Sega has announced they have signed a digital distribution deal with GamersGate, allowing many of the Japanese publisher's PC titles to be available through the popular GamersGate portal.
The first games available will be Universe at War: Earth Assault and Football Manager 2009, two popular back catalog titles. Titles such as Condemned, Rome: Total War and OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast are ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Well round it out and you get like numbers, the numbers are there for generalization examples anyway because the PS3 architecture is as it is you are going to have a slower more difficult time getting 100% optimization and that's only for the devs that give a damn about such things. I see the PS3 as having better hardware just alien to what the industry is use to and that will slow them perfecting of games on it.
Also you have a industry that's even less console specific than it was not 8-10 years ago, when you have less devs working solely on a console world wide you will have harder time finding all the bugs and nuances of the system from a devs perspective meaning the console maker more than ever has to head the charge to optimization more than ever.
It would have been interesting to see if they tried to evolve the 360 back before Blu ray won, if they did not screw up their product line with beta designs would they have focused on larger games on a new format? I still think it would be better for them to put a BR drive in new 360s offer to swap out current drives for for a small fee and move the platform up a notch so it will last another 4 years so they can properly develop a new system that has some form of BWC, open HDD and more polished media options.
Very good points and I agree that MS should have planned their console more for the consumer than themselves as they could have easily put in an HD-DVD drive and then the whole format war/console war would have been staggeringly different. But I believe (and no I don't have an aluminum/tin cap on right now) that MS uses a planned obsolescence business model, if you look at how over the years they have handled their Windows line of products it makes a hell of a lot of sense....
Originally posted by borhan9: It will be great to see SEGA back fighting strong :) I wish them well and i wish they get back into the console game again i loved their consoles.
I think all real gamers truly wish/agree with that.
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Well round it out and you get like numbers, the numbers are there for generalization examples anyway because the PS3 architecture is as it is you are going to have a slower more difficult time getting 100% optimization and that's only for the devs that give a damn about such things. I see the PS3 as having better hardware just alien to what the industry is use to and that will slow them perfecting of games on it.
Also you have a industry that's even less console specific than it was not 8-10 years ago, when you have less devs working solely on a console world wide you will have harder time finding all the bugs and nuances of the system from a devs perspective meaning the console maker more than ever has to head the charge to optimization more than ever.
It would have been interesting to see if they tried to evolve the 360 back before Blu ray won, if they did not screw up their product line with beta designs would they have focused on larger games on a new format? I still think it would be better for them to put a BR drive in new 360s offer to swap out current drives for for a small fee and move the platform up a notch so it will last another 4 years so they can properly develop a new system that has some form of BWC, open HDD and more polished media options.
Very good points and I agree that MS should have planned their console more for the consumer than themselves as they could have easily put in an HD-DVD drive and then the whole format war/console war would have been staggeringly different. But I believe (and no I don't have an aluminum/tin cap on right now) that MS uses a planned obsolescence business model, if you look at how over the years they have handled their Windows line of products it makes a hell of a lot of sense....
Originally posted by borhan9: It will be great to see SEGA back fighting strong :) I wish them well and i wish they get back into the console game again i loved their consoles.
I think all real gamers truly wish/agree with that.
Well Windose 7 seems to be more optimized than both vista and XP.
With the 360 they messed up they did not want it as a heavy media machine they didnt want to stream video they didn't think about alot of things. BWC was lost due to changing chipset makers and the old chipset maker would not ok them using the BWC system they had ready at the time of launch.
I think that if MS puts alil more foresight into it they can build a excellent system that's not so half assed as the 360.
I think buying a frimeware/hard drive upgrade on live for 10-15$ to change your hard drive with any SATA drive is acceptable, MS needs to look hard at what they are doing. Live for instance should completely free, only if you choose the subscription you get more "free" downloads/specials and points or point cost reduction to spend. They could sale 2 or 3 levels of this with 10$ ,25$ and 45$ points a year or 5%,10% and 35% off all points purchased this plans can start at 5$/M-50$/Y,15$/M-125$/Y and 25$/M and 175$ a year, I think MS would make more money from this than making gold and free Live standards so different as they are now.
You can make a system that can gain revenue and not be stupid on those that buy it.
Its better than the locked and limited setup they have now...
that link has the info and list of tools you need, HDD selection is as important as it was with Xbox1. Western Digital and Seagate's HDD seem to be the most successful
