...so you don't live in LA, or silicon valley, where these salaries are actually kinda mediocre?
Keep in mind that 90% of game dev jobs are in high cost-of-living areas, where 50k/year is barely enough to get by on your own, and even small apartments cost $900-$1500 per month.
Android is just a form of Linux/Unix. Don't confuse Android, the OS, with the many weak mobile devices it runs on.
Its good for those platforms because its lightweight -- perfect for a low-end machine (like a phone)... or a console, which would then proceed to kick the tail of a PC with the same specs, but running Windows Whatever.
I still feel like the PS3 and 360 have plenty of juice left in them.
2-3 years seems too short, even though I suppose it makes sense from many standpoints.
Didn't this game come out like... a while ago?
Pretty sure it did, because I have it, and its way better than 6/10. I think that, if you don't like JRPGs much, and are more into WRPGs, 6/10 might be pretty spot on.
Then again, if you don't like JRPGs much, why would you review, or read a review, for such a game? It seems as though the JRPGs of this gen are just about as good as they were last gen, but with better graphics (barring FF13, which ha...
Apple is as much in the games business as GameStop is -- i.e. they make money as the middleman (the iStore), and nothing more.
They tout their devices as being revolutions for the gaming industry, because they think they can trick stupid people into believing just that (and they can), and increasing their own revenue (and thus justifying more claims that they are great).
Marketing 101. Tell the masses anything... they will believe it... thus, tell the masses...
The Xperia Play is one of the best-selling phones on the market, last I heard. The Verizon 3G version is the best free-with-contract phone you can even get, these days, and the low-priced 4G version, that AT&T carries now (because it proved popular as a 3G phone), isn't too spendy either.
I happen to own one, as well, and its the best phone I have ever owned.
Where do you get the idea that it's "failing"? Got any links to back that cla...
I would actually prefer sexy 720p visuals with some amazing shaders, shadows, lighting, etc., and at 60 FPS.
1080p is nice, but only if you've got power to burn -- 60 FPS, and those other items I mentioned, are more important. Having 1080p AND 60 FPS would probably burn all the GPU power of the next gen, and there wouldn't be any left over for better shaders, more polys, etc.
The smaller process allows for better heat distribution -- hence, the clock can be increased without a major redesign of the chip. That's the point, from a financial perspective.
If you go all-out, and try to increase everything (your "cube"), you just get an overpriced chip with serious heat problems, and a whole lot of money flushed down the drain. You forgot the "heat" and "money" dimensions, in your "cube"... kinda important. ...
The only reason the 8xxx series saw such a large jump over the 7xxx series was due to a unified pipeline architecture, which the 7xxx series did not possess. As john2 stated, above, that card is basically the only "100%" jump nVidia has seen in the past 5-6 years.
There has NOT been such a large generational gap, since. For instance, the GTX 285 is still *very much* a mid-high end card -- it has approximately the performance of the GTX 560 Ti, and that card is no ...
nVidia said, in a press statement earlier this year, that the 28nm GPU line would be 30% faster than its current 40nm line.
I sincerely doubt it is, magically, triple that gain. Even the fresh ATI GPU rumors seem to indicate that their new line will be 30% faster, which is totally in-line with predictions.
In these economic conditions, both companies are going to strive for manufacturing GPUs cheaper, and clocking them higher, rather than trying to add more ...
Retailers actually demand store-specific pre-order content from the publishers.
The publishers would be more than happy to provide every copy with all the pre-order stuff. It's retail who wants you to buy at *their* store specifically, and have created the whole pre-order bonus "thing".
I heard the Vita sold out, day 1, actually. Every unsold unit was only that way because it was in a stockroom, or in the process of being delivered to the store, as opposed to being on a shelf.
Modern game source code == 2 MILLION lines of code, not including middleware. Art can also be buggy -- degenerate triangles, bad materials, you name it. The modelling tools to make that stuff doesn't stop you from creating whatever the heck you want, even if its busted in some way that the artist doesn't realize.
If you expect such a beast to be bug free... you are high. Games are buggy because they are so outrageously complex these days. If you want low bug count...
Watching this video gives me a laugh when I think of all the "phones will kill handheld gaming" articles over the past few years. At launch, the Vita has more amazing games than have ever even been created for a phone.
The shooters (UC:GA, Unit 13), and FIFA in particular look amazing.
@bwazy:
32GB iPad 2... $600. $700?
Oh yeah... the Vita has the horsepower if the iPad 3, not the iPad 2. Not a fair comparison. Also, it has buttons, analog sticks, doesn't come with 2 games in the price you cooked up...
Shipped ALWAYS equals sold, in the end. Once the retailers order them, there are no givebacks, unless the products are faulty in some way. Its retail's responsibility to sell them once they demand their manufacture.
Typically, any game you see on clearance at retail is very likely sold at a loss to the retailer -- because therein lies the risk of retail.
Good article. Anyone who believes phones will eventually displace dedicated handhelds should read it, because that's the new "casual will oust hardcore" myth.
RPGs have really found a home on handhelds -- the PSP and DS have far, far more great RPGs (at least JRPGs) than the home consoles do.
I'm hoping that the Vita will allow RPG devs, which are traditionally lower budget (hence, the appeal of handhelds to them), to have the power to do some cool stuff, while still not having to blow a huge budget on development.
If all we get, on the Vita, are PS2-grade games with higher-rez graphics and fancier scenery (i.e...
Umm.. The tennis game has to render a box as a background, and the characters, hence, look really good.
Uncharted has to render like... the Andes mountains, and jungles of South America as the background?
Bit of a difference there. Overall, Uncharted blows tennis away, despite the fact that the tennis characters, isolated in their box with an extra polygon as a net divider, look better than Uncharted's do.