The 360 thread!

[betamax]

Chub's right; Timeshift is a good comparison, and similarly vacuous. Maybe there should be a crossover game with all the gimmicks called ShitShifter.

You set that one up on purpose.

[Bod]

Anyone tried 'Fracture' yet?
... a shoot em up with deformable enviroments that you can blow up to help with puzzle solving!

[Deckard]

Havent they just been slagging this off on the previous page?

[Phineasfool]

Indeed they have. Tried the demo for Fracture earlier this morning and thought it was quite mediocre. Not horrible, but nothing that great either.

[Flabio]

It's also the subject of todays Penny Arcade. Which I won't link or post, cause it'll only derail the thread same as it always does when we do that.

[Peltazoid]

Price drop on the 360 for the UK. The arcade is now 130 quid, the 60 gig HD one is now 170 quid. Yup, that means one with a decent size harddrive is now less than the wii.

Should help Fable2 sales a fair bit, heh.

I'm tempted to pick one up tomorrow. £150 sounds quite reasonable (extra 10% off ) for a 60gb.

Will ninty drop the price off the wii?

[Deckard]

Yeah, its around 6-7 Gb from reading around. Never answer a question first thing in the morning.

Japanese HW sales last week.(8->14th) (360 out of stock in Japan until 11th).

• Xbox 360: 28,681 units
• Wii: 27,057 units
• PLAYSTATON 3: 8,050 units

The end is NIGH!!!

Not true - so the end aint nigh

According to hardware sales data from Media Create, the Xbox 360 didn't manage to outsell Nintendo's Wii during the week ended September 14, as earlier reported by Famitsu.

While Famitsu pegged Xbox 360 sales at 28,681 units, 1,600 ahead of the Wii for the week, Media Create reckons it was the other way round, although still a close run race.

Media Create data sees the Wii leading the battle of the home consoles with 29,686 units sold, followed by Xbox 360 with 28,188, PS3 with 8,053 and PS2 with 7,669.

According to the firm, handhelds continued to lead overall hardware sales, the DS way out in front having shifted 63,859 units, no doubt boosted by the release of the chart-topping Pokemon Platinum, while the PSP narrowly managed to outsell the leading home consoles.

[Peltazoid]

Just purchased a 60GB 360

Along with GTA-IV, Lost Odyssey, Burnout Paradise and a Live Subscription and a VGA Lead to plug it into my monitor.

Got Fable 2 on pre-order as well.

I'll be trying it out later

[PurpleChair]

Fracture appears to be utter bobbins.

Why do they bother telling you that you can only manipulate soft earth, when there's so many places where you can't even do that? And the scripted bits look really stupid... when I was told to blow up the water tower, I thought it'd be a Half-Life 2 style physics showcase bit, so I ignored my HUD target and shot at a joint halfway up the side of the frame... but then the HUD-targetted point blew up and the whole structure toppled that way instead. Suddenly I feel like I'm playing on my PlayStation again!

[PVB]

Just purchased a 60GB 360

Along with GTA-IV, Lost Odyssey, Burnout Paradise and a Live Subscription and a VGA Lead to plug it into my monitor.

Got Fable 2 on pre-order as well.

I'll be trying it out later

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/games/space-giraffe

[betamax]

It's also the subject of todays Penny Arcade. Which I won't link or post, cause it'll only derail the thread same as it always does when we do that.

That's because... ha! Fooled you!

[benedictw]

Fracture appears to be utter bobbins.

Why do they bother telling you that you can only manipulate soft earth, when there's so many places where you can't even do that?

Magic Carpet did the same mechanism far better - there was nothing that couldn't be affected by the spells.

[The Captain]

And that was how long ago? Lucasarts should be ashamed of themselves. Just goes to show you can't buy vision.

[betamax]

And that was how long ago? Lucasarts should be ashamed of themselves. Just goes to show you can't buy vision.

Daytime TV adverts for laser eye correction would disagree with you about that.

[Flabio]

If it makes you feel any better, they did make the entire team that worked on that redundant recently.