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Xbox 360: Fall 360 Update Fix Coming
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Good news and bad news. The bad news is that the update is bricking some consoles, the good news is that Microsoft is on the case and hopes to have the problem fixed with a dash update soon.
Video Game Law Blog — Fall-Update “Brick” Class Action Brought Against Microsoft
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Microsoft has been sued over an allegation that its XBox 360 Fall Update (ie: a mandatory XBox 360 download) caused a total system malfunction (turned the units into “bricks”) for some users.
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and heavenly sword, which got mediocre reviews
Heavenly Sword (ps3: 2007): Reviews
I guess a 79 on metacritic means mediocre
Wouldn't that make Lost Odyssey (78) and Blue Dragon (79) mediocre especially when you stated Blue Dragon is highly recommended. Maybe you should play Heavenly Sword first I guess.
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yes but neither was hyped up as being "a big game". they were more like surpise/sleeper hits. sony wasnt even showing games in their commercials when those games came out.. bad marketing!
Racthet and Clank and Uncharted had their own commercial playing constantly on tv, Here they are since you probably choose not to remember it:
Gametrailers.com - Ratchet & Clank (PS3) - 60 Second TV Spot
YouTube - Uncharted Commercial
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source? the only thing i could find was that it sold a million copies in it's first month, and that by September they had shipped 1.5million copies. I find it really hard to believe that 500k or fewer were sold in the following 10 months, especially after the awards and praise started leaking out.
Take 2 Games - Investor Relations General Information
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BioShock®, a wholly owned and internally developed title for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows® shipped over 2.2 million units since its debut in late August.
This was since June 5th 2008 so only 700K were shipped out since then. Not saying Bioshock is a bad game as it is an awesome game and I wish it sold more.
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Nope. They sold at the same pace until week 59, when the PS3 started selling at a faster pace.
360 sold better in US and didn't beat PS3 anywhere else. Worldwide PS3 always sold better than 360. Sometimes marginally better and then later on a lot better. If MS had came out the same time as PS3 people would have a choice. The year lead is the reason why the 360 is where it is. IF it came out at the same time it would have started in third and stayed in third among next gen consoles. When given the choice people have went Wii, PS3 and then 360.
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The attach rate of the ps3 is nearly HALF that of the 360, and also lower than the Wii(which everyone claims doesn't sell software.. fact is that it does.). the numbers referenced are 2 months old..so should be pretty accurate unless something dramatic happened since then.
Attach rate numbers are great. Did you know that if a game is sold with the system it counts as a 1 game attached? Hence Wii Sports helps and also throw in that Wii Play sells a lot since it has a controller with it and thats already two less games on their attach rate. 360 has a decent attach rate because XBLA games count as well. Let me not go there because I don't want to seem like I'm taking anything away from the 360 since they do have decent attach rates. Also the numbers you quote which are Xbox 360 7.5 games, followed by the Wii at 5.3, DS at 4.7, PS3 at 4.6, and PSP at 4.2.
PS3 Trails Wii and 360 in Attach Rate, According to NPD
These are numbers from NPD which only tracks US data. This isn't worldwide its for the US which is where the 360 is at its best.How about this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/te...in&oref=slogin
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The average Wii owner buys only 3.7 games a year, compared with 4.7 for Xbox 360 owners and 4.6 for PlayStation 3 owners, said a Wedbush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter. “It reflects the broadening of the demographic,” he said. “Nintendo’s market doesn’t feel the same sense of urgency to buy every game that’s coming out.”
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so now you show a demo for a game that isn't out and say it's out because the demo is. good marketing for sony, i guess.. if people fall for it.
Still a "demo" that has more than some full racing games that charge you $60. You just hate everything Sony and even though you were wrong about the commercial you try to spin it now that oh they suck for showing that.
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thats good and i hope they get it as good as Live so MS has to drop their subscription model..
Why would MS drop it? You pay for it and do you even know what your paying for?
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..and lets not forget how much sony had to bleed themselves to get it to an attractive price point.
So did MS. Only Nintendo is the only one that didn't have to lose money on their console. Don't forget that the 360 is dropping the price again to spur some sales because once again people are choosing the higher priced system for a reason.
You hate Sony and the PS3 so I don't expect you to be unbiased with your opinion and reporting of "facts" as you call them.
