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All the companies making platforms right now make me dream of a better time when a company named Sega made consoles. To me that was the golden age of gaming were the days of the Dreamcast, when games were games for the sake of being games and not yet really trying to play Sony's game of making games serious entertainment. Nintendo and Sega will always have a place in my heart for their contributions to gaming and for providing the early lessons of what not to do (like the Japanese division insisting on a crazy dual risc CPU hard as hell to program for architecture when both Sony and "Silicon Graphics" offer you hardware and your American division CEO is practically begging you to use them...both the Sony Playstation and the N64 could have been the Sega Saturn...imagine that?).The DC controller is the basis of what became the XBOX controller, especially when they scrapped their early design.I have a lot of respect for Sony's current console, it really is an amazing machine and unlike the PSX (with no z-buffer and technically not even designed for 3d graphics but to be a sprite pushing monster) and the PS2 (over-hyped using prerendered video to make it look much better than it really was), with amazing capabilities. It's a shame that everybody hummed and hawed when they showed their boomerang prototype controller and then they went right back to what everyone was comfortable with instead of making any forward progress with their contoller because that really is my only gripe about the platform.If the PS3 was leaps and bounds more powerful than the 360 as opposed to just edging it out in raw power, I would have considered it, but MS had a lineup of games such as Project Gotham...well i guess that project gotham was really the only exclusive game i really really cared about...though i would rather play forza over gran turismo any time.Wow did i start ranting or what?Night all
All the companies making platforms right now make me dream of a better time when a company named Sega made consoles. To me that was the golden age of gaming were the days of the Dreamcast, when games were games for the sake of being games and not yet really trying to play Sony's game of making games serious entertainment. Nintendo and Sega will always have a place in my heart for their contributions to gaming and for providing the early lessons of what not to do (like the Japanese division insisting on a crazy dual risc CPU hard as hell to program for architecture when both Sony and "Silicon Graphics" offer you hardware and your American division CEO is practically begging you to use them...both the Sony Playstation and the N64 could have been the Sega Saturn...imagine that?).
The DC controller is the basis of what became the XBOX controller, especially when they scrapped their early design.
I have a lot of respect for Sony's current console, it really is an amazing machine and unlike the PSX (with no z-buffer and technically not even designed for 3d graphics but to be a sprite pushing monster) and the PS2 (over-hyped using prerendered video to make it look much better than it really was), with amazing capabilities. It's a shame that everybody hummed and hawed when they showed their boomerang prototype controller and then they went right back to what everyone was comfortable with instead of making any forward progress with their contoller because that really is my only gripe about the platform.
If the PS3 was leaps and bounds more powerful than the 360 as opposed to just edging it out in raw power, I would have considered it, but MS had a lineup of games such as Project Gotham...well i guess that project gotham was really the only exclusive game i really really cared about...though i would rather play forza over gran turismo any time.
Wow did i start ranting or what?
Night all
