guerojose

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...make my day, Rockstar.

Go ahead and gimp this game to make it fit on 6 DVDs. Strip out assets, compress the crap out of everything, lower the resolution. Change the whole premise - hey, maybe 6 mini-open-worlds.

And at the end, you won't HAVE a multi-platform game, because PS3 owners are gonna speak up loudly with their wallets, if another game is gimped because of the weaker system.

5828d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

Wow, that's a lot. And 10 times as responsive, too. Wow x 2.

I wonder if that means Milo is ten times younger now, too.

Can't wait to see all this amazing technology.

5831d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

"I believe skimping on the technology is a mistake, and an immediate limiter in the future ability of the device."

I don't think we need to worry about MS skimping on technology, and limiting the future ability of their devices.

Oh, wait...

5837d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Ok, about 80 days until E3. If MS doesn't show something REAL, and impressive, then no amount of celebrity endorsements or paid-off writers are going to be able to hide it any more.

No hidden outboard workstation, no chip-accelerated stealth Natal unit, no more glossy concept videos, no more carefully controlled demos by carefully chosen cheerleaders. And no more laughable claims of "what we're working on now is so much better than what we're actually showing".
...

5837d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

"Also, Sony delayed Arc's release, even though the tech demos were great. This means they coulda found an issue that was not public"

That's not the only possibility, of course. Here are a few others:

- They are still trying to get the form factor right for multiple types of games, price point, etc.
- They know that most public attention & sales come in the fall, as opposed to the spring.
- They decided to go for a bigger impact from more...

5838d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Expect this to continue all year. They'll keep it away from the prying eyes of actual gamers as long as possible, to hide its shortcomings. They'll continue giving these carefully controlled "previews" to carefully selected, uninformed, and reliable media types. They'll ramp up the hype machine with celebrity endorsements and advertising galore. And it'll probably "work".

5838d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

"No one has seen the final product, or just how significant a change Natal is without the chip."

Exactly. So you would agree, then, that all of these people proclaiming Natal's awesomeness are also being premature, and immature. All these breathless statements about "game-changer" and "incredible" are simply echoes in the hype chamber, yes?

Just making sure we're on the same wavelength.

5838d ago 3 agree0 disagreeView comment

Even if you want to deny all the obvious evidence of lag, or the circumstantial evidence of them not wanting the public to actually see it yet in a non-controlled setting, and you want to make the argument that it's not finished yet, is bound to get better, etc., you've got a problem. You should still be able to logically explain how it COULD POSSIBLY work. Let's do a simple thought experiment, and write some pseudocode.

The player just moved - the clock starts ticking NOW......

5838d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

Another day, another hype-er paraded out to the internets to declare Natal "awesome". And absolutely nothing to substantiate claims of "what we've got now is so much better than we're actually showing anyone". M'kay, thanks.

@edonus: Wait a second. So what you're saying is you really like all the hype, and because Sony isn't dishing enough hype, it means Arc doesn't really exist.

The demonstration Sony showed almost a year ago had more functio...

5841d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

What?! How the hell do you get anything like an accurate measurement of lag using a stop watch? This is a joke.

"In theory Natal's delay could be mitigated by firmware updates and better programming over time." Alternatively, the lag could actually get WORSE, since they're minimizing the amount of dedicated processing hardware, and trying to go a cheaper route by doing more through software.

Yet another fluff piece promising "undoubtedly a game-chan...

5842d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

P.S. You gotta love it when people click that "Disagree", and don't even try to make a counter-argument, because they know there isn't one.

Whatever you think about the potential of Natal, you can't deny that little article was a total fluff piece which offered absolutely NOTHING other than "MS says Natal will be amazing, and they all seem pretty excited about it". Gee, thanks for that scoop.

5844d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

"I was given a Project Natal `sneak peek`, because Microsoft knew they could count on me to:
a. Reveal nothing new or substantive about the product.
b. Be impressed by the single game demo that the rest of the world has already seen for many months.
c. Devote 75% of my brief article to simply repeating their own glowing praise for the would-be product.
d. Give the whole thing a vaguely positive spin, without actually asking any questions or even being generall...

5845d ago 3 agree3 disagreeView comment

LMFAO! So THIS is how they were able to keep it to "only" 3 discs.

Please wait...loading...

And why would any of you conclude that this somehow indicates exclusive DLC? Dream on.

5859d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

Uh, Bingo much?

You're spot-on, and it's mystifying how many people can't see the simple truth. Sony showed real, lag-free, live demos. MS showed some laughable produced videos, and laggy breakout flailing, and they were hailed as the tech revolution of the decade.

No matter how you slice it, people, a software solution is ALWAYS going to be slower and inferior to custom hardware.

Natal is going to be the epic fail of 2010. I'd bet money on it.

5887d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

So basically, Geoff Keighley loses all credibility, and proves himself to be a Microsoft cheerleader. Nice. The only people who could honestly feel that the Reach "movie" was somehow awesome, are those that get a stiffy at the mere mention of the word Halo.

And who WAS that embarrassingly bad band???!!!

5914d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

Gee, who didn't see this coming as soon as that Ballmer quote came out? Anybody keeping count now, of how many times Ballmer, and Gates before him, displayed their ignorance of their own console, and made it clear just how inconsequential it is to MS as a whole?

5965d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

Why not instead recite the even longer list of supposed revolutionary consoles that were going to provide the "most powerful ever, easiest, most consistent", blah blah blah?

I'll bet a dollar this thing never happens, and if it does, it won't hit half of the bullet points thrown out in this obvious vaporware announcement. Somebody's fishing for funding, and this thing is obviously worded to try to reel in some money.

6001d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Gawddamm, I know this gets old, but don't they teach PROOFREADING in high school English any more?

"...but now the tables have turned and the games are here more so within exclusive title the Cell Processor outperforms the competition."

:|

6007d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

@ Giantenemycrab: Anything not directly line-of-sight cannot be directly measured by an IR camera. You would acknowledge this, yes? Therefore, any "standard rules" about where a body part is have to be implemented by a lot of code. And it's not just the arm-behind-the-back case. What if I turn sideways so that a whole half of my body isn't seen. What if I stray a bit too close to the TV, so that my foot-forward-to-accelerate gesture is missed? Again, just use your imagination...

6007d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

@ Kakkoii (or is it Kakkoister? Multiple accounts for more bubbles?)

"the system is going to have a fairly good guess where your arm is"

BINGO! I think you just summed up the issue succinctly. EVEN IF Natal ends up doing all this complicated processing, and even if they're able to pull it off in the next two years, at a cost of less than $500, it'll still boil down to "fairly good guess" accuracy in many situations.

Let the market ...

6007d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment