This comment is spot on. There are so many meek pcs in the world, that its *never* the consoles that hold pc gaming back -- its always older and cheap pcs.
Take a look at the *minimum* spec for a PC to run BF3 -- it requires a 8800GT, to look as good as dedicated gaming hardware (PS3 or 360), which run on GPUs only about 1/3rd as powerful.
As PC tech begins to slow down (which it is), consoles, being dedicated hardware, will eventually be held back by PCs and the awesomebloat that is Windows 9,10,11,whatever.
Activision is bad for the future of the games industries, due to their policies. They basically farm IPs until they are dry, and start said farming based upon the initial success of an IP alone.
How many major new IPs has Activision come up with since they merged with Blizzard?
None. CoD, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo all existed beforehand. GH is now dead. WoW is on a downhill slope. Every game Activision has published, outside o...
The Play is an awesome phone -- anyone on the fence... you should get one. You will not regret it.
Battery life == awesome. Gaming utility == awesome. Performance == pretty darn good -- I haven't met an app yet that doesn't perform well. Honestly the best bit, about the Play, is that it is a good *phone*. The gaming controls are a bonus, but I wasn't expecting a stellar phone, and yet I got one.
Porting a game to HD is MUCH less expensive than authoring a new one. The only development resource required is engineering, with maybe some artists thrown in, if a high-quality HD upgrade is desired.
This small team of folks are also able to usually crank out these ports, in less than 1/3 to 1/4th the time of a "real" HD game, yet the titles probably garner 1/3rd to 1/2 the income that a "real" HD game would. 1/3rd the income for what is probably 1/8th ...
Ugly 2nd stick add-on... thing. I don't think more needs saying.
Even if it comes out later, MH4 on Vita will probably demolish the 3DS version, in sales.
LoL. No.
I also think the BBC is great, but telling yourselves that BBC actors are even remotely as attractive as American ones is outrageous.
A lot (not all) American TV gets by on largely the sex appeal of its actors. The BBC gets by on good acting and stories. American TV makes money -- some of the largest corporations on earth thrive on it. BBC TV... not so much.
My point was that this "issue" is not video game related at all. It pervades ALL forms o...
Why is the BBC not as popular as NBC, CBS, or ABC?
Ever noticed that BBC actors are normal looking, as opposed to American television actors, who are generally extremely fit and good-looking?
Video games want to make money. The BBC is a fine organization, with some great shows, but they just don't draw the crowd that the American TV networks do. Same goes for video games. To have the kind of tech necessary to depict a character in a lifelike way (thus ...
Yet another BS price for a half-decent rig that doesn't really cut it. No OS, and some crappy KB and mouse -- which is exactly the only kind of input hardware someone wanting to build such a machine *might* have on hand. LoL.
And a single 120mm case fan, which is not included in the price? Come on.
Who is out and about, playing games for mroe than 3-5 hours on end, without taking a break and having the chance to charge their system?
The answer is: No one, unless they are camping.
Microsoft Visual studio is used for almost every development environment on the planet -- its flexible, and very, very common, as well as well-supported.
This is nothing new -- it's been that way since the PS1 and N64, honestly (although Borland used to be something of a contender). It'd be foolish of Sony, Nintendo, etc. to try and come up with their own IDE -- wasted effort, when the tools are already flexible and there.
I suppose the Eclipse IDE m...
S-E stated a while back that the PS1 FF games, because they had so many elaborate backgrounds (not 3D geometry), would take eons and loads of cash to remake properly in 3D & HD... thus they never intended on doing it at all.
They aren't like Zelda 64, FFX, etc., where everything was already modeled in 3D, and an easy upscaling was possible.
Have you ever noticed that all the Sony published games ARE on the store, and the ones that aren't all belong to other publishers? One in particular. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.
Hmm. I guess he was online, too.
Good call.
"The Controller Online" reviews Kinect games?
The irony.
FF7 is already playable on the Vita, via the PSN version.
S-E stated, a while back now, that redoing the art for a PS1 game the length of FF7,8,9 (which had mostly pre-rendered backgrounds) would require more time/money than the re-releases might stand to make. So there you have it. No remake of FF7,8,9... ever, on any platform.
FFX was a PS2 game. Totally different and viable for HD conversion.
7,8,9 are already in the PSN store, and will undoubtably be playable on the Vita. X was not... until now.
The DS had 2 screens... look at its battery life.
Also, I don't think the 3D requires a second backlight. It does need the flicker control, as mentioned above.
That's just not true.
Show me the pre-boxed PC that has a GPU better than the minimum 8800GT required by BF3 for a PC to look as good as consoles?
Most, and I mean most *by far*, of them have onboard Intel crap GPUs.