DOA4 is full of glitches, I love the game, play it just about every day now, but the glitches are all over the place. A big one, the long flowing hair of many of the female characters that goes crazy when flowing over their shoulders. Another glitch is when, occasionally, the audio at the end or beginning of a fight sequence doesn't sink up with whichever character is supposedly talking. In addition, occasionally for now apparent reason, it takes several seconds longer than normal to load var...
I've glanced through them from time to time when I go to Borders, but they don't appear to be anything special to me either, yes they are better than the games, but still not on the order of many science fiction and fantasy novels out there. Honestly, I'd much rather see them turn any one of a number of other books into movies first.
Halo is all well and good, but its story could not possibly stand to Star Wars or LOTR as is being suggested. Games simply don't have the level of detail in their plots that these movies do. You have to have better source material, and that just isn't present with Halo. I have enjoyed the games, but the story is really not all that impressive.
Thank you for the insult, it speaks so highly of you, I was speaking in terms of the United States but forgot to mention. As for the numbers, it GROSSED $420 million in the US over its entire theater run...it actually grossed 1 billion worldwide, but the point still stands as this is an anomaly, its is the record holder by far, and no movie based on a game has EVER done well at the box office
the Cell was "invented" through a collaboration between Toshiba, Sony, and IBM...
"When and if this happens, then of course we will be providing a service to exchange these items." it would appear they have one...
PS2 did NOT make PS games look any better, there was NO upconversion there. in addition, they are leaving open the possibility of upscaling...
Deceased, use your head, do you even know what VRAM is? or how it is used?
There are no sure things in movies for one, in addition essentially every movie costs "millions and millions" the question is whether they can make back the amount of money that goes into it. Keep in mind that towards the end of the summer Pirates 2 was only just approaching the $200,000,000 mark and was on its way out of theaters. ANY movie studio is hesitant to spend upwards of about $200 million because the chances they make it back can be fairly slim. Gamers alone can not power ...
Very well said kmis87, everything that you said there is accurate and objective, a resfreshing occurence on this site...
Microsoft programs typically open quicker on any Windows based PC because they are prefetched so there is less to load upon opening them. That doesn't necessarilly make them better, and you can add firefox to the prefetch if you would like. I think CNET's review of IE 7 says it best, " IE 7 was Microsoft's one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch to Mozilla Fi...
The problem you then run into with larger textures is storing all of them in the buffer for operation. Despite what some people may tell you, this is possible, anyone that has done work with coding an audio player can tell you that, as the buffers on a sound card are many MANY times smaller that the file itself (think on the order of 8KB) and so it is necessary to stream portions in to certain parts of the buffer at the correct times. It can be tricky, but a competent programmer can easilly m...
Yes, they WOULD make for an improvement, the question is whether or not the user will see this improvement. As fas as programming for this sort of architecture, you are talking about an entirely new paradigm shift regarding how a company will tackle software. Yes, multicore is available now, but on a fairly limited scale and essentially nothing is written to take advantage of them yet. In 5 years, you are not going to see that large of a change in this when you consider that programming has e...
To some degree you are right about the advancement in technology, but in terms of performance, advancment is starting to slow down, and to do so significantly. As an industry, electronics are getting to the point where about all that can be done is make things smaller, but even there the industry is running into diminishing returns because wire latency is becoming a problem and there is no way to work around it once you get the "wires" much farther than we're they are at already. In...
This is not a matter of Sony, or anyone else for that matter. Blu-ray has more industry support than HD-DVD besides. This is bad for consumers no matter how you look at it, but both sides are at fault and it doesn't come down to just Sony and Toshiba, it comes down to everyone involved and that includes Microsoft for picking sides in the first place. Each company that has aligned with one side over the other is at fault in this.
NEITHER has left the ground yet, and neither will for a fair while, regardless of unit market penetration. As far as picture quality, the first wave of Blu-Ray movies were noticably worse in terms of quality when compared with HD-DVD, but apparently (judging from the picture quality of click) the new movies on the 50 GB discs are/will be at least equal in terms of picture quality.
Hi-Def DVD sales haven't plunged because they never took off...
Your transition theory fails to account for the extremely rapid transition from the original PlayStation to the PS2 and that the PlayStation still sold relatively well for a while after the PS2's launch.
Consider that PS2 has been outselling the 360 virtually every single month since the 360's release...
Your logic is completely flawed and you prove yourself a fanboy at every turn. You retain not one ounce of objectivity in any of your recent posts. Far as specs, lets see here Mart, do you have the technical training to FULLY understand those specs and derive an accurate conclusion from them? I highly doubt it. Fact is 99% of the consumer market would look at those specs anyway and draw conclusions entirely on information that they don't understand. People will try to tell you they do, they'l...