Unless the Flash Drive people get their act together. Write speeds are too slow and Holographic disc/card tech is pretty fast (near hard drive speeds).
Both have a cost disadvantage right now but I just don't see bandwidth given up so easily. Games will probably be pushing the dual 50 GB limit in size next generation (I don't even want to go there with what crazy/amazing games will happen next generation (PS4,next xbox). Think about all the digital distribution that is trying ...
Now if Microsoft would just go HDMI 1.3 then everything would be hunky dory.
Even the HD DVD camp are recognizing the HDMI 1.3 is necessary based on their new generation HD players.
If they don't, why upgrade to a connection (HDMI 1.2)? 10 bit Color can be achieved on Component Cable.
Extra hard drive size would be nice but I'm not buying a new Xbox 360 just for that.
I could find it either other than their first announcement.
Anybody have a cached site?
Even if only half of Sony's PS empire were to continue with a Playstation that would leave over 50 million screaming PS fans
That is more than MS or Nintendo achieved last year. I want to point out that Microsoft had excellent developer support in second place with only around 30 million screaming fans.
Sony has a fan base to blow. Microsoft and Nintendo don't.
PS3 is showing that it is at least as capable as the Xbox 360 and has potential for mor...
and looks a bit more realistic.
My job involves Home Theater setups and it looks obvious that the screenshots were altered by the Screens/TVs color balance settings.
Xbox 360 was set brighter and color a bit more saturated to give that eye popping experience. Something I found unusually was that this time around the xbox 360 had that tinted look to it giving it a orange/yellowish haze that is usually given off by PS3 games.
That is the problem wit...
Should be how it is. Seems that Gamers these days are getting a little spoiled all these great games. Sort like how candy is with children. You give then some and their hooked then they become candy monsters. There aren't to many flawless games last generation and there won't be many Super Perfect Next Gen Games this Year and more and likely will see issues the Next Generation after this.
What we need to be telling ourselves is this an acceptable genre and do we want this l...
I am an xbox 360 owner but I can sympathize with my fellow PS3 gamers. It would be like Haze coming out for the PS3 in all its glory yet the Xbox 360 is half the framerate and literally sucks.
Quite frankly I would be pissed to but Haze isn't or doesn't have the loyalty fan base of the NFL on top of the High demand placed on Next Gen games by us gamers. Combined that is one tough customer to please.
Simply put it, EA should of waited for the PS3 release.
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and it will only get worse.
Face it everybody, technology is progressing to fast and PS3 and Xbox 360 are to closely match to make either Giant feel comfortable.
First it started with the Hard drives (thanks Sony), Now Xbox 360 will counter with 65-nm. Sony will probably counter on their own (may even skip to 45 nm). They both could increase the memory and still not change the overall balance compared to let us say a massive cpu speed upgrade.
Fa...
The PS3 and Xbox 360 are like the first of Next Gen.
And if you think Sony and Microsoft are going to get caught with their pants down think again.
Both Already planning and can probably bring up a second generation Next Gen gaming system should one or the other start to really lose.
Give it 3 years and the hype will start (probably with MS first) and then in 5 years we will see PS4 and Xbox whatever. They will probably come with a minimum of 1 ...
As the APIs and programming for SPE are becoming more mature more things have been found capable on SPEs that in early development were unsure on not even thought possible. One of these capabilities that were found out later in the development stage to utilize the SPEs of the Cell was AI.
I remember quite clearly that the first admitted weakness was AI and that most technology review sites, who had little programming knowledge at the time for the Cell, doubted. I do rememb...
There does seem to be some contradictions in their review but thinking further......
I wonder if EGM is sort of helping Lair People out. Lair had some pretty high expectations to live up two. EGM never really put emphasis on the build they review but I pretty much think it was the demo build they reviewed. Probably will rereview it after its release and chock it up as improvements made by the Factor Five but I noticed some of the negatives are so generic (like the dragons shooti...
ITS NFL FEVER morons...
If Madden didn't have NFL liscense and 2K8 did, 2K8 would have had a full on franchise mode and all the other goodies that come with have the NFL liscense and 2k8 graphically and in execution would have been good enough to hold the NFL title this year.
So going to call it the 2k8 Fever.
NFL sport fans are nuts. They will buy anything that has NFL and/or their favorite team on it no matter how cheaply it was made or designed...
not to spoil those who were have a tit feast party......
Breasts - mostly woman (but after watching 300 some very well built men.) are a great way to bring life to a otherwise static screen. Fighting games are really more about the Characters and the fight between the two than the "beauty of the world around them" (said with sarcasm). Of course, to make the world more lively you could shrink the fighters down a bit and provide beautiful moving enviroments that are e...
to counter special attacks and they even give you little powerup orange glow to warn you. How many times did I notice that one of those Soldiers was going to charge yet he just sits there for what seems (like and eternity in fighting games) seconds and gets rammed by the charging soldier.
Not a very good display of HS's abilities. It is though a good display of how "not so easy" HS is going to be. Sure the first couple of chapters will probably go buy pretty easy b...
Just to counter the somewhat negative Blu-ray tone about cheap obsolete players most of the $200-$300 HD DVD players are old school too (like for instance HD 1.2)
I believe Consumers are caught up with the current Technology Lingo of the HDTV era. I Believe Consumers know that the future is HDMI 1.3 with HD Surround and Deep Color. People are truly starting to see the difference and aren't settling for so so half ass players and TVs they want the full meal deal because they w...
that still doesn't make the overall game bad, dumb, or even less next-gen. Most of the games on xbox 360 and PS3 will be called next gen but in reality they will only contain certain next-gen features and will not be able to pull them all off.
Heavenly Sword is a beautifully crafted game and proves that games can be cinematic and plot driven. This is the kind of game that could see a shift toward closing that game vs movie thing. Matter of fact, if down right, this would be o...
Come on folks, I'm an owner of an xbox 360 and Don't own any Sony games (yet) but I can see the stupidity of this. First the Wii version of Madden had lots of issues and still doesn't look as good as the PS3 version. Second, even if it the Wii version was worth the same score as the Xbox 360 version (which in my opinion as an Xbox owner should take insult) that doesn't mean that the PS3 sucks.
EA sucks, bottom line. If Heavenly Sword, Drake Uncharted, Lair can successfully pu...
It was in the 2005 that Warner Bros. Announced that they would support Blu-ray as well as HD DVD.
Cnet News had an article on it..
http://news.com.com/Warner+...
if it isn't an issue then why make it one.
I find the new LCDs to be way better than current Plasma. I believe one of the major problems with Plasma is that it isn't improving at a faster rate than LCD. On top of this major problem is that development is more expensive than LCD to begin with.
I just saw the new Sharp LCD TVs at Fry's Electronics. Talk about a major improvement. All TVs that Fry's display are usually facing out toward the open floor and usually ha...
Problem is which type is actually reviewing/criticizing the
game.
From my perspective it appears that majority of Hard-Core Gamers are the ones that end up starting a magazine/review site. Hard-Core Gamers tend to be action driven not story driven and will enjoy online games more than off-line games.
I believe the Next Generation will bring back the Adventure story driven type gamer. Lair, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted will only appeal to some. Uncharted an...