Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Andrew Murray Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Playstation 3 for 2002 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:22:09 +0100 Organization: Max Studios Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3803C2A1.CD00181B@which.net> References: <7tnu36$hbm3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p26-kookaburra-gui.tch.which.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) What sony are doing is: Developing a new "Emotion Engine" chip that can be used as anything people licence it for (Kinda like licensing a Quake engine if you want). They are talking of using it to power PC like computers, of course more powerful, but isn't everything "more powerful" these days, everyone needs to slow down and produce good games instead of better technology, something that will justify such power. What Stuart said is precisly true devlopers only want to put games on machines that will make their games look better and run faster, they are lazy and connot be bothered optimising code if they don't have to. The original PlayStation has tonnes of life left...... its just that the mainstream world of Computer and Video games (composed of media, developers, gamers and the manufacturers themselves as well as the people on the outside looking in) decide when a console has reached it's best and then a new one is released. I was pissed off when Sega stopped manufacturing Saturns because I'd never played one and I wanted to own one (forget the second hand stuff I want an untouched - fresh from the factory feeling) but that aint gonna happen. The same happened with Super NES games, how are people of the future gonna get hold of such a historic piece of gaming hardware? I suppose they cannot develop them forever though. Gaming today is based more on what the "mainstream gamer" wants and not the "individual gamer". It is admitedly hard to cater for everyone, but what happened to the classics like Jet Set Willy, Flashback, Skooldaze and dare I say it...... Space Inveders. Many games these days are based on some game that has happened before be it sequels or copying games of a particular genre. True there is the frequent bestseller, Half-Life echos, my point is its all one big shove forward that not everone wants to take, It's the casual gamer thing again, brilliant technology, shit games. But heres to Dreamcast, may it live long and prosper (for Segas sake). Max Nigel Critten wrote: > Not sure how to take this, I think it's a bad idea but read all about > Playstation 3 and 4 here > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/991006-000026.html