Is Microsoft afraid of Killzone?

Mitchell - 348 days 11 hours ago

Microsoft should be very scared, since Killzone 2 appears to have gameplay which lives up to it's astounding visuals, and cannot be done on the 360.

Best console visuals without a sweat, promising gameplay, 32-player online, promised DLC, no install, and massive hype. I bet even Nintendo got a chill down their spine.

Killzone 2 will be the official mark of a tide changed in Sony's favor. Simply buying exclusive games/content will NOT save Microsoft in 2009.

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kharma45 - 348 days 11 hours ago

Having been in the beta, I can say the online is fantastic, it plays really well.

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DaKid - 348 days 11 hours ago

While I agree that KZ2 looks amazing, and is going to be hella fun. i think you missed my point, I am certain that neither company is scared of just one game be it MS or Sony. One game will not change anything, what will though is the long term lineup and future planing. MS has known about KZ2 for a long time now, just like Sony knew of MS announcements and each company plans accordingly. Trust me ;-)

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marinelife9 - 348 days 11 hours ago

I have to disagree with you Dakid. Halo (one game) defined the original Xbox. Most people didn't have any other game but Halo.

The article brought up some interesting points.

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dachiefsman - 348 days 11 hours ago

he did miss your point cause mitchell has a one track mind: Sony good, MS bad.

I agree with your original post though, competition is better for the end user in the end.

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DaKid - 348 days 10 hours ago

Halo did define the Xbox, and I did indeed buy it for the game. But do you think Sony or Nintendo were scared when Halo, Halo 2, or Halo 3 released?

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Sarcasm - 348 days 10 hours ago

I understand what Dakid is saying.

No logical company should be afraid of just a single game.

Infact, I always believe what pulls people towards Playstation is a variety of top quality exclusive games. And folks, that's going to be Killzone 2, God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, Uncharted 2, etc. etc. *usual list of PS3 exclusives*

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TheExecutive - 348 days 10 hours ago

Easy there Mitchell, although you may be correct that is a big claim you are making...

Sure MS doesnt want to see this game come out. It proves that the PS3 is technically superior to their console. It appears the gameplay is there to back it up too.

I doubt Ninetendo cares, they are way way too busy counting money.

However, to say it will turn the tide is a little hasty. A 199 ps3 will turn the tide... possibly a 299 but that is iffy.

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morganfell - 348 days 9 hours ago

Absolutely they are afraid. The only thing they have is HALO Wars and they just announced at CES they are moving that up 3 days to release on Feb 28th - as close to Killzone 2 as they can get.

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The Killer - 348 days 9 hours ago

and i dont like darkness, if only there was some variety then it would have been great, KZ2 technically is a master peace but i still have to see videos of other than darkness to decide if it will change the tides of the console war or not!!

i didnt like Gears of war and i didnt like doom 3 and any other dark shooter game, thats just my opinion!

i really wish KZ2 had more colors, like some forest and desert and snow, that will be amazing!! we go the idea that first we have to fight them in their towns but later there must be some missions in the wild!

but KZ2 with HDTV will make an experience that is not experienced before.

and what will really change the tides of the war is ps3 at 299!!

EDIT

MS will fail to counter KZ2 because they love to rush their titles just to counter any ps3 new releases and never give the Devs enough time to polish Halo Wars thats why it will have many flows and remember that i said it first!

if u agree bubble me up, i lost 2 bubble for no reason!

EDIT 2

and i really hope they release a better AI by the game release date! a game with such quality and money spend they should have made a very solid AI and that it can be controlled by the difficulty on how intelligent is the enemies!

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mint royale - 348 days 9 hours ago

MS have moved Halo wars release date slightly to compete. Doesn't mean they are afriad and nor does it mean the nintendo or sony are afraid if they do the same thing.

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evrfighter - 348 days 8 hours ago

While it's true that Halo may have defined the xbox. You have to remember this was because it was the first game to bring pc-like online play to the table. Haze could have had Halo like success if it was the first to accomplish this. Unfortunatly I don't believe Killzone 2 can bring anything to the table like the original Halo did. I don't think eye candy alone is gonna do it. Eye candy also has also proven that it's not a major factor in selling games. (see crysis) (see l4d vs. Far cry 2)

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Sitdown - 348 days 8 hours ago

ever heard of the word "strategy"? How about the word "respect"? Could it not just be that because Microsoft respects the potential of Killzone 2 that they have implement a strategy to kill some of its buzz.

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jwatt - 348 days 8 hours ago

I don't care what you people say but I think MS is a little worried about Killzone but the same thing happen with Sony last year. Last year when gta 4 was being released Sony threw out A Dual shock and gt prologue to help push sells because I think they were a little worried about GTA4 pushing more hardware on the 360.

