To make the situation fair, the small basement indie developer would not even be able to release his game on a Nintendo console, Nintendo gives only away devkits for their market if they are registered developers with an office and at least one game on their track record.
You basically described the same situation for every newer nintendo console. Decent games are drowned in myriads of kiddie games clones, one worse than the other. Have you ever looked at the average nintendo shelf, 1000 barbie games and if you are lucky one of the better games somewhere hidden in the side of the stack (usually then it is from Nintendo If you want to buy good games for Nintendo consoles you usually have to do that online via mail order. I think the junk to decent games ratio is pretty much the same on the apple app store and slightly worse on the Android app store.
No it does not crash all the time, but given that i am a server framework programmer this issue is severe enough. It is not funny if a well placed http get parameter can shoot down your entire server. It of course depends on the backend code really trying to convert the number into float params. So far Tomcat has fixed this relatively quickly other frameworks as well ( you still can shoot down the server on framework level) But the final fix has to come from Oracle.
Problem with the current generation of new consoles is simply they wont be upgradable. Lots of people bought into a console first time of their life. And they will be in for a major dissapointment when the next generation comes along. Reason they have plunked hundreds of dollars into games, and once the next gen hits, there is a huge chance the games will not play on the new console anymore. Every console so far has become a doorstopper to some degree after a while. Nintendo being better than the others by trying to keep the backwards compatibility. PS4 -> probably hell freezes over that it will be backwards compatible, Sony has to either stay on exactly the same hardware and ramp up the ram and GHz or they have to drop the Cell processor line entirely. Microsoft probably faces a similar dilemma with their Custom processor. Nintendo might have a chance, the Wii is so underspecced that they probably by now can move the core to a SOC and put it into the Wiis successor. Now compare that with a PC where even the old infocom adventures still run given some effort. And thats the big problem most people simply yet are not aware of!
I am still on a 3 year old mid range PC graphics card which I back then got for 150$ it still runs pretty much every new game which comes out on the PC ad mid til high end settings. The reason, the stallment of the update cycle caused by the last console generation. The funny thing is, if you want cheap gaming it is currently the PC, the games are cheaper and usually hit the bargain bin earlier, and given that the consoles lack severely on the hardware side and PC only development has come to a standstill or went mostly independend you dont even have to upgrade your graphics card. And with the next console generation it probably again will be just a shift to the next mid range graphics card version 1-2 years into the consoles lifespan and you are set for another 7-8 years, depending on the lifespan of the consoles.
Does it hurt the PC Graphics card makers, sure, does it hurt the console gamers which will not be able to get such huge shift in graphics from each generation anymore, sure. What can we do about it nothing I guess, people flocked to the consoles and thats now what they get. PC graphics card makers are aware of that paradigm shift and move slowly into other directions. NVidia currently moves into the Supercomputer market because their cards are more like modern Vector machines than anything else and also into the handheld market with their Tegra Line. The PC market is seen by them as something probably better left to Intel in the long term no growth there anymore and no big sales numbers for dedicated graphics solutions there anymore. ATI does what AMD always did they try to stick with the PC market but they are also integrating their graphics cores.
Is it? Sony had similar stuff in the PS2 days not with such a fine grained resolution but still it had something. Besides that motion tracking is not that innovative.
The paradigm of endless growth, myth, this does not work. Just because the business guys do not get it does not mean they are right. First we live in a world of limited ressources second, growth at one point can only happen at the expense of others. And as general rule, there is no endless growth every growth has its end and the end usually is a regulating collapse. Business is no exception but the rule, the various economic crashes in the past are proof. And this cycle will repeat ad infinitum until we get away from a grow interest rates based system!
It even then wont turn the tide, the reason, it simply lacks a lot of things compared to Chrome Opera10 and firefox4. IE9 again is an attempt of stopping html5 by providing some stuff half implemented while leaving a load of things out. Not that html5 itself is really equally implemented over all browsers, but IE9 stands basically at the level of firefox 3.6 with some canvas (half working) on top of it and some css transitions and a semi working half implemented svg. But they added hardware acceleration to the css transitions, which is the least important thing to many.
