That was about 2 years ago. I now have 312 messages and still growing. The sad thing is I only come here maybe once every 2 months. Gotta love those Union Leaders spamming you with newsletters.
P.S. I made the poll soley so I could say OVER 9000!!!!!
Yeah, but it won't be the same quaility company making the games. If you like Halo, and Bungie is GOOD at making Halo, will you want someone like Atari making Halo if Bungie went out?
Didn't think so.
Guess_With_ReX
As I said, if Bungie get bankrupt, or if MS got bankrupt and Bungie was gone, sony will probably buy out MS, or MS the Bungie portion of MS and you have teh same talent, with all the Halo licsence, same quality, just different start up screen
That's assuming that all of the employee's come back and assuming MS will sell that portion. When Nintendo sold Rare not all of the employees continued working with M$. Hence, the lack in quaility of games.
Sales MATTER to a certain extent. They may not matter to you, but they matter to a WHOLE bunch of other people.
Another thing. Say if a Company comes out with a game you thought it was a really good game, but not many people agree with you. The most reason for a game to get a sequel is becasue of high game sales which leads to profit. If the games sells like crap and doesn't make the company any money they aren't going to make a sequel anytime soon.
They didn';t leave beacuase the they hate MS, they left because they as a person wanted to. And i ment Think and That
I never once said they left becasue they hate MS. I don't know where the heck your getting that from.
and somebody tell me what a "sheep" is. Is that somekind of insult or inside joke on these forums?
Generally, no, sale do not matter -- as long as you make money, like Nintendo did with the 3rd place GC.
They matter when your previous gen is outselling your current high-end gen, like what is happening with the PS3. Especially when you make no money on the console and you need to make up for that loss by selling a lot of machines so people buy a lot of software -- this is even more critical for the PS3, where currently there is normally one 1 title purchased with each PS3 sold (unlike the Wii where there is normally 2 titles purchased, not including the free game).
Guess_With_ReX
But the sales and the attach rate of the console will affect the developer's decison in making a game for the console. If the system isn't selling as well as the compition, there will be less good 3rd party games for it. (See Gamecube)
Just becasue the company is making money off of it doesn't mean the other companies will.
You see, we as regulars don't know that. You would thin taht seeing 360 is having amazing sales, that a lot more companies would be making software for it, but its not really... you cant say "What if" just whats there.
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Generally, no, sale do not matter -- as long as you make money, like Nintendo did with the 3rd place GC.
They matter when your previous gen is outselling your current high-end gen, like what is happening with the PS3. Especially when you make no money on the console and you need to make up for that loss by selling a lot of machines so people buy a lot of software -- this is even more critical for the PS3, where currently there is normally one 1 title purchased with each PS3 sold (unlike the Wii where there is normally 2 titles purchased, not including the free game).
Guess_With_ReX
But the sales and the attach rate of the console will affect the developer's decison in making a game for the console. If the system isn't selling as well as the compition, there will be less good 3rd party games for it. (See Gamecube)
Just becasue the company is making money off of it doesn't mean the other companies will.
You see, we as regulars don't know that. You would thin taht seeing 360 is having amazing sales, that a lot more companies would be making software for it, but its not really... you cant say "What if" just whats there. What??? thin? taht?
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