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THe King's BLOG OF THE AGES!!!! Ep #3: FFIII and PS3 VS 360Posted: May 06, 2007
All right, well here is the third episode of The King's BLOG OF THE AGES. Took a little break but I'm starting them again. To, perhaps, cut down on length due to the complaints of readers (illiterate sonsofavabitches!!) I am not going to take all the big news of the week and review it. I'm just going to talk about whatever the hell I want, that has to do with video games, until I can think of no more to say or my hands cramp up and fall off. So, in the line up for this episode, I'm going to talk about a specific game I have just started playing, and then I'm going to hit on a topic that has enticed fanboy arguments perhaps more then any other subject. Console technical specs, or more specifically 360 VS PS3 technical specs. This was inspired by some articles that came out this week, the VF5 on 360 article and theDMC4 to look the same on 360 and PS3 article. Of course with these articles Sony fanboys were jumping in to say that Capcom was stupid and that the PS3 has way better graphics, and 360 fanboys were just having their point proven that the PS3 doesn't have better grpahics. I, of course, have my own opinion on this subject and that is what I'm going to talk about.
First though, to what I have been playing. Well, I have been playing a bunch of stuff but I wanted to talk about one game in particular. I borrowed my sisters DS, and have started playing FFIII. So, I'm only like an hour into it, so my impression of the game should be taken with a that in mind. But so far it hasn't really grabbed me. The first two main male characters look like girls, especially the main characters best friend who not only looks like a girl but acts like a pussy, and has join you so that he may prove he isn't one(seriously). The main character seems like he is going to be the same old typical girly looking maybe a little whinny, main character. Yet, from the beginning movie it seems like the game is portraying him as one of the tougher characters. Really, I'm hoping the other two characters to come into my party are better. From the beginning movie (which was the most enjoyable thing about the game so far) the girl and knight looking character seem like they will be kewler. So, I'm bagging on this pretty badly right now, just because it is the same old normal FF, and normally I love that but I'm constantly comparing this to FFIV, which I love, and I'm finding FFIV to be a lot better at the moment. Like I said though, only an hour or not even in, and I'll talk about it again when I'm farther in and better qualified to give an opinion on it.
All right on to the tech wars. So, those two articles above were released recently and they did not bode well for the PS3. Not long ago VF5 and DMC4 were announced to be coming to 360 as well as PS3. Two pretty big exclusives gone. Now, 360 screens were released for VF5 and they look just as good as the PS3 ones, and Capcom has come out saying that they hope for DMC4 to look the same on both systems. That sucks because DMC4 looks beautiful, and it is built from the ground up for the PS3, yet it looks the same on 360. So, of course these have had people questioning whether the PS3 is all it's made out to be graphically, power wise, ect. Well, I think it is just as good as it's made out to be. Here's why.
I'll start with graphics first. Has anyone gone back and taken a look at old PS2 games recently? Or really any early game for the last gen consoles? They look like ass compared to the last games to hit for the consoles. Really I think it is going to be the same for these consoles. I'm not sure if there will be as big a jump as there was with PS2 games, but I think there will be a significant jump. VF5 looks great now, but VF4 now looks like ass compared to late fighters such as Tekken 5 and Soul Calibur 3 on PS2. I think it could be the same with this gen. Lets see what Soul Calibur 4 or even 5 look like, or what Tekken 7 looks like (not saying Tekken 6 yet because last we saw of it, not looking so hot :( ) compared to that game in the years to come. I think there will be a significant leap in graphical wonder for those games compared to VF5. Not that it doesn't look great but I think there is more to be had. Like, I don't think the devs of VF5 tried to make the game look better then the arcade version but just tried to make it look the same. I think the PS3 and maybe even the 360 have capabilities better then arcade games as they are now. Now, the argument is, "Well don't you think that late 360 games will look better then ones out now?" Well, maybe and if they do not a whole lot better. Some how I think Gears of War is a pretty good bar to set 360 graphical capabilities at. At least with the Unreal Engine. Really, I think the PS3 has better capabilities, graphically, then the 360. Not only that though, but I think Sony has to encourage the devs making exclusive games for the PS3 to go with a different style of art and graphics. They seem to be doing this so far, but they need to really encourage it. I think that there will be some telling things coming up in the future that will reveal some of the PS3's capabilities graphically. Like, if Sony does indeed show Killzone 2 at E3 this year. The GDC '07 trailer said that it would make a showing so I have my figures crossed. I think there can be one thing said though, that there won't be any developers saying that they can't put a game on PS3 because the hardware is to limited. If that ever happens then it will be someone saying they can't put it on 360 because the hardware is to limited.
