The PS2 launch lineup was a disaster. No games for nearly a year. The PS2 sold mainly on its DVD playing capabilityes in Japan. Absolutely nothing can be guessed based on game lineup at launch of any machine. As long as the price is low enough and keeps on dropping, then it will be much better than the PS3 scenario. The one key factor is price. #18
The solution is as simple as it was with PS2 compatibility in early PS3's. Just plop in a (now very cheap) Cell chip then use emulation for the GFX (quite simple given that the graphics architecture is similar). The only reason not to do this is to make profits on re-buys and keep the PS3 sales up after PS4 is released. Its a tactical decision and it stinks. Making PS2 100% compatible with PS1 didn't hurt its sales much did it? It certainly helped in the early days with no games. Woul... #83
It makes me wonder, if they are so similar, then it would make our lives as gamers easier if Sony and MS just became best buds and brought out one Console. Then all this exclusive game crap would end. Never happen like, but one can wish. #3.4
I remember getting this along with Sega Rally and Virtua Cop on Saturn. these 3 games showed that the Saturn (when programmed well) could compete with PS1. #4
The problem is trying to sell the same game over and over again. Guitar Hero should have hit version 3 (for the sake of the newer consoles) then ended naturally. Then maybe bring the franchise back one more time for the next gen (PS4 XB720 Wii 2).
Activision's 1 year rehash of its major franchises will end up sour. Call of Duty is next. Instead of rehashing the same game over and over and milking it dry, release NEW fresh games. #6
They need to add one more - * Kinect is not for you if...
you live in the UK. Or at least 90% of the UK. How many average terraced houses in UK have living rooms with enough space for even the single player 6 feet of space before having to turf up mums coffee table or jump around on the sofa?
I also like the way he glossed over the three days of "training" in different lighting before Kinect was even useable. The average Joe will not accept that. If it doesn't work in the first 5 minutes patience will be lost. Its a te... #7
Uninspiring
Still playing with balls are they? and the wobbly stick men left something to be desired when the tech demo was running, I'm quite sure the guy wasn't jiggling around like that, he was stood quite still... And when the guy "Jumped in" it took ages for him to appear. The same when he "jumped out". Can you imagine kids playing together in a living room? Jumping in and out of the field of play all the time? It seems you have to stand quite still in menus too... kids s... #16
Hasn't stood the test of time??? WTF...
... The Amiga is legendary and is still used today by many. The OS is still being developed and there will be a new Amiga machine called AmigaOne X1000 released this year to celebrate its 25 years.
Great!
Now please Sony, make Play TV 2 compatible with DVB-C (even DVB-S if your feeling crazy) and add a CAM slot so that the rest of Europe can use it properly. I've got Play TV in Denmark and the plus is that I can see DR HD (yes the Play TV 1 is HD ready, just not in UK), the minus is that I cannot use any of the Boxer channels as I need a CAM Card slot. There are only a hand full of free channels here. I could also plug YouSee cable straight into the Play TV 1 if only it had a DVB-C chip in... #22
I own one of these too for my PSP Go
Its amazing quality combined with the official PSP Go earbuds and has a fantastic range. I imported mine from www.renchi.com #16.2
Dual HDTV tuner with recording cheaper than PlayTV?
I don't think so. If you include the price of PS3 then maybe so, but if you are in the market for a HDTV tuner and happen to already own a PS3.... you can't beat this.
BTW, Denmark has just gone full Digital and I was happy to see that after the update on 22nd Oct I can now view all the free to air channels including DR HD (about 10 channels)! Now all I need is a PlayTV box that can take a card so I can decrypt the other 50 odd channels only available on Boxer! That or DVB-C comp... #8.3
Its always had better value
Even at launch for 600 bones. Now its just more obvious to the general consumer since the price drop.
BTW The "Elite" name needs to be dropped from the 360, there is nothing elite about the 360 Elite anymore. 120G Hdd isn't big anymore and HDMI is sandard on Arcade now. Those were the only things that made it elite.