Now this year you got SF4 and resident evil both Sony and Ms want to push more hardware with these titles. Sony put Killzone in betwwen both of these games to push more hardware and Ms is trying to push gta dlc and Halo wars around the same time but it seems like they were wating for Sony to make an announcement for Kilzone's release dates and demos. It is competion but I also see ms a little worried about Killzone by waiting untill after sony makes there announcements.

I do think MS has a big advantage of having a cheaper console and they might promote gta dlc more than Sony promotes Killzone.

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Homicide - 348 days 8 hours ago

Microsoft has Halo. 'Nuff said.

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BRG9000 - 348 days 8 hours ago

I see what DaKid means and agree. Yes, Killzone will probably be a huge boon for PS3 and Sony. But "afraid" is not really an accurate word to use in a competitive marketplace, especially about one product. Sure Microsoft will continue to try to one-up Sony as they release one of their biggest titles in a long time. That's good business, not them lashing out in desperation.

To you people saying Microsoft is afraid of Killzone... would you have said Sony was afraid of Gears of War 2? I bet many of you would rather chew off your left arm than make such a statement.

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shawnsl65 - 348 days 7 hours ago

no company should be afraid of 1 game, it's like a boxer punching another boxer with 1 hit, but when a company tosses a whole bunch of killers in a row.. it's like a 1 2 3 4 5 6 hit combo and maybe knock out (well in the PS2 generation anyways). Just an example ^_^ (not gonna happen this generation anytime soon it seems if at all).

Anyways MS will make better games maybe trying to hit kz2 level, then Sony will make even better ones then Ms makes better better ones, ETC.

In the end, we as gamer should be sitting happily playing all the awesome games. Win WIn WIN!

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IdleLeeSiuLung - 348 days 6 hours ago

If you are a fanboy, you can call it fear. For everyone else not blinded by fanboyism, it is a smart business move. Pre-emptively strike...

Once could also say, Sony released LBP right before Gears 2 so they must be scared of Gears.... I would also like to point out that they are different genre games all togheter, so it might not have anything to do at all.

So stop reading the latest pro Sony (or MS) blog and rehash it here as truths. If you firmly believe KZ2 will utterly distroy MS, then let the numbers speak in February. I do hope KZ2 does well, because competition is good.

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herbaldoctor7 - 348 days 6 hours ago

i would be.

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MasFlowKiller - 348 days 5 hours ago

They Got halo wars the same week

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Rhoic - 348 days 4 hours ago

"Killzone 2 will be the official mark of a tide changed in Sony's favor. Simply buying exclusive games/content will NOT save Microsoft in 2009."

Wasn't this stated for 2008 for Little Big Planet, Haze, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Resistance 2?

And then again in 2007 when all the titles were announced and then delayed?

Microsoft doesn't have anything to worry about. Even their really crappy games sell well.

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JeffGUNZ - 348 days 4 hours ago

How can they be scared? KZ2 is coming out on the PS3, not the 360. People who have a 360 arn't playing PS3 with or without awful halo wars coming out. I mean come on, I love the 360, but Halo is awful and Halo Wars is going to be even worse. I personally believe all the 360 users will be contenpt playing Gears 2 or CoD or even Halo while people who own a PS3 will play KZ2 during the winter. This article is pathetic.

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sretlaw - 348 days 4 hours ago

It's pretty much all MS does though. Sony sets it, MS follows. Pretty much everything from the creation of the 360 to this is Microsoft just waiting to react against Sony. Sony does whatever the hell they want, and MS tries to respond every time. HDMI, 1080p...MS just stares at what others are doing and responds.

MS Strategy: OMG Sony is making Home, that looks SOOOO cool, lets release something we can make before they release with very little features so we can make it quicker...NXE!!! Good, now we can keep our XBL subscribers happy for another month.

Now I'm not saying MS is scared, they just know how whip their developers to cut corners so that they can attempt to neutralize whatever Sony brings out. While Sony sits around thinking of what to do next, MS is sitting there thinking, "What do you think Sony's doing?"

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Cenobia - 348 days 2 hours ago

The Helghan live on a seperate planet, not just a different town. It would be unrealistic if they had the same weather variations as Earth. It is supposed to be very hard to live their, which is why the Helghast are slightly mutated (they evolved to live their).

There is supposedly different environments, they just haven't shown them yet. Same for the AI. They've only shown a couple of levels, and the AI was likely toned down so people could actually get through it.

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Consoldtobots - 348 days 1 hour ago

I fail to understand this mentality this generation, the market is big enough for three consoles. Why one corporation would want to eliminate one of the competitors and probable even the other one too, it makes you wonder just what Microsoft is after.

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The Killer - 348 days 1 hour ago

in what u said i agree with u 100%

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Sitdown - 348 days ago

"It's pretty much all MS does though. Sony sets it, MS follows. Pretty much everything from the creation of the 360 to this is Microsoft just waiting to react against Sony....While Sony sits around thinking of what to do next, MS is sitting there thinking, "What do you think Sony's doing?""