One other trump card that I believe the PS3 may have is the cell processor. I was reading up on both the cell and the 360 Xenon processors and if what I read was correct and my understanding of it was correct then the Cell OWNS the Xenon. If that is true then once devs start making new IP's and start taking advantage of the Cell with old IP's, then we may see games not go to 360 because they are incapable of doing so in terms of power. One game that might be an early showing of this is White Knight Story. A key part of this game seems to be becoming this huge ass white knight and fighting of equally huge monsters. Just the monster shown in the trailer was crazy. Not only was he huge but he was eclipsed in flames. It would have made anything last gen and the Wii explode. I'm not saying the 360 is incapable of doing this, but just that if devs do decide to take advantage of the cell, as this game seems to be doing, then we may see even bigger and greater things appearing on the PS3 that may be unable to go to the 360. Like who knows what we will see if Team Ico does a sequel to shadow of the colossus or makes a new game that has a similar concept. The game they make may also show the capabilities of the PS3 graphically as well. Just look at shadow of the colossus.
So, let me know, whoever reads this blog, what you think on the whole subject. I didn't even go into other things that may prevent a game from going to 360, like the blu-ray drive and memory storage. So it will be interesting to see in the future, what comes of the cell and the PS3's graphics, and what comes of the whole console wars. Let me know what you think, and I'll apologize again for the length. I don't think I can make a short blog, :).
Casual and hardcore games and the future of video gaming...Posted: April 28, 2007
You know with the DS and Wii selling shittons, and some other things I've been considering I have decided to make a blog about casual gaming and hardcore gaming, and the future of gaming. Before I start I just want to say that I'm going to start up my King's BLOG OF THE AGES series back up, I sorta fell of the internets for awhile there, but I'll start making one every weekend again, and I'll try not to make them as long, lol. Hey don't go hating, being a ninja IS FUCKIN HARD PEOPLE!! Anyway, so seeing as the terms casual and hardcore gaming keep coming up, and the huge gaping hole of difference between the Wii, PS3 and 360 keeps widening, I wished to discuss these terms and perhaps the future of gaming as I see it going at the moment.
First, I want to say I am surprised that a major console maker did not start really making their console for casual and non-gamers before Wii and DS. Because if you look at a lot of big franchises they are either casual oriented games or games that worked for casual and hardcore games. First proof is Halo. Halo is sucking on the money tree's wood. It is easily one of the biggest if not the biggest franchise at the moment. Why? Why is a game such a huge success when, compared to computer shooters, this game is more deserving of a 6 than a 10? Because this is a game that coincides with both hardcore gamers and casual ones. The gamers that have tons of games and consoles, the ones that play games for hours, the ones that discuss games all the time, in other words the hardcore enjoy it because it is a shooter that works on consoles and because it has hardcore gaming mechanics behind it. Like a story, it is a hard game, ect. This game it is still simple enough for gamers who own a few games and don't play them on a regular basses, people that have to take their time figuring out how to play a game, the ones that follow the tutorials and move the controller around when they don't have to, the ones that are only willing to pay $100 for a console, in other word the casual gamers or non-gamers to play. Between that and just word of mouth, this game has become huge. It is the same for formula for GTA, Mario, or Pokemon. Then you get games that are centered at just casual and non-gamers that combust with money as well. Like Nintendog's and the Hannah Montana DS game. Even Kingdom Hearts aims itself at both audiences. You have the FF characters and RPG elements for the hardcore and the Disney characters and battle system that, although I really enjoy it, is a lot of easy to understand button mashing. WoW is another franchise that proves my argument, because that appeals to both audiences as well. Not that there aren't big just hardcore games, but there aren't as many and they don't real in as much cash. Of these some of the bigger ones are FF, Zelda, and God of War along with many others. Each series sells millions but not 13 million like GTA. There is Gran Turismo 3: A-spec which sold like that but that is a car simulator which is hardcore, but being cars brings in a whole other audience besides regular hardcore gamers. FF was close at 10 million with FFVII but then FFXII only sold like 3 million last I saw on wikipedia, and FFX sold half with 5 million. So a lot of success has to do with it being casual gamer compatible, well that and word of mouth has a lot to do with it as well (as we have seen with FFVII and Halo) but that is a different subject.
