13th September 2012, 5:44 AM
Well, the best I can think of is that Japan is having a harder time with the recession than America is.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/wi...about-337/
That's all I can think of to explain why this system appears to be so expensive yet have such low capabilities. Will I get it? Well Nintendo still makes amazing games and their system is the only way to play them... probably yes. But this cost is insane for what we get. The storage space is somewhat decent now as opposed to the downright offensive 2GB the Wii had, but far shy of the now-standard 250GB hard drives the 360 and PS3 now ship with (and USE, since they now have essentially removed the size limit on downloadable games and MS for their part has put EVERY 360 game on their network as a download).
2 GB RAM... Well it's 4 times the RAM in the 360, so it IS an upgrade, but my phone has the same amount of RAM and cost less. I don't know what the rest of the specs are, but developers have commented they're "competitive with the 360 and PS3", which is the polite way of saying they caught up, but don't intend to do any more than that.
The controller is ridiculously overpriced considering a fully featured Android tablet is in the same price range.
That's the reality. PCs are making a big comeback lately, and if consoles are going to be that expensive and barely compete with the top of the line 6 years ago, there's a problem. So long as MS can manage to keep systems launched with Windows 8 "clean" and make it a bit harder for anyone but power users to install background services and auto-starting applications (the single biggest threat to system stability and speed over the course of owning a PC), then the PC is poised to take over the role consoles have been in.
So here we sit. Android and iOS are threatening the portable market heavily, and in spite of lacking any physical buttons. The PC is in a position it hasn't been in almost a decade, with so many unique and innovative games coming out constantly and a variety of OSes, all with a good amount of stability.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/wi...about-337/
That's all I can think of to explain why this system appears to be so expensive yet have such low capabilities. Will I get it? Well Nintendo still makes amazing games and their system is the only way to play them... probably yes. But this cost is insane for what we get. The storage space is somewhat decent now as opposed to the downright offensive 2GB the Wii had, but far shy of the now-standard 250GB hard drives the 360 and PS3 now ship with (and USE, since they now have essentially removed the size limit on downloadable games and MS for their part has put EVERY 360 game on their network as a download).
2 GB RAM... Well it's 4 times the RAM in the 360, so it IS an upgrade, but my phone has the same amount of RAM and cost less. I don't know what the rest of the specs are, but developers have commented they're "competitive with the 360 and PS3", which is the polite way of saying they caught up, but don't intend to do any more than that.
The controller is ridiculously overpriced considering a fully featured Android tablet is in the same price range.
That's the reality. PCs are making a big comeback lately, and if consoles are going to be that expensive and barely compete with the top of the line 6 years ago, there's a problem. So long as MS can manage to keep systems launched with Windows 8 "clean" and make it a bit harder for anyone but power users to install background services and auto-starting applications (the single biggest threat to system stability and speed over the course of owning a PC), then the PC is poised to take over the role consoles have been in.
So here we sit. Android and iOS are threatening the portable market heavily, and in spite of lacking any physical buttons. The PC is in a position it hasn't been in almost a decade, with so many unique and innovative games coming out constantly and a variety of OSes, all with a good amount of stability.
"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)