iceberg187
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soundwave05 said:
Do you know the new CEO of sony or something. I can't recall you commenting on a game. All I see is Sony = Domination, Xbox 360 is Dreamcast 2 and other variations of those phrases. Play games, not consoles.
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Do you know the new CEO of sony or something. I can't recall you commenting on a game. All I see is Sony = Domination, Xbox 360 is Dreamcast 2 and other variations of those phrases. Play games, not consoles.
MightyHedgehog
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Getting? They're already a week old in the dumpster outside of the bakery thrift store.
shpankey said:
Konami hasn't been too fond of the XBox. My money is some huge deal with a company that had some XBox success, like Ubi (though what would count as megaton from them I don't know), or has not touched it at all, like Square. Heck, maybe it's not even a game, but the price or something.
Man, I suck as speculating.
Chittagong
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Recent evidence suggest that having Konami, Tecmo or Capcom won't make a big difference. Metal Gear Solid woudn't be a megaton level event, in my opinion - Metal Geal Solid 3 release was surprisingly mute. Same goes for Resident Evil 4.
I'm not sure about the impact of SquareEnix - it could be gigantic in Japan and result indirectly in better support, but in the West and outside the group of hardcore gamers, it doesn't matter so much.
Namco would be quite big - having three extremely strong franchises - Ridge Racer, Tekken and Soul Calibur.
The biggest spectacles receently have been Halo 2, Half-Life 2, GTA San Andreas, Need for Speed Underground 2 and Burnout 3. Out of those franchises, Microsoft has Halo exclusive and shouldn't have trouble getting Valve games. EA games won't be exclusive any way, which leaves us with GTA San Andreas.
Getting next-gen GTA exclusive, in my opinion, would allow Microsoft truly dominate in the West, both Europe and America. It would then have all of the top-selling franchises, many of them exclusive.
This, in turn, would force the Japanese publishers and developers take Xbox 360 seriously, as the struggling Japan market won't support them. A Japanese producer friend of mine said "Japan - it is very bad market situation, very depressed. Very bad."
I'm sticking with my 2004 prediction that Microsoft will rock this generation - I'd would go as far as predicting a 35-40% marketshare.
I'm not sure about the impact of SquareEnix - it could be gigantic in Japan and result indirectly in better support, but in the West and outside the group of hardcore gamers, it doesn't matter so much.
Namco would be quite big - having three extremely strong franchises - Ridge Racer, Tekken and Soul Calibur.
The biggest spectacles receently have been Halo 2, Half-Life 2, GTA San Andreas, Need for Speed Underground 2 and Burnout 3. Out of those franchises, Microsoft has Halo exclusive and shouldn't have trouble getting Valve games. EA games won't be exclusive any way, which leaves us with GTA San Andreas.
Getting next-gen GTA exclusive, in my opinion, would allow Microsoft truly dominate in the West, both Europe and America. It would then have all of the top-selling franchises, many of them exclusive.
This, in turn, would force the Japanese publishers and developers take Xbox 360 seriously, as the struggling Japan market won't support them. A Japanese producer friend of mine said "Japan - it is very bad market situation, very depressed. Very bad."
I'm sticking with my 2004 prediction that Microsoft will rock this generation - I'd would go as far as predicting a 35-40% marketshare.
Wax Free Vanilla
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Izzy said:
That would be Megaton worthy.
It may even force me to break my "Playstation 3 will be my first next gen console" stance.
Chittagong
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Izzy said:
Yep, that's a shorter way to put it
Wax Free Vanilla
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Izzy said:That's nice to hear.
Aren't you a Playstation fan Izzy? PS3 exclusive am GTA4?
JackFrost2012
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DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
If GTA is a next gen winner, can we say Halo 3 is too given it's relative success?
I don't think there is a "magic bullet" killer game to be quite honest anymore , although getting certain games (GTA definitely being one of them) will definitely help.
Also - developer folks, what are the odds of having a PS3 designs shown or PS3 cell hardware at E3 (i guess games running of Cell workstations would do ... as long as it's not involving any cubes
)?
I don't think there is a "magic bullet" killer game to be quite honest anymore , although getting certain games (GTA definitely being one of them) will definitely help.
Also - developer folks, what are the odds of having a PS3 designs shown or PS3 cell hardware at E3 (i guess games running of Cell workstations would do ... as long as it's not involving any cubes
)?DCharlie said:
Not sure. I'm not sure if it's quite as mainstream and "casual" as GTA is (sales aside). They appeal to different audiences I think. Of course, from a credibility point of view it's still very valuable.
DCharlie said:Also - developer folks, what are the odds of having a PS3 designs shown or PS3 cell hardware at E3 (i guess games running of Cell workstations would do ... as long as it's not involving any cubes
I ain't a developer, but I imagine if do indeed show stuff running of hardware (and not just videos), they'd use the latest dev kits or more advanced prototype hardware if they have it.
Chittagong
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If this is representative of the next gen kickoff, I'm either disappointed or blind - I'm not seeing:
4xFSAA
Depth of field
Selfshadowing
HDR
Normal mapping
Dunno if all of those were supposed to be standard in next-gen, but something I was hoping for anyway. Judging that pic only, one would think that HD Era is only about higher res textures and a moderately higher polygon count.
Gaia Theory
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Kameo looked better on Gamecube. So perhaps as Kameo moves from one console to a more powerful one and so on, it gets uglier.Ghost said:
Chittagong said:
If this is representative of the next gen kickoff, I'm either disappointed or blind - I'm not seeing:
4xFSAA
Depth of field
Selfshadowing
HDR
Normal mapping
Dunno if all of those were supposed to be standard in next-gen, but something I was hoping for anyway. Judging that pic only, one would think that HD Era is only about higher res textures and a moderately higher polygon count.
Those will likely be standard (not required by MS of course, but standard). If they're not enabled yet, it's probably because they're still using Alpha hardware.
Or becuase the porting didn't leave time for making everything bumpmapped and making the engine take optimal use out of the hardware...?
Or better yet: becuase we are seeing but 25% of the entire picture.
Don't forget, ths cycle, like any onther one, will have it's share of first, second and etc. generations. They can't all be stunning from the start.
Or better yet: becuase we are seeing but 25% of the entire picture.
Don't forget, ths cycle, like any onther one, will have it's share of first, second and etc. generations. They can't all be stunning from the start.
Chittagong
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Kobold said:
Porting didn't leave time?? :lol :lol
sorry, not laughing at you at all, but that sentence, as in the context of Rare and this game, it isn't exactly like they would have been rushed to market.
I buy Datawhore's explanation. Makes you wonder, however, if everybody is using still the Alpha kits without those features, are we all set up for disappointment in E3, with games looking only half as good as they could? Wasn't this exactly what happened in E3 2001 with Xbox?
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