Half-Life 2's preload to Steam account holders continued apace this week as Valve allowed users to download "the majority of the audio of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form," according to an update on the developer's website.
The second splurge of data - preceded by around 1040MB of texture and art content last week - comes in at around 900MB and, as with the original preload, will not cost you anything to download. The idea is that the moment the game is made available, those with preloaded copies on their hard disks will be able to start playing immediately once payment is made.
News source: Eurogamer.net
The second splurge of data - preceded by around 1040MB of texture and art content last week - comes in at around 900MB and, as with the original preload, will not cost you anything to download. The idea is that the moment the game is made available, those with preloaded copies on their hard disks will be able to start playing immediately once payment is made.
News source: Eurogamer.net
The 11 console titles--all sequels--that the research predicts will sell more than 1 million units each and will dominate holiday sales are as follows:
•Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take-Two, PS2)
•Halo 2 (Microsoft, Xbox)
•Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts, PS2)
•Need for Speed Underground 2 (Electronic Arts, PS2)
•Gran Turismo 4 (SCEA, PS2)
•Spider-Man 2 (Activision, PS2)
•Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Activision, PS2)
•Pokémon LeafGreen (Nintendo, GBA)
•Pokémon FireRed (Nintendo, GBA)
•Metal Gear Solid 3 (Konami, PS2)
•Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway, PS2)
Wedbush Morgan predicts that during 2004, 218 million pieces of software will be sold in total, skewed such that an astonishing 114 million of them will be moved during the final three months of the year. In addition, the report closes with in-depth looks at six of the major third-party publishers and recommendations for investors (giving a "Buy" rating to Take-Two, Activision, Atari, and Electronic Arts and a "Hold" rating to Midway and THQ).
While today's report focused on the console and handheld sectors, the document briefly alluded to three PC games thought capable of driving sales of a million or more before the end of the calendar year. Those would be Doom 3 (Activision), the upcoming The Sims 2.0 (Electronic Arts), and "November’s" release of Half-Life 2 (VU Games). "We expect the total unit sales for the 11 console/handheld million unit SKUs plus the three PC million unit SKUs to exceed 30 million units in calendar 2004," said Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter and Edward Woo in today's report.
Dice says: I feel this analyst is correct, do you?
What else do we need to play the game?!!! Apart from the key etc...as Doom 3 is only 1.49GB.
Delay the game using excuses, or it could have just been an excellent coincidence. Get everyone who has been hyped up on the game and teased to pre-load, then as soon as it's releaseed, rather than wait for a copy in store people will just buy it on steam so they can get it earlier ... because most people will think, *shrug* i've already pre-loaded and it's cheaper buying it on steam so i may as well. This gives steam good name and valve money. Of course i could be wrong, but it doesnt hurt having idea's.
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This gives steam good name and valve money
Personally I couldn't buy it over steam, Id much rather have all the physical stuff.
it'll be this month folks.
btw- does this not mean it'll be out on torrents the same day its released to the public?
doesnt this encourage piracy?
i'll bhe buying the game though; love my manuals
Riiiiight. How many times has that been said.
Kudos to them
I like owning the manuals too but I'd love to get another UT2004 CD-key directly from Epic for $10 instead of buying a whole new box just for my brother.
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