I've got to admit that I was looking forward to seeing how the NPD numbers looked as we start to move into the holidays. The Wii is just walking away. Everybody complains that it has no games or is for kids or whatever, but people are still buying them as fast as Nintendo can make them. That says a lot about what the average person thinks about video games. The Wii is making gaming accessible to people that traditionally don't play games. So much more than the 360 and PS3. Sure, the high powe...
Agreed.
I feel exactly like you do. I've been playing video games for nearly 30 years and if it's been released in North America I've owned it at some point. I never had issues with a console until the PlayStation generation, as it were. I didn't own a Saturn until much later, but I had a PlayStation and a Nintendo 64. The N64 still works, but the PlayStation's CD drive now only selectively reads discs. It was one that was built with the plastic drive rails that warp so easily.
The next ...
After 2 and a half years and one RROD halfway through, all I can say is that I love my Xbox 360. I've had as much fun with it as I've had with any other console and it's been worth every penny.
I don't know the overall health of Blu-Ray, but it must be doing fine considering all of the title that I see in stores. There's probably ten times the shelf space in the stores I visit allocated to Blu-Ray than there was a year ago. You can get classic titles at places like WalMart for $15.
I'm probably in the minority, but I didn't think that Dark Knight was the movie to end all movies. It was good, but I think that there are much better movies out there. I think the thing that...
Heh...it's spelled "grammar".
Your list is questionable, my friend. Where are games like Tetris and Wii Sports?
You're right, it doesn't matter what console it's about. Blogs are spam.
It got $60 from me.
Death, as always you are the voice of reason and sanity. Not as if you need them, but bubbles for you all the same.
I haven't seen Sony attempt to turn Sackboy into a mascot at all. I think that the days of mascots are long gone, anyway. Man, mascots haven't been around since the 90's when everyone had one, and Sony's back then was appropriately Crash Bandicoot.
Ah, I see. I never read Eurogamer. It would seem to me that if they give a game an 8 that most sites rate as a 9 or 10 then an 8 from them would be as good as a 9 or 10 from someone else. These sites don't all apply the same value to review scores.
People get so hung up on these review numbers.
Since when does 8/10 mean that a reviewer doesn't like a game?
I've had a good time so far. I've played some really good levels, too. I've also played some that suck so bad I thought my eyes would bleed.
That glitch sucks. Makes me wary of playing the online levels. But I'll still do it.
I hope they do delete some of the levels. There are some really good ones. But a lot are crap, too.
No company that is in business to make money by selling the products that they make is going to try to control demand by keeping prices high. Cost is only one factor in the formula of price. They're going to sell the products that they make at a price the market will bear.
Right now the market will bear $399 for the PS3, so that's what Sony is going to continue to sell it for. If sales stagnated, Sony would have one of two choices. They could drop the price and possibly lose som...
I'm sure that Sony is hoping that people see the added value in the larger hard drive, but it's going to be a tough sell for gift buyers if they see a different console for $100 less with a 60GB hard drive. And there are still quite a few Pro packs out there with the two pack-in games.
The PS3 is doing reasonably well at its current price point, so there's not as much pressure for Sony to drop price. There really won't be unless the 360 starts to pull away significantly. Only tim...
I'll be more interested in the sales numbers versus the shipped numbers.
But think about it. Who in their right mind is going to be focusing on games that are coming next year? They want people to have an incentive to buy consoles this year. That's why Microsoft isn't advertising a 2009 lineup and Sony really isn't either. They want consumers focused on right now.