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142 days 5 hours ago
Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (aka Eternal Sonata)
Has had a release date in Japan for a while now (6 months or so) and the release date is exactly 1 year to the day after it was released on the X360
Sep 18, 2008
Can we say payed for timed exclusive?

RPGs on my want list that are coming to PS3 at least in Japan

Tear to Tiara: Kakan no Daichi
Senjou no Valkyria (confirmed for NA release Valkyria Chronicles)
Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (Yakuza Alternative Universe)
Boku no Natsuyasumi 3 (my Summer Vacation 3
Tales of Vasperia View
142 days 5 hours ago
PS3 version now has multiple endings ^_- View
143 days 6 hours ago
Better to remove a disaster of a Expansion then go forward with it and ruin the game ala SWG. View
143 days 12 hours ago
3 Words
Ouch
Better
Delay

make of them as you will. View
144 days 10 hours ago
Game itself is actually quite fun.
^_^ View
144 days 10 hours ago
afaik: this was tabled as to bandwidth intensive.... View
145 days 13 hours ago
LOL... they are just asking this now???

Why didn't they ask back in 2004 when this was in beta or 2005 when it launched. View
145 days 13 hours ago
@ 3.2
"Agree 100%. World of Warcraft is not owning because it has stunning graphics. It's owning because it's "accessible". "

Accessible? maybe for the first 30-40 levels - after that it's all grind for days to get this or that item.

GRINDS MUST GO View
145 days 13 hours ago
@1.11 only if they are a signatory to the berne convention...
I assume SK is but I haven't read the list lately. View
145 days 13 hours ago
Why should gaming be any different?
from books, movies etc?

for one thing most books movies etc do not hit the used aisle until much later. Most people hold movies for years and books for years vs. 1-2 weeks for games. 1-2 weeks to recoup all the costs associated with creating, advertising, publishing and distributing the game.
Price is up because gamers are cheap and places like Gamestop and EB hurt the developer.
piracy takes a bite as well - though not as much as the ESA would like us to believe as most people who pirate the game would not have bought it in the first place .. though there are those who would have. View
146 days 9 hours ago
It's more of a generalization ^_^ but yes I do understand your position.

I don't see that much demand to switch to linux but I do see a desire to return to the more open free range days of the early PC world. Microsoft with each update constrains the development path more and more.
I for one don't use linux all that much (I use BSD and Solaris with a toss of OS X (bsd lite) and Windows but I respect and understand those who think linux is great. I can't abide the GNU license as it removes to much control from myself of my product and I know many (namely almost all that I have ever worked for) companies who feel the same way... linux licenses throw out the baby with the bath water. View
146 days 9 hours ago
those studios...
are wholly owned subsidiaries ^_-
that is .. they are part of Sony
Thus they are ... SONY View
147 days 15 hours ago
Not so sure... it has been lately that games that push the hardware just haven't been good enough to care about. Until people see a game that pushes and is good then good enough is good enough. View
147 days 16 hours ago
Random effect and yes it occurs on the PS3 as well. View
147 days 16 hours ago
Yes they are Hardware first but they definitely are also a software company.... less then 20 companies in the world have more programmers then Sony employs. View
147 days 17 hours ago
Considering the Radeon 4800 series
*is cheaper
*gives similar performance
*expands better (crossfire)

basically the new ATI series kicks the Nvidia cards to the curb and then curb stomps em.

Sure if you need the absolute best buy the new Nvidia's but if you need good enough then buy the ATI. View
147 days 18 hours ago
out of the millions sold....the video chip issue seems small:
"500 a year –is quite a major problem"
That statement seems to be a big huge exaggeration...
if you do the math on very conservative numbers

500 /2000000 is .00025%(and that assumes EU only has 2 million....)
that is more of a statistical anomaly then a significant figure.

I think you can say that the video chip issue is minor to the extreme

as for Elites and RRoD - it also seems more of an anomaly rather then a significant issue View
148 days 4 hours ago
Thanks... Sony does make great software but to say it is the best in the world is maybe stretching it (though please stretch on). There are definitely good developers outside of Sony and they deserve as much credit and respect for quality and quantity of work. My feeling is you need both quality and quantity to be truly great - I can take 10 years on a project for quality but it commits to much resources to one project (when I worked gov projects 10 years was ok but commercial.... )economic failure.

There are so many software paths that no one group can or should try to master them all. Games, Control Systems(embedded or otherwise), Operating systems, CAD/CAM, Analysis, DB etc, etc, etc... no one company is best in all fields - we only wish we are!

Focus is the key to Sony so that is why SCEI has a many different groups each assigned a different task that is specific to them such as firmware, game development, hardware development. And there can be more then 1 of each group which allows multiple developmental lines for different products. View
148 days 4 hours ago
gah wish I could correct the months (where oh where is my edit button)
The dates are correct so the difference in months is actually: **9** months earlier for the Dual Analog to launch in Japan (but in NA the N64 hit before the Dual Analog) View
148 days 5 hours ago
Hmmm my feelings are pretty much the opposite... this story drew me in more then the previous outings and was much more poignant and compelling.

oh well to each their own. View
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