TheMightyEthan

Well one immediate advantage that strikes me is the fact that it's less bulky than current head-/helmet-mounted cameras. Though yeah, the selling point I think is supposed to be that it's a wearable computer that basically gives you a constant HUD.

The reason the Wii doesn't have this problem (with the standard pointing, it can have a similar problem when relying solely on MotionPlus like with Skyward Sword) is because it's not using the accelerometers to determine angle, just rotation speed. It uses the sensor bar, an absolute reference point, to determine angle. The sensor bar is essentially just two infrared LEDs, one at either end of the bar (which is why you can replace it with two candles if you so desire), and the Wiimote has an infrared camera in the end of it. When you point the Wiimote at the TV it can see the sensor bar and based on where in its field of view the LEDs are it can tell where you're pointing. So like if the LEDs are in the bottom-right of its field of view then it knows you're pointing at the top-left of the screen (with some correction based on whether you've told it the sensor bar is above or below the TV). It can also judge how far away from the TV you are based on how far apart in its vision the two LEDs are (basically the same way the Move does, but reversed). Since it's using an absolute reference point to determine angle there's no accumulated errors to cause drift.

Because there's no way to tell which way the ball is facing. It's a sphere, so it looks the same from all angles. Take these two scenarios: The EyeToy can only see the light ball on the end (well, it can see everything, but the only thing it's processing can understand is the ball), so to it they both look like this: The PS3 then takes the orientation data from the Move's accelerometers and magnetic sensors, combines that with the position data from the EyeToy, and comes up with a solution for where you're pointing. Those accelerometers and magnetic sensors aren't perfect though, there's some small amount of error, and in some cases those small errors can add up over time and cause drift, so the PS3 thinks you're pointing it in one direction when really you're pointing to the side of that. *Edit* - The drift has nothing to do with depth perception, the size thing works perfectly well for that (since the object is of known size, you can perfectly calculate distance based on apparent size), the problem is in the way the Move determines the direction you're pointing, which has nothing to do with the EyeToy. *Edit 2* - Basically the Move is using rotational dead-reckoning to determine angle, and any time you're using dead-reckoning you're going to eventually get accumulated errors that give you a wrong solution.

A second camera would allow it to more accurately place the position of the glowing ball, but the angle is still just measured by the accelerometers/magnetic-sensors in the controller, and that's what causes the drift. A similar thing happens with Wii Motion Plus because it relies on the accelerometers too rather than the sensor bar.

Pointer control is by far my favourite/only thing I like about motion control so that would be more than fine with me. Pointer control is great on the Wii but pretty bad on the Move. There's way too much drift since it doesn't have an absolute reference for which direction you're pointing. Like I've literally set the Move perfectly still on the table and I can see it drifting left on the TV. It's not always that bad, but when it is it's really irritating.

See, and that shows how weird/bad their advertising has been: I didn't even realize they were doing anything special with LBP2 and Vita.

As a lawyer on the list for court-appointed defense work, I can assure you that people do very, very stupid things for the prospect of slight short-term gain.

Yeah, they're actually concave, like a sane person might design. After giving it some thought, I've decided the only thing I can imagine that could make this a day-one buy for me would be if The Last Guardian were a launch title. Of course there's always the possibility that they could come up with something that I can't yet imagine, and blow me away with that, but I doubt it will happen. Assuming that TLG is a launch title, pretty much the only thing that could dissuade me from a day one buy would be either if the price is ridiculous (read: more than about $400), or if it's got always-online DRM built into the system. *Edit* - I take that back, I can imagine one other thing that would make it a day-one buy: if the PS4 is actually a realistic (not uncanny valley) sex robot. We all know Japan has been developing those for years.

Super Mario 3D Land is literally the only 3DS game I want.

What does it say that I have never before heard of Girls, Lena Dunham, or anything else she's ever been in?

If you can stream Netflix then your internet connection should be fast enough for game streaming (assuming we're talking OnLive-style, rather than play-while-you-download), the real issue is latency. When I played OnLive the visual quality was comparable to consoles, but there was about a quarter-second delay in control inputs, making anything remotely fast completely unplayable.

Yes, but it has not worked well for anywhere close to that long.

Having a PC doesn't help me play PS3 games though. B/C or lack thereof certainly isn't a dealbreaker, but it is a factor, like a lot of things.

Yeah, PS+'s value is a hell of a lot higher than XBL Gold's. The only real negative is that PSN is down for maintenance three times a week.

Lol, that makes me think of when Halo: Anniversary came out, I was playing it, on the second level, and one of my friends comes online and is like "hey, this game's awesome, when did it come out?" I told him "today." Apparently he was just walking through Target and happened to see it on the shelf and bought it. He had never heard of it and didn't know it was coming out, and accidentally bought it day one.

Because MSRP doesn't matter at all to consumers, it's a stupid fake thing to compare. What matters is what the consumer can pay to purchase comparable items. You'll notice the Vita card is also marked down from MSRP. *Edit* - And even if I compare MSRP, the SanDisk card is STILL 30% lower than the Vita card.

Yeah, I was just thinking that the fact that it's so easily polished makes the development look even worse that they didn't do the trivial amount of work needed to make this happen.

I don't regret my purchase of a PS3. I wasn't interested in some of it's biggest exclusives (Japanese games and GoW), but I've played it enough, and combined with using it as a Bluray/media player it was definitely worth it. Honestly though, for me the only must-have exclusive on PS3 would have been The Last Guardian. Halo is the only one on Xbox, but it has the advantage of actually existing.

Maybe they did dumb it down for some reason, because apparently modders are not having much trouble activating all sorts of pretties and stuff with minor code tweaks.

Activision says it's not coming out in 2013. That pretty much confirms that it's on next-gen consoles, AFAIC.

No, I know. Obviously mine wouldn't make a good punchline.

I'm disappointed, seeing that The Last Guardian is one of the reasons I bought a PS3 (I bought it in like Summer 2010 when The Last Guardian's release date was Fall 2010... or maybe it was 2011, but whatever), but I'm not like angry about it or anything. As far as dean's comment about getting rid of the old console goes, I think it's nice when a new console is BC with an old one because then I don't have to have both of them taking up room around the TV. I already have too much stuff there.

Apparently the price has gone up to $60 on the Samsung card I linked, but here's a SanDisk one for $33 right now. They are not comparable and they are not in the same ballpark even. Especially considering that when you actually look at the performance they're not even comparable to Class 10's. *Edit* - Hell, I can get a 64GB version of that SanDisk card and it's STILL (barely) cheaper than the 32GB Vita card. *Edit 2* - That was a bad comparison, that was a standard SDHC card, not a micro. But, hilariously, here's a SanDisk micro one that's even cheaper. And the 64GB version of it is still $25 cheaper than the 32 GB Vita card. So maybe in other countries they're comparable, but in the US the Vita cards are WAY overpriced. *Edit 3* - BTW, it's not even like I had to search hard, that card was the first result for "class 10 micro sdhc" on Amazon.

Or, you know, keeping a slave and saying "no, it's okay, it's in the bible."

I think a lot of people dislike them, but I'd disagree with "generally". I think most people prefer regenerating health, I know I do, they're just not as vocal about it as the people who dislike it. As for multiple weapons, I'd guess that most people who feel anything at all about it would agree it's better to have more, but that most people overall just don't care. I know that even in games that let you have a bunch of weapons at once I always end up using one or two anyway.