This is a wonderful game and a must buy for 20 bucks for anyone with a PSP.
The only caveat I can think of is if you will be playing in a public place you really need to either play with headphones or background noise will drown out the music/rhythm.
Vgchartz numbers use to be off by about +500k for the 360 and -500k for the PS3 a couple months ago. Nowhere near the +2 million for the 360 they were a year ago.
They've been repeatedly caught posting false European sales numbers as more and more people from Europe get and post reliable sales numbers from the two or three major retail trackers over there. The Others category use to be the main tool vgchartz used to inflate 360 sales since European sales use to be a total unknown...
"20K units aren't going to get it done."
LOL! He's trying to pretend the vgchartz fantasyland numbers are real...
"PS3 doing good !"
PS3 --> 179,416
360 --> 152,619
The real worldwide numbers are most likely
PS3 --> 200,000
360 --> 130,000
After getting caught with their January sales number lies, vgchartz essentially dug their heels in and are now claiming their 'numbers' are more 'accurate' than NPD.
Vgchartz has pretty much become just a site you go to lie to yourself that the 360 and PS3 are in some sor...
"If anything, the prices will start rising again since there is no competition anymore."
This makes no sense. Sony makes money off of:
1. BluRay player sales
2. BluRay movie format licensing fees
3. BluRay movie sales
It is in Sony's interest to drop standalone players sales just fast enough to not kill 1. while expanding 2. and 3. as fast as possible.
DVD sales are drying up and it is in everyone in both the hardware a...
Pretty much all game code is some form of:
1) Load the data you need into the cache so your code can operate on it
2) Operate on that data that is in the cache
3) Store that data back to main memory(or another chip's cache in parallel systems)
With a desktop x86 CPU in most people's computers there is a small but fast cache that the chip fetches data into in blocks. So as you work on a piece of memory the next X bytes are read in at the same...
There are two main issues that addressed by Cell:
1) Clock speed in chips pretty much hit a wall
2) Memory speed is much slower than chip speeds
To solve 1) you need to increase parallelism. Hence multiple SPUs running in parallel with the PPU.
To solve 2) you need to hide as much latency(ie waiting for data to arrive to be worked on) as possible. The SPUs are designed to independently load in data the need while they are working on other da...
"No, the PS2 was the console that was supposed to be powerful enough that terrorists could use it to launch missiles."
WTF?
What the hell is the obsession with console fans to spout blatantly obvious false information. Ten seconds with google could have saved you from making an ass of yourself.
In 2000 there was no chip that could come close to matching the EE in the PS2 for computational power vs size/heat/power. The Iraqi military was claimed...
I was showing the demo to a few people at a bar who were asking about my PSP and they could not believe a little handheld gaming device could have a game that looked that good.
www.ps3fanboy.com is an anti-PS3 site. They are by far the best at spreading FUD compared to other 'fake PS3 fan sites'.
They manage to pull it off by not going overboard with the anti-PS3 stuff that other fake PS3 fan sites do. They put out mostly neutral PS3 news and then add in just a moderate amount of FUD every once in a while.
The site is like one of those console fans who sits around in console forums with a handle like ps3fan or ps3gamer or sony4ever pretendi...
"The difference with the killzone2 images, is that the playable game demo looked better than the stills. "
Yep, the fact that Killzone 2 even gets brought up with fake screenshots should make it clear just how deep the hate and rage and jealousy against the game is in the gaming media. The hatred for Gurilla Games nailing shot for shot the original trailer that so many claimed would not be possible until the PS4 is beyond anything ever seen before in the console world. ...
"Still ggod news for Sony and the PSP, its a seriously under-rated piece of tech."
Sony is still having trouble communicating just how much stuff you can do with the PSP. Both on stage and in commercials.
Right now with my PSP:
PSP games - Patapon, Jeanne D'Arc
PS1 games - Downloaded with my PS3 from the PSN store Wild Arms and Jumping Flash and playing them both on my PSP and PS3
Remote play - Playing Pixel Junk Monst...
There is zero chance of Microsoft ever making online play free.
The pay Microsoft every month like a utility model is something that is fundamental to the way Microsoft looks at markets. A paid for online service goes all the way back to the mid to late 1990s for Microsoft. They have been retrying that model in various forms ever since.
And if Microsoft no longer had the money they make from online charges the losses for the Xbox division would be gigantic.
All signs point to Microsoft exiting the console market and turning their focus to Vista exclusive gaming.
Console hardware obviously isn't an area Microsoft is able to compete in. The vast majority of Xbox fans are the US pc gamer demographic. Most of the developers who support the Xbox are US pc developers.
It would be a win for everyone. Console gamers would be rid of the poisonous effect Microsoft has had on the console market. PC developers would have Microsoft ...
"Lair would have been a great game if we only had the option. I hope developers have learned from that huge mistake. "
Oh god give it a rest.
"PlayStation 3's controversial motion-sensitive controller."
Yeah, whatever.
No one but fans of other consoles give a damn about these idiotic types of articles.
PS3 owners don't need or care about some clown at some website telling them if they are enjoying their console.
Flow - Wonderful and simple tilting
Lair - Just tilt the controler to steer the dragon - works fantastic - motion controls just became a convinient ...
So basically this is just some guy who doesn't have anything else he is excited about on his Xbox 360...
"could VGchartz be wrong"
After they tried to claim 10.5 million sold for the 360 for the end of 2006 when the real numbers were only around 8 million.
After they were caught multiple times in various European countries intentionally low balling PS3 numbers and padding 360 numbers.
And after they were caught in January making up numbers that once again inflated the 360 and undercounted the PS3.
Vgchartz.com is just a scam site run ...
Amazing numbers for the PS3.
Just think of how much higher the sales would be if there weren't massive shortages for the PS3 due to amazing demand because the system is so popular because it has the best games.
Why are you talking about an old and false claim about MGS4 first day sales?