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Street Fighter II HD Remix in Europe!
Finally Street Figher II HD Remix have been scheduled for Europe PSN! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time and this will be the first game I buy through PSN. I’ve downloaded many demos and free addons before and I hope that purchase and download will be just as easy as before.
For those who missed it the HD Remix edition is a complete remake of all the old graphics to fit the HD format. Everything was remade while trying as best as possible to remain true to the old look and feel. The above picture shows it just as I remember it in my mind, if I saw an actual screenshot of what it really looked like back in the days on arcade machines I would probably be dissapointed.
Perfect to relive some old arcade moments and also on the way is Street Figher IV which I will pre-order!
Posted in Nyheter, Retro
Tagged Arcade, PS3, PSN, Retro, Street Fighter, Street Fighter II HD Remix
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Newly bought PS3
I just bought myself i Playstation 3 (PS3), the latest model with 160 Gb harddive. I’ve read alot about the PS3, both Sonys over enthusiastic “it’s-also-a-blueray”-commercial and blogs and news sites complaints over prices and bugs, and I thought I’d share my thoughts off the machine now a few days after the purchase.
First off all, the largest dissapointment for me is the lack of backward compatibility. I have very large library of PS1 and PS2 games that I albeit rarely play but without a machine up that can play them will move that “rarely” to “never”. This is the greatest drawback of this machine to me, and most previous models could at least play the old games but had many bugs (or so I’ve heard).
After this dissapointmet, that I acctually learned off in the shop just before buying it, everything else have been a pleasent suprise. The included hand controller was wireless, but unlike the Wii remotes this one came with a cord that you could use to charge the thing. Very easy and nice unlike Nintendos constant changing of batteries.
The Playstation Network (PSN) worked very well, the PS3 directly identified my wireless network and asked the proper questions (encryption, password etc) and I was on my way out to download games from PSN. The PSN is very nice and have much more content than for example Wii (can’t say anything about X-box LIVE since I dont own an X-box), many games both full “normal” games, PSN exclusive games and demos for most of them! I’ve bought many consoles in my days and mostly I’ve gotten used to this kind of anti-climax of coming home with a new expensive console and the one or two games you bought with it. You want to try out it’s potential but you only have two games to try, well with PSN that problem is solved! I downloaded some four five demos the first day and tried what different kinds of excitement the machine had to offer!
Downloading very large games from the PSN isn’t that bad, granted I have a very high speed Internet access but still. First off all you can choose to download in the background while you play some other game, when the download is complete a notification will come up and you can switch to the new game. Furthermore you can queue up alot of downloads and then turn off the console, the PS3 will then ask if it should first finish the downloads and then power off, perfect!
I said earlier that there only was one dissapointment, well there acctually are two. After all these pleasent features I came to play the “Bad Company” demo, a first-person shooter, and I kept being reminded of how slugish it is to aim in a FPS with an analog joystick controler. I really missed a mouse or even better, a Wii remote to aim with! This made me think of how blessed the Wii is to have such versatile standard controllers.
All in all I like my PS3 very much, allthough the price still is a bit steep, though it really includes more than I first thought it would.
The future of console gaming?
I read two articles over at Gamespot concerning the future of gaming [1, 2]. Both of them paint the future (in the articles put: 2020) as pretty grim for consoles.
What Gamespot wrote…
First sign of trouble is the amount of money being invested in Xbox360 and Playstation 3 by Microsoft and Sony respectivly. The length of time these machines have to be on the market to become profitible are much longer than their predecessors.
The new trend of downloaded content will have an impact on local stores carrying games, why should they keep selling games when games are bought on-line and consoles often sold at a loss? Also games will be played “on-line” much like the MMO games of today, with the bulk of the processing being done on a central server.
Technology is making new games even more realistic and the need to keep up with technology will favour PCs over consoles. While we wait for the next leap in techonology the game developers must focus on other characteristics of the game in order to win an advantage.
