Army of Two, mixed reviews…
Here are some of the latest reviews for Army of Two, I haven’t had a chance to sitdown with it but check out what others had to say:
(7.9/10) IGN – http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/856/856967p1.html
(9/10) Gamer.TV Review – http://www.gametrailers.com/player/u…es/184379.html
(8.7/10) Game Revolver.com – http://gamerevolver.com/articlenav-91-page-2.html
(8/10) Game Rankings – http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrank…eviewid=923018
(4/5) G4TV Video Review – http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/1729/Army_of_Two.html
(8.5/10) LazyGamer – http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/…-reviewed-ps3/
Has MS failed to reach beyond FPS players ?
Microsoft made “no real capitalization” of its one-year head start over PS3, and failed to “reach beyond the core first person shooter player”, SCEA’s Scott Steinberg has said.
“The time that they had to create huge distance and build a massive install base before the PS3 could really take root; that opportunity is over and there’s no real capitalization of it,” Steinberg stated.
He went on to add, “They had a great crescendo moment with Halo and it helped catapult them into a pretty strong position towards the back end of last year, but they were still within a stone’s throw of where they were with the original Xbox.
“To me that speaks of a failure to broaden their reach beyond the core first person shooter player who was in their back pocket for Xbox,” he added.
“The question for us is ‘are they really going after the PS2 demographic? Are they stealing share from us?’ And the answer is no.”
Steinberg counts on the millions of PlayStation 2 fans in the world to turn the tables for PS3 in the next two to three years.
“That’s the secret weapon, that’s what goes unreported. It’s this 41 million universe of PS2 owners that will be targeted very, very soon to upgrade to a PS3 Blu-ray machine,” Steinberg told Next Gen.
Read the full Q&A on Next Gen.
Blu-ray for Xbox 360 ??
The Japanese electronics maker has until now touted Blu-ray as an advantage its PlayStation 3 holds over Microsoft’s console. Microsoft has backed Toshiba’s HD-DVD format and offered an HD-DVD drive that can be plugged into the 360.
But after Sony’s victory last month in the high-definition DVD format war, Stan Glasgow, Sony Electronics US president, said the two sides were now talking about Microsoft adopting Blu-ray.
A Blu-ray drive in a 360 would make Microsoft more competitive with the PS3, but it would also mean extra revenues for Sony’s electronics division. It would also add further cost to the 360, meaning a premium edition of the console could be necessary.
A Blu-ray drive could be incorporated in its top-of-the-range Elite Xbox, or Microsoft could again offer a drive as a plug-in peripheral.
Mr Glasgow, speaking at a media dinner, added that discussions were also taking place with Apple, which has not offered Blu-ray drives on any of its computers so far and has focused on digital media via downloads and streaming through devices such as its Apple TV.
The Sony president said he did not believe Blu-ray would be overtaken by high-definition content becoming available over the internet. Bandwidth limitations meant it was still available to only a few, he said, and consumers favoured disks they could own.
“Downloading will build over time, but this will be over a period of years,” he said.
On Blu-ray pricing, Mr Glasgow expects prices of players to drop to as low as $299 by the end of the year.
They currently cost $399 and higher. He feels the price of a player could fall to about $200 by the end of 2009.
The prices of Blu-ray players are not expected to fall as precipitously as they did with regular DVD players.
The Blu-ray Association, the group controlling the standard, has yet to license it to Chinese manufacturers, who would be expected to drive down prices.
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