What do you know about PS3 Online? Nothing. The difference between the PS3 online population and 360's is negligible. What you're talking about, is a matter of different tastes. Different games are more popular on one console than the other. If you were on the PS3 you would play MGS4 online more. If you were on 360 more Halo3 online. So what's your point? Btw, Sony's online service is hardly inferior to Xbox Live. I consistently see more under 100ms games on the PS3. Could be where I'm a...
Bucky... How difficult is it you think to implement an achievement board online when alot of game already feature in-game achievement unlockables? Not very. You just record unlocked achievements on a static board. That isn't ripping off anybody's "innovation" its a feature akin to recording how many steps you took in Final Fantasy or your favorite weapon in GTA IV recorded online ok? Stop touting that as some high-tech achievement, it is a ridiculous stupid minor feature that only...
Your examples aren't ripoffs. Instant messaging and game messaging have been around since PC online gaming, yes MS brought it in first to the console, but it is not an MS innovation to begin with and it is a natural extension of any online initiative. Trophy achievements have been in games since forever, It is not an MS innovation though they did bring it to the console first as a system wide scoreboard (but again not an innovation but a feature. There isn't any real tangible benefit as fa...
Yep asking too much. These are game/free lance writers who've probably never taken a course in statistics in their life. They just pull whatever they can from other sources (lot of borrowing i noticed) and if they can't find anything to borrow, they pull it out of their ass.
"Not needed for gaming as Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc have proved. These games are bigger than any playstation 'exclusive' available now."
- If by bigger you mean tons of repeating textures than a Ps2 title Persona 3 FES is 3X bigger than any of those games you listed. Infinite levels. Keeping toking whatever you've got there...
"FFXI was like 4 years old already when it released on 360, not to mention it isnt all that widely popular of a game to begin with...and i played 2 years on the PS2 and like a year on the 360, it was a terrible port, the game ran better on PS2.."
Wait it runs better on the PS2 than the 360? That must mean that the PS2 is more powerful than the 360!!!
Yep yep. exactly what 360 fanbois say about sucky PS3 ports.
Whiff of your own medicine.
You guys forgot LA Noire for PS3. Second party exclusive from Rockstar.
That was well put. That is exactly how I view it as well. Breaking exclusivity is a defensive move, completely stealing it and featuring it exclusively is an offensive move. MS is very much on the defensive and the momentum Sony is building shows this. The US sales gap has widened between Sony and MS this month due to sustained interest from MGS4's release in June. If Sony can deliver another great game (LBP is definitely a system seller) within the next month or so, that gap will sustai...
Isn't this a change for the better? I mean for years we had these same feminazis claiming body proportions were unrealistic in games, with objectifying women blah blah blah. Now that we come out with a game where a princess is fat, we hear them b*tch again??? Isn't a fat woman the norm nowadays in the US? I mean our obesity rates seem to point so... lol Personally I think they should make the princess's in fat princess b**tch and whine like these fanatics so we can stuff them with some more ...
That's the most ridiculous assertion if I've heard one. If Japan is the odd man out why is MS trying to get in? Where does 20-30% Sony's profit come from? Doesn't it mean something if McDonald's, Dennys, Wendys, Apple, Nike, and Adidas (all smaller companies than MS) have great success penetrating the market? All that means is that MS's marketing/sales strategy in Japan is critically flawed or underwhelming to the japanese public.
Yes attach rates are important but not if you...
The only win i see in all this is Square Enix getting a paid ride to market into the Western market through MS. MS isn't getting a win on this because they still won't be considered a legitimate contender in the RPG space in Japan or Asia. (if that is their goal.) For MS to have a true win, they need to reach at least parity release date if not exclusive release. You won't be seeing FFXIII until late 2009 if not 2010.
This doesn't open new markets for MS either because new use...
You are only partially correct. Death of exclusivity from 3rd parties. Sony's 16 first party developers says exclusive advantage.
Thats 4~5 million gap from 10 million a year and a half ago.
having either platform have no sales boost from FFXIII hurts MS more than it hurts Sony. Microsoft is now the one footing development costs for FFXIII that will come out for SONY and MS (essentially paying for PS3's development). Here's another problem with MS's strategy. If FF does not sell well in the 360 (or has no noticeable numerical advantage) they will have to "pay" for FFXIV to come to the 360. Keeping in mind that MS does not have access to the Japanese market (one of if...
I've played Bioshock on my friends 360 and while I found it immersive, I thought there would be alot more uses of the touted 'water' in the underwater city besides mini-floods and dousing out fire/conducting electricity on enemies. Frankly, Socomnick after comparing water effects of bioshock and then showing my buddy uncharted water effects (going up the river on a jetski) there wasn't much to say that hasn't been done already on the PS3 side. The gameplay is fun but distinctively PC-ish. Th...
Personally I thought Jade Empire was one of the most hackneyed watered down Asian-themed RPG ever. The only thing remotely Asian was the B movie kungfu stuff with generic style names and the somewhat Asian looking buildings. The dialogue was distinctly western ideas thrown in with some asian sounding spin. I was horrified at how little research Bioware actually put into this RPG. Asian lore, particularly Chinese Lore predates Western lore/culture by at least a 1000 years. There is alot mo...
MS doesn't manufacture the PC. Therefore part of the package is a relative term. Have you ever read any DOJ vs. Microsoft news? MS revoked OS distribution licenses on PC manufacturers that refused to bundle IE. MS is definitely trying to force Vista down people's throats. Yes just like XP unfortunately.
Talk about 180 million shoved down consumer throats. They really need to start debundling oses for consumers to have a choice. Vista is the most over price, bloated piece of software to ever instantly downgrade anyone's new system.
I dunno... she still doesn't quite look human. What's worth ogling over with that plastic surgerierd-out face? Looks like botoxed, rhinoplastied, lip-filled, breast augmented, butt-implanted nastiness to me.
Hell no, I don't want MS's retarded point system $1.25 for 100 points? It's deceptive, and it leaves money on the table if you don't spend all the points... money that MS gets to happily keep. Forget it. Just go get yourself a Visa or mastercard giftcard.