25th December 2005, 1:58 AM
Yeah alot of guys in the game development part of my school stayed away from XBox because of the lack of Japanese games (RPG's mostly) and the ones who did buy in to XBox were just looking for Halo matches. Slowly it caught on that EA, Ubi etc were spending more time in R&D for XBox multi-console games than they were for GC or PS2, so people started getting XBox for the 'better' versions of all the US developed games. Remember the Splinter Cell fiasco and when Turok Evolutions hit? GC and PS2 got the short end of the stick while the XBox version shined but no one cared because the only versions that were sold at mass were the GC and PS2 versions... and sold back to pawn shops and used game stores within the first week of its release. :D
The XBox is still a Halo machine and it has that market cornered, they're trying to expand with 360 and as of right now, reading the views and opinions from boards and sites of people who weren't a part of the XBox era, people are basically asking 'When does it get good?' The answer will hopefully come when the Japanese support kicks in. But then it becomes a question of how long will that support last.
Jdevs wont stick around a console waiting for it to blossom. If sales dont balloon with a noticeable profit when they release a game it's back to the tried and true 'Put it on a Playstation'.
The XBox is still a Halo machine and it has that market cornered, they're trying to expand with 360 and as of right now, reading the views and opinions from boards and sites of people who weren't a part of the XBox era, people are basically asking 'When does it get good?' The answer will hopefully come when the Japanese support kicks in. But then it becomes a question of how long will that support last.
Jdevs wont stick around a console waiting for it to blossom. If sales dont balloon with a noticeable profit when they release a game it's back to the tried and true 'Put it on a Playstation'.