Socom was my first venture into online gaming. I remember reading about it in Game Informer months before it came out and thought "I gotta get that game". Socom was the reason I got broadband in the first place (though i can't imagine living without it now) I had many, many all nighters playing Socom1&2. I spent countless hours playing Frostfire as terrorists (my favorite map/side combo) I beta tested Socom 2 & 3. The Socom disk never left my PS2.
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I agree with you that the Wii is doing very well. But I don't nessessarily agree that it's kicking the 360's butt.
It is out performing sales in the first quarter, but since the 360 had the head start out of the gate I feel like there's a high percentage of early 360 adopters who also picked up a Wii..a number i don't feel is as high with the PS3 due to their price point. In fact, as many people as i know with PS3; i know just as many with 360&Wii.
PS3 hasn't even broken the 2 million mark yet, so i don't know where you're getting your numbers. It is an absolute failure. And don't get me wrong, i'm a HUGE Playstation fan. I really want a PS3...eventually. Right now i can't see spending that money for a system without any games that I want to play.
They have NO clue what they're doing over there. They NEED to set up an real online service like Live. Online gaming is the future of gaming. Like it or not, it is. Af...
I agree. If it's done in a tasteful way it can actually add to game immersion and create more realistic enviornments (ie. NHL games).
Look at the amount of money corporations spend on advertising. For some companies a large portion of that money is wasted in not hitting their core demographic. If they funneled that towards game development and were able to offer the games as FREE downloadable content saving themselves the distribution costs (still a while off for full game...