I don't know if Mike has a deal with Destineer, but Christmas titles on the Nintendo consoles is nothing new and has been done before, especially in the mini-game category. I don't remember the last time I saw an article on holiday themed games on Kotaku but here's to Xmas. #wewishyouamerrychristmas
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@Michael Dukakis: Of choir you both decide to trade puns without me. Santa I wish you guys could see what I could bring to the table, but I guess the best I can do is snow you guys what I'm capable of.
Used to be that the PS3 had no games. Now it has most of the games that used to be exclusive to the 360, except for Gears and Halo (neither of which are more than mediocre). It's a whole new ballgame now.
Wow. Amazing. Even when an article is praising the purported sales ability of Sony coming into the holidays, you manage to continue to throw mud at the 360.
Does it bother you THAT MUCH that people are enjoying things that you refuse to accept? I find it hard to believe you're older than a teenager, for surely someone with a disposable income would recognize that there are still quite a few exclusives to both systems, making both worth purchasing.
If Gears and Halo are nothing more than mediocre, their respective Metacritic scores and sales ability make 99 percent of PS3 games look like complete turds. Thats probably not a very wise thing to say.
Maybe everything you say should come with a disclaimer
"Warning: I are fanboy. I do not own a 360. I do not like it if people enjoy what they are getting with a 360. I will tell you you are stupid. Theres no point to having a 360. But if anyone calls me on any of this, I'll backpedal and play the opinion card, when I've clearly already stated what I've said as factual"
(to anyone else, a click of his name equals a comments history. I wish I had the power to re-pink commenters)
Well, considering the average gamer is a 30 year old male, I am fairly certain they have both the maturity and foresight to understand that ALL games sales benefit their preferred system. Additionally, I would argue that brand devotion* is not that prevalent among your "average" gamer.
*Brand devotion= fanboy. It is possible to have brand loyalty without being a fanboy. For example: I buy Coke because I prefer the taste but I would never a accost a person for choosing Pepsi.
Are you kidding me. If I found out someone was actually buying and enjoying coke, which I do not care for, I would be sure to run straight to the internet and tell everyone how stupid coke drinkers are.
Jesus, you guys are stupid. Pepsi is so much better. How more stupid could you possibly be? Its obvious Pepsi is going to win this soft drink war.
@animeman59: Dr. Pepper is a casual soft drink. It's ruining the industry. Hardcore soda drinkers choose Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Only little kids and old people drink Dr. Pepper.
I bought a Dr. Pepper once; I took two gulps and never touched it again. Now it's in my fridge collecting dust.
I totally agree. Hoarders, buy the PS3 slim now and flip it on Ebay in late November for serious profit.
Almost everyone already has a 360 or Wii. It makes sense that with Blu-Ray and HDTVs becoming more standard, along with the PS3 price drop many were waiting for (including myself, got my slim a few weeks ago), that PS3 will sell very well this holiday season.
The ONLY reason The Xbox 360 outsold the PS3, was not just the cost of the PS3, but the fact EVERYONE had to buy a new HEXBOX whenever one broke down outside of warranty!!!
@NeoAkira: I'm not sure about that. I think, in a more specific sense, profitability (which is admittedly correlated to market share) has the largest impact. I mean, pretend that motion-based games on the wii sold at an embarrassingly low margin relative to traditional interface based games on the wii.
Granted, most people jump at gimmicks and the two become one in the same. Just as well, companies tend to follow trends and the "follow-the-leader" mentality becomes a vicious cycle eliciting fear of homogeneity amongst gamers who value variety.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with the sentiment that profitability has the largest impact. In my example the profitability would be the fact that motion controls are very popular which would mean more people would buy their product, and thus more software and thus they make more $$$.
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Yes, they will. They have and always will. Maybe you don't follow gaming news that much so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but anytime the PS3 or 360 has seen a sales boost because of a certain type of game or peripheral the other has always answered back with their own copycat version of it.
@NeoAkira: Maybe Sony didn't see a revenue stream in casuals before. Nobody could have predicted the popularity of a console as weak as the Wii when it first debuted. But, Nintendo has proven that (at least for Nintendo) there is money in the casual market for children and older people. Third parties, not so much, but that's been Nintendo's song for the last 8 years anyway.
WHY has everyone forgotten that god of war 1 and 2 are coming out in HD for PS3 in November? Those will sell A GIANT SHIT MOUNTAIN of copies cause of the games themselves and because everyone will say ZOMGZ GoW3 DEMO. They'll also serve to remind consumers that GoW3 is coming out in 4 months.
Sony, please advertise the hell out of Killzone 2 for the holidays. It's a beautiful example of a brilliantly crafted PS3 game. It's 2009's forgotten masterpiece and it would be good of you guys to remind consumers that their PS3s will be able to play it.
I always thought the ps3 would be awesome, so on top my my xbox and the wifes wii, I decided to buy one. Now the only thing it is used for is movies, and streaming content from my pc. yeah little big planet was fun, MGS was ok, and Gran turismo will apparently be awesome some day, but its still not the same as a gaming device,, xbox still has it.. sorry fanboys, but the truth is still the truth
@mossiprose: I agree. When my PS3 died... I bought a standalone blu-ray player and never missed the PS3. It's dead corpse is lying in state in my guest room, still holding my blu-ray of Iron Man in it's rigored grasp.
