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"Coral Sea" Unlocked in Battlefield 1943 on Xbox 360 -- 43 Million Kills+ Reached

From Xbox Evolved:

"Xbox 360 community quickly won EA's challenge of reaching 43 million accumulative kills over PlayStation 3 community since 1943's launch."

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JasonXE5391d ago

Did we ever doubt the Xbox 360 wouldn't win? Pretty big gap in kills count for over "24 million PSN" accounts. ;)

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Megaton5391d ago

Came out a day earlier and has supposedly 9 million more consoles out there. Is there anyone who DIDN'T see it going down like this?

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Blaze9295391d ago

EA started the timer and counter on both systems that Friday thus giving an equal shot. 9 million more consoles? Ok but how many total 360 owners are Gold members vs PSN owners who can all play for free?

Don't know know if you really care, doesnt seem like so. Neither do I. This will easily get changed into a 360 vs ps3/live vs psn thing. But hey, as with any competition comes bragging rights from the winner.

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SevWolf5391d ago

yh that was fast...I'm gonna say the same thing I, and everybody else on the forums, said, Congrats for the people who devoted there time, I personally don't care(don't own the game yet), and by the time im off my vac and playing it, the map will be unlocked, but still congrats to who actually bothered :)

ThanatosDMC5391d ago

Guess, they didnt have anything else better to play? Did anybody think of that... ouch.

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Blaze9295391d ago

LIVE Activity for week of July 6th

1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty: WaW
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 Battlefield 1943
6 GTA IV
7 FIFA 09
8 Left 4 Dead
9 UFC 2009 Undisputed
10 Fallout 3

At #5 they managed to clock in over 43 million kills since Friday with thousands (millions?) of other gamers still playing other games.

Try again ThanatosDMC

SevWolf5391d ago (Edited 5391d ago )

@ peach: yup you're absolutely right, sony failed this Gen, and the article and proof you chose also shows this very well, you're right just because people who bought Battlefield 1943 on the PS3 couldn't get 43,000,000(which still to me is a ridiculous number lol) in a weeks time, means the PS3 is a failure, oh and BTW seems you're new hear let me show you something called Open Zone, it's your type of Zone apparently its right there ->>>>>>>@ blaze: I can't believe you actually bothered to go and look up the activities this week, wait I can't believe I bothered replying to your comment lol

DaTruth5391d ago (Edited 5391d ago )

Getting something for free doesn't make you use it more. Paying for something makes you want to get the most for your money(unless you pay per use) i.e. If you play one hour a year, you payed $50 for one hour.

Free is the same free whether you play it or not!

ThanatosDMC5391d ago

HAHAHAH! I just wrote that for fun. I cant believe people actually put some effort to debunk me. I love N4G!

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NS5391d ago

And i am sure the PSN activity Chart has all those multi-plat games plus KZ2, Warhawk and R2 on it. So your point being?.

The Master Chief5391d ago

lol @ JasonXE

Those "24 million PSN accounts" include PSP, online, PS3, sub accounts which u can make for free, all the accounts people use to get America, Europe and Japan.

To pretend like there are as many people gaming on PSN as XBL, is a joke at best.

gamesR4fun5391d ago

however EA has since said they have at least fixed the counter for the kill count, at one point reading zero for PlayStation 3 even though the game was out for two days

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JustinSaneV25391d ago

Jumping the gun aren't we? 42161480 kills according the official site.

Blaze9295391d ago

seems to have been a server error. At the time of checking, the video was up and numbers for the xbox 360 were pass 43 million. Nonetheless now, its official.

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heavymetal3k5391d ago

9 million more 360's, so not a big suprise

darthv725391d ago (Edited 5391d ago )

more people bought the ps3 for blu movies than previously thought.

just kidding.

they will get there soon enough. At least they know what prize is waiting for the one who gets that final bullet shot. To bad EA couldnt make this a cross platform game.

Elnino95391d ago

who are playing halo 3 instead lool

Lord_Ranos5391d ago

360 USER'S I HOPE U ALL HAVE A GREAT TIME AT CORAL SEA. iF THERE'S A FUTURE CHALLENGE LET'S HOPE WE DO THE RACE AGAIN.

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72393d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel393d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon393d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim393d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai393d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341393d ago (Edited 393d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai393d ago (Edited 393d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341393d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313393d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald392d ago (Edited 392d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra392d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai392d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra392d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade392d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra392d ago (Edited 392d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno393d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149393d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop393d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb392d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole393d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled393d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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Looking back to 2009 and the war over the Pacific with Battlefield 1943

Carlos writes: "In terms of Battlefield, the past 10 years has seen the series go from strength to strength, and whilst there will be many who would argue that the hit and miss adventures of Battlefield: Hardline didn’t quite live up to the excitement that the series is so well known for, each and every entry has at least provided plenty to shout about. Should you look back far enough and manage to take your mind away from Battlefield: Bad Company 2, what you may well remember is a small, online-only multiplayer adventure that lit up the Xbox Live Arcade – Battlefield 1943."

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TargusX1744d ago

Great little game but yet again, no offline bots so once the servers went, so did all its players. What a waste.

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History, Hate, and Trusting the Player

Game developers should - and can - trust the player to consume their entertainment while maintaining perspective.

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