Kutaragi predicts that consumers will embrace digital downloads within one to two years. Eventually, he believes, optical drives will be obsolete, and later all disk storage. "I expect even the hard disk to disappear eventually," notes Kutaragi. "If you have all the data on servers, you probably no longer need disk drives ... but to do this, the server is crucial. It's a difficult problem."
Salman from Tech4Gamers writes "Mortal Kombat 9 revived the series from a low point after bringing it back to 2D combat. It marked a new high-point for the franchise due to its incredible roster, exciting cinematic story mode, and high-octane combat."
Shaolin Monks is a forgotten gem. I would love to see a new one, or a remake of the old.
That game was actually goated. It was the first time ever that I actually tried to get good at a fighting game. Unfortunately the online connection was so dogshit it made it hard to enjoy and eventually I gave up. Haven't really played much fighting games since.
The new unit comprises over 500 developers representing the entire World of Warcraft development team.
I used to be anti-union, it kills productivity, investment and turns product mediocre. Their games suck anyways though so what was lost? Might as well get their people paid until they are dissolved.
Unions are necessary regardless of how you feel. You know how fked the working class would be without them. As if we're not already.
No they aren’t, regardless of how you feel. Unions make zero sense for skill based labor. They are for people who press a button every 10 seconds on an assembly line. “working class” is a made up term. I don’t care about corporations or developers, I just want good games lol. Killing your incentives to appease the lowest common denominator doesn’t lead to great games imo
I wasn’t trying to be offensive if I came off that way. The Union is an old mentality and I can see their usefulness but also the danger. We’re in the age of AI and robots and skill based labor. Unions can be dangerous these days. You could replace your entire workforce in one move. Checkmate. Look to the kiosk replacing workers in the 20 dollar minimum wage era.
Well run businesses don’t need unions. If you need a Union that business won’t survive anyway. Unless it’s propped up by the government with corporate welfare (which is the real issue). If you’re not going to spend some on your workers (Amazon, Google) then your welfare is cut off. No tax breaks. All you put together don’t match their wealth and resources, the union is a traditional memory at this point and counterproductive with this new enemy we face. They need a flying elbow from the top ropes. And by “working class is a made up term” I just mean we’re not a class system and even CEO Bobby Kotick puts in a days work lol. Or did.. It’s just a vague term that doesn’t mean anything no offense lol. People say “middle class” but that can change quick right? Up or down. That’s not a “class system”.
Taking a trip back to Housemarque's forgotten platformer.
OMG he's copying Bill Gates. Bill said the exact same thing a year ago. He said that HD-DVD/Blu-ray are going to be the last formats and then everything else will be harddrive based. Everyone though he was crazy and was making excuses about HD-DVD not being in the xbox 360. Well know who seems crazy, Microsoft already provides full arcade games, HD trailers and game demos over xbox live and onto our harddrives. Just wait a few years for our Internet connections to get better and harddrive cost go down and we will no longer need physical formats. Imagine a 1or 2 Terabyte on xbox 3 and all games fly to our systems via a 50Megabit internet connection and within an hour we have a whole game on our harddrive, we also save about $20 since we no longer have to pay for the middleman (ie bestbuy), we don't have to pay for shipping of game, manufactor of disc or even the game cases. This is how the future will be.
Well I believe he just undermines his own thoughts for the BetaBluRay drive.
It's not nescessary at this moment as games easily fit on a DL DVD, and with HDMI capped on less then 720p, there's no need for a larger capacity drive. It only cost you money and then in a few years it will be replaced by streaming and downloading content directly on a large HDD on your console and in the next gen consoles over 5 years or so maybe directly from servers without an own HDD.
THis man is great. He just give everyone the reason why not to buy a PS3 with an expensive BetaBluRay which won't be used this gen consoles and will be outdated the next gen over 5 years. What a clown
Shotty.. You're right Bill Gates did say that. I also want to know then why I have to continue hearing about blu ray if this is going to be the case. Let me not say to much before people think I'm bashing. But Ken is a trip.
I don't think it is going to happen for the sole reason of once one person downloads it to his console, what is to stop him (if it is all on the hard drive) from just giving it to his friends, and so then you have a massive amount of piracy of video games. so the only way to stop this is to have it all in local memory, and not on the Hdd, that means you are talking about having to have multi-gig local memory and ram, and that is expensive. plus these are volital memory locations and so when you turn your console off, you lose the data, and would have to redownload it (even if they left a purchase certificate on the hdd so you wouldn't have to pay again) so you are looking at every morning having to wake up and turn on your console for 2 hours before you can play a game. cool idea, but i don't see this as realistic
Digital distribution is going to happen. The question is when not if.
Kutagari-san needs to stop making public statements already. It just seems that his foot is surgically implanted in his mouth lately. So far, based solely on Ken's good words the PS3 is going to be a next-generation DVD player/media center/computer with an upgradable (ie - outdatable) architecture adn an optical drive that will be irrelevant within 2 years of purchase. Man, that sounds hot. Where can I sign up to overpay for something like THAT?!?!?!?