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Microsoft: Rivals have been slacking off

MCV: Sony and Nintendo's E3 performance shows they've 'been on an extended vacation' says Xbox boss
journovampire - contributor
Published: 516 days 20 hours ago | News | E3 2008 | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Wii | Gaming | Industry News
 
 

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1 Vojkan | 516 days 23 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Genesis5 - 516 days 22 hours ago
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Yeah I could tell by Junes NPD's how bad they have been slacking.
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Shadow Flare - 516 days 20 hours ago
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LOL

Microsoft instead of spending all this time dissing Sony and co. how about you stop slacking off and start making your own games? Yeah? Yeah Microsoft, been real hard at work ripping everyone off. Mmm. Geez they come out with some stupid comments sometimes. Nintendo slacking off, yeah. But Sony has been showing (and keeps showing) more and more 1st party exclusives. So how about you Microsoft take a lead from Sony and start making your own games?
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StephanieBBB - 516 days 20 hours ago
1.3 - When does the M$ executives learn to shut up?
They are just looking like baboons trash talking like this. What happned to honor or humbleness in victory?

Im ashamed of micrsoft and hope Sony and Nintendo makes them eat those words.
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Jamie Foxx - 516 days 19 hours ago
1.4 - ACTUALLY TOO SHOCKED TO COMMENT
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ChampIDC - 516 days 19 hours ago
1.5 - @1.3
Yeah, some people just don't know how to be humble about victory, and of course they thought they won E3. Everyone thinks they won E3!
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MURKERR - 516 days 19 hours ago
1.6 - DIDNT KNOW
bill gates leaving would have such a dramatic effect with employees having total breakdowns and talking gibberish
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rgun - 516 days 18 hours ago
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Mattrick is such a douchebag. I'm really starting to hate that guy. If you want to see how a CEO should act, look at Jack Tretton! He doesn't say anything bad about his competitors, in fact he has stated that if the competition does well then that means the whole industry benefits and that is a good thing!
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Bubble Buddy - 516 days 18 hours ago
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Did I see the same E3 everyone watched? Cause Microsoft's wasn't anything to piss your pants about.
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whoelse - 516 days 17 hours ago
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What he doesnt know is that Sony have a lot of stuff underwraps that they chose not to reveal at E3. He will be eating his words ;)
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IDemonstalkerXI - 516 days 16 hours ago
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This guy is pure comedy. I lol.
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thePatriot - 516 days 15 hours ago
1.11 - he thinks
buying exclusives and making them multiplat is hard work. creating new IP is hard work.
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iHEARTboobs - 516 days 14 hours ago
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Seriously, why are all these MS guys bashing the PS3? They're outselling you MS, if you had confidence in your product you would let it do the talking. You guys mouthing off makes it seem like that's all you have left. Lets hope not though because competition is good and makes all our games better but just shut up.
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NowGen - 516 days 14 hours ago
1.13 - come on now
its not that serious. why do people take what he said with such anger? if you purchased a ps3 with your hard earned cash, well then why do you give a flying F what anyone says? i love my 360 and admit to be a 360 1st guy. mostly cause everyone i know have it so it makes sense to play most of my games with them rather than strangers. back to my point. knowing what my preference is, i dont believe this guy. well maybe the nintendo part is true. but the sony part...what else is he supposed to say? he's the face and voice of the 360 now. thats his job. but if i know better that what he said is false, the why dont most of the sony only guys notice it and ignore it? i think near to no remarks about this article would be saying a whole lot more about how you feel than to give this statement on minute of your time. just my own opinion.
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RemmM - 516 days 13 hours ago
1.14 - Slacking? pfft They took FFXIII
Like I said, I think thats the reason why MS is doing the talk.
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RemmM - 516 days 13 hours ago
1.15 - ROFL Like I said
MS is just overconfident because of FFXIII. I would'nt count SONY and Nintendo out yet. Besides, truth is MS is slacking on sales. :)
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GarandShooter - 516 days 11 hours ago
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'why do people take what he said with such anger?'

Maybe they're tired of hearing this kind of crap for the last 18 months.

...and it's like someone saying your mother blows goats. She may not but it's going to piss most people off.
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thebudgetgamer - 516 days 8 hours ago
1.17 - (spitting out water)
whaaaaaaaaaa
1.18 dantesparda | 516 days 7 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Fishy Fingers - 516 days 23 hours ago
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Is he talking about a different E3 to the one I watched?
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dude_uk - 516 days 19 hours ago
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no... no fishy..