So Nintendo has stumbled onto gold with their Wii and the DS. Then can keep neither in stores. On the Wii side that is partially because they are having production problems (who knew one gig processors were harder produce then 3 gig ones) and then it is partially demand. But for the DS it is just demand (if you try and tell me a 100 MHz processor is hard to produce I'll kill you). Why have they stumbled upon gold because they have made a console and handheld that is aimed at both the hardcore and casual gamers. They want to incorporate the soccer moms, little Timmy, and his grandma into becoming gamers even more than they do hardcore gamers. Why? Because the casual gamers and non-gamers are everyone who isn't a hardcore gamer. Hardcore gamers are outnumbered a bazillion to one. And it is changing developer mindsets and what games they make. Look at SE games on DS. Last winter we get the hardcore RPG FFIII. Now we have Chocobo Tales, which is a compilation of mini games not necessarily aimed at those people who bought FFIII, but for the two little girls sitting behind me in a restaurant playing only God knows what on their pink DS's. As of right now casual gaming and hardcore gaming co-exist. Will they continue to do so? Absolutely not. The DS has already become more of a casual gamers console rather then a hardcore one. Hardcore gamers are like, "Oh kewl, Pokemon, I haven't had a DS game since Hotel Dusk!" Why not, you guys had Hannah Montana...or some other casual game. Even Pokemon is a semi-casual game. And it isn't like hardcore gamers can't enjoy casual games, just look at EBA. But if you think both are going to co-exist, think again. If things keep going like they are, best case scenario, there as many casual games like Nintendog's and Brain Training as there are hardcore games being made now, and as many hardcore games as there were being made a few years ago. Money talks and it is saying go with casual games. The DS is going in the way of being the best selling piece of video gaming hardware of all time, with 500K sold in the month of March and 400K in February. Those are gross sales, and the Wii is doing better then its other two competitors. And the PS2 is doing better than the three next gen consoles, but at this point in its life it is gearing for a more casual gaming experience as well. Especially since it is cheap. This whole thing worries the hell out of me. Because if the DS does win best selling piece of video game hardware, and the Wii wins the console wars for this year, who the hell knows what will happen in the next gen. I mean the movie business is proof that in a few generations from now the hardcore game and gamer could be a very insignificant thing. What I mean is, there are those people that are the hardcore movie goers, that support independent films and all that stuff, but they are paid little attention and it is movies like 300, Spider-man, and Star Wars, that garner all the attention and money. Not saying that those are bad or good, but it is the casuals that love those movies, and the casuals that go to see Ghost Rider. For us casuals on the movie side it isn't bad, but for the hardcore it is. Just as it will be for us if this keeps going.
So I wanna hear what you guys have to say about this subject, I wanna hear what you think, if you hate or like where this could lead, ect. For now, I'm out.
The King's BLOG OF THE AGES Ep#2: The Rundown/Devil Makes me Cry...Posted: March 23, 2007
Well, I'm back with my second installment of The King's BLOG OF THE AGES!! Yes, that is right for you doubters, I'm sticking to my commitment to this blog series, SURPRISE!! Right off I'm going to have to annoy DK. Sorry dude, this blog may in fact be as long or longer than the last. Why? Because this is a special edition...kind of. There was a piece of news this week that has sparked a second part to this blog. So for the first part, I will do the normal talking of the news, then I'll go into my second part. So, on with the BLOG!!!!
