Imagine if car manufacturers cried about people buying second hand cars like video game publishers cry about people buying second hand games.
Crazy.
I buy mostly brand new games, but sometimes I wait until they see a price drop, and sometimes I'll make an impulse purchase and buy a game used.
The type of games I buy used are not the sort of games I would have bought brand new - so if the used game market disappeared overnight, no big deal...
I've already played ME1 and 2 - and I think an interactive story recap would be fine for PS3 owners.
If they can get the file transfer thing working then fair enough - but if someone had played ME1 on PC or 360, why would they wait to play 2 on PS3???
I thought all titles had to go through Microsoft's internal quality control before appearing on XBLA?
And that quality control was very strict - I recall an interview with Jeff Minter in Edge about Space Giraffe, where was saying the process was really tough.
If so, then MS are just as at fault.
Yup, definitely agree with that statement
Although, if I could go 100% digital with downloads I would. I don't care for boxes these days, and it's just clutter that has to be stored somewhere.
Unfortunately the 'download tax' Steam, and other DD services add to new releases makes me keep going back to physical copies. No way a title on Steam should cost £5 - 10 more than the boxed copy.
I'd happily buy a PSP Go (as ...
Really Treyarch??? Really?
And here I was thinking you were just focussed on making a 2nd rate game in between taking relaxing dips in your swimming pool of budget money!! Glad you clarified!!
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Most people I know who loved CoD4, WaW, and MW2 seem more drawn towards Medal of Honour this time. I'm pretty much over CoD and most current era, near future, semi-almost near future, slightly alternate history, and WWII FPS games :) - market ...
I am definitely more convinced by Move than Kinect.
But I just wonder if using Move vs a controller in FPS games is going to add much. If it does, then cool, but I need to get hands on with it.
But I must admit that the thought of Time Crisis using the Move controller with that 1950's style ray gun accessory Sony are launching does appeal to me!!
Parenting appears to be a dying art!
Much easier for parents to blame the State, the economy, video games, movies, junk food.. or anything else except themselves!
If he can't get a job, ship him out to China - he sounds perfectly qualified to work as an MMO Goldfarmer!! :)
Surely it must be difficult for him to keep towing the company line when Kinect has shown time and again it is not ready for market!! Or maybe those shades he wears are really rose tinted!
BAM!
I'm not convinced by Move or Kinect yet. Sure they could be fun, but I'll buy them when the games look good and the technology is proved to work flawlessly.
It's a bit worrying when the main man for Kinect has to start talking about movies and music as selling points for Xbox when he's being asked directly about Kinect.
Couldn't he have talked about 1:1 mapping, no lag, hardcore games, the versatility of working with all genders, heights ...
Kinda cool, but not worth the money
@Bob
I agree with you on the reuse of assets between consoles and PC, but disagree that this is the reason we're not seeing a bigger difference between PC and console graphics.
Look at PC exclusives - they are not significantly better in animation, art style, and image quality and so on.
Also, it's pretty obvious that even the GPU developers, ATI and Nvidia, are looking to diversify from the raw power arms race in their chips - for ex...
Good luck waiting for that lot!! :)
If Sony put even half that stuff in the PS4, it'd cost more than the PS3 did at launch!
I know it's a wish list but what's the point of an SSD when it only needs a slow HDD for saving and reading small amounts of data? Even if an entire game is installed on an SSD the improvement of load times would not justify the cost compared to a cheap 5400RPM HDD (plus anybody could upgrade to an SSD if they wanted, even i...
All the info around this jailbreak points to it being a software jailbreak rather than a hardware hack. So what parts are the manufacturers waiting for?
Surely if it's software it's just a USB stick (possibly formatted to a particular structure), and a few files plonked on it.
Which also raises the question, that IF the jailbreak is real, and IF it's just a bunch of files on a USB stick - how long would it be before these files end up on a torren...
I would agree with you sanshatak, but graphics are plateauing across the board, so we will never see the massive differences we saw in previous gens.
PC can still push higher res and textures etc, and although I agree there's not a huge amount of difference between consoles / PC games at the moment, there are problems down the road in other areas.
For example if Sony really start pushing 3D gaming in their AAA titles - the fact is that the PS3 can not han...
With the launch of Windows Phone 7 there's a lot of talk of MS putting out a smart phone of their own.
Much more likely that licensing ARM would be for that - but who knows.
I think you may be right Json.
Could see ARM being used for CPU - but the question is.. why would they? Cost? Thermal package? Performance?
It just seems like hassle to switch to ARM from PowerPC (although a bit of hassle didn't stop Sony with the Cell!!). Also raises the age old, but no doubt going to be thrashed out yet again, topic of backwards compatibility.
GPU - I think it'll be another ATI part.
Definitely t...
I think the use of lead free solder is to meet European requirements. I think back in about 2005 the EU pushed something through that was going to stop lead based solder and flux in all manufacturing.
Not sure about the US legislation - but I assume it's easier and more 'green' for Sony to use lead-free at the plants.
EDIT: Btw, I do agree with you though, I've had two 60GB and one 40GB UK PS3's fail on me or people I know
Seems different people get different results. In the UK I had a nightmare.
I don't think Sony have a clear policy on this (for example requesting the T's and C's showing where you are in breach of them is often met with umm's and ahh's!)
I phoned tech support twice about this issue and got very different responses and interpretations (both negative unfortunately)
In the pockets of the same parents who buy their screaming brat kids the Mature rated games in the first place!