That doesn't change the fact that the description clearly calls ray tracing a new technology, which it is not.
Since when is ray tracing a new technology? It's been around for decades.
I think this is one article where we can gladly set fanboyism aside. My heart and prayers go out to all affected by this continually unfolding tragedy. Nuclear power plants at risk of meltdown, new 6.2 quakes in Nagano... it's still going down folks.
God be with you Japan.
COD is the biggest selling franchise anywhere...
And sony's exclusives all sell just fine. There aren't that many of them that have not passed the 2 million sold mark. more than MS' exclusives can say... other than halo, forza, and gears, 360's exclusives don't sell all that hot either. And forza's sales have always been trumped by GT's, no matter which version.
MGS has sold almost as much as Gears has (with a smaller install base...
and it "kinects" to xbox 360, so it's a good year for xbox also, however it's a horrible year for the 40 million core gamers that brought 360 to where it is today.
That's where MS is shooting itself in the foot.
yes it can. in fact, eyepet does just that. other titles in development have already shown the use of emotion recognition as well. it's definitely possible. in fact, kinect isn't really much better at emotion recognition than eye is. the only advantage kinect has over eye is the ability to see in 3D, and while that can provide a rough view of a person's face, it isn't quite high res enough to be able to tell emotions using the 3D camera.
so, both would rely h...
kinect and move both must not be selling well, because 360 is far from having a 5:1 lead over PS3, even in the US (it's losing to the PS3 worldwide right now).
This came out of Pachter's mouth, so I'm not buying any of it. That guy is an idiot.
actually, sony losing money is what is pushing them to put out so many quality titles. they know they have to or they'll go belly up.
this is what good, healthy competition brings. this is why I didn't want to see kinect flop (even though i think it sucks for gaming), this is why I didn't want xbox 360 to flop either. Better games all around (well, save for from MS... those guys have a reality check coming if they don't quit putting all their eggs in the kine...
and all kinect has is dance central and kinect sports (which is inferior to all of the other -sports titles on the market). what's not embarrassing about that?
I like how the graphic only cites NPD, as if the USA is the only place on earth. PS3 is currently on top of sales worldwide last time I checked the weekly charts.
yeah, but according to VGChartz (yes, I know, but they normally do not favor PS3), PS3 is still on top worldwide, so yes, while america is a large chunk, it's not everything.
Weekly Hardware Chart 26th February 2011
PS3 237 ,279
360 211, 354
DS 186, 499
Wii 172, 063
PSP 124, 741
Ranked by number of units sold worldwide
COD is going to crash... every king of the hill falls. Even halo is failing, which is why Bungie (smartly) gave it up. All popular franchises fall eventually. Even Final Fantasy.
What do you deem as equal treatment? Look at how sexuality is represented in games, and you'll see that the only way to give equal treatment is to show sexually explicit scenes involving homosexuals. Do you want DOA games to have dudes with bouncing nutsacks? Do you want Kratos to have a "smelly brown tunnel of love" minigame? Sexuality itself in games is immature and often used as a gimmick.
If gay gamers want equal treatment, there should be an equal number of...
it is still considered software when the hardware is not specifically designed for it. thing is, ps3 has enough SPE's laying around where it can dedicate one to tesselation and it not be a big deal. that's why games like GT5 already use it for damage modeling.
as you said, phyre engine also uses it for LOD. it's not such a big deal (doing it by software) that it isn't practical on PS3, not at all.
here's a pdf detailing how phyre engine has been using tesselation for a while now in it's LOD meshes.
http://www.technology.scee....
tesselation is very possible on PS3, just not via the GPU. Sorry to rain on your parade xbox fanboys, but ps3 can indeed tesselate.
it doesn't use the GPU, but the SPU's (as many ps3 games do to enhance graphics, which is why PS3 has the graphical edge when the developers actually bother to use the power of the SPU's... remember the original PS3 design was to use another Cell as a GPU, it's that good at GPU tasks) to do the tesselation. It works quite well actually.
butthurt much king dong?
I could not agree with you more Vaud. + bubble
If 90% of the gay men I meet didn't perfectly fit that stereotype, I'd agree with you (only talking of personal experience, not of gays as a whole).
And besides, who gives a fuck what the main characters do in the bedroom? does that really matter to making a game fun? seriously, that's the biggest thing about gay people that bothers me, they wear their sexuality on their sleeve and expect everyone to accept it. do you see straight pride parades where a bunch of st...
@denocao...
their butts are already hurting, i doubt that comment did much more.
@ the rest of you, yes that was inappropriate. I may not agree with the whole gay thing but I'm not trying to wish death upon anyone. but that won't stop me from having a bit of fun at their expense...
most have reached 1 mil actually, few haven't.