Well, it was an interesting week for news. I'll hold off the biggest news, in my opinion anyway, for last, seeing as it ties in with the second part. The first thing I want to talk about is the rumored Xbox 360 new SKU. The Zephyr, as it was called, is now being called the Elite. The Elite is a hardware update for the 360, including a 120 Gig Hard Drive, I believe it has HDMI input now, it will be cooler, it will be black, will not include a HD-DVD drive because the format is "not proven", and it will cost $480(treading into PS3 territory here, aren't we MS). Read it here.. I have to give MS a hand, they really know how to simultaneously screw their consumers, and make money at the same time, and an even bigger hand to their consumers, because they really know how to take it up the ass with a smile.
For God sakes, there are people with 360's already that are going to rebuy this one (just look at the comments on the news story). Even if there is a chance to get a discount on the Elite by trading in a Core or Premium, what is the point? Plus, MS is splitting the devs again. If the Elite will be the only one with a HDMI support, than just how many devs are going to make a 360 game with 1080p when not everyone will have it available. Then MS it taking the ability to cook smores on your 360 as well, by making it cooler. I just get a kick out of how everyone is flocking to this thing. This is awesome for those people who had the foresight to see that the 360 was rushed and wasn't even future proof for more than a FREAKING YEAR!! The funny thing to, this won't be the last update for the 360 either. I can't wait till they actually start supporting Blu-ray and the disks are all Blu-ray and support 50GB of memory. Please, the 360 is so retarded right now. People pick on Sony and the fact that the PS3 is $600 bucks. You wanna know why it is $600? Because it is future proof!! I believe that the PS3 will have a hardware update with a bigger HD, they have to. Three hundred, four hundred gigs would be nice. Once they get a sufficient HD, they won't update again, unless it is a remodel. Sorry, but this is what Sony's plans are now. They are planning for a 10-year cycle for their systems and not a five-year cycle. Sony's systems are going to be expensive and high in tech from now on because they are going for 10 years on a console. MS knows how to make money though, I'll give em that. Their plan is to have waves of money. So they had the Core and Premium packages, with only a 20GB HD in one, no HDMI support what so ever, a disk that only holds nine gigs of memory, and only DVD support. Then they slowly up date a regular intervals, getting people to rebuy the hardware and getting new buyers. It's dirty and it's smart. For those of you who do not own 360's and are thinking of getting one, wait another year and a half when you can get a 360 with a even bigger HD, when it is quiet and doesn't sound like it is trying to jack off while running your games, and it has Blu-Ray support. You know it's coming. Or, better yet, get a PS3. MS played the act of the pussy. They stood back, made their console more affordable then their competitor, and waited to see if people would actually pay $600 for a console. Now that they know that they will, they will hit that point eventually. MS is smart in that area as well. By the time the 360's next hardware update comes, production price will be down, and they may only have to have $500 priced console. The thing is, for a gaming console, the PS3 is ready for the next 10 years. It has, for this time, an awesome processor, a awesome graphics chip, it has the latest in movie formats, their disks will provide devs with enough space for comfort, ect. The PS3 will last the main five years easy, in terms of tech, and the next five years it will be the lower priced console with tech that is still awesome. I mean look at the PS2, it is in its 7th year, and it just released the best looking game of that gen and on its platform. PS3 will do 10 years easy and that is what Sony wants. Sony isn't going to play the unsure lets wait and see role, that's MS's job. They are moving ahead and getting everything out there and prepared. We will see a HD update, most likely, and that is it, save a remodel (which doesn't count for gaming anyway). MS consumers should be pissed and yet they praise MS. "Oh, I just bought a 360 for Gears of War, and now I get to go spend another $480 on another machine, yippee!" I have one word for MS consumers, "DOUCHE LORD".