Ohhh, so what you are saying is that Microsoft stole trophies from Sony...and just changed the name to "achievements". Ohh, and I had no idea the psn store existed before market place. And you mean that guide button on my 360 controller actually existed first on my ps3 controller. And the video download service was the product of Sony first? Hdd shipping with your console? Sony did that first? Anyhow.....if you are going to make a point please do so without stretching the truth....feel free to list all the stuff that you feel Microsoft copied from Sony.

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buy a ps3 - 347 days 22 hours ago

true but it's what Killzone 2 could prove that Microsoft in scared of.

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The Lazy One - 347 days 15 hours ago

Don't forget all those times M$ had to cut price to make up for a PS3 price cut... like that one time back in... rrr...

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oh wait... I was thinking of that time the PS3 had to cut price twice in 6 months... my bad...

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SHAKIMAT - 347 days 12 hours ago

the answer is: NO, MICROSOFT IS NOT AFRAID OF "KILLZONE", MICROSOFT LAUGHS AT IT.

please visit my N4G blog: http://www.n4g.com/up/71218...

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Aaron Greenturd - 348 days 8 hours ago

Remember the first time a bully got in your face at the bus stop? Or the first time a hot young girl rejected you because you were "allegedly stalking" her?

That's how scared my company is on this one. We have done everything to prepare for the launch of this game:

1. We made multi-million dollar deals with large media conglomerates
2. We made more multi-million dollar deals with large media conglomerates
3. We brainwashed an entire generation of young males to believe that somehow, Sony "deserves what they get"; little do they know they are protecting Satan himself (me)
4. Showered media outlets with negative ps3 news
5. Release propaganda news statements about a ps3 price drop soon, when in reality, we have no idea how and when Sony will drop the hammer on us
6. We've made E3 2005 the top ranked search on Google, Yahoo, and MSN
7. We've employed my cousin, Marc Doyle, as head of Metacritic (if he can't fix reviews, no one can)

The top execs for my company will be leaving soon for their personal fallout bunkers, designs taken specifically from the game "Fallout", so we can emerge 200 years later and dominate the console market.

Our father, who art in heaven.....

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ThanatosDMC - 348 days 5 hours ago

HAHAHAH! That was great!

@ Ryudo

It's not ants but GIANT CRABS!!!

Anyway, i seems that Sony is doing things at their own pace and ignoring their "competition" and the competition is really acting like an ex-gf that keeps nagging you for attention. Irritating.

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Cheeseknight28 - 347 days 17 hours ago

I'm thinking MGS4 was a bit more important to the PS3 than KZ2... an establish franchise that even semi-hardcore gamers have heard of vs. a sequel to a game that sold and preformed poorly on the PS2.

I mean, KZ2 might be the greatest game ever made, but if no one knows about it (And believe me, everyone I've asked has no clue) then how does Sony expect it to sell? Wouldn't it be smarter to put the demo up for everyone to download on PSN, rather than pre-order only? Anyone who pre-orders the game probably has an idea of what the game is; whereas a general PS3 owner browsing the PSN marketplace may come across it, download it, and tell all his other PS3 owning buddies to go get it.

This game better receive a better marketing campaign than Resistance 2 or LittleBigPlanet, but unfortunately I haven't seen anything of the sort start yet.

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butbutbuttehcell - 348 days 11 hours ago

U can't say stuff like that on this site. Ur not allowed to suggest that Killzone 2 won't be immense I'm afraid. Everyone with a PS3 seems to know prior to it's release that it's amazing, many of who haven't played it. Graphics are one thing, gameplay is another. It's got the best graphics, but no1 not many people know what the single player is like. If this game gets 7 or 8 then it'll be a surprise cos it looks amazin but people will say all sorts of things like Microsoft paying people, the media hating Sony etc, just because people give their honest opinion of it. I'm predicting it'll get better than that (probably 95) but the backlash if it doesn't will be huge because so many people think they know that a game will be good before they've played it.

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Kufi- - 348 days 10 hours ago

FFXIII.. Only playable on PS3 nobody know how will it look on Xbox360.. it will be downgraded becouse 360 cant handle it thats why there is no playable demo on 360.

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gamesmaster - 348 days 10 hours ago

i see your point omega, but i do believe the game has immense potential to be great, only with that comes a massive potential of failure. however to say when the reviews and sales come in you will see.. is just abit narrow minded really. it sounds like you've doomed this game already in your head so how can it ever win you over?

let me ask you this, do you want it to flop or do very well?

as an owner of a 360 from launch and a ps3 from christmas i'm really excited about this title and i hope it does well because its another great game in already great library of games we can play today. theres is hating on a game because its a bad game (which we dnt know yet) and then theres hating on a game because you hate the company it represents. dont write it off yet you may enjoy it. i'm not laying into you at all just saying, be open minded, thats all.

