The media has become more and more predictable this generation and it's easily becoming the one outlet we can all ignore when it comes to reviews. The Vgtilt goes all in against the media and predicts ahead of time what they're going to give Resistance 2.
Xbox 360 launched 18 years ago and was a generation-defining console that invited many people to jump into gaming for the first time and connect with friends around the world. We’re thrilled people continue playing their favorite Xbox 360 games on Xbox 360, or on newer consoles via Backward Compatibility for supported titles.
"we believe in game preservation"
Remember the media reaction when PlayStation wanted to shut down the PS3 store (but then kept it open)... where is that reaction here?
What are you asking? Like, if people got pissed at Sony for that? Because they did. We also got pissed at Nintendo when they did it.
You’re getting a chance to buy what you want before they close it. Moving forward digital stores should work like Steam. It’s just in this beginning they made it platform specific and closed off. A hindsight in their part and it sucks, but what is the percentage of people buying anything off these stores and what is the cost to keep the servers up?
I get it and yes making strives so this isn’t the case every gen we go into is absolutely a must. I mean PSN on PS3 is so convoluted to buy anything since you can’t use a credit card. Vita store is gone. It’s going to go away eventually.
"What are you asking? Like, if people got pissed at Sony for that? Because they did. We also got pissed at Nintendo when they did it."
My point is when PlayStation did this every website under the sun was writing articles talking about how "anti-consumer" it was yet I haven't seen anything like that happening when it's xbox doing it, in fact mostly what I see is praise from media when xbox makes obviously false claims about game preservation while they close down their store and xblig and push for digital only consoles streaming and subscriptions.
What I am asking is for everyone to be criticized or praised equally.
I mean look at the way the PS5 Slim's detachable disk drive was reported, it was super critical. Even though in reality they made it easier for people who initially buy a digital only console to move to physical, it was actually a step away from digital only. But did it get reported like that at all... no.
And you can still buy stuff on PlayStation you just need to add money to your account on the website or a PS4/5.
That reaction isn't here because you can still play Xbox 360 discs of supported BC titles on Series and Xbox One, and you can still buy BC titles on the current Xbox Store.
It still sucks losing access to non-BC titles but don't act like it's the same situation. Let me know when PS5 actually supports my PS3 library.
How are you going to play those discs on your Series S (which 75% of xbox owners have) or your adorably all digital Series X?
And keep in mind that BC on xbox is an extremely limited selection of games, it's less than 25% of retail releases, and way less than the entire catalogue.
It's not a solution for the future, this isn't how "game preservation" looks, it's the fake PR that makes it that much worse.
RIP Xbox 360 digital store and all its games.
It really grinds my gears that they are waiting till 10 days before closing to give the best discounts and the list as of now is 100 or less titles from the massive 360 library
I should have enough points by the weekend to get £25 credit off MS, (hardly ever spend money on xb1), might look at a few of these.
The Xbox 360 store was one of the only advantages the Xbox Series consoles had over the PS5. When I got my series X, I spent more playing Xbox 360 games vs current-gen Xbox games since that was the golden era for Xbox and several titles had enhancements such as 4k resolution and fps boost.
Closing this store will now only benefit the competition.
The xbox360 store is closing on the xbox 360.
Xbox 360 games are unaffected on the xbox one and series consoles.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
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This game will get more 10's than you think. Loving the beta and I was not a huge R1 fan
I'm i the beta aswell, but let's be honest to a fault here... this game isn't going to be well recived past "GOOD". Resistance 2 is good, in fact... I hate to say it, but it's great. It's great and I've only played the MP portion of it and a beta at that.
We've seen what Gears 2 offers.
6 hours of gameplay on the 1st time through, confirmed.
Weak as hell ending boss battle, confirmed.
Weak as hell ending, confirmed.
No tweaks to the animation system, confirmed.
No changes to character maps, confirmed.
16 player online, confirmed
This gets a 10 out of 10.
Resistance kicks its ass in features and gameplay and it'll get 8's... the meta for the game will end with 86% I predict. Wait and see.
He's absolutely right, and his guesses will more than likely be spot on. It's interesting because when you read a review like fable, mass effect or even too human most of the reviews are trying to forgive whatever faults they can and find the pros in a game. When I read PS3 or PSP reviews it's always focusing on the small issues. I don't think it matters to me much I no longer have a 360 and I don't purchase games based on reviews. So although it's a sad state of affairs that the gaming press has created, I could care less.
well if gamespot is microspot.
then gamepro is sonypro. is that about right. because we all know gamepro suck sony b@llz hard.
I love gears to. But I was reading the glitch article and everyone was like ohhj the glitches no problem as long as they fix them in the first couple of weeks. Go over to socom and its ohh they wernt fixed in the retail version burn it : :) now I know there is a small differnce in my comparsion but should gears 2 lose points for glitches? I would love a answer. Becasue the post on the section reflected noone saying it should suffer lower scores Ill I read were 10 10 10 etc. Sorry. Im not anything but a socom fanboy I guess and was a little pissed and chose here to write about it becasue it is true certain games get free passes as some do not.