Topic: Cox: "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is the best seller of the saga"

[Kale]

It's pretty funny how GameCube and Xbox sold less, when games that came out for one of these systems and ps2, the cube/xbox versions were almost always better.

The one I remember was a tennis game for xbox and ps2. I had it, and my friend saw it and was like, that's pretty cool. Bought the ps2 version, the voice was different, mono tone and sounded like a reader program, colors/texture/model all looked shittier, ambience was worst (Crowded were cut out boards in the ps2, and low poly on xbox.)

[Ratty]

Sony can't have had a full exclusivity deal for console Castlevanias. Curse of Darkness came out for Xbox, and it was the next game right after Lament. Prior to that, there was Chronicles for Playstation, and the two N64 games came out after Symphony.

Sony might have opted out of renewing the contract after disappointing sales of Lament. Though I agree if such deals did take place they were surely less permanent than those seen on Resident Evil. Though 2 of the 3 Resident Evil games that were supposed to be exclusive (REmake, 0 and 4) still are Nintendo exclusive as I understand. It's really too bad that the popular wisdom in the industry until a few years ago said that 2D console games were "dead" if IGA were still working on the series I believe we'd be getting some nifty Metroidvanias on XBLA and PSN by now.

Gamecube pros:

• came in different colors
• lunchbox design
• cute mini-disc format

I've heard all of those qualities listed as negatives in the past. Though I personally am a fan of the color scheme and general aesthetics of the console, I think it made a lot of older players feel insecure. PS2 showed that there was more money to be made in a general media machine that happened to play games (I know my family bought a PS2 primarily because it was the cheapest DVD player on the market at the time.) while Nintendo bet on the dedicated gamer market. Small wonder Nintendo abandoned the "hardcore" gamers for a more casual audience with the Wii as betting on the smaller pony had lost them a ton the time before.

It's pretty funny how GameCube and Xbox sold less, when games that came out for one of these systems and ps2, the cube/xbox versions were almost always better.

The one I remember was a tennis game for xbox and ps2. I had it, and my friend saw it and was like, that's pretty cool. Bought the ps2 version, the voice was different, mono tone and sounded like a reader program, colors/texture/model all looked shittier, ambience was worst (Crowded were cut out boards in the ps2, and low poly on xbox.)

Yeah the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2 while the Xbox was technically the most powerful system of the time even though it didn't show in the games as much iirc. It just that they didn't play DVDs so they had no chance to catch up.

[Sindra]

"I would dance naked on the street".

Dooming the game before it's even released.

Dave Cox, ladies and gentlemen.