PlayStation Network: The Future Is Now!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/30/11 at 02:32 PM CT
As of this writing, the PlayStation Network (PSN) has been down for over a week, with no forewarning, and will presumably be down for nearly another week. This has, unsurprisingly, caused an incredible amount of ‘BAWW’-ing among those gamers who were born after the Internet had come into full-bloom. What’s incredible is that these gamers are whining more about the loss of connectivity caused by hackers breaching PSN than the potential for identity theft and credit card fraud. Even more insane is that some of these same gamers expect Sony to compensate them for the outage. Compensation… for a FREE service?
For some reason, these young gamers think that the Internet is something that is always ‘just there’ and always ‘just works.’ They never had to put up with dial-up or become fluent in Modem Shriek. And now they are completely shocked an unable to function without online connectivity in a game console. They don’t realize that they are getting a sneak-peak of what …
Generation 8 Begins?
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/17/11 at 02:30 PM CT
Several media outlets have recently broken news that Nintendo will be revealing their 8th Generation console, and successor to the Wii, at E3 2011. All of the ‘details’ are nothing more than rumor and speculation at this point, but there are some intriguing concepts on the table:
+The upcoming console will not have the ‘Wii’ moniker attached to it.
+The upcoming console will be able to output HD video.
+The upcoming console will have a controller that features a touchscreen, buttons, and a camera.
+The new controller can serve as a Wii sensor bar.
+The upcoming console will be backward compatible with Wii.
+The upcoming console will be ‘more powerful’ than Sony’s and MS’s current consoles.
It certainly makes sense for Nintendo to abandon the name ‘Wii,’ as that is a very specific console that the company created to target the ‘Blue Ocean’ demographic of non-traditional gamers. Non-traditional gamers are not only not real gamers, but they tend not to …
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