I reckon it's just a bluff as well, but I think it does highlight 2 things: 1) It IS more expensive to develop on the PS3 and 2) The PS3 itself is still too expensive. I'm not trying to troll or be a fanboy, I'm just saying that even developers are saying this - big developers, this is what more than just a few fanboys seem to think.
I've no doubt that Sony will be committed to dealing with both of these points in the near future, but still it's something to think about the next...
They're still going, under the name Crytek UK (Formerly Free Radical). To be fair to them, they had a major miss with "Haze" but the Timesplitters series has been pretty solid. Hopefully TS4 will be epic.
While you're at it, how about Sega? I genuinely don't think they've developed a decent game in years.
I'm definitely against L4D2 as a full priced title, but would happily pay a moderate price for it as an expansion. I don't seem to fit into either group, either.
There's no such thing as a "low poly texture". A polygon is a many-sided shape (Think about it - a HEXagon is a 6 sided shape, a PENTagon is a 5 sided shape and poly just means "many").
A texture is (usually) a flat, 2D image that gets wrapped around those polygons to give them finer detail.
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As a matter of fact, it does. They just haven't announced it yet. It's all very hush-hush.
The PSP go has a camera.
I believe that would fall under the category of corporate sabotage and is highly illegal.
No, it sounds like Ballmer is literally just talking about Natal and someone, somewhere is taking the comment way out of context. Notice that the source doesn't actually have the direct quote from him? Literally, everything they're using as the "proof" of this is exactly what Natal is.
I'd say it was a great combination of Sony making a few good decisions and Sega/Nintendo making a few bad ones.
Strangely enough, I'd say the 360's rise has been a similar situation - Microsoft making a few good decisions and Sony making a few bad ones (late in Europe, high price, etc.). MS established a foothold and now that Sony has their shyt mostly in gear, this has been my favourite generation by far.
"Future Call of Duty games could come with an MMO-style subscription service, granting subscribers extra options and early access to map packs."
Modern Warfare 2 DROPPED the Call of Duty name: http://www.computerandvideo...
"The 'Call of Duty' name has been cut from the title of Infinity Ward's CoD4 follow-up, which is now simply called 'Modern Warfare 2'."
The problem with comparing exclusives is that it's like comparing apples to oranges and saying that one is better than the other. For example, Gears 2 may be exclusive, but it's on a multiplatform engine and the multiplayer is "small" by design, that's what the gameplay is all about. Or so one could argue. But sadly, they're the closest thing anyone has to a genuine comparison. There's no way to succinctly prove that one exclusive could or could not be done on the other console, so ...
I'm sure heads will roll. At the very least, I doubt Sony pictures will be so keen to lend any other franchises to Terminal Reality. If the game is popular enough to warrant a sequel, who would you like to see develop it?
It is by no means a "slight" difference, the difference is unquestionable. 3/4 the texture and screen resolution? 75%? The game doesn't even look particularly amazing on the 360, so it's worse on the PS3.
The fanboys going nuts over this is a joke, as has been stated before this shouldn't be about 360 vs. PS3 - there's plenty of better looking titles on both consoles that prove what can be done, but rather this should be Gamers vs. Lazy developers. I don't use the term ...
When it comes to the actual hardware differences, there has been 4 for the 360: Xennon, Zephyr, Falcon and Jasper.
The PS3's have gone through a similar number of changes inside. Don't get confused by the ones with different hard drives, many of these share the same insides (sans the HDD). The PS3, at least in Europe has had 5 variations (Launch model, 3 40Gb models and the 80Gb model - most people wont have noticed the different 40Gb models as they're basically the same on the outside,...
Probably about as many as the PS3.
Games are rated by special boards so adults can decide if their kids are ok to play it. People are not.
As far as I'm aware, it's not "gay" users getting flak here, it's anyone who puts their sexual preference (Gay, straight or otherwise) in their profile. As many people have already pointed out, XBL isn't the place for it.
But it's ok - XBL is getting facebook integration later this year. Brag about it there all you want. Or if you don't have any friends, do it on twitter (also coming to XBL later this year)!
There's a big difference between a "true" fan and a "diehard" fan. I suspect someone's getting the two confused.
Yeah and I think you've hit it on the head. Activision isn't saying that, on a whole, what you get for the price of a PS3 isn't great, what they're saying is that what you get for the market they aim for isn't as good. As far as they're concerned, the 360 and the PS3 do the same thing and appeal to the same audience they want, but one is a lot more pricey than the other, both in terms of actual retail costs and development costs. Activision don't care about blu-ray films or sales, nor do they...