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I am going to go throught latest news in the gaming.
PSP is going very well as usual, with a number of exploits and hacks, as usaual. There is now for the first time ever, a portable modchip for the PSP, and it's called Undiluted Platinum! What does it do? It's a small flash replacement which allows the use of previous flash updates or custom firmware builds, opening up the possibility to run unsigned homebrew code on even the latest PSP systems.
In other news hit T.V show Lost is confirmed to come to all consoles, evem portable. The game will be developed by Ubisoft's Montreal studios.
"With our Montreal studios involved you can expect an extremely high level game," said Pascal Bonnet, director of licensing for Ubisoft "'Lost' is a hit all over the world and we want to bring the 'Lost' universe to the next level." There is also going to be first time a real Metal Gear Solid game for the PSP, name Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. It's based on a sequal to the PS2 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Plot goes along the lines of how Big Boss formed Fox Hound, and what else took place during the time period.
PS3 is going to hit the shelves November 17th 2006, confirmed by Sony. For those of you who have been living under a rock, the PS3 will cost £425. According to a job posting on CraigsList today That Game Company is looking for "a superstar engineer with a strong graphics background to develop an unannounced downloadable title for the PlayStation 3 launch in November."
intendo's Miyamoto is not happy with Sony copying there controllers motion senser. But sadly, Sony plan back fired leaving Sony with no rumble.
WII is confirmed to cost less than $250 (£130). You can get an Xbox 360 and Nintendo WII for less than a PS3. But I personally am getting a WII and PS3 on launch day. Nintendo have also said they will have six million units systems by March 31st, 2007. Alongside that, they expect to ship 17 million Wii games.
If none of you have heard or seen it, there is also trailer for the new Smash Bros game for the WII called Smash Bros. Brawl. In the trailer for the game there was a big suprise, Solid Snake (from the Metal Gear Solid series)!!!! He was wearing his costume from Metal Gear Solid 2. For more information on this and even a trailer go here. The WII-Mote is also rumored to have a built in mic.
DS is starting homebrew on us, with various different add on ons. Now theres the SuperCard for GBA/DS, which has the following features:
* Play both GBA games (.GBA) and NES, GB, PCE, SMS/GG with out additional software!
* See movies (.gbs .gbm), read E-books, play music, see pictures and more.
* Super Game Cheat system.
* Real Time Save - save your games instantly when ever you like it.
* Four button reset to main menu.
* Supports compression.
* Supports semi-multitasking - switch between running game and other software without quitting the game.
* Game time: 5-6 h with GBA SP (with stock battery).
* FAT file system.
* Compatible with SD Memory Cards.
* Fast transfers, transfer 64M in approx. 5 sec.
* Uses standard SD memory.
* Possible to store up to 32Gbit (4Gbyte) on one single SD card.
* Unlimited storage capacity, just use more/bigger SD cards.
* SD memory cards can be used for other equipment like digital cameras.
* GBA, GBA SP, GBM, and NDS compatible.
Also the New Super Mario 480,000 copies in the first day. Will DS beat and become PSP? Who knows whats next.
Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
Here are some of the latest sales in Japan:
Hardware
DSL - 225,835 [1,222,381]
NDS - 42,695 [6,478,092]
PSP - 40,884 [3,365,889]
PS2 - 29,837 [22,266,971]
GBASP - 8,225 [15,617,506]
GBM - 5,034 [497,108]
X360 - 2,845 [114,391]
GCN - 1,126 [4,099,509]
GBA - 69 [??]
XBX - 29 [474,409]
Here are the lestest sales in the U.S:
Xbox 360: 295,381 [1,504,724]
PlayStation 2: 206,995 [39,458,926]
Game Boy Advance: 169,115 [37,455,961]
PlayStation Portable: 162,438 [4,332,872]
Nintendo DS: 138,427 [4,447,092]
Xbox: 38,987 [15,737,984]
GameCube: 38,028 [12,046,319]
I will continue updating this thread until next month, where I will make a new thread.
Updated: Japan sales 1 o 7 May:
Hardware
01 - Nintendo DS Lite - 161,010 (1,383,391)
02 - PlayStation Portable - 37,946 (3,403,514)
03 - PlayStation 2 - 32,030 (19,296,470)
04 - Nintendo DS - 24,428 (6,489,896)
05 - Game Boy Advance SP - 7,144 (5,819,663)
06 - Game Boy Micro - 3,830 (505,020)
07 - Xbox 360 - 2,019 (116,709)
08 - GameCube - 1,460 (4,140,930)
09 - Game Boy Advance - 87 (8,822,171)
10 - Xbox - 44 (475,289)
DS Total - 7,873,290
GBA Total - 15,135,279
As you can see, the Xbox 360, is not doing well at all...
PSP is going very well as usual, with a number of exploits and hacks, as usaual. There is now for the first time ever, a portable modchip for the PSP, and it's called Undiluted Platinum! What does it do? It's a small flash replacement which allows the use of previous flash updates or custom firmware builds, opening up the possibility to run unsigned homebrew code on even the latest PSP systems.
