Microsoft GC Conference Finished
After sitting through this morning's Nintendo press conference, it's Microsoft's turn next - their conference was scheduled to kick off at 11.30 CEST / 10.30 BST, but has been pushed back to 1pm CEST / 12 midday BST, so you've got an hour or so to argue on the forum about whether the fact that Mario is in Nintendo's new football game means that they don't know how to innovate or that they just know how to use a strong character franchise to drive forward a good game. Be sure to roll your eyes and assume that everyond disagreeing with you is 14 years old, for good measure. We'll be back at midday BST with all the fun of the fair from Microsoft's conference, so check back on this very page at that point!
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Yeh, we know that, but what about the booth babes? All cities should be full of them! ;p
Is that the first-party titles including God Of War, Gran Turismo, Shadow of the Colossus, SingStar, Ratchet, Jak, Ico or Socom?
They are all massive sellers (especially GT) or hugely critically acclaimed, and I think Sony produces some much better games than people give them credit for.
I don't give a shit about hardware or statistics or anything like that; I just want to see good games which will make me buy the console.
The Nintendo one was just as bad. When's the Sony one happening? It'll probably be the same; I think they're saving all their announcements until TGS.
FPS's, war games, sci-fi war games, hardcore RPGs, GTA-style games and footy games. Not looking good.
And what's with the PC gaming onslaught? They should focus all their efforts on Xbox 360 instead.
All pointless if the game still doesn't play like real football.
Sincerely,
Carrybagma
The OFFICIAL exclusivity deal says that the software will remain exclusive to the Xbox 360 for a period of 12 Months.
This website makes it clear: http://www.gamersreports.com/new
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The words "this year" do not just apply to the end of 2006. The contract SPECIFICALLY says that the soccer software will remain Exlusive to the Xbox 360 for Twelve Months.
The Twelve Month Exclusivity applies to both the EA Soccer game and the Konami Soccer game. The Xbox 360 was the official licensed sponsor of the Soccer World Cup. You can read about these things on this website: http://www.eurogamer.net/article
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Look at the times 11:26:06 and 12:29:21 at the bottom if you just want to read about the details of the Soccer games being exclusive for a 12-month period of time.
I am a HUGE fan of Soccer games, and I am REALLY looking forward to playing Soccer on the Xbox 360. The FIFA Soccer 2007 game uses a brand new graphics engine that took over two years to develop!!! This is the sort of game that will be ABSOLUTELY AMAZING in High-Definition video and 5.1 Digital sound that only the Xbox 360 offers to Soccer fans!!!
Please oh please tell me there are booth babes or something and that anyone who went; their time was not wasted.
Oh dear. No, Leipzig isn't LA. It's just a thousand years older, full of history, and one of the most interesting and rapidly changing and developing cities in Europe at the moment.
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Solomon Island's Federation must have paid a lot of money to EA, some US friends of mine think they are as good as Brasil or even Portugal.
Cookiemonster ate it. ;p Nah, I thought that sony didn't have one on the GC, just demo's. :\
And lol @ this thread, i've already put 2 ppl on ignore in the past 5 min's. 0_o
I'd have thought the fact it was a western RPG(It is, isn't it?) would be safe enough reason to think no PS3 version is coming. You want western RPGs? Buy a 360 or get them on your PC. Simple as that.
"you uptight MS fanoy?"
I'm unsure if you were going for 'fanboy' or 'fanny' here(Though either is probably true
VISTA IS ACE!!!!!
It's hard to take when your MS-dominated world crumbles around you isn't it?
FFS get a grip
Miguel nao gastes o teu portugues com ingleses, embora conhe
miiguel - apologies on behalf of my half-witted compatriot!
Shit, Peter Moore is probably reading this and wanking over his monitor.
I guess XBox 360 fanbois have to post on Eurogamer because they've completed the few good games for their electrical stove. And cannot stomach the fact that stinkin' UNO on XBLA is the best-selling game for the platform! Yay for playing cards in 720p!
I completly agree on my crappy english, but I bet my portuguese is much much better than yours, wanna check ?
I bet the usual Sony fanbois are seething and dismissing this news all over the shop.
LOL
aditional info: 360 games are 40 quid not 50, maybe you mistaken with PS3 wich are in fact 50!
Plus the 360 port will be
I just find some of the extremes that people go to staggering! Do people really define who they are by which console they have? That's pretty lame, but funny!
As for my 2-penneth-worth, it was pretty obvious that PS3 wouldn't see FIFA or PES in 2006, but MS are pretty smart. If they can repeat that "Home of football" mantra over and over again, and if there are significant differences between the current-gen and next-gen versions (which, tbh, there probably won't be), it will definitely help them.
