@therapist,
I can't find any games later than 2008 on your list...
Why not?
The PS2 had already saturated the market.. with itself.. at this point in its lifetime. There are only so many buyers available, you know.
What a desperate fanboy article this is.
The 360 versions of Legend and Anniversary were kinda mediocre. I say this because I owned the PS2 versions before I picked up a 360 -- and the PS2 games looked damn near as good, and had a better framerate to boot. I thought I was doing myself a favor, as a TR fan, by picking up the 360 versions, but... I guess I got achievements, so there's that.
I think they were actually written for the PS2, and the 360 was a port -- and not the best port, either. It's great to...
Why on earth would they use quincunx, when so many better options are available (like MLAA), and the orignal games have been revamped?
3DSLite is looking mighty good, to me.
Uh... kinda like the DSi XL, DSi, and 3DS will "compete"? Like the iPhone, and iTouch, and iPad compete?
Can you really call it competition if the same company makes it?
Oh the trickery in this article. They cherry-picked numbers, and then changed the title to be vague.
"Microsoft announced that it has shipped 8 million Kinect units since launch (in November)"
Note the "shipped". 5-to-1 is the hardware bundle ratio in the US, not the hardware ratio. Remember, a significant number of Move users *don't need a camera, because they own one already*.
Sony had shipped over 4M Moves at the...
Sounds like GeoHot wants to go to jail, rather than just be sued. Malicious intent with the info release, and all that.
Harsh. No Wii love.
I would start playing MMOs again if this happens.
EverQuest was... epic. WoW was fun for a while afterwards, but it just never had the same spark of awesomeness.
There are only 400x240 screen pixels, not 800x240. The 3DS screen slightly lower res than the current PSP screen.
It has to render 800x240 to get the 3D effect, however, which is one of the reasons the GPU is not that impressive -- its performance is effectively halved, on a per frame basis, if its doing 3D. If you look closely at the specs, you'll realize that this actually means that the screen-pixel performance is below that of the PSP. The vertex performance is bel...
No handheld can come close to touching the PS3. I can't believe these rumors persist.
I'm sure its awesome -- probably better than any other handheld. But its NOT more powerful than a PS3. Those chips haven't been invented yet, and if they had, the whole world would already know about it.
I'm getting one -- but I'm not expecting a handheld PS3.. lol.
Um.. you realize that most of the movie is pre-rendered CG, yeah?
Ha. The DS shouldn't cost more than $50.
That's Nintendo for ya. You have to admit, their pricing has always worked to this point... although I kinda think the 3DS is a step beyond too much.
This article is basically arguing that Sony should turn into a company like LG or Visio, and make cheap stuff, but sell more, rather than making high-end stuff, and sell less.
Consider, for a moment, that the PSP is, in fact, a HUGE success -- it fits the high-end handheld market to a tee. Sure, that market is smaller than the kids market... okay.
If Sony went after the kids market... then there's be a new market vacuum on the high end. Maybe Sony WANTE...
I will likely be buying a PSP2, rather than a 3DS. I already have a handheld capable of playing games on par with the quality of 3DS games, and have for 5 years.
This may be difficult for a Nintendo diehard to understand, but not everyone who games on a handheld wants or cares about 3D. I'll take two analogs, and a hi-res screen, over 3D any day. Not everyone wants the same feature set -- and frankly I view 3D as a gimmick, not a worthwhile feature.
It...
Sony loses money on every console sold.
I don't see how selling more of them, but not more software (where they make money from licensing fees) can "win" them the console generation, except in the eyes of fanboys who view VGChartz sales numbers as the ultimate measure of victory.
Horribly uninformed article. Pirates do not buy new games, and Sony doesn't see a dime from used games sales.
I hate to say it, but the RE game looks like the PS2 version of RE4 -- not bad, but not really much past what the PSP can pull off, either.
Hmm the 3D camera though... that'd be pretty cool. I *almost* want to get one... I might wait for the second round of games, with a second wind of good hardware utilization though. I'm still just not that impressed, as a long time PSP gamer.
I want to like the 3DS, I do... but costs so much... barely an upgrade ...
The retailers take the extra cut on the software, because they use up huge amounts of shelf space for the hardware, which they don't profit on.
In a sense, they simply mirror the 1st party model -- sell the hardware @ cost, make money on the software.
Kinect appeals to the same demographics as the Wii... which is telling, with regards to its eventual software attach rate.
The "hardcore" Kinect games will not sell to this crowd at all, if the Wii hardcore sales are any indication. Presumably, games like Panzer Dragoon, etc. will have full support for a regular controller as well -- they'll need it, IMO.
As is, the Kinect turns the 360 into a potential Wii competitor, which is exactly what MS ...