XSN Sports - It Coulda Been A Contender?

Posted by simoniker on Friday June 4, 2004 @12:11AM from the frank-bruno dept.

Thanks to Gamers With Jobs for its article discussing the apparent problems inherent in Microsoft's XSN Sports titles for Xbox Live. The article points out: "The XSN Sports brand was intended to provide a unifying structure for the ultimate online sports gaming experience." The author then goes on to argue that "the games upon which [XSN is] based do not compete in market share with the competition, at least for the most popular sports", also pointing out the alleged clunkiness of Rallisport Challenge 2's XSN Sports event settings, which has you "manually entering the name of the competition [and a number of other selections] into the Xbox using the controller." What would you like to see from XSN Sports, after its break for 2004 ends?

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Re:Is The XBox Dead? by nullvector · 2004-06-04 01:04 · Score: 3, Informative

Actually, right now is probably the most alive the Xbox has ever been. The price drop to $149 really helped them.

Look at upcoming xbox games and it tells you how the future of xbox is panning out:

Halflife2 - After PC release
Doom3 - Fall/Winter 04
Halo2 - Christmas 04
ForzaRacing - Fall

In addition to a few other titles like DeadOrAlive:Ultimate, Conker, etc...

Seems like the xbox has a pretty bright future as far as the games that are coming out. There will be some best sellers there, and the list of games that come out this year will probably be some of the best games ever made for the platform.