Yes, I have the same issue with EDID over VGA to an LCD TV. Had to create a custom resolution in the nvidia config tool on Windows and add a mode line to xorg.conf on Linux.
MP$ and AAC (which stands for Advanced Audio Codec) aren't Apple only, and weren't created by Apple but my the MPEG consortium. While I can understand why people thought Apple created them at first, since Apple was quick to adopt them, it has been a few years and there's plenty of devices with MP4 video and audio support.
Not a strawman at all, considering that SCEA did/does survey G.A.P/Playstation Underground members about various topics, including mobile gaming. It's quite logical and likely that they did use focus groups when designing the PSP.
It's an age/affluence thing. Around here, most city council/county board position holders are either semi-retired or have upper middle class/upper class jobs that they can give them plenty of leave/sabbaticals/time off. If you're say, an executive at a heavy equipment company, they'll give you whatever time you need, because they know you will favor their interests.
Though if they'd have asked me, I would have told them to make something similar to the PSP (except with two analog nubs and two more shoulder buttons) Same goes for the PS3, the PS3 (at least the deluxe chrome 4 USB + flash card slots + backwards compatibility + all the picture/video/music/web browser + ability to install Linux stuff) is exactly what I would have told Sony I wanted. They made the perfect machines for their hardcore Gamer Advisory Panel/Playstation Underground member/Linux using fanbase. Problem is, there aren't that many of us, even though we're more vocal on the net.
How tall are you? Really, I want to know, because it' from what it seems to me, that bigger guys tend to prefer the Xbox controllers. To me the Xbox-foo controllers are simply too big and uncomfortable, give me a Dual Shock any day, course, I'm just under 5' 6" tall.
Here's what I Think Sony did when they began designing the PSP:
Sony: Hello gamer focus group, tell us what you don't like about the GBA and it's games.
Gamer focus group: They're shorter than their console brethren and they're often not the same game. Take a look at the GB Tomb Raider..it's a side scroller. They're cut down.
Sony: So you want games more like those on the PS1/PS2? Okay, Give us a couple of years.
A couple of years later:
Sony: here is the game machine you wanted.
hardcore gamer focus groups: What? we didn't want this? It's too big and looks fragile, and why did you use discs and the battery doesn't last long enough, and the games are too much like PS2 games, and it costs too much.
Sony: WTF? But you told us that's what you wanted! You wanted games more like those on the home platforms, that requires a more powerful CPU and GPU and a larger backlit screen, it requires more power. Flash storage is still a bit expensive, we had to go with a disc format for capacity reasons for the larger more complex games you wanted.
Gamer focus groups: But all we want is simple pick up and play puzzlers now, we're fickle.
You see, Grumbel, plenty of folks told Sony what they wanted in a portable was more TEkken and Wipeout, and sony gave it to them, but it turns out that some of those gamers were lying to themselves and didn't really want what they told Sony.
For example, if you liked those games on a PS2 why wouldn't you want them mobile as well?
First - the UMD sucked. It's a great way to hold 2GB of data back in the day, but these days, solid state storage means 2GB of storage is cheap (and most games were under 2GB).
yes, solid state is cheap...now, but it wasn't when the PSP launched over 5 years ago. That's why they went disc, they had to.
Second - the video restrictions were lame - you couldn't get full screen video at 30fps off memory stick - only UMD. CFW fixed this as well.
And so id regular firmware, in version 3.30....over 3 years ago.
Sony could've supported this in a similar way - dump a UMD to memory stick and either grab the key from the UMD, or use a machine-specific key. Games load faster, battery lasts longer, etc. CFW supported this why didn't Sony?
They do, it's called the PSN store, which became a available almost 4 years ago. There's plenty of games that were or are available on UMD available on it as downloads.
And a large reason the App Store works is because of the free apps and cheap apps.
PSP Mini's. That's a relatively new thing though, in response to all those cheap ass low quality flash/java puzzle games for the various phones.
It is. When I learned typing back in the 80's there were plenty of kids who only took the first semester of the full year Typing I course, which was also considered the "Basic Typing" course. Worked well.
Even if it did perform as well, the 'prosumer' market of today didn't exist.
Yes it did, that's who Popular PHotography Magazine and those 35mm camera ads in National Geographic were for. Even when I was a youngun, at most school events there's be maybe 1 or 2 parents with 35mm cameras
This is especially common, I've noticed, on the console side of gaming where the graphical fidelity achievable on modern computers isn't attainable anymore (this gen).
They do it for PC games too, it's just that most PC games don't get TV commercials. They don't show any actual gameplay in the Starcraft II commercial do they?
