July 2007 - Posts

• Analysis of Xbox 360 Price Cut

  Top Reasons Why the Xbox 360 August Price Cut Makes Sense With all the sales flyers and rumors floating around the interweb more or less confirming a Xbox 360 price cut, we wanted to step back and rationalize the reasons why it would make sense... Madden NFL 08 With all three consoles finally available come 'Maddenoliday', this makes perfect sense.  Madden Football gamers are an entirely separate gamer 'clique' (but equally important).  The vast majority of Madden 'ballers' had a PS2 last generation.  These gamers likely waited this year to see how the PS3 and Xbox 360 compared prior to committing to a 'Madden' platform.  The word on the sports message boards is that NCAA Football apparently runs smoother on Xbox 360 (compared to the PS3 version).  This is due to the game running at 60 fps.  Madden 08 has also been reported to run at 60 fps on the Xbox 360 as well.  Microsoft is certainly in a good position to take advantage of this annual 'Maddenoliday' surge in game sales with a well timed price cut.   Follow What Leader? During E3 2003, Sony apparently became aware of a pending Xbox price cut and beat Microsoft to the punch by announcing a Playstation 2 price cut to $179 (from $199) during the week prior to E3.  As planned, Microsoft followed through with their announcement at E3 Wednesday that year.  This year, Sony also announced (prior to Microsoft's press conference) that they would indeed be cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 (even though this is apparently a temporary 60GB inventory reduction).  Perhaps Microsoft is tiring of these console war games and didn't want to appear to be 'following the leader' as in the previous generation.   $399 for how long? On June 30th, 2007, the Xbox 360 Premium will have been $399 for 645 days.  This is even longer than the time it took the PlayStation 2 to initially reduce its launch price.  Certainly the Playstation 3 launch price influenced this quite a bit, but damn.... that is a long time at $399!         Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 7:29 PM from Cheap Xbox 360 - Gamer News | 0 Comments

