White has consistently outsold Black hasn't it? Wouldn't surprise me if the explanation was simply that the Black version didn't make the top ten. The differences between the two are enough to define them as separate games, not simply different SKUs.
You think there's more difference between Pokemon Black and Pokemon White than there is between the 360 and DS versions of CoD:BlOps?
I know there are different cities and stuff... it's supposedly a much bigger difference than the one between other games in the series.
I also don't play Pokemon, and what I know comes from what little I've talked to my wife about it.
there are 2 cites that are different with each version, one is just cosmetic, and the other is black city and white forest, but it petty meta as in you won't be able to go there without beating the game first.
To be fair though, for a large portion of the pokemon gamers, the metagame is where it is at.
Putting the numbers together, it looks like the Wii's in third place by 10,000 units or so. It's not a distant third, but still, no wonder Nintendo pushed the price drop button.
Anyway, Senators be pissed 'bout the PSN kafizzy, yo.
A group of Democratic senators wants to make it mandatory for companies to report when they have been cyber-attacked.
The five senators sent a letter to the SEC asking the regulatory body to issue new guidelines requiring companies report when they have suffered a major network attack, as well as disclose details on intellectual property or trade secrets that hackers may have stolen.
The senators also want the SEC guidance to specify that corporate-risk disclosure requirements mandate companies disclose if they are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Sony's (NYSE: SNE) Playstation Network was shut down by hacker attacks earlier this month. Hackers also managed to steal millions of users private information, and have kept the network shut down for weeks. One analyst told the WSJ last week that he estimated the April attack will cost Sony about $1.24 billion.
The Senators involved in the letter to the SEC include Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
And loads of random security experts interviewed by PC World say that Sony could have done a LOT more to help prevent the attack. Fairly long article, but worth reading:
Knee-jerk political reaction to a problem they probably don't really understand?
Yeah. That's why we can't have nice things.
It's definitely a knee-jerk reaction, but as knee-jerk reactions go, this one might not be a terrible idea, since forcing companies to disclose details of security breaches to law enforcement could help aid investigations. Of course, this assumes the proposed bill was actually carefully designed to help law enforcement and isn't just a publicity grab by a handful of ignorant senators.
Poor 3DS. Though I'm sure it will find it's way in the world eventually.
As for the Wii surpassing the PS2? No way. Nintendo always seems to drop their previous console when a new one comes out. Even the SNES was instantly replaced by the N64.
The 3DS needs a standout, must-have title. People were shoveling $250 into the fireplace for the Wii because Wii Sports was so amazing; the DS languished until Nintendogs and Brain Age gave the system an identity beyond "use the second screen for a map!" I like the 3DS as a piece of gaming tech a lot, but the biggest hit right now is a year-old port, albeit a very excellently ported port. And I don't think a pair of N64 ports is going to change the mainstream's mind about it, either.
I'm curious as hell to see how Super Mario and Mario Kart fare; they're both juggernaut franchises, but they need to leverage the 3D, gyros, and all the other things that define the system to the point where they help the 3DS stand out beyond a prettier, more expensive DS in order to push sales more. I agree with the people that think Nintendo's iterations with the DSi and DSi XL have sort of baited the public to think the 3DS is just another minor upgrade; I hope they do a lot at E3 to convince people otherwise.
Poor 3DS. Though I'm sure it will find it's way in the world eventually.
As for the Wii surpassing the PS2? No way. Nintendo always seems to drop their previous console when a new one comes out. Even the SNES was instantly replaced by the N64.
The 3DS needs a standout, must-have title. People were shoveling $250 into the fireplace for the Wii because Wii Sports was so amazing; the DS languished until Nintendogs and Brain Age gave the system an identity beyond "use the second screen for a map!" I like the 3DS as a piece of gaming tech a lot, but the biggest hit right now is a year-old port, albeit a very excellently ported port. And I don't think a pair of N64 ports is going to change the mainstream's mind about it, either.
I'm curious as hell to see how Super Mario and Mario Kart fare; they're both juggernaut franchises, but they need to leverage the 3D, gyros, and all the other things that define the system to the point where they help the 3DS stand out beyond a prettier, more expensive DS in order to push sales more. I agree with the people that think Nintendo's iterations with the DSi and DSi XL have sort of baited the public to think the 3DS is just another minor upgrade; I hope they do a lot at E3 to convince people otherwise.
It's easier said than done. I don't think anybody would have been able to predict the rise of GTA3, Brain Training and Wii Sports. Part of 3DS under-performance seems to be that Iwata thought that the AR games built into 3DS would be the new Wii Sports.
I wonder about Mario though. New Super Mario was successful because it was something that us older gamers really wanted for years and years. I'm not so certain that another round of 2D Mario games will be able to reproduce the success of the DS/Wii titles.
Poor 3DS. Though I'm sure it will find it's way in the world eventually.
As for the Wii surpassing the PS2? No way. Nintendo always seems to drop their previous console when a new one comes out. Even the SNES was instantly replaced by the N64.
The 3DS needs a standout, must-have title. People were shoveling $250 into the fireplace for the Wii because Wii Sports was so amazing; the DS languished until Nintendogs and Brain Age gave the system an identity beyond "use the second screen for a map!" I like the 3DS as a piece of gaming tech a lot, but the biggest hit right now is a year-old port, albeit a very excellently ported port. And I don't think a pair of N64 ports is going to change the mainstream's mind about it, either.
I'm curious as hell to see how Super Mario and Mario Kart fare; they're both juggernaut franchises, but they need to leverage the 3D, gyros, and all the other things that define the system to the point where they help the 3DS stand out beyond a prettier, more expensive DS in order to push sales more. I agree with the people that think Nintendo's iterations with the DSi and DSi XL have sort of baited the public to think the 3DS is just another minor upgrade; I hope they do a lot at E3 to convince people otherwise.
It's easier said than done. I don't think anybody would have been able to predict the rise of GTA3, Brain Training and Wii Sports. Part of 3DS under-performance seems to be that Iwata thought that the AR games built into 3DS would be the new Wii Sports.
I wonder about Mario though. New Super Mario was successful because it was something that us older gamers really wanted for years and years. I'm not so certain that another round of 2D Mario games will be able to reproduce the success of the DS/Wii titles.
For me, the big difference between Wii Sports and the 3DS AR games is that when I first saw Wii Sports I thought "That's dumb" but when I played it I knew it would be huge. My reaction to the AR games was totally opposite; I thought it was super cool until I actually tried it. A few people I know had that "WHOA!" reaction to seeing it demoed, but it's actually really clunky and a pain to play. Wii Sports felt right.
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Games that require you to move the system around, on a system in which you must be looking at the screen from a specific angle to get the benefit of the 3D effect, seems really self defeating to me.
You watch videos of people playing these AR games, and they're moving it around as though everything above their waist is seized with rigor mortis in order to retain the 3D effect. And, from using it myself very briefly, when you do move your head wrong and the 3D effect is broken, it is pretty jarring because not only does the 3D effect vanish but the picture becomes very fuzzy as well.
Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues.
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager 'at a major UK retailer' told Edge.
“However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
Belgian indie retailer Gameswap added: "People are bringing in PS3s together with all their games and they don’t want money, they want an Xbox 360. In every case it is because of Black Ops and or Modern Warfare 2.
“We’re just ten days into the month and already we have an increase of 200 per cent in PS3s coming into the store compared to all of March. Normally we sell them really fast, but not this time. We’ve only sold 30 to 40 per cent of our inventory right now.”
Another is said to have experienced a "massive increase" in such trade ins, adding that most of these customers had exchanged for Microsoft's machine. There are also claims that an increasing number of pre-orders for upcoming titles have been switched from PS3 to Xbox 360.
It's very easy to maintain the 3D effect when your moving. Least for me it is, perhaps the 3DS was just built for me since I've found the sweet spot to be very generous.
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Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues.
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager 'at a major UK retailer' told Edge.
“However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
Belgian indie retailer Gameswap added: "People are bringing in PS3s together with all their games and they don’t want money, they want an Xbox 360. In every case it is because of Black Ops and or Modern Warfare 2.
“We’re just ten days into the month and already we have an increase of 200 per cent in PS3s coming into the store compared to all of March. Normally we sell them really fast, but not this time. We’ve only sold 30 to 40 per cent of our inventory right now.”
