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I read about this but he already commented on what the 3rd game was supposed to be. " . He also commented on the story of Assassin's Creed III, saying that it will focus on Assassins' quest to prevent the end of the world in 2012 and their race against time to find temples built by "those who came before". Desmond would have to search for clues on locations of these temples by exploring memories of his other ancestors." This is the game that I've been waiting to play.

Well I'm sure I'll get this game and I'm sure that I'll love it but I'm getting a little impatient for a true AC3. Ubisoft really is milking this franchise.

Yes, that's exactly my point. I was like For a game that billed itself as interactive drama it sure had a crappy plot. Also,

I also found the killers motivation to be completely unbelievable. That kind of ruined the game for me as well. I really really wanted to love this game. I actually liked Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) better.

Technically Developers have to develop for the Xbox as if it doesn't have an HDD since not all consoles do and it doesn't hurt the system but since most consoles do have an HDD there is a pretty thriving download business. I don't think you have to include an HDD but at least offering a two tiered system like the Xbox is a good idea.

This wouldn't be the first time where Nintendo lives in the past and it bites them in the butt. *cough N64 cough* Also, I think it'd be hilarious if the new Nintendo comes without an HDD and the new xbox comes without an optical drive.

Yeah, the success of the Wii was entirely based on a fad if you ask me. I never play my Wii. Nintendo's profits have to plummet just because the success of the Wii is unsustainable and it's very difficult for me to think they're going to instantly implement an online infrastructure to compete with Xbox live anytime soon. Nintendo is still a tiny company compared to Sony or Microsoft.

There's a difference between clearanceing old items on a retail site and purchasing new hardware in bulk from a manufacturer. I don't remember where I read the article but the cost of the HDD was the reason that MS gave for discontinuing the original Xbox after only 4 years. Even if the price is down to $40 now that's still a significant portion of a game console.

8GB of flash memory would be cheaper than an HDD and it'd get cheaper over time. HDD's are usually $50 OEM and that's the minimum which is a significant cost to a console manufacturer. The internal HDD was the reason why the original Xbox was discontinued because they couldn't lower the cost of the system below $180 and it's the reason why all XBox 360's don't have HDDs.

If anyone needs the Professor Portal Achievement I plan on playing soon for the first time. Message me or send me a friend request.

I think Wii is proof that people can get used to any name.

I just picked up Portal 2. Fry's matched Amazon's price which was pretty cool of them. Who needs the professor portal achievement? I plan on playing this game tonight so you better be ready if you want to get it.

well, X86-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 The point of the xbox was to run a windows kernel and launch APIs like Direct X from it hence the name "Direct X box". This is why most games on the Xbox are quickly and easily ported to the PC and why you see the PS3 getting the crappy ports.

I'm sure it's not the licensing fees that has MS worried. Odds are that Sony is giving up on proprietary tech like the Cell processor and will probably go the x64 route this time and even be supporting MS Direct X. Either way MS and Sony are going to be sharing tech. I think the issue is that MS won't get any money if you buy BD movies so they don't care to include that functionality. They do however, make money when you download a movie through their zune service so they're got a stake in not including a blu-ray in the new xbox.

Currently MS associates content through the console and your ID. When you download a game to your console any user on that console can access that content. If you take your ID to another house you can redownload the content but it will only be accessible when you are logged into XBL on that system. It is possible to migrate your console affiliation of all downloaded content to a new console but it can only be done once per year.

For the record I prefer discs too and I only download games when they are super cheap. I just know that lots of people, myself included, have a huge backlog of steam games to play because they got them for pennies on the dollar and I'd welcome the same problem on my xbox.

Yeah, that's just you though. I know precious few people with gaming PCs. Most of my friends game on an Xbox. Edit: That came out wrong. What I mean is I think there are far more consoles now than gaming PCs. Mainly because gaming PC's cost at least twice as much as a console.

I don't know why there's so much doubt on this. Android, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Steam. These are all download only services and now Netflix has more customers than Comcast. Why is it so hard to believe that the new system would be download only? You say you'd never buy a console that is download only but I'm willing to bet that when your only choice is download only then you'll pick one up.

made redundant = laid off? I've heard this phrase a lot recently. I don't think anyone says it in the US.

I still really think that digital download will be the main delivery method if not the only delivery method of the new consoles. Developers want it to kill 2nd hand sales and Console makers want it to get a piece of every single download on the system. MS is clearly building to this by refusing a BD drive add on for their system. I refute the callings of "not everyone has internet yet" by saying that the profits are more than enough to outweigh the minority of people who still don't have internet.

Yeah, the N64 was a true gamer console. It was the cost of the carts that killed the N64 and Sony's ability to offer rock bottom development and publishing costs on their system made the PSX huge.

I saw the Socom 4 full deployment edition and was seriously tempted just to have the move controllers. Too bad they didn't do that for Killzone 3.

With PC components you're always going to weigh price vs. performance. Hedging your bets against future upgrades is very very difficult. I bought the Core i7 thinking that socket was going to be around for at least a few more years but it's already been retired after just a couple of years. It's very hard to plan more than a year in advance but I will say that what is happening now is that computers are starting to use quad cores for games.