We are in a gaming depression because the console hardware is 5-6 years old and is holding developers back. If someone makes a console with the CPU power of a Core i7 and a GTX5x0 or Radeon 6xx0 then you'll start to see gaming get better. Until the consoles get replaced, we'll still continue to see games that look no better than they did 5 years ago.
Oh, and if Nintendo is releasing a successor to the Wii in the next year then Microsoft and Sony had better have their new consoles in the pipeline already so they don't get caught flatfooted if Nintendo's new game system has capabilities that exceed the 360 and PS3. If we have to wait 2-3 more years to see a console from them, they can forget about it because Nintendo is going to clean their clocks.
The Wii was a nice novelty system, but the fact that the cross platform games looked and played better on other systems hurt it a lot. So did the fact that the bulk of the rest of the games are crap. Nintendo's own games and most of the mainstream third party developers games don't embarrass but go into TRU or Best Buy some time and look at the Wii display and you see racks and racks of crap by unknown developers interspersed with a few good titles here and there. Considering it was N...
I nominate this quote as understatement of the year.
This is the reason why Sony put an HDMI port on the PS3. Not because it delivers a superior signal, but because it is the only interface that is capable of protecting their precious Blu Ray movies. VGA and DVI can do 720 and 1080 resolutions just as well as HDMI can.
they can't include current players because of the exclusive deal with EA, but if they bring this back at 19.99 like they did with 2k5, it's going to be all over for Madden when their licensing agreement expires because the engine, the gameplay and the features are far superior in 2k.
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Come on n4g staffers. Check to see if stories have already been approved before you approve them again.
Sorry, but I posted this here last week and it was already approved
I reported this here two months ago
I am going to buy it anyway just for the game engine and playability, which trounced Madden back in 05 and is still better than Madden 06 and 07. I am hoping they keep the cheap price tag that 2k5 had, too. Once the exclusivity contract expires, 2k is gonna spank Madden hard.
The first time N-Gage was released, all they really had to compete with on the games front was Gameboy Advance. Now they have DS and DSLite, which are setting sales records everywhere, the GBA SP and Micro, and the PSP.
It's too easy to inflate your gamerscore by using other people's saved games on a memory card. Microsoft would go broke if they started giving away premiums in exchange for gamerscore points.
you PS3 guys loved this game when you thought it was coming out on PS3, now that it isn't, it's no big deal. Give me a break.
I wouldn't doubt if someone hadn't broken in trying to see if they were holding back any Wii's after all the reports of Best Buy, Target and Circuit City withholding theirs. They didn't find one and decided to rob the first employee who showed up instead.
A lot of people still use machines without PCI-Express motherboards and there likely won't be any DX10 compliant video cards released in AGP or PCI format. To use Vista Ultimate with all the bells and whistles turned on requires a lot of power beyond video, as well. Anyone still using a machine less than 2ghz CPU or with less than 2gig Ram is going to faced with upgrading their current system, or buying new if their motherboards can't be upgraded. BIOS chips will probably need flashing, as we...
One of the first things tech companies do is buy a sample of their competitors product and tear it down to see what makes it tick. A Microsoft engineer probably has the same or nearly the same amount of knowledge as to the internal workings of the PS3 as a Sony engineer.
having a scaler chip built in like the 360 is similar to having optical zoom on your digital camera, as opposed to the PS3 scaling solution which is like having digital zoom. I can't see where this is an acceptable solution. Games blown up to 1080 resolutions are going to have horrible pixelation which defeats the purpose of displaying them on a 1080 TV in the first place.
If this new force feedback is substantially cheaper than Immersion's version, they may have shot themselves in the foot with their lawsuit as MS and Nintendo would also likely switch to the new system to lower their production costs. If they hadn't sued, this new system may not have been developed.
Optimists live in their own little world filled with teddy bears and bunny rabbits that is far disconnected from reality. Of course he won't say anything negative about Sony. He's probably one of those happy, chirpy people who greets you with a sing-song voice that makes you want to strangle him the moment he enters the room.
Yeah, Nintendo is going to have to do a lot more than just match or slightly exceed 360 and PS3 specs. They have to release a console so revolutionary that it basically forces Microsoft and Sony to release new consoles whether they want to or not. Anyone with a 360 or PS3 already wouldn't get much benefit from a new Nintendo console if all the devs will be doing is porting the 360 and PS3 games they already own to it for the first year or two.