Next, lets go to some bad Sony news. Sony had there Euro launch this week, MEGATON!! NOT!! FAILURE!! Is more like it. God, I wish I was Britain at the PS3 launch. They handed out 100 free 46" HD TVs to everyone buying a PS3. That is pretty kick ass. In the other places, not so much. In Australia, there was more press than buyers. Although, there were 200,000 confirmed pre-orders, $1000 bucks is waaaaay too much to spend on a console, no matter if it has 4D graphics and is future proof. I just have to shake my head at that. Then in France, MS threw a bucket of cold water onto Sony's fire. MS had a lug boat with a banner that said "360 (hearts) you", and guerrilla marketers. That is some pretty sweet shit. I love that kind of stuff, I"ll give MS a hand there. Those are some awesome tactics. You can check it all out here.
Now, onto some good Sony PS3 news. Yes, there is actually good Sony PS3 news. The PS3 1.6 Firmware update arrived finally. The biggest update out of this is the ability to download up to six different items (PORN!! C'mon, you know that is what you are downloading for your "Home"!), while playing a game. That is pretty awesome, and a shows just how powerful gaming consoles are becoming. Now I just need to be able to play my own music while playing a game. Games have some awesome sound tracks, and I am a big fan of many, but there are some I would rather play with my on music. I want to play VF5 with my own music, as I do Ninja Gaiden. That game had some kewl music, but I wanna see how "Marmalade Chainsaw" or "The Domestic Fucker Family" from Dir en Grey sounds while I"m running on water slaughtering baddies. Then there was something about how, if you leave your PS3 on, it helps to use its computing tech to understand certain diseases. WTF? It isn"t a bad thing, but what the hell. Was this what they traded for the toaster that was rumored to be in the PS3. I want the fucking toaster. I loved that idea, and instead I get to help the world. Hell no, they could have really sold the toaster thing across the pond as well. Just make it a Crumpet dispenser, and everyone would be lining up. Yeah, that's how stereotypical this blog is. Then there was the kewl new feature, about how you can access the files on you PS3's HD from your PSP at any hotspot point in teh world. That is pretty kewl, this means I won't have to get another memory stick for my PSP, lol. Then there was some other stuff on the list as well, but that was the meat of "teh awesomeness".
Now, onto the main news story and the second part. The main news I wanted to talk about was the Capcom announcement that DMC4 will be coming to the 360 simultaneously. I've got a theory that the DMC devs only just started making the 360 version and that Capcom pussed out after seeing that the PS3 only sold 127K last month. I can't say this surprises me, and I won't be surprised when that good ol' money whoring company SE, hands FFXIII over to multi-platform, or when Konami forces MGS4 to go multi-platform as well. It is going to happen, one way or another. Sony isn't going to pay for the development cost and advertising of either. If they were going to do that, they would have done it for GTAIV. This really sucked for PS3. The third party support of the other PS consoles has been what has made them 120 million-dollar selling consoles. DMC was a 7.5 million-dollar selling franchise on the PS2. FF has seen its best sales on the playstation consoles, with some 9 million sold for FFVII and 5 for FFX. MGS2 sold millions on PS2, and 3 sold well too. GTA got its start on the PS franchises for God sakes. These four devs/publishers all have ties with Sony, but it is all business with them, for the most part.
There was a friend of mine, Sorrowful_Tragedy(hey dude!), who I was talking to this about. He talked about how the Ninja Gaiden Sigma devs didn't care of the installbase, that they trusted their franchise and trusted that it would sell on PS3, and that the DMC guys should to. The problem with that is, development cost. Games are averaging twenty million a game on PS3 and 360. Capcom won't take a risk at not getting that back, they likely know that people won't buy the PS3 solely for DMC4. If there are big DMC fans, asking them to spend $600 is a lot. Hell, even when DMC4 showed, people were dissing it because it was on PS3. Really, the only games that could last on the PS3 right away and make their money back, are FF and GTA. Ninja Gaiden is merely a side project for Team Ninja. Itagaki is working on the jiggily DoA5. Everyone who owns a PS3 will buy NGS, but that doesn't really mean they will make their money back or gain anything. Sony has probably paid them to keep it exclusive. This game already made its money on the Xbox, this is just another try to gain a bigger audience. Between how well Dead Rising and that other gameâ?¦shit I can't remember, the one in January for 360...did, Capcom is going multi-platform. I'm pissed that they pussed out, but I don't really blame them. This is a business, and they are there to make money.
