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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Grecco on July 15, 2008, 10:57:06 PM

Title: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: Grecco on July 15, 2008, 10:57:06 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/arts/16games.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

Microsoft does not. Bow down to the NY Times. /bow.

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: duckman2000 on July 15, 2008, 10:58:25 PM

They interviewed Brian Crescente? The end of everything is, in fact, approaching.

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Currently, most console games do not allow more than 40 or 60 players to compete at once.

Actually, most console games never even approach even those numbers.

Who writes this crap?

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: pilonv1 on July 15, 2008, 11:15:25 PM

Most don't even approach 1/3 of those numbers.

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 15, 2008, 11:17:32 PM

40 to 60 players? Someone is comparing consoles to PCs :-*

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: Tauntaun on July 16, 2008, 11:37:18 AM

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The company did, however, exhibit a high level of artistic and technical ambition in playing a trailer from a new game in the works called MAG, for Massive Action Game. MAG is meant to allow up to 256 players to simultaneously occupy one continuous modern-combat battlefield. Currently, most console games do not allow more than 40 or 60 players to compete at once

SMH.  :wag

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: Crushed on July 16, 2008, 11:38:52 AM

(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080716.jpg)

Title: Re: Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm
Post by: laesperanzapaz on July 16, 2008, 07:59:12 PM

:piss NYT

:lol brian crecente

:piss games journalism - nay, mainstream journalism