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Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer may "break the bank" at E3 next year by talking about Xbox 360 titles further than five or six months away.
"I came out of an E3 planning meeting just about an hour ago and we were looking at some of the plans for the future and things that we might want to tease," Spencer told Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb in a podcast.
"[It's] very exciting, because there's a lot of stuff on the docket and maybe we'll break the bank a little bit and talk about things that are further out, which will hopefully get the community excited."
Spencer said there had been "some pressure" to do so, but was careful not to spoil any of the surprises.
Microsoft delivered one of the strongest platform holder conferences at E3 this year, thanks to the New Xbox Experience and the unforeseen Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 announcement.
The company has so far been secretive about plans for 2009, however, although Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST are already talking points.
Spencer had just been to see the former, and said everything was hunky dory at developer Ensemble, which is to close after Halo Wars ships. Contrary to popular belief, the real-time strategy game will apparently feature a lot of storytelling and video cut-scenes; good for those "into the Halo fiction", said Spencer.
He also looked back at the catalogue of first-party Xbox 360 success stories, which recently include Fable II and Gears of War 2. The latter, he said, is "pushing 3 million" sales. Not bad for a series that didn't exist until this generation.
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I really think this strategy they've had the past two years of only showing stuff that's coming in that calendar year has hurt them somewhat. There's still this lingering perception that Microsoft doesn't have any more games, which has proved to be untrue (remember all that 'year of the PS3!' rhetoric thrown around at the start of 2008? yeah, not so much).
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Collymilad
08/12/08 @ 12:29
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^^ yeah, a perception peddled and enforced by Sony and PS3 fanboys, and a perception which I'll add has been proven wrong each year, time after time.
Every year is "The Year of the PS3", remember 2008 was, now, since that failed to be true, it's 2009. I can see this BS continuing right to the end of the generation. I'll just look at what's REALLY happening and see that the 360 is going perfectly well and will continue to do so. |
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Triggerhappytel
08/12/08 @ 12:32
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Wont Halo Wars be out by then? I thought it was due by about April.
I'll be interested to see what's forthcoming for the 360, and the less games where you shoot aliens in the face the better. More variety needed, and stuff like Lips or Scene It doesn't count. |
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>More variety needed, and stuff like Lips or Scene It doesn't count.
Seriously... you have XBLA, community games, all cross platform games, plenty of RPGs and some exclusives. What genres do you want? The waggle genre? The 360 has all bases covered. TBH I do not think MS needs to talk about games far into the future. They have plenty of stuff coming up next year to fill a whole E3.
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farticusmaximus
08/12/08 @ 13:08
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MGS4, God of war 3, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Motorstorm 2.
Sequels all round then eh J1GSAW? |
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Bremenacht
08/12/08 @ 13:10
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Oh joy - another PS3 vs 360 argument. Good job no-one ever tires of them.
[jumps on hamster wheel for another exciting run] |
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It has never been about games with the wii. The wii sells on perception and marketing. The perception being that it is the machine to have. It could only have pong and it would still be 'the machine to have'.
Both the ps3 and the 360 crush the wii in lineup quality yet the wii will crush them in sales. |
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makeamazing
08/12/08 @ 13:15
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Microsoft delivered one of the strongest platform holder conferences at E3 this yea
Well considering there were only three of them, and they were all pretty much rubbish, not sure where they got the idea for this statement from. Would be interested in knowing what MS have lined up for next year, as someone else said in another thread, know about DLC based content, but not really heard about much else. Is Halo 4 next year? |
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beastmaster
08/12/08 @ 13:22
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PS3 and Wii compatibility. Rise of the Robots 2 and a cure for the common cold.
Perhaps they've got a whole load of new IPs ready to go. But they'll be FPS, RPG, the usual sort of thing. If I were to hazard a guess here goes my wish list (including multi-platform stuff) - Mass Effect 2, Alan Wake, Killer Instinct, The Outsider, LA Noire, new non-Halo Bungee game, Lionhead's next game. What's id like as a 38 year old gamer (I know - ancient) would be some (decent) remakes of 8 bit classics. Forbidden Forest, Aztec Challenge, Manic Miner etc. I know, I know - let bygones be bygones :-( |
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keyboardmonkey
08/12/08 @ 13:24
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Breaking my wallet is more like it. I would like a small games drought for the next 6 months....
Sorry, maybe I don't get to spend enough time playing games, but at the moment there are games piling up waiting to be played... I haven't even finished GTA4 yet.... and there's Fable2, Fallout 3, CoD:WaW, Mirrors Edge plus others.. waiting still unopened. |
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Hopefully we should have Mass Effect 2 next year. A new Forza would be nice, though I think the PGR format is a little stale now I think we may see PGR5 as well. More than likely we will see Bioshock 2, the next COD, maybe Assassins Creed 2. Ubi may come back with new Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six games maybe even a new Splinter Cell game . Codemasters will probably show the new Colin Mcrae game and hopefully the new F1 game as well. Obviously I don't have a clue what new IP will be shown but hopefully there will be something new and exciting.
