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Shane Kim: 'Gears of War 2' Is Biggest First-Party Xbox 360 Game Of 2008

MTV Multiplayer writes: "Not that anyone should be surprised, but Shane Kim, head of Microsoft Game Studios, told me, Brian Crecente (Kotaku), Chris Grant (Joystiq) and N'Gai Croal (Newsweek) yesterday that "Gears of War 2" will be the biggest Xbox 360 game of the year, the flagship exclusive for the holiday season.

Not "Fable 2"? He said that game is coming along really well. But "Gears 2? is the big one.

So no giant surprise game for Holiday 2008, 360 fans. You already know which title Microsoft is betting its chips on.

UPDATE: Just to be clear, he's talking about titles coming from Microsoft Game Studios."
Cyrus365 - contributor
Published: 595 days ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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Rick Astley - 595 days 2 hours ago
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Shane Kim looks like an idiot.
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sonarus - 595 days 2 hours ago
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You weren't looking so cool yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

@below ewww gross. lol
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Rick Astley - 595 days 2 hours ago
1.2 - Don't lie to yourself, sonarus.
You know I look sexy.
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Silellak - 595 days 2 hours ago
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Hey, since you're going to be entirely off-topic, I guess I can be, too.

What exactly do you do all day that allows you to sit in the Pending Article section and ensure that you have the first post on every 360-related article?

I'm just curious, because I'd totally love to have that job. Not that I don't slack off enough already, but clearly you have even more free time than I do, and I had time to make THIS at work:


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Ri0tSquad - 595 days ago
1.4 - Silellak
Nice job. All the major retailers selling GTA IV could sure as hell make use of that.
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Montrealien - 594 days 6 hours ago
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lol, Silellak.

Hope you don`t mind but I printed this and I will be refering to it for customers, awesome job man. Where do I send the 10000$ royalty fee?
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Condoleezza Rice - 595 days 2 hours ago
2 - He's right
I'd be more surprised if he named another title as the biggest 360 game of the year,first party and third party included.
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wow4u - 595 days ago
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Gears of War 2 will be the biggest selling First Party title of 2008.
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deep - 595 days ago
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wow4u

No it won't.
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kewlkat007 - 595 days ago
2.3 - Deep I think so
unless there is a Wii game I do not know about, but the pre-orders are already in the bag for this game. It's proven and looks to be better after that video.

MGS4 is PS3 biggest 3rd-party title, and I'm guessing resistance 2 for 1st-party. technically EPIC makes games for all consoles so gears game is not really a 1st-party game.

Unless you have a sleeper game?

I didn't need Shane to tell me that, anyhow...
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Adamalicious - 595 days ago
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"Gears of War 2 will be the biggest selling First Party title of 2008." - unless Nintendo releases Wii Play 2 right :)
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fenderputty - 595 days ago
2.5 - ^^^^
What exclusive game is going to sell more then Gears? MGS4 will sell well but it's going to be hard pressed to sell like Gears will.

BTW ... I assume wow4u meant exclusive and not First Party since Epic isn't owned by MS.
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kewlkat007 - 595 days ago
2.6 - Scratch that Fender
so Insomniac can make a game on the 360 if they wanted?
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fenderputty - 595 days ago
2.7 - ^^^^
I don't really know Kewl. I just know they're not owned by Sony. They may be bound by contract to only develop for them as a 2nd party but, they're not owned by Sony.
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Adamalicious - 594 days 23 hours ago
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Insomniac is not bound to make games exclusively for Sony - they just choose to. They have a good relationship w/ Sony - co-marketing etc. - and they believe that single console development results in better games.
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Bathyj - 594 days 22 hours ago
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Insomniac could go to XBox if they wanted to. They've said so in the past.

They just dont want to.
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Diugu - 594 days 5 hours ago
2.10 - deep said it...
it is said.

The end.
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wow4u - 594 days 4 hours ago
2.11 - Thank-you Fenderputty
Yes, I meant:

"Gears of War will be the biggest exclusive game of 2008".

Easily bigger than MGS4.
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Tmac - 594 days 4 hours ago
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wow4u, I don't believe anyone takes what you say seriously.

Both games will be blockbusters.
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Dlacy13g - 595 days 1 hour ago
3 - Gears 2 clearly is their "Biggest" title...
It has the largest fan base so obviously its going to be their flag ship. That said, that doesn't mean they are only going to promote it or push the most money onto promoting it. I think they are actually going to pimp Banjo very, very hard this X-mas. Gears is going to take much less effort to sell. They will do some Dorrito's or Pepsi tie-in with Gears and get other companies to help foot the bill for promoting Gears (aka Halo3) since its well established now. MS is good at the hype machine that is for sure!
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lockload - 595 days 1 hour ago
4 - Well gears sold 5m copies...
Its obviously going to be a big game, but fable 2 will be a close second
4.1 Fallen_Angel | 595 days ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Superfragilistic - 594 days 18 hours ago
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I think there's no doubt that Gears 2 will sell very well (9+million), and Fable 2 should do quite well (5+million).

For PS3, MGS4 could do well amongst the hardcore (6+million) whilst Resistance 2 may well do similar figures (6+million).