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NickIni - 348 days 10 hours ago

Afraid? No they shouldn't be afraid. But they should be concerned. Killzone 2's graphics are stunning, and can't be done on the 360. We don't even know if that's the limit the PS3 can put out graphically. It makes the 360 look outdated.

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Omega4 - 348 days 10 hours ago

"let me ask you this, do you want it to flop or do very well?"

The thing is i dont 'want' it to flop i just 'expect' it to flop and the reason for that is because its seems that the hype of this game is solely based around its graphics, not the fact that it has innovative gameplay, not the fact the the devs behind it have a great track record of making AAA games but purely on the fact that it has great graphics. And because of that i can see a lot of people getting very disappointed when the reviews hit, but who knows maybe hype will fuel high scores it worked for GTAIV

And now let me ask you a question and any other PS3 supporter, would you be the slight bit interested in Killzone 2 if it DIDNT have good graphics?

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Graphics Whore - 348 days 10 hours ago

*Looks at Bungies video game development history*

Yeah, I think you can quiet down now.

It's an advantage that Xbox 360 has yet to prove, so it makes it all the while more interesting.

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heyheyhey - 348 days 10 hours ago

"And now let me ask you a question and any other PS3 supporter, would you be the slight bit interested in Killzone 2 if it DIDNT have good graphics?"

COD4-beating online mode, immersive gameplay, intense atmosphere, great animation, physics, destructability, makes SIXAXIS relevant again.... more than i can say for Halo 3

but i guess you wouldn't know that... being ignorant as you are.. mind if i quote you on the whole "KZ2 will fail" statement?

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Deadman64 - 348 days 8 hours ago

Yeah I mean the first killzone did some serious damage right?? lol.

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borgome - 348 days 8 hours ago

The game looks like BOB

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pixelsword - 348 days 5 hours ago

...which didn't stop the second one from being a success.

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ravinshield - 348 days 3 hours ago

why the f**k would microsoft want to talk about a tittle that is not from them.stupid FONY girls

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NewZealander - 348 days 2 hours ago

as a 360 owner i hope MS are afraid of killzone, i hope MS lose sleep thinking about the impact this game could make, because the more they realise that sony are pulling out the big guns then the more MS might try to combat it with somthing of their own.

MS has been lacking any real big game news of late, killzone just may be the wake up call they need, because as a 360 owner im not seeing anything worth playing on xbox so far for 09.

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Daurelus17 - 347 days 21 hours ago

i dont think they are.

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GiantEnemyLobster - 347 days 21 hours ago

I wonder how the PStards are going to take it.

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Sam Fisher - 347 days 20 hours ago

ima say killzone is going to rape (trust me there is no bigger killzone hater than me). and anyways i rather choose a fps than a f***ing strategy game any day.

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Jason 360 - 347 days 11 hours ago

Remember the hype around the first Killzone? that game sure turned out to be an Xbox killer.

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NewZealander - 348 days 2 hours ago

as a xbox owner no i am not personaly afraid of killzone, to be afraid of another console having a decent game would be pathetic.

but i hope MS is taking notes, because if they want to do well in 09 then they need to show somthing new and fresh, at this stage it looks like they are handing 2009 to sony on a silver platter.

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Graphics Whore - 348 days 10 hours ago

Ahah, it hardly raped anything compared to how bad Wii is sticking every body.

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Rs - 348 days 8 hours ago

Btw I don't need a barking to signal me of who I am. I know myself better then anybody out there. And, here I am taking a sh!tdump on xbots!

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BLUR111 - 348 days 1 hour ago

but how many people are really playing the wii?

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 348 days 8 hours ago

Halo Wars demo on Feb. 5th...

...same day as the KZ2 demo.

Coincidence?

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FFXI101 - 348 days 3 hours ago

Frankly, your opinion doesn't matter to us SONY fans either.

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Chippydip - 348 days 5 hours ago

hahaha. littlebigplanet and killzone 2 are two unprecedented games... and yeah, littlebigplanet HAS moved a lot of consoles.

it was never the big threat. but redefining high def is what sony does best, and yeah... this time around microsoft really SHOULD do all it possibly can to mitigate any damage.

Microsoft is scared because Sony has just declared Next Generation's Beginning. Killzone 2 will put developers to shame for producing their subpar IPs

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Rampant - 347 days 17 hours ago

I'm going to remember this for npd month after Killzone 2.

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PeptoBismol - 348 days 2 hours ago

says the dumbass who only plays halo

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snipermk0 - 347 days 19 hours ago

ROFLMFAO pepto.. that was a good one!

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sennasnit - 347 days 16 hours ago

All FPS are virtually the same, you have a Halo avatar so therefore you like FPS end of argument... you my friend ARE afraid of Killzone

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