@knwldg: Remember the Natal game demo with the balls flying at the screen?
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@tetracycloide: Maybe I naively read that as him pointing out that it's 2010 and you should bring your views up to date because your opinion on what laptops can do is something I would have expected people to have years ago but not today.
As for the Elitist Asshole comment. That's the part I promoted him for. Suck it you dumb bitch. (bit harsh, sorry. I just watched Cruel Intentions which is where it's from)
He had good grounds for that comment, the only reason you could possibly snob a gaming laptop is for it's graphics ability (which is still pretty damn good in the article). You clearly aren't impressed though and need to run all your games on much higher specs. You are of the belief that only the highest end gaming rigs are gaming rigs, that makes you an elitist, the rest of your comments show you to be an asshole. Put em together and what have you got?
@NecronomiconUK: The xbox brand has grown quite well but another year also means another year of HDTV sales (the World Cup in June is expected boost sales big time) which means a group of people wanting machines that can play Bluray and even some people will be wanting to watch it in 3D. Something the PS3 can offer with just a firmware update.
On the gamer side, both consoles have some great games coming up but imagine your about to buy a 360 or Ps3 for the first time when FFXIII releases. Not only do you take into account that Final Fantasy XIII Versus and FFXIV are so far PS3 exclusives, chances are you had a playstation if FFXIII is your favorite franchise which means you probably played Gran Tourismo and maybe even the GoW franchise. Then you see games like MAG touting a 256 player map, Heavy Rain looks impressive graphics wise, everyone has been talking about Uncharted 2 and because of the growth in Laptop's (netbooks) and HDTV's, most people have wifi in their house and bluray is console selling feature.
Then there are titles which are rumored for the xmas period such as The Last Guardian and Agent which with "From the main creators of GTA" labelled all over it will surely sell quite well so it's not like the machine isn't finishing the year strong. We might even see Resistance 3.
If you don't already own a 360, Halo Reach, Ninty Nine Nights 2 and Alan Wake aren't going to sell you the machine though I suppose Splinter Cell might.
Gem hits in spring too, which brings the Wii crowd to the high end machines before Natal and it is very much like the Wii. Where as Natal isn't something people will understand at first.
Also the amount of people that are spreading the word that the PSN is free and xbox live isn't will have a pretty big effect. The RRoD could also play a big part in it as I don't know 1 person who has a 360 that hasn't died at some point.
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I think this year is gonna be great for xbox owners but I don't know if it's gonna be enough to make people who are new to this generation select it over the PS3.
(PS sorry for the delayed response, I thought I had submitted it but opened my laptop to find I hadn't quite clicked the button right)
@PuffyTail: From playing the game a while back I can say 3 things about it for sure
1) I am extremely positive and upbeat about the games potential.
2) The game still SEEMS fairly linear even though you get lots of choices. (semi spoilers but not overly) I played a shop level where someone tries to rob the join. I played it 3 times (which is a good sign because if I didn't like it, I wouldn't have) and although I went different routes the ending's were the same but with a tiny dialog change that came before the ending.
3) The presentation/story were fantastic and most certainly created an atmosphere of intrigue that will see my picking up this title unless the majority of reviews say it's crap in which case I will just rent it.
@UsernameOfTheDead: Yup, at least the PS3 owning Sam Fisher loving crowd will have something to drowned their sorrows with (though it sounds like it could make them more depressed).
Splinter Cell looks set to get my Game of the Year award. It's just a shame it's too early and will probably get forgotten about at the end of year awards. Especially now that I have seen Split Screen has been confirmed.
Hopefully Ubi will release an upgraded PS3 version in time for christmas which seems to be the trend for most timed exclusives (which hopefully Splinter Cell will be).
The only that's slightly putting me off of 3D is that I get motion sickness from playing various games (Portal, Mirrors Edge and even the demo of Dark Void). If this adds to that I won't be able to enjoy it at all.
