insane_cobra

Microsoft's 400,000 units at launch and Sony's 400,000 units at launch are two different things. At the time of Xbox 360's launch there was no next gen competition on the market.

Extra content will be in the shape of extra public domain movies and cartoons you can watch on TV sets scattered throughout the game. Nothing you'd really want to be doing for prolonged periods of time, then, but it will be cool if you'll be able to watch them from outside the game.

Less shooting, more drama - bring it on! If only more games would start moving in that direction.

@Aragorn

"However... I've noticed this board has a lot more sony vs microsoft stuff than xbox360 fanboy. why is that?"

Fear? Also, bear in mind that PS3 is not out yet and the influx of good PS3 news hasn't been that great lately - not because PS3 sucks, but because Sony is pretty much keeping things under wraps. I expect that to change come TGS and then maybe this blog's tone will change as well.

@matjet

No, absolutely none are FPS, sports or racing. Some are played from the first person perspective and some even include a number of FPS elements (King Kong and Condemned), but on the whole they don't belong in the first person shooter genre.

Likewise, someone could mistake Full Auto for a racing game, but in fact it's a car-combat game as that's where the focus is. I probably should've added DOA4 and Rumble Roses XX to the list because not many people could call them sports games with a straight face.

I said nothing about the soccer issue, but since you mentioned it... First of all, Kojima had nothing to do with it, I believe you meant Konami? Anyway, it may not be a screw-up after all. I don't think Microsoft ever mentioned any exclusivity contract, they just said the games would be next-gen exclusives for 12 months. Well, guess what, that information came from Konami's representative:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/0824-xbox360ownsfootball.htm

Late summer 2007 means roughly 12 months. Now, if Takasuka is right and the PS3 version of PES6 hits the shelves before that date, then this whole mess-up is Konami's fault just as much as Microsoft's.

@sick of 360

"The "Growing library" of 360 games? Yeah all the same genre (Either FPS, racing or sports)"

You know, I'm really getting tired of such ignorant comments so I took some time to compile a list of already released Xbox 360 games that are neither FPS, racing or sports.

Ninety-Nine Nights
Dead Rising
Chromehounds
The Battle for Middle-earth 2
Over G Fighters
Kameo: Elements of Power
Gun
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Peter Jackson's King Kong
Full Auto
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
The Outfit
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Tomb Raider: Legend
Final Fantasy XI
X-Men: The Official Game
Hitman: Blood Money

And that's without the XBLA games (which are often unfairly ignored by 360 haters - in past generations you'd be buying some of those in stores) and games that haven't been released out of Japan and/or Asia. That's more than two non-FPS, non-sports, non-racing titles every month - again, not even counting the XBLA releases. Not that bad for an allegedly FPS console during the transitional period.

Would've been worth every penny even without a free month of Gold service.

It doubles as an air refresher.

There will probably be a Resident Evil Wii as it's been officially announced by Capcom:

http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/news/html/e060510.html

It just might not be a port of RE5, but a completely new game. Indeed, the article you linked to has been updated with this piece of info:

"Update: There is a possibility that there was some ambiguity in the translation, which could have meant that Takeuchi-san thought we were referring to Resident Evil 5 on Wii, and not a separate Wii entry in the series. Either way, he was still being rather secretive about the series' debut on Nintendo's new system."

Well, we'll see, but some trade-offs will have to be made. Lower framerate, for instance. Take The Darkness for example:

"On a related note, 2K also anticipates that the final version will run at 30fps in-game and 60 frames during cutscenes, with no noticeable performance differences between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3."

( Taken from this preview: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/725/725801p1.html )