And now for my take on it…
This is what they said… but let’s reflect a little. They seem to predict the future of the gaming market by pure extrapolation of our current situation. Did any of them glance at Nintendo? Did anyone notice that Nintendo acctually put up a much “lesser machine” but still beats the crap out of the two others (in units sold at least)?
I have no figures at all but my guess is Nintendo is winning this battle easily while Sony and Microsoft are pouring in money to get second place. Why? Because Nintendo did not just extrapolate, they innovated! One thing did the articles at Gamespot get right, advanced graphics technology makes developers have to look to other solutions to set them apart and that’s just what Nintendo did. Is that a bad thing? As I remember we had the same situation back in the 8-bit days, only then we only had crappy graphics and the price went to whoever could invent something cool to do with it.
As I’ve said before the game market probably needs to be re-evaluated because new techonology and better graphics isn’t the only thing we want… honestly for myself I’d much rather have a great game than great graphics.
The argument about downloaded content carries some weight, game retailers might fear this one… but why stop selling consoles? People would need them to download the content and the retailers make money on selling the consoles, it’s the manufacturer that often subsidies them.
Playing games on-line through a service is currently almost only being done on PCs (mostly MMOs). This is however an advantage that might become a turningpoint for consoles if used correctly. As I remember one of the great advantages of the old Nintendo cartridges was that the cartridges where upgraded as time went by but the console stayed the same, by allowing games to “upgrade” the console the Nintendo probably lasted much longer than it would have with a non-evolving media. Having the whole Internet as media must mean that, if used correctly, you only need to have a machine capable of displaying the graphics and handling input and leave the rest up to the “super computer” at the other end!
The days of consoles might still be numbered, maybe some hybrid “home entetrainment machine” of some sort will take it’s place. Call it a PC if you’d like (because it will much likely have better resemblance to a PC than a console), however I do not believe any of the given arguments are enough to pursuade me of this change in the future.
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Tagged Future, Gaming, Innovation, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Utveckling, Wii, Xbox 360
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8-bit for life
It’s with great joy I see lots of my old favourite games from 20 years back make a come back on the market. Some have resurfaced as handheld games while others are downloaded or played on-line. How is it that when we have consoles that can outperform anything we had 20 years ago we still look back to those old games and bring them to life? Wii have a built in virtual console souly for the purpose of redistributing old games (which however is starting to be used for new games as well).
The battle of the gaming market is almost always fought in media by counting the number of units sold, here Wii (24,5 million sold units) just overtook Xbox360 (19 million sold units) and the Playstation 3 is far behind (14 million sold units). One seldom mentioned fact is that both the Wii and Xbox360 are far surpased by both Playstation Portable (PSP, 37 million sold units) and most of all Nintendo DS (70 million sold units!). The major part of the gaming market is now in hand held devices.
What I’m getting at is despite the highly advanced PS3 and Xbox360 that can make incredibly advanced games it’s the hand held devices with far inferior technology that actually sells the most. The price of the units are surely also a large factor in this (the Wii and hand helds are much cheaper than PS3 and Xbox360). A game published on the PS3 or Xbox360 is expected to have superiour graphics and use the extreme hardware to the maximum, if not it’s a dissapointment. This creates a heavy presurre on developers to invest alot of time into making the game perfect (graphics wise) and only major developers can afford this.
On hand helds, or even better downloaded content, the technology is no longer a basis for judgement. While graphics do play a major role (and perhaps using the available pixels and colour depths as best as one can) it will no longer become a central role in the verdict on the playability of the game.
Games will invariably become better looking as the consoles keep getting better, I do however believe that there will always be a market for simple games like those on hand helds and downloaded content today. It’s simply to much fun in 8 bit!
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
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No innovation? E3 proves me wrong!
Yesterday I made a post critizising the lack of innovation in the game industry. While some 3-4 games are projected to take 30% of the total market there are still games being produced that are not main stream. Off all the articles from E3 I think I was one of the few who acctually found the news about Flower to be one of the more exciting news to come out of E3 so far. While I do not have so much information to go on this is exactly the kind of games I love to find among all the noise the major games does. A game simply meant to project a feeling more than a highscore or headshot. I eagerly await more information about this game!