BBC Technology editor Darren Waters looks back at an eventful year in the world of game consoles.
At the start of 2008 there were three key questions that needed answering about the future of the games industry:
Could the Xbox 360 sustain a lead over the PlayStation 3?
Would anything derail the success of Nintendo?
And could 2008's video games match the heights of 2007?
If you are reading this and pushed for time, then the short answers are Yes, No, Not quite.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Infamous Mr Waters, eh?
Its a THIRD PERSON SHOOTER not FIRST Person Shooter
FPS Fans favourite game was Crysis: Warhead this year.
Playstation 3 was the king since its launch.Maybe next generation Microsoft and Nintendo will get it right
I love GOW2...it seems very fun...I love rolling from Cover to Cover...reminds me of SWBF2...good times-
R2 is still my game of choice of "Shooters" right now-
my favourite are call of duty 5 and gears of war and for ps3 resistance 2 for now