Worldwide Up! (14th August 2010)

[Beuli2]

jarrod said:

cmeese47 said:

For all you doom and gloom people out there  consider this for a second. What does 360 have to offer after Gears 3 launches? The answer at the moment is nothing, they will be reliant on 3rd party sales. Sony on the other hand has a huge list of 2011 titles and will likely have a price cut to fall back on should they need to. Yes the 360s and price drop hurt Sony in the hardware race but this is the first week in quite a while 360 outsold PS3 in software. 

Long term outlook Sony> Microsoft

Short Term outlook Microsoft>Sony and Nintendo

I bet we get Kinect compatible ports of AOE Online and MS Flight.  Both games look great, it'd be a smart move and might entice more of the 'base' over to Kinect.  AOE especially, RTS done right on consoles is long overdue and with the HD twins finally getting true motion controls I think the time's right.

There's also at least one more big JRPG coming out of Japan, which AQi (ie: Feelplus, Artoon, Cavia) is working on.  Forza Kinect is likely too and there's no doubt MS is going to pick up Kingdom Under Fire II also, which looks amazing btw.  I expect to see Shadow Complex 2 next year too... and really, that's just the stuff we know about.  

 

And why leave Nintendo out of the 'long term'?  Next year already looks great Wii side, with Zelda Skyward Sword, Mario Sports Mix, and probably the western releases for Xenoblade and The Last Story.  

Maybe they think Nintendo's gonna do a sneak launch at December 30th for the Ultra Wii