Another is said to have experienced a "massive increase" in such trade ins, adding that most of these customers had exchanged for Microsoft's machine. There are also claims that an increasing number of pre-orders for upcoming titles have been switched from PS3 to Xbox 360.
Well... ouch that's gonna really hurt Sony.
So... we can count PS4 getting an early launch 1 year after Cafe then? Or is Sony gonna try to win them back some how (which I can't see happening anytime soon).
When people are supposedly trading in their PS3s, clearly the writing is on the wall. Time for Sony to fold and concede this generation to Microsoft and Nintendo. That's the only logical thing to do, right?
Wait, call me crazy, maybe they should give the old girl another shot.
They'll release it a year after Nintendo does and state they'd been planning on it all along. Their press conference about it will call the PS4 the third plinth in their electronic entertainment scheme.
Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues.
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager 'at a major UK retailer' told Edge.
“However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
Belgian indie retailer Gameswap added: "People are bringing in PS3s together with all their games and they don’t want money, they want an Xbox 360. In every case it is because of Black Ops and or Modern Warfare 2.
“We’re just ten days into the month and already we have an increase of 200 per cent in PS3s coming into the store compared to all of March. Normally we sell them really fast, but not this time. We’ve only sold 30 to 40 per cent of our inventory right now.”
Another is said to have experienced a "massive increase" in such trade ins, adding that most of these customers had exchanged for Microsoft's machine. There are also claims that an increasing number of pre-orders for upcoming titles have been switched from PS3 to Xbox 360.
If this is more widespread than this article leads on.........just........I don't know, but I find something disturbingly sickening in this.
I have this vague image in my head of an editorial cartoon of what would look like a drug deal, but is actually some Microsoft pusher offering pure uncut "internet" and telling everyone "You can shoot up all you want here!", but he wants to be paid in PS3 systems instead of money.
Or maybe I should be saying it's an Activision pusher who is offering an a different brand of "internet". :?
Either way, that still seems awfully drastic of these people to trade in everything they have of one system just to have virtually the same thing (but less, because that's how trade-ins work), simply because they can't wait it out by doing something else.
If it's really so difficult to resist the urge to hold something plastic and pretend you're in a shootout, can't they all just......
For several hours early Thursday morning, the Deus Ex Web site, user forum, and Eidos.com were unreachable. For a brief period late Wednesday evening, the sites displayed a defacement banner that read “Owned by Chippy1337″ (click screen shot at right for a larger version), along with several names and hacker handles of those supposedly responsible for the break-in.
KrebsOnSecurity.com obtained an archived copy of the attackers’ online chatter as they were covering their tracks from compromising the sites. A hacker using the alias “ev0″ discusses having defaced the sites and downloading some 9,000 resumes from Eidos. ev0 and other hackers discuss leaking “src,” which may refer to source code for Deus Ex or other Eidos games. In a separate conversation, the hackers also say they have stolen information on at least 80,000 Deus Ex users and that they plan to release the data on file-sharing networks.
Neither Eidos nor its parent company Square Enix Co. could be immediately reached for comment. (This may not be the first time Eidos was breached: In a story I wrote earlier this year, I detailed how hackers on an underground criminal forum claimed to be selling access to Eidos’ customer database).
White has consistently outsold Black hasn't it? Wouldn't surprise me if the explanation was simply that the Black version didn't make the top ten. The differences between the two are enough to define them as separate games, not simply different SKUs.
You think there's more difference between Pokemon Black and Pokemon White than there is between the 360 and DS versions of CoD:BlOps?
Probably not. But there is an important reason for the distinction for Pokemon games because they require connectivity with the other version to access a lot of content. For example, I bought the Black version specifically because most of my friends bought the White version. Apply this to the wider market in ever increasing social circles and you can see that the sales of the two versions do matter. Matter a lot? Perhaps not. But I'm glad for the separation.
The Earth would be cast into a nuclear winter. The ashes of ten million souls entering sunlight for the first time in six years would scorch our skies, sending us tumbling down the road to a quiet, pitiful demise in the dark.