PS3 has Blu-Ray, Wifi and MINIMUM 120G HDD as standard. These features are MORE elite. For any Xbox 360 to have the "Elite" banner,... #1.8
HD over the air exists already in many countries in Europe
I just wish Play TV would work with MPEG4 as thats what most of the rest or Europe use instead of MPEG2 in UK. Here in Denmark we are switching over to Digital next week (1st November) and this has already happened in Sweden. The UK is very much behind in terms of Digital progression, but has far more channels on Freeview. We can only see 3 channels through PlayTV in its current MPEG2 only state. Give it DVB-C and MPEG4 capability an I think ALOT more European countries could benefit from it. #1.9
All three on all three would be nicer
But I think in reality the Wii is only technically capable of emulating Genesis. If they recoded Saturn and DC games they might work ok, but as VC (under emulation) I doubt it can happen. Saturn is actually MORE complicated to emulate than Dreamcast and needs a hefty PC to run games smoothly (SFF being the best emu out ATM). Both DC and Satrun could be emulated on Xbox 360 and PS3 I recon. Would be nice to see a Saturn collection similar to the recently released Genesis collection. HD and tro... #1.4
Wow. I was expecting a shet load more UMD to Digital Releases
Looks like Sony are going to drip feed them out like the PSone games. I must say I like my new PSP Go, but if I want to play most of my current games I have to pull out my Phatty, which I don't really want to do anymore. Is it so hard to convert the whole back catalogue of PSP games and just dump them out there on the Store? It must be lots of legal mumbo jumbo holding them all up. #4
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Thats what this article is saying. Some people have done what I would normally do. Bought the games through the PS3 store and when they have come to transfer the games to the PSP Go it wont let them. Which is absolutely ridiculous, there should have been some kind of block or warning if you try and download on PS3.
I was fortunate enough to notice that in the download instructions it said you must download the games through the PSP Go. I thought it was a little weird, but did it... #1.6
Great. Now release Outrun 2006
Because I can't play my UMD version on the Go.
I'll really enjoy trading my UMD for virtually nothing and having to re-buy it as well /s
There should have been MANY more back catalogue games released the day PSP Go went on sale. And there should have been some kind of UMD conversion. I have 19 UMD games, under half are available on PSN. All are great games I want to keep and still play. I found out if I trade the 8 games I have that are on PSN now, I get enough for... #7
Ive downloaded the 3 free games
And what they say is true. You HAVE to download them on the PSP go, and you can't later transfer them to another PSP or re-download on the PS3 to store them. All these things you CAN do with a normal Digital PSP PSN Store Purchase. This limit doesn't affect the Free Gran Turismo offer. That can be downloaded and stored on the PS3 or PC like all other PSP downloadable games.
This limit is only on the three free games. I personally store all my Digital PSP games on my PS3 so I can... #1.4
Activision's 1 year rehash of its major franchises will end up sour. Call of Duty is next. Instead of rehashing the same game over and over and milking it dry, release NEW fresh games. #6
you live in the UK. Or at least 90% of the UK. How many average terraced houses in UK have living rooms with enough space for even the single player 6 feet of space before having to turf up mums coffee table or jump around on the sofa?
I also like the way he glossed over the three days of "training" in different lighting before Kinect was even useable. The average Joe will not accept that. If it doesn't work in the first 5 minutes patience will be lost. Its a te... #7
Still playing with balls are they? and the wobbly stick men left something to be desired when the tech demo was running, I'm quite sure the guy wasn't jiggling around like that, he was stood quite still... And when the guy "Jumped in" it took ages for him to appear. The same when he "jumped out". Can you imagine kids playing together in a living room? Jumping in and out of the field of play all the time? It seems you have to stand quite still in menus too... kids s... #16
... The Amiga is legendary and is still used today by many. The OS is still being developed and there will be a new Amiga machine called AmigaOne X1000 released this year to celebrate its 25 years.
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http://hyperion-entertainme...