I think he dreamt this "espectacular" E3 that hes talking about...and suddenly just woke up...

I think the only company on vacation here is MS where they have too much money to spend and just throw it around like its nothing important to them
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thebudgetgamer - 516 days 8 hours ago
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cocaine is a hell of a drug
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antt3 - 516 days 4 hours ago
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Exactly.

And this bit had me laughing pretty hard: "Of course I'm going to be biased..."

No no. Of course not. He's being perfectly reasonable with his assessment. Bah ha ha ha!
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Ashton - 516 days 22 hours ago
3 - MS was not slacking at all,shame on you people....
they were busy copying Sing star, PlayStation eye and Mii .On top of that they had to unload truck full of money to steal games from other platforms,,,,,

how original,,,just like a breath of fresh air

thank god for MS ;),,,such a gift to gaming industry
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Fernando8777 - 516 days 19 hours ago
3.1 - hey
dont forget about about how RROD isnt FIXED YET
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socomnick - 516 days 19 hours ago
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Money talks BS walks.

Dont worry though you will eventually get to play all those delayed sony games.
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supahbad - 516 days 19 hours ago
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yeah and you'll get to play all those... oh wait, just Gears 1.5. nvm
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sidar - 516 days 22 hours ago
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Seriously wtf is it with MS workers and the Nonsense they spit?
Realtime Weapon change makes more sense than this guy =/.
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Steven Colbert - 516 days 19 hours ago
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I agree with you Sidar.He is getting his ass kicked by Nintendo and he isn't doing anything to stop it.
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badz149 - 516 days 19 hours ago
5.1 - know what?
usually, after NPD data released each month, all 3 companies will issue a comment or respond to their performance for that month (usually, they will say they seem pleased!) and talk a little bit about their future plans! after June's NPD, M$ is yet to issue theirs! so much of this Don guy saying that the competitions have dissapointed! they are dissapointed themselves being outsold heavily in their own turf by Sony, let alone Nintendo!

he thinks M$ won E3, he said they'll outsold PS3 this generation and he is assuming that M$ is leading in innovations??! Mii rip off, Singstar rip off, eyetoy rip off and they ripped off BUZZ...please M$, don't even talk about innovations no more or what better is those guys at M$ just need to SHUT THE FVCK UP!!

I really want to have some of whatever they are smoking over there at M$! it seems like a very good portion of crack!
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supahbad - 516 days 19 hours ago
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you said a bad word, but yeah i agree, how many times did they say the word "inovating" during their confrence? it's like they thought if they just said it more it would become true and we would beleive it
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Mike134nl - 516 days 22 hours ago
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Seems like you need to be arrogant to work for sony or microsoft
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Ashta - 516 days 20 hours ago
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"Seems like you need to be arrogant to work for sony or microsoft OR NINTENDO".

There, I fixed your comment. Seriously, if you didn't think that Nintendo's E3 "we're not focusing on the core gamer" presentation wasn't just the most arrogant slap in the face move by a corporation then you, good sir, are blind.

I mean, seriously, Nintendo promised games where I could leap around my living room like a ninja and destroy hoards of baddies with precision motion control! Instead? All we got was stupid ****ing carnival games, a freaking fitness board and low-res SD ports of games that had been released 2 years prior. Oh, and WiiMusic....I can't wait to see and hear all of the musical disasters that people post up on YouTube once that thing lands.

And before anyone posts anything to try and retort or anything:

No More Heroes
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy

There, I've listed all five games that you could possibly list to even convince me that Nintendo even cares about the core gamer and did you notice a pattern? 4 of them were 1st party and they all featured, you guessed it: Mario, Samus, Link.
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kazuma - 516 days 20 hours ago
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hey twilight princess is on the gamecube and that version isn't mirrored =D
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sidar - 516 days 17 hours ago
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Wow WOW!
Because Nintendo promises something and third party developers bring you carnival games its their fault?

How about blaming everyone than i would understand your rant but you just seem to focuss on one company.
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tobin_blade - 516 days 21 hours ago
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They copy - and do it better. Get yourself a 360.... you will never look back.

You must be getting bored of THAT game on the PS3 now?
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Ashton - 516 days 21 hours ago
7.1 - some crazy people here say
No thanks,,,PS3 has some games with unreal engine 3 so they don't need 11000000 variation of same engine for every game.

I know they are crazy,,,they don't understand that UE3 is the best thing since sliced bread. so what PS3 owners they might all look the same but they are a bit different in game play.
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Vito_corleone - 516 days 20 hours ago
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Yes my Master.

