Microsoft does have a tendecy to abandon their supporters. The big example here is the leap from the orginal xbox to the 360. Once the 360 hit stores in 2005 they totally abandonded their xbox supporters. They just stoped making games for the console. Even though some gamers did'nt have 400 dollars to throw down on a console. (lol yea the 360 was expensive when it first came out). I have a feeling they will do the same when the next version of the 360 comes out. They will give games liker a month or two and then abandon the 360 for the newer console.

Silent_Ninja87

this argument is getting dumber by the second:

• Microsoft supported old Xbox Live up until this year, 5 years after the release of the 360
• games were still being made for the Xbox 1 well after the release of the 360
• Microsoft had no choice but to stop making xbox 1's when Nvidia stopped making chips for the console
• the 360 is still the only HD console this gen with backwards compatibility in every machine

i think its got a lot of appeal among the WiiSports/WiiPlay/WiiFit crowd

personally i'd like to try it and play Child of Eden on it, which is why i pre-ordered one since i had the extra money and the relatives wanted to try it

well Halo has 6 years and 4 games on Mass Effect

and i enjoy both

but i guess i gotta go with Mass Effect, i like the characters and story in ME more

the problem is PC gamers dont support microsoft, they hate them. and they pirate windows any chance they get.

pc gamers are not MS supporters, they are people forced to use ms software and hate ms for that fact. They would much rather use linux if they could.

markinthedark

the problem is nobody actually likes GFWL

Steam is better, cheaper, etc.

it annoys a lot of people to buy something on Steam and GFWL is required... so when you start up a game in steam... it launches GFWL?

nah screw that, give us the raw game, if anything i think people are just whining about wanting another Ages of Empires game, otherwise i don't think they really want what they're asking for

Michael Pachter, I am gonna takeover over your job. Here are my predictions:

1) Kinect will sell more than Move during the first and 2nd years. Novelty and marketing will do wonders.

2) By the 2nd year, more Move-compatible games will be sold than Kinect-compatible games. That's becasue...

3)Move will have more games and more genres than Kinect. With move, not with Kinect, you can play hardcore/long games, precise games, 3D games, strategy games, and professional sports games).

4) Kinect will be the king of exercise and dancing games. But..

5) Kinect games will be limited to short-session, imprecise games. This means that Kinect will be a niche product. Your heard it here first: Kinect will be a niche product.

6) By the 3rd year, Kinect games will become stale. Just like Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, it becomes harder and harder to differentiate a game and its successor. You see, Kinect games requires lengthy, imprecice body motions for all games. This limits gameplay. Kinect is a game controller that is fundamentally limiting to gameplay, making innovation very difficult .So during the 1st generation of Kinect games, novelty and innovation can be appreciated, but it becomes that much harder to innovate during the 2nd generation, and harder still for the 3rd generation.

7)Just as gamers spend less and less time playing Wii games, they will also spend less and less time playing Kinect games.

8) Move will be the hardcore gamer's motion control of choice. By far. Kinect never has a chance.

9) By the 3rd year, Move hardware will be sold more than Kinect hardware. This is due to Kinect becoming stale and the novelty being dead.

10)Attempts to use both the standard controller and Kinect at the same time will be disappointing. This is because Xbox 360 is already weaker than the PS3. Using the 360 processor for Kinect only takes processing power from graphcis, AI, physics, etc. Therefore, 3rd party developers will be reluctant, just as they are reluctant to use six-axis controls for the PS3, to incorporate Kinect with hardcore games.

11)Michael Pachter will be fired and Dragonboot will replace him.

dragonboot

i think it's worth noting that the only motion control application that doesn't have a short session time are shooters thus far, which the wiimote does well with already

but you're right in that it'll be more of a niche device, which is part of the reason it appeals to my relatives enough for me to pre-order it

personally i don't understand why they don't just make controllers next gen with a trackball on them, i mean trackballs are just as fast and accurate as a mouse, they take some getting used to but they're the only thing like a mouse you can add to a gamepad

The PS3's hardware is way more advanced than the xbox 360's and the PS3 came out a year after the xbox 360.

xbox 360 is getting outdated, ps3 will be around for a looong time.

babybinky

PS3 vs. 2012 graphics will be like comparing MGS2 to Crysis

Steam is pretty much where i get 100% of my PC games unless it simply isn't available

so i'd be happy with DD-only next-gen, so long as the service was as good as Steam's

live-action is totally appropriate for Twisted Metal

well it's currently ranked below Halo: Reach, Starcraft 2, Black Ops and Kinect, but i wouldn't be surprised if it kept rising

that said the bestseller this gen obviously it won't be (it'd have to sell at least 20 million just to get close)

but without a doubt i think it'll be the best selling PS3 exclusive (we'll see if it beats Modern Warfare 2 on ps3)

The Molyneux strikes again

personally i didn't care for the story in Uncharted 2