* HipHopGamer in Gamefly Commercial (Voting Starts 10/1/08)
* 360 Starting to extend the lead over ps3 again
* Nintendo Wii "Mario has met his match"
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"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Spread thin after firing over 2000 employees a few months prior. So basically they created the problem and their solution was to just fire more people. Absolute geniuses over at Xbox, of course can we even believe this to be the reason for the closures?
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
There's not many of of us clamoring for Sony to do this because most of us understand it would kill Playstation. I'm sure there's a few but I've not seen alot of it myself.
This is an anonymous source rumor which is normally failed on N4G.
But not this one - look at the reports - Christopher made sure it got approved.
Will he do the same when someone submits an anonymous rumor about PlayStation? No.
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"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
Oh lord, batten down the hatches!
"PS3 will show more power than 360 in 2009 Starting with Killzone 2" LOL. It allready have last year with Uncharted and furthermore with GT5:P and MGS4. And more is heading in form of R2 and Motorstorm PR.
tell that to the people making ferrari project (xbox 360 exclusive) that has visuals superior to gran turismo 5 prologue
if this was the case shouldnt the developers for bioshock have been able to make the ps3 version run 1080p 60 fps with more graphical detail
and shouldnt the ps3 version of soul calibur 4 easily be running at higher resolutions than the 360 version
that is true it could but it was stated by the devolpers of bio shock that they wern't going to look it up on games radar and there is a quality differnce on soulcab also on games radar look it up good site