Are you serious? They already have blu-ray AV in Japan. Japan and US are in the same blu-ray region. Therefore the US already has blu-ray porn. Do you feel confused now? The same company does HDDVD and UMD movies too. I'm sure you really hate Sony, but your theories are very wrong. Sony is only one member of the Blu-Ray group, and unlike HDDVD one company can't go out and bully others off the format by decree.
I thought this was settled last time slashdot posted this bullshit story to begin with. AV is about profit, and people will persue profit. Just wait until more Blu-Ray presses are made and you'll be swimming in AV. Right now studios get brushed off for higher profit pressings like geek favorite movies ( early adopters ).
Get a tin foil hat if you really believe what you're saying. The porn industry in the US wants discs stamped for the same price so they make a big scandal. We got into this a while back and even found some US AV studios getting ready to press Blu-Ray content very soon. I hope you don't also think you work for the CIA and are a gameshow host.
Ah, I don't mean to belittle you -- you actually can do both of those things when you reach a certain level. Once you're an Expert Marksman you have a chance to stun with your arrows, which is pretty brutal if you ever seen 2s stun enchantment on a bow. Basically, you can knock down and they never get up -- I'd say it's too over powering if it wasn't so expensive. Also I forget the skill and level needed, but you can spin / cleave whatever you want to call it with a sword. I love Oblivion, and I'm playing Knights of the Nine in Wine right now. I have all The Elder Scrolls games running under Linux. =)
It's a shame about Clover, but I think the problem was with it's other titles. It's one thing to be a critic's darling and still make a profit compared to making a huge profit on doing something that's easy to clone and not that inventive. A lot of the minigame and mario titles come to mind when I think about something you couldn't sell without the mario characters being in the game. The game itself is pretty bland, but the fanbase will support you. O-kami on the other hand rarely had a bad word from anyone -- execept for that one review I saw where this guy just blew up because he hated Japan.
I guess what I'm saying is after what they did to Viewtiful Joe and released utter garbage like God Hand releasing a single, great game like O-kami wasn't going to help anything. They seemed to try and milk VJ like it was a mario style character with tons of bad games and even some Capcom crossovers. I don't know how I feel about mentioning Clover did God Hand to people that love O-kami. You'll have a lot less respect for the former studio. For the American audience the homophobia, racism, etc in God Hand can be pretty harsh -- since it's supposed to be funny. I can't really Capcom after all those horrible games and small profit too. It's not like you can make a direct sequel to O-kami anyway. It would be nice to see more games in the same vein with a focus on Shinto or some other interesting religion, but it would be hard to recapture all that was right with the O-kami art direction/writing/gameplay/story again.
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Yeah, it's pretty neat. Once they can port their D3D to their WGL basically they can port DX10 to anything they can port the WGL to... in other words you can run DX10 on Windows XP. I think it's a great stick in the eye for an overly controlling company in the industry. Thanks to the move to shaders it gets easier and easier to shift/translate D3D to OGL. I'm getting 30-50 FPS in Oblivion running Wine on Ubuntu x86_64 already.
Maybe he should be using Ubuntu LTS, and then he won't have to worry about interfaces bugs in his Evolution as much. If you're going to run edgy you have to be on top of things, and sometimes patch yourself. It's close enough to the edge you'll get cut sometimes. I still run LTS on my laptop for this reason. I run edgy on my desktop, so I can play with new and sharper things.
I take you never worked on PS2 RTE or PS3 Hypervisor? It's not crippled at all, and in fact you can write all the Cell code you want from PS3 Linux. IBM and others provide SDKs and introductory articles on writing and managing SPE code bases. If you want to learn how to do the future of development then you should jump at the chance. We're never going back to single threaded models ever again.
The only current restriction is there isn't accelerated OpenGL from the RSX. You can write an OpenGL ES implementation for Cell and get pretty good performance. I ran OpenGL on top of just the VUs on PS2 RTE and got good enough performance to get my TombRaider reimplementation running at a good framerate for a console. I even had enough memory to fit the PC game paks into memory at the time. My point is so what if you don't have OpenGL provided by RSX. You can still do a software implementation optimized for Cell. You can do a lot more than you think with what is provided so far.
