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Nsanity on 20 October 2010
Silver-Tiger said:

Another recent example were the fake FFXIII screenshots where PS3 version screenshots were labeled as Xbox 360 screenshots to cover up that it was an inferior version. (I'm purely talking graphics wise here). It could have been a slipup purely from Square-Enix, but my common sense tells me Microsoft was somehow involved in this.


 Just like 360 version Red Dead and Bayonetta were used to promote PS3 version in magazines.



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Nsanity on 20 October 2010
johnglen said:

Funny how some people are fishing anything negative on the net , concerning kinect , and starting threads on the MS forum , usually people with ps3 signatures. As if reviews for this kind of games matter , like the wii-sports game that became a phenomenon had glowing reviews.

The kinect train is coming and will crush the ps3 this holiday season, whether some people like it or not.


Took words right out of my mouth.



bobbert on 20 October 2010
Reasonable said:

Basically I don't agree with the whole policy of review embargos.  Be it films, games, or whatever.  It simply defeats the whole purpose of reviews and giving the consumer visibility to information on what they are considering purchasing.

 
OP said:

The gaming press complains about not being sent review copies...

 


They are NOT preventing anyone from reviewing it. They just have not sent out the finished product yet, just like Gran Turismo 5 has not been sent out yet. The product is still in testing and NOT finished yet. If someone really wanted to review a game, they can drive to Macy's and test it out for an hour. How are people complaining about how the kinect sucks in every other thread if there hasn't been a review yet? It's just the reviews have been on test demos. If they sent every game reviewer a kinect right now, they would still be getting a test version of the software. People are blowing this way out of proportion.

I agree, movies can be reviewed a couple weeks ahead of time because they should have finished editing the movie by then. The problem is, instead of finishing the product and then announcing a release date, they finished the hardware, and announced a release date and are producing them to be shipped right now. The software that drives it is continually being upgraded and I'm sure once it's in a near-final state it will be sent to reviewers. Even Oprah's audience was told that it would be shipped to them by November 4. The software demos everyone is using is showing off a single game that has been finalized. Not a full xbox dashboard and 17 games.



Mr Khan on 20 October 2010
KichiVerde said:
Adobo said:
johnglen said:

Funny how some people are fishing anything negative on the net , concerning kinect , and starting threads on the MS forum , usually people with ps3 signatures. As if reviews for this kind of games matter , like the wii-sports game that became a phenomenon had glowing reviews.

The kinect train is coming and will crush the ps3 this holiday season, whether some people like it or not.

Agreed :)

Doubly agreed.

Kinect will be huge. It will change the gaming industry.

More and more will embrace it once it goes on sale. It will be similar to what happened with the Wii. Kinect will likely bridge the gap between the casual and hardcore market for the 360 making the it  the complete console. But the haters will still bitch and moan looking for any chink in the the device's armor. Its sad how some people act on this site, it really is.

It's all about software, people. If they're not letting people review the software, there's a problem, inherently.

The legitimate doubts about Kinect come from looking at the software, not from a "zomg casualz" perspective, but from a "Birdman" perspective. There's little evidence, outside of Dance Central anyway, that these are not Birdman games

http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Ping_ii on 20 October 2010

OMG kinect is going to crush PS3!!!

Owwww scary!!! scarier than the 6k gap this week.....



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disolitude on 20 October 2010
Ping_ii said:

OMG kinect is going to crush PS3!!!

Owwww scary!!! scarier than the 6k gap this week.....


Stop flaming people dude...show us you arent 12 years old.



thranx on 20 October 2010
Mr Khan said:
KichiVerde said:
Adobo said:
johnglen said:

Funny how some people are fishing anything negative on the net , concerning kinect , and starting threads on the MS forum , usually people with ps3 signatures. As if reviews for this kind of games matter , like the wii-sports game that became a phenomenon had glowing reviews.

The kinect train is coming and will crush the ps3 this holiday season, whether some people like it or not.

Agreed :)

Doubly agreed.

Kinect will be huge. It will change the gaming industry.

More and more will embrace it once it goes on sale. It will be similar to what happened with the Wii. Kinect will likely bridge the gap between the casual and hardcore market for the 360 making the it  the complete console. But the haters will still bitch and moan looking for any chink in the the device's armor. Its sad how some people act on this site, it really is.

It's all about software, people. If they're not letting people review the software, there's a problem, inherently.

The legitimate doubts about Kinect come from looking at the software, not from a "zomg casualz" perspective, but from a "Birdman" perspective. There's little evidence, outside of Dance Central anyway, that these are not Birdman games

http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html


They are letting anyone review it, just go to any of a number of places that have a kinect set up for ANYBODY to use, no restrictions.



AnthonyW86 on 20 October 2010

If this is truly a sign that Kinect might be sub-par Microsoft is in trouble no matter how you put it. Even if it gets a lot of sales during the first few months due to the marketing, with a budget of $500 million the first 5-10 million Kinect units won't turn in much of a profit. If sales then die off because the product doesn't work well, they will be lucky if the can recoup the development cost from the higher console and software sales.



Ping_ii on 20 October 2010
disolitude said:
Ping_ii said:

OMG kinect is going to crush PS3!!!

Owwww scary!!! scarier than the 6k gap this week.....


Stop flaming people dude...show us you arent 12 years old.


I bet im gonna get banned while the other guy on crying about ppl with ps3 stuff on their sign posting in this thread while he does the same in fact worst(trolling 24/7) PSmove threads wont be banned at all.



Ping_ii on 20 October 2010

Cmon Im waiting for my ban anytime now.....

while the other guys trashes and trolls PSmove thread  24/7 freely and gets away with it.