False. It outsold the original Xbox. People have crazy expectations for MS based on the 360, which was only able to sell so well because Sony repeatedly shot itself in the foot by delaying PS3 a year and then launching at $600, mistakes it never completely recovered from in the U.S. Without Sony actively sabotaging themselves, 50m for Xbox is quite respectable, especially since they don't have the global reach Sony does.
I'm glad the arguments against digital on here have gotten so stupid that people are taking my comment seriously.
Hey, I'd much rather buy a physical copy for 20 so I can get 10 out of it later. This digital copy will be worthless.
It's insane to think that Sony was just clueless as to what they had with Socom. If they had been more forward-thinking with cultivating a first party brand (like they ultimately did later in the PS3 era), Socom could still be one of the major multiplayer titles today.
If you could play Warhawk with bots like the PS2-era Battlefront games (as in full multiplayer style matches, not a dumbed down mode), I don't think I ever would have stopped playing.
MAG wasn't able to compete with those games (in sales) because Sony had no clue how to market first-party exclusives during much of the PS3 era (indeed, they still haven't figured out how to market a multiplayer FPS). Much of what should have been the target audience have probably still never heard of it.
I do agree with the quality over quantity sentiment, in the sense that just because the casual COD/Madden/GTA crowd never knew about it and doesn't look back o...
I can't believe people play RuneScape.
Guys you know I'm a hardcore gamer because I played Morrowind and it's definitely better than anything else in existence.
Remember that Xbox fans have been telling us that games can be scaled to any system without holding the more powerful systems back, so obviously I'm sure they don't hold a totally inconsistent view about the Switch.
If Sony doesn't buy into the "ending generations" nonsense by then.
I can't tell if this is serious or a joke about the Series X not having exclusives.
It's insane that people are trying to ignore this very obvious truth. Glad you found a good example to point it out; it will be interesting to see if the usual suspects try to spin against this or just ignore your post. Ten points each time they say "scalable" or "scalability."
Why not still make all games for 360? Tons of people have them, and since it wouldn't hold the new consoles back, why not? Just repeat the magic phrase "scalable" a few times, and there will be no issue.
It's insane to me that there isn't a "it's $600 and you'll get extra jobs to pay for it" or a "always online, no used games" level of blowback to this (I cite these two examples to note that at a certain point each fanbase is willing to turn on its favorite manufacturer). I guess this shows that the Xbox One X strategy worked; that is, that people are now willing to shell out for a system even when no games are being specifically designed to take advantage ...
I think the bigger problem is that there just aren't that many Western RPGs, so there aren't many great ones. People always want to hate on Bethesda to establish their hardcore credibility (and it's obvious the same thing is going to start happening with CD Project), but people struggle to name even a few games to even compare to Skyrim since it came out in 2011, and Witcher 3 is usually one of them, even though it's third person.
That's the thing that doesn't get enough attention; except for the recent Lite version, it hasn't had a price drop, and the peripherals are super expensive, and it is still doing this.
People really don't like to acknowledge that VGchartz is a legitimate estimate site that uses real data. That's why you see people trying to "disprove" them and impugn their credibility when someone releases official numbers and their estimates are slightly off. People don't understand what an estimate is, or what margin of error means (or more likely they pretend not to know because they don't like how a console is selling).
Once again an article combining Gameboy and Gameboy Color. Excuse me while I invent a time machine so I can show 10-year-old me that he actually could play all those gameboy color exclusive games he couldn't play.
I mean, don't you refer to the Xbox One as a discless console since one version of the system doesn't read discs?
Imagine making your experience worse (or saying you are going to do so), just to win credibility points online.