8 at 90+
66 at 80+
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
1 at 90+
27 at 80+
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
...it doesn't include a PS3, right? :-1
More than just a rumor.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site...
Two worlds may have frame rate issues, but the thing is actually playable and good for 60+ hours (and counting). A 6-7 would've been more accurate.
But that would've made PGR4 an 11 and Halo a 12...
The media just *likes* a "good" story. Preferably one loaded with irony.
C'mon guys; what's a "bigger" story:
1- Tiger Woods wins yet another golf tournament
2- Tiger Woods fails to make the cut for a tournament?
Obviously, the second story.
Doesn't mean the media hates Tiger; they just prefer the unusual.
Well, the best selling console in the world from 1995-2000 was the Sony Playstation. The best selling console from 2000-2006 wa...
So basically the London authorities are telling the world that it is not safe to run around London at midnight with a few hundred pounds worth of cash or a video game because you might get mugged, even though it is safe to do the same in Washington DC, Detroit, NYC, and most major North American cities?
Not the best way to reassure potential tourists of the safety of your city...
I wonder if the event *hadn't* been for a Microsoft product would they have made the same claims? So...
Next year you'll deal with Halo Wars hype and in 09 Peter Jackson's Halo Chronicles Hype and in 2010... ;-)
Halo is not going away this decade. Get used to it. :-)
Wow! A lot of kids sure bought into the legendary edition to boost the average that high.
When NPD numbers come out.
The answer should be anywhere between 50K and 600K. ;-)
They *own* Viva Pinata lock, stock, and pinatas; RARE created it and then they licensed it to Four Kids. Sorta like the Sonic animated shows? Its a Microsoft IP as much as Halo and Kameo.
Second season started recently; still doing well, apparently.
...in addition to whatever investments and deals they made on the side. Since Take2 has been short of cash anyway there never was much of a doubt it would stay only on 360.
BTW, the localization effort included Mass Effect, too.
... that only people that have XBOXES today are buying ever buying Halo.
Good games sell at release and keep on selling as people come on board later. Oblivion is still selling on 360 eighteen months after it first came out. So rest assured that when the 360 hits $200 and new buyers come on board, Halo will be one of the games that some of them buy.
Its not as if the 360 is going to stop selling, you know. As the price drops over time, new buyers will come in. The Original XBOX ...
"Ninja Tag..."
"Rocket Baseball..."
"Crouching Tiger..."
Single player movies.
Multi-player movies.
4 player coop...
Infinite variations.
Yup, player-created content is going to matter this generation. And with three million player/developers cranking out Halo3 game-modes people are still going to be playing the darn thing when the PS2 lifecycle ends in 2020. ;-)
Thirty hours and coun...
Just like BD+ is a piece of BD-ROM and just like BD-J (the closest thing blu-ray has to HDi). Main difference is HDi is a universal feature of HD-DVD, required of all players, and BD-J is optional.
Here ya go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
HDi is an interactive app that is scriptabl...
Blu-Ray's interactive features (BD-J, Sony's answer to HDi) are based on Java.
Which was created by, ahem, an *american* company, SUN Microsystems. And HD-DVD may use MS software and technology (a lot of it, in fact; the codecs, for one) but the disk tech is pure Toshiba, which is Japanese.
And, to mess you up even further, the best-looking Blu-ray movies are encoded using Microsoft's VC1, so even a Blu-Ray win over HD-DVD means money in Microsoft's pocket. And the only thing ke...
Western RPGs are different from what Japan calls an RPG. Especially the more modern western RPGs ala Oblivion, Kotor, Fable, and Mass Effect, where the player in effect "creates" the story by "living" it. JRPGS, in contrast, feature a "canned" linear story that is revealed mostly through pre-rendered movie clips unlocked by playing what amounts to a combat mini-game over and over.
Square-Enix seems concerned that folks exposed to Oblivion and Mass Effect w...
Talk about leaving money on the table!
They just told their competitors to go out and make their own non-sequel sequel: There is nothing easier in gaming than copying the format of another product, as long as the characters don't look the same. And with a million sales from Dead Rising proving the zombie-killing format works, the only question remaining is who'll get the clone out first.
Japan gaming is definitely getting more and more separate from the mainstream with e...
...but in the graphics war, as you describe it, power is generally measured by shaders and textures and by HD support. The PS2 has limited video memory and some HD support but it has both. GC and Wii don't do shaders, right? CPU power by itself isn't enough, as the PS3 itself shows.
HD support in particular is going to be significant in the 08-09 timeframe. A PS2 with an added scaler could do in hardware what the 360 does in software for original xbox games; scale them up to HD and ant...
...without infringing on the Microsoft IP.
For example, the kudos gameplay is out of the question.
They could do some other kind of meta-scoring system but they'd have to be careful not to get too close. And they definitely can't call it kudos.
Reusing code from PGR4 may also be a no-no but some of that will depend on their use of middleware and the terms of the contract with MGS.
They're talking 2-2.5 years until their Activision racing game comes out so its likel...