I could care less about dedicated servers. I pay for the closed service, I prefer the closed community, among other aspects of XBL, to the open free-PSN. There's nothing you can say to change that, just though I'd let you know not everyone looks for or appreciates the same things you do in an online service. To each his own.
I thought, and still feel, the same way about the Wii and Move. Didn't seem to stop those who wanted it from buying it though.
But I would have to question the sanity of anyone who buys the Raft accessory. Then again, if you have kids young enough, it's a nice play pen that will keep them busy, laughing, and in one safe spot, for hours.
You would still have to pay to market those. Marketing is generally any successful business' largest expense. We're simply hearing about how much MS is about to spend on a MAJOR new product line(s).
Additionally, that is Kinect and Windows Phone 7 combined. Television adds are not cheap. You think Apple and Google spend $50 to market Android and iPhones? You think Sony doesn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on marketing?
Come on now. I've been a Gold Member for 3-years (though went on hiatus for 1 to give PS3/PSN a shot).
We know that it's a BS trip through several screens to turn it off. You can quickly turn it on from one screen. To turn it off, most will miss the stealth link which is not underlined. Turning it ON is underlined (sneaky).
Is it hard? No. Does it take forever? It takes longer than it should. Clearly, MS is not trying to make it easy for you to tu...
Our blood is everywhere saving the world from Tyranny. Without us, even USSR would have fallen to Nazi Germany.
If you don't like the fact that Xbox 360 is kickn a$$ and taking names fine, but don't be putting down the USA.
Edit: The fact that it takes the rest of the whole world to even compete with Xbox Sales shows how important and how large the US market is.
It depends mostly on the given developer's "skill sets." Obviously it is easier to develop only for one platform. But most developers would like to develop for multiplatforms to increase their potential market.
At that point, the quality and ease of use of development tools becomes quite important as well as the realtionship and suppport provided by platform principals (to) their third party developers.
Molyneux still trying to make a Third-Person life sim, at the expense of a great action RPG. What a waste of time and money.
Then developers will have a choice to make if they make sexuality central to the plot of the game. I've decied I can play the new DMC character, he's quite feminine but the trailer looks like a fun game. Obviously, if he was sexually involved with other men in the game, ala God of War, I would not play it.
Unlike race, size, etc. Sexuality is internal and asks a person to go against their very nature. Not gonna happend. Hopefully for developers who choose to push th...
I've only seen one homophobic comment here. Someone mentioned it was OK as long as they could shoot them in the face with a shotgun. That's homophobic and dangerous.
However, this is a complex issue that game developers cannot solve and can only make worse. If you're going to deal with the issue, deal with hit. It is a significant thing "making" a character gay. You are then asking heterosexual males, to play and alter ego of a man who is sexually play...
Why not just make a good game? Why go out of your way to make a male character gay?
Dealing with forcing people to say they are OK with homosexuality is a big enough task. Let's not take on pedophilia too.
What's anti-gay about not wanting to play a gay character? It's a little different from playing a blonde or brunette, or black. And why must gays feel they need everyone's approval for their sexual preference?
How about making a straight character that clearly prefers heterosexual doggystyle?
I'm all for civil rights but it appears gays are milking their sexual prference to remain on center stage. Why do I even need to know someone is ga...
Dont' kow what Reach requires for isntall, but both Castlevania:LoS discs take up 12.7 Gig. The whole game can be installed on one 16G thumbdrive and run as fast or faster (depends on how cheap you went with USB :) than an HD.
Disc 1: 6.6G
Disc 2: 6.1G
get two of these instead for $50 http://www.newegg.ca/Produc...
Remember, MS has limited us to 2 x 16G USB storage. If you use 32GB Half of each stick will go to waste. I believe this is an arbitrary limit cuz MS still wants to sell overpriced HDs. But there could be a technical reason. Until they give us one, I still call BullSh@$...
It's actually pretty cool isn't it? Don't get me wrong, though I think HDs are obsolete now in game consoles if you are going to have a physical HD, you should go open standard like Sony.
I actually think it's rather foolish to buy the 250GB 360S unless for some reason, you have a need for it, not many do. Most routers and external drives these days are also DLNA servers and can stream directly to PS3 and Xbox.
Oddly, PS3 can stream Media...
They're not patching it up. Why would they pay $100 for storage they'll never actually use. That's a game and a year of Live!
If for some reason they need storage, 16-32gb thumbdrive is cheap. Most have one on their keychain they don't use.
If someone does need the HD, just buy it. But not many do. A whole lot of Arcade games fit in 4G since the average is less than 350MB adn that's big. The people complaining are people who don't ...
Don't need an HD. I have the 4G and don't miss it. I would like to be able to add USB to all 4 inputs. Cuz I'm a technophile. I use microSD cards for their tinyness. Running Castlevania off 2 8G Class 4 micrSDs. Could just use one 16G USB Stick, but that's not as cool. MicroSD's are expensive to meet the performance requirements though. With 3 USBs in the back, just add two cheapish 16G USB sticks. Don't use 32s. You'll only be able to use 16G of a 32. You can how...
Did you test today's Dashboard update? There was one this afternoon.
>>(we all know everyone will pay it anyway so why do i bother) <<
You are proof that your comment above is false. You claim that you are (a) Live! subscriber who won't renew because of the price increase (despite continued and increasing discounts). So you negate the comment that everyone will pay anyway.
Anyone, like yourself, who feels that the 83ȼ a month increase is too much for what they get, can choose to not pay it, just like you sa...
Is it much? I don't know, it's Kinect and Windows Phone 7 combined. I don't know how they're allocating it, and I don't know how much they normally spend so I can't answer that question. but I do think you're delusional if you think Sony doesn't spend hundresds of thousands, millions in fact, of dollar on marketing.
That's business 101.