Well I never!
Well, it appears there's been a surprising turn of events affecting this thread. Just flown back to Blighty for Christmas and snacthed some time on someones computer - while looking at a Firing Squad review I see this news in a headline. I can say that I was fairly surprised. And, yes, this shall be in my "to pick up" list now!
Will this news piss Itagaki off?
,now that DOA is no longer the dominate fighter on Xbox?
. Maybe he'll make DOA5 Wii exclusive
Given that this is a 3rd party doing this, and not MS directly, then hopefully what it means is that Itagaki will produce a better fighter in the future now that he has competition on the platform.
Of course, this is one of the reasons that I thought releasing on only PS3 would be limiting - with PS3 we know that Tekken is going to be there, so Sega have competition with the fighter on that platform, so why not hedge the bets a little more where there is only DOA on the XBOX (and that's not necessarily to everyones tastes).
Dave,
I've been visiting for a while here and what has been and still is so good about Beyond3D is the substance and the analysis. The Inquirer OTOH has for a long time followed the other, the "anything goes" apporach to journalism, and I have despised them for it on many occasions totally unrelated to console warfare because I despise it in general. It's what one does to stir up controversy. There exists that divide in concept between journalism and the buzz show.
One the one hand you have executed a journalistic ideal for long enough to make it implausible that you didn't know about its value. Even your personal posting/writing style shows that you're very deliberate with words.
On the other hand I see you turning that off in an instant and defending the valuable buzz show. That's all. That's what that comment was about.
Zeck, generally speaking I'm usually fairly considered and careful in the things I write openly - I've had to be that way in my previous role here and I have to continue doing it as I'm not hiding where I work, so thats fairly normal for me (although, it certainly shouldn't be construed as knowing anything about this type of thing either - its a [welcome] surprise to me, just as it appear to be a surprise as others). However, my point about the post is that this is a discussion forum, not a news outlet or site - the point of the forum is to discuss, theorise and generally shoot the breeze in many cases - and I personally (as a user of a particular system) don't like the heavyhandedness that can be applied in supposed discussion forums on occasion, designed to stifle discussion.
The reason I piped up like this in a couple of threads now, whereas I may not have before, is because I think you may well see more of this coming in the future. By the very nature of the marketshares, most people in this forum have probably come in from using PS2's and the forum "pressure" has reflected that. However, I personally am entirely unconvinced that there will be a simailr dispropotion in terms of marketshare for this generation, hence I also expect that to be similarly represented on the forums in terms of user discussion and opinion. Heavyhandedness from one side or another is going to have to be tempered because then you'll never achieve any actual discussion.
