As it turns out the PlayStation Vita was mostly designed around the idea of it costing $249. This raises a few questions.
What if the price point was higher? Would we be looking at better graphics right now? Or a sooner release date? And most of all - could the battery have been made a bit more expensive? I don't think I'll find a gamer who would say "dude, $50 for 4 more battery hours? No way!" Yes way! These 50 bucks would be a huge investment in those rea-a-a-a-aly long days with no low access to a recharger. And what do you, my inexisting viewers, say about this?
The whole interview can be seen at GamesIndustry.biz.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Requirements for Battlefield 3 finally in!
Now... there is no word of DICE if these are the requirements that you need in order to play the game the way it's "supposed" to be played or just the requirements that you'll need to play the console port. Like what Crytek did with their newest baby. But to be fair I have quite a lot more faith in DICE then in any other FPS developer out there. They've been pretty true to the core for the last decade and hopefully remain the same in future endeavours. Well, here's what everyone was expecting:
Minimum:
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHzRAM2GB
Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card
Recommended:
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPURAM 4GB
Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon Radeon HD 6850
I must say... these look awesome. My beast of a machine will nom the game quite nicely, but even so, the requirements are quite low and the game should run flawlessly on all systems at about the medium video settings. Really, a computer for the minimum settings costs about $400 if less. And you cannot pass up the opportunity to have this beautiful game on your hard drive. Go buy now!
Minimum:
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHzRAM2GB
Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card
Recommended:
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPURAM 4GB
Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon Radeon HD 6850
I must say... these look awesome. My beast of a machine will nom the game quite nicely, but even so, the requirements are quite low and the game should run flawlessly on all systems at about the medium video settings. Really, a computer for the minimum settings costs about $400 if less. And you cannot pass up the opportunity to have this beautiful game on your hard drive. Go buy now!
Uncharted 3 coming early to the UK!
Congratulations Britain! Now you're only 1 day behind the US! What luck! Seriously!
Honestly though just when will this end? Retailers don't have the upper hand for a few years now, everything is bought digitally! Come on industry, make "world" exclusives. Stop making everything go out in the US first! Now if you REALLY want to give the retailers some power I suppose giving them 1 day earlier releases with the Collector's Edition is the way to go.
Bah, never mind. Hopefully everyone enjoys Uncharted 3. I know I will. And I know you will. So yeah, just a few more months now.
Meanwhile check this video of the game that I must put in the post or otherwise it'll be just a grey mess. Brought to you by IGN!
Honestly though just when will this end? Retailers don't have the upper hand for a few years now, everything is bought digitally! Come on industry, make "world" exclusives. Stop making everything go out in the US first! Now if you REALLY want to give the retailers some power I suppose giving them 1 day earlier releases with the Collector's Edition is the way to go.
Bah, never mind. Hopefully everyone enjoys Uncharted 3. I know I will. And I know you will. So yeah, just a few more months now.
Meanwhile check this video of the game that I must put in the post or otherwise it'll be just a grey mess. Brought to you by IGN!
Please, skip this post
Well, after some considerable time and thinking, and mostly after realizing this blog will not be much different from any other blog out there except for my above average level of humor (which I haven't even exactly shown yet)... I came to the conclusion that I'll still continue to do what I like. And that is writing about the exciting, and hard to break into, world of the game industry.
When you are a news writer for a few years now, in a language that the world doesn't quite understand and you look around and view your future prospects in your small little country, you come to the realization that your portfolio and your CV, and all the little things you've done in the past have pretty much been for nothing. I'll never start getting more money in the situation I am currently in, even if I continue my "successful" relationship with the media of my country for decades to come.
And so I've decided this blog is still a good thing. I may not get money from it but fuck, at least I'll do what I like with a broader, more critically thinking and wide ranged audience then ever before. If some years in the future someone notices that there is a certain news writer/editor in this corner of the interwebs and decides it's what he needs for his next big project, then it will be everything I've ever wanted out of all of this. And if not... c'est la vie. But I'll still be doing what I love the most.
Sincerely,
Void.
When you are a news writer for a few years now, in a language that the world doesn't quite understand and you look around and view your future prospects in your small little country, you come to the realization that your portfolio and your CV, and all the little things you've done in the past have pretty much been for nothing. I'll never start getting more money in the situation I am currently in, even if I continue my "successful" relationship with the media of my country for decades to come.
And so I've decided this blog is still a good thing. I may not get money from it but fuck, at least I'll do what I like with a broader, more critically thinking and wide ranged audience then ever before. If some years in the future someone notices that there is a certain news writer/editor in this corner of the interwebs and decides it's what he needs for his next big project, then it will be everything I've ever wanted out of all of this. And if not... c'est la vie. But I'll still be doing what I love the most.
Sincerely,
Void.
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