Well I think it has more to do with the lack of high quality action titles, non-holiday season, and the limits of HD penetration in the US market.
For all those people who claim upconverting DVD players are good enough, I would really like to ask them how in the world a device can magically make pixels appear out of thin air. That's like taking a blurry picture or a heavily compressed MP3 file and being able to interpolate something better out of it.
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You're forgetting about Resistance 2, which should raise the bar for co-op and multiplayer.
Yeah, I agree. There was news regarding this earlier when Sony announced shipment of 13 million PS3 units. They also mentioned 24,000 units given as part of their Bravia promotion.
Actually, I think if there's any blame for the Blu Ray movies, it's the third party company that's handling all the shipments. I got mine, but I can't say the same for everyone.
Well at least the PS3 is now up to a point of people asking "when" it will catch up as opposed to when everyone was asking "if" it will. It's really just a matter of time now, but I do admit it's gonna take awhile for it to happen here in the US. It's gonna depend on whether the PS3's fall lineup manages to really hit the sweet spot for US gamers.
My point was just that I don't want any graphics below the PS2. I mean a lot of the recent FF remakes were nice, but they would have been nicer on a better system. For example, the recent FF III and IV on the DS looks pretty good but just imagine how much more immerse they could be on the PS2/3. I just think you need a PS2 level of system to really immerse the player.
And how much we are all willing to pay for new state of the art specs. I've started to discover how I was upgrading my desktops and laptops more often because of gaming applications rather than my everyday use.
Out of three Wii owners I know, one sold his already for a PSP and the rest haven't bought anything beyond Wii Sports. If there is going to be another Atari crash, the Wii and EA will be responsible.
I really can't tell if you are joking or not sometimes, so I'm just going to move on and suggest MS work harder on their next OS instead.
I mean I'm ok with Vista, it's easier to work with and does provide some useful features that make it more accessible. However, it just loses in every other respect with high price, compatibility issues, multi SKU markeeting approach, and stability problems. It honestly feels like the new Windows ME.
Most people I know from Asia still use yahoo.
Yeah, even if they do a remake on the PS2, I guarantee you most PS2 AND PS3 owners would buy a copy. Though of course I would prefer a next gen remake, I really think the FFVII world can be much more immerse if it only got a small touch up.
Yeah they will definitely be bringing Final Fantasy XIII, Versus XIII, and Last Remnant.
Rockstar North should be able to realize a nice patch that fixes problems for both consoles soon, but I doubt even a software guru like MS can think of a software hotfix for RRoD.
I think it has more to do with how the Cell architecture punishes poor coding more severely than traditional multi-threaded processors. A game lead on the PS3 simply made it more efficient and well-written by default.
Here's a paper that does a very good job of introducing the pros and cons of the cell from a scientific (non-gaming) point of view, but I think it does a good job of highlighting what's so innovative about it:
The comments, trying to be witty, just turned out to be really annoying.
Well I know a few people on both consoles that are still waiting to buy the game just for the chance they may be able to pirate it. If there are two reasons why they won't come, they would probably be compatibility issues between various windows and piracy. I've pretty much vowed to stop pirating games since I've moved onto consoles games, but I doubt it applies to everyone.
360 Core: Jumped 65%, Sales Rank in Video Games: 119 (was 197)
PS3: No jump, Sales Rank in Video Games: ~10
Even though Phil Harrison did leave, I think the PS3 is still on track for Europe. Sony's World Wide Studios have a lot of developers in Europe and they should help make sure that they will continue to have a strong European following. For example, we have the heavily anticpated Killzone 2 being the largest budget game to ever come from a Dutch developer, Guerilla Games.
True, but it was still a good title. It just felt like they ran out of idea or money half way through.