I was talking about the console, but even the games sell well. There are usually 3 or 4 PSP games in the weekly top 10. Remember, we're talking about Japan here.
They are but the PSP has been outselling it consistently for a while now (I'd say since about last year, give or take a few weeks where big Nintendo games like Pokémon or Mario come out).
In my experience it's the other way around. In theory managed languages (stuff like C# and Java) can be better optimized since you have more information at runtime but in practice I've never seen any useful code written in those languages outperform similar stuff in C or C++.
The main interface doesn't use Windows CE, only a few games used it. Read the last paragraph in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast#History I would quote the relevant part but Chrome doesn't seem to like pasting in Slashdot's comment box.
Yes, but the graphics developers are getting out of these consoles are much better than what you'd get on a PC with similar hardware. On consoles you don't have as much overhead from the OS (and background applications) and since the hardware is fixed you can optimize your engine to make better use of it than on PC.
They would need to do that in concert with all the other big manufacturers like Acer and Lenovo, as well as game developers. I would say Microsoft too but I doubt they would want to since it would be competition for their Xbox. They would basically agree on fixed specs for a cheap gaming PC that anyone could sell, and game devs would target it for their games. But I doubt anything like that could ever happen. There would be too much bickering about what brand of CPU or GPU to use, and with nobody big enough to impose stuff (like Microsoft) the thing would fail before it even started.
That's not entirely true. You'll have to pay the same price in € as in $ but the difference is added to your GOG account so you can use it to buy other stuff. At least that's what I understood from the email they sent me.
You should be aware that games have long (roughly from the start of this current console generation) stopped supporting accelerated sound and started doing it all in software on the CPU. Mostly because it wasn't supported anymore in Vista (and 7) but also because CPUs have become powerful enough to do it without slowing down other things. So discrete sound cards are only useful (in the gaming world) for playing old games that supported stuff like EAX effects.
I've never understood what benefits raytracing has for gaming. Every demo of it I've seen has looked very poor compared to how it's done currently. It pretty much always involves way too many mirrors and shiny surfaces which look too synthetic and aren't of much use in an actual game anyway.
They didn't innovate, they just bought the technology from some small Israeli company. Or maybe they bought the whole company, I don't remember. One or the other.
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And the removal of the OtherOS came after that one guy (forgot his name) used OtherOS to try and hack into the GameOS.
When has a boycott ever been successful?
I was talking about the console, but even the games sell well. There are usually 3 or 4 PSP games in the weekly top 10. Remember, we're talking about Japan here.
They are but the PSP has been outselling it consistently for a while now (I'd say since about last year, give or take a few weeks where big Nintendo games like Pokémon or Mario come out).
The PSP2 and the Playstaion Phone are different products.
In my experience it's the other way around. In theory managed languages (stuff like C# and Java) can be better optimized since you have more information at runtime but in practice I've never seen any useful code written in those languages outperform similar stuff in C or C++.
You got the wrong John.
The main interface doesn't use Windows CE, only a few games used it. Read the last paragraph in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast#History
I would quote the relevant part but Chrome doesn't seem to like pasting in Slashdot's comment box.
You can't auto-update the PS3, unless you pay for the Playstation Plus service.
Nobody said they got access to them.
They should also force them to give every one of us either a pony or a pink unicorn.
So it's an N clone instead?
The PS1 emulation on the PS3 has always been software based. It doesn't take much to do it perfectly. I think even the PSP does it in software.
Yes, but the graphics developers are getting out of these consoles are much better than what you'd get on a PC with similar hardware. On consoles you don't have as much overhead from the OS (and background applications) and since the hardware is fixed you can optimize your engine to make better use of it than on PC.
I don't think there are DOS drivers for the sound chips you find in current (from the past 10 years) computers, so no worry there.
They would need to do that in concert with all the other big manufacturers like Acer and Lenovo, as well as game developers. I would say Microsoft too but I doubt they would want to since it would be competition for their Xbox. They would basically agree on fixed specs for a cheap gaming PC that anyone could sell, and game devs would target it for their games. But I doubt anything like that could ever happen. There would be too much bickering about what brand of CPU or GPU to use, and with nobody big enough to impose stuff (like Microsoft) the thing would fail before it even started.
It's $1.99 for the HD version and $0.99 for the other one.
That's not entirely true. You'll have to pay the same price in € as in $ but the difference is added to your GOG account so you can use it to buy other stuff. At least that's what I understood from the email they sent me.
You should be aware that games have long (roughly from the start of this current console generation) stopped supporting accelerated sound and started doing it all in software on the CPU. Mostly because it wasn't supported anymore in Vista (and 7) but also because CPUs have become powerful enough to do it without slowing down other things. So discrete sound cards are only useful (in the gaming world) for playing old games that supported stuff like EAX effects.
I've never understood what benefits raytracing has for gaming. Every demo of it I've seen has looked very poor compared to how it's done currently. It pretty much always involves way too many mirrors and shiny surfaces which look too synthetic and aren't of much use in an actual game anyway.
Most netbooks that I've seen have a resolution of 1024x600. The only one I've seen with a resolution of 1366x768 is an 11" one.
I'm pretty sure there would still be many volunteers even if they would die the moment they arrive.
WTF are you talking about? You don't need HDCP to play games on the PS3.
They didn't innovate, they just bought the technology from some small Israeli company. Or maybe they bought the whole company, I don't remember. One or the other.
And even in your house PPC isn't dead. All current generation consoles use PPC processors.