The RROD was an absolute disaster, I can't think of any other hardware malfunction that competes.
If ms didn't react the way they did, their venture into the gaming console market was over.
Poor little MS!
Or, just paranoid?
Refer to Thrusts comments above and lifeisgamesok below.
@jokesonyou
I'm sure you can cherry pick all the links you want but I regularly visited this site back then and all I can say is you have a very distorted memory.
It's a shame that last bubble can't be popped.
"Xbox.com?"
LOL! Well done, I think you just helped prove his point.
"I expect pathetic fanboys to say that RROD accounts for 50% and therefor there would only be about 22m in the US, less than the PS3."
I've never seen anybody say that, not even the most fanatical sony followers that use this site.
You do realise that your stupid rants make you sound like the xbox version of the sony fanatics you are attempting to call out, don't you?
You're possibly right but the problem is - there's no decent alternative.
Edit - @ below.
I loved pro evo 5 back in the day, it was the absolute peak of the series. But I've played so many different football games since then that I doubt I'd remember how it played/ felt.
I haven't tried the fifa demo yet this year. I no doubt will at some point but I'm not holding out much hope. IMO fifa, so far this gen, has been just...
Thats poor.
Although I haven't touched the online portion of pes since 2009, but in saying that, I can't believe its still that broken.
Don't think I'll bother getting it this year. Gave up buying football games every year a couple of years ago. Football games have been very dissapointing this gen.
I agree, as long as the reviewer has played through all the games and has a good understanding of the story and universe they should be capable of delivering a decent review regardless of whether or not they are a fan.
However, I have the game, absolutely love it and refuse to click on this attention seeking load of crap.
"US isn't even getting past quarters."
They'll do phenomenally well if they reach the quarters. In fact they'll be doing very well if they advance past the group stage.
I score quite a bit from corners.
It seems to work best by controlling a player at the edge of the 18 yard box, move him around to lose his marker then start running towards the 6 yard box at the same time as pressing the cross button. As long as your attacker has a clear path towards the 6 yard box with no defenders in his way he should run quite nicely onto the cross and have a good connection onto the ball. Not sure if I've described that too well but hopefully you ge...
The master league has far to many annoyances these days.
The cut scenes are horrible sometimes I just want to give that secretary woman a good slap, especially when she tells me "no member of my beloved team have been selected as European or world player of the year". It's the use of the word "beloved" that I particularly hate.
The calendar is crap and takes far to long to load. Every time you win a game it goes to the calendar loading...
PES 2013 is definately my favourite football game this gen but it still needs improving.
The way you can control players off the ball is great along with manual shooting and passing but they make the game far too easy. I play on the highest difficulty setting on master league and I regularly win games by 4 or 5 goals sometimes 8 or 9.
In contrast when I try to play FIFA on the higher settings I find it almost impossible to score goals yet it's easy enough...
So you just copied and pasted then?
So flunkinmonkey's right, you don't know what you're talking about.
I ordered the pre-order bundle with kz merc from Game for £169.99 and its the 3G version. I couldnt resist that deal.
And as a ps+ subscriber I'll be downloading uncharted golden abyss for free too.
I ordered one earlier today, it should come tomorrow. £169.99 3G version from Game with KZ merc, think thats a pretty good deal. Also ordered an 8gb card.
Will be getting uncharted and gravity rush straight away too for free as a ps+ subscriber.
What other games do you recommend?
I'd like to see a game like this for the PS Move, the gladiator duel part of sports champions was fantastic.
".... this is why the internet is broken."
The internet is just a by-product of our already very broken society.
"The question was bias and ill conceived."
I know, there is no way that there is anywhere close to 76 million working 360s in the world.
Kinect was a short lived marketing success, it needs to be bundled to have a chance of succeeding next gen.
"The problem is though that there isn't anything at launch for families or kids though."
Not much point, MS know the 'casuals' won't shell out £449.99 for a new console so for now their focus is on 'gamers', the early adopters. When the price drops a bit I'm betting we will see them shift their focus from 'gamers' to 'casuals', just like what happened with the 360.
"We compare Killzone Shadow Fall, Ryse and Crysis 3 to see how far the facial tech has evolved for games"
How is comparing those games going to show how far facial tech has evolved?
Surely comparing KZ SF to KZ 2 and 3 is a better way to do that.