Looking at the recent buy-outs in the development community over recent times (EA/Bioware etc) and towards the intentions of Microsoft and it's partner development studios to see what's coming up next year and beyond.
"Microsoft are very intelligent. They've managed to elevate online gaming from nerdy LAN parties to the mainstream, and they knew you would be willing to pay $50 a year for it. They were able to ship several million defective units when the system launched, and somehow they knew you wouldn't care(to some extent). Microsoft knows what we want, plain and simple. They know our price point, they know our demographic, and in my opinion they will continue to deliver, and maybe (just maybe) these shake-ups are part of something bigger"
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
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XBOTS are starting to worry though. I always wondered what would happen once they no longer had Halo 3 to look foward to.
I think it's XBOX 720 time.
Before this, XBOTS had an armor around them. No matter what the situation was they could always happily look ahead to Halo 3. Now it's not so.
Halo 3 might of been the changing point after all. But just not the way XBOTS wanted it.
Microsoft quote "We're not in it for the win"
That writer is just a fanboy
THE PS3 big guns come next yr, mgs4 and ff, kz2 with all the hype will disappoint so it's not on my list, hopefully it surprises me.... I think Little big planet will be the killer app next yr, however from a non fanboy perspective i think the 360 still have a great lineup for 08 that will keep it in the lead
MSFT has over 10 games that look like AAA's in the end I agree with the statment made at the end of the story.
They left out many heavy hitters.
What happend to Huxley, Warhound, Alan Wake, Project Offset, Splinter cell? (theres about 10 more games but the ones listed seem most promising). I know I'm forgeting some games the point is why even post this concern, is it because MSFT doesn't talk about its future lineups?.