In a recent interview, Shane Kim roared MS do not regret abandoning the Xbox 1 as early as they did. They knew they were not going to win the last generation, and it wasn't a case of milking as much cash as possible but defining the future. There would've been no point in rolling out Halo 3 quickly on Xbox 1 as a better experience will be had on the Xbox 360.
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1UP:Do you guys regret abandoning the Xbox as early as you did? It seemed like the Xbox died suddenly?
SK: No, I don't regret that at all. First of all, we made a strategic decision as a company that we were going to focus on the next generation. We're going to bring our most important assets to the next-generation and we made that decision a couple of years before we launched the Xbox 360 so that we could start to have a portfolio lined up and I think we're starting to see the fruits of that. We knew we weren't going to win the last generation, so it's not about 'how do milk as much money as we can' out of the last generation, it's about how do we define the future. That's what winning the next-generation is all about. It'd be an easy financial thing to say 'hey you should do another Halo for Xbox version one, but that doesn't really help us or our customers. We know we can create a much better experience on Xbox 360 for Halo 3. Frankly, I don't think that's what the developers want. Most of our development partners are completely focused on 'how do we redefine what the bar of next-gen gaming is.' They are completely focused on setting the new standard. Doing another version on [Xbox one]? They all believe they'll make more money on Xbox 360.
Is Capcom justified in releasing the game with 21 downloadable items?
all which you can earn IN THE GAME BY PLAYING.. sheesh.. people need to chill and stop trippin'.
capcom has done this with every resi game since 2, with devil may cry 4 and 5.
we should be complaining about the poor Performance
I'll be handing out homework In the form of research on the essence of the boiling frog syndrome because the comments already are afflicted with this.
*Performance comment Is spot on 5+ points.
Accepting that these publishers have these types of mtx In games Is tiring, "well, they've done it with their other IP" so should we accept it? Your acceptance of it happening is ruining gaming, just to make it clear.
But it's okay though, you can earn the stuff ingame. 🙃
Having not actually played the game, but only heard about what microtransactions are on offer, no. Dragon's Dogma 2 has not taken microtransactions too far. I think a game would have to go to extraordinary lengths to qualify for the statement 'taken microtransactions too far.'
I mean, I remember a rant from yonks ago (Dungeon Keeper mobile) which, just from memory, went WAY further than Dragon's Dogma 2, with literal days of waiting to mine a single block, and a huge price mark-up to advance.
So, no, Dragon's Dogma 2 hasn't gone 'too far.'
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Game Rant chats with the creator of No More Heroes about who he would like to see play the role of Travis Touchdown in a live-action adaptation.
Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
It was a good move. The PS2 is outselling the PS3. Not a good thing no matter how you spin it.
I was just saying sothething to this effect in the, Sony sticking to their ten year plan thread.
but most people that owned one have upgraded to the 360 now anyway, microsoft established a fan base with the first console and fully sold it with the second console, that was their plan and it worked! good on them cos coming into the console wars when playstation was a household name made the market pretty hard for them to crack but MS has doen a great job
So whats your point?? How would Msoft know who bought a xbox1 and 360?? This is good news even thought you try to put a bad spin to it Gamr. I really liked what they did and support it. I think what their doing is marvelous . They are starting with the next gen..well I guess you can call it this gen now since all systems are here. They brought out all the stops and now sony is copying them. I know some people will say that sony was going to make streamlined movie and tv show downloads anyway.. but since 360 came first most people see this is copying. The 360 is leading this gen and its doing so at a pretty good pace.
"The PS2 is outselling the PS3. Not a good thing no matter how you spin it."
Sony is making a lot of money off the PS2.
Developers are making a lot of money off the PS2.
Publishers are making a lot of money off the PS2.
The PS2 has been out for 7 years.
That didn't even require spin. A healthy PS2 market is not harmful to the PS3 market, notably because the PS3 is completely backwards compatible with PS2 titles (no risk). The PS2 is also very cheap, so it's not like the price will bog down owners from upgrading to a PS3 when they feel comfortable doing so.
PS2 is helping fund PS3, which is great for everyone. It's the reason publishers and developers love how Sony handles things. Microsoft on the other hand was harshly criticized due to the short life cycle that it enforced. Can you imagine how many great Xbox titles could have been released had Microsoft not chosen to shut down Xbox support in mid-2005? Publishers have been wondering just as much as us.
Can you seriously imagine if Sony had stopped all PS2 support back in mid-2006? Or, if we do a more accurate time-frame comparison, back in mid-2004?