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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally stated by Sony Dimwit
GI: Are you surprised that Microsoft has met their sales numbers of 10 million? What do you think of the early acceptance of Wii and their sales?
Dille: I’m not sure if they had gone to 10 million or if they had announced that they had. I know a lot of people were wondering if they would ever get there. I think initially, they're bravado speech was: “We’re going to get to 10 million before they ship.” And then it was: “We’re going to get to 10 million by the time the year is over.” I haven’t seen a new announcement from them, but what we do pay attention to is that month in, month out, the PlayStation 2 continues to outsell Xbox 360. I think you see the consumers voting with their wallets on the PlayStation brand. But also, if people want to go out and buy a 360, their stacked pretty high at retail and yet, six-year-old technology is outselling it. I also think there’s another trend going on. Every Sunday in the paper, there’s a new deal with a free controller or a free game or $100 off all discounting the 360. I don’t think you take those measures if you’re selling as expected. |
Ok, lets have a look at this. This yahoo is comparing the ps2 to the 360. well, of course the ps2 will have a larger fan base, but thats because its had a 5 yr running span. What a douche. then he's claiming that 360 has to sell by always selling its self on some sort of a deal? Hello Sony! why don't you give us hard working people a break and reduce the cost on your overpriced dvd player and give us some sort of a deal? Maybe that way people will buy it. I have one game for my ps3, Resistance, thats it. I paid $800 for it and I am not really taking much advantage of it. Oh, and when a system hits 10 million units, i don't know about you but that's quite a feat. even for Microsoft. |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Space_Marine
Key highlights thus far...
- 10.4 million Xbox 360 units sold through December 31, 2006
- Majority of Xbox 360 gamers are new to the Xbox platform
- Gears of War sold 2.7 million units in first 8 weeks
- 160 Xbox 360 game titles to date, will double in 2007
- 5 million members on Xbox Live
- Live experience demonstrated on Windows Vista, Vista cross-platform with Xbox 360 coming in Summer 2007 to Live
- HD-DVD is the top selling format to date
- High-Definition viewing on Xbox 360 with HD-DVD Drive, Media Center (via PC), Video Marketplace
- New High-Definition Experience coming with IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) on Xbox 360, IPTV will be available by Holiday 2007
Now letz talk everything 360 related, PS3 and Wii fanboys are welcome here. Bring it! |
You can add Dead rising, its now sold officially over 1 million units.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/0...1-million-sold/ |
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| TheDemon |
| Iam just wondering, is 360 better to play in 720p or 1080i? I've always had it at 1080i. anyone can elaborate pls let me know. thnanks. |
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| malek |
always been at 1080i too... and it looks better too imo.
less edges. |
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| fmodena369 |
| I keep hearing great things about Gears of War..but I keep buying sports games when I go to the store..Should I finally cough up the 60 bucks for the game? |
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| InterMilan31 |
| did anyone get the Lost Planet game made by the guys of Gears of War? |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally posted by InterMilan31
did anyone get the Lost Planet game made by the guys of Gears of War? |
gears of war is by epic games. lost planet is by capcom. |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally spoken by Bill Gates
Bill Gates spoke with a small group of reporters after his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show. I got to stand next to him at a cocktail table at Delmonico's restaurant in the Venetian Hotel. He didn't have his boyish face anymore, but he was in a good mood and talked for a surprisingly long time. We'll post some audio of that conversation a little later on the CES blog (www.mercextra.com/blogs/ces). The interview covered a lot of territory but I'll mention some highlights here on the Xbox 360.
It has always struck me how much Gates knows about the details of the Xbox 360 business. A year ago, I quizzed him about it in a small group and he offered an update on the strategy last night. He said that the strategy is working "amazingly well" in terms of the Xbox 360's sales, which have now topped 10.4 million units.
He said that this time Microsoft and Sony have switched positions. Microsoft has the high ground, he said, repeating an answer from last year. He said it has a small box, costs less, is visually compelling, has great games, does online superbly and offers all of the tools for game developers to make games easily. He said the Xbox 360 is out earlier and can ride a silicon cost-reduction curve faster than Sony can, which saddled every unit with Blu-ray and hard drive costs. At any given point, the Xbox 360's costs will be lower and more easily reduced.