I tried Batman in 3D on a PC at a Eurogamer convention a few months back. It wasn't what I would call fantastic but on the more optimistic hand it wasn't crap either. Hopefully the console version will leave me happy. If not at least my new (by the time this rolls out) tv will play 3D movies.
@gtrunner6: How much are said TV's and how much will they compare to the ones they are aiming this tech at?
@Hongo: While I like to see games on everything, sometimes spreading resources too wide can be overkill.
FTR, I'm not saying they shouldn't release games made for it, just that we already have a very crowded market place for gamers, do we really need more?
Yeah, I suppose we do.
@Ben Nadler: You make a good point, when my friends and I moved away from the 360, Microsoft didn't bat an eyelid. Likewise if you and your friends dropped support for the machine that wouldn't effect them a great deal. But you have to believe that it's doing more good than supporting them.
I guess it comes down to what kind of person you are. I have always prided myself on standing up for what's right (no matter how silly it sounds), I can't support the beast trying to eat everyone, even if it won't fall over when I don't.
If you meant what you said in your last post then you should ask yourself if you are the kind of guy that likes getting screwed over by big companies just because your friends do.
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@tetracycloide: Should I be promoting people who say utter bullshit? Or those that make sense.
I don't mind promoting people that disagree, providing they are making some form of sense. Unlike your blatant snobbery of a laptop gaming.
It would make sense for Activision to move them on and let someone else make MW3. It's going to sell no matter what and most people playing it wouldn't know who IW were if they were in their office playing the game.
Why not let them create another great franchise.
Futuristic Warfare
Ancient Warfare
Alien Warfare
Global Warfare
Caveman Warfare
Medieval Warfare
or the all important
World War 2 Warfare
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I'd love them to change genre's altogether and bring out a cracking rival to the Civilization series. (but then that goes for every developer out there)
@NecronomiconUK: You might be right but the way I see it, the PS3 outsold the 360 by a few million last year and it's just gearing up.
I agree that we will probably see a 360 slim but the 360 already cut it's chip size down which is usually when a slim version would be due so I'm not sure how much that would save them (though it would have a short term boost).
I don't think Microsoft will end support for the 360 like they did for the xbox. In all likelihood it will keep going like Sony have with the PS2. It will be their 1-2 punch of the next gen rather than the Arcade/Elite in the same way that the PS2/PS3 combo has served Sony well.
That said, they will want the hardware lead and the bigger the lead the better. If they release a new xbox next year Sony would have to gear up and as they still haven't recouped their losses it would lower their ability to compete.
It would be smart of them to do it sooner rather than later, as the PS3 picks up momentum, the Playstation brand will grow stronger. The PS3 is still quite pricy and a next gen console with full 360 bc would allow developers to bridge the gap to the next gen smoother.
@PatrickSwayze: I hope so, I really do, I missed the update to the story that originally said no Gears until the next gen but even in the update the guy from Epic was talking about 4-5 years for the next Gears.
Even though I really want to play the next Gears. Part of me wants them to wait until the next batch of machines because I don't want Gears to get that "same old, same old" feel.
Would it shock me to see Gears at xmas, no. Maybe all the talk from Epic was just to put Insomniac off of developing Resistance 3.
@PatrickSwayze: The 360 will be around for a good while but that won't stop Microsoft launching another hardware platform sooner rather than later. They will want the head start again, I just wonder if Nintendo will beat them too it.
When Splinter Cell releases, Microsoft will cut the price tag of the 360 (also to combat GT5, GoW3 and Heavy Rain). Sony will follow sometime in September. The lower the price tag of Sony's console the harder it is for anyone to justify buying the 360. Which is why the 360 doesn't out sell the PS3 when they are within a certain price range of each other.
Microsoft know this, they aren't stupid. The fact that Epic have stopped making Gears to concentrate on the next generation should be a big hint to you that Microsoft are gearing up for a new console.
@Bonuslevel: No, you're absolutely right, you don't always have to though sometimes it's a little tempting which is what they are relying on.