In other news hit T.V show Lost is confirmed to come to all consoles, evem portable. The game will be developed by Ubisoft's Montreal studios.
"With our Montreal studios involved you can expect an extremely high level game," said Pascal Bonnet, director of licensing for Ubisoft "'Lost' is a hit all over the world and we want to bring the 'Lost' universe to the next level." There is also going to be first time a real Metal Gear Solid game for the PSP, name Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. It's based on a sequal to the PS2 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Plot goes along the lines of how Big Boss formed Fox Hound, and what else took place during the time period.
PS3 is going to hit the shelves November 17th 2006, confirmed by Sony. For those of you who have been living under a rock, the PS3 will cost £425. According to a job posting on CraigsList today That Game Company is looking for "a superstar engineer with a strong graphics background to develop an unannounced downloadable title for the PlayStation 3 launch in November."
intendo's Miyamoto is not happy with Sony copying there controllers motion senser. But sadly, Sony plan back fired leaving Sony with no rumble.
WII is confirmed to cost less than $250 (£130). You can get an Xbox 360 and Nintendo WII for less than a PS3. But I personally am getting a WII and PS3 on launch day. Nintendo have also said they will have six million units systems by March 31st, 2007. Alongside that, they expect to ship 17 million Wii games.
If none of you have heard or seen it, there is also trailer for the new Smash Bros game for the WII called Smash Bros. Brawl. In the trailer for the game there was a big suprise, Solid Snake (from the Metal Gear Solid series)!!!! He was wearing his costume from Metal Gear Solid 2. For more information on this and even a trailer go here. The WII-Mote is also rumored to have a built in mic.
DS is starting homebrew on us, with various different add on ons. Now theres the SuperCard for GBA/DS, which has the following features:
* Play both GBA games (.GBA) and NES, GB, PCE, SMS/GG with out additional software!
* See movies (.gbs .gbm), read E-books, play music, see pictures and more.
* Super Game Cheat system.
* Real Time Save - save your games instantly when ever you like it.
* Four button reset to main menu.
* Supports compression.
* Supports semi-multitasking - switch between running game and other software without quitting the game.
* Game time: 5-6 h with GBA SP (with stock battery).
* FAT file system.
* Compatible with SD Memory Cards.
* Fast transfers, transfer 64M in approx. 5 sec.
* Uses standard SD memory.
* Possible to store up to 32Gbit (4Gbyte) on one single SD card.
* Unlimited storage capacity, just use more/bigger SD cards.
* SD memory cards can be used for other equipment like digital cameras.
* GBA, GBA SP, GBM, and NDS compatible.
Also the New Super Mario 480,000 copies in the first day. Will DS beat and become PSP? Who knows whats next.
Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
Here are some of the latest sales in Japan:
Hardware
DSL - 225,835 [1,222,381]
NDS - 42,695 [6,478,092]
PSP - 40,884 [3,365,889]
PS2 - 29,837 [22,266,971]
GBASP - 8,225 [15,617,506]
GBM - 5,034 [497,108]
X360 - 2,845 [114,391]
GCN - 1,126 [4,099,509]
GBA - 69 [??]
XBX - 29 [474,409]
Here are the lestest sales in the U.S:
Xbox 360: 295,381 [1,504,724]
PlayStation 2: 206,995 [39,458,926]
Game Boy Advance: 169,115 [37,455,961]
PlayStation Portable: 162,438 [4,332,872]
Nintendo DS: 138,427 [4,447,092]
Xbox: 38,987 [15,737,984]
GameCube: 38,028 [12,046,319]
I will continue updating this thread until next month, where I will make a new thread.
Updated: Japan sales 1 o 7 May:
Hardware
01 - Nintendo DS Lite - 161,010 (1,383,391)
02 - PlayStation Portable - 37,946 (3,403,514)
03 - PlayStation 2 - 32,030 (19,296,470)
04 - Nintendo DS - 24,428 (6,489,896)
05 - Game Boy Advance SP - 7,144 (5,819,663)
06 - Game Boy Micro - 3,830 (505,020)
07 - Xbox 360 - 2,019 (116,709)
08 - GameCube - 1,460 (4,140,930)
09 - Game Boy Advance - 87 (8,822,171)
10 - Xbox - 44 (475,289)
DS Total - 7,873,290
GBA Total - 15,135,279
As you can see, the Xbox 360, is not doing well at all...
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As most of the Xbox's appeal is FPS online games and the Japanese don't like them, they prefer RPG's which are lacking on the Xbox. That and they probably feel more loyalty to Japanese brands
Will be interesting to see the figures for this month
why are xbox doing so poorly in Japan?
Factor in that there have been XBox 360 shortages for the first 6 months of launch. Anyhow.... erm.... more next month :)
The fact it only sold 90,000 (75,000 if you count those Japanese figures) more units than a console 6 years old is quite worrying (though most of those PS2 sales are probably replacement units :D)
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they
> do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the
> graphics.
>
> These are the published market share figures for consoles in
> 2005:
>
> PS2 5.51 million 55 percent
>
> Xbox 2.40 million 24 percent
>
> GameCube 1.56 million 15 percent
>
> Xbox360 607343 6 percent
>
> Bear in mind that the 360 was only launched in the last 40 days
> of that year.
