It IS Game of the Year..The end
Evil
At the end of the day, no matter how you spin it,the 360 outselling both the Wii and the PS3 in no small feat.
It's especially impressive when you factor in the fact that Japan sales are miniscule in comparison to the other big two.
I own all 3 consoles and bought over 20 games for the 360 alone.
I laugh hard at how non-core 360 gamers still keep trying to convince themselves that Microsoft abandoned hardcore when DAILY millions of 360 ...
LOL and the internet ducktales keep coming..
'Gears of War 3 was pushed back for the Kinect Marketing Campaign.'
Absolutely 100% false! Gears was originally planned from day one to release in around the end of the 1st quarter 2011.
Micrsoft wisely pushed the game back to the Fall Halo slot which gave the game the best chance of success. It worked.
Kinect releasing in November 2010 had zero effect on Gears.
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Talk about winning the most 'off topic' rant of the year award.
'Unfortunately to do this, they kinda screwed over their core audience.'
False..
Not one single core game was effected by the release of Kinect ever.
In fact EVERY major 360 core exclusive have seen a release in 2010 AND 2011. Both are the years of Kinects release.
Core 360 played the biggest core 360 exclusives and the biggest multiplatforms. Halo Reach dominated in 2010 (and went on to sell 2 million more in 2011) a...
I have NO IDEA what you were babbling about and I could care less.
The Classic N4g line goes directly to YOU now.
WTF are you even talking about?? LMAO @ you whining about some PM out of the blue?
You fan kiddies can keep coming up with your weak attempts all day long.
Im LMAO at you calling me a MS rep..If I am a Micrsoft rep then there are a about a dozen of you must believe they are the president of Sony.
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'I said it before and I'll say it again, the 360 had a great year'
LMAO..when did you say this? In the dark to yourself while falling sleep.
When Ballmer announced the holiday numbers you pretended that Micrsoft was lying and even wrote a blog on your site.
When the financials came out you still wouldnt eat crow...
Fast forward and NOW your claiming that you somehow were telling us all along that Micrsoft had a ba...
Wow Timotim you just shut down N4G with that one.
I forsee many disagrees for that one, but you definately hit it on the head with what the focus has been from the fan bloggers and many from this site, but the results speak volumes.
But, the truth is this is not necessarily the PS3, Sony is internally and externally restructuring their business ventures. The last story we saw from one of their TV models.
The reality is Sony just launched Vit...
LMAO..generic compared to what year?
Please enlighten yus on all those non-generic years compared to 2011.
Evil
2011 was one of the best years in console history. 2012 may top it.
Evil
List speaks volumes at the anticipation level of some of these franchises.
Top 5 were all on the 360
MW3
Halo Reach
Gears of War 3
MW2
Black Ops
What is crazy is 8 games on the 360 all had over a million preorders.
I absolutely love the fact tht Elder Scrolls: Skrim had over a million preorders on the 360 alone.
good stuff
Evil
This is pure entertainment. Look this isn't rocket science we definately get where Pirate Thom and of course we know where Why o Why stands.
But, once again, Pirate Thom used 3 article links that literally showed that Microsoft has done exactly what they claimed.
Why O why will jump in multiple articles claiming that soccer moms are the ones who buy Kinect, but then NOW he's pretending that he's some avid Kinect player.
'Coupl...
Who has to clear them up? Simply read them. Since day one they have been saying who they were targeting Kinect to. But when the hardcore question kept coming out they have always said they wanted the implementation to make sense. They have been all about game experienced geared toward what Kinect does best.
The strategy has clearly worked thus far if it didn't there would be a thousand articles exclaiming it failed.
Evil
'Really.....because when Kinct was revealed all you guys have been saying is that it's for the core and always was...how we all love it and how it's already aimed at us'
LOL @ that not even being CLOSE to what happened when Kinect was revealed.
The best part is the fact that NONE of your article links come close to saying it either.
The truth is when Kinect was revealed all of the media said it would fail because they said ...
Where did they lie in ANY statement made about hardcore games?
Article #1: Came out last March. Just like the article said Micrsoft's intention all along was to initially capture what made Nintendo a hit with games like K.Sports and Dance Central. They then talked about how 'Eden' came first with Ginslinger and more coming. The article then talks about how they gave more tools to 3rd party such as facial recognition and voice control in hopes it would lend to more...
'But why would you insist on going against the maker of the most prominent game engine this generation when they have said 2014? The same company is responsible for some of Microsoft's biggest hits and they say 2014.'
An article in January has nothing to do with E3 in June. Micrsoft has everything to gain with a 720 announcement and plenty to lose if they don't.
Even if they leave E3 with just a video trhat just intimates 720 they have done t...
'Sony was masterful with their announcement of the PS3 a year ahead of launch as it really did dampen the excitement of the 360 announcement.'
LOL....that's not even CLOSE to what happened.
The ONLY time Sony ever affected someones launch was back when they announced PS2. This scared Sega into a suprise launch of the Sega Dreamcast, which at the time p-ed of retailers. Ultimately this was just the beginning of the end for that system.
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'Exactly, i said it before and ill say it again'
LOL..WHEN did you say it..you joined lioke a week ago.
I've been calling this on this site when everyone was pretending that the next gen wasn't comoing for another 3 years.
No matter WHAT stories you read leading up till E3 the results will still be the same.
Xbox 720 WILL be announced at this years E3 and shown at next years E3 for a holiday 2013 launch.
I'll respond from my phone....
Lmfao @ you taking this to level stupid times infinity. It would be easy to go line for line and heckle your silly reply but it's not even close to worth it. You jumped into a convo b-hurt because you somehow thought I was making a negative statement towards Sony. So you went into defend mode and replied. But as the rest of these hypocrites do on this site you claim I'm the one who is defending Microsoft. At the end of the day you a...
Articles saying this now are meaningless. EVERYONE will be screaming for a PS4 two years from now.
Evil