Okay, Halo arrived today and I am on a lovely trip with my girlfriend. 6 days of Halo goodness are waiting for me. Someday I had to spend those vacation-days anyway. :-)
This is the same page and the sane reviewer that gave every single halo game a 7/10. So yeah, one random guy in France doesn't like halo.
It is not after one good game. It is after their first game showing the whole industry how FPS games are done.
They have proven themselves and did something Treyarch, Guerrilla Games, Crytek, Insomniac, Zipper and many many others were not able to do in the past 10 years.
There you have it. GOTY.
Well done 343i. You are officially one of the best studios in the world right now.
MAG?
Twisted Metal?
Starhawk?
Heavenly Sword?
Infamous 2?
Motorstorm Pacific Rift?
Resistance 3?
Socom?
EyePad?
Modnation Racers?
White Knight Cronicles?
Every MLB The Show?
Lair?
The Sly Collection?
Sorcery?
Every PS Move game, except the bundled Sports Champions?
They all sold less than 2 million.
Waiting for disagrees with facts.
CoD MW3 and Mario Kart Wii.
PR blabla IMO.
The Vita won't take off. Period.
The PS3 is a 6 year old system with successor on its way. Period.
The lead desinger of crysis 2 joined them by the way. I doubt he works on a plattformer.
Oh and the job ads are quite a few weeks already.
www.sony-gamer.com
Really N4G?
the whole article has 3 points.
1st XBL fees - It did not hurt this gen, last gen and won't hurt next gen at all.
2nd 1st party support. He suggests MS should invest heavily in first party.
That is exactly what they do! BioShock Infinite devs joining MS, Crysis 2 lead producer joined MS Vancouver, Sega head of design joined Rare. MS Soho, MS Victoria, MS Vancouver, MS Family, 343, ...
from the article:
"But Halo just doesn’t want to stop. The original developers, Bungie, called it quits after Reach, which was not only marketed as the game that brings the series full circle, but the last, as well"
This is wrong on so many levels. Bungie said it quits after Halo 3 in 2007. MS was not bitchy and supported Bungie on their way. MS said "give us 2 more years to build a new studio for the franchise and you are good to go." Th...
you can also innovate within an established franchise as well.
Look at Uncharted 2. It is superior to Uncharted 1 and offered a better experience with new features, settings etc.
Look at Forza Horizon. It is something totally different than Forza 4 and it is a great game, but not a new franchise. You don't need a new name on the cover to make it better.
Look at Halo 4. It plays in the same universe, but will offer more and more and diffe...
No the PS3 won't pass the Xbox 360 this year. You can count on that.
And even IF the PS3 passes the Xbox 360 in its 8th (!!!) year, it is obvious that MS really was a pain in the &!% for Sony this gen.
The PS3 will end up losing 6 billion USD overall, while the Xbox 360 is a profitable product. Not just now, it also recovered all the losses made in its first years, including RRoD and R&D. And still IF this really happens, there will be people ch...
US is not the World... Oh sorry.
Halo 4 and Forza will be huge in the UK. MS has a good shot to even catch the Wii in the UK. The PS3 is in a distant 3rd place and not a threat at all.
And a new IP is better than an established franchise, because ...?
Anyway, it is something casual with PS Move. When you look at the history of the studio.
This is according to VGC.
If you follow VGC closely you know some users there. there is a gamestop employee (not a cashier, more in the management) who has a really good track record of his predictions, confirmed that Halo 4 crossed that mark a couple of weeks ago... and that was gamestop only.
So overall preorders in the US are probably higher than that.
It shares the same fate as all motion-controll based games. You can produce the best motion-control game, but it won't get great revies, because it is a motion-control game.
Sad but true. This goes for Kinect and PS Move, reviewers are really that stupid.
They chosed the the best available humans for the programm, kidnapped them and gave the parents a clone. You can see it at 0:42.
After that they were built for combat, including lots of medical stuff, wehre about 50% of the participants died. starts at 1:04.
AWESOME. They went back to beginning where he was chosen and cloned. Love it.
I expected these articles, but not from gamesindustry.biz
The Xbox 360 still makes enough money to compensate Windows Phone. That is the real news here.
They increased their R&D (Xbox 3), carried WinPhone and made 19 million USD.
MS as a whole and the Xbox business as well are by far in the best situation out of the three manufacturers.
And it only cost them 6 billion USD while MS made a healthy profit with the 360.
Sony clearly "won" against MS.