and then die off. They have a good product (if it works as advertised) but, sadly, for a shinking market.
If it is the market leader it deserves to be. It's that simple. Smart business people don't complain about who the market leader but rather look at what made them successful and learn from it.
It's this whole "do they deserve to be market leader" mentality that destroyed the american auto industry. Rather than accepting that Toyota and Honda were building cars that consumers were actually more willing to pay their hard earned cash for and learning from those, GM, F...
who says that it wouldn't make sense to port Mass Effect to the PS3 because the PS3 has lower "3rd party" sales outside of Japan.
1) The PS3 has a far larger installed base than the 360 did when Mass Effect was released.
2) The PS3 versions of high profile 3rd party games like Virtua Fighter, Resident Evil, and COD4 actually have higher specific sales (sales per console) than the 360 versions.
The list can go on but needless to say, his...
This game has clearly redefined expectations of class and quality in the FPS genre with a level of immersion and weighty realism that once experienced will make everything else taste like light beer.
Then again Bud Light is the top selling beer in America!
... according to this press release
http://www.mcvuk.com/press-...
Someone's making a big mistake.
But visually it's not in the same class as Infamous.
Prototype's graphics are all about the shiny jacket worn by the main character. Everything else is poorly lit and lacking in detail.
Infamous's main character looks great but what's really impressive is the environment. For a free roaming game to have such high quality environments and dynamic objects is incredible.
To release slow motion in game footage takes a lot of guts! It's so easy to rip apart graphics when displayed in this way. You can tell whats a dirty hack and what's not very easily.
Very impressive.
that they are all fudging some of their numbers. There are simply too many discrepencies between claims and results. The specific instances, however, are hard to prove one way or another.
is not in the same class as GT5. In fact, based on some of these screens, it's not even in the same class as PGR4.
Apart from lighting, however, it's simply lacking in detail. There are simply far too many polygon edges. They've tried to hide this with distracting textures but there's only so much you can do, particularly since the textures themselves are pretty low-res.
I hope you're kidding. The lighting is flat and the textures are blurry. That's a terrible picture.
But Polyphony Digital have nothing to worry about.
Who were these guys trying to kid? These are the in-car screens at 720P:
Blurry textures, too many polygon edges (due to low polygon count), low res specular, etc...
http://www.cynamite.de/imgs...
In addition to above, some in-car objects look totally out of place like the door handle, steering whe...
Sales in first 120 weeks
Wii: 47.7M
PS3: 20.6M
360: 17.1M
The reality is that both the PS3 and the Wii are ahead of the 360's sales curve.
The Wii is so far ahead of the other's it's not even worth bringing it up. Nintendo have won. Even the 360's price drop to $199 and Mii-clone "avatars" didn't make any significant dent in Wii sales.
As for the other two, the only time the 360 has outsold the PS3 is when...
but looking at that ad, I learned nothing about the nature of the game. In fact, it had a couple of FPS sequences in it.
Intentionally or not, the ad is misleading. Not a single gameplay shot.
masquerading as a journalist. Anyone can register a website and call it a games magazine (ask all those Microsoft paid guerrilla marketers).
He's still bitter about the 1999 PS2 trailers that put the Dreamcast out of business. Of course the PS2 eventually far exceeded those trailers with graphics far beyond the meager capabilities of the Dreamcast.
It's like arcade vs sim. You can't compare one with the other. COD 4 and 5 are surely the best "arcade" style shooters out there whereas amongst shooters, nothing screams "sim" quite like Killzone 2.
Some will genuinely prefer the more accessible pick-up and play "arcade" feel of the COD series while others, once they taste the weighty realism and immersion of Killzone 2, will find anything else cheap and distasteful.
That's life. Dirty tricks are very much a part of American business culture. Microsoft is not the only company who'd pay for this kind of pseudo-exclusivity.
Best looking sports title and most technically advanced as well. They were able to do it because of the superb lighting model. It appears they've really started using the Cell processor more effectively. I would not be surprised if they were using deferred rendering, especially since sports games typically don't have massive alpha blending requirements.
Windows has built in support for all kinds of obscure technologies but not Blu-Ray.
As for anyone who thinks they can download blu-ray quality movies on to a $100 terabyte drive should first call up their ISP and find out what their bandwidth limits are. Comcast, for example, allows only 250GBs per month. Not bad if you're willing to live with low quality movies but for 1080P/7.1 goodness you're going to be hitting those limits very quickly.
The PS3 is a natural choice for MMO developers because the online service has a 50% greater adoption rate than the Xbox 360's costly alternative.
The interface questions he brings up are based on PC MMO users. Time and again we've seen that console gamers have completely different expectations. Sadly, in the world of business school style "methodology" based decision making, big decisions based on a lot of bad data and no common sense is preferred to a small amount ...
The reality is that nearly all american 360 and PS3 owners go online.
Wii: $250
Online: $0 over 5 years
total: $250
PS3: $400
PSN: $0 over 5 years
total: $400
360: $200
Live: $250 over 5 years
total: $450
That's not including wifi, hard-drive, blu-ray, etc...
Add just wifi and hard-drive and the 360 is already $700!
You can buy a PS3 and Wii for the cost of just ...