Far, far too big to go down. It's completely decentralized. Not only does every region have its own authentication server, the game is divided into a thousand realms each with separate hardware. And backups. There was a PCGamer article a couple of years back about this specific issue, of some widespread cascade failure and the Blizzard guys were all 'not gonna happen bro'.
Getting back on track, our favorite analyst actually believes the Wii, despite all his griping, will outsell the PS2:
Pachter: I think Nintendo's hardware guidance says it all: the price cut is intended to keep sales from decelerating, not to trigger acceleration. Nintendo shipped 15 million Wiis in its fiscal year ended March 31, and guided to shipping 13 million this fiscal year, and it clearly knew two weeks ago (when it reported) that it was cutting the price. They appear content to sell 13 million Wiis, which is a phenomenal number, and cut price to ensure that will happen. I think they would like to keep sales above 10 million for several years, so expect further price cuts if it looks like sales will dip at some point in the future.
It's possible that the Wii will be the best selling console of all time, but it would take another 60 million, so the Wii has to keep selling after the Wii 2/HD/Stream/Café/Plus launches. Nintendo might keep it alive for several years, and if they do, it will probably eclipse the PS2.
He also says other stuff. Apparently he has a monthly column at Industrygamers. Huh.
Can't see it happening. At this point in the PS2's life it was still going strong, consistently outselling the 360 its first year and it still had a ton of third party support. The Wii though, seems to be on a downward spiral. Game releases have already pretty much dried up, with only a handful of Nintendo games left, and Wii sales have slowed significantly. While the price drop should help, I don't think there's any chance it'll give the Wii enough momentum to almost double its current install base.
The DS on the other hand should pass the PS2 at some point.
The Earth would be cast into a nuclear winter. The ashes of ten million souls entering sunlight for the first time in six years would scorch our skies, sending us tumbling down the road to a quiet, pitiful demise in the dark.
At the very least, the collective mass of all those players leaving their computers would likely cause a gravitational shift large enough to affect the rotation of the planet. Maybe throw our orbit of the sun out a bit.
Far, far too big to go down. It's completely decentralized. Not only does every region have its own authentication server, the game is divided into a thousand realms each with separate hardware. And backups. There was a PCGamer article a couple of years back about this specific issue, of some widespread cascade failure and the Blizzard guys were all 'not gonna happen bro'.
I know. I just think it would be a really interesting thing to witness. Although I suppose WoW doesn't suffer from the same reliance on a big piece of expensive re-sellable hardware as PlayStation. Those people trading in their PS3's for 360's so that they can play MW2 might never buy another PS3. But people 'quit' WoW all the time. In terms of social effects, though, I'm sure it would be fascinating.
Far, far too big to go down. It's completely decentralized. Not only does every region have its own authentication server, the game is divided into a thousand realms each with separate hardware. And backups. There was a PCGamer article a couple of years back about this specific issue, of some widespread cascade failure and the Blizzard guys were all 'not gonna happen bro'.
So Microsoft went on a tangent about Kinect games:
If you were anything like us, several days of non-stop Dance Central-ing was the extent of your Kinect love affair. Now, six months into the relationship, things have gotten a bit ... cold. While Microsoft's motion-sensing doodad launched with an impressive 17 games in its November 2010 lineup, things have been quiet on the Kinect front since then. But Microsoft says it's getting ready to ramp up on Kinect games.
"And in anticipation of another record year in 2011," a press release trumpeting the console maker's strong NPD showings said, "Microsoft announced the size of the Kinect games portfolio will triple by the end of the year." Wikipedia lists 26 current Kinect releases with 26 more in development. A tripling would indicate there are 26 additional games not yet known.
"We've seen some of the media start to ask the question, 'When are we going to see more Kinect games coming?'," Microsoft product manager David Dennis told Joystiq this evening. "As we sat there and looked at it we realized we've got a lot of games coming and we're going to show a lot of them at E3."
But Kinect games won't be the only things Microsoft shares at E3. When asked if the relatively anemic first-party "core" lineup from Microsoft Game Studios this year – especially relative to the aggressive rollout of Kinect games – represented a deprioritization of that audience late in the Xbox 360's lifecycle, Dennis insisted that wasn't the case. "We know that the core what took Xbox and made it the home for core games, whether they're first-party games or third-party games. We would certainly never leave that audience behind," Dennis said. "So for us and for Phil [Spencer] and the folks over at MGS, it's not about depriorizing one or the other. It's about how we go big on any and all: Go big on Kinect games; go big on core games."
