The gaming market always has the hardcore and casuals. The ps2 was huge due to a big hardcore audience (rpgs and hack n slash where #1 during those early ps2 days) and having the casual fan as the PS2 was a hot item for casual fans back then + DVD playback. In this era, Hack n slash games and rpgs are not the king of the crop. The hardcore audience is slowing jumping and the casual fan base is going to Nintendo. Due to them having a Hot Item with next gen controls. So now the PS3 brand is goi...
Other than DSL, cable and fiber are the way to go. My brother has fios and getting 20mb down and 5mb up. I have Cable and get 16mb down and 2mb up. When docsis 3.0 comes out cable will be at 50mb down. Where I work and live connections of 10mb or higher are becoming the norm. In 2011 when the new box comes out it will be perfect for download only box. A client of mine just bought a sony Viao laptop with flash drive of 85gb built in. Vista loads from the flash drive not a spinning drive. Tech...
The Ready 2 Rumble of todays generation. To me Ready 2 Rumble was the best arcade (other than MTPunchout) boxing game of all time.
We find out how they manage video rights. On Amazon you can't redownload the purchase again. BUT you can re-download the License. But you have to have the movie file. Even if you transfter it over to a new computer you reopen the movie and log back in to Amazon and it re-downloads the license again and is now viewable on the new computer for example.
Does anybody know how long is the view period. Because on amazon or xbox live after you start to play it, you have 24 hours to view it. (rentals of course) Is the PSN the same.?? Also does anybody know what format are they using? wmv, h264?
If cloverfield is 5.5 which is close I think to the xbox live version it most likely is 720p. On Xbox rambo is 4.5gb. For the 720p and I think under 1.4gb for the SD version.
I also do think that sony films can make a agreement to have their ...
Its not dumb is called business. What do you think Apple does to ITUNES. Since they are the #1 music download place they get tons and longer exclusives compare to zune, napster or amazon music. Just the way it is my friend. So what do you think the Xbox video store will get. They will get alot of things first and or exclusives for a while.
Its just the way it is.
This story to me mostly refers to the amount of money western devs are making in todays world compare to 10 years ago. All that was in help due to FPS and great engines. Back in 97 what ruled the console earth. JRPG, fighting style of games, from street fighter to tekken, and all those Japanese devs where laughing at western devs saying ohhh look at them with their piss poor PC sales, quake, to diablo. FWD to today 2007 and up. What where the best selling games for PS3 and 360, HALO3, and COD...
For those of you still in deniel. The ps3 nor the 360 will become the next ps2. The wii has already done that. Since it's release on NOV 06, the WII has been so hot and it hasnt stopped. 1 year 1/2 guys. still shows no sign in slowing. + the popularity of the DS is making a WII+ DS combo tough to beat. If GTA 4 + GT 5 P + (has the mighty blue ray) all in 1 month of april can only push 187k units, do you really think MGS4 will push the ps3 to 500k? NOT. Both sony + ms better start to think of ...
It's not there fault they don't have a budget of 30-40million dollars to make Quake Wars PS3 look like Uncharted or MGS4. Maybe Activision and or ID software though they didn't want to fund it to much and lets face it on the PS3 you need more time and money to make good games. O well it's just a decision they made and its showing on their work. Don't buy it and move on. Don't blame a dev for not being funded properly. Not every game will be funded to be 40million dollar games. It has always h...
How come no one talks about that in reality once the movie hits 30-40% its ready to be played. I have downloaded and rent movies from vongo, xbox live, and amazon. A 1.5 gig movie takes me about 45-55 min on a 6mb time warner connection and soon will be upgrading to 15mb Fios from verizon. From xbox live or vongo (using mediacenter streaming) I can start the movie playback around 35% of the downloaded and NO I Don't need to wait for it to complete. From Amazon yes i do. But I dont know how th...
How square enix dont do crap for xbox and some other few Jap devs. But Valve dont want to do for PS and now they are lazy.
PS3 is closing the gap in NA.? what are you smoking. I bet that Kush must be some good sh*t hu.? When PS3 launched in NOV of 2006 they where 4 million behind because of the 1 year head start in US. Fwd to today DEC 2007 NPD numbers have Xbox at a total of 9.2 mil to 3.25 mil? They are now trailing it by 6 million.? They lost head to head in the first year another 2 million. But oh yeah in your smoky world the PS3 is closing the gap. Gawd what is this world coming to when not even internet and...
I don't think Uncharted is that hot of a Item here in North America. Why is it that for every Sony first party title that sells 1 million you guys glorify it like oh man we are great. Yet you guys have to include worldwide sales of their items to even = what other products do in one Continent. COD4 a Activision game hits 1million on PS3 on one continent and all I ever hear is Uncharted, Motormstorm, HS. COD4 and AC have hit one million copys on US alone and the Almighty Uncharted bearly makin...
But guess what it tiles a bit. A VOD has to go through miles and miles of coax .500 cable then hit amplifiers to line extenders, to taps then coax drops and splitters. To many reasons as to why VOD tiles. A downloaded file to 360 will never break up. Once it's downloaded and you play it, it's full bandwidth as to how they encoded it. For convience I rent from both. But will if I had to choose. I would choose a video file over a VOD anytime.
Cable operators with VOD have different sections. Some are pay rentals, some are free if you pay for the correspondent tier. Like they have HD VOD where I live at and they rent for 5$ and you have to watch it within 24 hours. I have rented a few movies from there. (yes I have paid for a rent.). Why becuase those are newly release movies on dvd. They you have the free VOD that you get depending if you are paying for HBO, Showtime, Starz. ETC. Those sections under the Hbo VOD are older movies. ...
I will get login back in there to see it.
Also you can't run Vongo from the dashboard, but you can run it on your 360 using Media Center. I open Vongo on the 360 without having to get out of bed and going to my office. Just turn it on log on to MCE. You do need a wired Connection (cat 5) as I tried with a wireless g and it lagged a bit.
Again LOOK at this link http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxt...
AT # ten it says. What the codecs are supported and how and where to play them...
It has a USB section and yes you can play avi or mpeg-4 from usb storages. If you stream you need WMP11 and the dashboard player. But you need codecs on your computer to be installed in WMP11. And NO Media Center currently doesnt support those for now. It's its own applica...
On this link you will see how to get avi or Divx files to play on 360.
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxt...
Look at question 10. You will see WMP11 supporting more codecs than MCE. So for those that need a MPEG 4 codec go here. http://www.free-codecs.com/...
So install this codec. Turn on 360 and open the dashboard strea...
"The price cut and new model helped Sony increase sales of all consoles including the older PlayStation 2 to 100,000 units in the week ended Nov. 11", spokeswoman Kimberly Otzman said in an e-mail
http://www.bloomberg.com/ap...
Sony is good in always choosing their words. Now on how they now account for the Total NPD numbers and saying The playstation brand not...
On the software front the PS3 has made a few mistakes. They bring out games ment for a younger audience when they themselves dont have that covered yet. LBP and Heavenly Sword are two examples. Out of the whole PS3 fanbase how many do you think are really owned by 10-22 year olds? I am 33 and the only ones I know that have a PS3 are 26 and up. And 50% of them are really only Blue ray fans. With maybe 1-2 games. And one of them was free .. Motorstorm. MGS as you can see sold well. (for a ps3 f...