Btw, Bioshock is coming to PS3.
FIFA 07 will not be 'next-gen' in any given way. One bad thing about EA is that they always use the lowest denominator when it comes to making their games. Sure, most ports are the same, however EA's are amongst the worse. Just look at FIFA 06.
Even EG are saying that the 360 version looks like a slightly prettier version of the PS2 game.
Vic: Laugh is good!
I love the way MS is trying to pass this off as some great exclusivity deal, despite the fact both games will be coming out on PS2. It was mentioned months ago, that neither game would be coming out on PS3, yet MS and its fanboys try to refesh this information, and churn it out like its earth-shattering news.
It's all a matter of taste I guess, as I really found Kameo to be an average game, slight above PDZ - Rare gave me some crap experiences on the 360.
The games I was amazed so far:
- Call of Duty 2 (of course)
- Oblivion
- Burnout 360 Revenge
- Table Tennis
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted
And at some extent: Tomb Raider: Legend
herod: You've got some pretty good games @ your list... What's the problem ? Maybe you like RPG's ?
Anyway, I recomend you Burnout, it's a game so silly fun, that everyone I know enjoys, and it's beautifull on the 360.
Mine has an extra letter, I'm smarter. ^_^
Oh good, it seems that someone has finally turned up with a rational arguement....
I see your point with the core PS3 not being confirmed for Europe, but if you really want to put it up like that, then the core Xbox is about twice as much as the wii, and both play games, so there is really no reason to buy an Xbox either.
The point I'm making is that you can't compare two unequal systems with each other. If you want to make comparisons, compare premium Xbox with PS3 core, or if PS3 core fails to launch in Europe (which I still think it will, but never mind) Xbox Premium with PS3 Premium.
Daumn!
apart from on PS2, Xbox, PSP etc...
I pretty sure that Sony execs know what they're doing, but I wonder if the crowd that put Cars on #1 of sales chart are going to go PS3.
In my case, they must proove their machine is twice as good as my 360 and 4x as good as my furture Wii.
Edit: crappy english.
Just shows how insular the US Media is.
I'm no Xbox lover but this will shift units and, more importantly, perception for MSoft - this Xmas the Average Joe will see that Xbox 360 is the only place to get their fave footy games... and the idea that Xbox is the 'home of football' may well stick in their brains longer than the 1-year exclusivity deal.
That's how much you spent purchasing a 360, a 360 HDD, a wireless controller, a headset etc etc. It's a package price, not the price of the console itself.
My point is that if you want to play a 360 game, the equipment to do so costs at least $360 in Europe. If you want to play a PS3 game the equipment costs at least $760. Can't you admit there's an enormous gap between those minimum outlays?
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345 Euros with Dead Rising.
The Core 360 runs all 360 games, most people buy consoles purely for the games. How is that not worth of a purchase?
And I'd love to compare the Core 360 to a Core PS3, but Sony seems to not want to release such a thing in Europe and it's not available for pre-order here.
"Like for like, it's still a lot less of a gap than the 2:1 ratio you were mentioning earlier."
There is no option of like for like if Sony doesn't release a cheaper PS3. And you're assuming the price of a 360 now is the same as the price of a 360 when the PS3 is released, which I doubt very much despite Microsoft's predictable claims to the contrary.
But I assume you will deny this with the usual "I own all consoles, really" defense, that most foaming at the mouth idiots of your kind like to use.
I think you'll find bizzaroworld is the same thing as planet earth.
Core Xbox 360 on Amazon.de right now =
600 euros = 769.859 USD
Both prices are as far as I know including tax.
When I upgrade me pc, it'll probably come with vista. It'll more than likely be quick enough to run vista an all. So, instant non split-screen multiplayer for me and anyone else in the same situation.
See?
A current gen port so even if MS didn't offer this deal to EA and Konami they wouldn't have made a FIFA or Pro Evo this year for the PS3 anyway because the timing would screw their schedule.
I never expected to see a Pro Evo on the PS3 at launch anyway.
So now it's next gen exclusive what termology will pop up next.
It means next time anyone with a 360 upgrades their pc they've got instant multiplayer at home, with none of the split screen rubbishness. People will be doing sex wees over this, I'm telling yer.
Konami: No, it's not worth it, we'll wait till next autumn...
Microsoft: Brilliant! Does that mean we can have a next-gen 1 year exclusive?
Konami: Hmmm, it'll cost you.
No FIFA on PS3 this year is a bit of surprise... you think they'd manage to squeeze one out, as they did for X360's launch last year...
Yes, but when they became established franchises they sold even better. And Sony didn't start either of those franchises, or Metal Gear Solid, or Tomb Raider, yet it was these brands and other third party stuff that did the most to sell PlayStations. I don't think anyone buys PlayStation consoles for the first party stuff.
