Gizmondo secures Microsoft games as Moore slams PSP

...defeating Nintendo in the handheld arena, saying that launching against the Kyoto giant is akin to “…developing your own little operating system and saying, 'Well, I'm going to challenge Windows!’”

Or like releasing your own little videoconsole and saying:"Well, I'm going to challange Playstation!"

Moore is a certified idiot. I'm all for Nintendo, don't get me wrong, but this guy knows ****. Like the time he said Japanese developers always make repetetive games and copy their last game, and that western developers are leading the way! LOL!
*tears of laughter*

Or, closer to the mark, releasing your own console in 1995 and saying: "Well, I'm going to challenge SNES, Jaguar, Saturn, etc."

And speaking of "little operating systems" did anybody shout "Linux" at him? :-)

He may well be inclined to think that. Looking at prominent Japanese developers, I see Konami - Dancing Stage X, Pro Evo 4, Gradius 5. Sega - more Sonic, a third version of Virtua Fighter 4, and more Puyo Puyo. Capcom - endless Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Megaman. Namco - Tekken 5, Ridge Racer whatever and more Pac-Man based games. Whilst I'm in no way belittling the fine games mentioned (except Megaman, a series which I personally despise), you can see how he could come to that conclusion. Of course, you'd be ignoring the original titles they make, such as Katamari Damacy, Jet Set Radio and Viewtiful Joe.

Meanwhile, Western developers could well be leading the way. Look at the success enjoyed by franchises such as Prince of Persia, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Splinter Cell, Doom, SSX, Tomb Raider, Half Life and the like. They're certainly very successful games, and most of them can claim to have an outstanding game as it's most recent title. Of course, we'd be ignoring the mass of crap that originates from the West, not to mention the sequelitis certain series here are displaying symptoms of..

My point? People have preferences. Peter Moore's is obviously one that ignores the fantastic games coming out of Japan, but similarly I can't help but feel your "LOL!" discounted the best of the West.

Think you are right there, mate. MS love a monopoly but should welcome challenges to their crown if they are confident in their product enough. Nintendo and Sony are at least open to challenges from others.

MS shouldn't be salt rubbing in others wounds, when they have fresh cuts all over their hands from the Netscape and Linux stuff.

As for putting games on Gizmondo it will make the machine a nicer option, but it's a long way to go before it's as wanted as PSP or DS.

Nintendo, the company whose president once stated "Sega is nothing"? Sony, the company whose American computer entertainment president once said "The console wars are over. I liken the gap with our competition to the Grand Canyon". (May 2002, no less - a month when the Gamecube had scarcely launched in Europe!)

I don't think anyone likes challenge, to be quite frank.

That's all shop talk and stuff. Try to take everything with a pinch of salt. Most of these lot end up eating their words for breakfast eventually anyway.

Perhaps MS stuff is just shop talk, so we don't forget that the focus is gonna be on Sony and Nintendo for most of next year, that and MS have no hand held so conspire (or call it what you will) with Gizmondo.

Sour grapes indeed methinks, and the fact that the current supposed home console race is clearly over.

Strategy games don't work on any platform outside of the PC, and maybe the DS with its touchscreen and wi-fi/mic capabilities. Regardless, Age of Kings is one of my all time favorite games, and I'd be interested to see how it turns out.

And Peter Main, the one time Nintendo guy, would be one to talk about Nintendo's handheld area. Still, I doubt someone making their little OS would have the advertising abilities of Sony, which in the end, is where Sony is going to make their sales.

3D explore/beat 'em up.



Doom/Quake in a party dress



3D Explore/beat/shoot 'em up beset with sequelitis



3D Explore/shoot 'em up beset with sequelitis



Erm, just Doom, not even a party dress, and 12 years old to boot.




Excuse me! You might like it a LOT, but it's out of its depth here.



3D Explore/shoot 'em up beset with sequelitis. OK, it defined the genre. But too many sequels, none a patch on the original.



Doom/quake with bells (and whistles)

It's hardly the throng of innovation and creativity you'd have us believe. And these games boast a ton of lacklustre sequels between them. Every game in your list has at least one sequel out or on the way.

Well done, you've won the "I didn't read the full post" award.

If you had read my post, you'd have noticed I mentioned that the games do have sequelitis. Further still, I never said any of the games were original or innovative. What I actually said was "They're certainly very successful games, and most of them can claim to have an outstanding game as it's most recent title". So in fact, you're having a go at me about making them out to be fresh products, when in fact I was merely stating that they're successful, and in many cases good. Moreover, I was referring to the games as series, rather than as single entities. I'd hardly mention Doom as opposed to Doom 3, likewise SSX.

Similarly, you appear to completely ignore the fact that I mentioned innovative titles from Japan, as a counterpoint to the argument that Japanese developers exhibit a lack of originality. In fact, I even mentioned that Peter Moore's statement was ignorant to the quality and innovation of Japanese games.

In no way did I make out that Western games were any more or less innovative than Japanese titles. All I said was that a case could be made that the statement "Western developers are leading the way" could well be true in the eyes of some people.

Please, try not to apply fictional bias to my statements in future. It makes us both look bad.