MS should ban the Xbox in Japan.
They should turn 'We dont want it' into 'You cant have it'
It becomes a cult object in stead of a 'loser'. A cult gaming device for those japanese gamers who really want it. And they would pay double the price to have it at their homes:)
Trying to push the Xbox in Japan has never worked. Not the Xbox classic, not for the 360 and not for the XO.
I'm really surprised...
Well of course they're attractive, south korea has some of the best plastic surgeons in the world ~ Venemox
Now that is a great line!
Well said! (the blame culture is pretty sickening)
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I got Xbox/halo1 in 2002 and have been consoling exclusively 10 years. There IS a reason why I'm migrating to PC. The reason is BF3. A FPS, and I like FPS. (e.g. for FIFA2012 I would NOT have migrated to PC, but for BF3 ... well, yes plz)
That is my fact and there is no way in denying my own move LOL.
I'm not acting as if there is no fun to be had on 360. There is, I'm about to do some MW3 in an hour or so. But the HARDWARE is from 2005. And, opti...
The idea that you can use hardware 8 years is ri-di-cu-lous. MS poses Kinect as the 'second life cycle' of 360. But I'm not going to wait another 4 years. Of course the kids can have their Kinectimals ... but a dedicated hard core FPS gamer (and don't forget XBOX HALO1, which started the FPS on consoles, was exclusively for this same group of gamers) want state-of-the-art hw, and not some 7-8-9 years old hw running at snails pace.
I'm not saying 360 is ba...
@the_usual_disagrees BF3 is a MULTIPLAT game, yet the PC version is much better (64p MP versus 24p, 24p being more like BC2) The difference can be explained in simple terms. The consoles are exhausted. They CAN NOT do better.
Skyrim, Rage, Killzone, UC or whatever you say. Doesn't mean anything. FB2 engine brings the console on its knees, prolly a memory thing, could be the gpu/cpu also I dunno. But I look at the facts.
I got BC1, BC2 and Vietnam on 360, ...
360 and PS3 are doing fine, unless you want to enjoy BF3. BF3 on PC is far superior to the console versions. Hence I was forced to (partly) go back to PC gaming after 10 years of FPS Xbox exclusivity (I still play MW3 on 360)
As far as BF3 is concerned the consoles are dead. And I was not prepped to wait another 2-3 years for a new console which CAN run 64p MP in a fab engine with awesome destruction.
I would have liked a new Xbox in 2011/12. But now it is to...
For me? I compare 'best bits'
Best MW3 bit? No clue really
Best BF3 bit? 64p conquest Caspian Border (PC)
This BF3 best bit blows MW3 out of the water. This 'best bit' with its Frostbite 2 engine running is just an amazing piece of gaming software. Mw3 simply does not have an answer to that.
(BF3 has many 'not so good bits'. I ofr one do not care for the campaign, and TDM is a game mode unworthy of BF3)
BF3/PC outsells MW2/PC
BF3/combined outsells Halo:Reach, outsells GoW
Imho BF3 is 'flanking' 360 strongholds by first going for PC (lead platform). With new consoles still far away 2013+ PC is future proof and BF3 makes that its priority. PC version is very much better than the console version. I'm surprised so many console gamers buy it (a lesser version)
For me that worked. After 10 years (Xbox/Halo) I'm back on PC because of the BF3...
Imho the MAJOR difference of PC versus console version of BF3 is the 64 player MP!
A mid spec PC won't be seeing so much difference over the console version BUT, and this is the important thing, even a low spec PC can enjoy the 64p MP
THAT is for me the only REAL difference (and the reason why I'm also going PC low-mid spec, me being a true console player for last 10 years)
At least the poster isn't a big hypocrite:)
Who cares about gfx when the real MEAT of BF3 is in the PC-only ability to play on 64-player MP maps.
THAT (64p MP) is what is lacking on the console version of BF3 (not the gfx, although gfx is nice eye-candy)
And yes, for 64p BF whe need new consoles. Guess the wait is till BF4 on Xbox 720 in 2013-14 (or something like that)
Oh yes, but that is totally besides the fact that *I* want to play BF3 and NOT 'other good games'
Now, you can counter that with 'Go PC' ... and yes prolly I have to and that's why I said FPS on Xbox started with Halo and ENDED with BF3.
BF3 on PC outclasses consoles solely because of the 64 player MP. That is worrying because no way in the world current consoles will close that gap. Only new consoles will do that. And where are those new ...
Xbox started with Halo. It ends with BF3.
Who cares that it runs Gears? I want BF3 and the only place I can get ii is PC! I'm not saying that 360 is no good anymore, it is just NOT LEADING.
In 2013 you can still say 'well, it runs most games'. Hell you can say that in 2015-16-17. That is NO argument.
360 is not obsolete. The HARDWARE is obsolete. It has a marketvalue of ZERO dollars:)
I'm 100% console gamer. ...
And they should. For BF3 it is already too late. BF3 on PC has 64p MP and only 24p on consoles (360 and PS3)
I'm a FPS junkie and now I'm forced to go PC to get the maximum out of a MULTIPLAT FPS. I do not blame Dice and EA but I do blame MS.
It will prolly be 2013 before we see a new console so that is 8 years. Imho that is way too long. Hw should be renewed every 5 years or so (with 3-5 years of overlap of keeping both system alive)
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With consoles having hw over 6 years old it is only NORMAL that pc gaming is on revival. I'm considering it myself, but c'mon most guys read way too much in it.
MS is dropping the ball real fast with Kinect instead of a new console. If they had gone for a, say, 5 year cycle with a new console in 2011, I think the BF3 story would be not so pc-only minded.
But, yes, reality is that pc starts to outshine console games and BF3 the first big multiplat MP o...
Lol at the disagrees.
Crysis1 was a statement. You had to buy a high spec'd PC to play that shit. But BF3 is not a statement. You can play it on all platforms. Let's face it EA/DICE don't have to guts to tell 'Look guys, if you want to play/enjoy BF3 you HAVE TO go pc' Nope they want to sell it to console audience too, because they obviously need the money and the console audience was very good to EA/DICE with the Bad Company games!
So the xbox came out in 2005, and it took DICE 6(!) years to say PC is leading platform. And pc guys cheer like its the 2nd coming lol
Of couse the pc platform should be leading and of course it outshines the console version. It has to when you have a 6 years hw advantage.
But a dev with REAL guts would make a pc ONLY game, that would be a statement. A statement like 'consoles are dead' But EA/DICE do not make that statement, no because perhaps the co...
With ban I mean 'not sell'. Since 2002 I have never heard a success story about japanese xbox sales. Never. So why bother?
(Insulting was that the smaller european countries had to wait 1 full year to get the XO ... while those same countries housed many dedicated xbox gamer ... me being one of them. Goes without saying that PS4 got a mega headstart. Not wise and I have no clue why MS did this??)