>
> If you're still saying 'no hope' for Microsoft I will remain
> puzzled.
Sales
> Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they
> do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the
> graphics.
>
> These are the published market share figures for consoles in
> 2005:
>
> PS2 5.51 million 55 percent
>
> Xbox 2.40 million 24 percent
>
> GameCube 1.56 million 15 percent
>
> Xbox360 607343 6 percent
>
> Bear in mind that the 360 was only launched in the last 40 days
> of that year.
>
> If you're still saying 'no hope' for Microsoft I will remain
> puzzled.
Sales
Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they
> do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the
> graphics.
These are the published market share figures for consoles in 2005:
PS2 5.51 million 55 percent
Xbox 2.40 million 24 percent
GameCube 1.56 million 15 percent
Xbox360 607343 6 percent
Bear in mind that the 360 was only launched in the last 40 days of that year.
If you're still saying 'no hope' for Microsoft I will remain puzzled.
> Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they
> do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the
> graphics.
These are the published market share figures for consoles in 2005:
PS2 5.51 million 55 percent
Xbox 2.40 million 24 percent
GameCube 1.56 million 15 percent
Xbox360 607343 6 percent
Bear in mind that the 360 was only launched in the last 40 days of that year.
If you're still saying 'no hope' for Microsoft I will remain puzzled.
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that
> Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
>
> Internal guesstimates at Microsoft indicate predictive loss of
> $1.1bn this year alone on XBox. Compare this with original
> expected losses of $900m over 8 years from 1999-2007 and it's a
> bit of a jump.
>
> Unsurprisingly, Microsoft, who are quite capable of builing up
> multi-billion losses just to gain market share, aren't worried.
>
> Today Microsoft have launched their Best of Classics range of
> games. The regular Classics sell for £19.99, Best of
> Classics sell for £9.99.
>
> Bill Gates has pointed out that most fighter pilots are strapped
> in to their seats and hardly move at all when flying their
> aircraft, so doesn't hold out much hope for console gamers
> trying to simulate the same thing by waving their controllers
> around in the air.
>
> Finally, due to the unprecedented success of Xbox Live
> Marketplace, a brand new interface for XBox Live on the 360 is
> about to be released which should make content downloads much
> easier and faster for users.
Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the graphics.
> Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that
> Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
>
> Internal guesstimates at Microsoft indicate predictive loss of
> $1.1bn this year alone on XBox. Compare this with original
> expected losses of $900m over 8 years from 1999-2007 and it's a
> bit of a jump.
>
> Unsurprisingly, Microsoft, who are quite capable of builing up
> multi-billion losses just to gain market share, aren't worried.
>
> Today Microsoft have launched their Best of Classics range of
> games. The regular Classics sell for £19.99, Best of
> Classics sell for £9.99.
>
> Bill Gates has pointed out that most fighter pilots are strapped
> in to their seats and hardly move at all when flying their
> aircraft, so doesn't hold out much hope for console gamers
> trying to simulate the same thing by waving their controllers
> around in the air.
>
> Finally, due to the unprecedented success of Xbox Live
> Marketplace, a brand new interface for XBox Live on the 360 is
> about to be released which should make content downloads much
> easier and faster for users.
Still I do not see any hope left for them, no matter what they do. They're last hope is Halo 3. All is Microsoft got is the graphics.
Ninja_Reborn wrote:
> Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that
> Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
Internal guesstimates at Microsoft indicate predictive loss of $1.1bn this year alone on XBox. Compare this with original expected losses of $900m over 8 years from 1999-2007 and it's a bit of a jump.
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft, who are quite capable of builing up multi-billion losses just to gain market share, aren't worried.
Today Microsoft have launched their Best of Classics range of games. The regular Classics sell for £19.99, Best of Classics sell for £9.99.
Bill Gates has pointed out that most fighter pilots are strapped in to their seats and hardly move at all when flying their aircraft, so doesn't hold out much hope for console gamers trying to simulate the same thing by waving their controllers around in the air.
Finally, due to the unprecedented success of Xbox Live Marketplace, a brand new interface for XBox Live on the 360 is about to be released which should make content downloads much easier and faster for users.
> Sadly, I have no news for Xbox 360. But I can tell that
> Microsoft is in danger no matter what the price.
Internal guesstimates at Microsoft indicate predictive loss of $1.1bn this year alone on XBox. Compare this with original expected losses of $900m over 8 years from 1999-2007 and it's a bit of a jump.
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft, who are quite capable of builing up multi-billion losses just to gain market share, aren't worried.
Today Microsoft have launched their Best of Classics range of games. The regular Classics sell for £19.99, Best of Classics sell for £9.99.
Bill Gates has pointed out that most fighter pilots are strapped in to their seats and hardly move at all when flying their aircraft, so doesn't hold out much hope for console gamers trying to simulate the same thing by waving their controllers around in the air.
Finally, due to the unprecedented success of Xbox Live Marketplace, a brand new interface for XBox Live on the 360 is about to be released which should make content downloads much easier and faster for users.
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