The difference is developers had a steep learning curve with PS3 and a big jump between PS2 and PS3. Wii U has the benefit of having experienced 360 and PS3 developers who are adept at learning a new platform and no one has announced anything. Then Nintendo won't hurry up with Pikmin 3 would should have been a launch game. Nintendo should have had they're crap together after their 3DS launch and instead they do far worse with the Wii U than the 3DS. At 3DS had Ocarina of Time and som...
Yes there is. Select and Start combined into one "Options" button but its still there.
7 is wrong. PSP services did not magically go down when Vita launched(of course the Vita is compatible with but we're talking PSP specific services), neither did PS2 game online functionality when PS3 released. I remember playing Ratchet Deadlocked online on PS3 in 2007. Believe it or not those servers were not shut down until 2012 and the game is about to get an HD re-release with new PS3 servers.
It's a little presumptuous that you won't be able to assess on yo...
46 million times $60 a year. Wait let's say every subscriber is miraculously getting it on sale Amazon for $45. So 46 million times 45. $2,070,000,000 a year. Yeah ... Microsoft really had to raise the price to $60 every year to maintain to the service "due to inflation" because it costs them so much to maintain the service that is barely has more features and runs slights more efficiently on the whole than Sony's free service. I'm sure the steadily increasing number of...
To 2 and 3, Megaman should probably stay on PSN/XBL/eShop or Virtual Console whatever Nintendo uses for Megaman games. They are at their best with 8 robot masters/mavericks and 4 Wily stages/final levels in a 8-bit or 16-bit styled for X series.
It is obviously those Megaman games they announced. Capcom loves to troll Megaman fans and hate on Inafune these days.
While MGS1 and MGS3 were ported/remade for Nintendo consoles and both the HD collection and Rising on Xbox 360 as well as PS3 he still could be doing a better job on multiplatform stuff. Sometimes consoles and portables are left out when it doesn't make sense. Just because a PSP version of Peace Walker exists doesn't mean people wouldn't want Peace Walker HD for Vita. Most MGS games aren't available on Nintendo platforms. Finally most of the MGS were out a long time before bei...
The bigger problem was you also couldn't access your download list of already purchased but not downloaded single player games limiting you even more. It also happened when two games with strong multiplayer came out hurting those sales.
Sony restructured their entire security in that month though. Xbox live was down for two weeks late 2007-beginning 2008. It was still accessible just with errors and was maintenance not hackers but the more important features were locked off from many users. Also unannounced down times for large amounts of users are common place on Xbox live these days. It's not down for all that long but still unannounced outages happen nearly as often as regularly scheduled PSN maintenance. It's not...
It was Street Fighter x Tekken and it wasn't nearly as smooth as Wi-Fi. The game nearly lag free on Wi-Fi if the base connection was wired. Even a tethered 4G had some lag issues. That said it is much better than Vita's built-in 3G.
Who says it GOTY now. If you're a person who prefers great JRPGs to great shooters, Ni No Kuni currently has it. Plenty of amazing games have been released so far and Bioshock Infinite is definitely in the running but it's had competition from launch day.
It's also only 20gb. You can't even play the PSN version of Uncharted with that. He'd have to upgrade to a reasonable size just to play multiple games without have to uninstall and reinstall regularly. Plenty of games still have multiple Gb installs. Look at GT5. That take half by itself for the "optional" install.
The current gen begins when the first console of a generation, not the last, is released so Wii U is not a next gen console and neither are PS4 and the unannounced Xbox. The generation has already began so PS3/360/Wii are last gen and we are in a transitional year. It's not about power, it's about release date.Just like the Wii was part of the seventh generation, Wii U is part of the eight generation.
@Donniebol The Wii U is in the eight generation of consoles. Power does not define generation. Release date does. The Wii U is current gen though in the sense it's already out. PS4 is a current gen console because the current gen began last year with the launch of Wii U, even if is not a powerhouse. Nintendo is just going for the cheap console with the least amount of changes they could get away with. It's a different strategy than Sony and Microsoft will go for but it can be effecti...
Richard Doyle voiced Big Boss in MGS4, but as stated by porkChop, David Hayter has already played Big Boss on multiple occasions. It wouldn't make sense to replace when he's willing to work.
Steam just started a similar program. Obviously this won't be Uncharted, Halo, and Zelda doing this but rather small games like Super Stardust/Geometry Wars.
X-2 has new game plus(only certain things carry over). The first obviously doesn't but plenty of JRPG franchises have implemented NG+ successfully. Persona 4 Golden and Disgaea 4 are the most prominent of recent releases and they both have NG+ options.
@ichimaru I don't see how you got it was joke(therefore got the sarcasm of the second part) but failed to see both parts were obviously sarcastic. If Microsoft was still working on its design, the likelihood of it releasing this year would obviously be substantially lowered. Their silence isn't damaging to the reputation of the new Xbox as much as giving Sony a higher chance of taking the all initial sales.
Obviously 40 million is pretty impressive but consider this Origin also sells retail PS3/360 and as you would expect you to have an account to buy them. I know this because I bought Kingdoms of Amalur this way during a sale. It's because of little tidbits like these, I would argue on the whole Origin members do not actively use Origin nearly to the extent Steam users use Steam. I would also argue it inflates the number of registered members of Origin.
Nothing is free. It costs plenty but not nearly billions. The PlayStation Store revenue and advertising revenue easily covers the cost of the service 100s of times over. The same could said for Xbox Live.