"I wouldn't be shocked if the console version looks better than KZ3"
LoL. Come on. I would be pleasantly surprised if that happened. It'd probably be the best looking 360 game ever made, too, if that were the case. But it won't be. You know it won't.
The interesting thing is that, last gen, no one EVER would have compared a console shooter to a PC shooter without being laughed at. Now, though, comparisons of KZ2 and KZ3 with the highest-end of PC titles, five years after the release of the PS3, are commonplace.
That's a pretty big compliment to GG, really. 5 years of GPU tech differences is nothing to scoff at. The fact that people even watch these comparisons is proof that the PS3 is resoundingly powerful tech for...
Makes me laugh.
I actually think that believing the laws of physics have no bounds, and that chips can continue getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller is preposterous. =)
Past about 20nm (well.. 16nm), chips aren't getting smaller for quite a while -- hence processors won't be getting any faster, either. The laws of physics are the problem here -- electron losses, smaller than about 22nm, cause near-unmanageable heat problems with current fab technology. Quantum tunnelling prese...
I agree.
Microsoft having to play catch-up would be a great thing for 360 gamers everywhere. Just like Sony having to play catch-up has been a great thing for PS3 owners everywhere...
Newsflash: Homebrew was already possible on the PS3, under OtherOS... so why again did the hackers need to screw with the console, if it wasn't actually for homebrew at all?
I can only think of one reason...
The article isn't really talking about gaming, though. It's talking about Kinect replacing the mouse. I'm saying that it just plain lacks the fine grain finesse -- its just not going to happen.
Most computer mice are about productivity, not fun. Kinect doesn't have what it takes to be efficient, from that standpoint, and it won't for a long time... if ever.
I think the number of pens used, and sold, each day probably far exceeds the number of paint rollers... if you get my meaning.
I get the article -- I see that the journalists think that this tech will be vastly improved in the coming years.
But I also see it from a physics and engineering perspective. It won't ever be high enough resolution to replace a device like the mouse. Not until Microsoft can bend the laws of physics and make Kinect devices well beyond the capability of the finest digital cameras, as well as providing the some 64x (or more) the processing power that Kinect requires to an...
Wow @ the donations.
What part of "if there's no money in it, thanks to piracy, no one will make decent games" do these people not understand?
Maybe they're just giving the bird to 3DS, and not "gamers"...
What will Wii trophies/achievements be called, I wonder?
"Mii Score", is my prediction.
Lots of people have been saying for *years* that a new console gen wouldn't hit until at least 2013 (except for Nintendo... 2012 maybe).
Now its news, I guess?
...Since when does the lowest-common-denominator not determine how much effort a dev go use in utlizing PC hardware?
Sandy Bridge changes nothing, by itself.
TW2 is actually a really good game. Take my opinion with a grainof salt, since I actually found some enjoyment in the first one, but most of the bad reviews are from journalists who are, honestly, being really closed-minded.
Blacklisting them seems silly, but I do kinda take personal notes. Some of the TW2 reviews have really exposed some of the lazier journalists in the RPG review industry, IMO. The game is unquestionably decent. Whether its a 6.5 or a 9.5 is up to the r...
This article rings true in a lot of ways.
I have to wonder, as they do, why Nintendo doesn't simply hold off until May to release the 3DS, so that more launch titles will actually be ready, and the eShop will be as well.
Ride the release right into E3...
Honestly, complex physics is pretty invisible to the typical gamer. Accelerating it in hardware isn't all that useful, because the real expense of physics comes with sorting the bazillion objects you want to have in the world (sorting is NEVER cheap), not doing the accelerated precise collision mechanics.
About the only thing hardware physics gives us, is the ability to run a fancier simulation on a zillion small, simple objects, in a restrained space against a few more ...
Phones are subsidized by your phone service carrier. If its $400 without a contract, that means it'll likely be subsidized down to about $200 with one -- which is dirt cheap for a phone as powerful as this one is.
Carriers subsidize phones to soften the blow of how much it costs to actually own a cell phone. The $200 they knock off the phone is not much compared to what you pay for a year of service, really.
In any case, this is a nice benefit for anyon...
I'm going to buy Black Ops... someday... for like $20.
The number of disagrees NateCole, above, got is ridiculous.
I wonder if the people disagreeing have any idea how much more powerful a modern PC GPU is, relative to the 360 and PS3 GPUs. We're talking an order of magnitude here.
To even suggest that GG couldn't make a shooter that was freaking amazing with that kind of horsepower is ludicrous.