Only gonna be a matter of time before the game developers notice that "File->Port to PlayStation3" and "File->Port to Revolution" are mysteriously grayed out. Unless they activate with a unique and valid serial number, you know?
heck I write game software for a living -- but these days I find myself buying console games specifically to avoid the hassles of PC gaming installation issues.
How's Electronic Arts been hiring these days?
(Seriously, though, I agree with you. And I'd like to take it a step further.... these issues of swapping Play and Cinema discs, multi-disc installs, etc, would all be moot if the PC game companies would just switch to DVD-ROM. I sometimes wonder why I even have a DVD-ROM in my computer. Hasn't DVD technology been out for what, 10 years already?? Most people have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo or even a DVD+/-RW drive in their computer, let alone a DVD-ROM drive at all, so I don't think that's an issue. Why would a company who designs games specifically for $500 graphics cards worry that the PC gamer might not have a $20 DVD-ROM drive to play it from??)
True. It's probably a version of the Rumble Pak they used in the N64 starting with Star Fox 64. If anyone remembers correctly, the N64 Rumble Pak was video gaming's first force feedback device.
a dialog that pops up totally ripped from OS X asking you for the admin password when you install a program
You know, more than anything else, Windows needed this. A password confirmation to install software, but implemented in an easy way (so those "Home Users" who refuse to learn about Admin and Regular User accounts can learn to use it). Maybe now spyware will ASK to be installed before automatically helping itself to your System32 folder.
They want to sell you one device that does most of the things that you want - that's what they went for with the PSX and that's what they seem to be going with here.
Yes and we all know what a huge "success" the PSX was.
It's because way before the Cell was really announced and revealed, Sony said the PS3 would use "nanotechnology," which in actuality is used in organic technology such as eye implants or micro-pacemakers. They also said somethings like the PS3 wouldn't be a conventional set-top device but something small that could be put in any device, like a TV. They were really nuts back then (2002 ~ 2003). I guess they realized they started sounding like Nintendo.
PlayStation is a pun, it's supossed to be opposite of a WorkStation. I don't think it's a dumb name.
However, I do think it's getting a bit boring to just keep adding numbers to the system's name. PlayStation, PlayStation2, PlayStation3... I think it's because Sony seems to think the PlayStation name is too valuable, and synonymous with "video game." Sorry Sony, but you've got a long way to go, "playing Nintendo" is still synonymous with "playing video games." But then again, these are the same people who think the PSP is "the most beautiful thing in the world."
If all other companies were doing this, we'd currently be using the NES 5, MasterSystem 4 (Dreamcast), PlayStation3 and Xbox 2. Think of how boring that would be.
Besides that, if all new systems were the old system name with a number after it, people would start thinking it was *optional* to upgrade to the new system to play the new games, since they'll think of the, like video cards (GeForce3, GeForce4, etc) which can play new games just looking worse...
"Xbox 2? That's ok, I don't mind playing the newset Xbox games with slightly worse graphics. Saves me money."
I think he mentioned standardized MP3 for audio not like the Xbox, where you load up your MP3's to the HDD and can use them in-game, but I mean for developers to use MP3 in their own games (on the disc), instead of having to resort to MIDI which current gen games still use.
...incidentally, what happened to the Emotion Engine?
It was just a MIPS processor, a faster version of what the N64 had.
By the way, Sony said the movie that the PS2 could render games in realtime like was Toy Story. I imagine they will say the PS3 can render.... The Incredibles, maybe? (Although we already know how "good" the PS2 can render The Incredibles already)
(On a side note, Nintendo is boasting their system will render games something like Cars...)
You saw how big the original Xbox was. And the Next is suppossed to have 3 IBM Power5 processors. Judging by how big the Mac G5 with only *two* processors is, you'd better start clearing some space if you want a Next.
This must be a blow to EA. Their attempt at monopolistic control of all sports genres fails when NBA signs a deal letting four more companies make official NBA games too.
I had this NES Atlas, it came with the subscription. But maps of games (even those that didn't appear in the NES Atlas, such as Maniac Mansion) did have maps appear in the regular magazine as well.
That sounds like communism to me. "Take the extra money away from the rich, they don't really need it, and redistribute it to the poor who could use it."
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Only gonna be a matter of time before the game developers notice that "File->Port to PlayStation3" and "File->Port to Revolution" are mysteriously grayed out. Unless they activate with a unique and valid serial number, you know?
You shouldn't be throwing words like "Immersive" and "Dual Shock" around together in sentences like that. Sony might get upset.
heck I write game software for a living -- but these days I find myself buying console games specifically to avoid the hassles of PC gaming installation issues.
How's Electronic Arts been hiring these days?
