James

Gyah, I caved and got my 2nd (and final) 'mote this past Saturday. We'll see how long they hold out before selling it on its own...

I don't think there's been a system launched in the last 5 years that didn't start out with some crappy ports of games from existing systems. The content is there, and it makes a great "starter" projects so your programmers can learn to code to a new architecture without starting completely from scratch. It takes a really un-evil company to resist that temptation, and there aren't many of those.

That said, I almost considered re-selling my launch day Wii for a premium, since I beat Zelda and the next big thing I'm waiting for is Metroid. Not gonna do it, though.

@#1: You think MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive? Depends what the meaning of "is" is.

Seriously, RE4 was the first thing that jumped to my mind, and I see I'm not the only one thinking that. MGS2 went to Xbox, but 3 I think did not... so I guess we'll see. But it definitely sounds more like a dodge than a killing blow.

Heh... a wise man once said, "It can be cheap, quick, or good -- pick two." Seriously, I'm not sure there's much left to do with Aliens in the FPS genre. An RPG sounds interesting, and it would be great for an RTS...

I had both SFII and the Championship version for SNES back in the day -- the first one was worthless compared to the second. I can't believe they would bother with what should have been SFII Beta 1...

Oh, and I liked Fable 1, so I'm looking forward to 2. I know 1 was over-hyped, but I didn't read any of it till after I had beaten the game, so it didn't diminish my enjoyment at all. I plan to do the same thing for 2.

Agree w/ #6. WTF is on PS3 that makes it worth while? 360 already has 2 or 3 games that make me at least consider getting it, plus they're going to have the new Command and Conquer, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Blue Dragon, and a few more. PS3 has White Knight Story, and.... ??? Sure, some of the 360 titles will come to PC, but if I get a 360, MS subsidizes my hardware purchase, plus I don't have to worry about if my cooling rig is high-powered enough or if Game A is compatible with Version B of my video driver, or if there's some wierd interaction where Azureus makes my game of Half Life 2 crash. I was an avid PC gamer for a long time, but it just hasn't been worthwhile lately to keep up with cutting-edge hardware and the headache of maintaining a Windows gaming system. If Vista changes that, great, but I'm not going to get my hopes up, and until then, a $300 gaming machine sounds pretty sweet.

Hey guys, I just found a newspaper clipping from the year 2015 that got flung into the distant past.

__Sony baffled at poor sales of BluRay 3.0__

excerpt: "I just don't get it," Sony spokesdroid PR-150 said Wednesday, "they're a steal at only twice the price of the Ultra-HD-DVD, and they run on the PSP2 at almost a quarter the resolution! And you can almost get through a whole movie on one battery charge! People should be snatching these things up left and right!"



Heh. I keed, but as a PSP owner I wish they would have scrapped the idea and made movies-from-flash easier from the start. I found a few open-source transcoding tools, but they're kind of shoddy (most crash half the time) and I refuse to pay for a commercial suite to fix Sony's failures. They can't include support for any mainstream codecs, and they're too short-sighted to allow a pluggable video player (at least, not without homebrew). I hope UMD dies a beggar's death.


Oh, and Joystiq needs to rethink the original post -- when it comes to UMD movies, you forget the "demand" side of Supply and Demand. You know, that great big sucking sound of a vacuum where there should be customers.

@27: yes, a countersuit *would* accomplish something. If it is visible enough, it will have a chilling effect on patent trolls everywhere. The way the courts have been ruling of late, patent trolls are getting really bold because they almost never stand to lose anything. If a big-ish company went into bankruptcy because they filed a malicious lawsuit they really should have known was bogus, it would help other slimy asshats think twice about pestering people. And that would be a *good thing*.

Has anybody else stepped back and read this thread? You actually have people saying, "Hey! You're not hampered by the same crippling, worthless control scheme I am, so you get an unfair advantage! MS better break your new toy!!!" How about instead MS offer the ability to control the game *properly* to everybody, e.g. by mandating mouse/keyboard support for every FPS. Then, we can do a proper "study" -- I did not follow that Shadowrun link, but I guarantee that there was a flaw in their methods if they did not find that mouse/keyboard always, always trumps dual analogs in a fair fight. Now, it's just up to the console companies/coders to support the One True Input Method.