Let that soak in for a minute, then step away from the "Add Comment" button slowly.
Please someone try and say the game looks like the target renders. Please! Give it a shot. ;)
While the game may be good (although my experience with it at Target disagrees), to say that Sony needs to stop this tactic is an understatement. They set expectations WAY too high and consumers such as myself are bound to be dissapointed.
For those that don't have a wii/hdtv setup and don't understand the issue...
It isn't that the games don't look better compared to a standard def tv, it is that using the included cable the game looks HORRIBLE on an hdtv. Blurry, pixelly, garbage. It looks MUCH better on a standard def television.
It wouldn't have been an issue had nintendo made an adequite number of the cables (and extra controllers, btw), but as it stands, wii sucks on an HDTV.
First off, I have a Wii and I'm a huge supporter. It is a blast (anyone who has one agrees) and is actually taking more of my time at the moment than the 360. However...
..." It got the potential to run games like GoW, GTA, Halo series, Rainbow Six: Vegas etc."
No it doesn't. Not at all. Period. The Wii is a gamecube, plain and simple. Don't deceive yourself into thinking it is something better. The games are a BLAST (sports and Trauma Center), b...
How the hell do any of us write optimized Cell code? I doubt Sony has released an SDK or even the compiler and nVidia doesn't have optimized driver support. Is this currently a reverse-engineering issue where the community basically needs to build a compatible SDK?
Can't believe I missed that. For some reason I thought it was running through a JIT compiler like .NET or the new Intel Macs to provide x86 compatibility. Given the newness of the cell, however, that is absurd. In fact, it makes me look at the accomplishment of the Linux build in a whole new light. Thanks.
Did I miss something? Why is Scumm so special when there are emulators abound on Linux?
By far the coolest feature of the PS3 (for those without a modded xbox)
Anyone with the wii60 combo knows that it is perfect. All the fun of the wii and the cutting-edge graphics and 3rd party support of the 360 for around the same cost as a PS3.
I have heard of no one, journalist or otherwise, who hasn't enjoyed their Wii. The only "complaint" has been the graphics, but with the combo with the 360 you get the best of both worlds.
But you clearly are not a lawyer or you have never been involved in any sort of lawsuit.
If a defendents product caused harm to the plaintiff, then no amount of "warnings" will protect you, especially a warning that you did not sign a waiver for.
I could put a million signs on my front lawn that say "ICY WALKWAY, DO NOT COME HERE", and if even one person disregards the sign and falls, I am liable for the damages.
There is no &qu...
Exactly WTF does a PSP game have ANYTHING to do with this discussion?
Seriously, you might as well have linked to a video of a tractor or a monkey. They would be just as relevent to this topic as a PSP title...
I expected an in-depth look at some inside technical information. What I got was vague high-level points. Not that it isn't nicely written, I just would love to know some of the _specifics_ from a analytical, technical viewpoint.
The MSN article: "retailers and analysts across North America confirm that the hottest selling gaming console this past weekend was the Xbox 360."
Fine, probably a true statement, so where does the author go from this statement to:
"...but while the Microsoft-owned MSN might be ready to claim the next-gen console war over..."
How does "retailers and analysts across North America confirm that the hottest selling gaming console t...
Because that is _exactly_ how I load disks into the machine. Exactly. To say that person is "trying" to break it is absurd. It is a _single incident_ of a broken PS3, no one cares except that guy, so why the defensiveness.
Much like the article is _one_ incident that can't be extrapolated to the population of PS3s, your personal experience with Sony hardware has no bearing on the quality of Sony hardware. Guess what, there are people that have had the exact opposite experience, and saying that they did something incorrectly or "can't take care of your stuff" numbs the intelligence of every person that visits this site.
This is why statistics exist as a branch of mathematics and why people ...
We are agreed that games on every platform have been delayed since the industry began...but there is something strange about this one.
Having seen such a "complete" version of the game during the press conference (it was half their show), for it to be delayed a _year_ seems odd.
The only thing I can think of is either the demo shown during the conference was not running on PS3 hardware, or downloadable content per-game isn't where they need it at.
Is this the game where you fight off waiters at a Chinese restaurant? Or is this the shooter where you zap the MSG from a tiny pod inside your body after having ingested it?
You are running a windows emulator in a Linux environment on non-compliant hardware. Anyone who has _any_ experience with this knows that it is slow as hell for any "real" 3d or gaming applications.
And given the idea of a 360 emulator on the p.c. is currently _absurd_, a PS3 emulating a 360 is 10X more absurd. This is basic emulation and basic hardware level rules we are talking about here. You CAN NOT emulate something with equal power. The fact that MS managed ...
"1) American Gamers want the PS3 more than Japanese gamers, just come to New York if you don't believe me! "
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It is the good, hard facts like these that keep this site the accurate source for information that it is!
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Why yes, yes they are.
While you may be correct that in-car shots are technically slightly better looking, to compare this to the target render is a little optimistic at this point. It may get closer, but right now it is way off.
The target render looks amazing, unreal even, the gameplay, regardless of the view, still looks like a regular video game. The target render could sell millions of PS3s...what I see now will doubtfully achieve that.