• Gamefly Top Queued Games for the Week of July 23rd

  Mario Strikers Charged for the Nintendo Wii takes the top spot of the Gamefly Top Ten 'Most Queued' list.  Overlord is at the top of the Xbox 360 list, while PlayStation 3 gamers can't wait to get Lair in their mailbox. Queue up the complete Gamefly Top 10 most requested list:   Most Popular Games Cross-Platform: Rank Title Platform Category Publisher 1 Mario Strikers Charged Wii Sports Nintendo 2 Overlord Xbox 360 RPG Codemasters 3 Darkness Xbox 360 Shooter Take Two 4 Transformers: The Game Xbox 360 Action Adventure Activision 5 NCAA Football 08 Xbox 360 Sports Electronic Arts 6 All-Pro Football 2K8 Xbox 360 Sports Take Two 7 Two Worlds Xbox 360 RPG South Peak Interactive 8 Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's PlayStation 2 Arcade/Puzzle Activision 9 NASCAR 08 Xbox 360 Racing Electronic Arts 10 Madden NFL 08 Xbox 360 Sports Electronic Arts   Xbox 360 Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Overlord RPG Codemasters 2 Darkness Shooter Take Two 3 Transformers: The Game Action Adventure Activision 4 NCAA Football 08 Sports Electronic Arts 5 All-Pro Football 2K8 Sports Take Two 6 Two Worlds RPG South Peak Interactive 7 NASCAR 08 Racing Electronic Arts 8 Madden NFL 08 Sports Electronic Arts 9 DiRT Racing Codemasters 10 Bioshock Shooter Take Two   Nintendo Wii Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Mario Strikers Charged Sports Nintendo 2 Resident Evil 4 Action Adventure Capcom 3 Mario Party 8 Arcade/Puzzle Nintendo 4 Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Arcade/Puzzle Nintendo 5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Action Adventure Electronic Arts 6 Transformers: The Game Action Adventure Activision 7 Super Paper Mario Action Adventure Nintendo 8 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Shooter Nintendo 9 The Bigs Sports Take Two 10 Super Smash Bros. Brawl Fighting Nintendo   PlayStation 3 Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Lair Action Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment 2 Ninja Gaiden Sigma Action Adventure Tecmo 3 NCAA Football 08 Sports Electronic Arts 4 Darkness Shooter Take Two 5 NASCAR 08 Racing Electronic Arts 6 Transformers: The Game Action Adventure Activision 7 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Shooter Ubisoft 8 All-Pro Football 2K8 Sports Take Two 9 Heavenly Sword Action Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment 10 John Woo presents Stranglehold Action Adventure Midway   PlayStation 2 Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's Arcade/Puzzle Activision 2 Transformers: The Game Action Adventure Activision 3 NCAA Football 08 Sports Electronic Arts 4 God of War II Action Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment 5 NASCAR 08 Racing Electronic Arts 6 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 Fighting Namco 7 Bully Action Adventure Take Two 8 Madden NFL 08 Sports Electronic Arts 9 Persona 3 RPG Atlus 10 The Bigs Sports Take Two   Xbox Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 NCAA Football 08 Sports Electronic Arts 2 Halo 2 Shooter Microsoft 3 Madden NFL 08 Sports Electronic Arts 4 Ninja Gaiden Black Action Adventure Tecmo 5 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: RPG LucasArts 6 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction Action Adventure LucasArts 7 Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Action Adventure LucasArts 8 Half-Life 2 Shooter Electronic Arts 9 Black Shooter Electronic Arts 10 Star Wars: Republic Commando Shooter LucasArts   Nintendo DS Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Picross Arcade/Puzzle Nintendo 2 Pokemon Pearl Strategy/Sim Nintendo 3 Pokemon Diamond Strategy/Sim Nintendo 4 Deal or No Deal Strategy/Sim DSI Games 5 Transformers: Autobots Action Adventure Activision 6 New Super Mario Bros. Action Adventure Nintendo 7 Sim City DS Strategy/Sim Electronic Arts 8 Transformers: Decepticons Action Adventure Activision 9 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass RPG Nintendo 10 Final Fantasy III RPG Square Enix   PlayStation Portable Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Final Fantasy II RPG Square Enix 2 Dungeons & Dragons Tactics RPG Atari 3 Transformers: The Game Action Adventure Activision 4 Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology RPG Namco 5 Final Fantasy RPG Square Enix 6 PaRappa the Rapper Strategy/Sim Sony Computer Entertainment 7 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Shooter Ubisoft 8 Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions RPG Square Enix 9 Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters Action Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment 10 300: March to Glory Action Adventure Eidos   GameCube Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Action Adventure Nintendo 2 Ratatouille Kids/Family THQ 3 Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness Action Adventure Nintendo 4 Super Smash Bros. Melee Fighting Nintendo 5 Mario Kart: Double Dash Racing Nintendo 6 Mario Party 7 Kids/Family Nintendo 7 Pokemon Colosseum Action Adventure Nintendo 8 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Action Adventure Nintendo 9 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Shooter Nintendo 10 Super Mario Strikers Sports Nintendo   Game Boy Advance Most Popular Games: Rank Title Category Publisher 1 Pokemon Emerald Action Adventure Nintendo 2 Pokemon Fire Red Strategy/Sim Nintendo 3 Pokemon Leaf Green Strategy/Sim Nintendo 4 Pokemon: Ruby RPG Nintendo 5 Pokemon: Sapphire RPG Nintendo 6 Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap RPG Nintendo 7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Action Adventure Electronic Arts 8 Dogz 2 Strategy/Sim Ubisoft 9 Final Fantasy VI Advance RPG Nintendo 10 Super Mario Advance 4 Action Adventure Nintendo   Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:46 PM from Cheap Xbox 360 - Gamer News | 0 Comments

• Has Microsoft Lost its Mojo?

  Has Microsoft Lost its Mojo? In the pursuit to topple the Playstation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 seemed to be on the right course.  A full one year head start combined with some killer games lifted the Xbox 360 quickly into the #1 next generation console slot.  Gears of War proved to be the 2006 holiday hit that hardcore gamers craved, but since then a string of bad news have stung the software giant from Redmond.  The Big Three include: