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ras el hanout

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Well done you. I hope you feel proud of your achievement.

Thanks buddy. I do feel proud, not of besting rubberjohnny, that guy's a nobody, but keith is fucking mental. To get him to shut up is a fucking remarkable acheivement on my part.

You can tell he's started to type about 20 posts today and just given up after a few words.

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Boyatsea

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Well I won didn't I? I won the internet and you stopped arguing. And here we are. Give it another go if you want.

It was bizarre. You know, usually you play this 'character', but I genuinely think for a second you came over all serious. Some people said some things you didn't like, and you actually tried to formulate some kind of argument.

It didn't work, of course - you worked yourself into a corner talking about kids not liking Angry Birds, almost without realising, and found you couldn't get back out again - and now you're reverted back to type, but it was interesting to watch while it lasted.

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As an aside, Edge actually summed up what's happening in Industry Focus this month.

The mainstream user is being increasingly engaged further up the content feeding chain by non-dedicated platforms and devices leveraging digital distribution and online service strategies. Thus we are seeing consumers exposed to games daily through contact with Facebook or through the use of smartphones and iPods, undermining the traditional and established channel of mainstream users flowing to the consoles.

As a result, the opportunity for specialist games platforms to engage mainstream users is now under increasing threat, and with it the potential of the traditional packaged games business in the next console cycle and beyond

It's completely out of step with the rest of the magazine's editorial, which is intent on things staying as they are (Industry Focus is written by Screen Digest, I believe), but it does state exactly what's happening fairly simply.

The console model as we understand it - boxed games on games machines that change every 5 or so years - is in its latter years, essentially. It's by no means a trend that 3DS will suffer alone.

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Report Predicts Blu-ray, HD DVD to Co-Exist

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Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 02:11 PM ET

Tags: Industry Forecasts (all tags)

A new report examining the evolution of the high-def market predicts both next-gen disc formats are here to stay, and that most studios are likely to end up supporting both formats.

Released today by UK-based media analysts Screen Digest, the report includes detailed forecasts of consumer sales and revenues in the US and Europe for both new video formats through 2011, with each predicted to establish a viable installed base.

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Screen Digest, they're the guys who kept predicting the PS3 was going to outsell everything.

You never quoted them then.

I'm not quoting them because they're necessarily right or I believe in everything they say, all of the time, dear sweet ramone, but rather they illustrate the point me and several others have made in this thread quite well.

We've explained it to you about 70 times now, so - stopping short of actually pointing at words in a dictionary for you - I thought quoting a source might make things a little clearer. You've gone back to the funny chap you are usually now, though, seemingly because you've exhausted your evidentially immense knowledge of what kids do and do not like to play with.

How you know, I'm not quite so sure. Have you been borrowing Onion's old phpmobile?

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Yeah, I'm relentlessly vile. Get a grip. :)

I'm sure ramone can handle it.

In the rush of NPD figures and the mass debate, I forgot to put up the latest estimates for the week ending Jan 8th:

North America

Xbox 360 - 145,161 (92,121)

Wii - 133,273 (185,850)

PlayStation 3 - 98,418 (111,418)

Europe/Other

Wii - 204,648 (289,851)

PlayStation 3 - 185,420 (215,154)

Xbox 360 - 149,351 (126,246)

UK

Xbox 360 - 47,513 (38,377)

Wii - 26,800 (31,855)

PlayStation 3 - 24,321 (37,598)

VG has Kinect Adventures as the top selling game worldwide for the second week running, with total sales as to 8th Jan sitting at 7,509,846. Kinect Sports is on 2.4 million and Dance Central just under 1.5 million. Sony's Sports Champion's is the top selling game on Move and just tops 2 million worldwide so far.

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I'm like Clint Eastwood at the end of Unforgiven. This thread is that bar. Scott, you're my black friend dead in a coffin outside. Boyatsea is Gene Hackman and Rubberjohnny is the piano player with braces. The rest of you are just goofy looking secondary characters.

No, you're more like that annoying bloke in a pub who thinks he's constantly right because he can shout the longest and loudest and people just get bored of hearing the same old thing and go off and talk about other things.

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Why does everyone fret over sales so much now that the charts are dominated by the likes of Just Dance 2, Wii Fit Plus. Hell even Michael Jackson The Experience is higher than DK Country Returns.

As a games developer, they must feel sickened being asked to make glorified shovelware/fitness soft/party muck instead of fun and exciting action/sports titles but the public decides!

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Why does everyone fret over sales so much now that the charts are dominated by the likes of Just Dance 2, Wii Fit Plus. Hell even Michael Jackson The Experience is higher than DK Country Returns.

As a games developer, they must feel sickened being asked to make glorified shovelware/fitness soft/party muck instead of fun and exciting action/sports titles but the public decides!

Because the tat genres that are at the top of the charts are available on every platform and everyone can argue about who has the best selling tat.

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you're better to compare WiiSports Resort.

Possibly, but even there Kinect Sports is a much better party game; and Sports Champions utterly soulless but technically more impressive where it does the same sports as WSR (table tennis, gladiator duelling - particularly with two controllers, archery). The Wii isn't the be all and end of gaming, with the obvious exception of 3d Platformers.

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Why does everyone fret over sales so much now that the charts are dominated by the likes of Just Dance 2, Wii Fit Plus. Hell even Michael Jackson The Experience is higher than DK Country Returns.

As a games developer, they must feel sickened being asked to make glorified shovelware/fitness soft/party muck instead of fun and exciting action/sports titles but the public decides!

It must be awful for them, the inhumanity of having to do such a job.

That was sarcasm just in case you didn't realise. Seriously, considering the absolute tripe most developers churn out when they're making stuff they want to, I don't really see the difference. I'd rather have a slick package like Wii Fit Plus than another identikit racing or shooting game.

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Possibly, but even there Kinect Sports is a much better party game; and Sports Champions utterly soulless but technically more impressive where it does the same sports as WSR (table tennis, gladiator duelling - particularly with two controllers, archery). The Wii isn't the be all and end of gaming, with the obvious exception of 3d Platformers.

The perfect sports party game is somewhere between KS and WSR. I love the Archery, and I prefer bowling in MSR... and of course, there's golf. On the other hand, the track and field stuff in KS is hilarious fun.

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Possibly, but even there Kinect Sports is a much better party game; and Sports Champions utterly soulless but technically more impressive where it does the same sports as WSR (table tennis, gladiator duelling - particularly with two controllers, archery). The Wii isn't the be all and end of gaming, with the obvious exception of 3d Platformers.

There wouldn't be any Kinect Sports - or Kinect for that matter - if not for the Wii and Wii Sports.

Show a little bit of respect here, will ya :angry:

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I imagine that in a few months, most of these gamers that Kinect has brought into the industry will get bored of casual stuff like Kinect Sports and Kinectimals, and move on to core stuff like Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime 3.

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