I don't understand why they want to redefine a character who became popular because he appealed to the proper demographic. Aren't they fixing something that isn't broken?
DMC was a difficult game, and an acquired taste -- just about everyone who played it liked it the way it was, and will probably be upset about the change. It never appealed to the masses. It appealed massively to the hardcore gamer instead -- very much the crowd represented here on N4G. Unlik...
Wow is this old news.
Early adopters would be *really* miffed if they added a 2nd stick to the 3DS Lite.
They would probably storm Nintendo HQ, and pelt the employees with hardened, polka-dot-painted mushrooms until Nintendo gave them free upgrades.
Not gonna happen.
Cheap is golden, when you are marketing to kids, through parents. Kids were the primary consumers of the DS, and the pricetag was the primary reason parent's weren't upgrading.
It's a smart move.
He is so fired.
Your statement has merit, but I can't agree. I think MS is honestly trying to attack the mass market (i.e. the $250, and under, market), and not the hardcore gamer (the $400+ market). They don't really have a good reason to capture a small market, when the big one is available for the taking.
Their interest is not truly in gaming, per se, but rather in protecting Windows from a livingroom invasion. There's not really any other reason for them to have kept the X...
It'll probably be a quad core PPC, with a GPU one step up from the Wii U (R800 variant, supporting DX11).
MS wants to-->
(a) Sell to the masses, and beat Nintendo at the Blue Ocean game, so they need a low price, and appealing interface
(b) Retain backwards compatibility, to keep the 3rd party software publishers happy, in their 3rd-party-heavy software strategy.
(c) Come out not long after the Wii U, so as not to allow the Wii U any se...
Honestly, I'd rather have a couple extra MB of RAM for the games, than have some permanently reserved for XGC, which I would rarely use.
I'm sure a lot of people like the feature, but I sincerely doubt its a majority. XGC is probably one of the reasons the 360 can't use all 3 cores to their full potential, as well -- the OS has to take over one of the cores while you're yammering on your XGC. One of the 360 cores is *always* busy doing OS crap, so it really ...
On the contrary, every Vita game will be able to target a platform which has an enormous amount of RAM and VRAM, as well as a quad core processor, and quad core GPU.
How many smartphone games do you think will target such a high-end device, anytime soon?
It'll be at least 4, if not 6, years before a quad-core smartphone becomes a viable gaming target, due to the same issue that plagues PC gaming -- lowest common denominator. Not everyone has the latest a...
Smartphones use an outrageous amount of RAM for their OS. You're comparing apples to oranges.
512MB RAM (+128MB VRAM) on a mobile gaming handheld is WAY more (for games) than 512MB unified RAM on a smartphone. WAY more. I'd even go as far to say that its more than a 1GB smartphone actually has available for gaming, and the dedicated VRAM probably delivers much better graphics performance than unified RAM ever will.
You can reduce the size of the OS over a console's lifetime, but you can never, ever raise it. If you did, some games would simply stop working, because they were relying on that memory for themselves.
I have yet to play a phone game that was actually worth more than the $0.99 to $2.99 I paid for it.
I think that says something. I prefer real gaming. Phone gaming is fail, except for a couple genres (like strategy), and casual stuff.
I'll be getting a Vita. Going to replace my phone 3G data plan with one for my Vita -- the bigger screen will be better for browsing, etc.
3DS just doesn't seem any better than the PSP to me, and I already got two of those. Heck, the games are worse at this point, and most of the good 3DS games I've already played a half dozen times on other consoles. Maybe when a real Mario or real (new) Zelda game comes out, I'll think about a 3DS. Until then... no point...
off-sides in hockey is sooo lame, and its the same thing in soccer/rest-of-the-world-footb all.
As a longtime hockey fan, I totally understand the rule in both games. It's needed. Just like sending your wide-receivers downfield before you hike the ball to the QB is lame. Hence... offsides.
Yakuza is one of the greatest game series of the past 5 years. I totally agree with this guy's article on it. Beating the crap out of low-life thugs is totally satisfying, when they are throwing rocks at the puppy in front of Haruka, stealing some lady's purse, attacking some guy outside the ice cream shop, etc. They deserve every face-stomping beatdown you give them.
Not to mention that the boss battles in these games are freaking great. Chairs are breaking over ...
Half the games I ever owned for my Wii were GC games. The better half, I'd say, actually.
I don't understand... this PR release has nothing new in it, yet the MS lineup is now "stellar"?
Hmm.
Xtremepro,
You surely don't believe that the DS thrived on its online functionality, do you?
Yet it was hugely popular. Take a step back and rethink your position for a moment...
People who wanted online play already own a PSP...
The low price point is probably primarily targetted at kids, who wouldn't be downloading their own stuff, or using the browser, anyway.
That's a HUGE portion of the DS market, and Sony is very smart to attack it in such a fashion. Anyone who thinks otherwise... needs to take some business classes.
It's also very likely that the battery life on this new PSP is quite a bit longer, given that Sony has had about 3 years to shrink the chips, and WiFi ...
Well... consider this.
If the XBox 720 comes out, sporting full 360 BC (so 360 sales drop off drastically), and the PS3 is still on the market for at least another year after the 720 comes out, does that count as sales in the current gen?
It seems like it should, given that the 360 has a year-long head start.
From that perspective, there is almost no question that the PS3 will come out ahead of the 360, since, when you look at the console sal...