WTF are you talking about? The full name of the country is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. To claim the national currency should be called UKP because Ireland was occupied is completely non-sensical. Please tell me you're not some American who has Northern Irish roots and supported their terrorist policies before the peace process?
If I were to win all that shit I certainly wouldn't put any of it on my PSP, it would make it look completely arse. Surely a better prize would be something like a choice of 5 free PSP games from the Lik-Sang store?
Just look at the mouse, it looks just like any normal Razer Viper with a new sticker. This has to be the most blatant case of bullshitting the consumer I've ever seen. I was expecting something with extra buttons that can be given programmable macros or something. Instead it's a mouse with a wheel that has quite a precise sensor. Given that MMOs and RTSs don't require lightning quick precision mousing I fail to see why this mouse is worth buying over a decent cordless Logitech one.
I've often wished for such a thing myself, but I just can't think of a way it could be done. As far as I can imagine the developers of the app would have to anticipate whatever type of original game you could want to make.
The other barrier to creating games these days is the complexity and time needed. Even a modest 2D game can require people with different skills- artists, programmers, musicians etc. Back in the Spectrum/C64 days when sprites were crude mosaics it was much easier. These days to be a one man developer requires a lot more skill in different areas.
WTF are you smoking? All the specs for the PS3 point to a system that will barely (if at all) outperform the X360. The RSX isn't as powerful as the Xenon and it doesn't have onboard DRAM to do 4xAA for free. Coupled with the news that yields of the Cell are crap and that it will have to be underclocked to 2.8GHz to get decent numbers of chips off the production line I don't think Microsoft have anything to worry about except making sure they get a decent flow of exclusive third party titles.
Well by 1Up's consumerist definition of a hardcore gamer you can only be hardcore if you have enough money to buy all the games systems. When I was at University I could hardly afford any games let alone all the systems, yet I was still a hardcore gamer.
I would have expected 1Up's definition from a website like IGN, but sadly some of the 1Up writers are as equally vapid these days (e.g. SL1p).
And of course I would think a true hard core gamer would already know they want a decent games PC, if 1Up readers still need to be told they need one then they're probably not hardcore.
I have to agree, on Windows alone I find the VMs work differently depending on which version of the OS is being used. Of course in the early days of Java, MS did their best to fuck Sun's chances by releasing their own VM that was hopelessly broken and worked very differently from Sun's versions.
I don't see the point in.Net being byte-code instead of compiled either, there is no need for cross platform support because MS don't want to support other platforms. Why they actually let Mono keep going I don't know, you'd have thought they'd shut it down as it's.Net without paying for it.
Well said, I mod my consoles not so I can pirate games but so I can play imports that I would otherwise be unable to play. The whole argument that modchips/homebrew = piracy is so annoying to me because my hobby is being associated with something it's not.
I suppose it depends, did the tagger mean to say the article is stupid or the people who made such a fuss about some simulated sex are stupid? I'd have thought the latter. Personally I think hysteria would have made a good tag...;)
For a laptop that vast I would have expected at least one MXM 7800 GTX card in there, or possibly two in SLI. A 7600 would certainly be great for recent games, but in a machine that big I would have expected better.
Personally I think the best laptop out there at the moment from a size/performance ratio is the Sony VAIO SZ. Dual core CPU, 1GB RAM, 120GB HD and a Geforce 7400 all in a very pretty thin and light case. It would certainly be my first choice if I had the cash...
While I am very critical of MS for basically ignoring the backwards compatibility on the X360 since launch, I must admit I really like the way it upscales all games to 720p. If you look at games like Ninja Gaiden on the X360 the graphics look almost next gen thanks to a bit of anti-aliasing and upping the res.
I was very disappointed in the PS2's backwards compatibility of the PS1, it allegedly smoothed textures but I couldn't see any difference really. I wanted something more like the PC emulators of the PS1 which run games in a higher res with a smoother frame rate (where possible) and with filtering on all the textures. It couldn't do anything about the horrid warping and tearing of polys but that was a flaw in the design of the PS1.
