That's exactly it. Their primary audience is western, and won't even know what half the symbols mean.
It would be wasted money to put any extra research into something that is purely visual and not communicative.
Who said everyone bought a launch PS3? A decent HD set is still over $400. I'd rather game in SD on my current 40" screen than game in HD on a 20" one.
And did someone really just bring up that people who can afford a PS3 should be able to afford an HDTV? Not everyone had $1200+ bucks to throw around on games 4 years ago. That's why I bought a console instead of a new PC.
Even then, I could get a new console and every game made for it with money left over, ...
That's obviously expected. His argument is that the lost detail makes the game unplayable for him.
It's the same problem Dead Rising had. You might say, "hey it's SD, you should expect lost detail," but I don't really care when I can't read any of the text in the game and now have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.
edit: and at everyone saying, "Buy an HD-TV!"
I'm sorry, but those of us that live in reality have to pay for other ...
First, Sales after christmas are hugely common. It has nothing to do with desperation. It's boxing day!
Second, as an american... I really do hate futureshop. More so futureshop's lack of being in america.
Funny thing I found:
It's more noteworthy that Nintendo rocked the shi* out of that list.
the reviewers dislikes had nothing to do with the new ideas and more to do with the lack of old ideas (towns) and poor story telling/dialogue, which has been a problem in general with a lot of JRPGs lately.
Removing towns sucks. They really made the world feel more alive. sucky. The new battle system does look pretty sweet though.
ok. I will give a better metaphor in a moment. What is your profession? I imagine if someone asked you to clean 300 bathrooms in 15 minutes most people wouldn't call your work unacceptable when all the bathrooms are clean, but the ceilings of two of them were a little dusty.
Bayonetta is playable on both platforms. The PS3 version has a little screen tearing as far as I've heard, but it's still a great game on both platforms. ENDOF. You can whine all you want, but both games work...
1. It probably won't anyway because one is an exclusive and most exclusives will be more optimized than 90% of the non-exclusives.
2. It depends on a lot of things. FFXIII we know is supposed to be 50 hours long for the main storyline. A 50 hour long less visually impressive game is at least as gameplay impressive as an 8 hour long better looking game.
@whoever above was talking about linear gameplay
FFVII (one of the best in the FF series) was pretty li...
that peg is made of diamond and took almost half a decade to craft and the "square hole" is actually a jagged unfamiliar hole.
It really isn't simple to rewrite an entire codebase on limited time and resources.
Of course I'm sure if you think you can do it better you could email sega asking for a job and in 25 years when your flawless PS3 version of boyonetta comes out you can feel like you really accomplished something.
It's the hardware's fault. You try to port from a PC centric/360 centric architecture to something that's completely different.
I am not saying the PS3's hardware is bad. I am saying it's major architecture differences make some features impossible to port.
IT IS THAT SIMPLE
The price of the glasses is ludicrous unless they're the most comfortable glasses in the world. For a set like they have at most movie theatres, it should be no more than $10 (that's still a price gouging price.
the camera they are using in that video is an early gen version of natal. It was never released for the PS2 because microsoft ended up buying 3dv.
Natal also calculates a boned character based off the user, which is something the guy in that video says their original version doesn't do on board. The boned character had to be done on the system. Natal processes all of that in the camera, as well as extrapolates that data if part of your body goes off screen.
Essential...
That's harder than it sounds. The financial investment to make a proprietary engine rather than modifying an existing licensed engine was probably large. I'm sure that Ubi looked into all the pros and cons.
Also, there's a lot of stuff in the background of a lot of engines that makes it easier to just snag from another engine.
A famous programming saying is "Good programmers produce good code, Great programmers reuse the code of the good programmers." There...
no. It's the LEAD engine which is based of UE 2.5
it's really a null issue. Games don't pull enough weight to make demands on networks yet.
It's either you get a sub par show and have awards on a major network, or you don't have awards on a major network at all. I'll take the former.
Sure the presenters weren't exactly industry people, but it is spike, and they do need to generate viewers. When it comes down to it, hardcore gamers are the minority and casual gamers outnumber us by an enormous amount.
The announcements weren't ridiculous either, but it's an awards show. Save the announcements for a show that's about announcements. You should be thankful there is an awards show. At least great developers get a little main-stream credibility, which is one more s...
very rarely will police attack people if they aren't justified. They just have too much at stake. This website is incredibly one sided. For an area that should have plenty of cameras, it should be pretty obvious who is in the right and who is in the wrong quickly.
PS: I was beaten by police too <_< >_>... I'm poor, here's my pay-pal account...
not the least suspicious way to ask for money.
PS3 wins > CNet is biased towards M$.
I know KZ2 had volumetric smoke. That's what I was getting at. I assure you that has a much larger effect on the feel of the game than anti-aliasing.
I was purely criticizing him saying that AA is what the cell's power should be used for. If you want stunningly smooth edges, go for it. If you want good games, spend the extra cycles doing something relevant to the gameplay/feel of the game.
progressing to larger storage forms is natural. It's evolutionary not revolutionary. Making new services standard is something new.
Whether or not people like to think so, XBL has set the standard for an online service. If you don't think so, look at PSN. It's copied XBL almost feature for feature so far.
And the 360 is up there because it's the only gadget that offers xbl.