Microsoft probably...

Just announced Windows 8 a few months back, just got a new line of Windows phones out, and rumors bouncing around about new console announcement at e3 2012... So I am thinking the next Xbox at that time and they will showcase how the new Xbox, Kinnect, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 all work in tandem somehow...

Xbox 360/PS3/PC....next generation probably going with next Xbox and another PC mainly for MMOs.KC_Hokie

Exactly the same... Though I will probably eventually get the new Playstation as well for exclusives and the likes...

Has it actually been proven that Iran had anything to do with it? Or are we just going on whatever the American government are suggesting? Hang on a second,. even if Iran were involved...what does this have to do with the United States? It's the Saudis problem, not theirs.MushroomWig

1) I doubt they would lie... Whistle blowing, etc will always get the truth out and no one wants to be caught in that political poopstorm when it happens...

2) What would be the point of lying? Iran already looks like a douchebag to most of the world... Look at the Ahmedinejad's recent UN speech and all previous ones... Almost everyone excluding like Lebanon walk out of it... And half the delegates don't come anyways... Not to mention Iran is already sanctioned to hell and back...

3) And what does it have to do with the US? One: The assassination was planned to take place in the United States... Two: The method planned was to detonate a bomb in a DC restaurant while the Saudi Ambassador was there...

[QUOTE="Buttons1990"]

Brand new game at retail: $60 --- $30 to retailer, Microsoft, Sony, etc + $30 to publisher (who then pays developer).

Used game at a retailer: $50 --- $50 to retailer.

Its simple really I don't understand what there is to not get?

spotofun

By the way, I have always wondered what would be going through the mind of an infantry man who was firing a nuclear artillery shell like your sig. Praying for enough distance?

What is there to read? That is how it works...

Here is a guide:

Retailer X, Developer X, Publisher X, Game X, Microsoft, Sony

-Publisher X gets money from investors and previous success.

-Publisher X pays Developer X to make Game X.

-Game X is finished, Publisher X publishes it.

-Publisher X takes initial release orders.

-Retailer X buys 4,000,000 copies from Publisher X for $45 each and resells them for $60 each.

-Publisher X takes the money, pays Microsoft and Sony royalties for being on their console ($15 per game for example), what remains is used for profit sharing among the company (ie: Executives get bonuses, developers get bonuses) as well as further investment in future games.

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People say "when you buy used you hurt the retailer not the developer"... Where do you think the retailers are getting the games? Walmart doesn't make them... When they run out, they buy more... So obviously, when someone buys a used game as opposed to the new game, that new copy isn't being moved and thus Walmart isn't buying anymore from the publisher.

Brand new game at retail: $60 --- $30 to retailer, Microsoft, Sony, etc + $30 to publisher (who then pays developer).

Used game at a retailer: $50 --- $50 to retailer.

Its simple really I don't understand what there is to not get?

Fable...

I mean Fable 3... WTF... "I promise this, I promise that" *become king* *keep promises* *1,000,000 gold in debt* *100 days left before invasion* "nice I have 100 days to get all that money back and prepare my kingdom!" *hit continue* *invasion happens and everyone dies*

Eh, I'll stick with Xbox...

PS3 has too much down time in my opinion... I get a new game, I put it in, forced to install for 20 minutes, restart, forced to download a 300mb update for the game, restart again, now I gotta accept their terms of use, then when I get online, unless it is a Sony game it lags out the wazoo for me... And my internet is about as perfect as it can be for gaming... I am on a university campus with t3 speeds and less than 10ms response... And then on top of all that, there is also a console update every other week that is also usually several hundred mb that I am forced to download if I want to connect to PSN, not to mention PSN getting hacked and allowing my credit card information to potentially be stolen...

With 360... I get a game, I put it in, I play it... That's about it... If it has an update, it isn't some long ordeal of 6 submenus and 300mb I need to download like on PS3, it is *signed out, there is an update* *hit update* *5 seconds pass* *update complete, xxxxx has signed into Xbox Live*... And chat, I don't even know if PS3 has cross game voice chat yet or not, most of my friends have sold their PS3s so I don't even have anyone to talk to on there anymore... But on 360... I turn my xbox on, hit my guide, see a couple of my friends on, all on different games... No problem... I invite all of them at once into a party and 4 or 5 of us sit there and talk, all of us on different games...

[QUOTE="SquirrelTamer"]I'm sure brotherhood added even more racing and time trials but I finished it way faster than ACII and even ACI. foxhound_fox

Why even argue with this guy any more man... He is just going to rebutt your facts with a "no I played brotherhood and did 10 races while killing 80 men on my killstreak of doom during the non-existant story while admiring my milk box that the game came in"...

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"][QUOTE="mitu123"] That made me laugh too, if anything, it's the worst game in the main series.SquirrelTamer

Assassin's Creed has been "Hold RT and hit X" since Assassin's Creed 1... Have you ever even played any of these games?

I still honestly don't see the issue with "milking" a franchise?

It isn't like Ubisoft and Activision are putting out ass games... These are $100,000,000 budget games with some of the most talented developers in the industry working on them... Like literally I just don't get it... People cry foul with a company that exists souly to make money for investors releases a sequel destined to sell millions of units... But then other developers try to be innovative and release a different type of game (Enslaved for example) that sells less than a million units and is a complete waste of time and money because no one buys it...

I mean honestly... What the hell do you people even want? You complain about sequels and then don't even buy the new IPs...?