As long as the remaining studios switch sides soon, thus ending the format war, I highly doubt Sony will regret its victory. They are in the key position to benefit from the patents, licensing, and royalties for Blu Ray.
@ReBurn
I don't think any of these companies are betting it all on the format war, but Sony has more to gain due to it being the head of the BDA and having its own studios being able to benefit from it.
I was curious when I saw that article about the 360 reaching almost 10k in Japan, then I saw the growth of the PS3 as well. The 360 grew by 17.6%, while the PS3 grew by 21.8%. I don't mind 360 fans looking at this with glass half full as long as they don't become hypocrites when we look at the U.S. in the same way for the PS3.
You tying together Lair, Ratchet, and Heavenly Sword for the PS3 s like me grouping Crusin', Super Paper Mario, and Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii and then Kingdom Under Fire, Halo 3, and Mass Effect for the 360.
That's true, it would be nice if it were more stream lined and made easier for me to find stuff.
I think his reasonings was the forced use of the sixaxis:
"The lone downside is that the PS3 version forces you to constantly shake the Sixaxis instead of hitting a button like the 360 version of the game."
Might be enough to warrant a drop in score if the guy also hates the Wii. I really wish developers would stop putting in these gimmicky differences so we can really understand the neutrality of these websites.
I was thinking of the same thing. There should be more reasons to get achievement points than just getting them.
I find the patent system appalling. For someone to be able to patent such a general idea as "Hand Held Computer Input Apparatus and Method" and then sit on it until some big electronic corporation use it somehow in their products and then sue them for it.
This along with their invention of "method for connecting devices to a system and sorting their inputs by means of hardware identification numbers tied to each transmission" seems to fall upon quite a bit ...
Tomorrow we are going to hear Pres Bush announce the U.S. economy in its greatest state ever.
The only reason for any studio to stay with HD-DVD anymore is that they basically only have to compete with 30% of Hollywood for the format, and that is a sad reason indeed.
Well the thing with this format war has been that you cannot trust any statements anymore. Just a few weeks before Warner Bros switched, I remember a bunch of articles with their statement that they have no plans of doing so.
Well the thing is that instead of signing these petitions, which will be pointless unless it numbers beyond the number of HD-DVD players sold, these guys should just go and buy a lot of HD-DVD films. Why in the world would studios care for these small unofficial petitions.
This is as weird and senseless as it comes to exclusive contents. What's the point of only have a single Star Wars character? I hope they provide a few more that are cross platformers.
Well, you don't need your foot to play it, but I would still try to have both. I can imagine playing this game with everyone of my friends and family, I really can't wait either.
If Activision doesn't allow the patch to come through, I'm simply going to get this if the reviews are decent. Too bad for them, since my original plan was to purchase another GH3 guitar.
Exorcist would have worked too.
Zhuk reported this submission, but I agree with Zhuc.
I'm sure it'll be a great JRPG, I just don't know why you bothered to refer to the 360 in such a honorific way three times in a single sentence. This game is probably the only thing that could entice me to purchase a 360 some years down the line.
I don't think it matters what consoles you have, I hope everyone who visits n4g.com knows that a lil break from gaming is a good thing. Go out and exercise or read something from Barnes & Noble's Classic collection. As much as I love my RPGs, it is simply healthy living not to be upset by some outtage and use it as an excuse to get some fresh outdoors air.
I think it was pretty informational.
1) They expect to sell 10 million more Blu Ray devices by the end of 2008. This is gonna be pretty easy to do since PS3 just needs to match its current year to even reach that mark without standalone players, and we all know the PS3's market share has been growing rapidly lately.
2) Sony tends to use this momentum to help push the PS3 by increasing its interactively with Blu Ray.
3) WB was not paid off for switching to Blu Ray....
My PS3 sits right next to my Linksys WRT54G router running Tomato and I have never had a problem with its wireless and bluetooth enabled.