It works better.
Feature for feature PSN and XBL look similar, but XBL works a lot better, and there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that makes it a much better experience imo.
It's the same reason people go to starbucks when you can pay less for folgers instant at home. It's all just coffee right?
I really wish they broke down better. At the end they show the releases they had, and the best one was Fight night round 4, and the sales aren't that different globally.
All their other games were pretty crap for sales and sold similarly too.
no. he said non-GAAP.
It's a section down and it's exactly the way he said it. I don't really care to look at what they do to make it not qualify as GAAP, but his numbers are correct for what he said they were.
1.06 ghz and a 4200RPM HD?! no wonder you think it sucks. You're only just above the absolute minimum system requirements outside of RAM.
It's not just instances anymore. It's a persistent world now.
Even so, I'd rather have it all be instances than all be grinding.
Guild wars was a much more involved game than WoW was for the time I had with both.
4 gigs of ram and pentium 2?
I have 2 gigs of ram and a core 2 duo in my hp laptop (by no means anywhere close to the best laptop out there) and it works fine. The only really slow thing about vista is the startup.
cuz we're in a recession.
what kind of dumb question is that...
I can't tell if he's being sarcastic, or if he's 5...
That said, every MMO sucks at launch. WoW was super laggy and had memory leaks and poor class balancing and a harder grind than it's had in years.
The stuff about microtransactions in champions online does suck though.
Excited for guild wars 2. yay freeness
Pretty much everything about MGS4 was the opposite of innovative.
Not to say bad, but innovative definitely not. Each boss was a throwback to bosses from past games.
I really don't undeerstand how he chose that instead of LBP.
you can't really tell how much of an advantage developers could get without the feature being there.
The only known is that there would be a performance benefit, and in many cases it could be pretty large. It was one of the most praised features in the original xbox by developers aside from it's similarity to PCs.
I'm sure they'll wipe their tears with the 500 million dollars they'll make off it this year.
These are the points he picks? really?
Having RROD in the first place, not something M$ did wrong, not fixing it quickly (WHICH IM SURE THEY DID ON PURPOSE... hell I'd love for my company to have a huge moneysink that doesn't produce any profits and a feature that hurts one of your major brands) is something they did wrong.
Here's the major things they did wrong...
1. No standard HDD for caching.
2. Having RROD in the first place.
3. Not star...
I think all 360's should have had an HDD standard inside dedicated for caching (not huge just a couple gigs). That is the one thing that hurts 360's performance most.
He's kind of right though. Slow search times on the PS3's blu-ray player make it hard for developers to get games running as well as they could.
The read speed isn't horrible, but slow search speeds are a big part of the reason developers have to put the same data in multiple locations on the disk to get the best performance.
They're logic is pretty ridiculous.
It's like saying the Lions did well if they go 3 out of 16 because they should have gone 2 out of 16 this year.
I know tons of people that waited for it. That includes hardcore and casual gamers. Even a lot of people who weren't even gamers.
The playstation brand carried a lot of weight.
it looked like the sensors had a light source on them for low light play.
There are tons of little things that could be done with natal. Head tracking to simulate 3d or using it to in some way get a sense of the player's emotion and alter the game. Using it as a mouse substitute would also be huge.
If it could track your head and your fingertips, it could easily tell exactly what you see your finger pointing too, and that could be huge for tons of applications. Pointing out objectives, RTS control that's actually decent, interface control, etc.
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are you daft? Microsoft isn't buying any of yahoo's technology. They're pretty much paying yahoo to put bing on their website instead of yahoo just using yahoo search, and paying yahoo to share their ad research with them.
There's already a GT out, and it's got less than 1/3 the sales of halo 3 in about the same time. Halo wars has been on sale about a third of the time and has almost half the sales, and that's not even that great a game.
In fact, Gran Turismo 4 (the best selling Gran Turismo ever) only has about a couple million sales difference despite being sold on a system that's got almost 4 times the consoles in the world AND being sold at half the price (according to amazon).