MS's MO is not only to keep its console's price 100.00 cheaper, but to strip PS3 of as much exclusive content as its greedy, gruby fingers can buy. This is case in point for the importance of what you sum up as Sony "keeping the developers happy." Because now, when this price drop is announced, the legions of PS2 owners will most likely be jumping on board, especially with the holidays approaching. Even 30% of the 200 million worldwide PS2 install base coming aboard should not only ...
It's coming. The best value in console gaming today is coming to obliterate the competition. Let's see how the complexion of this site changes when Playstation becomes the dominant console once again. Oh, its true...
It was good news to hear the rumor of the 40GB model, but now with the empirical information and pics there is no doubt that its coming. The strategies Kaz was mentioning at TGS made the 40GB being a reality a little obvious anyway. I look at this news, along with the multi billion dollar profit Sony will be making on their IPO sales (and rechanneling a chunk of back into their games division)to translate into a holiday season that Sony is fighting to win. This is like a clean slate, and Sony...
...but unfortunately the GPU is the same regardless of region. And it is the heat caused by the 90nm badboy (among other things that are part of the inherent architecture)that causes the the warping of the motherboard,hence, causing its very pin connectors to break off their points. This is the 0130 general hardware failure that ALWAYS results in one thing...RROD. Unfortunately, all 360's have potential for this problem, regardless of region. If you must own a 360, why not try to get the new ...
Like one post above said, at the end of the FFXIII trailer at TGS, the words, "Only on PS3, " were clearly and boldly indicated. Does this mean that it can't come out for 360? No. Does this mean that a simultaneous launch of the game is not possible? Yes. Remember FFXI came out on the 360, but when FFXII was released on PS2 was there a 360 version? No.
MGS4 is another game that I doubt would see simultaneous release with the PS3 version, Hideo Kojima has confirmed tha...
Ask yourself, what is it about an Elite, that makes it Elite? Apart from the HDMI and the higher capacity "external HDD" there is no component "inside" of the system that makes it any different from a core. Same GPU, same CPU. Does the black casing make it "Elite?" Anyway, I wanted to reply after reading your post, that my friend turned on his three month old Elite last week and it wouldn't turn on. Being that I have had so many problems with the 360, I can liter...
360 gamers can always resort to using a trusty towel to get the 360 working again!
How many countless times, in how many posts over the months have I predicted that this would happen? How many times have I said, that MS is going to deplete their 90nm GPU console inventory with all of the new 360 buyers for Halo 3, thus, increasing the number of repair service customers exponentially? Plus, it doesn't take a genius to figure that for all those who do own 360's, when you consider the hours and hours of just one Halo 3 session, everyday...whew, lot's o' ppl are gonna be gettin...
I know the story all to well, been through three of the hardware disasters in a white box. RROD is something that, only once you experience, you can only then truly understand the frustration, and feeling of being ripped off. Its really a nightmare experience, and acknowledgement of MS's greed at wanting to be first for profit, was more important that giving us gamers a quality item- does not make us feel better. Besides myself, more and more of the ppl I know are having thier 360's crash all...
Because it hasn't turned a profit since the inception of the first XBOX. As a matter of FACT, MS hasn't made on red cent on XBOX or 360 yet, and its been almost six years.Will Halo 3 push them into the black? Doubtful, but possible-but it would have to sell way more in excess than it is planned to during its expected life cycle, which should be similar to the longevity of interest that Halo 2 lasted with. This is an interest that significantly declines with each passing quarter, long after th...
Sony's eventual goal, 11 million PS3's shipped worldwide by the end of '08.To do that, Sony knows they need games. Not just any developers, but developers who are able to embrace and work with the hardware. Not developers who are confused how, like EA. Also, by doing this, Sony knows they need to develop more franchises to make PS3 more successful, like Motorstorm. That is why they just acquired Evolution (also, I'm sure, to prevent greedy MS from getting a dumbed down version of Motorstorm I...
Let's see...I'm gonna go all the way back to the original PS1, you know, the first grey box. Well when they first launched back in '96 there was a problem with the first batch of them. When connected to a TV using an RF connector (yes I used RF back then)the play screen would flip and at times you'd have half a screen with an interference line drawn across half of your screen. Well, I didn't have a warranty and I needed this thing fixed. I went to the Sony building on Michigan Ave(its gone no...
The Final Verdict
So what's wrong with Halo 3? Not a lot, but after all the buildup in Halo 2, it's worth asking the following: Why can you play as the Arbiter only in cooperative mode during the campaign? For a character whose story was arguably more interesting than Master Chief's, the Arbiter's reduced to little more than a silent computer-controlled drone here. And why does the Arbiter go down from a lethal blow over and over, yet recover moments later, fully healed? (It feels a li...
Exodus, your logic is good, but it is not on par with Sony's plans. Sony is selling the Cell facility to Toshiba to make up some money lost on the growth process of the PS3, namely, the current lack of sales, but they are selling the plant more largely because they do not need to own it, consider it if you will, a jettison. Sony will still have stake in the production of the Cell, though, as there are clauses in the contract that indicate Sony's involvement with their production. However, th...
Why? Because its Halo 3. Halo3 will resist being labeled with a score below 95%. Halo3 will not lose points for its flaws even if it has them because it is Halo 3. Halo 3 commands a hype machine of such colossal proportions that the hype alone makes up the extra 15% of what is at its core 85% to give it 100%! Halo 3 contains easter eggs that reveal the date of the second coming...ah...you get the point.
"Separate the honest reviewers from the fanboys as those who detract p...
Actually, having played the game-I would say that's the right score for this game. Anyone who gives Halo 3 a 10, is clearly someone who does not understand what the value, and significance of the all coveted "10" for a game is. There are only one or two games a generation, that deserve the "10" score, and sometimes a generation will go by without one. Halo 3 is not one of them. The game is great fun, campaign is so-so, graphics awesome, and quite sharp-but not the best on ...
Go to gamespot, click the TGS link, and read Kaz's speech for yourself. Do not rely on bogus, third party websites for news...take it to the source. He did not say that about the Blu Ray player. This is the ONLY mention of the words BLU RAY in Kaz's key note address.
He thinks that networked PS3s will propel Sony's effort to move into real-time entertainment.
[7:17] Oh, and "Blu-Ray discs provide the best video quality," he adds.
[7:17] H...
The reason why is because it speaks of things that happened during day:1 of the TGS '07. Knowledgeable gamers would know that on day two, it was mentioned from Kaz Harai exactly why Sony is going to be looking to acquire more PS3 developers. That reason is so that Sony can reach its eventual goal of 11 million PS3's shipped worldwide by the end of '08.To do that, Sony knows they need games. Not just any developers, but developers who are able to embrace and work with the hardware. Not develop...
its probably full of spyware. I don't need to click the link to know that the video is garbage. Listen, if a bunch of Xbots want to go around throwing Halo 3 in the face of other gamers, gamers who may not give a crap about FPS's, then great. I'm sure they will have to put up with the BS when MGS4, UT3, WZ2 and FFXIII is thrown in their faces, and all they have to yell back with is a 6-12 month old Halo 3 and NGII game. This is not news, and is the kind of unmitigated drivel that makes this s...
...but it won't be right away. It would be foolish to do so without observing the trend at which the current price structure for the 360 fairs against PS3's new price. That trend? Not good for MS. Especially considering that with the modest price difference that the 40GB PS3 will have (laying between the 360 Premium and Elite), consumers will be forced to look at what that extra 100.00 dollars or so is getting them-a blu ray player, built in wi fi, free network play including HOME, access to...