What you're referring to as BD&D, if you mean the Basic through Immortals boxed sets (or the Rules Cyclopedia compilation + Wrath of the Immortals) catered to those who preferred High Fantasy High Magic Worlds with balanced high-level play.
It's the only variant that included mass-combat and dominion rules in the main ruleset. It's also the only variant with a world that's understandable and accesible to players because Mystaran cultures are based on ones in our history. Unlike say Greyhawk which had a bunch of funny names with too many consonants masquerading as names of people and places. Can you explain what Furyondy is like to a newbie? I can explain Karameikos in a minute: Medievalized Byzantine Greek ruling class of expatriate Thyatians running a nation populated by Romanian-ish Traladarans
I'm from Downstate. Trust me, Downstaters don't consider Kankakee "Chicagoland" even if it "sort-of" is. The sooner downstaters come to terms with the fact that there are 5 million people in Cook County which means Chicago is the REAL capital of Illinois, the better.
Halo was an excellent example for this. PC gamers wiped the floor with the xbox counterparts when xbox live allowed PC gamers to play against Xbox'ers. There wasn't a single Xboxer in the top 100 players.
I don't know where you got your info, but Halo doesn't have cross platform play.
I think any gamers who take one incident and say "This tiny problem is the ONE reason!" are liars.
Actually I don't, I just think they're single-game players, meaning the guys that buy ONE game and then play it forever. They're most akin to the "Madden only" jock-gamers on the consoles that play Madden but no other games. So that if their one particular gaming obsession doesn't work, they aren't going to go play something else.
so the most ambitious games - especially complex simulators and strategy games - simply can't be done on anything else.
But the market for such games is embarassingly small. It's not like it's still 1987 when game developers could be assured that a good portion of PC owners were D&D/table top warming nerds and a retired colonel could get together with a few programmers and make a hex based wargame.
The XKCD made the same mistake many slashdotters make when talking about 1080p, being "PC diehards" they don't realize that 1080p refers to the vertical resolution, not horizontal. 1080p is 1920x1080. you couldn't buy a cell phone with a 960 horizontal resolution screen until recently. Even the N900 is only 800. And also until quite recently, the most common computer resolution was 1024x768, only the most hard core of PC owners (like XKCD's creator) had those big ass 1600x1200 monitors, which still doesn't match the 1920 horizontal of 1080p. In 2004 there will still plenty of web browsers running at 800x600!
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NES emulators ran fine on the PS3. Sure, you didn't have 3D access, but 2D games worked pretty well. Played many a game of Nethack on mine.
Yes, I have the same issue with EDID over VGA to an LCD TV. Had to create a custom resolution in the nvidia config tool on Windows and add a mode line to xorg.conf on Linux.
MP$ and AAC (which stands for Advanced Audio Codec) aren't Apple only, and weren't created by Apple but my the MPEG consortium. While I can understand why people thought Apple created them at first, since Apple was quick to adopt them, it has been a few years and there's plenty of devices with MP4 video and audio support.
Not a strawman at all, considering that SCEA did/does survey G.A.P/Playstation Underground members about various topics, including mobile gaming. It's quite logical and likely that they did use focus groups when designing the PSP.
The PS3 also plays the lower profiles and most certainly could play AppleTV formatted video.
Not unless you want a very large power bill. Sure, tech-obsessed geeks don't care, but most people do.
In other words, still not as good as a PS3.
It's an age/affluence thing. Around here, most city council/county board position holders are either semi-retired or have upper middle class/upper class jobs that they can give them plenty of leave/sabbaticals/time off. If you're say, an executive at a heavy equipment company, they'll give you whatever time you need, because they know you will favor their interests.
Agreed.
Though if they'd have asked me, I would have told them to make something similar to the PSP (except with two analog nubs and two more shoulder buttons) Same goes for the PS3, the PS3 (at least the deluxe chrome 4 USB + flash card slots + backwards compatibility + all the picture/video/music/web browser + ability to install Linux stuff) is exactly what I would have told Sony I wanted. They made the perfect machines for their hardcore Gamer Advisory Panel/Playstation Underground member/Linux using fanbase. Problem is, there aren't that many of us, even though we're more vocal on the net.
How tall are you? Really, I want to know, because it' from what it seems to me, that bigger guys tend to prefer the Xbox controllers. To me the Xbox-foo controllers are simply too big and uncomfortable, give me a Dual Shock any day, course, I'm just under 5' 6" tall.
Here's what I Think Sony did when they began designing the PSP:
Sony: Hello gamer focus group, tell us what you don't like about the GBA and it's games.
