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MS sees Windows Phone 7 'as a games console'

Microsoft has said that it views its upcoming Windows Phone 7 "as a games console" and plans to support the device with a robust launch line-up of titles.

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MrMccormo5712d ago

MS also sees Kinect "as a games console".

So....

Yeah...

8-bit5712d ago

lol. Windows Phone 7 phones are as much a 'games console' as the iphone. I don't count either as one personally. They have games that are more time killers and not full out games like the DS and PSP have.

D4RkNIKON5712d ago

Yeah, I played Final Fantasy Crisis Core on the PSP and put HOURS into it, same with MGS Peace Walker. I don't do the same with my ipod touch games.

8-bit5712d ago

lol yeah. MS just doesn't understand how important buttons are.

TotalPS3Fanboy5712d ago

Doctors call that delusional insanity.

Anorexorcist5712d ago (Edited 5712d ago )

"That ain't for playing games. That's for texting your grandma and calling your girl"

Some mobile phone games are good, but they are just daily distractions, not real (aka hardcore) games. They are things you do when your work day is winding down and you just want to be lazy, so you hide in a bathroom stall and play a game on your phone to pass the time.

The Lazy One5712d ago

The iPhone and Android phones are just as much a games console as the PC.

In a couple years smartphones are going to be in everyone's pockets. The Iphone has almost as many phones as the nintendo DS and it's been out 2 years shorter, and android phones have more sales than iPhone and they've been out even shorter than that.

You can say what you want about smartphones, but anyone in the industry knows it's the fastest growing market for games.

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bviperz5712d ago

The way they roll. If they say a product is 'something' then automatically some folks will believe it.

xtremexx5712d ago

well maybe they think of it as something to rival the PSP

siliticx5712d ago

well, if the rumors are true, the PSP2 is an android phone, making it a direct competition. Although the PSP would run on a solid, quite known OS with 30k+ apps. While winmo7 is brand new and offers a really bad interface.

And hummm MS, when will we be able to play angry birds? See what i did there?

Blaine5712d ago

I will literally jizz my pants. It's gonna be messy...

siliticx5712d ago

Sony looking for android engineers...
Android 3.0 coming with game DRM...
PSP2 kits being sent to minis developpers

yeah, things are starting to align there.

Stealth20k5712d ago

The psp 2 has a confirmed physical medium so if anything the psp 2 will have optional touch phone features

frankymv5712d ago

So this is MS answer in the handheld space huh?

Lazy_Gamer5712d ago

Lol. Yep, we believe you MS. Just like Kinect.

Zerogamer5712d ago (Edited 5712d ago )

Don't forget the KIN!

KillerPwned5712d ago

What the f@ck is Kin?.................LMFAO!

kndy5712d ago

for music -> zune
apps and everything else -> ipod

end of story.

XRider5712d ago

Don't forget Xbox Live, Office and Windows.

Shaymin5712d ago

How is the Windows Phone 7 a gaming console

divideby05712d ago

because MS says its so.... cant make this stuff up..

than again.... look what MS is saying about kinect

MorganX5712d ago

Because with development tools it's supposedly very easy to port from XBLA to WP7. Only controls need recoding.

Witht he XBL integration, things could get interesting. We'll see what developers do. I don't play phone or handheld games but there are some XBLA games I would play if they extended to the phone and progress was maintained between phone and console.

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Killer2020UK41d ago

Oh my, that is one gaudy design

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6967d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger67d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard67d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer67d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee67d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger67d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33667d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee67d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k467d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33667d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher67d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3467d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger67d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!