16th August 2005, 12:19 PM
I love that! Actually telling us to educate "da childrens" about classic gaming. We need a government funded video game museum!
And, from the context I think he means not in terms of the system's physical abilities (well duh) but in terms of what people are willing to buy for that system. I'm not sure I agree. Four Swords Adventures was a nice 2D (well sort of, 2D graphical system that was actually used as a texture on a 3D object that can be zoomed, rippled, and so on as needed). But... how well did that game sell? Not sure... Lumines is still one of the better selling games on the PSP though, and that's straight 2D. I'd say there's room in there for 2D gaming like that... I don't know all the details these marketting gurus do though.
And, from the context I think he means not in terms of the system's physical abilities (well duh) but in terms of what people are willing to buy for that system. I'm not sure I agree. Four Swords Adventures was a nice 2D (well sort of, 2D graphical system that was actually used as a texture on a 3D object that can be zoomed, rippled, and so on as needed). But... how well did that game sell? Not sure... Lumines is still one of the better selling games on the PSP though, and that's straight 2D. I'd say there's room in there for 2D gaming like that... I don't know all the details these marketting gurus do though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)