Microsoft just won E3

MS have still got to find someway to get the Japanese to buy their consoles before they win any console wars
 
Dom- said:
MS have still got to find someway to get the Japanese to buy their consoles before they win any console wars
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Yes back for a few posts.. ;)

Did you not see Sonys own sales charts?
USA and Europe gain more sales both with PS2/PSP than their own home market, and you can be damned certain that with euro/uk prices they make more profit outta us too.
 
Mr Latte said:
Lattes Thoughts....

Sony just seem to be going in all directions with no real focus on actually setting the pace. Personally i think they have a powerfull system but wont really pan out any better than 360 other than have some exclusive franchises.
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If you think about it, you can't really blame Sony for trying to copy from Nintendo and Microsoft. Sony must introduce a Live! style service to compete with Microsoft and that is a fact, if they don't then they are screwed on that count. Compare the situation to McDonalds and Burger King, McDonalds has the Big Mac and Burger King's answer is the Whopper.

Microsoft have copied Sony for the Eyetoy, again because Sony have proved that there is a market for such a device with the proper game support.

Nintendo's tilt/motion sensor controller is not new either. Microsoft had the Sidewinder pad for the PC with such features. The lack of game support for the Sidewinder let it down. Nintendo are better at supporting weird and wonderful devices with the right games and better still the Japanese like such games. Sony had to include a gimmick in the PS3 pad seeing as they have had to drop feedback features due to the previous PS2 rumber lawsuits.

I'm not sure Sony could have done anything different on the above counts. Not to include such features would have made the PS3 no different to the PS2 other than High Def games.
 
Zico said:
Nintendo's tilt/motion sensor controller is not new either. Microsoft had the Sidewinder pad for the PC with such features. The lack of game support for the Sidewinder let it down. Nintendo are better at supporting weird and wonderful devices with the right games and better still the Japanese like such games. Sony had to include a gimmick in the PS3 pad seeing as they have had to drop feedback features due to the previous PS2 rumber lawsuits.
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Entirely different.
Sony are using Microsofts 'tilt' sensor technology in it's pad, Nintendo's is fully 3D and capable of knowing where it is in reference to the screen.
 
GTA exclusive will only be for a short period, probably the reverse of the last one where the Xbox and PC got it later than the PS2, folks this is Rockstar they will have it out on just about every format they can, its a massive franchise.

The only difference and its the same for any EA title is that with X360 you get LIVE and possible updates, new exclusive content etc.

Sonys tilt like the sidewinder is crap, sorry but i dont want to drive a racing game like that or fly a plane like that replicating some noob on a tv advert with motion movement. Now how will hardcore gamers having gamed for the past 5-20 years used to a joypad configuration really take to it?

Wii on the other hand gives you two completely seperate controllers with motion, the dual shock is hardly a single handed effort neither making it less ideal for something like the games nintendo demonstrated (tennis/sword swiping) but nintendo why the cables?

Microsoft will not be ousted from offering the whole compete entertainment HD package. The new vista intergration will take it too new levels also something only microsoft are in a position of doing to the scale they can. Nintendo will do the new interactivity better than what the new dual nonshock offers combined with their DS intergration, their complete masters of simple fun gaming.

Sony Sony what a mess, their gonna need their big franchises but man its a lotta cash unless your getting it for cheap bluray movie playback, theyve got a lot to do and show to convince us, well me anyways.
 
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Mr Latte said:
Sony Sony what a mess, their gonna need thier big franchises but man its a lotta cash unless your getting it for cheap bluray movie playback.
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And as we know, any Sony backed media format is usually doomed from the start.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
You watch it come out on PS3 and PC a few months later.
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well said tbh

GTA for ages was to be a PC only game, then it made the move to consoles... GTA3 was sold that it would be completely exclusive to PS2 and no other console/gaming medium...

within about what, 6-9months or so it was out on PC :rolleyes:

take "exclusively available for X console" with a pinch of salt, even if it is exclusive when the game releases - a few months down the road it'll be out on damn near every platform.
 
NokkonWud said:
Entirely different.
Sony are using Microsofts 'tilt' sensor technology in it's pad, Nintendo's is fully 3D and capable of knowing where it is in reference to the screen.
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Well you get the idea, Sony had to take something from the others to fill the gap in its own offerings.

As Latte has said, they are going to need there big Sony exclusive franchises to come through big time this generation. Early indication seems to have Microsoft grabbing some of those titles/developers to create titles for the 360 first.
 
GTA4 will be released at EXACTLY the same time on both consoles... sorry to burst the 360 bubble...

New York, NY – May 9th, 2006 -- Rockstar Games, the universally-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce Grand Theft Auto IV, the next-generation console debut of the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto franchise. Developed by world-class designers Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360™ and is currently planned to be in stores in North America on October 16, 2007 and in Europe on October 19, 2007.
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Source: http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=195753
 
SiD the Turtle said:
However PC version will be mod-tastic. :p
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Shame GTA on the whole has been poor for modding :p I wish Rockstar would tailor their engines to make it easier because SA was meant to be just that, but it turned out to be less friendly then Vice City. That multiplayer mod is looking up though.
 
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