If you were a manufacturer of electrical items and your product had started showing signs of tailing off in sales, would you A. Drop the price in order to give the product a boost? Or B. Raise the price and risk making the decline in sales accelerate? Nintendo has chosen the latter option for the Wii.
There are many gamers going around the Web indicating that 2009 is the year of the PS3 or Xbox 360. However, another platform that many gamers have undermined may be picking up steam to take over 2009. According to reports PSP may have an awesome lineup in store for 2009 with unrevealed titles as well as existing franchises.
2009 is looking like a bumper year for us gamers, with a glut of new releases on the way. But what are the most-anticipated games due out this year? We asked our readership and they came up trumps for us yet again.
It seems like just about everyone wants Sony to drop the price of the PS3. Even Microsoft expressed interest in seeing Sony drop the price. The execs at Sony have already indicated plans to ride things out until the PS3 can turn a profit. It seems like the developer of LittleBigPlanet won’t mind seeing a price drop on the PS3 as well.
The Resident Evil games are considered to be one of the most well known franchises out there. The series is about 13 years old now and has not lost much steam as Resident Evil 4 was considered to be the best in the series. With the launch of Resident Evil 5 looming ahead, many gamers will be wondering if it has what it takes to push the series forward.
Peter Moore, former VP of Microsoft and the man behind the creation of the Xbox 360 gambled hard with the gaming division. He saw the value in games such as Grand Theft Auto IV as a potential hardware driver for Microsoft. However, today there is some doubt as to if Microsoft’s gamble truly paid off as Take-Two reveals some interesting news.
Unreal Tournament 3 has been out for over a year on the PC and PS3, and for a little over six months on the Xbox 360. It’s a game that passed me by on its release, with better games release alongside it that I chose to spend my money on. But that’s now changed. I have a copy of the game and thanks to the newly-released v2.00 I’m having a ball with it.
Bioshock was hailed as the game of the year by many critics back in 2007. The game definitely earned that title as it mixed various genres while providing an engrossing and original story. There is still some question as to if Bioshock 2, the sequel, will be a timed Xbox 360 exclusive like the original or if it will be a day-one multiplatform title.
It feels as though we, as gamers, have to spend an inordinate amount of time defending our hobby. If it isn’t people such as Jack Thompson and Anne Diamond claiming that violent video games are the reason behind all crime, it’s the British government claiming that “Gaming kills!” OK, so I’m paraphrasing but that’s what it amounts to.
Killzone 2 has been an unknown quality in the eyes of many game critics in the past. However, with just a little over a week out on the market, the game is now considered to be without a doubt a megaton AAA title. The developers have done their job of proving themselves to the world that they can make an A-list game. However, the topic that seems to keep coming back is the nagging question if Sony is doing all it can to promote Killzone 2 properly?
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