Gamer focus group: They're shorter than their console brethren and they're often not the same game. Take a look at the GB Tomb Raider..it's a side scroller. They're cut down.
Sony: So you want games more like those on the PS1/PS2? Okay, Give us a couple of years.
A couple of years later:
Sony: here is the game machine you wanted.
hardcore gamer focus groups: What? we didn't want this? It's too big and looks fragile, and why did you use discs and the battery doesn't last long enough, and the games are too much like PS2 games, and it costs too much.
Sony: WTF? But you told us that's what you wanted! You wanted games more like those on the home platforms, that requires a more powerful CPU and GPU and a larger backlit screen, it requires more power. Flash storage is still a bit expensive, we had to go with a disc format for capacity reasons for the larger more complex games you wanted.
Gamer focus groups: But all we want is simple pick up and play puzzlers now, we're fickle.
You see, Grumbel, plenty of folks told Sony what they wanted in a portable was more TEkken and Wipeout, and sony gave it to them, but it turns out that some of those gamers were lying to themselves and didn't really want what they told Sony.
For example, if you liked those games on a PS2 why wouldn't you want them mobile as well?
yes, solid state is cheap...now, but it wasn't when the PSP launched over 5 years ago. That's why they went disc, they had to.
And so id regular firmware, in version 3.30....over 3 years ago.
They do, it's called the PSN store, which became a available almost 4 years ago. There's plenty of games that were or are available on UMD available on it as downloads.
PSP Mini's. That's a relatively new thing though, in response to all those cheap ass low quality flash/java puzzle games for the various phones.
The invizimals camera is not the equal to the Chotto Shotto/Go Cam in capability.
It is. When I learned typing back in the 80's there were plenty of kids who only took the first semester of the full year Typing I course, which was also considered the "Basic Typing" course. Worked well.
Yes it did, that's who Popular PHotography Magazine and those 35mm camera ads in National Geographic were for. Even when I was a youngun, at most school events there's be maybe 1 or 2 parents with 35mm cameras
The concept of funny captioned cat pictures is a bit over 100 years old at least:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/12/01/funny-pictures-oldest-ever-lolcat-found/
They do it for PC games too, it's just that most PC games don't get TV commercials. They don't show any actual gameplay in the Starcraft II commercial do they?
Danielle Steele never had Fabio, but he was on Wizards & Warriors II for the NES. :-)
What you're referring to as BD&D, if you mean the Basic through Immortals boxed sets (or the Rules Cyclopedia compilation + Wrath of the Immortals) catered to those who preferred High Fantasy High Magic Worlds with balanced high-level play.
It's the only variant that included mass-combat and dominion rules in the main ruleset. It's also the only variant with a world that's understandable and accesible to players because Mystaran cultures are based on ones in our history. Unlike say Greyhawk which had a bunch of funny names with too many consonants masquerading as names of people and places. Can you explain what Furyondy is like to a newbie? I can explain Karameikos in a minute: Medievalized Byzantine Greek ruling class of expatriate Thyatians running a nation populated by Romanian-ish Traladarans
I'm from Downstate. Trust me, Downstaters don't consider Kankakee "Chicagoland" even if it "sort-of" is. The sooner downstaters come to terms with the fact that there are 5 million people in Cook County which means Chicago is the REAL capital of Illinois, the better.
I don't know where you got your info, but Halo doesn't have cross platform play.
Actually I don't, I just think they're single-game players, meaning the guys that buy ONE game and then play it forever. They're most akin to the "Madden only" jock-gamers on the consoles that play Madden but no other games. So that if their one particular gaming obsession doesn't work, they aren't going to go play something else.
While the original Xbox has an X86 CPU the Xbox360 doesn't, it's PPC.
But the market for such games is embarassingly small. It's not like it's still 1987 when game developers could be assured that a good portion of PC owners were D&D/table top warming nerds and a retired colonel could get together with a few programmers and make a hex based wargame.
The XKCD made the same mistake many slashdotters make when talking about 1080p, being "PC diehards" they don't realize that 1080p refers to the vertical resolution, not horizontal. 1080p is 1920x1080. you couldn't buy a cell phone with a 960 horizontal resolution screen until recently. Even the N900 is only 800. And also until quite recently, the most common computer resolution was 1024x768, only the most hard core of PC owners (like XKCD's creator) had those big ass 1600x1200 monitors, which still doesn't match the 1920 horizontal of 1080p. In 2004 there will still plenty of web browsers running at 800x600!
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_resolution_higher.asp