This story is curiously one-sided, in Kotaku's report.
So... what if she actually was a total slacker, and people disliked her because she was unreliable and emotionally unstable? You know... the kind of person who might be inclined to attempt suicide.
Harsh, yes, but its a rare story that is as one-sided as Kotaku is portraying. Their storytelling is so biased, I can't help but wonder if they're just fishin' for hits most of the time.
That's not a limitation that is fixable by bumping your console up a gen.
The number of players is limited largely due to the peer-server networking most games use to save the publishers the $$ of having to run dedicated servers. The uplink speed on the average joe's connection just can't service more players.
Games like MAG tried to change that, but people scoffed, despite its being a great game. Now gamers are stuck with ~24 max forever, unles...
Epic Mickey 2 kinda supports both sides of this argument."
Vita doesn't need saving, just like the PS3 never needed it.
Wow people have short memories.
@those who think the Vita is too expensive:
Get real. It is STILL the most powerful mobile gaming device on the planet and it STILL costs about half of what the next best devices cost, PLUS it already has a FAR better library of games than those devices thanks to the 200+ PSP games available.
I repeat: Get real.
The deja-vu from 2005/2006 is pretty hefty here. "Way back then", Nintendo fans were calling out the Wii as "good enough" and that "it will have plenty of core games, you just wait". Now that we can look at those comments with 20/20 hindsight, we can see that those comments never really panned out, now did they?
Maybe most of the posters saying this weren't using computers, or reading internet forums and news sites, 7 years ago. People'...
VGChartz about 15% low on PS3 titles, as usual... they list Yakuza:DS at 470K.
I think most of their data comes from the US. Why they don't take their data sources' regionality into account is beyond me.
The 360 will get games (crossplats) as long as the PS3 is on the shelves, plain and simple.
The two consoles are forever intertwined.
Who is "they"? Surely you don't think MS ports every game to the 360 themselves.
I waited for the 65/55nm Jasper. Never have had an issue -- and I'm glad I waited.
Fantastic handheld shooter. I run through handheld games like a kid through a pile of cookies, only keeping a few replayable gems, like the PSP version of Pirates and a few RPGs that I want to replay. This game has the unusual honor of remaining on my shelf -- unusual because it is the ONLY shooter to ever have that honor, and it will probably remain there until my Vita dies, because I get the urge to play it over and over and over.
Great game from an under-appreciated dev....
I hate to echo the sentiment of so many fanboys, but... neither is very exciting. Starhawk is, honestly, the most enthralling online shooter on the horizon.
If I had to choose, I'd probably go with H4, though. Lucky, I don't have to choose either.
The original Wii was the most awesome performing, and second best selling, console of the previous gen -- it was just released a few years too late, is all. Now, at last, Nintendo is releasing a console for this gen, and again, it will probably be "the best", as well as 6 years late.
Nintendo's genious is not in creating hot new tech, its selling old tech as if it were new. Don't knock it -- it works.
It's hard to understand why people whine about PSV sales.
You have to consider the gross revenue required to purchase the number of units sold to get a serious picture.
If you were to multiply the PSV units by their retail cost, and the 3DS units by their retail cost, the picture would be a LOT clearer. Not everyone is going to buy the high end -- expecting that is ridiculous. That doesn't mean that everyone doesn't *wish* they could have the hi...
I am little surprised Twilight Princess isn't on that list, nor is SMG 2 or Metroid Prime 3.
You'd think someone writing for Forbes would be more intelligent, from a business perspective.
What does he think would happen, if Nintendo franchises could be played on iPads and Android phones? Do you think people would *still* buy overpriced Nintendo hardware, if they already owned hardware that could play Mario and Zelda?
Doing such a thing would put Nintendo in the same position as Sega. Nintendo is NOT purely a software company -- they have contin...
It's pretty hard to believe that Sony could sell a monster like the Vita for $250, but Nintendo can't sell a weak system like the 3DS for $170 and not turn at least a small profit.
The 3DS is hardly superior to the PSP, in terms of processing hardware (well.. the GPU is about 2x as good, but mobile GPUs that good have existed for like 5 years). Its only the screen, and the extra memory (all 64MB of it), that really costs extra. I doubt it costs even $150 to make.
Many gamers, these days, have not played many PS1 games, if any at all, and they are *still* worth it.
The PS1's era ended over a decade ago -- lots of adults in their 20s never even owned a PS1, or played a PS1 game. Many of them don't know what a SNES or Genesis is, and especially not a Turbo Grafx 16. Atari has been a giant bomb of a brand their entire lifetimes, etc. The gaming world has changed... several times over.
There are PCs today that will outperform, in terms of raw hardware, the consoles of tomorrow. Honestly we'll probably never see the drastic differences that we see today between the current consoles and PC GPUs again, but.. who cares?
This discussion is about mobile GPUs coming within spitting distance of the console GPUs of the current gen, and the joke that is the "mobile gaming will replace console gaming" argument.
How about my take on Epic's statement: Epic needs to optimize UE4 some, so it doesn't suck, like it did most of this console gen. The tools are great, but the runtime engine... not so much. That's the hard truth, Tim Sweeney: enjoy.
You can't bully the console manufacturers into making hardware more powerful than they can *afford* to, plain and simple. If they beef it up too much, they have to price it too high, and then no one buys it, or the games on it -...