy shit.
I actually like the design, too.
shipped vs sold difference.
VGC is actually spot on.
Sony just like MS include shipped consoles. Because shipped is a sale for them.
They ship the console to retailers (SOLD for them) and the retailer sells it to the consumer. When they say shipped / sold, they mean the same thing.
Since this is the quarter with the highest shipments, the gape is probably about 2 million now.
Did anybody actually read the article?
It is a well written explanation how Sony got in this mess. Give it a chance.
global hit.
LOL I am picking Halo 4 and I am 27 years old. Halo 4 has the better story, better online, better graphics, better sound. There is no way I will got with CoD over Halo. I don't dislike CoD like some people on N4G do, but Halo offers more IMO.
GotY will be a battle between Halo 4 and CoD then. I know which side I am picking.
Halo in decline my *beeep*
4 million in the first 5 days is INSANE.
Wait, he disliked the sound effects?
I bought a Bose Soundsystem last year and believe me, this games has the best gunsounds of any Halo before, maybe even any FPS ever.
Sony didn't have a global hit since the PS2, so it is just normal that the situation gets worse for them.
- music player? Apple surpassed them.
- TVs? Samsung and LG surpassed them.
- Cameras? Canon, Olympus and Nikon surpassed them.
- videogame business? Nintendo and Microsoft surpassed them. (I know people with disagree with that one, but it is a fact anyway. Look at the financial results)
- Cell phones? Samsung and Apple surpassed them. ...
Forza Horizon for $15 is a steal.
well deserved. Probably the best shooter I have ever played.
This was expected. Sony was hurt when Kaz took over, but since then they lost another 40% or their market cap. Sony's market cap is more or less as much as MS profits in 5 months.
*edit* in case you don't know what this means: MS could buy all of Sony with their profits of the past 5 months (in Theory). In the real world they need to spend more money due to rising share price as soon as rumors are coming up and that companies have to pay more than the current price t...