What about the HD version of the Saturn's Nights in to Dreams that I am reliably informed by the internet was released on the Playstation network and Xbox Live not long after late last year?
I always laugh when I read a report in a tabloid newspaper that has a quote from an unnamed 'close friend of the star'. It nearly always happens to coincide with the known views of the newspaper and is usually in the style of a written piece rather than verbal communication.
Because you reboot 'out of fashion' franchises with the original name, not 'in fashion' consoles.
But what if this 'admittal' of the 'prank' is the real prank itself and all the original information was true? ;O)
On the other hand, the idea that the next Xbox will be called just 'Xbox' is so bland that I immediately thought it was unlikely when I read it. That's the tactic that games series use when they need to do a 'reboot', not a successful console series. And I didn't understand the rest of the original article - it was too bo...
All Stars Battle Royale is not the side of Sony that I like to see. It's such a thinly disguised rip off of Super Smash Bros. Even though I own a PS3, I reckon that Microsoft would have either vetoed being so blatant or would have made it a noticeably different concept in style - they'd have probably made it very cute and 'Kinectified' actually- Banjo and Kameo would have been an expected appearance with Conker perhaps an unlockable.
I won't be buying any more non-HD PS1 games on the PS3 as they are. On a HDTV at least, Crash Team Racing looks confused - nostalgia aside, much worse than I remember it on the PS1.
A very well written article. I think that The Unfinished Swan on the PS3 points to a desire to use the latest technology in way that appears both simply stark and modernist yet is in a more familiar classic tradition of fairytale storytelling.
Although 2D games (or '2.5D') games have made a particular comeback this generation, some might still regard the 16 bit age as the pinnacle for the pure innocence factor.
At the end of the day, we must remem...
Sony went through their Dreamcast days with the majority in the early years of the PS3 - with the downside that, unlike the Dreamcast, they didn't even have much compelling software.
But in the last few years they have made the PS3 have some iconic games.
The time when the majority ignored the PS3 has only helped it to have a cool undercurrent of 'underdog' status.
Sony are now a company that's it's very cool to like for their...
I recently made a post stating 'When people play videogames they don't necessarily want the same linear structure that they get in a book.
Even in a light gun game people like to see branches that they can choose from'.
and I got 3 disgarees and no agrees.
Figure that out! So what the disagreers are saying is that when people play videogames they do NECESSARILY (i.e. everyone, every single time) want the same linear structure that the...
I play because, at their best, games are a no-strings attached chance to experience some kind of attempt at making a magical experience.
Whereas in real life people often biasedly judge your worthiness to receive that experience and lack the capability to give it themselves anyway.
Basically, they're the closest that most people will get to Disneyland in their own home or, sadly, community or even country.
As my post may suggest, I...
America is the Xbox360's homeland so it partly helps to account for why it sells more there. And it has some good games on it.
But , really, in the last few years Sony have really stepped up to doing what the PS2 did - provide some very niche titles.
I am currently playing The Unfinished Swan and it is beautiful. It's not like the PS3 even needed that kind of game to plug a gap- it already had Papa and Yo. But Sony keep on delivering and are due t...
The medium PS3 slim is the best. If you want to play on a shiny tombstone with Spiderman font (the original PS3) just so that you can play PS2 games as well that's your lookout. I'll get my PS2 out if I ever want to do that which is unlikely when there are so many PS3 games to play.
The medium PS3 slim has a beautiful matte surface and is the nicest design.
The super slim doesn't suck in your discs any more. That's not a cool kind of chang...
This decade, I've never wanted to play a game through to completion so much as Conker's Bad Fur Day.
If the PS4 resurrects the boomerang controller idea, abandoned from the PS3 drawing board, I will be disappointed. The Dualshock as it already is is a good design. Boomerang could be an option that people can buy if they want.
What a meaningless comment. When people play videogames they don't necessarily want the same linear structure that they get in a book.
Even in a light gun game people like to see branches that they can choose from.
Violence comes from a feeling of being unable to express emotions in any other meaningful or useful way.
As such, it is used in war because of the general idea that the enemy, both as a country and as individuals, can no longer be engaged in diplomacy and common understanding.
It is used by people who have suffered great trauma through no fault of their own as a way of lashing out at a society that doesn't seem to care about truly examining the intens...
TheKayle, assuming that all of your figures are right, I can't disagree with anything in it. I wonder how 24 people did? Did they assume that you were knocking Sony and the PS3 merely by saying that, thinking about all the variables, Sony may have made less profit than Microsoft this generation?
You're not knocking Sony from a creative viewpoint - or even saying that they could not possibly be the more profitable company next generation. And if that happens to be yo...
However the Xbox360 had fewer 'easy to advertise' features. No Bluray, no free online, a previous install base of 25 million rather than 100 million. So, by that , the PS3 merely passing the number of Xbox360s sold will not be the measure of the PS3s success. It'll be more like whether the PS3 has more valuable customers. And since they don't even have to pay for online and people buy more games for the Xbox360 on average even that's open to debate. It seems to me that Son...
In Sony's particular case, more than the competition, as each console costs more to make that it is sold for, then it is more profitable to sell as many consoles as possible to the 'hardcore', where hardcore in this case means people willing to spend money on new games at launch and on extra services including DLC such as extra costumes in games available through the console. And it probably means more people who might regard themselves as discerning who are willing to spend money...
The main problem with Nintendo, creatively, is that they're not Sega. They rarely strive to being sometimes ultra cool nor being ultra arty like some Sony indie-type games.
But sometimes they do do something very surprising. Paper Mario on the N64 and Luigi's Mansion on the Gamecube were very novel ideas. And, with Wave Race, they could do arcade style games like Sega. But many of their best games series originated with the N64. And even then Rare were arguably the ...