SPOnG spoke with a Microsoft PR rep in the UK earlier today, who cheekily informed us that it, unlike Sony, is 'all about the games'.
Commenting on the massive Bravia TV giveaway stunt at the UK's official PS3 launch last night, our Microsoft man told SPOnG:
"It's interesting that Sony has to give away TVs to shift their console. Our strategy is different and we've become the next-gen leaders by using great gaming and entertainment experiences to attract people to the growing Xbox 360 community, as well as more than 6 million people on Xbox Live – but hey, to each his own."
Touche!
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BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.
Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."
Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.
Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.
I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.
It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.
Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.
I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!
SOny were actually a bit stupid by not telling people that they would give free tv's...if they did loads of people would be there. Instead they gave them to people who were already buying the ps3...so really its setting up loyalists for the next Sony launch - for the ps4. lol they think way too far ahead.
Its was not suppost to get people out to buy or try and get a free t.v. but to simply thank those loyal supporters who came out for the launch and nothing more? That by no means means it will happen next launch either. And then MS tries to spin it as we don't have to resort to giving away free t.v.s to move our system. That argument might have held water if Sony had actually advertised but they did not so its not valid.
If anyone is guilty of using stunts its MS with the beer offering to CVG and the boat going by the offical Sony launch store in Paris covered with Xbox 360 banners. If MS Xbox 360 is so great and is doing so well in Europe then do they really need to pull these kind of stunts?
Strategy leaders when there just full of themselves there XBox 360
has nothing new to offer while the PS3 has way more to offer than the XBox 360. oh please HokieFan what a full load of lie's XBox Live is just as boring as ever and you call that it has plenty to offer I dont think so alot of those features like buying gamer points to watch a tv show is ridiculos and same thing with movies you have to give gamer points and even with games how ridiculous is that Microsoft is just one big giant rip off company that is tricking you guys that you have it good when considering buying a paper that has gamer points to just watch tv shows and movies and feature packs for games is a rip off.
Way more to offer then the 360 says you...??? Thats why everything your getting on your ps network we already have on live??? Ya I guess it really isnt new when weve had it since last year huh... Guess it is cool to be getting these type of things now instead of already having it on the console in the first place.DB you says giving tv's for the new ps4 or whatever their going to call it... Hey sounds good but if Sony is going to keep their 10 year life cycle .. Then saying their giving the tv's for the new gen consoles.. Is asinine In 10 years time their will be better tv's then the ones currently out .. Ill be getting the backlit LCd's .. Creamy visuals waiting to be watched... Hey Sony has to find something to push the ps3's if its by giving away tv's then whatever... It's not the first time something was given away when something was doing under par.
Lots of angry people. Angry angry people.
And grifter024, i wonder if you read the above comments - the didn't advertise the dtv giveaway, they only gave them to people who were already there buying a ps3...so it does not in anyway impact on sales.