@ClockOut: Thats really what sold me. I just got one after the price drop. For the most part they have the same games. Even Sony loses the console wars I at least have a Blu Ray player.
@AOClaus: I don't care if it offends. I don't like Microsoft. I don't like the 360. Only game on 360 I'd probably buy is Fable 2. So no need to point out the obvious and say that my opinion isn't the "nicest" one out there. I'm being honest, just as anybody else here.
@mossiprose:
Did you play games like Infamous, Uncharted, Killzone 2 or any of the original PSN titles? You are basically still saying the tired manta "PS3 doesn't have any games" which is so false and basically a lie now in 2009.
@DigitalHero: Not really. The only game of interest to me on PS3 that's exclusive is currently Valkyria Chronicles and later on it'll be Yakuza 3 when it hits the US. That's not enough to warrant a purchase of any kind from me and does, in fact, tell me that it has "no games."
@Ueziel: Let me just ask you what games you have for your 360. If you have the run of the mill shooters, you come off as a fanboy because the PS3's shooters are nothing to scoff at. If you're talking about RPGs only, then you may have a point but only a weak one because RPGs are coming out for the PS3 both as multiplat or exclusive.
@GLaDOS: RPGs are my favorite genre and I don't especially enjoy shooters. I AM actually buying Modern Warfare 2 but it's the only one I really enjoy and it's really only because I know a lot of people that play it.
Otherwise everything I like is multiplatform already.
@ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness: Yeah, but in this case, I already have access to those games and as such, their existence in regards to validating the PS3's claims on them is nullified. They might as well not exist on the PS3 because I wouldn't buy them on it due to friends all owning 360's and buying everything for that.
Taggart6: This is a crazy idea but, promoted this comment
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Wow. Amazing. Even when an article is praising the purported sales ability of Sony coming into the holidays, you manage to continue to throw mud at the 360.
Does it bother you THAT MUCH that people are enjoying things that you refuse to accept? I find it hard to believe you're older than a teenager, for surely someone with a disposable income would recognize that there are still quite a few exclusives to both systems, making both worth purchasing.
If Gears and Halo are nothing more than mediocre, their respective Metacritic scores and sales ability make 99 percent of PS3 games look like complete turds. Thats probably not a very wise thing to say.
Maybe everything you say should come with a disclaimer
"Warning: I are fanboy. I do not own a 360. I do not like it if people enjoy what they are getting with a 360. I will tell you you are stupid. Theres no point to having a 360. But if anyone calls me on any of this, I'll backpedal and play the opinion card, when I've clearly already stated what I've said as factual"
(to anyone else, a click of his name equals a comments history. I wish I had the power to re-pink commenters)
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*Brand devotion= fanboy. It is possible to have brand loyalty without being a fanboy. For example: I buy Coke because I prefer the taste but I would never a accost a person for choosing Pepsi.
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Are you kidding me. If I found out someone was actually buying and enjoying coke, which I do not care for, I would be sure to run straight to the internet and tell everyone how stupid coke drinkers are.
Jesus, you guys are stupid. Pepsi is so much better. How more stupid could you possibly be? Its obvious Pepsi is going to win this soft drink war.
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I bought a Dr. Pepper once; I took two gulps and never touched it again. Now it's in my fridge collecting dust.
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Almost everyone already has a 360 or Wii. It makes sense that with Blu-Ray and HDTVs becoming more standard, along with the PS3 price drop many were waiting for (including myself, got my slim a few weeks ago), that PS3 will sell very well this holiday season.
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Wow, dude. You're not going to get your account approved with lame-ass coments like that.
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Uh, but he might get his comments approved if Star Commenters don't ignore them... ;)
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Gamers. That's who. Who outsells who is very important because it determines the trends in development that will take place in the future.
Here's the simplest example: Wii outsells PS3 and 360 consistently. Now Sony and MS are trying to come up with motion controls of their own.
Would this have happened if no one cares who outsold who? No. Which is exactly why we care.
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Granted, most people jump at gimmicks and the two become one in the same. Just as well, companies tend to follow trends and the "follow-the-leader" mentality becomes a vicious cycle eliciting fear of homogeneity amongst gamers who value variety.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with the sentiment that profitability has the largest impact. In my example the profitability would be the fact that motion controls are very popular which would mean more people would buy their product, and thus more software and thus they make more $$$.
@Chris Morrison
Yes, they will. They have and always will. Maybe you don't follow gaming news that much so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but anytime the PS3 or 360 has seen a sales boost because of a certain type of game or peripheral the other has always answered back with their own copycat version of it.
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Considering Sony never mass manufactured and marketed them, yes. So please, save your fanboy stupidity for someone who cares.
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BRILLIANT timing on Sony's part.
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GOW isn't as popular as you seem to think it is.
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OK so i do want one but that was a pretty dumb thing to say on your part. State the obvious and end with some "trash" talk.
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Did you play games like Infamous, Uncharted, Killzone 2 or any of the original PSN titles? You are basically still saying the tired manta "PS3 doesn't have any games" which is so false and basically a lie now in 2009.
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Otherwise everything I like is multiplatform already.
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Otherwise the 360 wouldn't have any either
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Narrow tastes does not mean a console has no games.
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Oh wait, I thought 08 was? ;)
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Yay for football references.
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