E3 2011 is next week, and it looks to be one of the biggest shows of all time. Some of the biggest stories revolving around the expo are about the new handhelds we will be seeing. E3 will pit the Nintendo 3DS and NGP (or Vita) against one another. This article takes a look at the position of each company going into E3.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
wrong heading should be battle between psp(3ds) with a flashy gimmick screen vs a next gen portable gameing device(ngp). but thats nintendo ultra old tech that everyone buys
"Nintendo may have had their grip on the handheld market disrupted by Apple and to a lesser extent Sony. "
Those 70 million PSP owners is not my idea of 'lesser extent'.
It could have been all Nintendo's but it's Sony's.
And now is the time the PSP is king of handhelds in Japan.
It was only a matter of time.
It may not reach the 140 million mark installed base the DS has but with big titles like Final Fantasy XIII Type-O, the PSP might have 1 - 2 or more years at the peak of its success.
"Nintendo is going to have to differentiate itself from these companies, and justify why consumers need to spend money on another device when their phones can play games."
The problem I saw that this time around the 3DS was not built to innovate or bring a new demographic of new gamers.
.... with the kind of games present & upcoming, we can tell 3DS was built to 'STEAL' the PSP's hardcore market specially in Japan.
The formula is to make the 3DS: a DS+PSP all-in-one!
I don't know if the 3-D screen & the 'hardcore' games are enough to differentiate from the Apple & Android devices (including the NGP) which by the way also have touch game play & for some ....... glassless 3-D screens too!
But I believe it will still be the Nintendo made game franchises that will sell the device.
The 3ds sucks... the PSVita doesn't... END OF STORY. The battle is already won, it's just up to Sony to show us the blood and gore.. ;)
3DS for me
i gotta have my mario kart, paper mario, super mario 3D
yup, i dont care if you call it rehashed, milked, boring, kiddy, lazy
i'll be there day 1 to pick them up x)
th NGP looks cool but its not my thing, more power to you if you prefer it
@ CaCl. Just the usual 'this person did this first' childishness as per usual. The touch screen existed before the DS or 3DS did and so did the hand held camera and AR. In fact Sony was doing AR long before Nintendo did it with the 3DS. So I suppose by your logic Nintendo stole all those things too? Sony is bringing AR to a whole new level minus the cards,adding twin joysticks for a wider range of control and versitility for games, raising the bar for hand held system graphics and of course Playstation Suite extending the network across many Sony devices. Thats how the NGP inmovates. Where are the 3DS's joysticks? Nowhere. Where is their improved network? What do they have? 3D that makes you cross eyed and nauseous and messes up your eyes.Now there is an incentive to buy a 3DS /s.
@ strifeblade every game on the 3DS is a rehash remake or overmilked series. The games for the NGP are new games in the series. How is playing OOT and SF4 on the 3DS any different from playing UC and Resistance on the NGP?