When I see fanboys like you marked 'Insightful' I fear for young teens learning anything. I wonder what you consider 'real development'. This is one of the few ways you can learn streaming / distributed / realtime development techniques on an embedded system at an affordable price. Have you even read any job requirements lately? People already drool over these skills. If you're not a developer then please don't speak about issues you don't even understand. You should be rated 'Funny'.
Don't forget the cool flame / star trek / snow / etc window animations. It's fun to make the windows flame in and out like Cole on Charmed. Whooosh demon teleport!;)
A lot of people didn't get a PS2 until the slim version came out. You can't judge a console's sucess by the people that buy it in the first year, and you can't see a 'winner' in that same period. I hate to break it to you -- consoles are consumer electronics, not fad clothing. I think it's clear the PS3 will be the top of the heap again this generation just due to the games lined up, and blu-ray and the most affordable online store are just nice add-ons. Are you going to tell me when Lair, VF5, Heavenly Sword, etc comes out in Feb./Mar. you won't see PS3s flying off the shelves? What about when the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear titles ship?
If you disagree with me then bookmark this, and come back and read it after these things happen. I think you'll be surprised at your opinion beforehand.
Queen of Hip-Hop by Amuro Namie cost me ~$60 USD at an import store the week of release.
That same album is like ¥2400 on iTunes, and so is the new Hamasaki Ayumi album that just came out. That's a steal, but it sucks I'll need to get PDFs of the packaging some how -- if I do join iTunes just for these huge savings. =/
I don't care if their is a great game behind an add-on it will sell. The Guitar Hero series is all the proof you need, and now more add-ons are being planned for release due to its sucess. I know of a drum master game coming for PS2/PS3 right now. Also there are rumers of 'drum hero' and the like too.
The reason the new Tombraiders are better are because SCI took over from Core Design as the developer. Core Design is a shell of the company it once was anyway, and I'm not going to discuss that here. You're about to see some other old favorites pop up at new developers from Fallout at BethSoft to another old favorite I can't comment about. =)
My point is -- it helps to have a new design and development team to take a fresh approach if the orginal team has faultered.
Actually, my old school did something different. If you graduated within a certain time you had the license assigned to you. I also got various pretty, shiny XP/Office discs with all the nice holograms and papers. This is the only reason I even have XP albeit in VMWare. I recently installed it VMWare, after having ran it on two other Althon XPs as an eSATA plug-n-go OS. XP is really horrible for that, but I didn't have to do the phone call activation until installing in VMWare. I think that XP install has been on 4-5? motherboards now until I finally just said screw this and made it a VMWare image. Now I can just carry that image around, and not worry about effectively reinstalling for every eSATA use.
Yes, I had to make my own XP install image for those eSATA drives. All that being said I rarely use Windows still, and I find WINE superior to VMWare for much of my needs. If WINE could just fix OpenGL support for gtk+ applications then I could test my Windows apps in WINE only.;)
Have you ever lived in Southern Califorina? If there is ever a could in the sky people run off the street to take shelter in the nearest building. Don't ask what happens in a freak rain shower! Drizzle of doom...
Depending on the area you live in you can go pick up a Wii, PS3, or the new Elmo right now. This doesn't mean any of these products are a failure. It just means they're in stock. All this bullshit every console release cycle about having to stay sold out for "OMG ten years11" is just that -- bullshit. If you're constantly FedExing ( PS3 ) or shipping by truck ( Wii ) new product as soon as it rolls out the door you'll meet demand. In fact now that the holidays is over you don't need to overnight or dramatically ship any consumer electronics. The reason? Most people on put large entertainment purchases off for -- *gasp -- Christmas/birthday/special new title just released.
The only time you have a failure is if that product continues to sit on shelf to the point it loses it's shelf space to another product. As far as one who makes products cares shipped = sold. To reiterate the problem is when retailers stop taking new orders. All of the kids thinking the first 1 1/2 months is all that matters likely also watch the first few laps of an F1 or NASCAR race deciding they know the outcome of that as well.
