What was the record? "First thing to be preordered at a Blockbuster since 2002"?
Thank you quantum entanglement and FTL networks!
Yeah, the games are made and people would pay a premium for a nice limited edition. It's just something that could be cool, not some crazy financial risk.
GT5's install is optional.
The largest mandatory install is 8GBs for RAGE. RAGE didn't exactly sell gangbusters. Most mandatory installs hover between 1-3 GBs. This is a SKU targeted at casual users. We're talking about people who buy 2 games a year and maybe rent 2 more. They will never run into a problem. People savvy enough to need lots of storage are also savvy enough to buy the right model, or save money by buying a 16GB model and installing their own drive. We have FCC documents already suggesting a new, ...
Kinect was given a name at E3 2010, months before this document was apparently created.
And all the CPU cores described are small, low power models. The GPUs are also pretty modest.
I suppose reading an article isn't important if you don't mind looking like a fool.
I think Blizzard could see a great deal of value in a portable version of D3, and the Vita is the only natural home for the game, in terms of control, power and connectivity. And Vita is the only place where an offline mode both makes sense and would be technically feasible. Again, these are things covered in the article you were too lazy to read before condemning.
You could at least read the article before criticising it. I cover the online requirement. Since Vita is a secure platform it opens the possibility for an offline mode special to that version.
The free copies would be digital. You'd have to pay for a physical version if you want it, though they will come with one time use codes so used copies would be worthless. Porting costs would easily be covered by the millions of additional sales a console version would generate.
What's weird is the assumption that a de-emphasis on exclusive games disproportionately damages Sony's business and not Nintendo or Microsoft. The author seems to think Microsoft has the hard core sewn up, but all the Xbox 720 rumors so far suggest they're about to break hard towards the casual audience with a low powered, Kinect focused system. Nintendo is also completely reliant on exclusive content, and as the Gamecube has proven that alone is not enough for success. We don'...
They also ignore the fact that Vita's lineup of games is incredibly diverse already and it's disingenuous to act like the Vita only has Uncharted-style down-sized console games. Games like Lumines, Mutant Blobs Attack, Super Stardust Delta and Escape Plan show the Vita can do bite-sized gaming just fine, and with far better controls than any phone.
Not to mention retailers are competing with pure digital sales day one. And most games on PSN are undercutting the retail price. It's no surprise Target and Gamestop are doing everything they can to encourage physical sales.
Not that smart. Weirdly flawed, actually. The Ars article makes no acknowledgement of the fact Vita IS backward compatible with digitally distributed PSP games, or the impact that has on the cited study which does not anticipate or acknowledge such a possible scenario. And that's without mentioning the weirdness of trying to make PSP games sales look larger than they actually were by comparing them to the GameBoy Color's games, despite it being a half step portable mostly used to play...
They're all just repeating AndrianSang, and Anoop didn't mention specifically that it was Google powered. So, despite the evidence being right in their faces it goes unnoticed. That's games journalism for you!
It was never called PSN+, it was always just PlayStation Plus. There's no need to change the name of that service.
I can't prove it's not phishing. All I can say is my account was hacked and I know for a fact I did not fall for a phishing scam. I also believe that other prominent victims, including Pachter, Keighley, Dean Takahashi, Patrick Klepek, Desslock and Tom Chick did not fall for a phishing email either. If Microsoft wants to insist that phishing is the cause, it is incumbent upon them to offer some proof.
In any case, how the accounts are accessed doesn't even matter....
Just because Microsoft is having a lot of success sweeping the problem under the rug and deflecting media attention doesn't mean there isn't crisis.
I meant only that a lay person might reasonably think there could be a connection As you point out, and as I also concluded in the story, there are good reasons to discount that particular theory.
Vita games are sold on flash memory based carts. All games are also available same day for digital download.
Yeah, sleep and resume features are long overdue.