I find PS2 games very blurry, jerky and low-res these days, an emulator on the PS3 that runs Shadow of the Colossus in HD at a stable frame rate would be worth the exorbitant price of the PS3 IMHO.
Unfortunately, they haven't confirmed this means all PS1 and PS2 games.
Yes, given the fact the latest slimline PS2 has trouble running Tekken 5 and Resident Evil 2 you have to wonder just how many games will be playable this time.
They haven't announced a $200 price yet, all they've said is less than $250, which could mean anything from $1 to $249.99. I suspect it will be a little higher than $200 because they've been so coy about it all. If you've got the cheapest machine then why not shout it from the rooftops? It would be nice if it was $200 as that's been their traditional launch price for every home console I believe, but given inflation that's a much harder price to hit now than ever before, even if you consider the lower spec of the Wii hardware.
Unless they plan to stick the tag so far up the immigrant's ass that he's got no chance of finding it these things would be dug out and thrown in the bin before the skin healed over from implanting it.
Unless Wikipedia deceives me the PS1 came out on December 3rd 1994, two years after Sega had Virtua Racing in the arcades. Any attempts by Sony to claim they invented 3D gaming in the face of evidence like that is laughable.
Plus the PC had been doing 3D game for quite some time too!
Itagaki is a nutjob. I love the way his company sues people for creating nude patches for DOA Vollyeball when the entire point of his game is to ogle scantily clad girls. The trailer for DOAX 360 even models each breast independently so they can swing in different directions based on the girl's momentum. That's just asking for a nude patch!
I agree, I don't think M$ have come anywhere near fulfilling their "end of the bargain" as Peter Moore put it. There's still loads of games that either don't work or have masses of slowdown, if M$ just dump the backwards compatibility I will be very pissed off.
Actually both graphics cards are MXM modules and there's bound to be spare space for more RAM so I would imagine this thing could be upgraded and kept current for a few years before the CPU is too slow and the memory bandwidth is too narrow.
Except neither of those links point to anything that proves the Cell is good for High Performance Computing which is the point of the article. This isn't anything to do with 360 vs PS3. If MS wanted to design a CPU that could be scaled up for HPC they would have done, instead they just got IBM to customise a PPC chip for their games console because their goal is dominance in the living room, not to become the next Intel.
To be honest I question the validity of this study anyway, I seem to recall lots of papers proclaiming the PS2's so-called "Emotion Engine" as the future of super computing and that never happened either. This is probably more hype paid for by Sony to make people believe the PS3 will be the second coming.
Plus if you actually watch that whole interview with Carmack you linked to, he says the only advantage of the PS3 hardware is peak performance, which if it's anything like the PS2 will be limited by memory bandwidth. And everything I've seen of the PS3's RSX suggests it's just an nVidia 7800 GTX, which means the 360 should have the advantage graphically. With the PS3 having more CPU power but the 360 having more polygon power I suspect we'll end up with fairly similar looking games.
All the games companies show games on unfinished hardware, why is this even news? Remember last year the X360 demos were on dual CPU Macs with Radeon X800s until the hardware was finished. And at this year's E3 Sony demoed Gran Turismo HD on a PC! That's not even vaguely similar architecturally to the PS3!
I saw an auction on eBay a while back for an early GameCube dev kit. The CPU clockspeed was listed as only half that of the final GameCube and the graphics hardware was missing a few pipelines. It was also bigger than the final hardware so it couldn't fit in the GC's case. Was demoing GameCube games on that at E3 also misleading?
And what have we got this year? Wii hardware that's too big to fit in Wii cases, so they stuck it in a GC case. Even if Nintendo were just using GCs and there wasn't any Wii hardware in them, I don't think it's particularly important because a) the Wii isn't about graphical power and b) the GC is essentially a subset of the Wii's final spec. So it's the equivalent of working on a cut down Wii anyway, like the early GC dev kit I mentioned above was a cut down version of the final GC hardware.
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Given how dishonest and inaccurate they were over the HL2 release date I wouldn't put much stock at all in what Gabe says is the release date.
