Sentences with phrase «greatest console launch»

The Dreamcast nails it as the greatest console launch of all time, but Xbox 360 is on course to be almost as good, they suggest.

The Switch's game library started out unusually strong thanks to, arguably the greatest console launch - game of all time.

With so many great consoles launching this year such as the Gamestick and Ouya, it's easy to forget about all of the great software that has been keeping our last - gen machines alive for the past 12 months.

So looking back, it is with a certain sadness that the Xbox 360 ceases production today, not only the last great console launch but one that shook the industry and put Microsoft on near level pegging with Sony, what ever happened to J Allard and the crew?

Not exact matches

It will certainly give the company's console a lift, but as the initial launch showed, a great game isn't enough to get gamers to forgive the price premium.

It is a great option for those who couldn't play the console version back in its launch, and it will fit perfectly in any collection.

Easily one of the greatest launch titles in gaming history, the first new console Zelda game since 2011's Skyward Sword (and the first Zelda game to debut in HD) introduces new features like a massive open - world Hyrule, nonlinear gameplay (go anywhere and solve challenges — or goof off — in any order), and some voice acting.

There's no denying that 2017 has been a great year for video games, with no shortage of success for Microsoft, including the release of the Xbox One X. Despite a lackluster lineup of games when the powerful console launched in October, next year is set to deliver some heavy hitting titles.

Everyone know that a great and diverse launch title can drive adoption of the new console and get people excited about it.

KZSF looks great for a 399.99 console and a launch title.

The Switch won't be the first Nintendo console with a thin launch line - up, of course, and knowing the Big N, it has plenty of games in the pipeline: the great - looking Super Mario Odyssey was conspicuous by its absence at the event we attended, save for a trailer playing on a screen in front of a Mario diorama.

The Switch is a great console that for the most part is well designed and launched at a just - about - reasonable price.

If Nintendo had launched what became the WiiU INSTEAD of the original Wii, I think that sales of their current console would be greater.

The Dreamcast's US launch was a spectacular one to say the least: great games, great marketing and a great console.

Great launches for both consoles.

«Firstly just of the concept, launching a new console mid-cycle, staying ahead and delivering much richer gaming experiences at that moment is great.

That said, it's easily one of the best handheld fighters I've played, and a great launch title for the console.

«Buying Xbox is great for consumer choice, as having 2 consoles is good for the consumer» (yeh right, Microsoft really had consumer rights at heart when they knowingly launched the faulty Xbotch).

It will receive a physical copy for consoles and will launch worldwide, which is great news for fans.

By in large, most launch titles for consoles tend not to be all that great and this is particularly true with the PlayStation brand especially since the launch of the PlayStation 2.

Since those glory days of the Vita's launch period where I had some great games to play on Sony's incredibly capable handheld console, things went a little quiet.

The console was launched less than 3 months later on March 3rd, 2017 with the best first party title being The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild which is highly regarded by critics and players as one of the great games of all time.

With the Wii U proving to be a damp squib, despite boasting a number of great (mainly first party) games, Nintendo were quick to put it to one side and launch a fresh new console, smack dab in the middle of the controversial but also kind of successful 1.5 upgrades from Sony and Microsoft.

Not only was the Switch a great console to launch, it came out alongside a new Zelda and a new Mario in the same year, two primary flagships coupled by a bunch of other smaller hits.

Microsoft's latest and greatest console, the Xbox Scorpio is set to launch this year; this piece of gaming hardware is hoping to be the headline...

After the NES, Nintendo launched the Super Nintendo, a console that, in my personal opinion, was one of the greatest in the history of gaming.

@Nyxus Both are really great games but comparing two game sales between a console with a crazy good install base to one that just launched over the weekend is silly.

Lunar Great Wall Studios has announced Another Sight, a surreal dreamscape fantasy game, set to launch on Nintendo Switch and other consoles in 2018.