@baka8jin: I have some arcade machines in my PS Home and I have been in the Namco arcade. What I was referring to is the arcade style payment.
@scrapking: That would meet your "get what you paid for argument", if you actually got what you paid for but you don't.
When I bought MW2 I wasn't buying a 5 hour single player game. I was buying the full game. That full game can't be accessed without an xbox live gold subscription but it can on every other platform.
If you went into a shop, bought an orange, got it home and could only eat half of it without paying someone else a subscription you would be mad. Luckily, nobody would have the technology to stop you eating the other half and impeding on you like that, unfortunately with games they do have the technology and they use it to fuck people over.
Also, your assessment of "it's generally accepted theirs is better" is internet bullshit. The PSN has 3 times more members with access to all the PSN's features. In the real world, out side of your kotaku screen, there are 311.5m gaming machines (not including PC's, phones, or older consoles) and only around 11m of them are paying for online functionality through xbox live. That means only a tiny minority of people think it is worth it's money. Unfortunately that tiny percentage of people is enough to block out the other 30m 360 owners because it's still £400m per year in Microsoft's back pocket.
Also, it's hard to say which service people on the internet would unbiasedly regard as better because Sony don't limit/group their features so people only compare the ones that xbox live has. People forget the vidzone, bbciplayer, home (and all the free games in home), PSP streaming, online games that have 256 people on one map, the news feeds for Playstation Life.
As I type this I am watching Face Off (Nic Cage/John Travolta) on the PSN through the BBCiPlayer for free. Then when I'm finished, maybe I will watch Top Gear or maybe I will go play the MAG beta which again required no subscription. How much is Face Off on the 360? Can you even access Top Gear if so how much? What's the most players you have on one map on a 360 shooter? Hell, maybe I will hit up YouTube and learn me some piano skills or maybe I will float on over to Revision3 and watch DiggNation. If I wanted to I could even go to MegaVideo and watch last nights Friday Night Lights. All through my PS3's online access.
More gamer related, how about the ability to find cheats on your console, full blown strategy guides for every game out? Check up on Kotaku?
If I were to list everything I could do on the PS3 that you can't on your paid service for the 360 it would take forever and you would probably come back with the irrational "Well they don't count or matter to anyone", then you would list your 2 or 3 exclusive features and act like they are the only things that matter.
I've heard people say "xbox live is better, it has achievements" and they know nothing of Trophies, likewise I have heard people brag that the 360 has Facebook, well guess what the PS3 has Facebook and Youtube and every other website in the world. People are starting to compare the newly announced arcade to the whole of Home. Home has it's own freak'n arcade, in fact it has a couple that should be compared to the 360's arcade.
I'm not even saying some of the features on the 360 aren't better but would anyone pay for live if online gaming on the 360 wasn't a charged service? That is the only feature which truly matters to people. Microsoft are literally withholding parts of YOUR game until you pay them a fee it's extortion.
@NecronomiconUK: Really? just
"nope"
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@tetracycloide: Dude you're a waste of oxygen, cos it's clearly not getting to your brain.
The laptop I am on right now will let me play Civ IV, Football Manager 10, xcom, poker, MW2 etc all on high settings. News flash, specification on laptops have improved significantly over the years.
The laptop in question can run Crysis for fuck sake. Just because you wouldn't play games on the move doesn't mean others don't want too.
Pull your head out of your ass.
@tonicmole: IGN Strategy? Do you mean the same IGN Strategy on the IGN website which can be accessed through the PSN browser? Or is there some other IGN Strategy? [uk.guides.ign.com]
Why is it you assume the PSN doesn't get lots of content updates? It really does and as I showed some guy earlier we got the MW2 patch first among others.
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I'd be cool with your sandwich analogy if Microsoft didn't charge a person to play their own games online but they do. What your analogy really translates to (and I don't fully expect you to see this right away) is that by buying that ham and cheese sub for $5 you are taking away the ham sandwich from the other 30m who can't afford to or won't pay that $5.
