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I can say that my 360 has functioned fine since I got it, and they seem to have a warrentee thing going now for up to three years.

My friend's needed to get replaced though. I'd like actual numbers instead of anecdote, but the closest I can get is from a repair company in Europe that says they are very high rates indeed. That'll have to do. I will add that with the numbers that repair place is reporting, yes the rate of failure is inexcusable. Not sure what happened there or why it's taken such a long time to fix but at the rate MS is sending out replacement 360s this can't be cheap on their end. Again, this is based on numbers from a repair company in europe that are refusing to take any more. MS won't give out their failure rates as they don't see it as advantageous to them. This means one of two things. Either no one there sees an advantage in posting an extremely low failure rate number (I sure can), or it's a high enough number that it would hurt their image to release it. I doubt it's the former.

The estimates I've heard are in the 25% - 33% range.

What matters is where those numbers are coming from.

Paco Wrote:Sony kind of just did.

By adding another $600 model on top, though, they just shuffled the prices... the old $500 model is gone, the $600 model is $500, and there's a new $600 model. While technically prices on each model did go down, the prices are still $500 and $600... exactly as they were before. :)

Paco Wrote:When I get one the only FPS I can think of that I want is Halo 3. Other games will be the rpgs, banjo, viva pinata, mass effect, too human, and so on.

Paco Wrote:I agree. I'm just pointing out the facts.

Yes, of course you're pretty much right. If I got a 360 I can't imagine getting many FPSes and I'm sure I'd find stuff to get... really, the biggest problem there is that half of the best games (including almost all of the FPSes) are also available on the PC, and the PC versions are better. But still, the focus of attention and press and reviews (as you said, the top quality games...) on the FPSes means a lot both quality-wise and game selection wise. The 360 will have many, MANY more FPSes.

Paco Wrote:I think so, it has stat building. RPG Adventure if you want to further specify.

Microsoft is bankrolling: Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, and Fable 2 for sure. It could probably be safely assumed they'll finance Blue Dragon 2 and the Mistwalker MMO as well, so MS is paying for 6 out of 14 known RPGs.

It's been an on-going trend over the last two years that Japanese developers are beginning to think of the video game market globally. They stand to make far more sales by including the U.S. and Europe in their audience.

True, and that, along with MS'es money, is obviously why the 360 has Japanese RPGs. Still, most Japanese developers do the same thing as developers here and focus on platforms popular in their region.

Great Rumbler Wrote:It is an RPG, very much so. Now, that doesn't mean that it's a CONVENTIONAL RPG by any means, but it is an RPG.

But don't you slash on the screen to attack and stuff? How much is there to the game? I don't know all that much about it really, but it doesn't sound that complex... or interesting...

FFCC Wii has promise, though.

Great Rumbler Wrote:An awesome game is what it is.

Oh yeah that really helps remind me what it is... :)

Smoke Wrote:Anything that doesn't play like Fallout isn't an RPG. NMA and RPG Codex told me so.

Hah... :)

The RPG genre's definition is definitely ridiculously broad, but I'd make it a little wider than that... :)

(though by Fallout standards Fallout 3 sure doesn't look like an RPG, not that I expected anything different)

Dark Jaguar Wrote:What matters is where those numbers are coming from.

A lot of sources, I think...

A Black Falcon Wrote:The 360 will have many, MANY more FPSes.

I don't think the FPS will outweigh the other genres. If anything, action games will remain the biggest genre available on the 360. It's a broad term, sure, but FPS is not included in it.

I really don't care to guess any further. I've already pointed out the current facts.

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Really though its not a bad thing that the system is an FPS machine. Look at Bioshock, i'd almost say it has more hype than Halo 3 and could definitely push sales of the console. But be real though, its a western system supported almost entirely of western developers. It's going to have a heavy lean towards FPS no matter how many Blue Dragons hit the shelves. BD wont be a system seller in America either, no matter how awesome it most likely is. Not only do you have to take the market in to consideration but also the demographic of the type of people who got the 360 - sports games and FPS are what they want.

And what does the Wii lack right now? A really GOOD multiplayer FPS. Be happy that 360 is standing by with the goods... dont try to turn it in to something its not. It will never be a family system or something for the casual, it's the hardcore platform for FPS and other shooters. Maybe by this time next year or a year after it'll have the genre-o-matic surplus like PS2 but right now its not there. Even the highly original Viva Pinata failed to grab people's attention which is sad... it again told developers dont try anything new, pump out another roster and more effects in the explosions... it would have done hundreds of times better on Wii.