All I'm asking is to stop the stupidity. If you want to stay a fanboy that's fine. Man got to feel sorry for those guys selling BMWs I always see a lot full of them every time I drive by there!
There are commerical devices like this already on the market. You just strap the device to the LCD and have at it. Even the PSP has such a device, albeit not 'HD' in that case.
The developers that get their game on the cover still buy them. Haha -- not even joking. It's kind of like getting your school book or box art signed by your co-workers. Other than that I haven't bought one for years either.;)
Actually you can write video decoding/encoding and even OpenGL on the SPEs. It wouldn't be a "fun" project for the average person, but it's possible. I'm considering doing an SPE implementation of OpenGL ES, but I don't have much free time for anything as it is... FYI we had OpenGL implementations for PS2Linux as well using the VUs. I got my OpenGL TombRaider reimplementation running good enough (29FPS) at the time. As for GLSL, you can port the reference compiler... I doubt it'll be as useful as a 'fixed function' pipeline on SPE however. You can at least get lower end OpenGL functionality on PS3 w/o needing to touch RSX. Hobbyist are always the ones that like retrogaming anyway.
It might be more fun to hack around hypervisor and use the new OSS nvidia driver RE as a basis to roll your own RSX wrapper... however you end up having to reimplement hypervisor to a degree too. Oh the joys of breaking your own toys.
Nintendo is making add-ons like the mp3 player and Opera browser already. You can't be taken serious with a luddite attitude that you should make a games only handheld. You'll be shocked to find out once Nintendo starts using higher speced hardware the portables made will be more like the PSP than the DS. Why would you not want to be able to browse the web, watch a movie, or listen to music in addition to playing games? I'd rather have all the new hardware add-ons than another Pokemon or Square/Enix Branded Edition DS Lite. I'm glad you like the DS, but don't be floored when Nintendo starts focusing on the same non-gaming features you decry. I don't see any plans for virtual console titles on the DS, but I do see PSOne titles on the PSP right now. It all comes down to personal preference, and for me the DS is not even going to do half of what I want in a handheld.
As for your comments about not liking PSP games, I have to say most developers only make certain a few specific genres for PSP -- just like the DS only has a seperate narrow selection as well. I personally don't like even the most popular DS titles, and I perfer games like Talkman, Portable Ops, and Disgaea on PSP. I just can't get into old rehashes of games I played ten years ago. I also like something besides what feels like a collection of cheap minigames or a gameplay gimmick, and most DS games feel like they're for kids with ADD.
Also since I know some Japanese it's nice to be able to import games at will from Japan for every single title w/o the worry of region locks. I can even use the PSP to study Japanese with reading and audio material when I get a bit of free time even if all that material isn't commerically provided. You say the "PSP sucks", however I say the DS just plays some old games I don't want anyway. =)
I don't like articles like this when they ignore product releases, because it's not in their region.
You can play Metal Gear: Portable Ops, SEGA's star gazer title, and use the mapping software in Japan for the GPS unit already. Even the US Firmware has had PSP camera support for a long time now. The thing is with PSP you can use hardware from any region with your PSP. I have had several of add-ons for some time on my PSP. Vaporware? My ass. The more 'region-free' game hardware get the more annoying these articles become. Often it's cheaper to import some add-ons than buy them local anyway if you buy bundles with software.
Yeah, I can see how this would be useful! Why stop with weather? You could add a traffic report, stock ticker/dow tracker, top news stories, realtime news ticker, and even some hosts via live video! Hey -- it's called the morning news. ^_^
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Are you serious? They already have blu-ray AV in Japan. Japan and US are in the same blu-ray region. Therefore the US already has blu-ray porn. Do you feel confused now? The same company does HDDVD and UMD movies too. I'm sure you really hate Sony, but your theories are very wrong. Sony is only one member of the Blu-Ray group, and unlike HDDVD one company can't go out and bully others off the format by decree.
