Xbox 360 winning online battle, says Epic News
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The Xbox 360 is winning the online battle by "adding cool stuff", according to Epic Games president Dr. Michael Capps.
Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Capps gave the launch of the Xbox Experience on November 19th the thumbs up. "The way they're expanding the Live presence - you know, they're leading right now, they're winning," he said. "And the way you continue to do that is to keep adding cool stuff that everybody wants."
But Capps admitted that he would have liked to have supported more of the new features in Gears Of War 2.
"It's tough, because we really wanted to - and obviously, being first party we work very closely with their tech teams, but they were finishing it after we were locking down a lot of our core feature sets, so we could only do so much," he explained.
"But I love the fact that you boot through the dashboard now. I understand how some gamers might not like it so much, but that's how you join into the Xbox Live experience. Your dashboard comes up, you get to see what's new, hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about - instead of just booting into your game and missing the community," Capps added.
Head over to the full transcript on GamesIndustry.biz, where Capps discusses Gears of War 2, the Unreal engine and the company's plans for Xbox Live Arcade.
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muscleblade
04/11/08 @ 09:40
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And Gears 2 will be number 1. on xbox live for a long time. At least a year.
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DanWhitehead
04/11/08 @ 09:48
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They should let you use your avatars in Gears of War 2. You know, just to lighten the mood a little.
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mcmonkeyplc
04/11/08 @ 10:10
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Gears 2 will not be number 1 for along time. It has to compete with Halo 3 and CoD 4/5 now. It's not the biggest fish in the sea anymore.
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farticusmaximus
04/11/08 @ 10:20
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I honestly can't see CoD5 staying very high in online play charts for long. General concensus from the CoD5 threads still seems to be that CoD4 is better.
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Triggerhappytel
04/11/08 @ 10:28
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Wow, developer with close ties to Microsoft comes out and says Microsoft has the best online features.
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keyboardmonkey
04/11/08 @ 10:29
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hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about
I think more often than not it is more likely to be... hey, there's some more DLC which is over priced/ should have been in the original game/ and now i wish i didn't know about it. The amount of free stuff on Live is very very sparse, the US gets slightly more stuff (mainly Product marketing e.g. Ford and Dr.Peppers) |
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"I think more often than not it is more likely to be...
hey, there's some more DLC which is over priced/ should have been in the original game/ and now i wish i didn't know about it. " I agree with you keyboardmonkey. It's ridiculous that so much stuff is being released and you need to pay an extra penny for it when back in the old days it used to be for free. This is just an easy way to make extra money which i'm not taking part in. |
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@iter
I was thinking the same thing. It's a configuration option in the current dashboard to say if you want to boot to dashboard or straight into a game. Bigging up a new feature of the new GUI would work far better if it actually is a new feature.
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makeamazing
04/11/08 @ 13:08
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But they clearly do have the best online features.
But isnt that opinion rather than fact? Ive only used an xbox once so i dont know how good or bad the Xbox version is..., but I dont have any problems with PSN, its pretty cool, the only thing they need to sort out imho is the mixing of demos and game downloads.. i guess they will sort that when there is more content. |
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aphexstwin
04/11/08 @ 13:57
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i cant see why you have to pay 40 quid a year to play on live. aside from playing goons on pc, it offers exactly nothing more than what you get for free on psn. both have good things and both have bad - anyone still playing bf2 on 360 will testify to that, dropouts and slowdown being two of many problems
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aphexstwin
04/11/08 @ 16:37
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iirc i thought microkillprozziesifyoureatruckersoft made no profit on live fees? so how do sony do it then? if its true i cant see a drop. they can say nxe will justify the price. but, someone, please tell me how much home is gunna cost.....?
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"But I love the fact that you boot through the dashboard now. I understand how some gamers might not like it so much, but that's how you join into the Xbox Live experience. Your dashboard comes up, you get to see what's new, hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about - instead of just booting into your game and missing the community," Capps added.
Go to System settings -> Console settings -> Startup -> and choose either Disc, Xbox Dashboard or Windows Media Center. Says alot..
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