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PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market
Saturday, January 24, 2009
From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]
Continue reading...Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for: No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3 No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]
Continue reading...Join The Break it Down Blog Playstation Home Club!
Friday, December 12, 2008
We would like to invite all BIDB readers to join The “Break it Down” Blog Playstation Home Club! Here’s how: Login to Playstation Home Press Start (>) to bring up your main Home control menu Go down to Clubs Use the “Search” function and search for: “Break it Down” (without the quotes) Or you can use the tag “bidb” (again, without the [...]
Continue reading...Huge Playstation Home Screenshot Tour
Thursday, December 11, 2008
After our initial snag of getting into the Playstation Home Beta, we finally got in and wanted to give you guys a heads-up with regard to what you can expect, if it’s worth a PS3, and what we thought of it. Introductory Thoughts Given how this service is designed (explained below) it looks like these worlds will [...]
Continue reading...Playstation Home Launch Hits a Few Snags
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Well I finally got around to installing the new Playstation Home client that launched yesterday and tried to login to Home for about 20mins where I was only met with the above screen – retry after retry. At first glance, I’d have to say the avatars and environments seem to be very “Second Life 2.0″ — [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...PSN Cracks 14 Million Active User Mark – Michael Pachter Eats Feet
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
In the most recent Bonus Round episodes (Online Services – Part 1, Part 2) analyst Michael Pachter, and all around good-dresser, proported that PSN was a complete Sony-fail with, what he guessed, was less than 1 million active users; part of his reasoning for stating this was that Sony never announced numbers for the service [...]
Continue reading...LittleBigPlanet Moderation Update
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Monday we reported that user created LittleBigPlanet levels were being removed without warning. It seems that the community uproar over their levels being “moderated” got Sony and Media Molecule’s attention as they released a statement today ensuring users that they were working to improve their “moderation procedure and the methods of communication.” Here is the full [...]
Continue reading...Little Big Planet Levels Being Removed Without Warning
Monday, November 10, 2008
LittleBigPlanet owners are quickly getting upset by the “moderation” occurring on user created levels. The current “moderation” occurring is essentially complete deletion of levels without warning. Kotaku has a good recap of what is happening: There’s a growing clamor on the LittleBigPlanet forums about level ‘moderation’ — if by ‘moderation’ one means ’summary deletion.’ Without warning. It [...]
Continue reading...Blu-ray is DOA: High Costs, Expensive Players and HD DLC
Monday, November 3, 2008
ZDNet’s Robin Harris takes a look at why Blu-ray is dead-on-arrival. Robin’s analysis, while starting with an inflammatory title, makes a lot of sense. Robing starts off by citing the first few key elements that killed the format: 2-year battle with HD-DVD took the steam out of HD Disks in general, making consumers a bit hesitant about [...]
Continue reading...New Killzone 2 Trailer
Monday, October 27, 2008
Not too shabby, a new trailer from the Sony/Guerrilla camp for Killzone 2: Few things that I noticed: Some non-fluid animations “Bubble” looking explosions in a few places (think Quake 2 for an over-exaggerated example of what I mean) Great sounds Some nice effects of materials you don’t typically see rendered well in video games (like cloth and cabling) Confusing story… [...]
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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