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you know it really ticks me off how everybody is like "3D WITH NO GLASSES" but nobody is like "that's it if you stay still like a statue"
3ds looks pretty sweet. but will it kill our eyesight?
THE ANNUAL RUNNING of the moles in Santa Clara yesterday had some surprising results, not just in the record number of IC engineers gored, but also the information leaked by those trying save their backsides. One of them even leaked some details about the upcoming PSP2's CPU, but it didn't save him.Unfortunately for that engineer, he wasn't able to make it back to 2701 San Tomas for treatment, and succumbed to his wounds. While he was crawling back to the mothership begging for an 'ouchless' band-aid, he was babbling about how the new PSP2 hardware needed him, and that he was too young to die. Next of kin, not the next Kin, confirmed that the (now ex-) Nvidia engineer was indeed on the Tegra team, and that chip line will be powering the PSP2.It is now set for a CES showing, but it will almost assuredly be released at a later date. This isn't due to the number of engineers mauled by moles yesterday, but because the Tegra 2 is massively over it's promised power budget. In a segment that finds 5% overages unacceptable, Tegra 2 is 20%+ over power budget. That explains why Nvidia PR suddenly changed the focus of the PSP2 screed to avoid the word 'phone', but, luckily for Sony, the PSP2 does not have phone capabilities.The power 'whoopsie' means delays and possibly spec downgrades for the PSP2, but we will have to see where it ends up. Between that overage and several showstopper bugs, Sony is said to be very miffed at Nvidia right now. Even the moles could sense that before they pounced on engineer after engineer. The scene in the streets is almost as bad as the scenes in the Nvidia meeting rooms when the Sony people come around.If the chip that Sony uses for the PSP2 is a vanilla Tegra 2, the design is in trouble. If they use a custom version of the part, there is a chance for things to work out in the end, but expect many delays as the silicon is respun and respun. For a device that has already been delayed because of it's CPU, that is not a good sign.Unlike the other 20, 50, 70, or however many design wins Nvidia PR is promising this week, the PSP2 is actually going to come out. In fact, it will sell more than the other two Tegra flagship products, the Zune HD and the Kin(s) combined. So more than 20 units, one for the family of each gored engineer, plus or minus a few design wins.S|A
It is a MK game, not really that complex. Also going from 720p to 1080p isnt that much of a hit as you would think. Most PC cards go from 720p to 1080p for a 15% drop max. It just goes to show how crappy the original engine was.
Quote from: Damian79 on July 14, 2010, 09:22:29 PMIt is a MK game, not really that complex. Also going from 720p to 1080p isnt that much of a hit as you would think. Most PC cards go from 720p to 1080p for a 15% drop max. It just goes to show how crappy the original engine was.Consoles are severely limited by memory bandwidth and video ram so the drop from going to 1080P is much more than it usually is on PC.
Ubisoft wants 30 per cent market share on 3DS when the platform hits retail, the publisher has told MCV.Speaking at the recent Ubisoft Summer Fair event, UK sales director Darren Bowen said the firm expects to account for a significant portion of sales when Nintendo’s highly anticipated handheld is released.“We will have six to eight of the key launch titles on3DS, so we are expecting anywhere between 25 and30 per cent share on that platform,” he said.In the wake of the 3DS’ E3 unveiling, Ubisoft confirmed it was working on five new titles for the handheld from some of its biggest selling brands.These games include Assassin’s Creed: Lost Legacy, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Battle of Giants: Dinosaur Strike and a new Driver game.The firm has previously championed the potential of 3D technology with titles such as James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game and the upcoming Shaun White Skateboarding.Ubisoft reiterated that it will fully support the 3D movement – although its focus will be on motion control until the installed base of 3DTVs improves.Marketing director Murray Pannell said: “3D will certainly come but it will come slowly and in time.“The technology is spectacular but at the moment it’s relatively expensive for true 3D in the living room. It’s tricky to understand how it can become a social experience, since gaming is now so focused on families and multiplayer.“The Wii has already proven that motion control can exist now, it’s fun and you can enjoy it with multiple people at the same time. Clearly, Microsoft and Sony have identified this as a brilliant way of maximising their sales opportunities and that technology will have the most impact in the short term.”As such, Ubisoft will also have a strong presence at the launch of Move and Kinect, with Your Shape: Fitness Evolved and Motion Sports for Xbox 360, and Racket Sports on PS3
RUMOUR WATCH: Buried listing on leading entertainment retailer’s site points to high price for handheldA listing on the site of retailer Play.com has pointed to a £199.99 RRP for Nintendo’s next handheld, the 3DS.As spotted by CVG, though the main page for the device doesn’t carry a price, if a user continues to browse the site the 3DS shows up in their ‘Recently Viewed Items’ list with a price of £199.99.In all likelihood the amount is nothing more than a placeholder – but as a placeholder filled in by a retailer at the heart of the games industry, at the very least it’s a useful indicator of what the industry is expecting.Indeed, UK retail has previously told MCV that it expects an RRP of around £200 when the machine arrives in the UK next year.However, Nintendo’s UK marketing manager James Honeywell subsequently hinted that the device could come in for less than that, saying that the price will be “somewhere within that kind of architecture” that sees the DSi sell for £129.99 and the DSi XL for £159.99.
Devs should have plenty of space to work with when creating games for the 3DS. Macronix, the manufacturer behind the 3DS software cards, has revealed that the cards will hold anywhere from 1GB all the way up to 8GB.
Nintendo has contracted the production of its Nintendo 3DS cartridges to Taiwan-based solid-state maker Macronix. And apparently, those cartridges offer enormous memory space.According to Taiwanese-site Gamrade, the 3DS cartridge is able to hold up to 8GB, but it's rumored Nintendo will be enforcing some kind of 2GB limit on 3DS games (details are few and far between in the report), with 1GB the supposed very least required. So don't hold your breath for 8GB Nintendo 3DS games any time soon; however, that may change over the course of the console's life.Still, this shows just how much of an improvement the 3DS is considering the biggest cartridges for the Nintendo DS are only 512MB.Remember that this is unconfirmed, and Kotaku is following up with Nintendo. This post will be updated should the company comment.