Microsoft seriously should do itself a favor and participate on Webkit like everyone else instead of trotting constantly three years behind with their engine. Exactly the three years Ballmer and Gates had dissolved the IE team because ie6 had 90% marketshare! I somehow feel bad for the current IE team, they get all the smacks because of the work of their predecessor and they probably also know that participating in Webkit would be the saner choice but they have to work on Microsofts own codebase probably full of com junk and bugs stemming directly from IE6 which they still need to clean up while trying to catch up to the rest, which is impossible. The IE has become the Netscape of the browsers and you can see that by the rapid decline of IE, which is still upheld by corporations and their version lock into IE6!
The Huawei tech is G1/G2 tech mostly. You get acceptable performance levels at last years tech which is the N1. I expect by summer or years end to see the first phones with the hardware level of the N1 show up in this price range. Apple should be scared, and they are (given Steve Jobs last years rant)
Eclipse sucks compared to netbeans and Intellij. Eclipse is a mess of half working plugins. Especially the jee part of eclipse is really lousy with lack of features slow editors and bugs.
And yet more adventure games are coming out as in the Sierra heydey. The trick is that all those game studios are not multi mega corporations who would sniff at sales numbers below 3 mio but are small companies which make a living on selling 30.000 copies of a game maybe 60.000 worldwide. And so far it seems to work for them. Sometimes it is a good thing if a genre is below the radar of EA, Activision and co.
Heck you should really check the adventure game centric sites there currently are coming out so many adventure games that I have a hard time to keep track of them. The genre has mostly gone independent, but some of those games are pure gems.
Actually while the article itself covered the early times really well, I had the gutsy feeling that the author did not investigate the last 10 years properly. The genre was at a hiatus from 1995 til lets say 2001 or so when The Longest Journey came out. Since then there has been a steady stream of adventure games coming out with a few dozends every year. Some of them really bad some of them already considered classics by the community. It seems to me that the article focused mostly on adventure games being released by the big US and japanese publishers instead on the genre hence. But the genre has moved mostly towards independend studios.
You obviously never played games like Runaway, Gray Matter, Black Mirror or Whipsered World do you?
Just an example of exceptionally well done new school adventure games. Btw. Gray Matter is the new game by Jane Jensen who did the Gabriel Knight series.
It is just not the multi million dollar market anymore. The good news is, the big publishers have left the market but small studios thanks to better development tools have entered it and crunch out game after game. The adventure game market is alive and kicking, and looks brighter nowadays than ten years before.
The funny thing is publishers currently tarket Europe first and then the US because most of the dev studios are european and the market is bigger there. Also there is the success story of Telltale Games which have found a nieche of their own.
So it is a natural development, as soon as the dinosaurs are extinct or have left, the small animals are taking over again and everything is thriving again.
same here, except you can replace it with my android phone. I always carry my android phone with me. The iPad goes additionally with me if I have to do some serious reading wanna enjoy media or whatever. The notebook is only carried around if I have some serious work to do. The iPad for me has replaced the notebook to 80%, the mobile gaming console to 100% and the ebook reader to 99%.
Funny stuff is that a complete touch interface was proposed Microsoft internally, the Microsoft management ditched it for being to risky. Microsoft has gotten all those problems when they aquired a huge middle management layer. Compare following: Sun.. small management huge engineering dep, company thrived Sun.. big management middle layer -> company went down the gutters
Microsoft... small management huge engineering... company thirved Microsoft today: oh well
Google currently is in the transition between phase 1 and 2
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To make the situation fair, the small basement indie developer would not even be able to release his game on a Nintendo console, Nintendo gives only away devkits for their market if they are registered developers with an office and at least one game on their track record.
You basically described the same situation for every newer nintendo console. Decent games are drowned in myriads of kiddie games clones, one worse than the other. Have you ever looked at the average nintendo shelf, 1000 barbie games and if you are lucky one of the better games somewhere hidden in the side of the stack (usually then it is from Nintendo
If you want to buy good games for Nintendo consoles you usually have to do that online via mail order.
