Microsoft bigwigs Shane Kim (the games guy), Todd Holmdahl (the product guy) and Richard Teversham (the marketing guy) take time out with Kikizo to talk in-depth about Xbox 360 strategy and plans for the future.
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There's been a lot of great video game trailers over the years, but here's Chit Hot's picks for the seven best produced so far.
I never even knew this existed, I love him, he was fantastic
Just a shame that he passed away, I always wanted to see if they did one more Bottom live when they were older to send the characters off if he was still alive. I'd have loved to go and see it.
Some of my favs
1. Dead Island https://www.youtube.com/wat...
2. BF3 'My Life' https://www.youtube.com/wat...
3. ME3 https://www.youtube.com/wat...
4. Witcher 3 https://www.youtube.com/wat...
5. Witcher 2 https://www.youtube.com/wat...
6. WOTLK https://www.youtube.com/wat...
7. Hitman https://www.youtube.com/wat...
@LordoftheCritics that's my kind of list! I'd only add Halo Wars 2 and For Honor.
Versus Xiii original trailer, I was literally a kid back then. Shame it was quite disappointing on release
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Revelation had some great cinematic trailers, the latter using Woodkids Iron. Even Assassin Creed Unity had a trailer when they used another Woodkid song which was decent.
Tomb Raider Underworld had a really good reveal trailer showing Croft Manor in ruins but showed it in reverse.
The Last of Us Part II reveal with Ellie singing Through the Valley and also the TV Sport where she sang a cover of True Faith.
The Witcher 3s A Night to Remember trailer which they basically turned into the games Epilogue set after the Blood and Wine expansion. He told Orianna he'd come back for her and he did.
Halo 3 Starry Night. Short but effective.
The Callisto Protocol launch trailer. The game might not be amazing but the launch trailer was well done and the theme song to the game "Lost Again" by Kings Elliot was beautiful
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, great trailer and really gave off that mystery, conspiracy vibe
Uncharted 4 Man Behind the Treasure
Deathloop Launch trailer with Pitch Black and the official gameplay trailer with Déjà Vu, two great songs made for the game.
Never even played the game but AC Revelations CGI trailer I saved in my PS3 and would rewatch on a regular basis, and used it as a reference for calibrating TVs when I bought them
Grand Theft Auto Vice City back in the day, The Uncharted series trailers have been awesome (always get me hyped), Grand Theft Auto 5, Breath Of The Wild reveal trailer, Team ICO trailers have heart and Ghost Of Tsushima reveal made my jaw drop....to name only a small few.
Gears 1 and gears 3 are the top for me. I would throw dante's inferno in there for the song
Mass Effect 3 trailer featuring the battle. Enough said. That and Assassins Creed 3 cinematic trailer was great too.
"I don't think us NOT having a tilt is going to in any way affect us. You have to look at what Sony gave up to do this. They gave up rumble. If you go ask people what they'd rather have, rumble or tilt, they'll say rumble. There are a lot of unexplained things with that controller, in my mind."
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"Whenever that title comes, I'm very confident that it's going to be the right time for us versus the competition."
(like I said Halo 3 will come out early to mid 2007)
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"I'm very confident that we can win this generation. That is our goal, that is our aspiration. We're going to have ten million units in the hands of customers before the competition even ships one into the channel. I'm very confident we can compete and keep moving forward. We think we can be the market leader, worldwide - even if we don't win in Japan."
(Wii isn't competition) "They don't have the same kind of online vision that we do, with Live Anywhere, and they're not a HD gaming console either. So I don't think it would be fair to them, to say that they're head-to-head competitors with us."
On Thursday, the latest Xbox 360 shipment worldwide figures are being released directly by Microsoft. So we shall all see whether they reach their 5 to 5.5 million units target . And by the way, to whatever loser who is using my name to promote their computer programming
knowledge, ( making me look like a complete geek), i have already made modifications to my account.
I really do think that by having X360 in the market, we've changed the dynamic, that... if we hadn't been here, you know, would PS3 be launching this year? Dunno. Would they have 2 SKUs? Would they have a hard drive, would they have a network? Whatever happens, we have shown innovation and leadership. And, you know... I'm not going to say it's complementary for them to copy us, because it's irrelevant. But, I think that, you know, we are showing the way in many places. We've only been on the market, from day one for maybe four, four-and-a-half years now, and already there's 24M Xboxes worldwide. It's not bad for a new startup.
Kikizo: How useful is XNA in crossover development between the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista?
Holmdahl: XNA is going to be product that allows us to help game developers develop games effectively and efficiently. It'll not only help developers move games from Windows platforms - from the Vista platform - to Xbox 360, it'll also allow them to move within the mobile space too. Certainly, it's a lot more than middleware. It's a framework that does a couple things for you. It's a framework that allows you to efficiently manage your assets, and be able to see where all the dependencies of your assets are, a framework that allows you to build product easily and not spend as much time on the build side of things. And then what it does, it allows you to take the code that you've written and essentially, with very very few modifications, be able to move that code from one platform to another.
I believe, what we're going to do is help make it so the game developer can spend more time on creating content rather than doing all the plumbing. And by doing that, whether it be mobile, PC or Xbox, it's a good thing. That's going to allow them to develop with less money, it'll allow them to develop higher-quality games, it'll allow the games to get out on the marketplace quicker.