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Oh man, you hit me with the counter-strike of console gaming. Because a series of games that essentially has a monopoly on the console fps market is really the standard and not an exception to the rule. < sarcasm

Nintendo is always on the ball. Best faring console of the big three. Wii kicked a** because it was really on top of that casual gamer s**t. Sports games are middle of the road in that they are predictable sellers, but aren't amazing. You could make a whole business of just making sports games and people do, but its still making you less money than the micro transaction model... and you can still buy additional stuff in that anyway.

Don't think FF has really been that successful lately. DMC is probably going to be ok.

Not as good as Angry Birds though. Not as good as League of Legends.

I bought CoD Elite for MW2 and I think it was a great deal all things considered. That made it about 120$ though. 60 for the game roughly and 60 for Elite.

I bought Black Ops 2 as well but... just couldn't get into it as much. I liked the campaign and all the multiple cutscenes/endings depending on your choices and the multiplayer was ok but it was just lacking a certain something. I like being able to make a completely custom multiplayer kit though. That's awesome.

If triple AAA games were not making money, why would EA, Ubisoft, etc make them?

Business is about making money, so....if these games were not making money...why would they...release them?

Medal Of Honor (huge sales) Halo 4 HUGE SALES, HOMEFRONT (big sales), Call of Duty doesnt have as big of a hold on the market as people think.

[M.o.h. Warfighter was a terrible game however and did not match the sales of the earlier release. Avoid it, unless you want it really bad. Dont pay more then bargain price. EA has officially announced it being out of the rotation.]


On the subject of Nintendo, our Mario mass producing friend NEEDED the success of the wii, after the horrific failure of the Game cube, without Wii success they would have probably disappeared. They arn't in a great position with the Wii U, a console that should have been released a few years back. Nintendo has good first party stuff, and fan loyalty. They don't have much else. Their lack of support for third party and an online store for the Wii was just poor business. They have taken baby steps into the solving these issues with the Wii U, but in online and third party support they are still miles behind Playstation and Xbox



Jumping subjects: (for all the A.D.D kids)
Black Ops 2 was designed for more balanced and tournament play, this is the Lacking most people are feeling. Feel the online maps lack something? well its because to balance both sides, they had to make each side a near replication of the other. A lack of weaponry? once again, easier to balance out less weapons.
But most of all, If you only play shooters things get samey, and Call of duty hasn't changed much over the years, so its pretty much the same game. Its not by any means bad, but its not the pleasant surprise MW was, nothing will = that first time experience in most peoples minds.
Treyarch did a good job with the single player tho, certainly changed things up enough to encourage me to buy it, even if the futuristic style got Activision sued for several million.

I like customizable characters. or just outfits. Like Gta. I wear those virtual malls out.

You're right. Let's stop making stores because people can steal from them.

Forget that other 99% of well adjusted people who aren't scum. They'll have to make due scavenging in the wilds.

lol walgreens wtf.