I think the junk to decent games ratio is pretty much the same on the apple app store and slightly worse on the Android app store.
Wont help :-) it only triggers if the text field parses for a floating LONG number!
Most textfields either go for Int or Float as their targets.
Guess they simply used the Harmony Code for this stuff and Harmony does not have the bug in.
No it does not crash all the time, but given that i am a server framework programmer this issue is severe enough. It is not funny if a well placed http get parameter can shoot down your entire server. It of course depends on the backend code really trying to convert the number into float params. So far Tomcat has fixed this relatively quickly other frameworks as well ( you still can shoot down the server on framework level)
But the final fix has to come from Oracle.
Hey those Beancounters and Law divisions are needed to sue children aka pirates who copy our tetris version 15 and mario party version 45.
The 2 Dollar games is killing our business model of cashing in 50 dollars per copy for the same junk!
Problem with the current generation of new consoles is simply they wont be upgradable. Lots of people bought into a console first time of their life. And they will be in for a major dissapointment when the next generation comes along. Reason they have plunked hundreds of dollars into games, and once the next gen hits, there is a huge chance the games will not play on the new console anymore.
Every console so far has become a doorstopper to some degree after a while. Nintendo being better than the others by trying to keep the backwards compatibility. PS4 -> probably hell freezes over that it will be backwards compatible, Sony has to either stay on exactly the same hardware and ramp up the ram and GHz or they have to drop the Cell processor line entirely.
Microsoft probably faces a similar dilemma with their Custom processor. Nintendo might have a chance, the Wii is so underspecced that they probably by now can move the core to a SOC and put it into the Wiis successor.
Now compare that with a PC where even the old infocom adventures still run given some effort.
And thats the big problem most people simply yet are not aware of!
I am still on a 3 year old mid range PC graphics card which I back then got for 150$ it still runs pretty much every new game which comes out on the PC ad mid til high end settings.
The reason, the stallment of the update cycle caused by the last console generation.
The funny thing is, if you want cheap gaming it is currently the PC, the games are cheaper and usually hit the bargain bin earlier, and given that the consoles lack severely on the hardware side and PC only development has come to a standstill or went mostly independend you dont even have to upgrade your graphics card. And with the next console generation it probably again will be just a shift to the next mid range graphics card version 1-2 years into the consoles lifespan and you are set for another 7-8 years, depending on the lifespan of the consoles.
Does it hurt the PC Graphics card makers, sure, does it hurt the console gamers which will not be able to get such huge shift in graphics from each generation anymore, sure. What can we do about it nothing I guess, people flocked to the consoles and thats now what they get.
PC graphics card makers are aware of that paradigm shift and move slowly into other directions. NVidia currently moves into the Supercomputer market because their cards are more like modern Vector machines than anything else and also into the handheld market with their Tegra Line. The PC market is seen by them as something probably better left to Intel in the long term no growth there anymore and no big sales numbers for dedicated graphics solutions there anymore.
ATI does what AMD always did they try to stick with the PC market but they are also integrating their graphics cores.
Is it? Sony had similar stuff in the PS2 days not with such a fine grained resolution but still it had something.
Besides that motion tracking is not that innovative.
The paradigm of endless growth, myth, this does not work. Just because the business guys do not get it does not mean they are right. First we live in a world of limited ressources second, growth at one point can only happen at the expense of others. And as general rule, there is no endless growth every growth has its end and the end usually is a regulating collapse. Business is no exception but the rule, the various economic crashes in the past are proof.
And this cycle will repeat ad infinitum until we get away from a grow interest rates based system!
Well if you look at the mobile space, Chrome/Webkit has a defacto monopoly thanks to the bundleing into Android iOS and Blackberry.
