Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Yaroze Tickler. Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:52:18 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 49 Message-ID: <37205EF2.99441328@datasys.net> References: <371BD402.CA4F736E@datasys.net> <1dqmwnl.1n8bitfcqhzxyN@[194.151.88.141]> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 280.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > Better quality does not always mean better system! True, But....... > Look at GameBoy vs GameGear, Battery life of the gamegear sucked. Plus it couldn't fit in your pocket unless you wore JNCOs..... > PC vs Mac Commercialization of the PC lead to its success. > PSX vs N64 I can sum this up with one word: CD-ROM. > BetaMax vs VHS, etc... Allright you got me. BetaMax was better than VHS. I don't know why the heck VHS became the standard. > The better quality of a system can course the next problem; > -More options to use => more options to learn => longer development time > -Higher graphical quality => more detailed graphics => more time > > (I must say that low res graphics are time consuming as well) True. But that's why you have rendering stations that can punch out all of those graphics in just a few minutes after a few weeks of modeling. :) > > What happens; Players demand the best quality that can be gotten from a > system and games will become that expensive that only large companies > can affort to develop games. A lot of original idea's will never see > daylight since they won't get a chance. > They will get a chance on the Net Yaroze, but probably a big company > will steal the cool concepts.. That's honestly what I'm afraid of for my game, Blaze of Glory. :( I don't mean to sound full of myself, but this game will rock when it's finished. It might not look like anything special now, but the plans that I have for it will make it like no other game on the PSX to date. That I know of anyway. (Curious? Think Pokemon meets Mechwarrior. Even more puzzled? Well, then you'll just have to wait and see. :) 'darco