You don't go to a good movie and come out thinking "I didn't understand it.. I better go read the book", do you?
The article's point is a valid one. The Halo series is weak, when it comes to storytelling. It's a great MP game, and that's why people love it. Defending the lackluster SP experience is... pointless.
CoD has the opposite problem, in my opinion, and in the opinion of many. There are still zillions who play it for t...
Nope. Give me a new story, or its a step backwards from Reach. Who seriously wants that? Unless its MP is at least incrementally better than Reach, there's no point in a Halo:CE remake this gen.
XBL Platinum will also come with a discount program for XBLA titles, and the occasional free premium theme, DLC discounts, etc... but you can only use them while you remain a XBL Platinum subscriber.
$120/year... err I mean only 0.33/day.. that's "nothing" -- pay now.
Yep. Which is why the point that JRPGs do better on a popular Japanese console stands.
Its true that RPGs would likely have done better on the PS3, due to the large installed base in Japan. Hate it all you want -- it has nothing to do with the 360 itself, and everything to do with where the 360 consumers are, and what their tastes are. RPGs just aren't that popular in America, unless they involve shooting or action-oriented chopping, aka Mass Effect, Fallout, Oblivion.
Alan Wake and Katamari... I dunno about those. They didn't do well for a lot of re...
Having a different publisher might have, though, as well as using PSN rather than XBL.
Remember MS only allows one free patch on XBL. They charge big for patches after that.
I've easily made my $50 back already, and I have over 6 mos... actually over 9 mos with the +3 month bonus, to go.
On many occasions, by many developers, Sony has been described as the best video games publisher to work with in the world. They show up on top in magazine polls, they show up on blogs, they turn up in conversation with people at trade shows as being great to work with.
It shouldn't be hard to understand that some folks prefer a solid, honest business relationship, to one that has potential to make more money, and as a side-effect, also has the potential to suck and fail...
I actually think this is a great example of just how far fans are from the reality of the games industry. =)
Both the Move and Kinect were bound to do decently out of the gates. Its the long term that matters -- they are peripherals, not software titles.
I have a feeling that Move's software, and audience, will sustain it for longer than Kinect's will, but I could be mistaken. It'll be about May or June 2011, before we really know, and even then people will still tout "upcoming titles" to be the savior of the device that looks like it's faltering.
Honestly, I think most gamers would prefer 60 Hz, or even 30 Hz, with the quality level pushed much higher, over 240 Hz framerates with lower quality.
Movies are 24 Hz, and frankly (steady) 30 Hz is perfectly fine. Anything above 60 Hz is just... pointless, IMO.
Looks like about 1.5M Kinects sold WW in the first month? +/- VGC error margin, of course.
That 5.0M target for the holidays doesn't look so likely to me, even with the slightly inflated #s VGC usually comes up with for MS products. Better than I expected, though. 1.5M people willing to put up $150 to try that thing out... pretty interesting.
Sorry, I can't agree with the author. Treyarch is 2nd rate compared to the former dev team that was called IW. They do a good job as "2nd stringers", but that's all they are.
Ubisoft pulled the same stuff with Splinter Cell, back in the day, if anyone remembers... SC was Montreal (and awesome), SC:PT was Hong Kong (and meh), SC:CT was Montreal (and awesome), SC:DA was Hong Kong (and awful), SC:C was Montreal (and decent), etc. etc.
The off...
GameStop will take your money for almost anything. You could probably pre-order the next two Zeldas after Skyward Sword there, and a Wii HD to play them on.
I never count ports as part of a launch lineup. That's like counting the entire PS1 library as part of the PS3 launch lineup, because the PS3 effectively does FSAA on PS1 titles, so they look better.
The Go is the best handheld I've ever owned. My PSP-2000 only gets used for imported UMD games that I can't get in the PSN store now, and my DS just gathers dust since I finished DQ9.
If I could have all my games on just one of them -- it'd be the PSP Go. No question, and I got mine for $230. I don't regret it in the slightest.
Its slightly inferior outside of stereo 3D mode, but its really the networking issues, and the stereo 3D performance on the PS3 that people are upset about, I think.
There's really only one method of doing 3D on the 360, and while that method works on the PS3, there's a much faster method available via the SPUs. Activision obviously chose the shared technique on both platforms, rather than using the shared technique on the 360, and the fast method on the PS3, which r...
I doubt these people are playing in 3D.
No, it'd be fine if MS left. The 360 is, basically, nothing more than a crossplat console. It's a great crossplat console (dare I say "the best crossplat console"?), but... easily replaced. If Sony or Nintendo left... that'd hurt gaming in general, it wouldn't just remove a console from the picture.
Another player would enter the picture if MS left... probably Apple. Who knows, maybe SEGA would come back.
20 million by 2011? lol.