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First footage of Netflix on PS3 {Joystiq}
Nov 7th 2009 1:38PM > "all video renders at 480p and doesn't scale properly" is an instant 150 posts.
I do not mind Sony coming out and fixing their 1080i support. Or at least properly stating where they stand.
I own one of the first HDTVs which is 720p/1080i, and Google's 500K results for "PS3 1080i problem" isn't really inspiring. First match is the Joystiq post about FW 1.30 which goes into details about how exactly PS3's support for 1080i broken is...
Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime squashes Wii HD rumors... again {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2009 2:10PM John, that will not work on Wii, since every Wii game contains its own version of Wii OS it runs on. Console can't add to or replace something in a disk-based Wii game - they are all self-contained.
Also, it make no sense to scale Wii games since most of them have low res textures. Models can be scaled, but not textures. (Low res textures is what help fast loading times.)
iPhone App Store tops 100K items, 2 billion downloads {Joystiq}
Nov 4th 2009 12:36PM > calling the iPhone and iPod Touch a gaming device is a big stretch
Unless of course you consider that the ads targeted at pretty normal folks - generic phone users - for many of whom the gaming associates firstly with WinMine or Solitaire.
Acer Liquid's Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz? {Engadget}
Nov 2nd 2009 12:53PM > what? A 768MHz Snapdragon will ABSOLUTELY be slower than a 1GHz Snapdragon.
Even if it is slower, as long as device does perfectly what it is intended for, I do not care how many gigaherzes it has.
> ... in order to have a not laggy experience. That said, my 3G lags a TON, AND the battery life is shitty.
Lagginess is a function of software. As software developer I can tell you that most R&Ds throw MHz and RAM at pretty much every problem - because it is cheaper that way and less risky than thinking about intelligent solution. No matter how many RAMs and MHzs you have now, tomorrow it will be not enough.
P.S. And personally I would gladly sacrifice MHzs for longer battery life.
USB 3.0 and SATA 6G put to good use: benchmarks {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2009 7:19AM Matt. As was written: "the bottleneck here is the drive, not the controller." If HDD has seek, it will be slow over any bus.
I do not know details about USB 3.0, but at least in USB 2.0 v. FW400/800, the only noticeable difference is that USB's CPU utilization is higher than that of FW.
Also in my observations Windows works with USB better than FW. On Macs my experience was reversed: FW rules over USB. But my Mac (I was testing on iBook G4 @ 1GHz) was having generally lower throughput compared to my Windows workstation. And it also depends on the USB controllers...
You should simply test what works best for you. Unless you transfer terabytes, the bus you use will play little role.
Nintendo profits sink on declining console sales, weak game selection {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 7:01AM > Some gamers actually have the ability to play a game that isn't broken into 15 second segments.
Unfortunately, some game developers lost the ability to develop such games.
And some publishers prefer to go with the lower hanging "15 second" fruits.
Miyamoto a 'big fan' of Star Fox, says series popularity on the decline {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 8:43PM > Star Fox Command for the DS.
I have tried it on my R4 and found it to be really hard to understand. Game gives very little of explanation of what/how to do. A sickness traditional to franchises. I erased it after few attempts at starting playing... DS has too many games to waste one's time on such oddities where game developers do not even bother to tell what the hell the game is about.
How would you change Sony's PSP Go? {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2009 9:01AM I do not own any PSP device. To make PSP Go attractive to me:
1. Touch screen would be a plus.
2. Ability to convert old UMD games into downloads
3. On-line S/H marketplace service to buy/sell games I own from/to others.
4 On-line game exchange service to let me trade games with others.
Video: Queen is the champion of Lego Rock Band {Joystiq}
Oct 20th 2009 4:00PM The Queen is the best rock band of all times.
Period.
All Beatles fans can go to hell.
Piracy discourages future PixelJunk PSP port plans {Joystiq}
Oct 20th 2009 6:22AM Eric: "I think we just see more piracy on the PSP as its more of a hardcore handheld."
That and the fact that games are [*BEEP*]ing overpriced.
(probably bad analogy) In retrospect, I have bought most of my PC games because I wanted in a way to thank developers for the game. I have about dozen unopened games which I have finished (using pirated version) long time ago.
In PC market the problem is that once you subscribe yourself to warez channels, you simply stop looking at game stores. Pirates (as fellow gamers) do better service at advertising games and also at providing 100% working up-to-date /demos/.
Story I heard from my ex-colleague. He (in Malaysia) never pirated a single PSP game: he simply got for birthday cracked PSP with two flash cards loaded with all best games. And once later he visited the shop to ask for other games where for pennies they have sold him another memory stick with games of genre he liked. (Try for comparison to install 20+ demos on a console. A chore in comparison.)
What I'm getting here at is that pirates win hands down in advertisement, customer service and customer satisfaction departments. (And they are generally not even paid for that!) Sony's PR enormously contributed to that by pushing the marks lower and lower every time they opened their mouth.
