Something for the kids at Microsoft:
http://youtu.be/DqXZEv4of9w
I jest.... Settle down, fan girls.
Of course they're planning to kill it. That was always the plan. The only question that's ever been is when it will happen.
I'm not as excited about it as a lot of people seem to be. The procedurally generated worlds without loading screens is pretty cool from a tech standpoint, but from a gameplay standpoint, they haven't yet sold me on what the point is other than just going places and seeing randomly created worlds, that largely all look vaguely similar from the couple of demos I've seen. Is the game just about the exploration and naming your discovered worlds? Is there more to it than that? T...
Closed or consolidated to reduce overhead costs of running multiple studios? Seems like it would make sense to bring everybody under one roof, where it makes sense to do so. Studios in other countries may be desired to better cater to regional gaming preferences. I don't see any reason why domestic developers couldn't be consolidated, though. Other industries do this all the time. Buy out another company, let them run more or less independently for a while before inevitably pulli...
Can the condescending attitude, Junior and read my post again. I'm a mechanical engineer and I've done product development on lots of things from small consumer goods all the way up to things as big as a building (mining shovels and walking draglines). Don't try and lecture me about what R&D is like. I live it every day.
What I said is launch of NX is not imminent as others and the article are suggesting. 8+ months minimum in a best case scenario is not an...
NX already? Get real. The system hasn't even been formally announced yet, let alone shown off at all the summer trade shows. They aren't gonna kill the Wii U before even announcing it's successor. Too much risk. If they demo the NX and everyone hates it, then they wasted all that time they could have been selling Wii U while they go back to the drawing board on NX. IF we see NX this year, and I'm guessing that's a big if, it won't be until after all the trade sho...
Has potential to be great, but it'll require long-lasting and on-going support with a steady stream of content and a reasonable entry price if it hopes to catch on with a wider audience than just the early adopters. Honestly, I could see using it to watch movies in 3D at least as much as gaming with it. I'm talking Hollywood movies, but I imagine the adult film biz is watching with a keen/pervy eye, too. LOL! Yeah, I went there...
Not to mention all those millions of plastic guitars for Guitar Hero and it's clones.
Go look at Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc. and you'll quickly see why they say that. Basically, go anywhere other than GameStop and it's the same story. Nothing to choose from in-store and no indication or marketing material anywhere in the store for what additional content is available on the PSN Store and it's always been that way for Vita since launch. Many Walmarts do not even carry Vita anymore.
The Vita marketing team need to be drug into the street and run over with a lawn mower. It's easy to see why Vita doesn't sell well here in the US. Go into any retailer not named GameStop and go look at the Vita section compared to everything else in the department. It's a joke. Almost every Walmart store here in Milwaukee doesn't even stock Vita or Vita games anymore. Target only had 2-3 consoles on the shelf and literally only two game boxes on the shelf when I was ther...
That $70 repair is a solder reflow job. It's a temporary fix. The YLOD will be back eventually because the cause of the failure hasn't been addressed and every time you reflow lead-free solder it gets more brittle and more likely to fail again. New grease will prolong the life a bit by keeping temps a little bit lower, but it's not gonna be a permanent repair unless you never use the console for anything that causes the processors to heat up.
@nitus10
Over temp faults usually cause a beep followed by system down. You may also get an error message upon restart along with a disk scan. YLOD followed by flashing red indicates hardware failure. Grease and vacuuming are preventative measures you can take before getting a YLOD, but it doesn't fix it once you get one. The failure is caused by thermal cycling on the lead-free RoHS-compliant solder used on the BGAs for the CPU and GPU (well the whole motherboard, actually). ...
I disagreed because mass market penetration is crucial in the video game biz if you want any kind of traction with developers for anything more than glorified tech demos. 4K TV's are a mostly completely different entity altogether. Support for those is being driven by Hollywood as they want to sell you content again at higher resolutions than ever and the hardware itself can operate just fine in a vacuum of very little content available because they still work with the old 1080p content...
Gimmick or not, I feel like the price point for entry is still too high for mass market penetration comparable to the game consoles alone without the headset. At least for a system that will deliver any kind of acceptable fidelity by today's standards, that is. The problem I see is that "acceptable graphical fidelity and performance" is a moving goalpost and because the technical requirements are higher for the 3D presentation, performance will never match an otherwise equival...
Tell that to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. Wait... Can't.
Not everything. Have you seen their beaches? Great surfing if you can avoid the sharks, killer stingrays, jellyfish, and everything else designed to kill people. Well... On second thought. You might be right. LOL
The PSP Gran Turismo game runs on Vita. It's not a great game, but it works.
I can't imagine MS would ever do this. PR nightmare aside, the devs would likely be annoyed too. That said, i don't see how this would work any differently than PC games that run on a variety of different GPU's. When you upgrade GPU's on a PC, you don't need to patch the games or anything like that. Depending on the upgrade, sometimes you don't even need to install a new driver. The games just are able to run at higher resolution and/or with more effects enabled. ...
No Hearthstone here. Mostly Magic The Gathering, a few random tower defense games, a couple Angry Birds games for keeping the kids occupied on rare occasions. Nothing too serious, but the newer MTG games cause a lot of crashes and slow-downs due to the small amount of RAM in the older hardware. I use my iPad mostly for productivity apps than games and even Safari is painfully frustrating to use on iOS 9 on the iPad 2. I also use Excel regularly as well as a few sketching apps for marking ...
It looks like a George Foreman Grill drip tray with a sticker on it.
http://tinyurl.com/hhqv2e2