Commodore may have died, but Amiga did not! I still use my old A1200 with lots of s... #17
Watch out, that site has a trojan #4.1
Now please Sony, make Play TV 2 compatible with DVB-C (even DVB-S if your feeling crazy) and add a CAM slot so that the rest of Europe can use it properly. I've got Play TV in Denmark and the plus is that I can see DR HD (yes the Play TV 1 is HD ready, just not in UK), the minus is that I cannot use any of the Boxer channels as I need a CAM Card slot. There are only a hand full of free channels here. I could also plug YouSee cable straight into the Play TV 1 if only it had a DVB-C chip in... #22
Its amazing quality combined with the official PSP Go earbuds and has a fantastic range. I imported mine from www.renchi.com #16.2
I don't think so. If you include the price of PS3 then maybe so, but if you are in the market for a HDTV tuner and happen to already own a PS3.... you can't beat this.
BTW, Denmark has just gone full Digital and I was happy to see that after the update on 22nd Oct I can now view all the free to air channels including DR HD (about 10 channels)! Now all I need is a PlayTV box that can take a card so I can decrypt the other 50 odd channels only available on Boxer! That or DVB-C comp... #8.3
Even at launch for 600 bones. Now its just more obvious to the general consumer since the price drop.
BTW The "Elite" name needs to be dropped from the 360, there is nothing elite about the 360 Elite anymore. 120G Hdd isn't big anymore and HDMI is sandard on Arcade now. Those were the only things that made it elite.
PS3 has Blu-Ray, Wifi and MINIMUM 120G HDD as standard. These features are MORE elite. For any Xbox 360 to have the "Elite" banner,... #1.8
I just wish Play TV would work with MPEG4 as thats what most of the rest or Europe use instead of MPEG2 in UK. Here in Denmark we are switching over to Digital next week (1st November) and this has already happened in Sweden. The UK is very much behind in terms of Digital progression, but has far more channels on Freeview. We can only see 3 channels through PlayTV in its current MPEG2 only state. Give it DVB-C and MPEG4 capability an I think ALOT more European countries could benefit from it. #1.9
But I think in reality the Wii is only technically capable of emulating Genesis. If they recoded Saturn and DC games they might work ok, but as VC (under emulation) I doubt it can happen. Saturn is actually MORE complicated to emulate than Dreamcast and needs a hefty PC to run games smoothly (SFF being the best emu out ATM). Both DC and Satrun could be emulated on Xbox 360 and PS3 I recon. Would be nice to see a Saturn collection similar to the recently released Genesis collection. HD and tro... #1.4
Looks like Sony are going to drip feed them out like the PSone games. I must say I like my new PSP Go, but if I want to play most of my current games I have to pull out my Phatty, which I don't really want to do anymore. Is it so hard to convert the whole back catalogue of PSP games and just dump them out there on the Store? It must be lots of legal mumbo jumbo holding them all up. #4
Thats what this article is saying. Some people have done what I would normally do. Bought the games through the PS3 store and when they have come to transfer the games to the PSP Go it wont let them. Which is absolutely ridiculous, there should have been some kind of block or warning if you try and download on PS3.
I was fortunate enough to notice that in the download instructions it said you must download the games through the PSP Go. I thought it was a little weird, but did it... #1.6
Because I can't play my UMD version on the Go.
I'll really enjoy trading my UMD for virtually nothing and having to re-buy it as well /s
There should have been MANY more back catalogue games released the day PSP Go went on sale. And there should have been some kind of UMD conversion. I have 19 UMD games, under half are available on PSN. All are great games I want to keep and still play. I found out if I trade the 8 games I have that are on PSN now, I get enough for... #7
And what they say is true. You HAVE to download them on the PSP go, and you can't later transfer them to another PSP or re-download on the PS3 to store them. All these things you CAN do with a normal Digital PSP PSN Store Purchase. This limit doesn't affect the Free Gran Turismo offer. That can be downloaded and stored on the PS3 or PC like all other PSP downloadable games.
This limit is only on the three free games. I personally store all my Digital PSP games on my PS3 so I can... #1.4