If being aggressively competitive means sticking hidden charges on unsuspecting customers and rushing faulty hardware - that would generate a bit of resentment. Hardly irrational; I think people have clear genuine reasons for not liking Microsoft. If you honestly can't see any fault in the way Microsoft does business, maybe you need to start listening to these people you write off completely. Sony has faults, Nintendo has faults, who doesn't?
It been out on the PS3, but only in Japan.
There's a different between someone writing on the comments section on N4G and someone who writes for a publication. One has a whole lot more responsibility to be ethical and impartial because they speak with a larger reach.
On the PS2 launch.. SSX and Madden 2001 were very impressive at the time as launch titles. I don't know why he overlooks those. I guess he's thinking JP launch?
MS hasn't released figures since March, it's not hard to understand why.
Now why would higher ups at Ubisoft - a company that has sold the most on Kinect; cite that they're concerned it only sold 2 million in the last 10 months, unless there was some truth to that.
I would love to see it used with 1:1 in GTA 5, when you have a weapon like a golf club/baseball bat/sword. Seems like a good fit for the game.
"Pay Once, Get Both
It’s the same experience on both PS3 and PS Vita, and picking up the game on PS3 will give you full access to the game on PS Vita (and vice versa) – so if you own both you can carry your progress between the two, and always pick up where you left off."
Good to see Sony finally gets it. Now all the crossover games need to be this way too and I'll be getting a Vita without question. I'm not buying Madden, CoD, ect twice.
Zipper is a very large Studio, it's not unreasonable to think they're also secretly working on a MAG 2. MAG 2 seems like a better fit for next gen when game budgets become more of a limiting factor on graphics - where the CoD's won't be able to separate as far graphically from MAG.
I seem to be the only person that believes Sony will be launching before MS. MS has the kinect platform to profit off of for another year or 2; Rushing their fanbase into something new might hurt that revenue, they also might not have kinect 2.0 ready in 2012-2013. On top of that there's rumors of MS wanting to bundle Windows 8 with it. There's no way MS will rush Windows 8, so if it comes with Xbox, xbox 3 may launch when Windows 8 is ready. On top of that Epic's next-gen part...
I actually think they will for the most part, they'll continue to try to market the 360 as the Kinect console, and sell games on there - maybe even make a few. The reason is it may be costly for them to include an improved version of it with the console we know Sony probably won't be bundling any cam with PS4, and they don't want to be limited hardware/pricewise with the console when compared to Sony's console.
All this speculation/excitement, but hate to break it to you guys it's just likely to be another Sonic game.
How do you expect to climb around in a 3rd person game that is half platformer with the move? I'd think it'd be pretty awkward. With all the melee in that game and what not, I just don't see it competing with the controller in U3. It's possible, but it's reasonable to see why Sony would give ND a pass on implementing move into Uncharted.
Added cost... or they already made a contract with Microsoft for timed DLC exclusivity, which makes it difficult for them to partner with Sony by putting move support in. Funny, I know of a popular shooter that does timed DLC with MS, that doesn't have move support in their game either. I'll even say it, and probably get reamed: funny both games look better on MS console after MS contract.
I think the amount of perfect scores does make a statement. It means 130 different reviewers almost 44% of them truly believe: "This game is as good as it gets in the video game industry." That is very tough to do, to manage to have that % of critics absolutely love your game.
For those of who equate perfect score with perfect game and that's why perfect scores are so wrong, I think you're just trying to discredit a score and the facts it seems.
It's that way because if they didn't it would be easier for people to 'rent' out the 2nd use on their account for money.
It doesn't deserve to be GOTY. It deserves to be game of the Decade (GOTD).
What is the value of being the 'official console?' I guess well see Madden ads stating that this holiday - but that's about it. They still can't make NFL video games (only EA can) and they're not the console with sunday ticket.
I think 3rd parties will continue to develop on current platforms because they have little incentive to push a new console - It's easiest and most cost effective for them to just make a scaled up version for new consoles, but continue to release on PS3/360. The exclusive games are what will push the new consoles. The 2012 prediction is largely speculation because we know how big of a deal it is it start first and get a good 10million ahead before your competitors launch. In a sense it d...
Sony's first parties have no PS3 projects announced outside of the Last Guardian, that says a lot about their exclusives drying up, if you compare to last year and the last 3 years. Last Guardian has no release date, which is hardly a confirmation it's coming next year. The other exclusives are being made by 3rd parties. Normally at this time of year we'd know of at-least 10 big PS3 projects in the works. I guess I did forget that JRPG being published by namco made by level 5, b...
When you look at it on the whole console sales are not reflective 1:1 with software sales. Game companies are not going to look at 'consoles sold' they're going to look at which console sells the most of the type of games they want to make and which console they can profit the most from (remember profit margins are different in different countries per sale). The thing about Xbox360 now is, you have to wonder how many consoles are being sold because of kinect and whether those pe...