Here is the place you can buy Blu-Ray porn, since you don't believe anything you read:
http://www.glayz.co.jp/glayz.html
I thought this was settled last time slashdot posted this bullshit story to begin with. AV is about profit, and people will persue profit. Just wait until more Blu-Ray presses are made and you'll be swimming in AV. Right now studios get brushed off for higher profit pressings like geek favorite movies ( early adopters ).
Get a tin foil hat if you really believe what you're saying. The porn industry in the US wants discs stamped for the same price so they make a big scandal. We got into this a while back and even found some US AV studios getting ready to press Blu-Ray content very soon. I hope you don't also think you work for the CIA and are a gameshow host.
Ah, I don't mean to belittle you -- you actually can do both of those things when you reach a certain level. Once you're an Expert Marksman you have a chance to stun with your arrows, which is pretty brutal if you ever seen 2s stun enchantment on a bow. Basically, you can knock down and they never get up -- I'd say it's too over powering if it wasn't so expensive. Also I forget the skill and level needed, but you can spin / cleave whatever you want to call it with a sword. I love Oblivion, and I'm playing Knights of the Nine in Wine right now. I have all The Elder Scrolls games running under Linux. =)
It's a shame about Clover, but I think the problem was with it's other titles. It's one thing to be a critic's darling and still make a profit compared to making a huge profit on doing something that's easy to clone and not that inventive. A lot of the minigame and mario titles come to mind when I think about something you couldn't sell without the mario characters being in the game. The game itself is pretty bland, but the fanbase will support you. O-kami on the other hand rarely had a bad word from anyone -- execept for that one review I saw where this guy just blew up because he hated Japan.
I guess what I'm saying is after what they did to Viewtiful Joe and released utter garbage like God Hand releasing a single, great game like O-kami wasn't going to help anything. They seemed to try and milk VJ like it was a mario style character with tons of bad games and even some Capcom crossovers. I don't know how I feel about mentioning Clover did God Hand to people that love O-kami. You'll have a lot less respect for the former studio. For the American audience the homophobia, racism, etc in God Hand can be pretty harsh -- since it's supposed to be funny. I can't really Capcom after all those horrible games and small profit too. It's not like you can make a direct sequel to O-kami anyway. It would be nice to see more games in the same vein with a focus on Shinto or some other interesting religion, but it would be hard to recapture all that was right with the O-kami art direction/writing/gameplay/story again.
Yeah, it's pretty neat. Once they can port their D3D to their WGL basically they can port DX10 to anything they can port the WGL to... in other words you can run DX10 on Windows XP. I think it's a great stick in the eye for an overly controlling company in the industry. Thanks to the move to shaders it gets easier and easier to shift/translate D3D to OGL. I'm getting 30-50 FPS in Oblivion running Wine on Ubuntu x86_64 already.
Maybe he should be using Ubuntu LTS, and then he won't have to worry about interfaces bugs in his Evolution as much. If you're going to run edgy you have to be on top of things, and sometimes patch yourself. It's close enough to the edge you'll get cut sometimes. I still run LTS on my laptop for this reason. I run edgy on my desktop, so I can play with new and sharper things.
It's the old Debian stable vs unstable debate.
I take you never worked on PS2 RTE or PS3 Hypervisor? It's not crippled at all, and in fact you can write all the Cell code you want from PS3 Linux. IBM and others provide SDKs and introductory articles on writing and managing SPE code bases. If you want to learn how to do the future of development then you should jump at the chance. We're never going back to single threaded models ever again.
The only current restriction is there isn't accelerated OpenGL from the RSX. You can write an OpenGL ES implementation for Cell and get pretty good performance. I ran OpenGL on top of just the VUs on PS2 RTE and got good enough performance to get my TombRaider reimplementation running at a good framerate for a console. I even had enough memory to fit the PC game paks into memory at the time. My point is so what if you don't have OpenGL provided by RSX. You can still do a software implementation optimized for Cell. You can do a lot more than you think with what is provided so far.
