There should be no doubt at all that Microsoft have this year put together a fantastic line-up of titles for 360 owners. The traditional fourth quarter influx of festive releases started earlier than usual this year, with titles such as Halo 3, Skate, Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect and PGR4 all jostling for prime position on shop shelves everywhere right now.
But what of 2008?
Snippets include Daytona USA reborn, Japanese game development and the death of Halo!
Bit-Tech: Perhaps the biggest surprise was that the tide of console gamers is a cultural phenomenon which does not appear to cross every border. According to NPD's research, while the UK has the highest incidence of console usage out of all the markets analysed Germany boasts the biggest number of PC gamers.
France, meanwhile, is clinging on to dedicated hand-held consoles like the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PlayStation Portable at a time when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets.
"when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets."
you mean like japan, europe or the US where the 3ds is breaking records?
People are ditching the 3DS so fast in the US, 3ds sales have doubled over ds first year sales and the year isnt even over.
No source, no truth
who approved this garbage?
but 250 million global online PC Gamers say other wise.
Everyone with a Gaming PC can play Wii Games so does that mean the world is a Wii Nation?
I think people just enjoy Games and it really doesn't matter the platform.
Console Nation, PC Universe, iPhone Realm, doesn't matter just enjoy your Games.
Considering most PC Gamers will own 1 or more consoles , declaring the UK as a "console nation" is complete and utter bollox.
owning a console and playing the occasional game once in a blue moon doesnt make you a console gamer. Just like owning a pc and maybe playing some random flash game doesnt make you a pc gamer. Alot of pc gamers bought ps3s, its a blu-ray player and media hub that plays games.
I'm from the UK and game on nearly every platform I can think of.
But yes in general I'm more thumbs than fingers when It comes to my games.
Remember in December of last year when Paul Christoforo became the pariah of the internet? Ocean Marketing was at the center of a scandal that took the internet by storm after Christoforo exchanged rude, angry emails with a customer of Avenge Controllers, for whom Christoforo was providing customer service. I recently had the chance to speak with Paul about the whole ordeal and what his life has been like since.
With the upcoming release of the Star Wars Themed Console, GameExchangeShop.com takes a look at reasons to get excited for the game and looks of the console.
That does look sick and the sound is even more awesome. Too bad the darn Xbox 360 is so expensive still.
When the Wii U drops the xbox prices will take a serious nose dive. Hopefully they still have that particular one floating around retail.
since N4G has been on a 360 headhunt for the past couple of days.
could on say....karma?
oh snap~
"We know the graphical capabilities of the 360 can match, and sometimes surpass that of the PS3 thanks to it’s beefy 512mb 1-2 punch."
Priceless...how this guy still think xbox360 can be on par graphically with PS3..
First party developers abandoning MS for multiplatform development
No end in sight for the hardware failures
Dead in Japan and Europe
Racking up losses at the same rate as the first Xbox fiasco
Execs getting fired
Almost completely silent on any plans beyond 2007
HD-DVD dead, 360 no longer serves a purpose in trying to defeat BluRay
Bye bye Xbox, hello Vista Exclusive Gaming...
Great article, the Xbox 360 has a bright future for 2008 with even more AAA titles being released, both in retail and in XBLA. It will be another great year for the Xbox 360
lol... We know whats comming MSFT doesn't have to announce anything to Sony fanboys.
Don't spam up this thread with way off topic BS. Sony has to boast about the future they always have. Its the only way they can market the console by hyping PS3 games comming out in 2008 and 2009. What good does it do MSFT hyping games comming out in 2008 and 2009 when they don't have problems selling their console?.
Using games comming out in 2008 and beyond makes for a poor sales pitch for MSFT as it wouldn't be fair to devs making games now(wonder if this is part of the reason PS3 attach rates are poor).