Autodidactdystopia, I'm not sure that's true. Look at it again. I think the very first scene might be game engine. And the last scene. A few more are included here and there. I downloaded it and stopped it on a few scenes and I thing some of that is game.
So now I'm a hater. Just because I see a bunch of mistakes a company has made. I don't base my comments on nonsense. Look at Sony's stock price. Look at their credit rating. Do you believe they have fallen so far because of haters.
I'm not a ten year old. I look at the fact that Sony made several decades of profits before the PS3. They had dominated gaming for a decade. Then they decide to develop the Cell. John Carmack and many others said from the very begi...
Fanboys don't have opinions. They mimic. That's why they can't see reality. Like my examples on the Cell and Blu-ray. Fanboys will defend those two things even when Sony has not. Sony continues to push Blu-ray. But they have dropped the Cell. Unless they are doing secret development. And they could be. And buying back that Cell factory was for CMOSs for cameras, not to make Cell processors.
Intent has nothing to do with it. Something that goes against Sony is almo...
Come on Tiffac, you know anyone that says anything remotely negative about Sony gets a bunch of disagerees. Regardless if it's true or not. Sony fans refuse to believe the Cell wasn't that good. Even though Sony dropped it a few years ago when they sold their factory and stopped participating in it's development.
They still believe that Blu-ray was needed. Even though most of the full games on PSN don't come close to using a whole disc. And Sony would have to...
Wrong audience as in the gaming community might not be big enough to keep enough developers in business. Like any other company, game developers need to start thinking globally. Japanese developers have realized this as many have started making their games appeal to Western audiences too.
As things get more expensive to do, you need a larger customer base to sustain your company. Handheld makers might have to aim for a larger audience if they want to keep making handhelds. I...
Uh, duh. That could be one way. Probably wouldn't work though.Considering it would still be a 30 million unit market against a 500-600 million market. You do understand that getting just 5% of the phone market on a game makes the handheld market look like a joke. Everyone that buys a handheld in a given year would have to buy a game to equal 5% of the phone market. Some gamers might not get that but developers do.
Let me try a pros and cons thing.
Pros. V...
I don't play app games either. My point is that handhelds are going to have to change or they are going to disappear. The idea of buying and overpriced Vita is crazy to me though. I agree that the controls are important, gyros are a joke for controls. But to me people who buy handhelds having the crazy idea that the majority of the public wants one more thing to lug around is amazing. If Skype was as reliable as cell phones everyone would have one.
Look around, the vast m...
You're not a Sony fanboy at all. Not every product is so narrowly marketed. Sony is slowly moving toward the phone gaming market. Just because they have Playstation doesn't mean they don't see the opportunity with phones. Xperia is an attempt to capture part of a market that dwarfs gaming consoles. While a handheld might sell 200 million copies in it's lifetime, phones sell over 500 million a year. And like you realize, they update every few months. Handhelds will fall behind ...
Soldierone, Computer gamers spend way too much for way too little upside. Unless you're willing to buy new every other year. Most console gamers(like me) aren't. Doesn't mean I'm not "true" about gaming.I don't own a tablet, but i would buy a tablet before a Vita because it will do more and have more power. I prefer small screen laptops. But I refuse to go top of the line when I know the price of whatever I buy will drop 40% before the end of the year.
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That may have been the case in the past. But the average gamer isn't twelve anymore. They most likely have a job and use computers all of the time. More and more people are being exposed to games and continue playing well over thirty. If a company can merge three different markets seamlessly(phones,console,PCs) they will have an advantage as the average age of gamers increases.
Brilliant or desperate? Who has launch sales.
And if you want to browse the web or word on a document you do? I would prefer an all in one device. Not saying it has to be an iPad. But having three or four devices is so last century. Time for something more. No more carrying a gaming hanheld, a phone and a tablet.
There can only be one.
Colwyn, too many gamers forget that gaming is an industry. Sales ultimately are what count. How many list have we seen of great games that no one bought. How many systems had a bunch of features that got outsold by what were considered a lesser machine. In the long run the company that has better sales usually wins. Sales equal the right to try again next generation.
There are companies that made great games that are no longer in business. And there are companies that made p...
If Sony is smart this has to be true. Sony could go the cheap route and add a cache and more cores. And do an upgraded PPE. But it would be an outdated chip on release. If Microsoft uses an APU, it will kill the Cell. Over the last few weeks there have been some advances that would have made it next to impossible for the Cell to cut it.
AMD has new technology allowing the CPU and GPU to work off the same memory. Microsoft made software that allows for easy programming on the ...
Who is it that's working on a 22nm Cell? Is anyone working on the Cell period? IBM was working on some things but 22 would be a huge jump from 45nm. The Cells time has passed. APUs are what Sony thought the Cell would be. Just go with it.
Dragon that would be adding a $30 chip for something Sony has always claimed wasn't wanted. They will most likely be focused on keeping cost down.
Sony has a mobile division but strong would never be a word used to describe it. It has bled money for years.
People keep believing that sales don't matter. Eventually you'll be running around with a hoop and stick again wondering what happened to all of the gaming companies.
The author is missing the real market that MS is probably looking at. Phones. Once Microsoft gets all platforms working together, the customer can buy a game on one and use it on all. That makes them more likely to buy a game. Also, people buy over 600 million phones a year. Phones will soon exceed this generation in power and that will be a huge potential market for Arcade titles. The handful of quality games on the App store for iPhone and Android would quickly be outclassed by Bastion, Lim...
It has been a pretty long generation though.