But this all ignores the Wii and it's WiiFit monster! That thing, whether you think it's a game or not, will sell more than any other this year (12+million) thanks to the casual waggle loving masses.
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heyheyhey - 595 days ago
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no sh!t, its the one people talk about constantly every day

even though Ninja Gaiden 2= much better game

oh yeah and..... first party? yeah, your an idiot Kim
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Cartesian3D - 595 days ago
6 - sure ..
Im a GeoW fan .. but the second one isnt as impressive as the first one ( in 2006 ! )

everyone knows that chainsaw battle and meatcover isnt enough to blow our mind! .. the graphic improvment isnt noticable..

30 characters in screen without shadow and with fool animation? (I saw the HD vid 10 times with Quicktime frame by frame) same animation , same character models , same sound effects,etc(I hate gun sound, its like a spray! )..

anyway we didnt see enough vid s to judge this game.. its not the biggest MS exclusive for 360 this time , because everybody knows that there will be a PC version ( unlike the first one )

imo Fable 2 , Too Human or Banjoo must have more hype than GeoW2..specialy Fable2
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kewlkat007 - 595 days ago
6.1 - Fable 2 , Too Human or Banjoo
are un-proven titles.

1. Fable is looking great but gamers felt it was underwhelmed on the Original xbox.

2. Too human has been threating to come out for years and looks like SK finally got their act together.Gamers have bee Hot/Cold/Hot/cold about that game, hopefully it does heat up.

Banjo has been missing in action for quite a while, I wonder the gamers that used to own an N64, what do they currently own? Or would they buy a 360 for just that game? We'll see..

Gears of war 2, well it's gears of war 2.

The fist game was pretty good in terms of graphics/gameplay and sold pretty well. They are focusing on gameplay and Story which were the major gripes of the first game. graphics is less of a determining factor. It's does need to whoa!! you that much this time around, it just needs to improve on the weak areas.

At least that's what I think.
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Cartesian3D - 595 days ago
6.2 - yes Indeed..
1- Fable isnt an unproven franchise imo ( the first one was decent , not AMAZING but enough to have some hardcore fans )

2- gears of war was unproven in 2006 too , but with excelent production and design and New Unreal 3 engine and amazing gampley it did ROCK!

so Microsoft can make another mega hit with enough Hype and excelent dev.

or just waste their time and money on Geow2 that wont attract any new user to XBOX360 and just sell 3 or 4 million to current hardcore 360 users..

Too Human or Banjoo or Fable 2 can make a difference , but Gears CANT!
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kewlkat007 - 594 days 23 hours ago
6.3 - aight
"so Microsoft can make another mega hit with enough Hype and excelent dev.

or just waste their time and moeny on Geow2 that wont attract any new user to XBOX360 and just sell 3 or 4 million to current hardcore 360 users.."

OK I get the Point, you are correct..LOL
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AlterEgo - 595 days ago
7 - duh?
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deep - 595 days ago
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It would be if it was First Party. But it's Third Party.
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Charlie2688 - 595 days ago
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Technically by definition is Second Party
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Adamalicious - 595 days ago
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I guess they mean first-party published as opposed to first-party developed, which is generally what people mean when they say "first-party".

@ above - I think technically "second-party" refers to when a contract is in place that the studio will only make games for a certain publisher or the publisher owns part of the developer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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AclayPS3 - 595 days ago
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..... O.k... I didn't need that guy to tell me that Gears 2 was the biggest 360 game for 2008 because it's pretty obvious that it's the only anticipated 360 game for the entire year.
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Time Lord - 595 days ago
10 - This is dumb
since when is gears 1st party games, its 2nd party game.
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sleepbox - 595 days ago
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See, what MS needs to start doing is say stuff like Sony would say...like "GEARS OF WAR 2 IS BIGGEST GAME OF 2008" then we would have some angry people./
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niall77 - 595 days ago
12 - someone needs to tell him..
its the only big first party 360 game in 2008
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Milky Joe - 595 days ago
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It's not really First Party, is it.First party would be made by MS game studios, this is only published by them so it's second party. Anyway, this isn't exactly breaking news. I think we all new MS would be verbally sexing Gears 2 like this, as it was a big hit last time around.
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tordavis - 595 days ago
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It's being released by MGS so it's considered 1st party.
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Jigsaw- - 595 days ago
15 - Not 2st party
It's not first party. epic games is a 3rd party and m$ just made a game deal. also i doubt it will sell more than smash bros. Also don't underestimate MGS 4.
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Rageanitus - 595 days ago
16 - Wrong
GTA is bigger than gears by a long shot.
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RobertGonz69 - 594 days 23 hours ago
17 - Mr. Kim...
You will say anything to make that buck.
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Boldy - 594 days 23 hours ago
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"‘Gears of War 2' Is Biggest First-Party Xbox 360 Game Of 2008"

Well this is new to me.


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BattleAxe - 594 days 22 hours ago
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I agree with shane kim, because XBOX 360 has no other good exclusives comming out this year...... And please don't say Fable and Too Human. I just watched the Too Human footage and its nothing special.

Looks like Alan Wake and Halo Wars won't be comming out this year either.
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jackdoe - 594 days 21 hours ago
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Geow 2 isn't a first party title as MS doesn't own the property. Just like NG2, it is a third party exclusive with the developer owning a IP rights. Fable 2 or Banjo 3 would be their biggest First Party titles
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1stKnighT - 594 days 18 hours ago
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It's the second biggest game of 2008 next to GTA 4. I personally prefer Fable 2.
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zodiac909 - 594 days 2 hours ago
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why would this idiot say anything when he has never played it yet..?
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