Having Grand Thefe Auto IV ship on the Xbox 360 on the very same day is major hit to the PlayStation brand. There has been a sizable delay on all previous GTA games on the Xbox platform. Because of this the GTA game series grew to be subconsciously fused to the PlayStation platform. Well that is no longer and in the US since Microsoft has a much larger install base of users on the 360 the Xbox 360 version of GTA has been outselling the PS3 version almost two to one according to the retailers that I've talked to. I am sure the hard NPD sales data will be very interesting to comb over for the post GTA IV launch. It is a pretty safe bet to say that future GTA games with also be cross platform on day one, especially if EA is successful in their semi-hostile take over of Take 2
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
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Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.
I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing
1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.
It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!
I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.
Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.
Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:
- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2
I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.
Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.
I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.
I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.
But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5
Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.
As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.
We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now
Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.
This site supposed to be for news.
These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.
Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.
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stopped reading there....
I want to kill myself for having read that whole article. How can a person be so grammatically inefficient and be taken with a shred of credibility??
Its also fairly obvious he's an XBOX fanboy, and his WHOLE silly article is a full-on PS3 attack.
Um....maybe read the other million reviews out there and you may find out that many of them say the same thing. Love those fanboys, you say one thing critical of there love machine and they freak out. Oh how life would be so much better if I was a fanboy living in my parents basement at the age of 30 eating mac-n-cheese like these fools. Instead I have to work hard and make a six figure income working as a DBA...oh DAMN! Shuck it Trebek!
Whatever makes you feel better about yourself my friend. I do agree with you that I am living a fantasy though, one I never thought would be possible. But like most lessons in life if you want something bad enough you are going to work for it.
Sources please, because according to "websites that I've gone to", It is 3:2 in the US, and 55:45 in the UK. Everywhere else it seems that PS3 is leading. Overall PS3 has a higher attach rate anywhere you look. The downside for Xbox 360 owners is that the PS3 SKU is being rendered in 640p and has online gaming issues.
I say it's the downside for Xbox 360 owners because you only hear them complaining about the PS3 version, completely ignoring pop-in, frame-rate issues, yearly fees, RROD and massive dithering on "other" SKUs, disregarding the possibility of getting a patch on both consoles (one for fixing the online part of the game on PS3, and the other for fixing RROD on 360... oh wait).