This week’s 1-UP show has the most credible and positive discussion I have seen/heard/read on the PS3 yet. Aside from the lackluster keynote this is probablly the best week SCE have had in a long time and they certainly proved they have no intentions of losing the Japanese market just yet. As for the West, that’s shaping up to be a completely different battleground.
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
I watched the TNA pay per view from Sunday. I watched it only for the Ultimate X match and to see what this damn announcement was, and boy was it damned. Kurt Angle, who formerly made the statement he was going to MMA, swerved us all and wound up in TNA this week as their latest signing. For some reason I didn’t expect it. I was genuinely shocked that they would take such risk with someone WWE fired because they simply didn’t want him to die in their ring.
For Angle TNA is the worst place he could go to and that includes MMA. At least in MMA he could have one or two big pay days per year and earn just as much as he would working every week in pro-wrestling. Pro-wrestling has done a ton of damage to his body so far and it’s only going to take a few more matches for him to totally break down.
It’s sad that they couldn’t take the moral high ground and leave him on the shelf where he belongs, it seems all they are thinking about are ratings and PPV buys. These may increase in the short term but if he dies while with the company they will surely plummet and the world will have lost one of the greatest ever.
Bad move.
Strange I know but there is a huge similarity between Company of Heroes and Knights of the Old Republic. As Gillen puts it in today’s Eurogamer review of Company of Heroes, both World War 2 and Star Wars had been ran into the ground before these games rejuvenated their respective universes and made it fun again.
We are all sick to death of World War 2, I cannot see myself playing the next Call of Duty or Medal of Honour games (I’d had enough after Brothers in Arms 2), but Company of Heroes is simply on another level. It does for its setting and genre what KOTOR did for Star Wars and RPGs.
I have never had this much fun playing an RTS, I constantly feel challenged and every time I play it’s different. I just hope those who feel nauseous at the prospect of more WW2 don’t miss this stellar title.
Incidentally it’s good too see they weren’t afraid to awarded it a 10 over at EG. This week’s PC Gamer podcast (should I use that term?) had an outstanding discussion on the topic of scoring games in reviews if the intricacies of games journalism interest you. Definitely their best show to date.
Anyway back to COH.
Finally caved in this week and bought an iPod, more specifically the brand spanking new 8GB nano you see on the right. Once I finally got over the fact I dont actually want to watch videos or need the extra space there was only one choice. The new ‘pods’ coming out and my new commute starting just happend to cross paths on the same week :-D.
Much better than the old nano due to its scratch resistance but sadly that doesn’t extend to the click wheel which is already showing some damage. From what I have seen of other ipods that goes virtually smooth after heavy use so it may be an inevitable problem.
In my opinion this is THE device for podcasts. I got so used to the way I used to do things (nomad/phone) I had no idea how the iPod handled podcasts. The fact I can listen to something then whack it in the dock and carry on listening in iTunes from where I left off is a godsend.
iTunes 7 has come a long way but it’s still handling video like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s fine for audio but I’m sticking with Democracy for that side of things now.
All in all highly recommended and a good update to the range.
Apparently it’s an oxymoron. Doesn’t help me much in getting ready to start work tomorrow.
Early this morning brought about the colossal announcement from Sony that the PS3 wouldn’t be hitting Europe untill March 07. Many people claimed to have seen this coming due to the lack of PS3s actually being manufactured but even they must be shocked by this amazing blunder.
By all accounts this should allow Microsoft and Nintendo to clean up this Christmas giving them a serious lead on their much delayed rival. The console business was always going to be a tough nut for Microsoft to crack but Sony apear to be doing everything in their power to give them a huge piece of the pie, all on a silver platter at that.
Looking further into today’s news and it looks like this won’t only affect Europe. Japan and the US will only be getting 100,000 and 400,000 units respectively, much less than the 2 million vaunted by Sony.
And why oh why are Sony floundering so badly right now?
Blu-ray.
If they hadn’t bet the company on their new format all the consoles and more would have been ready for launch. Infact they could have launched earlier in the year. Better than that it would have cost half as much!
Is it really worth risking it all on a new media format?
No, but they think it is.
And in an era of broadband and high capacity hard drives no one but Sony understands why.
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