@Biggest: Its totally different. These are PS one games the article is talking about. Games the PS3 and Xperia play using an emulator. So Sony are double dipping because your buying the exact same game/code twice.
Here in Australia we get this all the time. That is how I got my PS3 last month .. free with a Bravia 40in LED TV. Sony have done this a couple of times each year since the PS3 release here, its great! LG at the moment are doing Kinect bundles with high end LG screens and there is always some phone promotion going on with certain mobile companies giving away consoles. (usually crap carriers like dodo)
Sorry morgan gotta agree with them. What happened? You used to be a gamer who preferenced his PS3. Seems like whenever I visit these days all I see from you is Xbox bashing. This makes me a saaad panda.
lol Time Traveler! ...I do!!! little white weird looking machine where it looked like you could reach in and grab the game characters. Yes Im old =P Remember thinking that looks awesome but it was always twice as much to play as all the other machines, so I never gave it ago.
Waiting for someone to come back with that. =D True the PS2 did have it for GT4 but it was not until around the time of GT4 that the cable was available for the PS2 to do it. So tech the Xbox was first (even though PS2 was made first) =P Yes I know... trivial facts nobody cares about =P
As you stated, neither was powerful enough to make any good use of it, but hey , those crisp lines on Dragons Lair were awesome back then!!
Original Xbox was the first console to support HD gaming. Supported 1080i and 720p over component cable or VGA and had a few games that used it too ,Dragons Lair, The Matrix(I think) and 1 or 2 more if I remember correctly. I remember seeing Dragons Lair for the original Xbox in 1080i for the first time on my Sony 1080i CRT and my jaw dropped. These days its standard stuff.
PSjesus : There is a 3rd reason and its the reason why I am holding off.
1st gen 3D LCD-TVs are hopeless at the moment. Sonys included. And while 1st gen 3D Plasma-TVs are better at showing 3D, there still are a few issues with plasmas.
I think the tech has a long way to go. Until they perfect it Im fine with Full HD with 120hz at the moment.
Anyone who has had experience in HDMI displays would know this could just be a HDMI connection problem on the back of the TV. Older Samsungs are renown for it. Way too suspect to be taking seriously, would be more convincing if we seen the console shut down with an error message.
Sure the resolution lets it down a little but the AA picks up the slack for most the jaggies (still a few in daytime). But the level of detail in the world is amazing. You can tell it use to be an open world game and never have I seen open world detailed so well. I really think any 360 developer wanting to make an open world game would be stupid not to use this engine. I can see why they never made Alan Wake an open world game... Just would not work with the story/game type. ...
lol..wow disagrees, what you people not capable of reading the article. Not bagging the offer its great and smart of Sony but its not really consoles sold is it. Only a few months back I just got a new Samsung LCD. If the promo offer was on at that stage it would have change my choice and I would have gone a Bravia. So it works.
They also ran this offer last christmas and the time before was a few months after the PS3 release.
150,000 of them were giving away for free with the Sony Bravia TV promo. There running it again here in Aus at the moment for the 3rd time I have counted. So its not selling as well as Sony are trying to make out
Halo 3 was such a better game than Halo 2 IMO. Halo 2 SP was pretty poor and was improved greatly with 3. Co-op on Halo 3 and ODST is the only co-op game I still go back and play often(Like I said my opinion, different for each person I know)
Still HHG, you never did reply to anyone why you reviewed a pirated version of a game?(ODST).... Why should Bungie show you any respect when you showed them none by doing this ?
He might get more respect from Bungie if he was a little more professional.
Anyone remember HHG reviewing Halo ODST weeks before release because he reviewed the leaked pirated french version?. He even was dumb enough to post video which clearly showed it was the french leaked version he was reviewing.
Reviewing a pirated version of a game is no way to get into game journalism and be taken seriously by developers.
You are right in terms of how do I know they do not draw anything behind the camera. But while saying that how do you know they do not?
Ok 180 degrees was an example but how do you know there not just keeping lets say 270 degrees in memory and leaving a portion of the viewing radius out that will never get shown?
Would be the smart thing to do if you were designing a game with fixed camera angles. Gives you more memory to work with in what the player needs to see on ...
@Biggest: Its totally different. These are PS one games the article is talking about. Games the PS3 and Xperia play using an emulator. So Sony are double dipping because your buying the exact same game/code twice.
Here in Australia we get this all the time. That is how I got my PS3 last month .. free with a Bravia 40in LED TV. Sony have done this a couple of times each year since the PS3 release here, its great! LG at the moment are doing Kinect bundles with high end LG screens and there is always some phone promotion going on with certain mobile companies giving away consoles. (usually crap carriers like dodo)
Just downloaded this app and tested my Samsung Galaxy S 2.2 with lagfix. 55.8fps. lol..over double the speed of this new PS phone.
