First post revisited

I was looking back over what has been said on the site since I started posting (not as frequently as I should tbh) and I noticed the first post I made, where we were discussing the initial pricing and how Sony were going to face off against Microsoft.

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A quick look back… Then onward to infinity and beyond!

With all the other game sites looking at the best and the worst moments in gaming throughout ‘07, we thought we’d take a different tact, we’d look at where we were right, admit where we were wrong and then use Mikes bald head as a crystal ball and predict the major points of ‘08.

Where we were right in ‘07 :-

Who called the free repairs for all? We did that’s right… While everyone else was still whining about the failure rate maybe a little high, we were looking at the info corolating it and predicting it was going to cost MicroShaft a shed load of green. What did Micro$oft do? Extend the 360 warranty to 3 years and set aside roughly $1.5 billion to deal with 360’s that Red Ring of Death’d (RROD).

We were right about the Halo shorts being used as tech demo exercises to promote the movie to film execs, though apparently they were to hype Halo 3, except they came out after the game had been completed by most hardcore players on Legendary.

Viva Pinata Animals was predicted to be a dog of a game, such a waste of a good franchise.

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ps3 the long term bet?

Ok so this is my first proper post, except it isn’t really, it’s an excerpt from a conversation I was having with a friend about the PS3 European launch, we jump into the coversation with my friend looking at PS3 ebay auctions in the US
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