No wait.
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Fernando8777 - 516 days 19 hours ago
7.3 - hey
buttercup why dont you go back to playing those miii and leave the harde core gaming to Sony ok
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Fernando8777 - 516 days 19 hours ago
7.4 - and blade
must be getting tired of sending that box back to M$ every month
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baseballkid721 - 516 days 15 hours ago
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LOL i just got a xbox 360 2 months ago, and guess what? i only have 1 game for it(gears of war). i thought i would be playing the 360 everyday since everybody were saying "oh XBL is soo much better", graphics are soo much better" i thought i should give myself a try and see it it lives up to the hype. now im see myself playing the ps3 everyday still since i got my 360. i havent played a game on 360 for almost a month. when i do play 360, its only for like half hour. i still yet have to enjoy my 360...

i played rainbow six vegas 2 on 360 and it was a nightmare. its so much easier to use the PS3 controller for RSV2 because of the D-pad and where its located. i like 360 controllers but its not my choice for FPS that uses the D-pad. i really hope that i find a game worth playing to keep my 360 active but sadly i cant find a game
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englandsbest316 - 516 days 21 hours ago
8 - Exactly how have microsoft ripped off SONY
how can SONY of all people talk about ripping off people? SEGA and NINTENDO were around LONG before sony...... didn't SEGA have the 1st two CD based consoles? (Mega CD and SEGA saturn) didn't nintendo have the first analog pad? (N64 pad) didn't nintendo have rumble 1st? (N64 pad again) everybody borrows other ideas from the competition, its funny how microsoft are accused of ripping off yet PSN now has in game messageing (a rip off of a microsoft idea) ps3 now has trophys (ripping off 360's achievement system) and theres possibly gonna be listening to your own fave music in game (although microsoft have the copyright for that so sony will have to pay royalties)... in conclusion i love it when sony fanboys accuse the competition of RIPPING THEM OFF when thats all that sony have done for the 14 years that they have been in the gaming business
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Ashton - 516 days 20 hours ago
8.1 - this is about E3 announcements
please read the thread ,,,it's not in general,,,and people are saying rip off cause frankly in E3 MS showed a clone of Mii,sing star,and PlayStation eye along with some multiplatform games.so some crazy people here are questioning how was MS E3 innovative?i know they are crazy ;)
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LastDance - 516 days 19 hours ago
8.2 - "yet PSN now has in game messageing "
tell me about it DUDE!!!!!!!! i mean....how can sony think THEY invented the ability to comunicate to another human being WTF?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

When is microsoft going to copy sony and make some decent first party games;)
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thewhoopimen - 516 days 16 hours ago
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Your examples aren't ripoffs. Instant messaging and game messaging have been around since PC online gaming, yes MS brought it in first to the console, but it is not an MS innovation to begin with and it is a natural extension of any online initiative. Trophy achievements have been in games since forever, It is not an MS innovation though they did bring it to the console first as a system wide scoreboard (but again not an innovation but a feature. There isn't any real tangible benefit as far I can see). Since the beginning of time, people have been turning down their in-game music and playing what they want to listen to on their sound system. In-game custom music again is an extension of that feature, not an innovation.
In conclusion, short of achievements, all these features would've made it to the console systems with or without MS's help. You can stop patting MS's butt and your own head.
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X_GAMER_X - 516 days 20 hours ago
9 - Fanboys
bunch of fanboys here i see.
Everybody is copying.
Sony copied live, Harddrive,of/on button,The triggers on a control,achievement,gamercard, videostore. Want more?
Let the best win. Copy is good if u can make a difference
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Mc Fadge - 516 days 20 hours ago
9.1 - There's a limit
And a difference between copying and a needed functionality. For example, triggers are a needed part of a console, not a copy. CDs are an effective method of data storage, not a copy. Having an internet connection, because it would be held over your head if you didn't, not a copy.

I mean, let's look back to before 2.4. Everybody laughed at the PS3, "No in-game XMB! AHAHAHHAAA!". Now, after the PS3 has it, "Can't believe they copied that -hate-hate-hate-". It's stupid

HOWEVER, Avatars on the other hand look soooo similar to Miis it's quite clearly a copy.

And honestly, a power switch is a copy? Please.
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PirateThom - 516 days 19 hours ago
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Microsoft copied:
Dual Analoge sticks
4 shoulder buttons
etc

And Microsoft didn't invent achievements, lots of Sony games on the PS1 had achievements, but like Microsft notmally do, they took the idea, tweeked it slightly and said they invented it (Lips, avatars etc)
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