Edge, they use to be good back in the pre-WWW days because they were the best source for high quality screenshots of games.
That was a long, long, long time ago.
Now they are nothing more than a pathetic joke of a site.
Wii:
$250 with no fees to play online
PS3:
$400 with no fees to play online
360:
$200 and Microsoft won't let you play games online
$250 if you want to be allowed to play online games
$450 over five years if you want to be able to play online games for five years
And that's not even getting into the ripoff 360 proprietary harddrives and addons like WiFi.
And developers are supposed to do what with the Wiimotes waggle?
The Wiimotes does exactly two things:
1. Move thumb control to your wrist
2. Replace button presses/combos with gestures
That's it. The Wii was successfully marketed as a device with the impression that it was a revolutionary technology. It wasn't.
The notion that the entire console development is somehow refusing to release the amazing potential of the Wiimote wit...
It's neither it just the same tired old PR games.
It's this years version of the bogus '10.5 million sold' Microsoft tried to pull before when they were only 8 million sold worldwide.
Normally the retail channel can hold about 1 million consoles worldwide. But when Microsoft tried to pull their 10.5 million sold stunt they stuffed the retail channel with an extra 1-1.5 million consoles so they could put out their press releases.
This is just the same thi...
The difference between the end of the first Xbox fiasco and the 360 mess is that the Xbox team was able to convince Microsoft management that things would be better next time and to give them another chance.
Microsoft management told the Xbox team ok we will give you another chance but we will not tolerate the same losses again.
The Xbox team once again racked up Xbox sized losses with the 360. And potentially even greater now that more and more consoles are out of t...
When your console has been on the market for three years and the best your console has to show for itself graphically is a game running on an outdated crossplatform engine made by a third party company, Epic's Unreal Engine, something seriously went wrong with your console's graphics hardware.
The 360 is the only console I can think of that doesn't have any games that are first party graphical standouts.
And there is nothing on the horizon to change that. The 360 wil...
Microsoft has lost between 7 billion and 9 billion dollars since 2001 on the whole Xbox mess.
The 360 was supposed to be the console that they finally got things right after they pulled the plug on the first Xbox after 3.5 years on the market.
What happended?
Microsoft put on what is universally regarded as the worst console in history:
* The insane hardware defects. There isn't another console in history that is even in the same universe in...
Of course they aren't going to admit they are downgrading the game to run on the gimped 360 storage format and massively weaker graphics hardware.
Maybe the PS3 version will get some token high quality audio, but there is no chance in hell they aren't downgrading all the art to be able to run on the weaker 360 so they don't have to redo everything. Also the gameplay is going to have to be gimped to work around who know how many discs the 360 is going to require.
Being forced to waste 50 dollars a year for:
* No dedicated servers - Lag, lag, lag. Look at what fiasco the Gears of War 2 networking problems are
* Joke player counts - Halo 3 can only handle 16, Gears of War 2 can only handle 10
* A retarded Nintendo Mii ripoff
Just to be allowed to play games online by Microsoft with such a crappy service has already meant 360 owners have added 150 bucks to the price of their console. And by the time the...
360 isn't even last gen when it comes to disc size.
This Gen: PS3 25GB/50GB BluRay discs
Last Gen: PS2/Xbox 4/8.5GB DVD discs
The 360 only has 7GB of usable storage space which means it is the first console ever to actually have less storage space than a previous gen. Absolutely pathetic.
This really is a shame the game is going to be ruined by the gimped 360 7GB DVD size.
BluRay discs are 25GB/50GB
Even if they gimp the gameplay to work with 3 7GB and disc swapping it is still smaller than just a single sidded BluRay disc.
This really should have been a technical masterpiece like MSG4 with two 50GB BluRays and real next gen PS3 level graphics.
They have pretty much made it clear that they are giving up on the amazing quality...
Home really is amazing.
Sony has been working on it since the early PS2 days. The scope of Home is amazing in its scale.
From what I've read and my roommate has described about Home:
* Your Trophy Level will reward you with larger/better personal spaces, items, and stuff for your avatar. This is something Microsoft really screwed up when they copied Insomniac's Skill Points for their online service. Skill Points reward the player with skins, cheat codes,...
It was slightly amusing when my roommate bought one over a year ago. We played Wii Sports for a couple of nights and one or two games and then the Wii got dumped somewhere in a closet.
The Wii is really being sold with a belief that it is really something beyond what it really is.
The Wiimote is nothing more than a device that moves your normal thumb control to your wrist and replaces some button presses with gestures.
That's it.
For most ga...
Was watching my roommate inside the Home beta this week.
It is amazing.
It is the gold standard for online console gaming.
If you are in clans, Home works like this for you:
1. You create a clubhouse for your clan that acts like your personal Home Space. Everyone in the clan can come and go to the club house whenever they want and leave messages for each other. And later one you will be able to put screenshots and videos from you clan matche...
"accourding to vgchartz"
Oh god...
Here is what the game really looks like:
http://boardsus.playstation...
Huge number of gifs from the high quality direct feed footage.
The real test of how little the difference between the two games graphics are was back a few months ago when someone posted sideby side comparison shots and got the labels for the images switched.
And...
Huge numbers of people went on and on about how amazing the improvements were and how they really liked the new look and were declaring triumph that it proved the Xbox had more power in it still.
And then it was pointed out they were accidentally hyping ...
Would you even try if you had the amount of cash Microsoft has to throw at the gaming media with your game?
The first Gears of War was a disgrace.
* The laughably fake marketing shots Epic put out
Epic was given a free pass to put out 5000x5000 16xAA marketing renders as 'in engine' screenshots by the gaming press because the horrible graphics that had earned the Xbox 1.5 label from gamers. The gaming press needed some game to keep the illusion that the PS3 and 360 were somehow duking it out over graphics power
* The anemic single player campaign that had to b...
Another Wii fan crying over Little Big Planet?
No need to cry Wii fans, you're getting Wii Music...
It does suck that they had the week delay and shipping problems where the game didn't appear many places until after Nov. 1st leading to these silly sales articles.