News Microsoft: We never cancel games

Umm, the PS3 has not dropped its price in ages, that has little to do with it, the price of is still more then the 360 and it still outsells it mroe and more ech month.. game purcahse rate is because of a larger insall base, common sense, and the head start means more games, The Ps3 is chaninging that as it catches up.

I am a PC gamer who could care less about either, but seeing the 360 gamer keep changing the excuses as the Ps3 gains steam is annoying.

 

Interesting from this one source that whilst the ps3 spiked the spread between the two seems fairly constant. (i know one source does not a trend make but...)
Thats hardware sales:
http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php...=X360&reg3=All&start=39243&end=39607&weekly=1

If some one could point me to the "must have" games for each platform we could try and work out an approximate attachment rate which would be interesting from a slightly geeky pov.

 

Surely this has gone on long enough.

NEITHER IS PERFECT, BOTH HAVE THEIR FANBASE. Drop it.

 

Can you please tell me how many of those supposed 1080p 360 games are 1080p natively? Also, just like I asked Lucidity, how is the XBL any better "gameplay-wise" than the PSN or Wii-network?

 

Exactly, there really are none.

 

on PS3 you can have 6-way video/voice chat while in the XMB. ive done it many times.

 

Gareth, I was just asking the question. Secondly, the fact that you have to stare at a jarring blue screen for a good few seconds is like swatting at flies for reasons to hate it. My friend's TV takes literally half a second to change between formats. Hell, my projector does the same thing when switching between sports and other channels with my cable box and I hardly notice it.

 

now youre talking about in-game? before you said out of a game

and as I said you can have 6-way video/voice chat.

in-game you can talk to people if the game allows you. it doesnt allow you to talk to people who arent in same room as you. its according to how game devs do it. and personally i think thats alot better. by being able to talk to anyone on your friends list at any time could result in major cheating.

another thing i find useless in XBL is the sending invites from a game to someone who is playing a different game. if im playing a game i dont want to be bothered by that. that would be annoying.

but whatever. ive got my ps3 and im happy and thats what counts.

 

I just have to say that I love how everyone is going back and forth about how the 360 is better... no the PS3 is better.. yet no one mentions the little guy, the console that was touted as a "novelty" by Sony, the Wii- that is completly destroying them both. lol

 

IMHO, the Wii is a forgettable console. It is worth playing that 3-4 times during the year for maybe a week each time when Nintendo decides to put out a game they've developed. I enjoy the polls that are offered, but the games just aren't fun unless you have 4+ people playing (which for a lot of gamers is not possible). Of all the consoles I see, the Wii is the most dusty.

 

Not everyone has the money to own both either. They have bills, a g/f, going to college, etc. and that is why, for me, I am going with the console I feel is more geared towards my entertainment needs. That of course is the PS3, which is why I hate it when 360-owners/lovers decide to spout off statements as if they are fact and then either provide no "IMO", examples for why they think something or evidence to back stuff up.

Sorry, let me rephrase that: the fact that you say you have to stare at a jarring blue screen for a "good few" seconds is like swatting at flies for reasons to feel irritated by it..

I don't understand why that annoys you so much? Usually when it's doing that it's in the process of loading up a screen you've seen 100's of times anyways. That is the reason why I don't see your point of making it out to be a "flaw". It's not like it's doing it while in-game....

Gareth, I'm glad you own both consoles. That way you at least can say you've used both of them without saying something about either console, yet while having no experience of it whatsoever. Luckily for me, I'm able to enjoy all 3 consoles this generation at my g/f's house or at my friend's houses.

 

ya, i dont have the money to buy the 360 or wii. i wouldnt buy the wii anyways, but if i had tons of money i'd get a 360.

i must admit ive only played a 360 maybe once or twice for a very short time and in that time i played it crapped out on me like 4 times. lol. but it was at a store so i guess that is expected.

 

A mate of mine has an Xbox360 but I won't buy one because I don't have the money for it and I wouldn't buy something that has had so many problems (RROD), I do own an original Xbox though.

By what method are you able to cheat by talking to your friends?
If you mean in FPS games by telling them where other players are then I guess real world soldiers cheat when they radio enemy locations to each other.

If you don't want to be interrupted while playing a game either unplug the ethernet cable or go into your profile and select 'appear offline' or maybe there is another option if that still gets you annoying messages on screen.

 

well you could get a friend on the other team to tell you where the enemies are.

Or if it is round based games with no respawn and your friend is dead and can look at other players could tell you where enemy is.

Though im not sure there is any game on 360 that would be like that and most shooters are respawn.