Easily one of the greatest launch titles in gaming history, the first new console Zelda game since 2011's Skyward Sword (and the first Zelda game to debut in HD) introduces new features like a massive open - world Hyrule, nonlinear gameplay (go anywhere and solve challenges — or goof off — in any order), and some voice acting.

That's $ 50 off all Xbox One console bundles at participating retailers in the US including the Xbox One Tom Clancy's The Division Bundle that launched this month, the Xbox One 500 GB Name Your Game Bundle which lets you choose one of four great games, and even the upcoming Xbox One Special Edition Quantum Break Bundle.

Microsoft doesn't have a single launch exclusive for this console, and while enhancements to old games are great, I often found it hard to even notice big differences because I don't think some of these games were designed with 4K textures in mind.»

It's great news considering the launch of new consoles is a prime time to adjust for inflation.

However excited the whole community was before the launch, has seemed to equalize on the fact that Nintendo Switch can not (most probably) have as great a support for 3rd party vendors as compared to the other consoles.

Firstly they built a console that they wouldn't have to sell at a loss but was still at a great price and more importantly cheaper than the PS3, secondly they created a lead over the PS3 and Wii before they launched which allowed for more third party support on the system and eventually a number of third party exclusives and even former PlayStation exclusives to launch on the system.

The success of the game is great news for Nintendo who have been developing the game since before the Wii U came out, but it does show how the console launch line - up failed to attract users outside of the core Zelda / Nintendo fan base.

You've been hinting at exclusive content for Nintendo platforms (on top of the exclusive features / modes already present on the Nintendo releases), and while that's great news for Nintendo users, this campaign was mainly targeted at PC gamers (the only version listed when the campaign launched), with (Nintendo) consoles announced later on (and Linux / Mac appearing as a stretch goal), and the majority of funding you received for the campaign was surely from PC gamers, yet what happened since then is that the PC version has been treated a bit like a «secondary» version in terms of your efforts.

«Launching the Banner Saga 2 on consoles this close to the PC launch is just tremendous,» commented Steve Escalante, General Manager at Versus Evil, «We just had a great launch earlier this year with the first Banner Saga and now we are continuing to grow our console presence with this latest release and our partners Sony and Microsoft.

Nintendo, which has reached great success with the launch of the Nintendo Switch, is looking to further ride the hybrid console's momentum into the third and fourth quarters of the year.

«I always thought Snake Pass would be great fit for a Nintendo platform but I never dreamed it would come out so close to the launch of their brand - new console!»

Though the graphics were stunning, and the launch games were great, the lack of support, terrible UI, lesser quality controller, and the sour taste left in players» mouths from the reveal plagued the console from the get - go.

There's no denying that 2017 has been a great year for video games, with no shortage of success for Microsoft, including the release of the Xbox One X. Despite a lackluster lineup of games when the powerful console launched in October, next year is set to deliver some heavy hitting titles.

The Wii U has a great launch lineup — one of the strongest of any console launch in history — but its best games will be the ones that Nintendo and other developers release in the years to come, not in the months to come.

Originally launched on Steam in late 2016, Maize is a great game to be brought over for console players to enjoy a confusing, yet not frustrating puzzle game located in a strange cornfield that turns out to have way more going on then is first presented!

As is, this could go down as one of the great multiplayer puzzle games to debut near a console launch, like Chu Chu Rocket for the Dreamcast in 1999.

If I were to choose a console solely based on launch line - up though, I'd pick the Xbox One, mainly because I had a great time with Ryse and Dead Rising 3.

This was a strong launch game for a console and the Vita is graced with a great first party game in its library.

True, the 3DO console was not a great success when it was launched as a hugely over-priced multimedia machine in 1993.

It was a great time, that DS launch period, before the console found massive success and suddenly every other game was babysitting - themed shovelware.

Given how great the past Mario games have sold, a bundled Mario title for the Wii U launch could easily get the console selling by the millions within days or weeks.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Project Gotham Racing are both great titles, but the stock controller was terrible, Halo didn't have online play, and any console that launches with a title like Fuzion Frenzy is scraping for quantity over quality.