Eh, sorry. Depending on how much you value visuals, it can indeed qualify you as shallow or narrow-minded, IMO.
They're a perk, and nothing more. Many of the best games on the market today do not have the best visuals, and they don't need them to be the best, either.
This will be the best gaming phone on the market, bar none.
Able to play Android and PSP games? Win. No other phone can even touch this. How many unique phone games are even close to the average PSP game, in quality? Like 5?
Also, pure touchscreen controls SUCK for most serious games. If you disagree with this, then you just plain haven't played any real games on a touchscreen phone before, and probably think "Kinect for Android" is right a...
Sorry Raendom. As an android phone, with a unique, and pretty awesome, feature, this phone will likely sell a truckload.
@benny
I'd saddened that you don't understand the issues I presented in my post.
As a side point, your "DRM and high prices ruined games" argument doesn't hold water, either.
In the 90s, when the games industry was rich and growing at a rapid pace, games cost $40 new. Now they cost $60 new (on consoles... its still $50 for PC). Now adjust for inflation, and honestly tell me that you believe that the reason the games in...
I can't wait for the "Gee, it doesn't work with the next firmware revision" stories. LoL.
@benny
Your comparison is horribly flawed. Car manufacturers get exclusive sales and manufacturing rights to parts for a period of time after the car is put on the market... much like the movie industry puts movies in theatres, and doesn't release the DVD for many months after.
Games bypass this grace period, and therein lies the rub. Piracy hurts games much more than it hurts movies, etc. I sincerely doubt you can name another industry that doesn'...
PSP and 3DS will both get MH now, cool.
The new 3DS one will likely be MH3 though, which just came out on PSP, and came out on Wii a while back.
Maybe they'll finally put some bumpers on the 360 DVD drive, with the next HW revision.
@enkeixpress:
"No, Because PS3 doesn't have most of the exclusives that are only available on Xbox 360."
Doesn't have most of them? ??
Actually... the PS3 dosn't have any of the exclusives on the 360. That's kinda... you know.. the definition of an exclusive.
Also, in other news, the 360 doesn't have any of the exclusives on the PS3, and there are a truckload more quality exclusives on the PS3 at the m...
I can believe 1M. I'm surprised its not 2.5M -- i.e. the number of Kinects sold. I can't think of another title that would really be worth the admission price, at the moment.
Lens of Truth doesn't even know the difference between full- and limited-range RGB with their own equipment. How can you expect them to understand things like framerate and graphical detail?
Gears 1 + Gears 2, and Kinect is supported. It's actually called Gears of War: Fitness edition.
You use Kinect to scan your face, and Marcus looks like a paper-mation version of you throughout the game. Also, if you wave your controller around, and make "Vrrrmmm! Vrrrmmm!" sounds, the chainsaw activates if you're using a Lancer. And of course the fitness part comes in while Kinect scans for you doing squats, which is the gesture for taking cover. Soon, ...
More BS from would-be hackers. Sony left the front door open... riiight. No one else has tried that, I'm sure.
Lets see the proof.
Including DLC ratings for the 360 scores is kinda ridiculous, and counting ME2 and SC as exclusives is a bit sketchy... although I suppose you could say that the article is "best of 2010", as if 2010 was ripped from spacetime and had to exist all by itself, and thus, ME2 and SC are exclusives in that place.
I also still find it laughable that Halo is considered a better FPS than MAG. What a narrow-minded world some gamers play in.
While its certainly possible that the 360 has more under the hood than we've seen, I think it's entirely fair to say that we won't see any better looking games on it for the rest of the generation... why do you suppose that is?
Microsoft relies on 3rd parties to produce great software for them... and usually that same software is multiplat on the PS3. MS has rare few exclusive studios not making Kinect games, and their widely accepted "best looking game"...
Classic mythology is much the same.
"Gods" are always selfish, and hardly any different from "demons", in an astounding number of ways. That includes modern day ones... the ones that will send you to the bad place for not worshipping their greatness and generally being scared of their awesome power. There's a reason gods and demons are portrayed in child-like fashion in the vast majority of myths and legends. Those stories are meant to teach childre...
New features that "show up" in patches were simply disabled in earlier versions, because they weren't fully tested.
In other words, the features were there in the shipping product, and when the developer/publisher felt comfortable with their level of quality and lack of bugs, they unlocked them.
Developers are often working on the second or third patch for a game, by the time it hits the shelves. It takes that long for publisher QA to sign off...
I agree.
But... which games were released in a manner so unplayable lately that your comment applies? Was it one, out of.. what a couple hundred this holiday season?
Modern day games are incredibly complex, relative to their previous-gen cousins.
We're talking 500K - 2M lines of code here (according to GamaSutra). Over 50 engineers can often be involved with making a game, over the first-game development cycle of 3-4 years (sequels take less time, and are somewhat less buggy, typically... although Treyarch CoD games certainly stand out as an exception). This is like 2-4 times as many people as last gen.
There are *t...
Not everyone who got a PS3 or 360 did so "for the graphics".
You may have noticed that the number of titles being released each year for the PS2 has dropped pretty dramatically since 2006.