"Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I wonder if Microsoft have anything in the pipeline to take on the PS3?
>
> Just last night, I saw an analyst address this very point. They do, and
> it's Gears of War for XBox360.
>
> The claim is that Gears of War was finished for quite some time now,
> but Microsoft (and Epic), sat on the game, delaying it until the PS3 was
> released, and then released GoW simultaneously. I haven't played the game
> myself, but the reviews are generally very positive, with people citing it
> as the new standard against which all other console shooters will be
> judged against, and as easily the best looking game for X360.
>
I have played GoW, and it is the best looking game I have played on the
360.
> So how does this affect Sony? The analyst predicts that consumers are
> going to head into the videogame stores this holiday season, looking for a
> console to buy (either for themselves or their children). They'll see the
> PS3 is sold out, but they'll also see a Xbox360 on display, hooked up to
> an HDTV, playing a demo of GoW. If the consumer isn't very knowledgeable
> about gaming, the demo will simply look stunningly good. If the consumer
> IS knowledgeable, (s)he'll see that this game easily looks just as good as
> anything that the PS3 has. And the consumer can actually walk out of the
> store with an XBox360.
>
They have a 360 and PS3 side by side at the local Best Buy, and the 360
looks better because it has more memory for texture maps. Most of the
demoes around here are running Motorstorm on the PS3, it looks good, but
the people in the background are flat and don't ever more. I play a demo
of one the racing games on the 360, the people were 3d models and they
move. They even moved out of the away when I slid into the wall once, we
even did it a couple more times just to make sure that what really did
happen. That was a first gen racing game on the 360, just like the
Motorstorm a first gen game on the PS3.
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