When I see fanboys like you marked 'Insightful' I fear for young teens learning anything. I wonder what you consider 'real development'. This is one of the few ways you can learn streaming / distributed / realtime development techniques on an embedded system at an affordable price. Have you even read any job requirements lately? People already drool over these skills. If you're not a developer then please don't speak about issues you don't even understand. You should be rated 'Funny'.
Pro'lly the bleed'n Romans, mate. BUGGER ALL!
Don't forget the cool flame / star trek / snow / etc window animations. It's fun to make the windows flame in and out like Cole on Charmed. Whooosh demon teleport! ;)
A lot of people didn't get a PS2 until the slim version came out. You can't judge a console's sucess by the people that buy it in the first year, and you can't see a 'winner' in that same period. I hate to break it to you -- consoles are consumer electronics, not fad clothing. I think it's clear the PS3 will be the top of the heap again this generation just due to the games lined up, and blu-ray and the most affordable online store are just nice add-ons. Are you going to tell me when Lair, VF5, Heavenly Sword, etc comes out in Feb./Mar. you won't see PS3s flying off the shelves? What about when the Final Fantasy and Metal Gear titles ship?
If you disagree with me then bookmark this, and come back and read it after these things happen. I think you'll be surprised at your opinion beforehand.
Queen of Hip-Hop by Amuro Namie cost me ~$60 USD at an import store the week of release.
That same album is like ¥2400 on iTunes, and so is the new Hamasaki Ayumi album that just came out. That's a steal, but it sucks I'll need to get PDFs of the packaging some how -- if I do join iTunes just for these huge savings. =/
I don't care if their is a great game behind an add-on it will sell. The Guitar Hero series is all the proof you need, and now more add-ons are being planned for release due to its sucess. I know of a drum master game coming for PS2/PS3 right now. Also there are rumers of 'drum hero' and the like too.
The reason the new Tombraiders are better are because SCI took over from Core Design as the developer. Core Design is a shell of the company it once was anyway, and I'm not going to discuss that here. You're about to see some other old favorites pop up at new developers from Fallout at BethSoft to another old favorite I can't comment about. =)
My point is -- it helps to have a new design and development team to take a fresh approach if the orginal team has faultered.
Actually, my old school did something different. If you graduated within a certain time you had the license assigned to you. I also got various pretty, shiny XP/Office discs with all the nice holograms and papers. This is the only reason I even have XP albeit in VMWare. I recently installed it VMWare, after having ran it on two other Althon XPs as an eSATA plug-n-go OS. XP is really horrible for that, but I didn't have to do the phone call activation until installing in VMWare. I think that XP install has been on 4-5? motherboards now until I finally just said screw this and made it a VMWare image. Now I can just carry that image around, and not worry about effectively reinstalling for every eSATA use.
;)
Yes, I had to make my own XP install image for those eSATA drives. All that being said I rarely use Windows still, and I find WINE superior to VMWare for much of my needs. If WINE could just fix OpenGL support for gtk+ applications then I could test my Windows apps in WINE only.
Have you ever lived in Southern Califorina? If there is ever a could in the sky people run off the street to take shelter in the nearest building. Don't ask what happens in a freak rain shower! Drizzle of doom...
In the OSS project I'm most well known for the community refers to me as 'Dear Leader'. I'm sure they mean well. ;)
Actually, me and a lot of people even in this forum use an LCD monitor for game consoles. You're short 100% now.
Depending on the area you live in you can go pick up a Wii, PS3, or the new Elmo right now. This doesn't mean any of these products are a failure. It just means they're in stock. All this bullshit every console release cycle about having to stay sold out for "OMG ten years11" is just that -- bullshit. If you're constantly FedExing ( PS3 ) or shipping by truck ( Wii ) new product as soon as it rolls out the door you'll meet demand. In fact now that the holidays is over you don't need to overnight or dramatically ship any consumer electronics. The reason? Most people on put large entertainment purchases off for -- *gasp -- Christmas/birthday/special new title just released.