When asked if there would be additional core game announcements beyond Gears 3, Forza 4, Codename: Kingdoms, and the totally-a-secret Halo: Combat Evolved remake, Dennis said, "We certainly expect to have a big E3 and we're saving a lot of our cards until then." We know a good percentage of that deck includes Kinect games; we'll have to wait until Microsoft's E3 press conference to find out how deep its core plans go.
Is it just me, or has Microsoft been going on and on about awesome Kinect core games since the beginning? And we still haven't gotten many announced.
That second bolded bit has to be a typo, but if I could find a halfway decent Youtube link I'd totally post something involving The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.
Far, far too big to go down. It's completely decentralized. Not only does every region have its own authentication server, the game is divided into a thousand realms each with separate hardware. And backups. There was a PCGamer article a couple of years back about this specific issue, of some widespread cascade failure and the Blizzard guys were all 'not gonna happen bro'.
So basically the opposite of Sony.
Pretty much. The flaw with PSN seems to be how centralized it was. Which is why they are literally moving hardware to a better facility, presumably one which allows for reserve servers and independent, quarantined databases. Their problem was that they had a whole bunch of deadbolts, but only one door.
On this morning's fiscal year 2011 earnings call, French publisher Ubisoft announced that it would delay upcoming Tom Clancy shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier until its fiscal fourth quarter for 2012. This pushes the military shooter outside of the 2011 holiday and into the first three months of 2012. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that the delay came as a result of a crowded holiday release schedule, including the expected release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Ubisoft's own Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and rumors of a Halo remake.
Ubisoft also informed investors that it had canceled a number of projects in reaction to "major changes in the industry," and Guillemot described Ubisoft's strategy of broadening its release of casual oriented titles like its popular Just Dance franchise to Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's Move platforms.
Guillemot also alluded to several new online initiatives for Ubisoft properties. The CEO specifically mentioned a free-to-play online title rooted in its Imagine property, as well as "an ambitious project on PC" based on one its core gamer oriented series. The publisher is set to release the game adaptation for the movie Tin-Tin, Rayman, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and a new Raving Rabbids title this holiday.
Do the Tom Clancy Had Nothing To Do With These Games Other Than Cashing A Giant Check games still sell all that well? It's probably smart they're staying far, far away from Battleduty.
I wonder if this down time worse for SOE than for the PS3 (it's a given that the PSP Go is the most fucked). Normally MMOs try to keep you playing regularly so you stay addicted. And if MMO players try a new game they might not come back to Everquest II at all.
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To be fair though, for a large portion of the pokemon gamers, the metagame is where it is at.
Anyway, Senators be pissed 'bout the PSN kafizzy, yo.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/legal/11/05/1080139/playstation-network-crash-prompts-possible-rules-changes#ixzz1MCF7kS1e
And loads of random security experts interviewed by PC World say that Sony could have done a LOT more to help prevent the attack. Fairly long article, but worth reading:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/227770/experts_on_psn_hack_sony_could_have_done_more.html
Yeah. That's why we can't have nice things.
The 3DS needs a standout, must-have title. People were shoveling $250 into the fireplace for the Wii because Wii Sports was so amazing; the DS languished until Nintendogs and Brain Age gave the system an identity beyond "use the second screen for a map!" I like the 3DS as a piece of gaming tech a lot, but the biggest hit right now is a year-old port, albeit a very excellently ported port. And I don't think a pair of N64 ports is going to change the mainstream's mind about it, either.
I'm curious as hell to see how Super Mario and Mario Kart fare; they're both juggernaut franchises, but they need to leverage the 3D, gyros, and all the other things that define the system to the point where they help the 3DS stand out beyond a prettier, more expensive DS in order to push sales more. I agree with the people that think Nintendo's iterations with the DSi and DSi XL have sort of baited the public to think the 3DS is just another minor upgrade; I hope they do a lot at E3 to convince people otherwise.
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It's easier said than done. I don't think anybody would have been able to predict the rise of GTA3, Brain Training and Wii Sports. Part of 3DS under-performance seems to be that Iwata thought that the AR games built into 3DS would be the new Wii Sports.
