I'd bet large money that the next Xbox will not be called the Xbox 720- just as the first Xbox wasn't called the Xbox 90 and Sony didn't call the follow up to the PS2 the 'PS4' (double the number).
I've given reasons in earlier posts why the number '720', in particular, is not preferable.
I favour Xbox 1080! (including exclamation mark) as a name. (! is an upside down i- reminiscent of '1080i'- progressive scan- you see).
In the mid 90s, as 3D consoles took over from the Megadrive and the SNES, a lot of iconic British games companies went bust or were bought out be larger companies and lost a lot of their character- a LOT.
Rare were one of the survivors. They had already put themselves under the wing of Nintendo. Some think that Goldeneye was their only good N64 game- that's an odd view because all or nearly all of their N64 games got an average of 90%+ or sometimes 95%+ reviews.
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Lightofdarkness, although I was never a PS2 owner, favouring the Cube (I also bought an Xbox but the Cube was certainly my favourite) , I can understand why some people would rather play some of those than some of the PS3's- the PS3 currently lacks some of the quirkier titles seen on the PS2 such as Gregory Horror Show- and, back on the PS1 was the best karting game I've ever played Crash Team Racing- although these things could be offered as downloads (and are in some cases) rather than the ...
'When asked why they owned their respective consoles, 81% of the PS3 owners responded that they bought it for the games, while only 52% of Wii owners got their system for the games.'
If anything, you might have expected those figures to be the other way around.
The other 19% of PS3 owners will have bought it to play Blu-ray films, amongst other reasons.
What are the other 48% of Wii owners using it for though? As a piece of modern art?
True SpoonyRedMage- I know that Nintendo handhelds are always a possibility for Rare and I sometimes think that they are quietly waiting for a Nintendo handheld to have the technology of a Gamecube to release it on- but I somehow doubt it- anyway, I always prefer things on a big screen. I just wish it had been completed as Rare's last Gamecube project when I think it would have blown many people away, especially since shots of Donkey Kong Racing were used on Gamecube packaging.
Microsoft's purchase of Rare resulted in this great preview video for Donkey Kong Racing going no further. I can't even remember Rare officially announcing that it was cancelled:
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'Wet', announced for the Xbox360 and PS3 a few years ago, has recently re-appeared so thankfully appears not to be cancelled despite being originally due to be released in 2008:
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Why do people mention Gears of War 2 in terms of the best looking Xbox360 game? Surely Bioshock's graphics are the best on the Xbox360? It's not just to do with the number of effects yet- it's the art style- art deco etc. There is so much character in just one area of Bioshock. Uncharted may not mean to be as emotionally profound a game as Bioshock or concentrate as much on closeups of objects as it is more arcade in feels in some ways but there is a similar concentration on creating characte...
This video, or at least a near identical one of it showing the same location, has been on You Tube for weeks- and that was shown at a presentation. Although it's the world's first Uncharted 2 single-player footage, it's not the FIRST time we have seen it and neither CVG nor the site they got it from are breaking any news.
Pheonix3 said 'Capcom has lost their edge and presence in the industry. Mostly because they have embraced the whole "Japanese games need to appeal to the West" crap that's been goin on these past 2 years'
Resident Evil 4 was part of this westernisation of their games. Almost first person in style, referencing western horror such as films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an adventure that is action oriented (don't Japanese studios tend to keep action to their fightin...
I thought that they'd have given their opinion on what they think of RE5 in this article.
Capcom's highpoint to me was the Resident Evil remake on the Cube. RE4 ripped all the puzzles out of the heart of the RE series and gave you a hero who looked like he belonged in Devil May Cry, which is no accident as Devil May Cry was a spin off when they started making a Resident Evil game that wasn't Resident Evil enough- well, they finally released one as RE4.
Shazui, my first sentence in my last post was about what you said but my following sentences were extra observations I was making that were not meant to address what you had said. Maybe if I'd created a new paragraph for those it would have been clearer.
You said 'imagine if Naughty Dog set out trying to trying to achieve photorealism'- and that is what I disagree it. I don't think that it would necessarily be 'amazing' as you now say, just as when Free Radical, whose history w...
You said that Dreamcast launched without Sonic, kewlcat007, but then you mentioned Sonic Adventure in the launch line up.
The launch of the Gamecube is my favourite time in gaming ever and it's the only console I've ever bought on the launch date. A cute looking console with cute discs. If people thought it was childish, their loss- they have plenty of time to lose their innocence and, anyway, the Cube enjoyed being a dual personality creature- it had the Resident Evil series.
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As you probably know shazui, Naughty Dog didn't want to try to create photorealism with Uncharted. That wouldn't give the particular kind of adventure feel (that, as I say, is deliberately arcade in feel in sections) that they were going for. But it's also not meant to be ultra-cartoony like cel-shading. Naughty Dog walked a balancing act with the graphical style and pulled it off brilliantly.
Some Wii games have worse in game graphics than the Gamecube did- not always in terms of the number of effects available but in terms of the graphical style. Look at that Mii- that's not a hairstyle- he looks like his head has been dipped in chocolate.
DMason, Killzone 2 is a predomninately grey looking game so even if Killzone 2 matches it for throwing particles around the screen (and I don't know whether it does), it's the colourful, slightly cartoony, realism that Naughty Dog bring that gives it a feel of classic comic books and Hollywood films brought to life in better ways that we could have ever imagined. And we know how the first game played so we know that the graphics won't be disguising lacklustre gameplay. And we know from the fi...
If the next Xbox console is called 'Xbox 720' then I will eat my hat. The title of the next Xbox has not been announced and I'd say it is very unlikely to be called that given that the number is reminiscent of the lower end of HDTV specifications- it doesn't put an absolutely cutting edge image in the mind. Xbox 1080 (probably no i after it) is more likely (assuming that a higher number doesn't tally with the latest HDTVs of the time), or a number starting with 4, to again seem to put it at t...
I'd like to know why someone disagreed with my point. Have they played Alone in the dark: the new nightmare? The flashlight attack idea is not new. Maybe it wasn't completely new in The New Nightmare for all I know but it certainly won't be new in Alan Wake.
It's a shame that only the first 2 seconds loaded for me but I'm surprised that comparisons to Mirror's Edge got a thumbs down as jumping off roofs is exactly what that should remind anyone of this generation- and the colour scheme looks a bit Resident Evil. If it's in the same region of quality as Uncharted 2 is looking then it will be great but how a game looks and how much it will be played after the first few sessions can be very different as can be testified from some stylish games of th...
This article is about the Perfect Dark that appeared on the N64, right? So why show a picture of Perfect Dark Zero as the accompanying picture? Are you allowed to show the original artwork?
Sega think that presumably because they know that Sonic will sell. When they experimented with brilliantly innovative concepts on the classic Dreamcast, they ended up with what turned out to be their last console and Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox was ignored by most. I had no idea until recently that the Dreamcast sometimes had a more lukewarm response in Japan than Europe. If the Japanese, who are supposed to like funky, far out, concepts on the whole more than any other country didn’t em...