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> A lot of people with a Wii didn't buy much software But that's wrong - the Wii had a perfectly fine attach ratio of a bit over 8 games per console - above PS
by anon4 13y ago
> A lot of people with a Wii didn't buy much software
But that's wrong - the Wii had a perfectly fine attach ratio of a bit over 8 games per console - above PS3 but below XBox 360.
Sources:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/01/24/wii-tie-ratio-at-81-in-december http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/01/24/wii-tie-ratio-at-81-i...
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20988 http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20988
As far as the current gen goes, I see only the Wii U as an actual console. XBone is an always-on camera on a consumer PC and I have to pay to get online. PS4 is a consumer PC without a camera and I have to pay to get online. They have nothing that won't come on the PC that's worth playing.
And for the 3DS the two problems I see are the low pixel density of the screen and the motion controls. The low pixel density means I see different jaggies (aliasing) with each eye and that feels weird. The motion controls don't mesh well with the need to always keep the system at a precise tilt and distance from my eyes, but in games without motion controls it works reasonably well. I wonder if any game studio would decide to not use the 3D feature, but instead push better graphics.
P.S. The one thing that worries me about the 3DS is the lack of homebrew. Flashcarts are already available but only for piracy, I still can't run my own software on the device.
- threeseed 13y agoThe PS4 has a number of exclusives e.g. Uncharted, Last Of Us, Little Big Planet which are system sellers. And if you think the PS4 is just a regular PC then are you missing a lot. The unified memory and asynchronous compute aspects are important differences from most home PCs. The PC is the one that is likely to struggle since fewer and fewer people are buying desktop machines. And laptops/tablets are all about battery life.
- anon4 13y agoWell I don't care enough about those to buy a PS4 just for them. And the PC has been dying since forever. I grant you that the unified memory, etc. is really nice, but as we've seen from e.g. the PS2 - how hard it is to program for a system doesn't really matter in the end. And the PC is not in any way hard to write programs for.
- talmand 13y agoI'm a PC gamer, I've been told that my hobby has been dying for something like 25 years. I buy more games for the PC now than I did ten years ago. We're doing just fine thank you very much.