It even then wont turn the tide, the reason, it simply lacks a lot of things compared to Chrome Opera10 and firefox4. IE9 again is an attempt of stopping html5 by providing some stuff half implemented while leaving a load of things out. Not that html5 itself is really equally implemented over all browsers, but IE9 stands basically at the level of firefox 3.6 with some canvas (half working) on top of it and some css transitions and a semi working half implemented svg. But they added hardware acceleration to the css transitions, which is the least important thing to many.
Microsoft seriously should do itself a favor and participate on Webkit like everyone else instead of trotting constantly three years behind with their engine. Exactly the three years Ballmer and Gates had dissolved the IE team because ie6 had 90% marketshare! I somehow feel bad for the current IE team, they get all the smacks because of the work of their predecessor and they probably also know that participating in Webkit would be the saner choice but they have to work on Microsofts own codebase probably full of com junk and bugs stemming directly from IE6 which they still need to clean up while trying to catch up to the rest, which is impossible.
The IE has become the Netscape of the browsers and you can see that by the rapid decline of IE, which is still upheld by corporations and their version lock into IE6!
The Huawei tech is G1/G2 tech mostly. You get acceptable performance levels at last years tech which is the N1. I expect by summer or years end to see the first phones with the hardware level of the N1 show up in this price range. Apple should be scared, and they are (given Steve Jobs last years rant)
Nice Rimjob...
I second that recommendation.
Eclipse sucks compared to netbeans and Intellij. Eclipse is a mess of half working plugins. Especially the jee part of eclipse is really lousy with lack of features slow editors and bugs.
And yet more adventure games are coming out as in the Sierra heydey. The trick is that all those game studios are not multi mega corporations who would sniff at sales numbers below 3 mio but are small companies which make a living on selling 30.000 copies of a game maybe 60.000 worldwide.
And so far it seems to work for them. Sometimes it is a good thing if a genre is below the radar of EA, Activision and co.
Heck you should really check the adventure game centric sites there currently are coming out so many adventure games that I have a hard time to keep track of them. The genre has mostly gone independent, but some of those games are pure gems.
Actually while the article itself covered the early times really well, I had the gutsy feeling that the author did not investigate the last 10 years properly. The genre was at a hiatus from 1995 til lets say 2001 or so when The Longest Journey came out. Since then there has been a steady stream of adventure games coming out with a few dozends every year. Some of them really bad some of them already considered classics by the community.
It seems to me that the article focused mostly on adventure games being released by the big US and japanese publishers instead on the genre hence. But the genre has moved mostly towards independend studios.
You obviously never played games like
Runaway, Gray Matter, Black Mirror or Whipsered World do you?
Just an example of exceptionally well done new school adventure games.
Btw. Gray Matter is the new game by Jane Jensen who did the Gabriel Knight series.
It is just not the multi million dollar market anymore. The good news is, the big publishers have left the market but small studios thanks to better development tools have entered it and crunch out game after game.
The adventure game market is alive and kicking, and looks brighter nowadays than ten years before.
The funny thing is publishers currently tarket Europe first and then the US because most of the dev studios are european and the market is bigger there.
Also there is the success story of Telltale Games which have found a nieche of their own.
So it is a natural development, as soon as the dinosaurs are extinct or have left, the small animals are taking over again
and everything is thriving again.
same here, except you can replace it with my android phone. I always carry my android phone with me. The iPad goes additionally with me if I have to do some serious reading wanna enjoy media or whatever. The notebook is only carried around if I have some serious work to do.
The iPad for me has replaced the notebook to 80%, the mobile gaming console to 100% and the ebook reader to 99%.
Funny stuff is that a complete touch interface was proposed Microsoft internally, the Microsoft management ditched it for being to risky. .. small management huge engineering dep, company thrived .. big management middle layer -> company went down the gutters
Microsoft has gotten all those problems when they aquired a huge middle management layer.
Compare following:
Sun
Sun
Microsoft ... small management huge engineering ... company thirved
Microsoft today: oh well
Google currently is in the transition between phase 1 and 2
Actually I was not too impressed, the 3d effects were nice and mostly non distracting, but the story really lacked and was shallow.