So read every morsel of this information meal and tell me how this can possibly be good news. They replaced the COO (which sounds like another word by the way, one used in a military sense) with someone from EA? Oh great... and right afterwards, roughly 75 employees are laid off, many of which seem to have left "mutually" saying there is a "difference in philosophy" involved?
Wii-24.45 million (as of March 31, 2008)[110]
XB360-19 million (as of April 25, 2008)
PS3-13 million (as of April 21, 2008)[109]
Do we need three consoles?
Has Sony jump the shark?
Xbox has allot more going for it then the PS3, XB360 US$399.99 for XB360 (premium),479.99 for the (elite bundle), US$279.99 (arcade).Higher Install base plus lower price , Makes me believe that the 360 will stay ahead of the ps3.
That being said, I think Nintendo will be recoronated as the arch Lord of gaming.
Granted, I alway considered this guy a total jerk (and NOT in a "he's cool that he's a jerk" way that JERKS seem to appreciate for some weird reason), but I liked Ninja Gaiden Black.
Oh wait... the actual problem was the exact opposite? Right.
The actual thread title is, of course, "BG&E2: Making one of the worst aspects of the first game even worse"... I mean, BG&E had such a low difficulty level, how do you even MAKE it easier?
The trailer is decent though, I guess. Nothing special, but decent.
I honestly wouldn't have expected this, but one of the first games to use the Wii Fit as a controller [and by a third party, no less] is actually, dare I say it?, fun to play? Seriously, racing down slopes, pulling off tight turns, and doing awesome tricks, all while using the balance board to controler you skier, is really fun.
Yeah, it costs quite a bit, but Wii Fit is cool too.
I've recently been thinking about the steady improvements in the online experience courtesy of MS, Sony, Valve, and the etcetera. The one thing I note is while they are great, the one fundamental weakness of these systems is their utter dependance on an existing architecture owned and operated by one company. That's in contrast to the internet as a whole, which is standardized by agreement and just sorta works with everything because everyone works to keep it that way.
This same issue comes up with all the currently used chat programs by the way. All of them are dependant on one specific architecture.
The one thing unifying all net experience is IP address right now, however I think that should be improved upon.
I've been thinking that the next big jump in the online arena is to unify all the architecture. All the current game servers will still, as with any website or other service, all operate on respective company servers and major server farms. The difference is it'll be standardized and interoperable. That is, Sony's service and MS's service will be totally invisible to the player. One would just plug in their game and all those lists would all talk to each other. This would also force Nintendo to play catch-up as a side effect :D. It would mean that I would be able to see such meta data as all my friends, what system they are currently logged into, what game they are playing, and if they are designed for it, I would be able to take my 360 copy and their PC copy and play a vs match cross-platform with no issue at all.
Basically, the creation of a "user name" would be universal. I imagine it would be akin to creating a web site address, a currently universal thing as well, which is added to a database shared across all companies. There may be a fee involved depending on how the companies go about doing this.
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