June: The month that...
Backwards compatibility was the burning issue
Microsoft man Peter Moore gave the backwards compatibility hornet's nest a vigorous shake by suggesting that gamers weren'ඣt fussed about playing old Xbox games on 360, prompting a collective, frenzied and quite deafening buzz of anger from forum hives everywhere. Microsoft 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:moved quicဣkly to sooth the situation, although comments from other industry figures suggesting that backwards compatibility was simply a fan ꦉboys' obsession stirred things up again and ensured that 'back compat' w🦋as the💟 month's hot topic.
DS Lite launched in Europe
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Above: We dumped our old fat one without a second thought for the brand new skinny model. Does that make us shallow...?
PlayStation 3 became a computer
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GAME ditched its 10-day return policy
Perhaps not massive news but certainly the end of an institution and, if you'd ever exploited GAME's generous, no quibbles 10-day return policy as a way to play all the games you wanted for no real detrimental damage to your wallet, then the bombshell that the high street retailer was dropping its charitab💫le service in favour of a more financially beneficial (for GAME, at least) policy certain🌠ly came as a blow.
Above: We dumped our old fat one without a second thought for the brand new skinny model. Does that make us shallow...?
PlayStation 3 became a computer
Anyone under the impression that PlayStation 3 would merely be a lowly games console was put in their place by smiling Sony boss Ken Kutaragi when he revealed that the machine was, in fact, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:quite clearly a computer. Sony's head of worldwide studios, Phil 'head in the clouds' Harrison, also rammed the message home, explaining that when the PS2 successor arrived, we would 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查♔询:no longer be in ♕need of the humble PC.
GAME ditched its 10-day return policy
Perhaps not massive news but certainly the end of an institution and, if you'd ever exploited GAME's generous, no quibbles 10-day return policy as a way to play all the games you wanted for no real detrimental damage to your wallet, then the bombshell that the hig⛦h street retailer was dropping its charitable serꩵvice in favou🌳r of a more financially beneficial (for GAME, at least) policy certainly came as a blow.
