Wasn't the DS' first year one of its bad ones?
Erm. Didn't Sony explicitly say the Vita sold 1.2M on the week through that date? That kind of implies that VGC numbers are coming from... somewhere maybe not so reliable. Also, 40% of Vita purchasers purchased Uncharted? I know Uncharted is popular, but 40% attach is a little difficult to believe, even for a launch title. More likely its less than 20% attach (way higher than the 2-3% attach most popular games see in their lifetime, though, because its a launch title), because the nu...
@ritsuka666
I have to say that calling MAG "suck" pretty much invalidates your opinion on all things shooter. If you liked to play shooters in a competitive manner (i.e. were a "pro"), you would know this.
Halo 4 will be all-new, which is kinda exciting, but it won't like have "sequel polish", since the team and engine are not from Halo 3 or Halo: Reach.
It's not a sequel in anything but name, in that regard.
Now for an on-topic comment (unlike above).
Great review. Sounds like a worthy purchase for me.
Review sounds like it was written by a guy who wasn't very good at the game -- every other review said collision detection is spot-on, explicitly, and this guy noted it as a bad point, along with his inability to melee guys while in cover (?).
What was he doing allowing the bad guys to get that close, while taking cover, to begin with?
Wow. Way cheaper than expected.
Not copying CoD verbatim, anyhow.
I have faith it'll turn out decent, no matter.
The Vita sounds like its bound to be a good platform for shooters, in general. I don't think that's ever really been said for the shooter genre on handhelds, before.
4 years is pretty typical for a AAA franchise this gen, when its the first iteration of an engine. Sequels usually only get shorter (~2 years) because they consist largely of new content, rather than engine and tools development.
@gamingdroid,
a) a lot of processing task has to be split up into smaller jobs that will fit into the memory -> memory constraint
True. Streaming data effectively is critical to programming a SPE job.
b) ensure the processing is possible -> NOT a full fledged core
False. The one, and only, thing SPEs can't do, that regular cores can, is address main memory. They have to DMA data from main memory, to addressable l...
The best part of the video, is that they expose the entire plot with a simple statement:
"There is finally a compelling reason to have red spartans fighting blue spartans"
Along with the comment regarding how much they needed an enemy that was scarier than previously encountered.
Halo 4 is Spartan vs Spartan -- civil war. What better way to enhance the art assets of the game, than to drastically reduce the number of character types...
"Every developer ever: [our game] is pushing [their machine] to the limit"
This statement is only true on single-threaded architectures (like the Wii, and last gen, the XBox). Anyone who believes otherwise has never done any serious multi-threaded programming.
Using multiple HW threads effectively is NOT something all teams attempt to do, or do a good job at. That's the fundamental reason why so many devs have complained that the PS3 is diffic...
This is one of the dumbest rumors I have ever heard.
@ninjahunter,
Where on earth did you hear that 3 of 4 cores, on a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 are "comparable" to a 733 MHz Pentium III (the original XBox CPU)?
Maybe ONE of the cores is about that. Three of them would be about.. 3x? Probably more, as devs have been quoted as saying that the full Vita CPU is approximately as powerful as the PS3 PPU (a 3.2 GHz PowerPC v6 core).
Clock-for-clock, the Pentium III was a *terrible* design c...
I thought $20 bought 1600 MSP?
Wow. Awesome.
Hiring a team of good translators would hike the cost of the transition from Japan to the US enough to kill a fair number of NA-bound JRPGs.
JRPGs are usually made with *very* small budgets (because they don't sell very well outside Japan), and can't really afford to spend too much on localization.
I find it fascinating how many people are governed by "technical" rules these days ("letter of the law"), as opposed to old school morally correct rules ("spirit of the law").
I would find it extra fascinating to see a whole society comprised of such people... I can already see a glimpse of it, as time goes by. I wonder how long such a society can hold together without total meltdown?
Umm. No. I got both the game and the pass when I bought it from the store.
Check for a red bag on the online pass, in the store -- I bet you own one, and just screwed up when you downloaded.