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Moonprince
08/12/08 @ 13:33
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"^^ yeah, a perception peddled and enforced by Sony and PS3 fanboys, and a perception which I'll add has been proven wrong each year, time after time. "
ok buddy calm down, it's just a game. You're lol though :s |
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lol, PS3 is such a failed product.. I bought a 360 first, back when Gears of War 1 came out and was amazed by it, then recently bought a PS3 because some friends that had one were raving about new games coming out for it. Each and EVERY GAME that came out was lacking/broken/unsupported, not to mention that if someone sends you a chat request you have to QUIT THE GAME YOU'RE PLAYING TO ACCEPT IT. What the hell, seriously, wtf. And little big planet? Talk about over-hype, I'm seriously glad that its failed to reach the sales figures they'd like as maybe it'll make sony get off their arses and produce something good on the system although it looks like its game over for the Playstation for this generation. Maybe they can bounce back with the PS4 but I think that if Microsoft fixes the hardware issue that's plagued the 360 then they'll win the next generation 'hearts and minds' too.
I've now sold my PS3, what a massive waste of money. |
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@beatmaster: What's id like as a 38 year old gamer (I know - ancient) would be some (decent) remakes of 8 bit classics. Forbidden Forest, Aztec Challenge, Manic Miner etc. I know, I know - let bygones be bygones :-(
Argh, you beat me with one year. No no. Not ancient. More like... experienced... educated... informed... and of course... critical. :-) |
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I think MS have previously got what they do and don't announce just about right at E3 so I'm not sure I want to see them going this route. Sony have previously gone the wrong way and shown a lot of stuff which wasn't ready yet or not oug for a very long time, though last E3 was better for them.
Having said that if they desperately want to announce something then a handheld Xbox would be nice thanks :). |
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"Rick Dangerous in 2.5D with added coolness. "
Wow, there is a name I haven't heard in a LONG time, I may start up the old Amiga emulator tonight :) As for E3, well nothing could be worse than the god awful show they put on this year, the silence of the unimpressed audience was deafening! (all 3 were poo this year before anyone starts!). |
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j1m.ch053n
08/12/08 @ 13:49
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when will target renegade be released on xbla? or the original shinobi. or p.o.w - prisoner of war or one of the latter double dragon games or Pang (buster bros) or midnight resistance or virtua racing or . . . . someone needs to put the arcade back into XBLA
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the_dudefather
08/12/08 @ 13:51
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@bad09
oh god yeah E3 was terrible on all fronts last year (it was hard to not cry at the sight of the people playing wii music on stage), Microsoft only managed to scape out as 'the winner' because of FFXIII (yay?) |
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HardCoreGamer999
08/12/08 @ 14:19
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concerning ps3 and xb360 games
My opinion for 2009 Now the capital importance is (for all consoleholders) -CONSOLE PRICE SETTING Now that Xbox has a "slight" advantage on ps3 ,Sony has to lower the price , this has to happen FIRST, THEN only gamers (mainstream) will compare gamecatalog.(if not to late already) AGAIN, My prevision with even more good ps3exclusives for 2009 ,Sony HAS to lower price. credit crunch will affect all 3 platformholders. overall losers , no point in discussing that. |
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@ mazzl
The A-Team never shot anyone till they died! They shot at and around them forcing them in some way to perform a explosive stunt, car crash e.t.c. that was the fun of the A-TEAM. But yeah being locked in a room with a blow touch, compressed gas canister and a small bulldozer, to build a make shift tank would be all kinds of awesome :-) |
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farticusmaximus
08/12/08 @ 14:40
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"i'd like a new day of the tentacle game."
I'll take anything Mr. Schafer is offering frankly. Bona-fide genius. |
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The A-Team never shot anyone till they died!
They shot at and around them forcing them in some way to perform a explosive stunt, car crash e.t.c. that was the fun of the A-TEAM. Thankyou, you just made my lunch break, that made me giggle to no end.... oh how my head flooded with images and archived video footage........ DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA... *screeeeEEEEEEEEECCCCHHHHH* DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA... ArrrrGGHHH CRASH........................... BOOOOM! |
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quantumsheep
08/12/08 @ 15:08
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They always made sure you saw the people stumble away from the crash too - NOBODY died on the A-Team :)
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Ornithophobe
08/12/08 @ 15:21
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Only this morning I was thinking about how terrible the months of hype before major releases are these days, and now it's going to get worse ?
/throws router out of window |
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farticusmaximus
08/12/08 @ 15:47
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With the notable exception of Alan Wake, MS have announced things and then we've actually received those things within a reasonable time span. I like it this way, it's realistic.
I'd hate to be a PS3 owner, having games and services announced and then waiting years for them to appear (whilst continually having to swill the foul taste of hype/cock from your mouth) before being thoroughly dissapointed at the lacklustre titles you receive. |
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seamonsterneil
08/12/08 @ 16:04
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I wish MS would make a ratchet/jakesque game that would really be very nice indeed but with anew ratchet next year I guess it doesnt matter.... and mass effect 2
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tnt_2008smum
08/12/08 @ 16:16
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ok i'm going to give this another go and see if he gets the hint
@zero_cool PISS OFF YOU TROLL!!!!!!! |
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