Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
Late Night Consoling
by Maarten Goldstein, May 22, 2003 8:00pm PDTJust like there is no spoon, there is no Jason. But LNC couldn't be more real, and there will still be some late night E3 impressions in 45 minutes.
 | Onimusha: The Movie According to movie site Coming Soon, Capcom has sold the movie rights to Onimusha. Reportedly the game franchise will be turned into a $50 million live-action adventure fantasy movie. |
 | Nintendo's Big Sale Drop As expected, Nintendo announced their financial results for the fiscal year through March today. Profits dropped some 37% percent, still good enough for $572 million but of course not something you want to see happening. Slow sales of the GameCube are to blame. |
 | Star Wars Galaxies On Hold GameSpot is reporting on that the Xbox and PS2 versions of Star Wars Galaxies are currently on hold. All mentions of the two ports were removed from the LucasArts website recently. According to LucasArts, everyone is focused on getting the PC version of the Sony Online MMORPG done. |
| Lost Kingdoms II Ships Activision today announced that FromSoftware's RPG sequel Lost Kingdoms II is shipping to stores now. The sequel features a new main character, new cards, 200 different enemies, and there is a two player Versus mode. |
| Brute Force Interview There's a Brute Force interview on GDXbox, offering a chat with Erin Roberts of Digital Anvil about this long in development third person shooter. Questions are about working with the Xbox, coop play, lack of Xbox Live support, other multiplayer features and more. |
| | Misc. Media/Previews GameSpot has posted a few screenshots from the PS2 version of Worms 3D. Computer & Video Games offers impressions of Mario Kart: Double Dash, Kameo and Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Also, IGN has posted screenshots from 3DO's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and they also have Brute Force multiplayer movies.. |
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Okay, so there's pretty much no such thing as GameCube piracy, right? No GC mod chips since that FreeLoader disc takes care of imports, and the number of people who could burn mini DVD-R's is small enough to not garner interest. There might be more at work here, but that's how I see it.
Xbox however does have piracy. And mod chips. And hell, a mod scene. People buy Xboxen, replace hard drives, mod them for homebrew purposes, and even write books about the subject.
And a lot of what I see about Xbox's dominance relates to its system sales, where it's selling much more than GameCube. However, how many people buy Xboxes with no intention of buying games? I mean what percentage of these systems are for the pirates or the hackers? I've even heard of people buying two Xboxes, one for legit, Xbox Live use, the other as a small hackable PC for their TV (think emulator authors).
So this means, if I follow it right, that pretty much 100% of GameCube owners buy their systems to play games on. So why is Xbox seen as more successful? I know part of the problem is simple game sales, but if we know that Xbox and PS2 can be hacked, why are raw hardware sales numbers seen as indicators?
And why don't developers want to develop for the one console without piracy?
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