Not on its own, no, but nothing ever makes someone "defect" on its own, it's always an accumulation of things. In the case of the PS3, it could be the accumulation of:
-a shortage of PS3s (Sony hasn't even started production) but a plentiful supply of Xbox 360s in the run up to Xmas
-the PS3 costs $800 in Europe, the Xbox 360 only costs $400
-no FIFA or PES on PS3
-no Halo 3 on PS3
-no rumble on PS3
-no Live Arcade on PS3
etc.
Despite what journalists and fans would have us believe, no one factor is ever decisive, but a shopping basket of reasons can swing people one way or the other.
Boardgames ftw
+1
Nice to see that there is finally something interesting due out on the 360...
Boardgames ftw
But when the average consumer is looking at a console to buy, they're going to go for the one with the official games... no one owns a PS3 yet to be 'defecting'. They'll be 360 owners from the off.
Brilliant piece of professional reporting guys. ;p
That's it, MS won.
Still not buying one anytime soon.
if he dosent he needs a swift kick in the u know what lol j/k
It means there won't be a PS3 version - it'll be available on PS2 and the 360.
"Xbox 360 is the home of next-gen football."
Real news at last! PES6 and FIFA 360 will be next-gen exclusives for 12 months. That'll put the killer pigeon among the cats! "Xbox 360 owns football," intones Lewis.
SHOULD READ
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 gets its own extended trailer, now. To be perfectly honest, it looks like a slightly prettier version of the PS2 game.
"Xbox 360 is the home of next-gen football."
Real news at last! PES6 and FIFA 360 will be 360 exclusives for 12 months. That'll put the killer pigeon among the cats! "Xbox 360 owns football," intones Lewis.
Even worse than the Nintendo conference for new info, and they really dragged it out.
Please tell me they're going to at least ship it with a game.
I doubt the dreamcast sold THAT many in its enitre life.
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Carcassonne - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/gam
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Alhambra - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/gam
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Ohhh.. don't underestimated that! VERY popular boardgames and with the boardgame market having a big revival now that might be a good move.
They're EXTREMELY popular board games, they've sold tens of millions of units each.
Catan (aka Settlers of Catan) is a multiplayer strategy game about trying to establish settlements on an island. It's been converted to consoles before, on the PS2 and N-Gage, but it's never really had the success of the original board game. There are many expansion packs for Catan.
I think Catan is a very wise thing to add to Live Arcade, because in multiplayer it's extremely addictive. Easy to learn, difficult to master etc.
Carcassone is a bit harder to explain, you lay down tiles which form a town and you have to conquer them by laying down tokens but... you'd have to see it in play really. There are loads and loads of Carcassone expansion packs too.
I wonder if Sony will reclaim their crown back later today.
Talk about MS being full of themselves, i thought Sony was bad.
Erm.. They ONLY sold 20 million xboxs in its ENTIRE life.
Now where have I heard that before?
*bil gates come back*
FUCK XBOX360 ITS ALL ABOUT VISTA NOW!!!!"
That's true though, it IS all about Vista as far as Microsoft are concerned. The only things keeping MS alive is Windows and Office for Windows, so the company's survival depends entirely on the success of Vista. By contrast, Xbox 360 and Xbox do nothing for Microsoft but lose them money, they've never made any profit from their Xbox division.
Nintendo's showing was pathetic.
umm...windows vista will retail for $800!!!!
*walks away*
But what about xbox360 ?
*bil gates come back*
FUCK XBOX360 ITS ALL ABOUT VISTA NOW!!!!
/drums fingers
Maybe the translator simply needs a synonym dictionary.
PS3 will walk right into Halo 3... if the PS3 is released in 2008.
MICROSOFT
Yes very useful if you wanted to do a bit of video chatting in a group.
Oh hold on it's the other thing, rather shit.
Erm... surely this has been done before in sports games?
they must be crying with joy ... or something
No wait, that is not possible, ever since EA bought DICE. Blah!
/Bogles
Does seem a bit silly not having one though."
Or you could just use the Xbox Live head set...?
Does seem a bit silly not having one though.
But how do they watch Basil Brush?
Daily Mail:"Pesky Immigrants Sordid Game Affects House Prices"
nintendo should ditch mario and get a hot woman with hot nipples
then make a erotic wrestling game for wii
NIPPLES.
/runs.
fact
thou not as fat as two 14 year olds
Wait for EA to innovate their Footy title for the Wii.
damn i can't type that with a straight face.
Blerk sometimes I worry about you.
Buy Zelda.
I really want a Wii. I really hate Mario. What do I do?