While you cannot buy movies on the 360 you can buy TV shows. Those TV shows can be download any number of times on any number of 360s.
However, to be able to play it you must either:
a) be on the originating console that downloaded the content though you can be any user
OR
b) be on any console but must be logged into Live.
As a note: If you rent a movie and delete it, you can keep downloading it during the rental perio...
@rhood.
Unless this has changed since, Amazon is now included. Basically last year Amazon and Toysrus swapped on NPD.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wi...
Personally I think MS needs to do both.
Having some well established titles is good for the bottom-line and adds some solid game brand recognition, assuming the right company is purchased.
Buying an indy developer with a good record of innovation adds a nice breath of fresh air with less risk to the bottom-line.
@DJ
Mistwalker took money in from MS so it is highly likely MS owns some portion of them ... how much is unclear. So while Mistwalker isn't a first party MS likely carries some influence.
Also, from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
What am I trying to spin? I personally don't care where EA gets its money from. It's good for the entire industry that more money is being spent and it is good for EA if they can see increased sales off the current-gen consoles, particularly the PS3/360, since those are the consoles I'm personally more interested in.
I'm not going to try to debate if I know more or less than other people, I don't know you or cahill, so I'm not going to make an assumption.
But I d...
I'm familiar with what GAAP is ... I deal with it in my business.
Read my last update to the original message. The misleading part is that the PS3 is killing the 360 in sales. It did lead, by GAAP rules, for recognized revenue for the quarter.
But when the customer SPENT the money is very very different. Things will show up in different quarters depending on a variety of circumstances.
To get a more accurate picture you need to either know how Son...
Not necessarily. If the revenues for this quarter are recognizing money consumers spend in previous quarters you need to go back to those previous quarters and compare how MS/Sony are working with EA.
I hope you are not including me in that comment. See my response on the previous page.
To reconcile this fairly so that it is understand when the customer paid you need to understand how MS and Sony pay EA for the microtransactions/Live-PSN game (or how they are able to estimate). When the customer pays and when EA gets the money are two very different things.
MS and Sony, based on what Neo-gaf said, do things differently ... which isnt' a surprise. Every compa...
Hey cahill,
GAAP is for accountants due to rules that mere mortals like us aren't meant to understand (I own a business and I let the accountants deal with this all the time). When you recognize revenue plays a big role in how your quarters look .
If you want to understand what really sold you have to look deeper at the numbers. The Neogaf post makes a ton of sense. When Sony and Microsoft reconcile EA's portion of the revenue makes a big difference. They are lik...
Read this....
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
The 360 leads all platforms, but the PS3 has improved a lot.
Update to cahill: You need to calm a bit down. I'm familiar with the differences (again read my posts below). How MS/Sony report/re-imburse EA plays a HUGE role. If they have different practices, and most companies do, then it will have a big impact...
You want to read this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
360 is leading all platforms still.
MGS4 eventually dropped to 94 on meta-critic.
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
That would put it, according to Metacritic, at the same level as Gears 1 and Halo 3.
At this moment I agree. The article's exercise is largely academic ... though I find it interesting when people bring timeline into consideration (please read all the way through before flaming me out).
It doesn't favour the PS3. We are at the 1 year and 8 month mark (in US/Japan) for the PS3 and the 2 year and 8 month mark for the Xbox 360.
If you extrapolate the numbers, the 360 has 12 games 90 and above, the the PS3 has 5. If it was keeping at the same quality...
It definitely makes sense. When Home was first announced, and even for awhile after, it came off as an advertising platform where gaming was second. I had written within a few days after the initial Home announcement about what I was hoping to see (after the initial annoucement wasn't so hot). This was the article: http://blog.spouting-tech.c...
Sony later admitted the...
The reason I think it is likely is mainly because they can concentrate on virtual goods which cost next to nothing to make.
Benefits:
- gives yet another reason to get back into Home (which earns Sony advertising cash)
- gives a good reason to buy a PS3 version of the game (which entices game developers to concentrate on PS3 games)
- increases loyalty to Sony since you have virtual goods that decrease chance of abandoning/giving up
Logic-sunrise makes NO mention of a proper source for this story. See for yourself:
http://www.logic-sunrise.co...
Use google translate if you cannot read French.
I believe you are referring to the Zune versus iPod Classic. The Zune is definitely more capable.
Compared to the iPhone or iPod Touch, the Zune isn't as capable hardware-wise. Though I am curious how well games will really play when you only have touch screen and accelerometers. I find the touch screen is not entirely accurate and doesn't register touch all the time.
Anyhow, I like that these devices are getting more capabilites and that SDKs are available to t...
Yup, looks like they are finally doing that though. As of mid-June you can purchase the hardware player (and have a marketplace) in Canada.
Software player you can use anywhere, you just dont' get access to the marketplace.
I can't speak for the hardware, since I don't own a Zune, but I do run the latest Zune 2.5 software player and I really like it. It does a good job allowing you to browse through your collection, handles large collections better than iTunes and I like the social aspects. By social aspects, I mean letting you seeing what your friends are playing, trying the music yourself, getting details on the artists, related artists, related bands, etc.
For those with a Live Gamertag, you a...
This report is for the last quarter (Q2) with data for the first 6 months (the first two quarters combined), and comparative data from the previous year.
In the latest 6 month window you see 61% of sales for Europe ... so seeing more money out of Europe isn't entirely surpising given the strength of the Playstation brand in Europe.
Looking at the data, the PS3 has been pretty good for Ubisoft (for 6 months this year and comparative 6 months [same months] last ye...