R*SD has been working on RDR since early 2006, and its been in development alongside their other major franchise (Midnight Club) all the while. They employ about 150 people, as I recall, and the "industry standard" is $100K per person, per year (that's not salary -- that's all inclusive.. building rent, taxes, employee perks, outsourced work, etc)
That tells me they've spent about $60M on BOTH RDR and Midnight Club over the past four years, so I'd b...
Pretty good for a year-late port, actually.
Developers flock to new consoles, because of "potential purchaser base"?
So... the last place console, in marketshare, gets the most devs by your logic?
Given the costs of developing games for current-gen consoles, developers are looking to up the bar again with new hardware sometime soon?
The next gen will be only mildly superior to the current gen, and anyone jumping the gun, trying to convince buyers to spend $500, when somethin...
Question: Would you, a X360 owner, buy a new XBox, if it was $500, and only mildly superior to the current hardware?
Assume you buy a PS3 by 2012, and answer the same question, so the Blu-Ray upgrade also becomes meaningless.
Nintendo can upgrade when they like. People (meaning 3rd party publishers!) will welcome a 3rd HD console, because it'll make their lives easier and richer.
Microsoft... doesn't have that option -- particularly ...
The failure rate statistics always include pre-Jasper models, which had 80nm and 90nm GPUs. They're not really relevant, *unless* you're buying a used 360. That said, failure rates include newer models -- the old models' fail rate is pushin 100%!
Don't touch used 360s -- let em make the journey to home electronics recycling land, where they belong.
New 360s are fine. You have to go looking for trouble with one, before you find RRoD. Sad th...
...and everyone wants to wave their hands to navigate the NXE rather than use that dang slippery DPad. ...I guess.
Seriously though, its time to stop bashing Natal for its limited demos. Wait for E3. There's honestly not much to criticize, other than a lack of something to criticize... which is sorta a big deal, actually.
Still, waiting for E3 is prudent.
The 250GB model seems the most popular these days as well... costs $349.99...
Clearly people are motivated merely by HD gaming combined with Blu-Ray... Its not like you can buy a XBox 360 Arcade and a standalone Blu-Ray player for about the same price as the most popular model of PS3... oh wait.
Bogus study thinks exclusives only sell HW within a month of release, I suppose...
The Cell isn't going away. All this is is another option, catering to people with high-end rendering needs, rather than generic supercomputing.
IBM Blade servers are made specifically to accomplish a certain subset of tasks -- They make them based on everything from PowerPCs, Intel Xeons and AMD processors, to CBE and apparently now Tegras. Only 2 of the about 20 Blade models available right now are Cell-based, and the "version" of the Cell they use is far mor...
I don't understand his comment. How is the PS3, a game console, any less open or closed than its competitors?
I suppose that the X360 is "more open" with XNA... but XNA basically sucks for serious game development, due to serious, serious limitations. So again, I ask... what is he talking about?
Didn't Sony predict 6 million by the next financial year for the PS2? Selling 1 mil during the slow period seems like a good start.
That said, this isn't really much of a surprise. The PS2 sold like 25 million units during the 360's first two years of existance, while the 360 sold something like 13m in that time. It's still a beast, and the games on it are still worthwhile. Heck, its games look dang close to Wii games, and they are a bunch cheaper.
SOCOM 4 would really be the only direct competition for Ghost Recon. I don't think Halo:Reach, CoD:BO, or even MoH really stand up in the tactical shooter subgenre.
Perhaps they are delaying it to add Move support, as well as avoid the rest of the shooter crowd? Maybe some minimal Natal support too (like.. for something not time sensitive, like team command gestures).
Well done journalism, actually. Very well worth a read.
Move support will be optional for many games -- you can always buy one and then you'll probably already own games that support it. Heck, we've even heard that some games may be being retrofitted for it.
Natal support will be specific to Natal games, because it doesn't really fit as a control "option" -- its a completely new experience. To buy it, you'll also need to buy games for it. Thus, the price... way way higher overall.
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The PSP owns its market, and the DS owns its market. They're different, with only a little overlap amongst core gamers. The DS market is bigger than the PSP market, but I don't think Sony really cares.
Why compete in a market dominated by a near-monopoly, when there's a leftover sector (in the PSP's case, lets call it the "grown up" sector) that is untouched?
And um.. the PSP is damn near as powerful as a PS2, which puts it within ...
Actually, the Move does detect depth very accurately -- that's what the glowy ball is for.
In a sense, Natal detects a "depth field" -- it knows that one part of an incoming image is closer or further away from the camera than another, whereas the Move only detects a "depth point". The Move's depth accuracy is considerably more refined, but it is just that single point.
The real question for MS is... can that field of depth inform...
The games media has become so much more interesting since he started making an appearance at media events.
He's got spirit. I like him, even if I do find wading through his videos kinda difficult.
The funniest part of the video is that HHG has so much energy, he hops around like crazy while playing, super excited -- and the PSEye handles it without issue, which is pretty impressive.
The table says "% of features mentioned in the 1-5 ranking". No where does it say "other features rated higher than gaming". more people find utility in the other features, is the only thing this fact states. That's kinda.. obvious.
Also note that the 1-5 ranking includes several game-related points, and fewer non-game related points. Thus, people are going to spread their 5 votes amongst more gaming options, and miss some, while almost everyone wi...
The "4 core Cell" comment pretty much says it all. This rumor is random speculation, by someone who doesn't even understand mobile technology very well.
The other comments could have some validity, but they seem totally random when coupled with the 4-core Cell remark.
Bogus.
I agree that the PS3 is the better console for the money, but this statement takes it a bit too far.
The 360 is pretty dang close, when it comes to games. A fairly amazing feat for releasing a year beforehand. The big difference in the consoles really rests on the value of the PS3 as a living room entertainment system, over the 360 -- Blu-Ray, better audio, free online games with excellent quality of service.
I suppose he might be a big fan of the non-gami...
Makes me think:
.Hack, made by Namco/Bandai
4-part RPG, cost $200 new (4 $50 episodes), but wasn't really worth more than about $60-80, if that.
I'll take all my content on one disc, and I'll pass on the lame, expensive, episodic format... k thanks.