Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

I haven't followed CoD Elite that closely, but early articles suggested it was going to be $50 a year. Is that what Gamestop/EB sold 600K of? If so, that's $30 million in sales at one retailer alone. For a stat-tracking service with some DLC bundled with it. Wow. O_o Read more

That's a fair point, though you could argue it did earn $550, just not solely for Activision. Read more

Most of Asia outside of Japan would be included in that number. Africa might be in there, and I'm not certain if all of South America is included in the "Americas" number. Read more

VGChartz and other sourced confirm it peaked at around the 2.5 year mark in most major markets, give or take a few months. Before the 2.5 year mark the PS2 sold strongly and grew, after the 2.5 year mark it continued to sell strongly while slowly declining. Read more

When movies brag about their box office take, they're counting total ticket sales without addressing how much is kept by the movie theatre. When you hear stories about how much the latest Twilight book sold, it's gross book sales rather than just what the publisher gets to keep. It's the way it works everywhere. Read more

Fair enough. You're right that the tagging was indeed simplified. Read more

"When it gets to the point where I can order my troops to intelligently move "Move up!" or "Lay down suppressing fire!" or "Kill that fucking sniper!," and they go out and do it with all the intelligence and ruthlessness that any player usually exercises when the game itself gives us that order, I'll be a lot more… Read more

That... actually sounds like a good time. Read more

"MyNameIsAKillingWord" is my motto on XBL. :) Read more

I just want a remake/sequel to the Total Recall 2070 TV show. It was more Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep than Total Recall, but I loved it anyway. Read more

I've got to say, I watched a little bit of it when it first went on the air and didn't get into it. It's sounding like I didn't get it enough time. Read more

Could be an argument for a core system with either flash storage or a regular HDD, and a deluxe version with an SSD. Read more

I would buy that day 1, without a doubt. I agree that there's real potential there. Read more

There's a lot of interesting speculation below. Some say 2012 is likeliest, some say 2013, some say 2014. Read more

The Xbox 360 will be more easily, and more cheaply, emulated I suspect. Microsoft owns the silicon design for both the 360's CPU and GPU and can emulate them in software without having to pay a royalty fee. The fact that the 360 has a hypervisor should make software compatibility easier because you should have far… Read more

Where do they say it's all profit? It's not, and they don't say it is. They're bragging about strong sales, not strong profit. Read more

For your interest, here are estimated lifetime PS3 & 360 sales by territory as of this week (courtesy of VGChartz): Read more

Same here, except my "sucker" game is Halo Wars. I'd buy the new Xbox tomorrow if it came with a new/updated Halo Wars. Read more

No, they didn't do anything in the end other than move the forums from Halowars.com to Halo Waypoint. They additionally threatened to shut down the stat tracking servers, but never the game servers. There are thousands of concurrent players playing Halo Wars (almost) every second of every day. I played several… Read more

2010 - 13.61 million Read more