It may be no surprise that web-going gamers love the Wii, but research firm BrandIntel says it has the data to prove it nonetheless. BrandIntel tells Next-Gen how the Wii is beating Xbox 360 and PS3 in purchase intent, as analyst Michael Pachter likens Nintendo's hit console to a tasty McDonald's burger...
The Outerhaven writes: Split/Second was the explosive arcade racing game that outshone Ridge Racer and Burnout. That is, until Disney shut it all down before a sequel could happen.
As a kid i had some heart attacks playing this game. The soundtrack right on point with those close calls. I love this game.
Agreed. I still love it and play it often. Still sucks that Disney was like, nah... this game didn't do well, when it did well against other racers and reviewed well.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
That's not true at all the OG Xbox had drive and they had hunger and they wanted to accomplish something. It was a great console.
they didn't quite reach their goals and they gave up prematurely because they couldn't win. It was halfway through the Xbox 360 when kinect released and that was when they lost their way and we're a rudderless ship ever since
In all fairness, Xbox had some great games with online play, Xbox 360 even better. Xbox consoles started to die with the Xbox One. Ditch consoles for the PC and PS.
@Bathyj hard to compute ay. Xbox was never better than a PC and that's all they ever were. A demo box. Doesn't get more true than that.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
Isn't the point that it's irrelevant how profitable MS is, the suits have decided it's time that the Xbox division started making them money. Hence the layoffs, the pivots.
That wouldn't surprise me, as motorsport has been heading down hill since the great number 4. Where as playground have consistently put out better games. I think the two studios will be merged under playground games banner.
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Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft's The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the "Stop Killing Games" initiative.
That makes a twofold deadline for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Or, at least, one headed up by Scott: The UK petition, which ends July 14, and the EU Citizens' Initiative, which ends July 3.
If you live in the EU then Please sign this or our game ownership rights and game preservation is
at stake. I know there isnt much time left but please consider signing the petition
People whine and in the end don't do a thing. Then whine more when they get screwed some more smh. If this makes it then it'll be monumental for consumers. That Pirate software guy was no help either smh.
It doesn't look like anyone's exactly winning to me.
I love the wii. My friends and family who have played it love the wii. I think there's a buzz among non-gamers/casuals and in the hardcore you have a minority that are fairly vocal. So a large number of casuals/non-gamers' enthusiasm moves the data up and the ps3/360 hardcore drop it. Same thing with both other consoles.... haters from opposite camps have brought all of the consoles down to near neutral.
The loud people are the ones who get heard in this stuff and they're a small group...
Wii: pronounced WEAK.
This is interesting, but you have to think about who is going onto message boards and talking about consoles.
Mostly the Casual gamers from each camp won't be on the internet talking about their console. That 60% of PS3 owners that don't know about bluray, you won't find them in the pile of messages they collected. The Wii owner that just has Wii Sports and Big Brain Acadamy, he's not there either.
Now, then, what I think I can draw from this after thinking about that is that the Wii is wildly popular. We knew that already, but, consider the number of casuals the Wii draws. The hardcore Wii owners push the number up, above 3, while the PS3/360 owners who claim to own a Wii push it down. It's quite amazing that the Wii is as high as it is.
The more vocal 360 group push their number higher than it really is. I don't know many people, even among the hardcore gamers I know, that want a 360 if they don't already have it. Most of them refrain from getting on the internet and posting at all about it, though.
The PS3, I'm suprised its that low. It seems many PS3 owners like to add something like "PS3 rules!" whenever a game gets a bad review and they're defending it, or they're explaining why bluray will win even if all studios were to go HD DVD exclusive. I would think that most posts are for the PS3, while the attacks against it aren't terribly negative, because its mostly about the lack of games and price (which should be a 2, not a 1, while "PS3 rules" would be a 5). I suppose this means there are likely many more negative comments about the PS3 than good comments, since the good comments are often more extreme.
Looking at the price at the end was a bit odd. After all, I would think that when comparing game consoles, its not about how powerful the console is that makes it a steak, but how many good games it has. The PS2 was the steak last gen, but it was by far the weakest console, but the games made up for that.
In that way, early adopters decide which console is the steak, and which one is the hamburger, because development for games will concentrate mostly on the console that has sold the most. We need only look at the handheld market to see that smaller price differences and power mean very little compared to the games the console holds. Nintendo thrashed Sega in the 90's and is thrashing Sony now, with weaker handhelds and more good games. Why should we believe the Wii should be different from these two Nintendo creations, or the PS2 from last gen, or the PS before that, none of them the strongest systems, but all of them with the most good games games.
So far can you plz tell me how many great games the WII have...or as a matter of fact other than the few obvious upcoming exclusives I dont see alot of great games for the wii beign announced...!!
the system is cheap. if 360 and/or ps3 get their prices to within 50-100 dollars of it- then game over for nintendo.