bluray doesn't help graphics. Carmack complained cause he had to squeeze a huge amount of data into 2 discs and in doing so, he'll have to use some strong compression, which results in less defined textures

aia89

That's actually not true.

BluRay does help graphics.....FF13 being a prime example.

Why is it Microsoft has shut down or alienated almost every good studio they have?

I mean, they've seemingly shut down more game studio-houses than they've opened or acquired this generation...Why?

Ensemble, Digital Anvil, Aces, FASA and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Game_Studios

Rare seems to be a shell of its former self, which is a shame since RARE was an Elite developer, as Elite as Naughty Dog is today once upon a time ago.

Then look at Bungie. Bungie wanted to get away from Microsoft so bad, that not only did they squirm, hustle and buy their way out, but now they even went to the more loving arms of Activision....ACTIVISION. That's just not right....an ironic joke, if you will.

So what's wrong with Microsoft? Why can't they manage game studios well? Are they totally incompetent?

What's wrong?

Honestly, so far I don't see anything that impresses me about RAGE.

All I know is they keep delaying and I become less and less interested with each passing month....not to mention ID hasn't made a truly great game for over a decade.....they've shown signs of being washed up.

Call me when this game gets a Beta or demo

they count, but it still doesn't add up to what XBL has available, except maybe in individual cases of nostalgia sad though because they've tons of potential to release more and more PS1 classics, they've been rather slow on it too, even Sony owned IPs aren't coming out quick enough, I'd like to see more Psygnosis titles myself, like the Wipeout XL, the Colony Wars series, G-Police, and other games like Loaded, Return Fire, Fear Effect, Parasite Eve, Battle Arena Toshiden, Johnny Bazookaton, In The Hunt, PaRappa The Rapper (only for PSP for some reason), ... part of me wished Sony would make people pay for PSN so they could pay staff to acquire rights to some of these games, after all many of the development studios and publishers to these older titles have vanished, good guess as to who has control over much of the IP, it would take a team devoted to just this to get these games back on the marketlamprey263

Colony Wars and Parasite Eve show they are in the PSN stores.

It still boggles me, if console players care so much about graphics, why don't they just migrate to PC?DragonfireXZ95

Because why should they when Consoles have been GRAPHIX KING and GOTY for 3 years in a row? ;)

I didn't know, and never would have thought it considering it's not even BC with PS2 anymore.

SaltyMeatballs

That's why I mentioned it.....I had a feeling you didn't know.

You're welcome, I guess. :)

Edit....and like I tried to edit before...there are PS1 games that are in the XBOX LIVE store that have been reviewed.

So I think it's only fair...don't you?

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Since people are always comparing PSN to XBOX LIVE, the one thing that I think people don't consider are the PS1 games that it has.


Recently, XENOGEARS just got announced as coming soon to the PSN store. That game alone is a big freakin plus for PS3 owners who've never played it.


So if the PS3/PSN keeps getting gems like this, doesn't this count as a "win" in terms of ammo against XBOX LIVE?

SaltyMeatballs

And no I don't see why they should count for some "supremacy ammo" because they won't be getting reviewed, unless they add anything new. What you get now is that you can play those PS1 games on any PS system. (PS1, PS2 B/C, PSN (PS3/PSP) )

You could always play PS1 disk games on any PS3 (just in case you didn't know...there are some people that don't).

Also, there are lots of PSN games that don't get reviewed....Mini's, for example.

Edit:

Also, interestingly, there are PS1 games on the XBOX LIVE store that have been reviewed.

Since people are always comparing PSN to XBOX LIVE, the one thing that I think people don't consider are the PS1 games that it has.


Recently, XENOGEARS just got announced as coming soon to the PSN store. That game alone is a big freakin plus for PS3 owners who've never played it.


So if the PS3/PSN keeps getting gems like this, doesn't this count as a "win" in terms of ammo against XBOX LIVE?

if you could combine all consoles, what would you take from each of them? i'll take: 360 controller ps3's xmb interface 360 slim case design ps3's exclusives ps3's functionality ps3's bluray wii's mario game ...so its pretty much all what the ps3 have except with the 360 controller and 360 slim's console case plus wii's mario game. how bout you guys?johnlennon28

Here's the problem....

You've pretty much doomed yourself to having a power brick. :lol:

Fair enough. I've only played 3 online games on PS3 (The Show '09, Rainbow 6Vegas 2,Uncharted 2 & Killzone 2) so was 1/4 of the games I played lol. It very well my be that it is few and far between. Point is everything is very intergrated and streamlined on XBL. PSN reminds me of XBL on Xbox 1. PSN is not a bad service, but its no XBL, IMO

SpideR_CentS

I talked to one of my friends right now, and he doesn't know what your refering to either.

If what you're saying is true, I might suggest you check your online settings in your game options. I bet you have something toggled that disallows you the "universal friends list invite".