It really is becoming a war of the first party now. It's funny, though, a lot of people seem to think that MS has the upper hand in that area. Believe me, I wouldn't say upper hand. Think about it. Sony has their big three, Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Sucker Punch. They are the masters behind Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, and Sly Cooper. Insomniac is working on the next R&C (which looks AMAZING!!), Naughty Dog is working on Uncharted: Drake's Adventure or something with a corny name like that, but, from the screen shots, had some awesome graphics. Then we don't know what Sucker Punch is working on, but you can assure yourself it will rock. Then they have Team Ico, TEAM FUCKING ICO!! The masters behind Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, anyone who saw Shadow will know, whatever they make, PWNS EVERYTHING. Can you imagine just how kick ass their next game will look. Then, they have internal teams working on big projects as well. The GT guys, the GoW guys, the Motor Storm guys, ect. That all said, MS has a nifty line up as well, and they are getting more and more third party goodness. This whole thing will lead me into my second part of this blog. In my second part, I will discuss each Company, their positions, what I think they are going to do, what I think they should do, and how I think things will turn out from a business perspective and a gamers.
So, I will continue with the second part of my blog. I will start with Nintendo. Nintendo from a business perspective has nothing to worry about really. The Wii is selling fucktons, and the DS is creating an even bigger hole in the Ozone layer (that's right Liberals, the DS is...) with its sales. They have the Nintendo faithfuls backing them 100%, and they have twisted the mind of non and casual gamers with Nintendog's and Wii Sports. That said, the Gamecube plague seems to already be coming upon them. Launch games aside, third party games are being dragged down with poor sales, and Nintendo just isnâ??t getting their shit together enough to have a great game every month. This is a problem from a gaming standpoint, and, potentially, from a business standpoint. I say potentially because the Wii is on a rampage at the moment and they have everyone buying one. Even with droughts of games, I don't think the Wii is going to be getting Blue Ballz any time soon. I mean while Sony is setting up for the next ten years with it's console, in terms of games and tech, Nintendo is selling people a console that is already out of date and doesn't have a steady line up of games for the next two years. After hardcore gamers buy a Wii, they will be sick of minigames for life. Yet, Nintendo knew the whole way to go with this. They are still thrusting hard, but it isn't into the hardcore gamers anymore, they are banging people who don't even play games, and Nintendo isn't wearing any condoms. The thing is, Nintendo has set themselves into a really really comfy position. They aren't having to do anything, and consumers are riding em. Even if the Wii were to start to go flaccid, they have that monster (yeah, I said monster) the DS. They have set themselves up so well, it is going to be hard to beat. While Sony and MS have their cat fight and are losing money half the time, Nintendo is eternally gaining money.
Although really, I have to call Nintendo out for being the pansies. People can say Nintendo took a risk going with the gaming thing over the tech with the Wii. HA!! The Gamecube sold poorly, but they made money, because they didn't go heavy with the tech. The PSP is proof that the DS could have been so much more than a N64 that takes ten bucks to make, and the 360 and PS3 are proof that the Wii could have been so much more than the PS2 remodel version of a Gamecube with a new remote. Nintendo has played it safe, ever since Sony took dominance. It was a smart move though. Nintendo played the roll of the Ninja, and waited for the right moment to strike back. The have and they are pushing hard.
