Going by the garbage Square has been putting out this gen I don't think this is going to be that big of deal.
FFXIII became a joke the minute decided to take a payoff from Microsoft over caring about FF fans to downgrade the game to run on the POS Xbox 360 and its wimpy graphics hardware and 7 gigabyte DVDs.
Even if the game was gimped to fit on three 360 DVDs that would have been still less than on single sided BluRay disc of 25 gigs. Just imagine how good FFXIII if...
"Given the above - convince me to buy one *today*."
You can't possibly have been serious to think that anyone gives a damn about the tiny Xbox demographic.
The Xbox 360 just like the first Xbox marketplace failure once again is a niche console that caters almost exclusively to some 15-20 million US gamers. With a bit of success coming from the UK.
140 million PS2 owners out there and there will be most likely almost 150 million by the time it g...
Killzone 2 Uncharted 2 Heavy Rain Free online for everyone Dedicated servers for all major games for lagfree online play The incredible Home online world 1080p BluRay movies The incredible PSN titles like Fat Princess Rock solid reliability Easy and cheap harddrive upgrades
and on and on and on
Sucks if you're too poor to buy a 400 dollar console. ...
" but it's safe to say that it hasn't made quite the splash people expected it to."
LOL!
I've been in Home since just before open beta went live and the servers have been completely packed with gamers every single hour of every single day having one giant non-stop party.
It isn't that Sony has a massive success with Home. It's that only a month after it was released to everyone that it would have turned out to be THIS MASSIVE A SUCCESS. They've...
Sony really should be leveraging their licensing fees as an incentive force game developers to stop putting out crossplatform titles that are gimped and downgraded to run on the 360 massively weaker graphics hardware and 7 gigabyte storage format.
Want to crap out GTA4 that is nothing more than the same low quality version as the 360 versions that has been downgraded to fit in less than 7 gigs and runs entirely on the PPU and just throws tris at the RSX and completely ignores the...
Microsoft has had three years to come up with its own exclusives that are graphically near the PS3's Killzone 2,Uncharted,Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, etc. and failed miserably.
It isn't even possible to run a Killzone 2 type engine on the 360's botched graphics hardware design. The 360 graphics hardware is gimped with only 10 megs of EDRAM that is too small to even fit a 720p 4xAA framebuffer in. You are forced to render in tiles for any resolutions greater than 480p with decent AA ...
Level 5 has continued to rise to the top of the RPG devs in Japan while SE has seemed to completely self destruct this gen with almost everything they've done been garbage.
Very few people have any hope SE will recover this gen. Perhaps if they had just put on one major stinker, but the people still hoping for FFXIII to turn out good sound like those sad sods who still think Rare is going to magically return to their ...
Gameradar appears to be in total panic mode over the gaming world going insane over the glowing reviews, the mind boggling graphics, and everyone from the beta doing nothing but raving about the game.
This Wasn't Supposed To Happen.
Trashing KZ2 was supposed to the moment of glory for a certain...segment...in the gaming media. They are still bitterly hurt over Sony actually matching the "impossible Sony lies ...
"People are still mad at sony for lying about kz2"
You mean where a gaming site edited Jack Tretton's comments about the launch game Resistance running in realtime right there at E3 to make it look like Sony was lying about the Killzone 2 trailer?
Stupid and pathetic especially when Tretton specifically says references to Ted(Ted Price, President of Insomniac and creators of Resitance) confirming it was real time making it obvious his remarks had nothing to...
"They proved the new jasper chipsets still red ring"
That is absolutely unbelievable that it's been over three years since the 360 hardware went on sale and not only are they failing still, but they are still so prone to failure that of all places you don't want people seeing you hardware is still defective you can't manage to get the few demo units out of the entire batch of 360s to not fail.
Microsoft accomplished what they needed to with the Win 7 stuff with the fantastic reaction it is getting from everyone who tried it. You can hear the Linux and Mac fans who put so much effort into trashing Vista howling with rage when people are not only loving Win 7 but also finding out it is basically just Vista with some UI upgrades and performance enhancements.
Not part of the keynote but part of the Ballmer CES interviews he hinted at the Zune hardware going away and Micros...