The only time you have a failure is if that product continues to sit on shelf to the point it loses it's shelf space to another product. As far as one who makes products cares shipped = sold. To reiterate the problem is when retailers stop taking new orders. All of the kids thinking the first 1 1/2 months is all that matters likely also watch the first few laps of an F1 or NASCAR race deciding they know the outcome of that as well.
All I'm asking is to stop the stupidity. If you want to stay a fanboy that's fine. Man got to feel sorry for those guys selling BMWs I always see a lot full of them every time I drive by there!
There are commerical devices like this already on the market. You just strap the device to the LCD and have at it. Even the PSP has such a device, albeit not 'HD' in that case.
The developers that get their game on the cover still buy them. Haha -- not even joking. It's kind of like getting your school book or box art signed by your co-workers. Other than that I haven't bought one for years either. ;)
Wasn't the video shot in Spain? Hello! Come on now, you're under Spainish/EU privacy laws if you humpback in the Spanish Sea now.
Too... many... puns...
Actually you can write video decoding/encoding and even OpenGL on the SPEs. It wouldn't be a "fun" project for the average person, but it's possible. I'm considering doing an SPE implementation of OpenGL ES, but I don't have much free time for anything as it is... FYI we had OpenGL implementations for PS2Linux as well using the VUs. I got my OpenGL TombRaider reimplementation running good enough (29FPS) at the time. As for GLSL, you can port the reference compiler... I doubt it'll be as useful as a 'fixed function' pipeline on SPE however. You can at least get lower end OpenGL functionality on PS3 w/o needing to touch RSX. Hobbyist are always the ones that like retrogaming anyway.
It might be more fun to hack around hypervisor and use the new OSS nvidia driver RE as a basis to roll your own RSX wrapper... however you end up having to reimplement hypervisor to a degree too. Oh the joys of breaking your own toys.
Nintendo is making add-ons like the mp3 player and Opera browser already. You can't be taken serious with a luddite attitude that you should make a games only handheld. You'll be shocked to find out once Nintendo starts using higher speced hardware the portables made will be more like the PSP than the DS. Why would you not want to be able to browse the web, watch a movie, or listen to music in addition to playing games? I'd rather have all the new hardware add-ons than another Pokemon or Square/Enix Branded Edition DS Lite. I'm glad you like the DS, but don't be floored when Nintendo starts focusing on the same non-gaming features you decry. I don't see any plans for virtual console titles on the DS, but I do see PSOne titles on the PSP right now. It all comes down to personal preference, and for me the DS is not even going to do half of what I want in a handheld.
As for your comments about not liking PSP games, I have to say most developers only make certain a few specific genres for PSP -- just like the DS only has a seperate narrow selection as well. I personally don't like even the most popular DS titles, and I perfer games like Talkman, Portable Ops, and Disgaea on PSP. I just can't get into old rehashes of games I played ten years ago. I also like something besides what feels like a collection of cheap minigames or a gameplay gimmick, and most DS games feel like they're for kids with ADD.
Also since I know some Japanese it's nice to be able to import games at will from Japan for every single title w/o the worry of region locks. I can even use the PSP to study Japanese with reading and audio material when I get a bit of free time even if all that material isn't commerically provided. You say the "PSP sucks", however I say the DS just plays some old games I don't want anyway. =)
I don't like articles like this when they ignore product releases, because it's not in their region.
You can play Metal Gear: Portable Ops, SEGA's star gazer title, and use the mapping software in Japan for the GPS unit already. Even the US Firmware has had PSP camera support for a long time now. The thing is with PSP you can use hardware from any region with your PSP. I have had several of add-ons for some time on my PSP. Vaporware? My ass. The more 'region-free' game hardware get the more annoying these articles become. Often it's cheaper to import some add-ons than buy them local anyway if you buy bundles with software.
Anyone else remember that? It's a race to the bottom in a 12 MPG SUV. They better not put that in the Escape hybrid.
Yeah, I can see how this would be useful! Why stop with weather? You could add a traffic report, stock ticker/dow tracker, top news stories, realtime news ticker, and even some hosts via live video! Hey -- it's called the morning news. ^_^