@LOGICWINS
Have you checked the price on the iPad 2 lately?
Do you realize that, in terms of tech, its entirely a lesser device than the Vita?
Handheld prices have *nothing* to do with the prices of consoles. Nothing.
/agree with the tax comment.
After you factor in typical ~20% sales + income tax to the US price (no VAT in the US, and VAT is included in the Euro price), it is almost exactly the same as the Euro price.
The 3DS does technically have 128MB of RAM, and 16MB of VRAM, but a huge portion of the RAM (like 64MB) is for the OS, and is unusable in games.
Nintendo still makes profit at $169.99, or so I hear. You can take that as you will.
Most mobile phone dedicate a huge portion of their memory to the OS, because they aren't primarily gaming devices, and they don't typically have dedicated VRAM, either.
I'll bet that the effective RAM and VRAM available for gaming on the Vita is larger than that on any phone in existance.
LoL.
As a PS3-preferred gamer (I do have a 360, I just prefer to get stuff on PS3), I was *sure* Mass Effect 1 would be on this list... because the rest of these titles I could care less about being on the PS3 (except maybe AW).
I couldn't think of more than ME1 and AW, actually. Shadow Complex is pretty fun, but it wouldn't kill me to never see it on PSN. I also hope the XBLA Summer of Arcade games make it to PSN next year.. just like they did thi...
I find these articles laughable.
The PSP Go is very much alive in North America -- they still seem to move them at my local Target (at $199.99, bundled with 3 free games). I own one, and I would choose it over a 3DS (or DSi, or PSP-3000, for that matter) any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
I suppose if you had gobs of money for games, a big sack to carry carts in, and it didn't have performance issues with playing DS games, a 3DS might be the 2nd ...
Some 360 fanboy would complain about it, out of spite, claiming he was a big Sony fan until this traumatic event:
"I had my friends pick their usernames so that everyone with a capital letter was in one part of the list, and everyone with lowercase was in the other part. NOW they are all mixed together! Also, Waaaaahh! "
Or something similar. There'd be blog posts about it on 360 sites, and everything.
Mario has always had buttons.
Without buttons, the overalls would drop, and that wouldn't be any good for Nintendo.
I actually totally agree. SMG was fun, but the gravity puzzling got old about halfway through the game.
Honestly, SMS and SM64 were more varied, IMO, yet the reviewers claimed that SMG was somehow really revolutionary... with its one trick. Sure the trick was cool on spheres and with up/down/side fields in the pseudo-2D environments, but it *did* get old, because honestly, it was overused.
SMG was great, but like 8.8 great, not 9.6 or whatnot.
Honestly, given Rage's release date, and the fact that its not an exclusive, iD would likely have already announced that it was coming to the Wii U by now, if it were.
John Carmack has stated that he thinks the Wii U is cool... but that likely doesn't mean anything, with regards to Rage.
"Why? Both are FPS and both show advancements on their respective platforms."
You are generalizing WAY too much.
The major advancement of iD Tech 5 is via megatexture streaming. The Wii has 24MB of texture memory, compared to the PS3's 256MB. The Wii has a single HW thread on a 743 MHz PowerPC core, and the PS3 has 2 HW threads on a 3.2 GHz PowerPC core (plus SPUs, of course). Think about that for a bit.
What do you suppose t...
Dance Central only tracks rough movement, so it succeeds naturally -- its a natural fit for Kinect.
Sadly, not many other apps are. It's mostly just a toy, and will not ever truly replace a game controller, or even supplement them well, outside of games like DC.
I love 4X games!
Oh wait... RTS? Feh. Okay, I will buy it if its only RTS during battles.
Anyone played it yet?
RS2 was designed for the Wii. Its environments are very small in scope, and its graphical style is very "lightweight", hardly involving serious GPU work.
The fact that its a FPS is immaterial.
Police in the US are not simply allowed to use force at will. They must thoroughly justify such actions afterwards, and if they fail to do so, they can and will be sent to prison for their crimes and abuse of power.
That said, it sounds to me like the police were acting in self-defense. As an American, to me the rioting seems like the act of groups of people ignorant about the facts, and of loose enough moral character to take advantage.
I would say that it...
My advice would be to get a GTX 460 for another $25 ($160 from NewEgg) -- 150% the texel & shader performance of the 550 Ti for not much more. The only advantage the 550 Ti has over the 460 is pixel fillrate, and that only comes into play with monstrous monitors -- as in the beyond 1080p kind.
If you have a monitor like that, you should just bite the bullet and get a 560 Ti or a 580, or your per-pixel performance will degrade, just to fill the extra pixels with less inte...
I would like for them to wait a few years, and actually be worth the trouble of upgrading.
Never. I just wanted to be reminded, if someone already knew the answer. "tell me why, again", not "when did they do it before".
They have never offered to make their used sales complete in that fashion, even though its an option, and always has been. That would involve sharing a small portion of used profits with the publishers, and being better to their consumers, and they don't want that.
You have to understand (I'm guessing ...
$149.99 is too cheap -- its below the cost to build. MS can't afford to lose that much money in that division, or the stockholders will freak out.
MS only makes a profit on the $299.99 model. They could probably cut the price of that model to $249.99, but they won't cut the price of the 4GB model below $179.99, if that... especially since they'd also have to drop the price of their HDD add-on.