TheMightyEthan

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.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-17-destiny-requires-an-internet-connection-to-work That's Bungie COO Pete Parsons. Methinks that quote on RPS was taken out of context, and when Jones said no one plays them like that anymore he was talking about the limited weapons, regenerating health, etc, not PC as a platform.

Huge chunk of gravel + vast speed + atmosphere = crazy intense heat, firestorms covering continents.

Okay, well whatever, I'm satisfied that if the PS4 is designed with remote-play on Vita in mind it can close the performance gap between the current offering and the Wii U's.

Right, which is why we should start actively developing it sooner rather than later.

Yeah, that might be the case. We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

But that doesn't work with the ones that aren't solid objects but are instead loose collections of gravel-like material.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/17/bungie-reveals-destiny-an-always-on-persistent-world-adventu/

Okay, I just went and tested it with PixelJunk Shooter, and there was only the slightest bit of input latency, and at least at the beginning it was entirely playable. The latency I experienced before must have been due to the game I was playing (SotC HD). Since the selection of games that it works with is so limited I just assumed it was a limitation on the system's part because I hadn't been able to test it with anything else. It was running at a fairly low framerate, but I'm not sure which end that was on.

It's obvious from context that I meant a dedicated wifi connection between the console and the handheld/tablet, a la Wii U. The Vita does not connect directly to the PS3, it connects to my home network, which the PS3 is also connected to, and uses that to get the signal through.

That's what I thought, but I just looked it up and it uses 802.11n. It also has NFC and infrared, but that's not how it's talking to the console. *Edit* - Here's a less Wikipedia-y source. *Edit 2* - Wait, I'm retarded, the "n" probably explains why it works better, my home network is g.

Right, but blowing it up is not always the best plan, that's just movies. More realistic for a big one would be to nudge it into a different orbit, but that would require a lot of time.

Well if the always-online rumors about the 720 prove true then at least on that platform it won't hinder this game especially (I know it's only been announced for PS360, but I'm going to assume it'll be one of those console-generation-straddling games).

What bait-and-switch thing?

Right, pushing themselves and only themselves. No more would be riding on say Mario Kart than just the success of Mario Kart, whereas now how good each game is affects the success of the entire platform.

Huh, I didn't realize the Gamepad used wifi. Maybe the input latency on the Vita is being introduced somewhere in my home network then, since I've got it on the Vita but not the Gamepad (while still wifi it is at least connecting directly to the Wii U rather than using my network). Even if that's the case, it could easily be solved by putting a special "video out" wifi connection on the PS4 for the Vita to connect to directly. Yes, if they enabled remote-play at a system level that would be great, but atm with the Vita you can only do remote play if the specific game has enabled it and not a lot of them have.

Okay, but even if you have a plan for how to deal with it, that shit hasn't been built yet. And building it takes time. Time we may or may not have depending on how long from impact the thing is when we find it.

But without the need for their titles to drive system sales I could see the resources invested coming down and the quality also dropping.

Except 2 things: 1) Too much input lag on the Vita (at least the way they have it set up on the PS3). 2) Hardly any games use it, and that won't change unless one is included with every console sold.

The big ones are kind of tracked, but more could certainly be done to locate the ones we don't know about yet. As far as stuff in place to deal with one that was going to impact, no, there's absolutely nothing at all. There's lots of theoretical discussion of what we could do, but none of it's ever been designed, built, or tested, it's all high-level theoretical stuff.

Well, presumably the idea is it's impossible to escape.

Wait you figured the pad in the middle, that's like an inch big, was going to be a screen like the Wii U? The Wii U gamepad is like 6", 1" is piddly size for a controller. What the touchpad does tell us is that PS Vita however is likely to fill in as a possible second controller like it can do for PS3 (since you'll have a touchpad on both). No, I never thought anything of the sort. Hence my "if that's accurate, and they don't have a screen..." comment. Prior to the photo leaking, I was hoping they'd do something like the Wii U's tablet, because that thing is fantastic.