He was talking about HD-DVD built in to play the games. If Blu-ray is successful they will have to put a Blu-ray reader in the 720 for movies, but they'll still not want to publish their games using Blu-ray. They'll want their games to use a modified HD-DVD format.
I guess they are disagreeing with your tastes. I also like wondering around the GTA, but there is only so much to do that way before it becomes clear that it isn't a real world, and nothing new will happen unless you start a mission. What they need to do is put in missions that can only be found by wondering around the city. That would make it seem more realistic.
Why so many disagrees?
They wouldn't count travel time in the open world as part of mission time. That would make everything a mission now wouldn't it?
We've been able to download movies for a long time, but DVD's still sell far, far better. So why would the improved replacement for DVD's tank?
More creepy than annoying.
Interactive keyboards are the future, but that's 20 years in the future. Now, they suck.
Games could finally be truly 3D since they could display slightly differently in each eye just like 3D glasses. But this article doesn't give any real information. Like what kind of resolution you could get in the far future, would you be able to read text for instance?
The one thing in there that have improved the least are the cameras. Analog just worked so well for them took digital longer to overcome it.
A Laptop from 60 years from now would be worth trillions of dollars today. That's how you know there aren't time travelers.
Strip poker is only fun when you have to take your clothes off too.
A console based on high-def cassettes could definitely work except that you can't skip from one part of the tape to any other. The console would have to load the whole tape first.
The next GTA won't even fit on a DVD. So I don't see how this is the beginning of a new relationship. They'll just have to release a new console and make their customers pay for it when GTA 5 comes out. I'm glad X-Box customers are willing to pay the 500 dollars for the new console and game it will cost them to play GTA 5, and their rantings about how the X-Box somehow has better graphics will finally be sort of true as well.
Does it really need 1.9 million polygons? If they took 100,000 polygons out would someone be like "hey what happened to the polygons? there used to be way more!"
Bioware makes RPGs with actual stories so I'll give them the edge there. It's strange that Blizzard's RTSs have better stories than their MMOs, but I guess that just shows how hard it will be for any company to create an MMO with storylines as good as a single player RPG.
I didn't watch the video, but if they said anything other than money they lied.
The problem with these things is that there is nothing to stop your swing. So when you're in a sword fight using one of these remotes not even swinging your weapon into a diamond plated mountain can stop you. It'll be revolutionary once they figure out how to make it act like an actual sword, otherwise it's just a toy.
I guess bad dialog doesn't count as a cliche. But it's in more video games than all the others put together. How much does it cost to hire a good writer? Do they think the people who play video games don't also read books?
Yeah that's why Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III are the most popular games now seeing as how they have such a large community and the most generated content. Ha yeah right. That makes them next-gen games according to the article. I'll stick with the high tech games thanks. Not that Warcraft doesn't still have a lot of great custom maps.
This article is not about suggesting you shouldn't continue to support the X-Box. The article surely knows if you still support it now after all its shortcomings what's another small addition to the giant list?