You could call the Xbox 360 a PS2 wannabe. Face it dude, everyone copies each other, the main difference is whether they improve on what they copy.
The guy said himself in the interview, never say never, so they could have added online achievements. I'm glad they didn't though, because I hate it when your trophy/achievement relies on other people in your team doing good. Also my connection is quite crap, and I get disconnected in a lot of games, and in KZ2 for example, it wouldn't even update your stats so it would have been a waste of 20 mins. :(
@fox - Yes and no. Flash memory is a better format than optical media, but it won't be anywhere near as cheap as optical media by 2011. Maybe 2015, but you are being way way too optimistic about the prices and the size of flash memory when the most we've got at the moment is 32 or 64GB and even then it costs A LOT.
Also optical media has the advantage that it is cheaper to produce, look how cheap DVDs are today? A few pennies for each one, flash memory is unlikely to get to that ...
Same as this:
http://www.n4g.com/NewsPend...
@murder - Uncharted 2, Killzone 2. Enough said.
TGS was a major let down, it used to be a great place for game announcements, but this year there were no decent announcements. I at least expected a new Mistwalker RPG announcement :(
@1.16 - While what you say is correct, these games did sell over 500,000, an xbox fan's definition of "selling well" is if a game sells 3 or 4 million, except when they are proven wrong and then they say sales don't matter. In that case 500k is enough sales. Hypocrites.
Also the first 4 games you listed are actually good games, the last 4 games vary in quality. In fact Star Ocean is probably the only decent one on the bottom half of the list. Good games matter more than...
Doesn't really matter to me, I'm getting it on PS3 no matter what due to the controller's D-pad. Soul Calibur and SF4 with the 360 pad really did not work well, so I'd rather get Tekken on PS3.
I thought Star Ocean 4 was the Last Hope? Lol j/k.
@1.1 - I said almost the exact same thing a couple of weeks ago. They need an EXCLUSIVE, NUMBERED FF. No spin off or crap like that.
@2.6 - That is incredibly stupid to say. You shouldn't have to buy extra hardware for your game to run on a console, this isn't PC we're talking about. Maybe if MS bundle a 20GB HDD with the game, this wouldn't really be a problem, but let's face it, Arcade owners are f***ed.
And I said this earlier when this game was announced on 2 discs, DVD is not enough for games any more, especially when RACING games start going on to 2 discs.
1. OLD - At least 6 weeks old (posted August 18)
2. Fake - The guy has taken the domain of the "modchip" down.
3. Some guy called Ricky Fairbanks registered the domain, probably some kid who thought it would be a funny joke. Here is his email rick2021@hotmail.com
PS3 still not been hacked, I think someone needs to make a supercomputer cluster of PS3s and use it to hack the PS3's encryption.
Nice to see some good advertising.
I know, and it's dangerously over-priced as well.
Damn I was number one a while ago!
Pretty long mini-game too.
Football (Soccer) > Everything in UK, seriously. I know people who only bought a PS2 to play Pro Evolution Soccer, and that's the ONLY game they played. These types of games are better systems sellers sometimes than exclusive titles.
They just need to be marketed properly.
What's up with the N4G bashing lately? besides twitter is very different kind of social network, 140 characters doesn't really cut it for news stories.
I can't really understand why though? Game doesn't need to be localized all they need to do is upload it to their servers. It's not like they are actually shipping the game to them and it got lost in the post!
Still though, helluva long time to wait!
I haven't heard of one gamer that is satisfied with their Wii, everyone is disappointed with it. I haven't played mine for 4 or 5 months myself. Please note I said gamer.