COD being available at launch of Wii U--with exclusive features no less--sure didn't help that console much. The sales were crap, and totally obliterated by PS3 and 360 versions of Black Ops 2.
I tend to think the power of COD as a system seller is a bit overstated, let alone the power of timed DLC. I think the vast majority of people just buy the latest COD game for whatever console they happen to own.
2/3 sales of COD are on Xbox? Where the hell did you get that number?
Anyway, the sales of COD have historically been within ~2 million of each other. Considering Microsoft pays up the ass to stamp every single COD commercial with their Xbox 360 logo, I'm surprised the difference in sales isn't much more.
Makes you wonder how effective such a marketing tactic--in addition to timed DLC--really is. I have a strong feeling that most people (casual and so...
No wonder they rushed to sign this exclusivity deal with Respawn's new sci-fi FPS. If the rumors are anything to go by, they are way behind on creating content for their new console.
To me, this deal reeks of desperation. Because I highly question the new Respawn game's chances of achieving huge mainstream success (in the vein of COD and Battlefield) because of it being a new/untested IP, being always-on, being online-only with no single-player campaign, and only bein...
Thank god it wasn't Battlefield!
I was worried about this rumored "Microsoft/EA exclusivity agreement" for a long time now--since February. But as long as they don't touch my precious Battlefield on Playstation, I don't really care.
I'm sure Respawn's new game will be decent, but without the support of multiple platforms, I doubt it will achieve anywhere near the mainstream sales success of COD or Battlefield. And let's not f...
I'd rather wait.
Good things are worth waiting for, and I'd rather get my first ever taste of Last of Us in the comfort of my couch, on my plasma, and in glorious 5.1 surround sound--than in a department store.
Good for the UK people, rewarding another crappy game.
Wasn't DmC number one on the UK charts as well? Guess being on top over there doesn't account for much.
Wow, not only a lot of Bioshock defenders in here, but Unreal Engine defenders?
I'm not saying Unreal Engine is a terrible engine. My simple point is simply that Bioshock Infinite is NOT a great representation of the power of the Unreal Engine, because the engine is hugely modified and updated in almost every way possible for this game. Thus, it's not representative of the power and quality of the Unreal Engine. It's more like, "It's representative of the...
I think Last of Us might have something to say about that.
It doesn't speak much for the engine when the best game using it is one where the engine is heavily modified in almost every aspect.
You're right. That was a long rant.
The problems with this game stretch way beyond something as minor as box art (Bioshock Infinite's box art was mildly annoying, but nothing I got my panties in a twist about). Granted, I haven't actually played the game, but none of the gameplay videos I've seen of FUSE (or Overstrike) have been particularly reassuring.
Honestly, this article reads like homework for a Sociology 101 course written by an 18-year old.
Racism is an on-going discussion, not a black-and-white issue. And while Bioshock Infinite may not be completely philosophically spotless & squeaky-clean, few things (nothing?) in contemporary media are--you can take any movie, book, or game and poke holes in it all day for areas of bigotry and hypocrisy. Hell, the creators of Bioshock Infinite likely don't even claim that...
I'm still confused as to why sexual objectification is a bad thing? Women do it to themselves all the time--Penthouse, Maxim, and Playboy models posing as sexual objects for the sole purpose of men to ogle and choke the chicken to. Not to mention porn actresses. Should pornography be banned because it objectifies and sexualizes women???
News flash: Men like boobs. Men like butts. A lot of men make games. A lot of men play games.
Those are the facts laid o...
Are we STILL talking about this?????
Chris Hansen would replace Comstock as the antagonist
Tencent must be swimming in money, because that's a shit-ton of cash by any metric. Can you imagine EA donating $80 million to disaster victims in the US?
Based on previous statements by Mike Cerny and other Sony execs, I could almost guarantee at this point that there will be at least a $399 model of the PS4. Cerny said himself that reaching gamers in the broadest sense was a priority--and to "draw your own conclusions" about price based on that priority. A $399 PS4 would more-or-less fit in-line with such statements.
I rather doubt that either Microsoft or Sony would be targeting a $299 console at launch, just becau...
Every single Playstation console has been sold at a loss, at launch, so I don't see that changing this time around.
I could, however, see the margins being closer than before (unlike the PS3, which saw the console being sold at a massive loss), but that would be more of a statement on the state of the economy as a whole, and also the fact that x86 components would be cheaper to manufacture than more exotic processors.
Thus, selling at a loss, particularly...
I seriously doubt the Xbox 720 will be "cheaper" per se, considering it will pack in Kinect 2.0, which who knows much that component alone will cost to make. That, and the fact that you'll have to pay an additional $60 up-front for just one year of online functionality, and you can see how even if it's "cheaper," it won't be cheaper... if that makes any sense.
Unless there's some kind of subscription model, where the actual console itself w...
The Sega Saturn was and still is a thing of beauty. Ah, the memories.
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