Halo CE Anniversary edition

[Karma]

Yup I'm certain

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Wow...that changes my whole world. Lol....so when the PS5 comes out we could very well be looking at a Gears of War trilogy HD collection??

 

[The Josh]

Nah, I still doubt it. Heck by the time that happens Microsoft could own Epic.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Yeah I'm just being facetious. Microsoft doesn't play around with sure moneymakers. They'd have no problems paying whatever it takes to keep Gears exclusive.

 

[The Josh]

Yeah, Bill ain't gonna lose any money he doesn't have to lose.

 

[karamazov80]

Its owns the whole thing. There is 0% chance Halo is going to ever be on the PS3 or any PS system.

I don't know the state of video gaming all that well, but if Microsoft decides to bow out of the industry at some point, I could see them just developing software for other companies. Happened with Sega.

 

[The Josh]

I don't know the state of video gaming all that well, but if Microsoft decides to bow out of the industry at some point, I could see them just developing software for other companies. Happened with Sega.

Well, if the decide to get out then that changes things of course. However, my post is based on the current climate of the video game world and until they do its 0% chance. I'm not sure Microsoft will get out of making a console either since they're the top dog and have been for several years now.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

What Josh said. That and Microsoft has seemingly endless $$$ to drop on hardware and development.

~~I almost want to predict that we'll see Apple trying to make another console in the next couple of years. But this is just conjecture and way off topic.

 

[mfoga]

What Josh said. That and Microsoft has seemingly endless $$$ to drop on hardware and development.

~~I almost want to predict that we'll see Apple trying to make another console in the next couple of years. But this is just conjecture and way off topic.

Ohh a trendy game console.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Well, if the decide to get out then that changes things of course. However, my post is based on the current climate of the video game world and until they do its 0% chance. I'm not sure Microsoft will get out of making a console either since they're the top dog and have been for several years now.

Not in Asia or parts of Europe

I'm surprised Mickrosoft let Mass Effect and Bioshock go, they're big franchises, why didn't they buy them out?

 

[The Josh]

I don't expect them to be top dog in Asia since thats Sony's home turf and bits and pieces of the EU aren't a big deal either really.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I don't expect them to be top dog in Asia since thats Sony's home turf and bits and pieces of the EU aren't a big deal either really.

Wow, it's comments like this that make people think Americans are arrogant.

So parts of Europe just doesn't count to you?

 

[feeter]

Wow, it's comments like this that make people think Americans are arrogant.

So parts of Europe just doesn't count to you?

well if it included Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Greece then I would say no

 

[The Josh]

Wow, it's comments like this that make people think Americans are arrogant.

So parts of Europe just doesn't count to you?

Didn't say that. You're reading far too much into it.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Didn't say that. You're reading far too much into it.

I think we're getting way off topic now, but did anyone really doubt that 360 sales in Japan were significant?? While they tried, MS was fighting a losing battle from the beginning. This article just proves it:

The Xbox 360's life appears to be coming to an end in Japan, with hardware sales falling, retailers beginning to turn their back on the console, and the system's last high-profile Japanese exclusive headed to PlayStation 3.

In June, Microsoft announced that Japanese Xbox 360 sales had finally passed 1.5 million units since the system's release in 2005, but that should not be taken as a sign that its fortunes are improving. Media Create data for the year to date puts Xbox 360 hardware sales at just 72,721 units, a drop of 46.7 per cent on the same period last year. Sales of its rival, Sony's PlayStation 3, have also fallen year on year, but only by 17.1 per cent, to 735,637 units.

The slump in sales has, we understand, caused many Japanese videogame retailers to contemplate dropping the Xbox 360 altogether. Geo, the nation's largest specialist retailer, is drastically scaling back its Xbox 360 business, and staff at electronics retailer Yamada Denki in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, confirmed that the company is removing hardware and software from the majority of its stores nationwide, and is selling off its remaining stock at a heavy discount. It will still sell the console and games, but only in selected stores where the system continues to be sufficiently popular.

In Tokyo's smaller, specialist stores, Xbox 360 consoles and games are beginning to appear in bargain bins, or "wagon sales". Games can be had for as little as ¥100 (79p), with one store selling the Halo: Reach hardware bundle for ¥9,980 (£79.30).

Perhaps the biggest indicator of the Xbox 360's struggles in Japan is the fate of The Idolmaster. Namco Bandai's pop-star management game, first released in arcades in 2005, was an Xbox 360 exclusive, its 2007 release reportedly causing a rush of new Xbox Live signups and a sharp increase in sales of Microsoft Points.

While PSP and DS releases followed, it was Microsoft's last high-profile console exclusive, and a sequel was released in February. It sold 34,621 copies in the week of its release, entering the Japanese all-formats chart at number ten, but the following week, it did not even make the top 40. The 2009 PSP release sold around 122,000 copies in its first week, and was in the top 40 for five weeks in total.

As such it was no surprise when, late last month, Namco Bandai announced that it would be porting Idolmaster 2 to PlayStation 3, with the Xbox 360 version's DLC included.

