Tell Us What You'd Want if SEGA Made Another Console
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We're just one day away from unveiling the GameRevolution-built next-gen console of all our wildest, wettest dreams. There's just a few key ingredients missing. Ingredients which we must pluck from the hardcore SEGA fans out there.
SEGA Genesis was the first console to make Nintendo sweat through their power gloves. Without SEGA, the landscape of video games today would be very different. If making an ultimate console mash-up, we couldn't leave out SEGA.
If SEGA got back into the console business, what would you want to see in a new SEGA console?
PC Gaming Set to Dominate Console Gaming?
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According to the infographic posted below created by Ignite Game Technologies, developers of the online racing game Simraceway, PC gaming may be back on the rise to reconquer the gaming space: "Now that PCs have developed better graphics and social qualities, gamers may be leaving their PS3s and heading back to the computer chair."
It's difficult for me to be swayed by bare data and polished graphics, and this infographic has its faults in many areas particularly because it's trying to win the argument that PC gaming is winning the console war. I mean, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are technically computers (though I understand the distinction), and the infographic doesn't include figures for the Nintendo DS and 3DS or the PlayStation Portable. As expected, it also bolsters its figures by including downloaded and boxed games on social networks, casual game websites, MMOs, and other PC platforms (from the 2011 Games Market Revenue Report by Newzoo).
Then it goes into how PCs have higher processing power and how new PC games are generally cheap, but that does not include the cost of a PC that can handle the best graphics and sound, and above all, piracy. So far, I've also had to ship two broken Xbox 360s, but I've also had to fix by PC twice as well, though this is not to excuse the questionable hardware of the Xbox 360 nor my maintenance of my laptop.
The figures near the bottom, however, are much more telling about the industry as a whole. Video games have grown 7.2% in the last five years, and as long as we continue to see advances in technology hardware and integration, it will only continue to grow. The last figure, though, on "The Future of PC Gaming" is quite ridiculous with its comparison between NCAA Football '11 and StarCraft II. The mere difference of 29,000 copies between two games in completely different genres and then relating that to the entire console vs. PC argument? Hmm...
There are just some games that belong on PC like RTSs and MMORPGs and others that belong on the console like Mario, Halo, and Uncharted. Both succeed in their respective spaces; there's enough room for everyone to be happy.
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Netflix streaming on your console? You have now disconnected numbers
Netflix is of a cake accompanied by video game consoles as a sweet layer of icing in the middle. Sure there are various icing on top, and it is not really necessary, but this extra little tidbit everything makes more delicious. Mmmm... Cake...
But let's not get too distracted us here with this talk of cakes. Somehow, it is a lie. The real issue with the authorities is that you have to pay to go now for your cake and then pay to eat it.
Netflix instant-streaming Blu-ray DVD options is to separate your mail. Streaming now costs $7.99. If you want to have always the option for DVDs and Blu-ray, you'll jump for a second package starts with $7.99 have. If you both want to, you have to pay you for each individually.
Granted, it was an option for instant streaming - only before many people pay for $7.99, but I don't see for, that if you could handle DVDs for the same price.
What does this mean for gamers? It means that everyone who already had a Netflix package and were able, free of charge, can no longer stream content on their consoles. At least not for you free of charge. I know that I only console-streaming used, because I have Netflix, but now, the streaming not I for a while, I want to lose it. Then again, I want not to pay, either.
So I'm not surprised this happened earlier. After all, Netflix streaming on consoles accounts for 20% of all Internet traffic -is, the lot of bandwidth.
Here is the e-Mail to send customers existing the Netflix:
Dear pissed off consumers, [okay, we changed the name a bit.]
We are to separate unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming in two separate plans, which better reflect the costs of the individual. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a single DVD plan, or both.
Their current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be divided into 2 different plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited streaming (not DVDs) for $7.99 per month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 from in time (no streaming) for $7.99 per monthYour price for getting both of these plans are $15.98 per month ($ 7.99 + $7.99). You have to do everything, next to your memberships for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
These prices are for charges that begin on or after 1 September 2011.
You can easily change or cancel your unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both, of the plan change in your account page.
We recognize that many possibilities for home entertainment, and we thank you have for your business. As always, if you have questions, contact you to contact us at 1-888-357-1516 call.
-The Netflix team
Japanese newspaper reaffirmed much of what we have heard about the console of Nintendo
Is this man about to finally enter in high definition?Rumors won't be rumors in a few days, when the video game industry descends to Los Angeles to 2011 E3. All eyes are on Nintendo next week, as the company revealed the first details on its upcoming console, the successor to the Wii.
Japanese newspaper Nikkei has executed a history with alleged details of the new hardware, translated by the ever useful Andriasang, and a copy of many of the rumors.
The most important thing about the new Nintendo console, unless Nintendo us blindsides with something else, is a driver with an integrated touch screen. Seems to be something located between an iPad and what we have come to expect from games consoles. It is not clear whether the screen is single or Multi-Touch. DS, for example, only responds to a touch. iPad can register up to 11 touches at the same time.
There is apparently a camera on the device. Given what we have already seen of the developers and DS, the possibilities of fancy fun (and perverted deviation) are fairly obvious.
Nikkei also sets the release as soon as mid-2012. All Nintendo said is that comes 2012 and the console sales have not been cooked in their projects for the next fiscal year, which ends in March. That tells us the console does not launch until at least after March, 2012.
Other than the? It will be E3 (of the) answers we are looking for.
