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Smoke and Mirrors from Sony and Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "History tells us: Don't believe what you're hearing about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.There was a lot of hype last week about the next generation of game machines. Microsoft said the Xbox 360 will ultimately reach 1 billion consumers worldwide, while Sony gave a laundry list of features for the PlayStation 3, showing some jaw dropping footage along the way. (Nintendo promised a Revolution, but didn't go much further than that.)
I hate to be a wet blanket, but it's time to come back to reality."
Since when does reality have anything to do with videogames?
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
"Back to reality"
Dwayne Dibbly? Oh thanks for reminding me!
"Derp de derp."
I know Santa Clause isn't real, but it's still fun to get excited about x-mas.
This is Slashdot, my friend.. the higher up the UID's go, the more likely there are lots of pre-teens and teens.. many of which require you to preface your comment with *SPOILER*. Poor kids.
** "It's not my job to stand between the people talking to me, and the ones listening to me." -- Pego the Jerk
I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES
OMG yes... the level where you're dressed as an albino weasel and you're swimming in a giant colon while Beethoven's Moonlight Sonatta plays as the level music...
I don't know what these guys were smoking, but they should share : )
You can't take the sky from me...
Sorry, you just lost the
yeah, but IMAGINE Nethack on a PS3 or Xbox360!
Instead of being restricted to ASCII, you could use their massive processing and graphics abilities to employ other characters- Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic, Linear B, Egyptian heiroglyphs, cuneiform... plus different fonts, italics, bold, all crisp and anti-aliased... imagine that instead of a puny little "@" you're now an upper-case italic omicron in Times New Roman, dealing out death as hordes of Copperplate Gothic Boldface "Ü"s and Comic Sans "Ñ"s fly at you from all directions! That would just totally ROCK!!!
It took me 20 years to get that song out of my head.
I can see that your efforts have paid off.
The step from Super Mario Brothers 1 to 3 is, in fact, two quantum leaps.
1 - 2 - 3
Perhaps you meant "dramatic improvement". A quantum leap is a value changing from one value to another without any intervening values. Turning on a light via a switch is a quantum leap, turning up the dimmer isn't (on human scale).
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
> You can't go around assuming that everyone knows what games are available for what consoles.
If you are in a thread about the next generation of that specific console, and you decide to start posting, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE TO ASSUME. He assumed that these people knew, BECAUSE THEY WERE WRITING FUCKING POSTS ABOUT IT, YOU MORON!
> if you're going to state hardware specs, state the facts.
He did state the facts, those facts included a typo. GET OVER IT.