The installs don't really bother me like they used to. I've become accustomed to them. I only ever really have two or three games that I'm playing at any given time, anyway. So I just delete the install data for the ones that I'm not currently playing.
I'm sure that Blu-Ray discs do need to be read a bit differently than a DVD. I could see developers needing to duplicate game assets on a 50GB Blu-Ray just to improve seek times. It's not bad to do, and I imagine that it also isn't uncommon. It's a trick that's been around for quite a while.
I'm not sure what it is that you're saying, but I would imagine that a pretty big chunk of the 2GB is the game engine, not necessarily just the maps.
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To be fair, the 360 can also play movies, just not Blu-ray movies. DVD is still the dominant movie format, so the majority of the market has their multimedia needs met by the 360. There are only a few movies that have sold extremely well on Blu-ray, and even those were dwarfed by their DVD counterparts.
I wish console manufacturers would allow homebrew.
Sony's failure rates have always been low? That's pretty hard to substantiate, considering Sony was never required to disclose the PS2 DRE failure rate as part of the settlement of that class-action lawsuit.
I intentionally waited more than 6 months before buying a PS3 because my launch PS1 and launch PS2 both ended up dying because of faulty optical drives.
I agree that RROD was a much more widespread problem than any problem with the PlayStation products. But Sony...
How long after the warranty expires should a console be guaranteed to work? I have some consoles that have lasted seemingly forever (SNES, Dreamcast, XBOX) and some that haven't fared as well (NES - flashing screen, Jaguar - red screen, PS1 and PS2 - won't play discs). Granted, my consoles are typically launch or near-launch units so they tend to be a little more susceptible to failure. But, in general, how long should a console last?
It'll be interesting to see if the court sides with Microsoft and agrees that fixing it for free if it fails was an adequate solution to the problems with existing consoles. The last time a console manufacturer was hit with a class action lawsuit like this it was because the company refused to admit that there was a problem and refused to fix consoles for free. Microsoft has already done that.
My guess is that the disenfranchised Xbox 360 owners can forget getting a refund. The l...
I wonder if this means that Second Life is over the hill? I've tried it and it was fun for a little while, but in order to have any real fun you have to get into a clique of some sort. Mostly it's a mass of pervs looking for an online "encounter", or someone's small army of alts camping to farm free money from the economy so they can't gift the money back to the main account.
What I wish would happen is that Sony would release a set of API's that anyone could use to develop for the platform (I know I'll get disagrees) like Microsoft did with XNA. Except that the platform should truly be open so that you could hand a DVD to a friend and they could play your game, too.
It doesn't need to. There's a 3 year warranty for that.
So it's Microsoft's fault that the people who steal Windows software get taken advantage of by hackers? They're lucky, really. Microsoft could shut the software down completely.
So if they have to change pretty much everything about the mechanics of the game to get it to work is it still the same game?
If you really want to help out Sony you'll buy more games.
Apparently this person doesn't know much internet.
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That's got to be one heck of a title screen.
By your reasoning, why can't the PS3? The 360 is 6 million units ahead and has been pretty much all year. 6 million units is a lot to make up when weekly sales numbers are pretty much equal between the two systems.
As much as I love my PS3, people were saying the same thing with Heavenly Sword, Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank Future. The only game that has really had an effect on PS3 sales so far was MGS4, and rightly so.
And in the last two generations Sony was dominant player after their first two years. But Nintendo has come back and brought their A game. After all, there are twice as many Wii's as PS3's and 30% more Wii's than 360's. With numbers like that you can't deny that Nintendo has been giving people what they want.
I know that people like to say that Nintendo's Wii isn't a "real" next-gen system. But there's more to next-gen than pretty graphics. A lot of people will say tha...
If people stopped posting their thoughts and started only posting facts there wouldn't be many people capable of posting here.
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