Dukhat

No he didn't, Han shot first.

Han shot first.

Make yourself the point of ridicule by girls (who will think you like someone else on the first t-shirt), and are gay from the second t-shirt, Nintendo/Sony fans who know Halo sucks, and PC gamers who know Halo sucks.

Thats ok, I'm sure you'll get cool points from the computer science department your local community college.

@ Joe:

"The rest of us big kids will be happy watching porn on our HD-DVD players"

So you admit to being 45 and living with your parents. And you also admit to watching porn. How brave of you.

Why doesn't Blake Snow just stop showing his blatant bias and post the article instead of posting his retarded 2nd-grade interpretation of what people said.

I read the same article myself and got a more well-rounded impressions than his moronic, biased summary.

Its hilarious that a heavily editorialized newssite like Joystiq would even link to gamasutra which is one of the few unbiased sources of gaming news out there.

Blake Snow is the WORST poster on this site.

By the way, Microsoft cancelled the Dead Rising Sequel from PS3 by giving Capcom a crapload of money.

Every console manufacturer does it.

"US 360 owners (10 mil. strong and growing!)"

LoL, typical xbot hyperbole. They are in fact a little about 4.5 million xbox 360 users. 10 million is the WORLDWIDE NUMBER.

And all the 360 "exclusives" are basically just games stolen from the PC where they would be better played with mouse and keyboard, because most are shooters. Microsoft is using its deep pockets to try and buy exclusives so it can gain marketshare and then milk you xbot fanboys in the future with microtransactions, and you guys are falling for it. Losers.

1) Kiddies. The release of zelda along with the motion controller is appealing to kiddies who gobble up these gimmicks. Every Wii line is basically made up of parents.

2) Wii Bowling. They took a sport already popular, took away all the effort involved and made a simulation of it on their console. Its pong redux. An easy, familiar game repackaged.

3) Shallowness. Wii Sports is a 7.0 game, mabye 6.0. To anyone with any experience with games it is basically an hour of fun and then it gets boring. This is due to the fact that there is almost no skill involved in winning or losing. When your outfielders drop balls in Wii baseball, it is not due to anything that either player has done. There is a learning curve, but it is shallow and most people with a reasonable intellect can master each game fairly quickly.

Its this shallowness that appeals to non-gamers. Non-gamers with poor hand eye coordination can get strikes in Wii-Bowling. This excites them.

4) Lineup. Wii Sports, specifically bowling and tennis, draw people into the game quite well and is appealing to casual gamers who don't realize what a waste of money the Wii is long-term. Zelda is a game that strongly appeals to Nintendo's hardcore and kiddie fanbase. Together, they are leading to sold-out systems.

5) Media hype. The mainstream media loves the Nintendo Wii. You haven't seen this much love since their coverage in favor of Kerry a week before the 2004 presidential election. Its only fitting that such a shallow outlet would love such a shallow system.

6) Poor PS3 launch. The pricepoint turned people off and turned the kiddie market away from the system. That and the lack of a ratchet and clank game are big negatives for PS3's prospects with the kiddie market. Gratned, its not a majority of the market anymore, but kids are still important.

"And do some basic math next time you post.
600 - 100 == 500. Not 400. If I were willing to plunk down that kind of cash, why would I want a gimped PS3?"

Sorry, xbot. The PS3's lower-priced version isn't gimped like the core 360 is. Unlike the Core 360, the PS3 can play all online games, has a wireless controller, and HDMI output.

I know its hard to wrap your mind around how much MIcrosoft screwed you over.

There is no way Blu-Ray will lose.

The main arguments for HD-DVD right now are its early lead and its price advantage.

The price advantage was already destroyed by the PS3 which matches Toshiba's HD-DVD player in price. HD-DVD movies have not proven any cheaper either with Blu-Ray movies having the same pricepoint so far (in fact cheaper since most blu-ray purchasers right now will have a PS3 and the PS3 has a blu-ray rebate book).

a)In the long run, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will cost the same.

b) HD-DVD's temporary price advantage was when a Samsung Blu-Ray player cost 1000 and a Toshiba HD-DVD player cost 500. Neither was priced low enough for anything other than enthusiasts.

The second argument is about HD-DVD marketshare. If you just look at Amazon sales, Blu-Ray sales have been gaining at a steady clip and have almost matched HD-DVD sales now. HD-DVD marketshare is meaningless right now for one simple reason.

1) The entire HD disc market is but a tiny percentage of what it will eventually be currently, making any perceived marketshare lead now completely irrelevant.

In the end, the winner of this format war will win through content. Whichever side has the best exclusive content will win.

Sony, Fox, and Disney are exclusive to Blu-Ray. That's like half of all move content available.

Universal and New Line are HD-DVD exclusive for now. Together they make up like 10-15% of the content available.

Warner Brothers and Paramount went from HD-DVD exclusive to dual format which was a huge blow to HD-DVD.

There is basically no way HD-DVD can win. Even with super-aggressive pricing, the content simply won't be there.