Peter Moore says they're simply being conservative.
In every way, Xbox 360 had outperformed the original Xbox, but despite having a year-long lead on the competition, the machine hasn't exactly sold in gangbusters, as many were predicting. Consequently, Microsoft has quietly scaled back its shipment predictions for June. They had previously aimed for between 13 and 15 million hardware units, whereas now it's simply 12 million, says The Mercury News.
Microsoft exec. Peter Moore, however, says it's the result of the company being conservative, in light of inventory build up at retailers, and to move those consoles would require heavier marketing, which would require more money, and, for now, Moore seems content not taking that step quite yet.
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The Metal Gear series, led by Kojima, pioneered the stealth genre, creating a masterclass in storytelling and gameplay.
No. But MGS5: Ground Zeroes might actually be one of the greatest Game Demo ever, if not the best.
Meh
Great stealth gameplay but the game was just average.
Bland open world that felt lifeless, the story felt shoehorned in, unfinished story etc. The whole thing was just average to me compared to the other main titled games.
I would have rather preferred it if they kept Ground Zeroes for the main game as the opening and the rest of the game turns into a Metal Gear 1 & 2 remake to bring things full circle.
Like hell it is. That was the first time I became aware of being sold an unfinished game and was blown away about blind fanboys saying it was some perfect game.
Yea, the first few chapters were great until they do that thing halfway and make you replay all the missions again. Then little things like capturing animals but only seeing a JPEG unlike 3 where everything was modeled out. Areas were massive, desolate, and boring to look at.
Game was a massive let down for me and the potential was so high for it. Honestly, this was one of the most disappointing games I ever played. What’s worse is it starts off brilliant. You literally play through until you get to the point where you could tell they just stopped developing and then quickly used glue and construction paper to “finish” it and then sold it. Quite frankly, that’s insulting to consumers and fans.
Yes and no. In many ways in was a great game; there's a very strong argument that it has the best gameplay of any MGS game, and that it is one of the more interesting open world "playgrounds" we have gotten, in terms of how the world operates. But as an MGS narrative, it is pretty far down the list, for many reasons.
17 years on from release and 5 years into a botting epidemic, Team Fortress 2 is on its knees, and it's high time Valve stepped in to fix it.
Ah yes, pc gaming aka the bastion of fairness and equity and everlasting online playerbase, all i can say is lmao
Not to mention that these tf2 idiots were the progenitor of mrx in gaming
Mercury News did the full story and 1Up gaming is just talking about it, so read this story also.
http://blogs.mercurynews.co...
COULD IT BE THAT THEY ARE CUTTING BACK BECAUSE NO ONE IS BUYING THEM AND THEY ARE ALL SITTING ON SHELVES? UMMM... YES.
"He said that inventory built up higher than was prudent at retailers in North America and so Microsoft is going to be cautious and scale back both sales expectations and its replenishment rates. "
plain and simple if everyone bought them then there would be none on the shelves and they would send more.. so obviously they have shipped far more then anyone has bought. I think that's really funny. Finally from the mouth of M.soft themselves they say "Whoa... okay guys, we're making too many of them, let's cut back the stores are flooded"
Case in point. Xbox, good night and good luck, the PS3 is starting to gather momentum and when that beast splashes in late 2007 we'll see some serious waves.
I also expected more from the xbox 360, it is just barely selling more than the xbox 1 here in the USA.
http://www.vgcharts.org/usa...
Why is PS3 listed?
It's not moving quickly enough because $300-400 is still a lot of money for a console. I'm surprised they managed to move as many as they have already.