Wow @ this email. Gears is fun, but... calling Uncharted a knock-off is... really saying something.. a lot like "I never played Uncharted, is it good?" And calling Killzone 2 the PS3's Halo? Again, they're both SciFi FPSes, and that's where the similarity ends.
This guy needs to visit the Greatest Hits isle at the local retailer, and pick up some of what he's been missing for his new PS3.
@frostypants:
"Treyarch is every bit as responsible for the current popularity of CoD as IW is"
You have GOT to be joking. CoD3 was a disaster, CoD:WW was, at best, "filler" between CoD4:MW and CoD:MW2, and Black Ops, although it finally has a decent SP game, is a MP disaster. On top of that, Treyarch uses the IW engine -- i.e. they leverage the work of IW to do just about everything.
Treyarch has done nothing but ride t...
I'll buy it if they get rid of the stupid body carry requirement to finish some levels.
Kingdoms, Codename D, Project Draco... none of them have even shown any screenshots.
Since when do big projects appear out of thin air, with no presentation to the media? If these games were big (and I like to think they are), they would receive a year-long media swooning -- and at this point, its too late, if they're intended for the holidays of 2011. Microsoft is NOT Nintendo. They don't benefit from keeping cool games under wraps until the last moment, knowing t...
Handheld CPUs and GPUs take all sorts of shortcuts to conserve battery power. They just aren't as fast, per cycle, as home console or PC processors, and they never will be. Batteries, also, haven't gotten much better in... well forever. Beating the power-to-weight ratio of the 150+ year old lead-acid battery still used in cars is pretty difficult.
Power, meaning electricity, will always be a serious problem for handheld devices. Electron loss increases, the smalle...
MAG is FREE to PSN+ members. You can play FOR AS LONG AS YOU SUBSCRIBE TO PSN+.
The only thing is, if you don't buy it, you're capped at level 8. Considering that this only limits your skills, and not your gear (I think), that's pretty freaking generous, if you ask me.
One of the best, and certainly most unique, shooters of this gen... for FREE, and if you dig it, you can pay a few bucks, and get the level cap removed, too.
MAG ...
Normal mapping is exactly the kind of work that drives dev costs up. That's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about.
As long as the 3DS specs remain as-is (and they will), and the PSP2 has backwards compatibility and operates entirely on downloadable software (maybe it will), PSP games will still be viable.
If it fits in about the same memory, and the GPU/CPU specs are similar (i.e. the 3DS, relative to the PSP), publishers will be more than happy to make ports. I would actually be stoked if Sony allowed publishers to use all 64MB of the PSP-2000, 3000, and Go's RAM, when making 3DS po...
MAG... lol. That game completely lives up to its promise, and then some, IMO.
The only people "disappointed" by it were the CoD newbs expecting killstreaks in the hundreds, because "there's more guys to shoot".
thatgamecompany... is great. It's pretty cool of Sony to give such studios a headstart. They have a great eye for gaming awesomeness.
In a way I'm kinda glad about this whole Kinect thing taking off. I've been wondering if maybe I have a "gaming problem" anyway -- this casual gaming trend will almost certainly cure me if it catches on.
Dang. You are hardcore, sir.
...which kind of says something about when MAG likely passed 1M units. VGChartz usually underestimates PS3 stuff.
That's pretty freaking big, for a handheld.
Frankly, filling more then 1-2GB will cost a fortune in development costs. I'm surprised its more than 2GB for that reason. Devs won't sink the kind of dev money it takes to make bigger games into a console where the games only sell for $30-$40 a pop... at least not until 50+ million 3DS units are in consumer hands.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the manufacturer of the console that actually IS clearly the best home entertainment product to be gloating?
If MS was gloating, the response would be different, sure... because the 360 is not the most complete entertainment package. XGC in NO way beats Blu-Ray, free online gameplay, plus all the other things Sony offers with the PS3. Anyone who believes otherwise is... well, smoking something pretty unsafe.
Looks like PS3s won't be available in Spain for much longer. Why sell a console if you can't make any money, right?
Bummer for Spain.
No... it wouldn't be fair. AW is 540p or somesuch, remember? It'd be an even more random comparison than this one.
...no.
If there's a PS3 price drop in 2011, it won't be below $249.99, and frankly I doubt that will even happen.
They may raise the value, by bumping the HDDs from 160/320 GB to 250/500 at the same prices, or include something else, but I sincerely doubt a price drop will occur.
I respect Sony for sticking to their guns. Content is always the winning formula, in my gaming book.
Kinect may sell decently... but I'll never be interested in it for games. Maybe I'll pick one up at a garage sale a year or two from now, and plug it into a homemade robot, though, or some sorta "greeter" computer for my home office. That's a good use for a depth cam if ever there was one.
If I had known Mass Effect (and a host of other "360 exclusives", like SO4, the GTA4 DLC, and Ninja Gaiden 2) would eventually come to the PS3... I never would have purchased a 360 in the first place.
I'm still sad that the PS3 doesn't get to see ME1, and that's *almost* enough to get me to continue to buy the series on the 360... almost.