Exophase
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DaveC said:Why not just play on a home console then with a bigger screen and better sound.
Why use a Pandora instead of a computer with a decent gamepad..?
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DaveC said:Why not just play on a home console then with a bigger screen and better sound.
You could I guess, no reason why not. Many of the things on the Pandora are emus and those look pretty bad blown up to 20" or so on a PC monitor though. Of course now I suppose you will say just don't blow them up and play in a small window. That could be done but for some reason emus seem better on a portable but that could just be me.Exophase said:DaveC said:Why not just play on a home console then with a bigger screen and better sound.
Why use a Pandora instead of a computer with a decent gamepad..?
Ultimate Answer: because with my PC I can't play Battle for Wesnoth or OpenTTD in bed, HA!Exophase said:DaveC said:Why not just play on a home console then with a bigger screen and better sound.
Why use a Pandora instead of a computer with a decent gamepad..?
DaveC said:You could I guess, no reason why not. Many of the things on the Pandora are emus and those look pretty bad blown up to 20" or so on a PC monitor though. Of course now I suppose you will say just don't blow them up and play in a small window. That could be done but for some reason emus seem better on a portable but that could just be me.Exophase said:DaveC said:Why not just play on a home console then with a bigger screen and better sound.
Why use a Pandora instead of a computer with a decent gamepad..?
Well that is different, displaying 1:1 on a CRT looks better than the same graphics scaled up on the same size LCD.Dunny said:I dunno, I remember playing an awful lot of those games on a 22" Screen back in the 80s and 90s. They looked just fine.
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Exophase said:rsuryase said:I doubt the PSP2 will outsell the 3DS since its coming out much earlier and cheaper. I think it will lose to the 3DS like the PSP to DS.
I agree, in the gaming market releasing first is an advantage if you're the market leader, and a disadvantage if you aren't. One thing I wouldn't be 100% confident of is 3DS being much cheaper. 3DS strikes me as not really being extremely aggressively priced, costing a good 67% more than the DS did at launch. PSP2 won't be cheap tech for sure, but Sony has a reputation for selling gaming hardware at big losses initially, and at least this time they're not packaging any new optical drive with their platform. The biggest price draw on the PSP2 is probably going to be that high resolution OLED screen.
I could see PSP2 selling for $300, but I guess won't be surprised if it's $350. I wouldn't expect a higher price. If they somehow sell for $250 they'll make Nintendo look pretty bad.
The biggest advantage 3DS will have are the first party titles, which sell like crazy, especially on handhelds. But there'll probably still be room for both platforms, like there was for PSP. Full Android support would change things quite a bit.
migo said:That makes no sense really. The 360 was released first and Microsoft was not the market leader but it did give them a huge edge. The reason the Dreamcast failed is because Sega gave up on it. In the first two years the PS2 was on the market it sold 10 million units, the exact same as the Dreamcast in the 2 years it was on the market, so if Sega had stuck with it rather than bailing like they did on the Saturn, they might have actually come out much better.
migo said:Releasing first might be an advantage for the 3DS, but on the other hand, having a huge number of people with DS Lites and DSis with plenty of games being released for it could turn out being like the PS3 launch.
Exophase said:Wii did much better than XBox 360 when it was released.
Dreamcast was definitely eclipsed by PS2 hype and not just damaged by Sega giving up on it. 10 million units in two years for a mainstream console is actually not impressive.
Nintendo has the benefit of not releasing a platform for $600. That certainly hurt PS3 more than PS2's continued prominence.
Phawx said:PSP2 actually has to resolve 43% less pixels than PS3 (Most PS3 games are rendered at 720p).
And looking at the (available) specs for the psp2 it seems like PS3 quality graphics are a definite possibility. Hell, the demo video they showed of uncharted looked effing amazing.
My only wish for the psp2 would be that it was an Android phone. Do both at the same time, ala iPhone/iTouch. It's proven to be a successful model for Apple and Sony could knock the nuts out of iPhone with a badass Android gaming phone. Android just surpassed Symbian. Take the HW accelerated canvas API stuff from 3.0 and you have a usability parity with the iPhone but smoke it in features. 2011 *just* started and Android is already steam rolling the competition.
Apple will continue to be the BMW like they want to be. Android will replace MS in the situation.
migo said:It doesn't even have to be a phone, because holding it to your face with the analog sticks would suck, but definitely installing Android 3.0 (or at least leaving it as an OtherOS option) would be great for it. Probably the best move they could make, and since several Android phones have still not been rooted, they might be satisfied with the security it offers.
They removed the emulator when they removed the PS2's GPU. Both hardware and software emulation used the PS2's GPU.Orion4874 said:Well, here's the wiki with a chart thats describes the various PS3 models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3
The original 20 and 60gb models were hardware based and the next 60 and 80gb models were software based. Why they got rid of the emulator idk but I read that the compatability rate was about 70% and that the 70% was less than perfect so maybe it just wasn't cost efficient to keep trying to update it anymore, who knows!
DaMummy said:yea because the psp go is sony greatest achievement...
Phawx said:Sony has already gone on record that the PSP2 will NOT be running Android and instead will be running a custom OS. So my fantasy of the perfect device is still up in the air.
Exophase said:Phawx said:Sony has already gone on record that the PSP2 will NOT be running Android and instead will be running a custom OS. So my fantasy of the perfect device is still up in the air.
Running Android as the main OS on a high-profile gaming platform would be stupid, but there's no real saying that Sony won't offer the ability to install Android secondarily. It wouldn't necessarily have to be a dual-boot situation either, they can possibly adapt Android to launch as a self-contained program. The thing is, they could do this at any point during NGP's existence, so you can't really completely rule it out from happening.
I admit it's probably less likely that it'll happen than that it won't, but it has enough perks for Sony that it could still see it happening.
General Tso said:Couldn't they just implement the Android Marketplace on it like as an app on their custom OS? Having Android would be trash due to the fragmentation and the bugs it has but just having the marketplace wouldn't be as you'd have access to the thousands of apps it has. If Sony wants to make some money, I think it would be a good idea for Sony to have both the Android Marketplace and their own separate app store, which I presume would be the Playstation Suite.
