A LOT of PR on Microsoft's side. Microsoft has been practically advertising natal as a product ready for sale since it was just an idea.
I will not at all be interested in purchasing 3d technology until it can be done at a very high quality without having to wear glasses, and when it is a reasonable price for that.
The type of glasses Sony wants to employ has some weight to them, and no doubt will put pressure points on the bridge of your nose & ears. It will be a cool novelty until you feel physical irritation after playing for a while.
Yes hardcore gamers will be stoked they can finally play games with grandma and the little kids at family gatherings, just like those Wii owners can!
Click the related link to the bad covers. Hilarious!
Yeah, things do get overhyped. I still like PS3, but mine died after 18 months. I had to pay 150 bucks to get it fixed. That didn't leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling about the quality.
comfortable control > motion control
Why move my whole body, when all I have to do is move my fingers to play games?
Some of you provide good comedy here by sniveling over such trivial matters. Do you cry yourselve's to sleep if someone says they don't like the same toys that you do? bwahahaha.
Games are going to make the difference in 2010, not gimmics like motion controllers. Xbox needs a strong game lineup to stay fresh.
Funny stuff. Consoles were created way back in the day to satisfy the demand for playing video games at home, and not having to spend tons of quarters to play video games. Now the big mega corporation Microsoft is trying to get people to spend quarters again to play games on their consoles.
super cool game. 3d version would be a real trip.
It's all a bunch of silliness, these debates are. ;-)
I couldn't agree more with you. I guess it is a newer breed of "game players" that now are more obsessed with what sells more than even having an opinion of what games are actually cool to play. Would many of these people actually even admit if they played a good game on the "other" system, that they thought it was a good game. Probably not, because that would mean putting aside all their fanboy BS, and being an honest person.
We do both actually. It's pretty sweet. Modern technology. Gotta love it. ;-)
Sounds like it would be cheaper & easier to buy those older games used than to go through all that trouble to play pirated copies.
haha, I just remember dinner. Because those cutscenes would start, I would get bored, go make dinner, eat, come back...and the damn scene was still playing!
People forget computing history when they think centralized processing is the next step over distributed processing. Personal Computers came about in business as an improvement over centralized processing. A lot of little computers only sending what data they need over a LAN/WAN link, but processing most data locally did not come about by accident. It evolved as a better solution to having all processing done remotely, and large amounts of data having to be sent out to all the dumb terminals ...
I never played any of the previous games, and played MGS4...my impression of that afterwards was "WTF?". Was there a game in there somewhere? I remember cut scenes and not understaning them, so I would go make dinner...and come back and see them still playing. I seem to recall sneaking around for great lengths of time. A few bossfights that took forever to whittle away hit points on the enemy.
It sure did look pretty though.
I am wondering when the shift in thinking was that game consoles were ever intended to have limitless power for multiples years. No, they are the antithesis of PC gaming, where there is an endless arms race between software makers trying to max out the newest GPU. Isn't the goal for software makers for game consoles always been about clever ways to use whatever limited hardware they have to work with, but still make great games? When I hear of software people whine about console hardware, I c...
I think a lot of games these days have really perfected the balance between challenging and just plain frustrating. Some give it up too easy, but I can understand why. Just like the gaming industry, I have also grown older...and I have to admit, if I get hung up repeating something too many times, or am stuck too long trying to figure something out, I am either going to go online to find the answer, or just pop in a different game. I don't think game makers investing millions on AAA games wan...
A lot has to do with what kind of game player you are for this motion controller stuff.
Playing in a social situation for a shorter period of time, then motion control is fun.
Hardcore gamers that play for several hours without others in the room? Keyboard & mouse while sitting down will be prefered. The less energy you spend, the longer you can play without fatigue.