It looks like they put a SD card slot on the lower left of the back (look at the little grey plastic flap) and at least fixed the whole sidetalking thing. But will it be backwards compatable? (my guess is yes).
It'll still come down to whether or not they've got the developers, games, and draw to get the crowd onto their system.
I was in CompUSA today looking for a new LCD monitor, and noted that they had some of the SoftwareToGo machines already up and running. Walked over and gave the thing a look-see. Everything is accessed through a touch-screen interface. Browsed through some of the software titles that they offered; it made this horrid beeping noise each time you clicked on the "down scroll" button, and any time you selected an option, more beeping noises. I felt rather embarassed having the thing reward me for making choices by spitting out little ringing sounds; this will probably drive away people who want to browse software in peace. Most of the titles were budget titles, and nothing I was interested in either. All in all, I won't be using the system again anytime soon.
Games such as the Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame series take a good pan on creating a much more realistic--if ultra-realistic--tilt at the world they take place in. Everything is dirty, grimy, and smeared with a sense of being in the real world.
Perhaps it is because these games take a closer stab (pun intended) at getting into the gamer's sense of reality and trying to really get into their mind, versus the seperation between player and story in other games, in a visual sense anyway.
I find it interesting that they're offering free copies of Ultima Online and The Sims Online to all of the Earth & Beyond subscribers. First time I've heard of a closing MMO offering a sort of 'severance package'.
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Until someone ports linux to it. :)
It looks like they put a SD card slot on the lower left of the back (look at the little grey plastic flap) and at least fixed the whole sidetalking thing. But will it be backwards compatable? (my guess is yes).
It'll still come down to whether or not they've got the developers, games, and draw to get the crowd onto their system.
Finally! I've been looking forward to this one.
Earthbound!
And River City Ransom (which already has a port in Japan, it seems).
I was in CompUSA today looking for a new LCD monitor, and noted that they had some of the SoftwareToGo machines already up and running. Walked over and gave the thing a look-see. Everything is accessed through a touch-screen interface. Browsed through some of the software titles that they offered; it made this horrid beeping noise each time you clicked on the "down scroll" button, and any time you selected an option, more beeping noises. I felt rather embarassed having the thing reward me for making choices by spitting out little ringing sounds; this will probably drive away people who want to browse software in peace. Most of the titles were budget titles, and nothing I was interested in either. All in all, I won't be using the system again anytime soon.
Games such as the Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame series take a good pan on creating a much more realistic--if ultra-realistic--tilt at the world they take place in. Everything is dirty, grimy, and smeared with a sense of being in the real world.
Perhaps it is because these games take a closer stab (pun intended) at getting into the gamer's sense of reality and trying to really get into their mind, versus the seperation between player and story in other games, in a visual sense anyway.
I find it interesting that they're offering free copies of Ultima Online and The Sims Online to all of the Earth & Beyond subscribers. First time I've heard of a closing MMO offering a sort of 'severance package'.