WTF are you talking about? The full name of the country is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. To claim the national currency should be called UKP because Ireland was occupied is completely non-sensical. Please tell me you're not some American who has Northern Irish roots and supported their terrorist policies before the peace process?
The tags need some work I think. At least 50% of the articles get labelled "stupid".
If I were to win all that shit I certainly wouldn't put any of it on my PSP, it would make it look completely arse. Surely a better prize would be something like a choice of 5 free PSP games from the Lik-Sang store?
Just look at the mouse, it looks just like any normal Razer Viper with a new sticker. This has to be the most blatant case of bullshitting the consumer I've ever seen. I was expecting something with extra buttons that can be given programmable macros or something. Instead it's a mouse with a wheel that has quite a precise sensor. Given that MMOs and RTSs don't require lightning quick precision mousing I fail to see why this mouse is worth buying over a decent cordless Logitech one.
I've often wished for such a thing myself, but I just can't think of a way it could be done. As far as I can imagine the developers of the app would have to anticipate whatever type of original game you could want to make.
The other barrier to creating games these days is the complexity and time needed. Even a modest 2D game can require people with different skills- artists, programmers, musicians etc. Back in the Spectrum/C64 days when sprites were crude mosaics it was much easier. These days to be a one man developer requires a lot more skill in different areas.
their weaker and troubled console
WTF are you smoking? All the specs for the PS3 point to a system that will barely (if at all) outperform the X360. The RSX isn't as powerful as the Xenon and it doesn't have onboard DRAM to do 4xAA for free. Coupled with the news that yields of the Cell are crap and that it will have to be underclocked to 2.8GHz to get decent numbers of chips off the production line I don't think Microsoft have anything to worry about except making sure they get a decent flow of exclusive third party titles.
Well by 1Up's consumerist definition of a hardcore gamer you can only be hardcore if you have enough money to buy all the games systems. When I was at University I could hardly afford any games let alone all the systems, yet I was still a hardcore gamer.
I would have expected 1Up's definition from a website like IGN, but sadly some of the 1Up writers are as equally vapid these days (e.g. SL1p).
And of course I would think a true hard core gamer would already know they want a decent games PC, if 1Up readers still need to be told they need one then they're probably not hardcore.
I have to agree, on Windows alone I find the VMs work differently depending on which version of the OS is being used. Of course in the early days of Java, MS did their best to fuck Sun's chances by releasing their own VM that was hopelessly broken and worked very differently from Sun's versions.
.Net being byte-code instead of compiled either, there is no need for cross platform support because MS don't want to support other platforms. Why they actually let Mono keep going I don't know, you'd have thought they'd shut it down as it's .Net without paying for it.
I don't see the point in
Well said, I mod my consoles not so I can pirate games but so I can play imports that I would otherwise be unable to play. The whole argument that modchips/homebrew = piracy is so annoying to me because my hobby is being associated with something it's not.
You're right, I was just scrolling down the games section and at least half are tagged as stupid. I guess we'll need to be able to moderate tags next!
I suppose it depends, did the tagger mean to say the article is stupid or the people who made such a fuss about some simulated sex are stupid? I'd have thought the latter. Personally I think hysteria would have made a good tag... ;)
For a laptop that vast I would have expected at least one MXM 7800 GTX card in there, or possibly two in SLI. A 7600 would certainly be great for recent games, but in a machine that big I would have expected better.
Personally I think the best laptop out there at the moment from a size/performance ratio is the Sony VAIO SZ. Dual core CPU, 1GB RAM, 120GB HD and a Geforce 7400 all in a very pretty thin and light case. It would certainly be my first choice if I had the cash...
While I am very critical of MS for basically ignoring the backwards compatibility on the X360 since launch, I must admit I really like the way it upscales all games to 720p. If you look at games like Ninja Gaiden on the X360 the graphics look almost next gen thanks to a bit of anti-aliasing and upping the res.
I was very disappointed in the PS2's backwards compatibility of the PS1, it allegedly smoothed textures but I couldn't see any difference really. I wanted something more like the PC emulators of the PS1 which run games in a higher res with a smoother frame rate (where possible) and with filtering on all the textures. It couldn't do anything about the horrid warping and tearing of polys but that was a flaw in the design of the PS1.
