Development cost is key, it's alot higher by average now then for the PSOne or Playstatoin 2. Alot of devs wont survive(independent devs especially). Mergers and buyouts are commonplace, and thats a given, but the strain of development cost is weighing heavy enough on the gaming industry right now, without the losses produced by piracy... I do agree, that someone with the main office needs to get on the ball and prioritise kernel feature support, but I, like many others can understand that i...
Why the disagree? Are you too much of a chump to offer a valid rebuttal? Please prove me wrong, then I'll pull out the ace, and show you clean hard numbers, and patterns over then last 3 years(shrinkage and consolidated losses)... so please be my guest...dont just disagree, because your angry that I'm right...
With piracy now reaching an all-time high, within media exposure, and inconsiderate pricks like this guy, trying to enforce piracy on Sony's baby, you dare to ask, why no gpu access...why no 5.1 sound(or access to the soundchip/advanced cell processing features)? Seriously, why dont you spend billions of dollars, on R&D, market penetration research, advanced chipset architecture engineering, all while giving you options, you dont find on other console platforms...etc, only to have some wa...
Same old people spreading the Anti-Sony hate, nothing new in fact... Just wait until These games are released, and be happy for your brother or sister that owns a different console than you.
I personally will enjoy both R:Fom 2 as well as Gears. I have a special soft spot for Resistance though,very under-appreciated. For the Sony fans though, just look at the potential gaming library of the PS3, (cross-platform ports aside) has alot of quality and ingenuity invested in it, as well peop...
Yeah, I find it soo ironic that the masses gave Microsoft brownie points for a warranty upgrade, when in actuality they were avoiding a full on class action suit, and forcing the consumer to pay for online play. So it's not surprising that they are finally in the yellow, from the backs of the wonderful gamers...
Another sore spot was the buying price for 360 over PS3. With 3 years of Live service, tell me how much it ended up costing, and if your like me( I bought a launch 20gb 360 in Afghanistan) how much did the bigger hard drive end up costing you? So add it up and get back to me, we'll compare numbers....it should come to around $650.00. Same gradually increase the heat strategy, so the consumer has no idea that it ends up costing more than the launch PS3, and I didnt even include the peripherals...
Except that intelligent people, will see LIVE for what it is, a way for Microsoft to break the ice for future pay to play implementations of the service(as Microsoft slowly moves more and more towards digital distribution)(remember thats the future, just like vista was). Essentially, put a frog in boiling water and it will jump right out, but put a frog in warm water and increase the tempurature over time, and the frog wont struggle, only boil to death, I hate seeing gamers(especially my 360 ...
M.A.G is a big plus that you just wont see on 360, because of streaming implementation problems, floating point performance (yeah, for all that said the floating point performance would never be applied to real-time performance), and non-standard HDD(but I'm sure Msoft is working on that one) etc. Also it IS a solid bet that future games from Sony( now that SDK 2.4 is out) will indeed include multiplayer, not to mention when Home finally comes out, many already released games will implement o...
Sony, I think has a very masterful strategy, and alot of very intelligent people pooled in the collective, before the PS3 ever came out. Sony is synonymous with ingenuity, and it shows, with their radically new hardware choices, as well as their online strategy...As with anything, a solid investment takes time to mature, and return. You dont go buy stocks in a company then expect to turn around the next day, sell said stocks and make a great return. No I'm sure as the console matures, the one...
I dont necesarrily care for Live, why should you pay(subscribe) to buy from it? It's not like you get any free points from your membership, to purchase with, so essentially, you are paying for the right to pay for downloads. Online gaming should be free, as long as we are covering cost and developement up front with these freaking $60.00+ games...but that's fine, as long as people want to keep choosing to pay extra, Microsoft will keep charging said extra. The addition of Netflix, while a pos...
Though it's not official, I'm relatively certain that they use one of two types of OS based servers, either Mac PPC based, or Cell SDK based, either way, they did NOT skimp, when it comes to server quality. I have Never had an online game lag, and I use roadrunner broadband(4mb/s DS, 2.5mb/s US),as I have for a long time, but even when I had Sprint DSL, I NEVER had a problem playing online...You know it's funny, I never see a lack of quality, ingenuity, or programming prowess, when it comes t...
I do think so..
I'd have to say that Crysis came pretty close to photo realistic, without this model..Now if I could just get over 70fps @ max settings with 8xMSaa, I would be very happy..
Thats prure tech comedy!!
Just trying to add some balance to the STUPID disagree bots...
From the sound of things, it sounds like all you Xboxers have a great game in store for you, my hat is off to you all. I personally cant wait for RFOM2..
@ the disagree bots
If you cannot give a valid reason for a disagree with a perfectly logical statement. Then dont disagree, that button is for people with enough intelligence to have a preference disagreeable to mine. Because you disagree without cause, you only validate the fact that you are an opinionless tool, and e...
Dont mind the random disagrees, I have the same problem so I have developed an almost required comment template. You are more than welcome to use it, when necessary. About the Disagree, whoever it was, lacks the intestinal fortitude to step forward, and contribute their basis for comparison, so their opinion will never matter. I dont feel in any way that RE5 was, is, or ever will be racist. I know that most of the people that felt that way only lack the intelligence, to justify their belief. ...
First off, I respect your post as being your take on things, and I do in FACT understand most design spec languages(lingo). Second, the standard memory configuration for current gen consoles, is 512 MB, X360 has a unified module 512MB DDR3 running at 800MHZ, with a 10MB EDRAM(embedded, not modular) for video output processing(increase in framebuffer bandwidth), while the PS3 has one module of 256MB DDR3 @800MHZ, and one module of 256MB XDR @3.2GHZ. Both the GPU and SPUs/PPE have access to bot...
First off, I respect your post as being your take on things. Second, the standard memory configuration for current gen consoles, is 512 MB, X360 has a unified module 512MB DDR3 running at 800MHZ, with a 10MB EDRAM(embedded, not modular) for video output processing(increase in framebuffer bandwidth), while the PS3 has one module of 256MB DDR3 @800MHZ, and one module of 256MB XDR @3.2GHZ. Both the GPU and SPUs/PPE have access to both memory pools. They both have 512MB ram, it's just that PS3 ha...
Why then are movie studios, and their associated corporate firms taking such affirmative action against software pirates...If it wasnt a big deal then there wouldnt be such big (swat team) raids into suspected places of piracy...Homebrew is one thing, as it encourages a thriving community of creativity to press on, but along with the geniuses that work hard on homebrew, there are those that try to bring illegal copyright infringement, and down right theft along with the homebrew... I understa...