I need Nintendo, so no. charizard1605

So here's a new spin on an old, old, old thread. According to Computerworld, the PC is dying! But there's a catch --

The Mac and iPad are not.

Now I don't agree with everything here in this article, and I don't pretend to propagate the idea that the PC is actually dying, because that requires defining exactly what "dying" is. However, it's hard not to look at those numbers and come to a couple basic conclusions-

1. iPad sales are unbelievably strong, so strong that iPads outsold iPods in the latest quarter, a product that costs hundreds less.
2. PC sales are down, which would lead one to believe that many casual computer users are spending more time on things like tablets than they are on things like a traditional PC. That means more bodies for developers to create software for, which in turn means more money, especially with a business model like Apple has perfected with their App Store (4 billion dollars made by developers already).

So do your best to ignore the Mac vs PC argument, what I'm talking about is something much larger than that. To make it easy on you, I'm going to lay it all out so you can see exactly what it is I'm getting at.

-- What do you think this means for you, the gamer? WIll this shift in the industry effect you at all? Do you think this is another signal of the changing times?

Apple has reinvented music, reinvented mobile media players, reinvented smartphones, reinvented application distribution, reinvented tablet computing, have just launched an initiative to reinvent textbooks, and are rumored to be reinventing television. What's to stop them from turning towards gaming and digital entertainment? 100 billion plus in the bank, ready to roll, who knows what's going to happen. But the question remains --

How could this effect you?musicalmac

[QUOTE="iKILLnerds"]i love the GoW games but i don't see any surface texture at all, just flatness with good colors and shading.Michail1978

I am not a graphics expert ( so this is my opinion ) , but I don't think that the 3D objects ( including the characters ) and surfaces , would look like these in the images I posted , if they had applied to them only some shading techniques !

From the wikipedia article about shading ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shading ) :

" In computer graphics, Shading refers to the process of altering the color of an object/surface/polygon in the 3D scene, based on its angle to lights and its distance from lights to create a photorealistic effect. Shading is performed during the rendering process."

Again , I'm not a graphics expert , but it seems shading is just some techniques , used to alter the colors of faces in a 3D model based on the angle of the surface to a light source or light sources ( bolded part is from the wikipedia article too ) . So If the 3D objects and surfaces I posted , had only shading applied to them , they would look just some empty 3D polygons architecture . It seems they just use a good mix of textures and shading techniques.

[QUOTE="iKILLnerds"][QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

But there is no new 360 video shown

Where is it ?

Here is actual 360 video and pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJ7uXktqEg

loosingENDS

There, new video and old one

http://gamingeverything.com/14433/15-minutes-of-the-witcher-2-enhanced-edition-xbox-360-footage/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJ7uXktqEg

[QUOTE="dracolich55"][QUOTE="GiantAssPanda"]

It was PC footage. With lowest settings.

loosingENDS

But there is no new 360 video shown

Where is it ?

Here is actual 360 video and pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJ7uXktqEg

[QUOTE="iKILLnerds"]so no one knows what the update is or what the Dark Edition will include? GiantAssPanda

http://gamingeverything.com/14417/the-witcher-2-enhanced-edition-boxart/?pid=9233

[QUOTE="iKILLnerds"][QUOTE="vtoshkatur"]That has to be the case at this point. Sort of their way of driving home their point.bonesawisready5