People with SD TVs.
You'll be saying the same thing about digital games in 5 years.
...how quickly people forget.
No one remembers complaints of small text in early 360 games?
Sony did the same thing with Ps2. Grand theft auto, vice city, san Andreas, Mgs2, and afew others were timed exclusives. Why do people hate on MS for doing the same thing as competitors.
I think we're headed to a digital world but MS is bringing that reality too soon. I know Xbox ushered in broadband only consoles, HDD out of the box, and HD graphics to take advantage of HD TVs and that worked out as Nintendo and Sony later followed that lead. Those advantages were looked at negatively at first as well. But now look, those features have become the norm.
We'll have to wait and see how it plays out. History shows that MS is usually on top of it. ...
I still have the SNES version. It's very good for it's day but really tough to look at today. 64 version was really well done too and I feel it stood the test of time a lot better than the original.
You might be right about these guys growing up with the 64 but I grew up with NES and Master Systems. Sometimes our memories of games make them seem better than they really are.
The N64 version just has a better sense of speed. But I go back to fzero al...
64. SNES version didn't age well like fzero did.
I haven't played an atlus game since Gameboy Advance
Double Dragon, Super Dodge Ball, and River City Ransom remakes were awesome.
Playstation's version of the 360 controller is now the most comfortable controller?
I'm just glad Sony finally got rid of the ugly doggie bone shape of dual shocks.
I don't know man, you can yell at your old kinect right now to make it search for stuff. I never use it. It's gimmicky...sure it's nice for a laugh but I haven't used my kinect for anything outside of trying a few dance moves out. It's a dust collector.
But I'd love for M$ to prove me wrong.
Couldn't I just do that with the mic? We really need kinect for it?
Gimmicks don't last...Guitar Hero/Wii...
Kinect sucks for games. I hate the thing.
If they would focus more on it as a separate entity and quit trying to kill the game genres I enjoy by sitting on my ass.
Keep kinect for them crappy wii sports clones. Leave the good games alone.
I still play Double Dragon 2, Contra, River City Ransom, Super Dodgeball, Super C, and Excite Bike from time to time. If the game is good it doesn't matter how old it is.
That 20% spike is from the big sales they've been doing lately. Full games for 5-10 dollars on demand? Yeah, people are going to snatch up those deals. Batman AC was only 10 bucks for awhile. I'm sure people downloaded it.
Man, Game Gear was awesome back then... as long as you could keep it plugged in. I also had the converter so all my Master System games played on it too. Instant library.
Makes me wish Sony and MS would take backwards compatibility seriously. All I see is them seeing that they can re-sell all the games we just bought with slightly higher resolutions and maybe a few more features.
Very cool blog.
I had most consoles released in the States from Odyssey and Atari all the way up to 360.
My most memorable moments:
Sega master system 3D glasses, the jump from 8bit to 16 bit when I got the Genesis and the Golden Axe title screen just blew my mind. Street Fighter 2 versus Mortal Kombat, Streets of Rage versus Final Fight, ...seeing Fzero on SNES for the first time was killer too. Virtua Fighter in arcades...arcades disappearing. M...
Yeah, like that show glee and the steelers:)
All this anti-Xbox stuff is making me want to get one. I've always went with the underdog in the past. Might do it again. I was an Ulimate Warrior fan when everyone was a Hogan fan, Sega fan when most kids had the nes, etc...something about the underdog is cool. Like Rocky.:)
No sir, the debate in this thread is why competition is good for gaming. Playstation yes, had a DVD drive.
Xbox forced Sony to step up other features such as HD graphics, broadband internet, FPS games that could hang with Halo, built in HDD,...listed above.
Sony didn't have PSN until 2006. Before that, publishers had to make their games work online with their own servers. Madden wasn't online for PlayStation until 2004. That's 2 years where ...
"Which console actually came with the idea to play a game online?"
Genesis and Super Nintendo had modems for online gaming. Saturn made it better and Sega revolutionized online console gaming with Dreamcast.
Playstation's online was an after thought and is the reason it was inferior to both Sega's and Microsoft. Microsoft and Sega had a subscription service while Sony relied on 3rd parties to put their own games online. It was very crude. ...
No one said invented. Xbox had features before playstation. That's the debate here.
nice try though.
Broadband wasn't widespread yet...sounds familiar doesn't it?