Yep, 110 in for me so far, and not going to stop anytime soon.
Ironically, the only thing wrong with MAG is that not enough people play it, thus feeding the Acq and Dom queues fast enough to launch games at the same speed Sabo launches at.
It only seems like it "lacks content" when you limit yourself to Sabo.
I have a feeling PS2 emulation would require something called a "recompiler" which would re-interpret microcode meant for the PS2 and remake it for the PS3. I think the process would take long enough that it wouldn't be possible to just recompile on the fly without a lengthy HDD install, and even then some games would probably have race conditions with disc access that the developers never accounted for, or just wouldn't recompile correctly.
Making PS2 game...
Olympian taekwondo participants have a documented response time of 200+ ms.
No way does a "fighter pilot" respond at 100ms, in any circumstances.
Even on internet mouse-click response tests, getting faster than 200ms is next to impossible, and that's with an ultra-fast, wired input device (a mouse).
Despite the pseudo-sarcasm with the "last-gen hardware" comment, its true that camera image processing is *exactly* the kind of thing that the Cell would handle brilliantly, while the Xenon might be fairly crippled by the extra processing.
Another reason Natal might not be for "hardcore" games -- it may eat up an entire core of the Xenon, if it doesn't include its own processor.
MAG is still the best MP FPS on the market. If you played it, you'd realize that. MW2 is lame, pointless camping. BF:BC2 is... empty (that's the best word I can think of to describe it).
MAG is awesome, and unmatched by any other FPS game outside of PC games like BF2 and BF2142.
Heck yeah. In some regards, this is better for their hardware down the road -- it builds brand loyalty, and lends some class to their brand that isn't otherwise easy to come by.
If you don't own a PSP, and are even remotely interested in a PSP Go, you should snap up this deal. Sony will go with the value-added approach to selling the Go, rather than dropping the price, I think, because I think retail would be really upset if the price dropped.
Besides saving on bag space, digital games have another HUGE advantage -- they'll probably be playable on a PSP 2, and UMD games may not. Without a UMD drive, the Go will probably last for eons, too. ...
...where the 360 is irrelevant. Just like the PS2, a significant majority of PS3 exclusives will be Japanese in origin, made for a Japanese audience, and a Japanese market.
They aren't going to make games for Japanese 360s, because the number of Japanese 360s is just too small. Any Japanese dev making a 360 game will be doing so because MS pays them to do it.
I think a lot of folks confuse fanboy-ism with knowledge, when in fact, it is the lack of knowledge that is the signature mark of a fanboy. Favoritism without reason.
There is nothing wrong with preferring a particular console of your choice. Claiming another's console of choice is somehow inferior, without backing, is the problem. However, making a claim, and backing it, that one console can do something that another cannot is not fanboyism at all. Making a claim and...
I got MH3 for the Wii, thinking it would be a profound experience, since I liked the PSP games so much...
Its not really much better. A little easier with the camera, but the game seems old news, and the environments are way smaller than I had hoped they'd be, and the monsters are just kinda retooled same-same.
Needs HD, and a controls revamp to embrace the HD era. I won't buy another MH, unless its HD, plain and simple.
I'm thinking this basically proves that CoD will support the Move, actually.
Wow these rumors just keep coming. Not one shred of evidence, ever.
Apple devices will be cheap enough to seriously threaten the big 3 without the unique mobile appeal of the iPhone/iPod.
If the iPhone, iPod, and iPad are any indication, this would probably cost a small fortune.
For the same reason those devices are spendy, and the same reason the DD-only PSP Go cost too much, retailers won't let a take-it-home games store sit on their shelves, without raking in a huge profit from it at the register.
Unli...
Honestly, they should only do this with true classics that would make the transition easily.
God of War was basically sub-HD to begin with, so the conversion probably made a lot of sense.
ICO/SotC... same thing. Maybe Sly and Jak would do well, too, although Jak had kinda low-rez textures, as I recall. Sly was cartoony, and could probably get away with low-rez textures.
The rest of Sony's lineup has already kinda made the HD transition ...
Well, I feel obligated to defend the 360's design a bit -- some of the work usually allocated to the SPUs on the PS3 (like skinning), can be handled by the (superior, IMO) GPU of the 360, and the 2 "extra" cores of the Xenon CPU. Although when the 360 GPU is forced to do that work, it pretty much loses its major advantage over the RSX, more pipelines for pixel work, because it has to devote them to extra vertex work.
If I had to weigh the potential of one versu...
You actually can't blame Sony for the low sales of the Go. They honestly have almost NO say in it. Don't believe me?
(1) High price point. 16GB of flash memory ain't cheap -- not by a longshot. On top of that, and this is the big reason, what retailer, do you think, is going to want to carry the Go at a near-cost price point? NONE. It damages their physical software sales to sell these things! The ONE and ONLY way Sony could have convinced retailers to carr...
What dev is going to spend money on developing a product, for which, there are only a few consumers?
Do you think MS is footing the bill for developing all Natal games?
If XBLA total revenue is like $7M per month, split amongst MS (they take 25%? 50%?) and dozens of devs, that kinda sucks -- for the devs. Sounds great for MS.
PC Games prices have only gone up %25 since I was a kid, and inflation has gone up WAY more than that.
PC games should cost $60 at least.. maybe more since you get a heckuva lotta fun out of them, typically.
Console games.. $70.
I gladly afforded games at $40 when I was a kid, when minimum wage was like $4 an hour -- whining about games for $50-$60 nowadays seems like a joke.
They are completely different beasts. Not even worthy of comparison. BF:BC2 is like a hybrid between MW2 and MAG, in some respects, but... its alot closer to MW2, to be honest. MAG is pretty unique.