Posts by h3

Re: I Understand Why.. but am disappointed

They could build the DRM into cartridges and make it very difficult to copy / dump them. Put something like an arm on the cartridge then do some small function of the game on that arm as well.

Wouldn't be convenient to have a flash cart that can only fit one game on at once.

I think both consoles will be hacked fairly quickly.

Re: They must've been shitting pellets

They are using the tactics used by media lobbyists and they will succeed eventually anyway.

(If EA says no Fifa for PS4 unless you give us what Microsoft does. Notice Sony has not denied that EA can do the same thing on their platform independantly and if that wasn't the case it would be a good marketing point.)

The problem is most of the profits come from stuff like COD / Fifa people don't have any taste and they never have the console with the best games has never made the most money. (Maybe the SNES did but the Neo Geo was better but was £700 and £200 for the good games).

Re: disks, how quaint

There is no reason they couldn't go back to cartridge. (Other than publishers being too cheap).

There is things you can do with fast rom you cannot do with hdd / blu ray / dvd. That could have been a major advantage over a pc of unknown specification.

The ports from tatio arcade hardware will be junk again because of this. (They are basically a pc but with a top of the range nvidia and ssd).

Re: Until a firmware update

Yeah but if Sony gets dominant they will do the the same thing in a firmware update.

The best for the consumer would be if neither did very well at all until a big price drop.

(Realistically for £400 it should be better than my midrange PC on launch. Especially with the games costing so much).

What is needed is another console for people with some taste. (Who want some other games other than what Nintendo provides).

Thinking back the best consoles don't seem to do that well.

8bit

PC engine.

16bit

Neo Geo

32bit

Saturn

PS2 era

Dreamcast.

When Sony removed other OS they should have at least offered the blu ray updates in a version that could be used by people who made that choice.

Re: The future of gaming is not in consoles

But Super Hexagon is probably about as good as anything else released in modern times.

The last of us just looks like a game half done properly although it looks still like the first level is done properly and the rest isn't up to the same standard.

RE: Charles 9

Of course it is they are just too cheap to do it.

If they want to sell a £60 game they should put at least £20 into making it as decent as possible.

Flash chips can be mass programmed how do you think phones are made. ($20 for 64GB if that).

Wire them up to be read only after they are programmed.

Re: One downside

They care only about the big publishers. EA / Ubisoft etc and themselves.

They should have just announced a price drop to £200 even with the restrictions they would end up dominant and Sony would have a problem.

Re: Hahahaha M$ hahaha

It is the new way to do things uturn all the time. (I think they are copying governments around the world.)

Re: 'Sony money

All I know is not doing the right thing is part of the Sony company ethos.

(My Xperia Play manufacturing defect with the compass they won't fix it. Had other issues with Sony consumer electronics and they were always total a*ssholes about it.).

Microsoft fixes stuff Sony wouldn't have even called the RROD a manufacturing defect.

If something like a Microsoft keyboard breaks they just send you a new one don't even have to send the old one back.

Microsoft has a track record of screwing people over once they become dominant in a market. They are ok until that point and they usually start screwing people over on the release of a new product which is consistent. Sony is not like that.

If it is true they won't fix them bricking unmoddified consoles that were bricked by their latest update for free then that is totally within character for them.

Sony are not really like the decent japanese companies like Panasonic never really have been.

Re: One good U-Turn deserves another...

And you think Sony are better ?

They want to take gaming to the same place the only difference is they cannot afford to lose this time.

Re: Foot and mouth disease

I think Redhat is going to learn the same lesson if they don't seriously sort out RHEL7.

Re: <3 Competition. Still not buying an Xboner, however.

Silverlight works better than flash (At least for me when it is done right it works tons better). Dunno why MS dropped it. (Same with XNA). Even more strange is why they built Flash into Windows 8

Re: <3 Competition. Still not buying an Xboner, however.

Sony are the masters of proprietary everything they do is greed related.

The reason is Sony (The home electronics part of it anyway) is doing awful so they cannot make this cost them tons over the short term.

Microsoft can lose another 6 billion this generation and it not be a problem. (In fact if they wanted to destroy Sony they should have done. Put loads more hardware in).

Their update bricks a PS3 and then they charge £80.

(Microsoft gave away completely free brand new 360's when they were in a similar situation).

What Microsoft should do is implement an xbox one personality for Windows 8 PC's above a certain spec.

Re: Untrustworthy Microsoft

Neither of the 2 will be able to stop EA doing what it is definitely going to. They are just PC's so origin / uplay and all that stuff will be put in anyway. (MS's DRM probably at least worked properly compared to most of the rest of the stuff).

Re: To which the majority replied...

The only difference between Sony and MS is Sony is quite happy to materially change things after a product is releases. MS at least up to now has not done that.

Re: Come the revolution

We should just have government mandated rents for given areas. (They do even in the US).

At the moment the reason our housing benefit bill is so big is because of paying private landlords.

(The bedroom tax is for council housing that is not the problem).

I hope anything possible happens to make buy to let owners lose everything.

Re: @ Pascal Monett

It won't have the capability, to use the Cell properly is nothing like a PC.

(This is presuming this is close to the best it can do this could be just what happens if you put a moderate amount of effort in).

There again they could just have used the SDK properly with their own engine that was designed specifically for the cell.

I would still rather have a tatio type x2 based console with the games on ssd's running the same stuff as is in the arcades in asia. I would pay £150 a game or whatever.

Re: same old routine

What if you are going to university and all you need is Office to submit assignments ? And want to go on Facebook.

At that price seems close to perfect for a certain class of user.