Comments on: Eight new stories 29.5

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:20:21 +0000

Regarding Haze:

“Secondly are the continuing problems with PS3 games intractable? Is gaming mediocrity built into the hardware?”

Didn’t I read somewhere that, taken as a whole, PS3 games have a higher quality rating than those of the 360 and Wii? If overhyped games mean that “mediocrity is built into the hardware”, then there is simply no good hardware at all. There clearly have been enough good games now on all the consoles to know that bad games are a software, not a hardware, problem.

By: Dudley

Dudley — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:10:17 +0000

It’s entirely supply constrained. GAME stopped taking pre-orders for when it’s back because they’d sold any possible amount of stock 3 times over and the store I know is getting 20 calls a day about it and numerous drop-ins, such as the person in front of me in the queue when I was legally purchasing top Codemasters product “Race Driver : Grid”.

By: Redh3lix

Redh3lix — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:06:44 +0000

Regarding Haze

“Secondly are the continuing problems with PS3 games intractable? Is gaming mediocrity built into the hardware?”

The game is, put simply, crap. Yes, is was marketed very well indeed and even I was sucked in. Lovely to look at, just very, very dull to play. It offers absolutely nothing new in the FPS genre. With the likes of Call of Duty 4, Unreal Tournament, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 et al, gamers have plenty of better options.

By: Peter Mackay

Peter Mackay — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:11:39 +0000

To be fair, Bruce agrees that it was due to constrained supply.

By: Ronan the Romanian

Ronan the Romanian — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:46:01 +0000

The Wii Fit ‘sales collapse’ is due to stock shortages.
Why are you so intent on predicting impending doom for the Wii?