Its not about your purchases or your investment in Ps3 or 360.
Its about SEGA and CAPCOM's investment.
Basically, what they're pondering (and at this point its just pondering; lets not jump to conclusions, here) is whether they'd be better off releasing two cross-platform HD games next year or 3 360-only games. Not an easy question to judge. It takes 18-24 months to get a game out the door and there is no telling what the market is going to look like in XMAS08/Spring09.
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Well, lets see...
Too Human
DMC4
SC4
Halo wars
Maybe Peter Jackson's Halo Chronicles
Maybe Fable 2
Last Revenant
Infinite Undiscovery
Ninja gaiden2
GTA 4
Sacred 2
Fallout 3
And, yes, thousands upon thousands of Halo 3 end-user-created game types cooked up with The Forge.
Worry not; 360 isn't going to be lacking premium content in 08, even if Gears of War 2 doesn't show up until 09.
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They're delaying stuff in *development* not stuff ready for release.
Doesn't take much reading between the lines to see its stuff like DEAD RISING 2 and LOST PLANET 2 and whatever 08 HD-gaming projects SEGA is cooking up.
The issue isn't Halo per se, but rather the installed base of the two platforms. They're waiting to see how things shape up for the holidays and beyond. With PS3 sales back at March levels and 360 getting past the bad publicity of the summer, th...
Everybody is talking about a $200 price cut coming Real.Soon.Now.
Who would be stupid enough to buy a PS3 at $599 in sept when they can buy one for $399 Real.Soon.Now.
Lets face it; at $399, the PS3 would make a great media box. Blu-ray. MP3 audio. MPEG4 video. A built-in browser for streaming free TV from NBC Direct and Youtube. Who cares if it has no games worth buying?
Like the british retailers said on launch, the PS3 Blu-ray player is a great media de...
With entries provided by Sony stooges?
Nah!
There is no more price cut coming unless the $399 PS3 ships, if at all. Just like last year, MS thinks the games will sell the box.
What you see is what you get, price-wise. What we'll likely see, come Xmas will be retailer-specific bundles; Halo3+Halo console, Naruto+Core, Scene-it+Core, Party Animals+Core, etc.
...that rather than a Halo effect, Heavenly Sword was done in by the reviews?
Even folks that like it think 6 hours of gameplay is...problematic?
For most folks, a six hour game is a rental, not a purchase.
As for PS3 sales dropping; well, what else would you expect after all the publicity the upcoming $399 PS3 is getting? With no must-have games out there, an imminent $200 price cut is, of course, going to dry up sales.
Don't blame Halo; blame Ars Technica and Pac...
...then you can forget about a 360 add-on of any kind.
The add-on is just a bare drive in a USB case.
The decoding and output will always be done inside the 360. Which means 1080i60 or 1080p60 are your main output choices; it is doubtful the 360 will ever do 24Hz output. If they do, however, it won't need a new drive; it would be strictly a software update, like the A20 is getting next month.
Your best bet is to check out the Toshiba deal on Amazon right now; 7 free movie...
They are currently using a slightly modified PC drive with an external power brick.
First gen HD-DVD hardware.
Toshiba and the drive makers are up to 3rd-gen drives; lower physical profile and lower power consumption.
I'd expect the new one not to need the power brick and be thinner.
And sell for less.
Some of us have big hands and wrapping them on tiny lil things get painful after a while.
I love the Duke.
The new one is too small; I get finger cramps that I never get with the original.
I'd settle for an wired adapter to use it with 360.
You'd think the third party guys would get with the program by now...
Of course the 360 keeps track of everything you play.
(No, not movies and stuff, but games it does.)
It has to. The info is cached locally and updated every time you log into Live. (It is part of the terms of services contract. No secret at all.) That's how achievements are tracked and it is *necessary* for a universal friends' list and for the advanced matchmaking features on Live.
MS is, and always has been deadly serious about the terms of use clauses for the console, LIVE, and the games.
Games sold before release are sold in violation of the retailer's contract (and could be easily be counterfeit or pirated) so putting a damper on the consumer side in addition to fining the retailer is quite reasonable.
Remember, you never actually *buy* software, movies, music, etc; all you "buy" is a license that grants you the right to access the content on...
...that wouldn't be a review, now, would it? :-)
A cheap shot.
An editorial.
Hate speech...
But not a review. Reviews require you to actually play the thing...
That's the worst review Halo 3 is going to get. ;-)
Is that the game runs entirely off UNREAL 3 engine. The pre-scripted scenes are rendered on-the-fly in-engine. This not only saves space (by a factor of 10 or more), but it allows the character to be fully customized. These current-gen HD consoles are *supposed* to have the horsepower to do this and 360 definitely does. There is no practical reason why a *well-coded* game has to pre-render anything.
But then its well-known in certain circles that lots of developers are just plain lazy,...
You do know that Baldur's Gate *and* KOTOR both ran on the old XBOX, right?
Plus their sequels and Jade Empire.
Plus DeusEx and Morrowind.
XBOX has always had plenty of Premium RPGs; 360 is just keeping the tradition going.
On what system?
On the XBOX it ran 40-80 hours!
Jade Empire ran 30-40.
Bioware doesn't even *know* how to make a short game.
Get out a bit, kid; on the XBOX side, a 6 hour game is a demo. Saints' Row demo ran like 8 hours. Prey ran as long as you could keep it up...
60 hours for Mass Effect is about right.
Just wish it came out now, not in Nov.
Wow!
In what universe?
I assume it ships the same week as Halo Saga for PS3?
I'm impressed! A whole new level of delusion...
I wonder what medication he's on...
Remember, Wii is actually less powerful than PS2 *and* more expensive.
If Sony can't get PS3 pricing and games to where it can compete with 360, they still can beef up PS2 to compete with Wii.
Don't forget, along with the $399 PS3 rumor, there was a *second* rumor floated of a new PS2 iteration with the Sixaxis, Built-in HDD, more video memory, and a scaler chip.
PS2 has always been video memory starved (4MB? please!) so jacking up the video memory would cost almost nothi...