I find PS2 games very blurry, jerky and low-res these days, an emulator on the PS3 that runs Shadow of the Colossus in HD at a stable frame rate would be worth the exorbitant price of the PS3 IMHO.
Yes, given the fact the latest slimline PS2 has trouble running Tekken 5 and Resident Evil 2 you have to wonder just how many games will be playable this time.
They haven't announced a $200 price yet, all they've said is less than $250, which could mean anything from $1 to $249.99. I suspect it will be a little higher than $200 because they've been so coy about it all. If you've got the cheapest machine then why not shout it from the rooftops? It would be nice if it was $200 as that's been their traditional launch price for every home console I believe, but given inflation that's a much harder price to hit now than ever before, even if you consider the lower spec of the Wii hardware.
Unless they plan to stick the tag so far up the immigrant's ass that he's got no chance of finding it these things would be dug out and thrown in the bin before the skin healed over from implanting it.
Unless Wikipedia deceives me the PS1 came out on December 3rd 1994, two years after Sega had Virtua Racing in the arcades. Any attempts by Sony to claim they invented 3D gaming in the face of evidence like that is laughable.
Plus the PC had been doing 3D game for quite some time too!
Itagaki is a nutjob. I love the way his company sues people for creating nude patches for DOA Vollyeball when the entire point of his game is to ogle scantily clad girls. The trailer for DOAX 360 even models each breast independently so they can swing in different directions based on the girl's momentum. That's just asking for a nude patch!
I agree, I don't think M$ have come anywhere near fulfilling their "end of the bargain" as Peter Moore put it. There's still loads of games that either don't work or have masses of slowdown, if M$ just dump the backwards compatibility I will be very pissed off.
Actually both graphics cards are MXM modules and there's bound to be spare space for more RAM so I would imagine this thing could be upgraded and kept current for a few years before the CPU is too slow and the memory bandwidth is too narrow.
Is everyone ripping off the Wii these days?
Except neither of those links point to anything that proves the Cell is good for High Performance Computing which is the point of the article. This isn't anything to do with 360 vs PS3. If MS wanted to design a CPU that could be scaled up for HPC they would have done, instead they just got IBM to customise a PPC chip for their games console because their goal is dominance in the living room, not to become the next Intel.
To be honest I question the validity of this study anyway, I seem to recall lots of papers proclaiming the PS2's so-called "Emotion Engine" as the future of super computing and that never happened either. This is probably more hype paid for by Sony to make people believe the PS3 will be the second coming.
Plus if you actually watch that whole interview with Carmack you linked to, he says the only advantage of the PS3 hardware is peak performance, which if it's anything like the PS2 will be limited by memory bandwidth. And everything I've seen of the PS3's RSX suggests it's just an nVidia 7800 GTX, which means the 360 should have the advantage graphically. With the PS3 having more CPU power but the 360 having more polygon power I suspect we'll end up with fairly similar looking games.
All the games companies show games on unfinished hardware, why is this even news? Remember last year the X360 demos were on dual CPU Macs with Radeon X800s until the hardware was finished. And at this year's E3 Sony demoed Gran Turismo HD on a PC! That's not even vaguely similar architecturally to the PS3!
I saw an auction on eBay a while back for an early GameCube dev kit. The CPU clockspeed was listed as only half that of the final GameCube and the graphics hardware was missing a few pipelines. It was also bigger than the final hardware so it couldn't fit in the GC's case. Was demoing GameCube games on that at E3 also misleading?
And what have we got this year? Wii hardware that's too big to fit in Wii cases, so they stuck it in a GC case. Even if Nintendo were just using GCs and there wasn't any Wii hardware in them, I don't think it's particularly important because a) the Wii isn't about graphical power and b) the GC is essentially a subset of the Wii's final spec. So it's the equivalent of working on a cut down Wii anyway, like the early GC dev kit I mentioned above was a cut down version of the final GC hardware.
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