I'm willing to bet most of the new sales are current Xbox360 owners upgrading to the new model, rather than new users that will actually help them sell more software. I know several people buying one when they already have the old model.
That looks so awesome, I can't wait.
what happened to the original Silent hill team that did the PSone and PS2 ones? I just can't see this thing ever living up to the originals.
Who knows, maybe they'll just do the same deal, where Sony can still make baseball games, but 2K can't make them anymore.
I think it's time they re-brand madden with a new engine, I know I'm not buying it until they do.
Had a lot of friends that play on PC, so It would suck to separate the servers.. Although you're right on the botting/cheating, which is primarily PC side only. Would be nice to play without cheaters, or PC players with add on utilities.
I was like oh well new artwork, not going to tell much, then I got down to the last two concepts, woa that looks awesome.
If they can scale the game back to do 3d, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to use the same scaling back to do split screen.. They mentioned Co op was too hard to be implemented in KZ2 because of how the game streamed off the disk - that might be different this time. We've heard nothing of the multiplayer yet, I'm sure we'll have 1 or 2 more big reveals yet to come from this game.
Halo Reach, is #11? There's not way it will sell 1/3 as many copies as Halo 3 did at #11.
Yea, I don't think we'll get to hear the old goldeneye music for that reason. It just wouldn't feel right without the same music to me.
He knows if it 'takes off' we'll see multiplatform games with 3D on PS3, and just standard 2d on 360, selling more PS3 copies - and they couldn't brag about US sales figures anymore.
Well next year they got..... Kinect stuff... Gears3 and MassEffect 3 (if they pay for it) And that crytec kingdom game if it even makes 2011... What else is there??
*crickets*
Oh yea MS will be hyping multi-platform games again. Go RAGE and CoD!
Why share what can be easily copied at no cost, when you can use the law to make sure everyone pays you. What if someone invented a machine that could copy food a million times over and offer it to everyone, we certainly couldn't allow that. The growers of the original food that was copied must be compensated for all the copies right? What if a machine copied electric cars at no cost and could realistically be given to everyone - I guess the inventor/constructors of the original need be...
I mean yea, what does it cost to make a 'copy' that you pay for really, under 3 bucks or so? Then we're charged $60, for a copy.
Heck all the black and white 3 page manuals, soon to be no manual, and blank cases I get now days it doesn't seem like a bad idea to Pirate, since the actual copy we buy gives us so little value over a pirated one.
I think the drug dealers/users would tell you the same argument, FBI should be out catching pirates, kidnappers, murderers ect, and not them.
It's pretty well known MS paid for the port of Final Fantasy XI on 360, why worry about compatibility with a 3rd version, when it will be the weakest selling platform by far. They'll do it on their own time, or wait for MS to pay for a 360 version. It may never release on 360.
Brand Awareness would have helped them score more lucrative deals with publishers on new games, unfortunately because they released on the shooter-box, they sold the game to few people - now they're where they're at. Short term thinking and pay-offs will only get you so far. Look at how bad Lost Planet 2 is doing now that they can't score a Microsoft buy-in.
After Enslaved flops maybe they'll get back in with Sony.
We'll see. A lot of the press seems to be bought and paid for now days with inflated review scores, they rely too heavily on publishers to pay for their advertising revenue/exclusive peaks at games.
DLC should only be to keep competitive multiplayer fresh, and not like 4 months after launch; more like 9 months after launch. That's the only way it makes sense, extending single player games is a bad idea, they should just make a new game, it just dilutes the whole experience.