Not a surprise. The 3DS didn't reinvent battery tech to be way more powerful and enduring, or Nintendo would be WAY richer than they already are.
There's a reason the PSP only lasts 4-6 hours, and your typical cell phone doesn't last even an hour, while gaming... CPU/GPU eats battery power hugely, not just the screen backlight.
The only reason the backlight setting is so important on the DS, is because its procesors are... well.. not very powerfu...
Retail actually gets about $20 of a $60 game pricetag. Pretty close to $22, actually, depending on the volume they buy, etc.
They don't get to return it -- they have to sell it to get money back.
They don't. That was true a couple decades ago, and somehow that myth persists to this day.
There are no royalties in this day and age. There are bonuses, but they're not very large, unless you own stock in the company handing them out.
Game engineers make about $79K per year on average, according to GamaSutra's GameDeveloper annual magazine survey. It varies widely on experience, and frankly it also varies widely based on cost-of-living for each developer -- the ones in LA undoubtably make more than the ones in, for example, Wisconsin or Colorado. Most US games are developed in California, the Seattle area of Washington, and Dallas/Austin in Texas. There are a few outlying companies in places like New York, Virginia,...
lol. I type just as fast with the onscreen keyboard of the PS3 and PSP as I do with those tiny little phone keys.
I'd prefer the gaming controls, personally.
Wow. Kinda hard to understand this review, except that Destructoid kinda seems to go somewhat against the grain, solely for the purpose of hits.
I see Uncharted as the definitive modern action adventure, much like CoD is the definitive shooter, Rock Band is the definitive music... thing, etc.
I don't see how it could really be overrated, when other games of its ilk are basically measured against it. You can't really overrate the yardstick, unless the yardstick creator tries to remake it as something different and fails, or someone else makes something better. Neither of those things have happened, with regar...
Why would Sony care?
There won't be a PS2 emulator for eons (if ever, due to the funky way the PS2 worked, with CPU, 2 vector co-processors, and the RS oddball), and the PS3 already has a PS1 and NeoGeo emulator.
If you guys think having emulators available (only on hacked consoles, even) will hurt new games sales... you're flying mighty high.
I'll stick with the PC version if there's no PS3 one. I don't waste my money on XBL Gold.
Too bad, Runic -- you could have sold me the game twice... although I'm sure that MS swooped in to secure exclusive rights on this awesome game ASAP. Runic is in Seattle -- they probably have pals at MS, and hence I'll bet the publishing deal came easy, since their game is also awesome.
It'll probably sell well on the 360, since the 360 hardcore...
Mobile gaming lacks the batteries to make it worthwhile.
Someone invent a tiny battery capable of producing the power necessary to have some serious gaming for more than an hour, and then we'll talk.
Umm... there a lot of people who won't touch a 3DS, but would gladly get this phone. Different markets, you know?
Throw some 3G/4G into the 3DS, and then we're talking... although its resolution is WAY too low for a good phone. As is, the 3DS is not in the same ballpark, literally.
If you're looking to do some gaming, there are NO better Android (or any other kind) phones out there.
I think you're kinda missing the point.
A part of me was kinding hoping Kinect would take off... I need to kick the gaming habit anyway.
@G-O-D,
Consider this: Sony published PS3 exclusives make ~$8 more per unit than 3rd party games, because they lack a licensing fee. That's about %25 more net income for the same number of units.
Also consider that Sony 1st party titles don't have to do anything much past breaking even to cause Sony to profit indirectly, via the extra hardware sales, and "WOW @ what this console can do" advertising via the media, that exclusives generate. ...
Lol. Public keys are encoded in firmware, not hardware.
Where does Hotz get the idea that the private key can't be changed, and new public keys distributed from a new fireware release?
Where are the buttons?
That's one of my prereq's for being a serious gaming device these days. I despise touchscreen "sticks" and touchscreen buttons that take up half the screen.
near 20% of 360 owners have already purchased a Kinect?
Why does that strike me as... not quite right?
Greenburg has it all wrong.
1st secret to a great exclusive is to have a great internal dev team that doesn't think you're going to let them go right after the project.
Battery tech has barely improved in the past 150 years, really.
It's only because hardware was (not "is") getting smaller so quickly that battery life improved at all, in the past. Nowadays, if you bump the computational power in a handheld, you pretty much lose battery time as well, because you just don't see the performance/power gains of the past 2 decades -- its a tradeoff.
Someone will have to invent micro fusion power cells or somethin...
LoL @ battery miracle.
There are other ways new devices have reduced power consumption as of late -- namely LED backlit and OLED displays -- the 3DS doesn't have such fancy low-power screen tech, because it needs the special 3D screen tech instead.
@below: It'll be 10-15 years before something like that becomes realized, and even then, it'll only happen if its *affordable*, which it may not be. =(