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what like you mean half the games on the PS2?, i personally would like to see it happen if only for one console life cycle to see what happens
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what like you mean half the games on the PS2?, i personally would like to see it happen if only for one console life cycle to see what happens
It means that we only need to buy one console - no need to buy all three consoles (360, PS3 + Wii) for some specific games.
Developing one game for one console = cheaper development cost = cheaper game price = developers + customers are happy!
But it aren't gonna happen!
Developing one game for one console = cheaper development cost = cheaper game price = developers + customers are happy!
But it aren't gonna happen!
Can you imagine the damage EA would do to the opposition if they bought Xbox?
EA sports titles account for a massive majority of all sports titles on all consoles and EA published games are also a massive part of any consoles game catalogue. As the biggest producer going it would have a huge impact under EA.
I wouldn't mind EA and Microsoft teaming up to make a console.
If they teamed up we'd all lose out as there wouldn't be any competition.
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what a team, one can't release a game without being broken and the other releases broken machines.
Sure there would, the competition is already pretty fierce from 2K sports, who in a lot of peoples opinions have the better of the Basketball series (which I agree with) and the better of the Hockey series (which I don't).
If EA games formed with everyone people wouldn't so much as lose out, because it's not really EA that are making it an open market. If EA went into games either by buying out Xbox from Microsoft then EA would just take Microsofts place, or if they teamed up with Microsoft nothing would change, you'd still have Sony, Nintendo plus A.N.Other.
What EA games are broken? EA are one of the very best publishers out.
It's very easy for people to knock EA on their games, it seems I'm the only person who's defended them since the dawn of time. A lot of the time EA don't even make the games, they publish them. People seem confused on the roles of a publisher and a developer.
As for Microsoft, yes there have been problems with the Xbox360 (so they altered the warrenty), but the original Xbox is one of the most reliable consoles ever made.
So it should have been - it was basically pc hardware from 3 months prior to design? They just put it all together in a small box.
They still did it thought - so I give them credit (but due to their Wintel alliance at the time only they could have done it really)
Not only that but its still potentially possible that if the original Xbox had sold in the numbers the X360 has, similar manufacturing problems might have occured (MS, like Sony, dont do it themselves as far as I know for either generation)
I know they are huge IF's and maybe's - Im just extrapolating a thought
In regards to the OP - yes this is probaby how it will go shortly - but I cant see EA making a complete success of it , yes their sporting line up is great no question - but what about the other types of game - just cant see it myself
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I agree it's very easy to bash EA even when they are just a publisher, but they do deserve some stick, well not stick but you can see they will milk their own big brands for all they are worth, sometimes with very little improvements, take the Fifa series and the spin off Champions League game or World Cup, or even Road to World Cup, milking it would you not say. I don't think EA are all bad but they are an easy target, Nintendo milk Mario quite a bit but get away with it.
I had a dvd drive fail on my original xbox, but I agree they are very reliable was probably just unlucky, I bought a crystal one to replace the broken one, then got a new dvd drive and still have both running now
Hence the recent acquisitions of other games developers who make great non-sports games?
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Well lots of futurists don't see HDTV via IP as that far off, so the minute you can pipe dow hires video you realistically just need a controller sending up input to a game farm. So the small set top box idea isn't actually all that crazy.
I used to work for a company that provided the majority of it's large backend software systems to customers via remote desktop and that worked very well and was the exact same concept ie high cost of hardware removed from end customer. Remote desktop for winows is about to get a really good performance increase with the vector based tech in .net 3.0 WPF as well so we are moving in the right direction.
I used to work for a company that provided the majority of it's large backend software systems to customers via remote desktop and that worked very well and was the exact same concept ie high cost of hardware removed from end customer. Remote desktop for winows is about to get a really good performance increase with the vector based tech in .net 3.0 WPF as well so we are moving in the right direction.
HDTV via IP would presumably work via something like multicasting, where the same message is being delivered to multiple hosts. Obviously that wouldn't work for a game as everyone's game state will be different. Also there's the issue of latency. Latency in a video broadcast doesn't matter but it would in a game.
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I used to play play fps games online with a ping of over 300ms quite happily, now you can achieve a tenth of that, so even going there and back wouldn't be an issue.
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One platform is bad. Competition improves the market, it does not stifle it. Without competition the impetus to improve your product and make it better than the opposition goes away and the next product generation becomes an incremental increase (think Windows) rather than a serious jump to outsmart the competition.
I would agree that in the future games will become downloadables rather than discs, it's just the natural progression. It also makes it much easier for you to spurge cash if it's just one button on say Live.
Lastly, I don't think MS will 'sell' the Xbox to EA purely because it is my belief that the whole purpose the the Xbox is not just about great games but for MS to finally break into the living room with its product line. The link up between the Xbox and parters like BT show the direction they want to go. On demand content such as TV and movies, games, practically all home entertainment sitting on an MS brand device under the TV, connecting to MS brand content platforms.
I would agree that in the future games will become downloadables rather than discs, it's just the natural progression. It also makes it much easier for you to spurge cash if it's just one button on say Live.
Lastly, I don't think MS will 'sell' the Xbox to EA purely because it is my belief that the whole purpose the the Xbox is not just about great games but for MS to finally break into the living room with its product line. The link up between the Xbox and parters like BT show the direction they want to go. On demand content such as TV and movies, games, practically all home entertainment sitting on an MS brand device under the TV, connecting to MS brand content platforms.
Ah yes but there's still a difference. Your PC is still doing some of the work on a normal networked game. Imagine what it would be like if you wanted to quickly look behind you and there was a 300ms latency? You'd notice it a hell of a lot more if all your computer was doing was displaying images from a server.
It wasn't that small.
Well yeah thats true lol
No real gaurentee of anything though