The PSP is a very simple architecture, with a single CPU, and a single, fixed-function GPU.
The PS2 is not so simple. It has a CPU with 2 vector processors, and something of a programmable GPU. Not so easy to emulate, because keeping all those units working together and simulating the timely communication between them is very difficult.
Interesting facts:
The PS2 outsold the 360 over 2:1 (worldwide) during the 360's first two years on the shelves, and the PS3 has outsold the 360 every year (worldwide), if you compare by years from release.
The day the US gets over breasts being "sexy", when in fact they are meant as the primary food source of infant humans, will be a great day indeed.
Most of the rest of the world is already cool with women having breasts, and seeing them on a regular basis -- mostly performing their primary function of baby feeding. Not the US though. Oh no, bosums! What a bunch of knuckleheads, and this writer is one of them.
The world would be a better place if ...
Um no.
“How can you #SupportJapan — http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.”
They used it as a twitter advert for their own PR and Bing. Yes, they donated money for helping them advertise, but that's not the point. They didn't need to put up a special "isn't MS great?" page, and spam twitter to boot, t...
Didn't MS do something very similar when the tsunami hit Japan? They are on a roll lately.
I will pick up a 3G Vita day 1.
I will pick up a 3DS when the price drops to less than about $170.
RAM is one of the pricier components of a console. They're not gonna go overboard with it. If they made a console with 10GB, they'd either:
(a) price themselves out of a competitive market, thus killing the XBox brand.
or
(b) shock their stockholders with obscene losses, and kill the XBox division.
It'll be 2GB tops, unless they wait until 2015, and then it might be 4GB. Even rumormongering that it'll have 10GB is harmful to...
2013 == Windows 8.
The XBox line is bound very tightly to windows APIs (namely DX and Live), so yes, it will come out when Windows 8 comes out -- probably 2013.
The industry was FAR more profitable in the past than it is today. Don't confuse revenue with profit.
That's pretty cool.. except for the part where I have to pay for my GameCube games again to play them on the Wii U. And also where used games stores get screwed out of selling GC games for cheap, and you have to pay full Nintendo store price for them, and can never trade them -- even from one Wii U to its replacement in the same household. At least the PSN store works by activating and deactivated up to 5 licenses, not by perma-binding a single license to a single system.
The PSP Go is a fantastic piece of kit. Because the general populace is too dumb to realize how great they are is not an excuse to pretend they aren't the best handheld on the market.
And yes, I'm implying they are a better handheld than the 3DS. Way better.
I thought they were not on sale in any region but North America any longer?
Given that, 14 units is 14 more than they should have sold.
@PS360PCROCKS
Sorry for the confusion -- I meant "GT/sec" just about everywhere I wrote "MT/sec". Most of the other numbers scale in similar fashion, so it only seemed prudent to discuss a basic metric like texels/sec.
Those specs must be for a 2015 multi-GPU setup, or they are BS. NVidia has gone on record stating that the next line of (28nm) GPUs will only be 30% faster than the current line, and that 20nm GPUs (the last line to hit retail by 2015) will only be 30% faster than the 28nm ones. That's 70% faster than the best 40nm GPUs -- and nVidia's best single 40nm GPU (the GTX580) "only" does 50M MT/sec, which means that the "GTX780" will only do about 85M MT/sec, and only a...
Kinect can track fingers as long as you are only a couple feet in front of the camera. It can't see the rest of the body at that distance, but it can pick up the fingers with special tracking software.
Some of stuff they've shown thusfar is more akin to facial recognition, using the color camera with hand gestures, but that's not the same thing as "finger tracking".
MIT has demonstrated finger tracking by using a Kinect camera on a PC, ...
As-is, the depth camera does not have the resolution to both track a body head-to-toe within its field-of-view, and track something as small as a finger at the same time.
You would need a depth camera with about 4x the resolution, about 2x the refresh rate, and you subsequently would need to spend about 8x the processing horsepower on evaluating said image over time. You would also need to double (or so) the number of skeleton "bones" that Kinect tracks, if you add...
Actually, the video game business is far from being overly profitable. Game Developers are often slated as being paid far too little for the amount of effort they put in, and Publishers don't appear to be the darlings of Wall Street, either.
The only industry that makes a lot of money off gaming is retail (i.e. GameStop, Walmart, etc.), which is why the Publishers are always trying to find new ways to change the way games business is done -- DLC, direct-download gaming, ...
I find the whole profit-from-casualization thing very much a turn off to my future 360 gaming, personally.
I'll just stick with a PC as my alternative to my PS4, next time around.
This article has some good points, and some bad ones.
The point regarding the cancellations of games on the 3DS is the most troublesome -- this may be due to the fact that 3DS games just plain cost more to develop than 3rd parties had imagined. The PSP cost a good 2-4x as much to develop a decent title for, compared to the DS, and DS budgets just won't cut it on a system like the 3DS.
The point regarding the eventual replacement of gaming handhelds by mo...
Only one word describes this. That word is awesome. Literally the word awesome, not merely some other awesome word.
I assume they aren't going to release BoF3, though, because it was remade on the PSP already -- and sadly it was not released in NA.