(Seriously, though, I agree with you. And I'd like to take it a step further.... these issues of swapping Play and Cinema discs, multi-disc installs, etc, would all be moot if the PC game companies would just switch to DVD-ROM. I sometimes wonder why I even have a DVD-ROM in my computer. Hasn't DVD technology been out for what, 10 years already?? Most people have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo or even a DVD+/-RW drive in their computer, let alone a DVD-ROM drive at all, so I don't think that's an issue. Why would a company who designs games specifically for $500 graphics cards worry that the PC gamer might not have a $20 DVD-ROM drive to play it from??)
I don't know what the big controversy is. I thought PS2 mice and keyboards have been out for a while now...
...how long until they use this legal and financial power against their "patent infringments"?
It seems new ideas are fine as long as they aren't from Conservatives...
Haha. Did you just say "new ideas" and "from Conservatives" in the same sentence?
Sony vs Betamax huh? Does that mean that Sony sued themselves? Cuz they owned Betamax, you know.
True. It's probably a version of the Rumble Pak they used in the N64 starting with Star Fox 64. If anyone remembers correctly, the N64 Rumble Pak was video gaming's first force feedback device.
a dialog that pops up totally ripped from OS X asking you for the admin password when you install a program
You know, more than anything else, Windows needed this. A password confirmation to install software, but implemented in an easy way (so those "Home Users" who refuse to learn about Admin and Regular User accounts can learn to use it). Maybe now spyware will ASK to be installed before automatically helping itself to your System32 folder.
The first one out with a working product tends to win the market, as long as their product is the best.
*cough* PlayStation2 *cough*
The sound of Electronic Arts fat-cats screaming "NOOOOOOOOOO!" echoes through the night...
They want to sell you one device that does most of the things that you want - that's what they went for with the PSX and that's what they seem to be going with here.
Yes and we all know what a huge "success" the PSX was.
It's because way before the Cell was really announced and revealed, Sony said the PS3 would use "nanotechnology," which in actuality is used in organic technology such as eye implants or micro-pacemakers. They also said somethings like the PS3 wouldn't be a conventional set-top device but something small that could be put in any device, like a TV. They were really nuts back then (2002 ~ 2003). I guess they realized they started sounding like Nintendo.
PlayStation is a pun, it's supossed to be opposite of a WorkStation. I don't think it's a dumb name.
...
However, I do think it's getting a bit boring to just keep adding numbers to the system's name. PlayStation, PlayStation2, PlayStation3... I think it's because Sony seems to think the PlayStation name is too valuable, and synonymous with "video game." Sorry Sony, but you've got a long way to go, "playing Nintendo" is still synonymous with "playing video games." But then again, these are the same people who think the PSP is "the most beautiful thing in the world."
If all other companies were doing this, we'd currently be using the NES 5, MasterSystem 4 (Dreamcast), PlayStation3 and Xbox 2. Think of how boring that would be.
Besides that, if all new systems were the old system name with a number after it, people would start thinking it was *optional* to upgrade to the new system to play the new games, since they'll think of the, like video cards (GeForce3, GeForce4, etc) which can play new games just looking worse
"Xbox 2? That's ok, I don't mind playing the newset Xbox games with slightly worse graphics. Saves me money."
I think he mentioned standardized MP3 for audio not like the Xbox, where you load up your MP3's to the HDD and can use them in-game, but I mean for developers to use MP3 in their own games (on the disc), instead of having to resort to MIDI which current gen games still use.
...incidentally, what happened to the Emotion Engine?
It was just a MIPS processor, a faster version of what the N64 had.
By the way, Sony said the movie that the PS2 could render games in realtime like was Toy Story. I imagine they will say the PS3 can render.... The Incredibles, maybe? (Although we already know how "good" the PS2 can render The Incredibles already)
(On a side note, Nintendo is boasting their system will render games something like Cars...)
...with a show floor the size of 2,700 city blocks...
But do ANY of them run Linux??
2.7 square miles? 2.7 square miles. i literally don't believe that.
It's probably to make room for the XboxNext.
You saw how big the original Xbox was. And the Next is suppossed to have 3 IBM Power5 processors. Judging by how big the Mac G5 with only *two* processors is, you'd better start clearing some space if you want a Next.
This must be a blow to EA. Their attempt at monopolistic control of all sports genres fails when NBA signs a deal letting four more companies make official NBA games too.
Funny how you only see positive comments about Reagan and Bush from Anonymous Cowards.
I had this NES Atlas, it came with the subscription. But maps of games (even those that didn't appear in the NES Atlas, such as Maniac Mansion) did have maps appear in the regular magazine as well.
That sounds like communism to me. "Take the extra money away from the rich, they don't really need it, and redistribute it to the poor who could use it."
Reminds me of the maps they use to have in Nintendo Power (early Nintendo Power, before they sucked).
And how! That's why I took my Computer Science degree (graduated last year) and went into Real Estate!
I'm sure Sony can't wait for game-casting... sending out the roms for all the PSP games to your friends over broadband!