This is a really simple one. Yes...
Proof you ask? How many people have 1,000 GS in Avatar the Burning Earth and have played that game from start to end?
I bet 90% of the people who have Avatar the Burning earth have not even seen the end of the first cut scene after you mash the B button for 1,000 GS in the first minute of the game!
CoD doesn't sell consoles. Exclusive content does. Nobody will buy a PS3 over 360 because of CoD. It is about differentiators this holiday.
Kinect, 10 new exclusive Kinect games (Your Shape, Kinectimals, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Joy Ride, Sonic Freeriders, Zumba Fiteness, Motion Sports, Dance Central, Dance Masters), Halo Reach, Fable III, 360 slim, and a dashboard update
vs.
Move, 4 new exclusive Move games (Kung Fu Rid...
The other wildcard is the 360 Dashboard update and the continued marketing of the new slim 360. A lot of hard core gamers stayed away from 360 because of reliability. Now, there is no reason for them to stay away with the slim.
Microsoft has this holiday in the bag. The only way PS3 stops this is if they drop the price hammer in the next 30 days. And that probably isn't happening.
Also Import Tuner Challenge, Juiced 2, NFS: Carbon, NFS: Undercover, NFS: Prostreet, Full Auto, Moto GP 07, 08, 09/10, Autobahn Polizei, Things on Wheels, MX vs. ATV Untamed, SBK, Cars, Cars Mater-national, Cars Race-o-Rama, Sonic and Sega Racing, Ski-Doo Challenge, World of Outlaws Sprint Cars, Madagascar Kartz, Outrun Arcade, Mad Tracks, Hot Wheels Beat That, GripShift, Indy 500 Evolution, MX vs. ATV Reflex, Pocketbike Racer, NFS: Shift, Fuel, Nascar 08, 09, Baja Edge of Control, Baja 1000,...
This is fine with me. January - June next year is already crowded... Dead Space 2, Homefront, Bulletstorm, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Portal 2, Max Payne 3, Special Ops, Brink, Deus Ex, LA Noire, Driver, Fear 3, Crysis 2, Duke Nukem, Metal Gear Solid Rising, etc.
I would like to see more games spread into the summer and next holiday season.
This is plain stupid. In GTA you can kill cops and innocent people (and are encouraged to), but you can't play the Taliban in a war game based on modern events? WTF?
It's morally alright to make movies like Scarface, Godfather, Saw, Seven, Natural Born Killers, etc. that give glorify criminal doings, and give people ideas on the best ways to commit crimes, but it is considered morally wrong to shoot up coalition forces in a game of which they will never want to pa...
Nintendo has milked Mario for decades. Microsoft still has a long way before they get to that point. We haven't even seen a movie yet.
Many franchises have been milked more than Halo.
And this is news how? Every AAA Microsoft exclusive has had this fate in Japan.
Japan has become a very small console gaming market this generation. Out of the 155 million consoles sold this generation, Japan only has 17.5 million. That is only 2 million more then the UK. And 61 million less then the Americas.
Japan used to be a titan in gaming. Japan, continues to fade from a console and game sales perspective. Everyone talks about how the PS3 is d...
Why not Heavy Rain? That is way better than Tekken 6.
I can't believe that people still argue about Edge. Edge is actually very critical in scoring games.
An 8 at Edge is still a great score. I know I would buy any game Edge gives an 8. In fact, 8's at Edge are first day buys for me.
The problem is in how all the other reviewers are afraid to give less than an 8. It is like "if in doubt, or its crap give it a 7 or 8". 9 or 10's get handed out like candy compared to Edge. I wish t...
I own most of the PS3 exclusives worth talking about and all the XBox titles worth talking about. Personally, I would trade God of War, inFamous, and Gran Turismo for Ratchet/Clank, Uncharted and Warhawk in the list.
inFamous and Prototype are almost the same game (I like Prototype more, but it is opinion) and Forza 3 is a really good realistic racer, and there are tonnes of multi-platform God of War type games (Darksiders, Dante's Inferno, the new Castlevania in two w...
The games look great...
But, Sony's track record for delivery on time this generation is awful.
I expect at least 4 to be delayed...
Pretty dumb.
If you need a game to have buttons with Kinect I am sure you can just pick up your handy-dandy 360 controller and use those buttons.
This is such a dumb publicity stunt by Sony.
@goalweiser...
Metacritic is the most trusted source of review aggregations on the planet. They are always quoted on gaming forums everywhere... NeoGaf, here, everywhere.
I'm not saying PS3 sux like you seem to be saying about the 360. I'm just pointing out that PS3 game quality is subjective, and at least one very highly trusted source worldwide disagrees that PS3 quality is heads over heels above 360.
I have both consoles. ...
So how come when it comes to quality ratings based on Metacritic, SCEA is one point below MGS over all their game releases?
http://www.metacritic.com/c...
vs.
http://w...
Microsoft has got a lot of talent working on the games for Kinect. Should be good.
A lot of people here are creatively combining and ommitting information on topics together.
First, we need to remove conversations about 1st, 2nd, and 3rd parties. This is really about approach. MS wants to contract (pay for) 2nd and 3rd party exclusivity, whereas Sony likes to own the studio. So when we are talking about these exclusives this is a business model and nothing to do with quality.
Second, we need to talk about exclusives centric to PAL re...
This is interesting, but the industry needs the tools to support making such large scale games. This is a nagging issue. Sony is bringing technology without the support for it.
That's why we aren't seeing the non-Sony exclusives match the graphics of Sony exclusives. There are no cross-platform tools to create them. Big budget games are $50-100 million to create. If you assume revenue after marketing, publishing, and packaging expenses to be a optimistic $35 pe...
Vastly superior? Technically yes. A real gamer doesn't judge a console by a few sexy features such as blu-ray and a crappy web browser... And yes Sony has more first party exclusives then 360, but quantity doesn't translate to quality to most gamers (Gamers buying games usually talks about quality, and in that category how many PS3 exclusives have outsold 360 exclusives?).
What about:
Party chats? Movie parties? Leaderboards for all downloadable games?...
Re-releasing existing titles with Move or Kinect support should not be counted as launch titles. RE5, Heavy Rain, MAG, etc.
And Kinect is a lot more then just games. It is going to be large part of a dashboard upgrade and home video messaging tool.