New PS3 and Revolution Info at GDC 67
GameDailyBiz has a talk with Jamil Molena, the Director of the Game Developer's conference, about the upcoming event. Some interesting stuff about what to expect out of the event, as well as some happy news about the Sony and Nintendo keynotes. From the article: "BIZ: What can you tell us about Phil Harrison's keynote? Will we finally get some new information on the PlayStation 3? JM: The answer is yes. In general, platform providers have a unique opportunity at the GDC to share knowledge with and inspire the people who will make or break their consoles, namely the game developers themselves. With that in mind, this GDC keynote, along with the Nintendo keynote by Satoru Iwata, have both been in development for several months, and contain significant editorial value and developer takeaway."
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On the other hand, the same exact flaw is the only reason the DreamCast is still (somewhat) alive today. Hooray for homebrew!
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What about Atari 2600/Intellivision etc. Zeroth?
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I think people have gone a little overboard on the 200 Revolution. I don't think Nintendo will be able to go that low. Other than greater than 480p support, the Revolution is going to be comperable in system power to the 360 in real world situations. The CPU in the Rev is going to be close to a dual 970 in performance, which is about what the 360 C
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Think about it, the only thing people really wants to know about the PS3 is the price and release date at this point, nothing else.
The Revolution on the other hand is another whole matter: Price, release date, launch-games, when/what/price of older NES/SNES/GC/N64 games, what other features theres gonna be including the 'mystery-feature'.
On top of that, most are looking forward to how the new controller is gonna rev
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Imagine if that huge fire button were touch sensitive like a virtual track ball...
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FOR THE ELEVENTY BILLIONTH TIME, THE PS3 WILL NOT, NOT, NOT, NEVER COST $700 OR $900 OR $1000 MSRP.
That article about the ps3 costing $935 (or whatever) to build is flawed in so many ways. Sony owns the specs to Blu-Ray, and won't have to pay royalties. The price checks were done a year and a half before the anticipated US launch date. The price was for ONE machine, not HALF A MILLION machines; ever heard of economics of scale? Sony OWNS THEIR OWN FAB PLANTS, and will manufacture their own motherboards
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Actually, the correct answer is "I have no idea", because chances are excellent that's entirely correct. I'll wait until an official Sony person says yes.
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Of course that's what he said (Score:4, Funny)
Besides, it was obvious. E3, GDC, and obviously the Japanese conferences and trade shows always bring at least a few new details to light around product launch time, even if it's just new software announcements.
BTW, this Slashdot story is an announcement about an announcement about possible future announcements (which everyone was expecting anyway). I love it.
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Thanks for announcing that
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er... sorry, the "1" ps3 delayed admission, and the "5" announcments of rumors that it may be delayed.
I really do want to know what chip the rev has... I couldn't wait any longer though and finally bought a game cube. Actually my very first ever new game console. I had a aged fleamarket bought NES for a while (got it when the SNES was old and the dreamcast had just came out.)
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Two Keynote Speeches but he knows nothing (Score:4, Informative)
Or if they would even talk about the PS3 or the NR.
Basically, it's spin signifying "Here's a time when maybe, just maybe, they are likely to say something, and I want you to send tons of reporters just in case."
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I mean, we are expecting a release later this year (October?) and we as informed consumers know very little about it. The average joe six-pack probably doesn't even realize that it going to be on store shelves.
Nintendo has said there are more "secrets" to be revieled. I, for one, hope they will be revieled at the GDC this year.
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Instead of simply using the same screens as the GBA and GBASP, Nintendo upped the resolution slightly on the DS's screens, to 256x192 (from 240x160 on the GBA). The DS's screens use the same horizontal resolution as the NES and SNES, so emulation could be more accurate. The NES Classics series for the GBA had to scale the images down slightly to fit on the GBA's screen, but that would be mostly unnecessary for the DS.
Also, the DS's Download Pl
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And, to some extent, impractical.
The DS hardware is not powerful enough to emulate GameCube or N64, though ports of games for those systems to native DS programs can be done (vis Super Mario 64 DS et al).
The DS should be able to emulate most if not all NES and SNES titles, but the problem is that those consoles run
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Yeah, that's what I had meant about classic games. I should have clarified. Super Mario World was ported to the GBA(Super Mario Advance 2), so I think playing all of the SNES/NES collection would not be a problem. (Portable Chrono Trigger anyone?)
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Oh wait, what were we talking about again?
-Eric
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Why would anyone want to buy a Playstation 3, with all its boring Blu-Ray movies like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Grand Theft Auto 4
when instead they could get an Xbox 360 and play great games like XBox Live Marketplace and Windows Media Center Extender
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Lair [ign.com] and Warhawk [ign.com] both look interesting, at least to me, and it looks like both of those titles may be launch or near-launch titles in the US. But, of course, humorously, since they aren't sequels, we don't know if they'll actually be any good and nobody really cares about them.
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If these developers are interested in either of these consoles, then they already have dev kits and official support from the "platform provider". These consoles are coming out this year; it's not as though someone is going to be in one of those presentations and suddenly decide to make a launch title.
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You want to know more about those consoles? wait for the E3.
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