At least they don't make alts to steal the bubbles of people with differing opinions.
Games that are expected to launch with a console are more often than not planned to launch with a console before they start serious press and development.
Then you also have public mindset to take into account. If you're releasing a new console, you don't want the year and a half leading up to it to be the crappiest year the previous console had. Having good games on a previous system around the time the new system is launching will get people thinking about the new system that m...
only if you can't count
"while the holiday-outage carnage has abated, we’d like Microsoft to invest in even better reliability"
that's exactly what they did. That's the reason there wasn't a spring update.
I really think it's dumb that M$ isn't doing any general console advertising. PS3's old commercial was a kick ass commercial, and the wii commercials are everywhere.
It probably has something to do with the 360's original AWESOME AS HELL commercials being BANNED.
when they went to dell.
The PS1 and Gamecube versions were the same game. This is a completely different game.
This game has been in development since 05. It doesn't use the unreal engine. It uses an engine built in house mid development (it was originally using unreal).
Anyone upset with the way the game is going now (outside only having 2 player co-op... legitimate complaint) must not have been following the game. The game looks great as it is right now, and most importantly, it looks rea...
There was a game that was in production for the PSX and Gamecube, but that game was canceled.
This game is completely different. They have different plots, drastically different gameplay, and the universe has changed dramatically. This game was built from the ground up starting in 2005.
If you're going to post something, post it neutral and then criticize it in the comments.
Putting a picture like that in is just juvenile.
"Oh my god, he disagrees with me! I better post a picture that makes him look dumb! teehee..."
Feature full and good don't mean polished.
Polished has more to do with small details and the game reacting fully the way you'd expect it to.
There are plenty of games that are more polished. MGS4 has it's share of animation oddities and glitches that make it easily not the most "polished" game ever, despite it being good.
I get the feeling that too many journalists are getting into a "MGS4 most (insert positive word that may or may not ap...
That would be absolutely hilarious. I would actually give microsoft +10 internets if they did that if mozilla sent them a cake.
I just love the idea of regifted cake.
They need specialists who can fall back on a jack of all trades background.
Having a programmer that has a good understanding of an artist's needs and demands is a great asset. Just like having artist's that understand how to help programmers is good, or having game designers that have a good foothold in every aspect of game production is good.
Game design and development is one of the places where a very diverse education/background/knowledge base is an immensely im...
\I would love to try AOC, but until there's a trial I'm not risking it not running on my laptop.
was really short... And not a trailer
communication maybe? Idk about you, but I don't have unlimited bandwidth. Cutting down the size of files will decrease download times and increase streaming as a possibility for HD content.
It'll also decrease the price of things that use it too.
The only major hit is that you won't see extra wrinkles on gandolf's face.
the average console lifespan is 5 years.
As for the late adopter argument. There's no reason to believe a late adopter this gen will be an early adopter next-gen, so you'll still have plenty of time and plenty of games before you move on.
It's a small step backwards in quality for a huge step forward in memory management.
It's a different approach, and it's by no means a bad one. It's just different.
Hell if you want perfect quality we could all buy theater film projectors and buy copies of the actual film for near lossless quality.
Upscaling software is going to help DD not just DVD. The amount of data saved by a good upscaler could make streaming HD content a very real possibility.
They're decreasing the amount of data that needs to be sent to get a high quality image/video. That's not a step backwards. It's a step in a different direction.
If some company came out and said they could get all my computer programs, or even just my music, to fit in 1/10th the size with negligible loss I would be ecstatic.
it's not that they upscale. It's how well they upscale. Every upscaler upscales differently. Some you can barely tell the difference when you're actually watching the movie, others look horrible.
If toshiba is coming up with new technology that does it better and cheaper, more power to them.
By the way. The argument that a $500 blu-ray player does the same thing as a $60 upscaler is not a good selling point.
Except lighting. The lighting in the second one isn't "flatter" it's more realistic. It's designed to show reflected light on people, which will make things look flatter, but it's actually a lot more complex.