I asked him about Nintendo. What if their graphics were good enough, their controller innovative enough, and the system cheap enough for a lot of gamers? He said that Sony was always the more direct competitor and that the novelty of the controller without good game graphics could wear off.
"Look at their experience with online," he said, noting Microsoft has the ability to create games where Xbox 360 gamers play with PC gamers.
He said that Sony had no advantage in graphics at all. He said Sony started earlier but "burned a year" trying to make the Cell processor do graphics functions. When it didn't work, Sony went to a fallback plan by tapping Nvidia for the graphics chip at the last minute. It also didn't have embedded DRAM or unified memory. The Xbox 360 game developers would always be a year ahead of Sony on the learning curve in taking advantage of the system. As a result, Gates said that Sony would never have games that look beter than Microsoft. He said that either system, limited to 512 megabytes of memory, would not likely exploit HD resolutions beyond 720p. If you go to 1080p, he said, you will have to give up something.
In his speech, Robbie Bach came on stage and talked about how the Xbox 360 was ready to go as a set-top box for IPTV, which phone companies are using to compete with cable by providing high-speed Internet, movies and TV, video on demand and digital video recording for subscribers. The service is expected to debut with the Xbox 360 sometime before the holidays this year. I asked Gates right off the bat if AT&T, which is a Microsoft IPTV customer already, could give away Xbox 360s for free to subscirbers. Gates said there are a lot of options available, but he wouldn't be able to talk about any customers until later.
He said there ought to be a great "win win" in new business models for the Xbox 360 and IPTV. Asked if the Xbox 360's small 20-gigabyte hard disk was a problem, he said that the Xbox 360 didn't need anything more than that to serve as a set-top. That's because with IPTV, so much is stored on the server and you can access it so quickly that you don't really care about storing things.
"We don't have to change the Xbox 360 at all," he said, holding a glass of red wine.
As far as figuring out an exact strategy with a customer, he said, "We have a year."
He said that the Xbox 360 has enough security built into it that the content players (HBO or what not) would be more comfortable allowing their content to be stored on the Xbox 360. And of course Microsoft announced in December that movie downloading is an option on the Xbox 360.
He said the Xbox 360 would be a high-end set-top and wouldn't really compete with Cisco or Motorola set-top boxes. And he noted that Apple doesn't necessarily have the best relationships with companies such as phone service providers as Microsoft does. So its iTV service may not be as expansive as anything Microsoft does with its partners.
"Jobs always says he doesn't like to go through someone else's orifice," he said. |
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| InterMilan31 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheDemon
gears of war is by epic games. lost planet is by capcom. |
whoops anyways anyone get it? |
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| fmodena369 |
| who else has madden 07? Is the game overall just slow to you? I'm curious if it's my system that's making it slow... |
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| TweeK |
So i was sitting at my desk, and i looked over to my copy of "Oblivion:IV".
What was weird to me it had a "TEEN" rating. wTF! :conf:
But then i clearly read the ESRB content rating which said:
Blood Gore
Language
Sexual Themes
Use of Acholhol
Violence
:haha:
i havent played it all the way thru maybe (12+ hours) but i know it shouldnt have a teen rating. I mean come on the game it self even has some refrences to Necrophilia.
Anyone want to explain? :wtf: |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TweeK
So i was sitting at my desk, and i looked over to my copy of "Oblivion:IV".
What was weird to me it had a "TEEN" rating. wTF! :conf:
But then i clearly read the ESRB content rating which said:
Blood Gore
Language
Sexual Themes
Use of Acholhol
Violence
:haha:
i havent played it all the way thru maybe (12+ hours) but i know it shouldnt have a teen rating. I mean come on the game it self even has some refrences to Necrophilia.
Anyone want to explain? :wtf: |
In all honesty, the game's rating was changed to Mature about 2 months after it was released. I know only because I work at a video store, and we got M-rated stickers sent to us to be put on our copy of Oblivion that we were renting out to people. |
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