I think Saints Row improved vastly on the GTA-series so far in lots of ways, and to me it was more fun than any GTA-game I've played (and I've played em all...) Hopefully GTA4 have learnt a lot from SR1.
So sales of systems are unimportant to success, but sales of software is the end all be all of success?
SpruceCaboose
To a certain extent - yes. How many games each owner of a system buys on average is a major deciding factor.
If system A has sold 20 million and the average user buys only 3 games a year it will lose out (when it comes to independent developer support) to a system that has sold 15 million where the average user buys 6 games a year.
It's all down to sales. And the Xbox 360 has an attach rate far higher than PS3 and Wii - and the developers make a note of that. And touting the PS3 as a cheap blu-ray player may have been a very stupid move. Because you end up with a large portion of the user base that rarely buy games at all.
They still gave it 10/10 and praised it beyond belief in their review:
...hype machine aside, cutting through the crap about console wars and the like, what we find in Halo 3 is quite simply this - the best game yet in one of the best FPS franchises of the era.
They obviously liked it *a lot*. Even if it isn't 'next-gen'... A strange name though; the current gen of consoles started with the 360 and that has been on the market for two years very soon...
Sony no doubt realized what a huge mistake it was to not pay for exclusivity this time around (for GTA4) like they did for the two previous GTA-releases.
GTA is a system seller for sure and would have moved tons of consoles if it was a (timed) exclusive for PS3.
I have to say that the minimum specs aren't that high.
On the other hand I've never ever seen a game that has been remotely playable (and looked anywhere near how it is presented on the net) on a PC that follows 'minimum specs'.
So you will no doubt need quite a powerhouse of a PC to play GoW at high res with max detail.
But there are probably more annoying people on System Wars here than you'll meet in a few years of XBL.Newnab
That's my impression as well.
And people tend to forget that you don't have to play with total strangers on Xbox Live. Add people to your friends list and play with them, or simply give positive feedback to players you enjoy playing with/against, and the system will try to match you up with those people - even when you search for any open match.
There is so so so much more to XBL than just being a service that lets you play online. Which a lot of people will never understand.
For some reason it seems more important to play it on their PS3's than on their high-spec PC's that 'can run all the great 360-games anyway...' ;)
How very very strange. Following their own logic it is obvious that the PS3-version will be dumbed down compared to the PC version Still they prefer the PS3 version. Strange days indeed.
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