I wonder about Mario though. New Super Mario was successful because it was something that us older gamers really wanted for years and years. I'm not so certain that another round of 2D Mario games will be able to reproduce the success of the DS/Wii titles.
For me, the big difference between Wii Sports and the 3DS AR games is that when I first saw Wii Sports I thought "That's dumb" but when I played it I knew it would be huge. My reaction to the AR games was totally opposite; I thought it was super cool until I actually tried it. A few people I know had that "WHOA!" reaction to seeing it demoed, but it's actually really clunky and a pain to play. Wii Sports felt right.
You watch videos of people playing these AR games, and they're moving it around as though everything above their waist is seized with rigor mortis in order to retain the 3D effect. And, from using it myself very briefly, when you do move your head wrong and the 3D effect is broken, it is pretty jarring because not only does the 3D effect vanish but the picture becomes very fuzzy as well.
Well... ouch that's gonna really hurt Sony.
So... we can count PS4 getting an early launch 1 year after Cafe then? Or is Sony gonna try to win them back some how (which I can't see happening anytime soon).
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I assume there would be riots if something similar ever happened to WoW.
If this is more widespread than this article leads on.........just........I don't know, but I find something disturbingly sickening in this.
I have this vague image in my head of an editorial cartoon of what would look like a drug deal, but is actually some Microsoft pusher offering pure uncut "internet" and telling everyone "You can shoot up all you want here!", but he wants to be paid in PS3 systems instead of money.
Or maybe I should be saying it's an Activision pusher who is offering an a different brand of "internet". :?
Either way, that still seems awfully drastic of these people to trade in everything they have of one system just to have virtually the same thing (but less, because that's how trade-ins work), simply because they can't wait it out by doing something else.
...........improvise?
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Probably not. But there is an important reason for the distinction for Pokemon games because they require connectivity with the other version to access a lot of content. For example, I bought the Black version specifically because most of my friends bought the White version. Apply this to the wider market in ever increasing social circles and you can see that the sales of the two versions do matter. Matter a lot? Perhaps not. But I'm glad for the separation.
(Now I want to see such an ARG)
If WoW went down for 3+ weeks I would probably...
finish up a huge chunk of my backlog
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Can't see it happening. At this point in the PS2's life it was still going strong, consistently outselling the 360 its first year and it still had a ton of third party support. The Wii though, seems to be on a downward spiral. Game releases have already pretty much dried up, with only a handful of Nintendo games left, and Wii sales have slowed significantly. While the price drop should help, I don't think there's any chance it'll give the Wii enough momentum to almost double its current install base.
The DS on the other hand should pass the PS2 at some point.
Its teh huge.
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At the very least, the collective mass of all those players leaving their computers would likely cause a gravitational shift large enough to affect the rotation of the planet. Maybe throw our orbit of the sun out a bit.
I know. I just think it would be a really interesting thing to witness. Although I suppose WoW doesn't suffer from the same reliance on a big piece of expensive re-sellable hardware as PlayStation. Those people trading in their PS3's for 360's so that they can play MW2 might never buy another PS3. But people 'quit' WoW all the time. In terms of social effects, though, I'm sure it would be fascinating.
So basically the opposite of Sony.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/12/microsoft-kinect-games-portfolio-will-triple-by-the-end-of-the/
Is it just me, or has Microsoft been going on and on about awesome Kinect core games since the beginning? And we still haven't gotten many announced.
That second bolded bit has to be a typo, but if I could find a halfway decent Youtube link I'd totally post something involving The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.
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Pretty much. The flaw with PSN seems to be how centralized it was. Which is why they are literally moving hardware to a better facility, presumably one which allows for reserve servers and independent, quarantined databases. Their problem was that they had a whole bunch of deadbolts, but only one door.
I had this as my computer's shutdown sound for damn near a decade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1uc7ohS7cU
At any rate, was this posted?
http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1167847p1.html
Do the Tom Clancy Had Nothing To Do With These Games Other Than Cashing A Giant Check games still sell all that well? It's probably smart they're staying far, far away from Battleduty.
And did we hear what titles got canceled?
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