Awesome phones these latest Samsung Android handsets (though 2.2 still having lag was a letdown, thank goodness for the Lag fix).
Sorry morgan gotta agree with them. What happened? You used to be a gamer who preferenced his PS3.
Seems like whenever I visit these days all I see from you is Xbox bashing. This makes me a saaad panda.
lol Time Traveler! ...I do!!! little white weird looking machine where it looked like you could reach in and grab the game characters. Yes Im old =P
Remember thinking that looks awesome but it was always twice as much to play as all the other machines, so I never gave it ago.
Waiting for someone to come back with that. =D True the PS2 did have it for GT4 but it was not until around the time of GT4 that the cable was available for the PS2 to do it. So tech the Xbox was first (even though PS2 was made first) =P Yes I know... trivial facts nobody cares about =P
As you stated, neither was powerful enough to make any good use of it, but hey , those crisp lines on Dragons Lair were awesome back then!!
Original Xbox was the first console to support HD gaming. Supported 1080i and 720p over component cable or VGA and had a few games that used it too ,Dragons Lair, The Matrix(I think) and 1 or 2 more if I remember correctly. I remember seeing Dragons Lair for the original Xbox in 1080i for the first time on my Sony 1080i CRT and my jaw dropped. These days its standard stuff.
PSjesus : There is a 3rd reason and its the reason why I am holding off.
1st gen 3D LCD-TVs are hopeless at the moment. Sonys included. And while 1st gen 3D Plasma-TVs are better at showing 3D, there still are a few issues with plasmas.
I think the tech has a long way to go. Until they perfect it Im fine with Full HD with 120hz at the moment.
Anyone who has had experience in HDMI displays would know this could just be a HDMI connection problem on the back of the TV. Older Samsungs are renown for it.
Way too suspect to be taking seriously, would be more convincing if we seen the console shut down with an error message.
Sure the resolution lets it down a little but the AA picks up the slack for most the jaggies (still a few in daytime). But the level of detail in the world is amazing.
You can tell it use to be an open world game and never have I seen open world detailed so well. I really think any 360 developer wanting to make an open world game would be stupid not to use this engine.
I can see why they never made Alan Wake an open world game... Just would not work with the story/game type. ...
What about FEAR? That little girl freaks me out
Yes... "yes it does hurts me"....(remembers why I do not comment here too much these days)
lol..wow disagrees, what you people not capable of reading the article.
Not bagging the offer its great and smart of Sony but its not really consoles sold is it.
Only a few months back I just got a new Samsung LCD. If the promo offer was on at that stage it would have change my choice and I would have gone a Bravia. So it works.
They also ran this offer last christmas and the time before was a few months after the PS3 release.
@Bathyj: Well no...
150,000 of them were giving away for free with the Sony Bravia TV promo. There running it again here in Aus at the moment for the 3rd time I have counted.
So its not selling as well as Sony are trying to make out
Halo 3 was such a better game than Halo 2 IMO. Halo 2 SP was pretty poor and was improved greatly with 3. Co-op on Halo 3 and ODST is the only co-op game I still go back and play often(Like I said my opinion, different for each person I know)
Still HHG, you never did reply to anyone why you reviewed a pirated version of a game?(ODST).... Why should Bungie show you any respect when you showed them none by doing this ?
He might get more respect from Bungie if he was a little more professional.
Anyone remember HHG reviewing Halo ODST weeks before release because he reviewed the leaked pirated french version?. He even was dumb enough to post video which clearly showed it was the french leaked version he was reviewing.
Reviewing a pirated version of a game is no way to get into game journalism and be taken seriously by developers.
Apple have been trying to sue everyone over iphone patents. I was happy when I heard Nokia counter sue them and now I am glad to hear this.
Sure Apple came up with some great ideas with the iphone that a lot of companies are using in there handsets.
But what about the other 1/2 of the iphones features that Apple stole from various other mobiles to make the Iphone the great mobile it is?
Douche company run by one of the worlds greatest douche bags.
Destructoid - GOWIII a 10/10.....
Gotta love people who still play "the worlds media hates my favorite brand" conspiracy .....
You are right in terms of how do I know they do not draw anything behind the camera. But while saying that how do you know they do not?
Ok 180 degrees was an example but how do you know there not just keeping lets say 270 degrees in memory and leaving a portion of the viewing radius out that will never get shown?
Would be the smart thing to do if you were designing a game with fixed camera angles. Gives you more memory to work with in what the player needs to see on ...