With mobile games increasingly popular in Japan - the sector's rise driven by mobile social networks like Gree and Mobage - cross-platform connectivity is becoming increasingly important as companies seek to protect their traditional sources of revenue.

Sony is becoming increasingly aware of this, with the upcoming Monster Hunter HD, the first game released for PS3 as part of the PSP Remaster series, allowing a single save file to be shared between PS3 and PSP. Microsoft, of course, has no portable console. With PSP still selling in huge numbers in Japan, and Vita set for release before the end of the year, it's little surprise that publisher eyes are drawn towards Sony: after all, cross-platform play means selling two games instead of one.

Kinect has done much to extend the 360's life in the west, sales of 8 million units in its first 60 days seeing it awarded a Guinness World Record, named the fastest-selling consumer electronics device of all time. In Japan, it was outsold on launch by PlayStation Move - no great surprise given PS3's far larger installed base - with one retailer saying shortly after launch that, far from helping sell the console to a wider audience, it was only being bought by existing Xbox 360 owners.

While the console's gradual disappearance from store shelves does not prevent gamers making their purchases online - indeed, it is our understanding that Amazon now handles a substantial proportion of Japanese Xbox 360 software sales - it does complicate things for Microsoft.

With an Xbox 360 successor widely accepted to be released in 2014, the firm may struggle to convince Japanese retailers to stock and prominently display the console when they have a decade's worth of proof that higher returns are available elsewhere.

Microsoft clearly still holds the Japanese market in high regard - just last month it appointed Takashi Sensui as head of the newly formed Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB), leaving him to focus almost exclusively on Xbox 360. While reports at the time implied a lighter load for Sensui - his previous remit also covered Windows and Office software - perhaps the reshuffle was in recognition of the onerous task he faces to revive the console's ailing fortunes.

https://www.next-gen.biz/news/xbox-360-dead-japan

 

[NosferatuBill36]

Didn't say that. You're reading far too much into it.

Don't mind him. He's an advent Sony slave. Check his posts. He hates the 360(again, check his posts) and was clearly engaging in entrapment.



I tried to have an intelligent conversation with him, but I had to do all the thinking for him so it was a waste of time on my part.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Don't mind him. _He's an advent Sony slave. _Check his posts. He hates the 360(again, check his posts) and was clearly engaging in entrapment.



I tried to have an intelligent conversation with him, but I had to do all the thinking for him so it was a waste of time on my part.

Yeah by all mean check my posts...

So is this coming to PS3 like Bioshock, Mass Effect and Condemned did?

But the same was said about those games, they were exclusive to xbox

So it owns the Franchise and not just the publishing rights?

You seem to be the guys to ask...

Is Gears of War owned by Microsoft or Epic Games?

Those are the only two that really interest me on the 360

Not in Asia or parts of Europe

I'm surprised Microsoft let Mass Effect and Bioshock go, they're big franchises, why didn't they buy them out?

WOW the sheer amount of insults, offensive langauge and trolling in those posts would make a sailor blush, it's either that or NosferatuBill36 is trying to start ____ over a debate in another thread from like a week ago
Seems i'm lot allowed in the videogames Section with him around.

If he'd bothered to read my posts he'd see i was simply asking calm enquiring questions about these games ownership.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I think we're getting way off topic now, but did anyone really doubt that 360 sales in Japan were significant?? While they tried, MS was fighting a losing battle from the beginning. This article just proves it:

True and the Japanease are apparently big into JRPG's, the PSP has a ton of them, i think the PSP only lasted in JP because of them games.

But back into Halo, which is the best Graphic Novel to start with? i had Halo 2 and 3, i never got into the online, but i loved the single player and there's a ton of backstory right?

 

[NosferatuBill36]

is trying to start ____ over a debate in another thread from like a week ago

Well, that IS where you last showed your true colors.

Of course you're not going to post your biased crap. Why would you?

But please, continue to be a hypocrite...



WHat a little lying sack of **** you are. lol

Here's some of your classic stuff:

In terms of each console exclusives it goes like this:

PS3 Exclusives > 360 Gear of War

Because other than GOW, everything else is crap.

Fable the Journey = smiley
6th Halo game = smiley X2
Forza 4 = smiley X3
Kinect = smiley infinity lol

So they each have positives and negatives but the fact is...

PS3 has more games = better
PS3 lasts longer = better
360 online = better (but costs money)
Arcade = equal

PS3 = Better!

Try to debunk this as not fact...

PS3 has more exclusives than the 360, cross-platform games release on both consoles. Therefore PS3 has more games... FACT!

If it was 360 with more that would be fact too, fanboyism means nothing

And this is the PS3 thread, you're here to talk about the PS3 in a positive or negative manner, but moslty positive, so everyone is fanboy.

You can call me a fanboy all you want, but i won't support the 360 after buying a console that broke & getting a replacement which broke.


Now do you remember, tool?

Do you remember when I taught you the difference between "fact and opinion?" Do you remember?

lol

Such a big fan of Halo, huh? Even though you stated the only game worth a damn is GoW? lol You're a liar and a hypocrite. Stop pretending to play nice.

 

[kain4521]

Guys there is a wonderful thing called the ignore button you might want to use if you cant get along.