So, my worry for the Wii. Games!! I think we can already call this gen a Nintendo third party flop. It is a step in the right direction, but I don't think we are going to see a huge leap in third party stuff this gen, not on Nintendo consoles anyway. My prediction for the Wii, it will keep thrusting till it wears itself out, and people start to get bored with minigames, then Nintendo will release a remodel, and it will start back up again. If I were Nintendo, what would I do? Nothing really, they are in a position Sony and MS would sell their souls for, but if I had to do something. Get better third party support, and get your Goddamn online up and running, and make sure SSB Brawl is online.
Speaking of a leap in more third party support, let's talk some 360. So, MS is in a good position at the moment. They have a big game scheduled for almost every month of the year, this year. They have big stuff for early next, the 360 may get a rejuvenation in sales with the new SKU, and big third party titles, once exclusive to their competitor, are coming over to their console as well. 360 is in a really good position right now. From a business standpoint and a gaming one. With games like, Mass Effect, Halo 3, Bioshock, Too Human, Fable 2, as much as I hate to admit it, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey. They have a pretty sweet line up for exclusive games, not to mention third party. 360 may not be selling at a megaton rate but it is selling at a steady rate, with surges of sales expected whenever Halo 3 comes out. Then 360 seems to be on the press and gamers good side at the moment. It is really looking up for MS, but I want to know. Once this gaming line up they have showing now is over and everything is out, what happens? What else will we get that will convince 360less people to get one. Besides the big third party games that hit here and there, what else? Is this a chink in the 360's armor, from what it looks like now, yep. So, 360 blows a whole ton of awesome shit this year, maybe some next year, but then what? I could see next year being a small time for 360 and the year after that. After everything is out, they only have Halo Wars really. Too Human and Mass Effect will get sequels, but not for at least another two years. I think the middle and end of the 360's life span will be the gaps in gaming for the 360 and that is when PS3 is going to have to hit em hard. The PS3 has lost a lot of favor in the Press and gamers minds, the best time to compete is when there is no competition. Throw some shit at MS this year, but when the 360 is lacking is when you blow out the big stuff. When exclusive 360 owners are sitting on their asses wondering if enduring the horrible artwork on Lost Odyssey is worth it again, that is when you show of your kick ass games. That is when you kick out the new Team Ico game, or Killzone, or the Naughty Dog game, or the Sucker Punch game, or the next GT, or White Knight Story. So, really MS is in a good position. They are selling well, they are getting their games out there, and they have a good online. They just need to find cover for those times when games may be no where in sight, or they may not crush Sony like they seem to think.
Last but not least, Sony. A lot of people tend to think the PS3 is doomed and will go the way of the Dreamcast, yada yada yada. It isn't. I can assure you it is not. The thing everyone does need to remember is that the PS3 is a planned 10-year console. I'm pretty sure that is how Sony is trying to spread their games as well. Sony made some bad mistakes at launch and before. Thy are fixing them, and are getting into gear. Home will be their online, they are going to have rumble, they are getting all their big devs working on PS3, they are getting exclusives from third parties (Ninja Theory, Level 5, Factor 5, ect.), ect. Sony is getting everything into place, and I like where they are going. Plus, they hold something over MS's head. The PS2 and PSP. People say, "Oh, Sony is losing money off the PS3, it is doomed!!". The PS2 is selling fucktons, and although the PSP isn't selling through the roof, it is still selling and will continue to sell even better with the planned gaming line up. Sony is using the money from their other platforms to fuel the PS3. That is why it was ok to spend more on the PS3 than what it cost, this is partially why Home is free. It took Sony long enough, but they are getting their asses in gear, and I think the PS3 is going to do well. I doubt it will do PS2 well, but it won't go the way of the Dreamcast, nor will it sell like poop, like the N64. I mean, for the PS3, the announcement that cable TV will go HD was awesome. People will start to get HD, 720P, 1080p TVs and that barrier will be knocked down. The PS3 is in down time, but it is rising fast. Once Sony starts showing and getting the really big guns out there, it won't be so one sided anymore. Once Sony shows the Team Ico game, or the next GoW on PS3. The interwebs will explode.
Count on it! The one thing Sony needs to do to get third party exclusives is this. Sony needs to get the PS3 caught up with the 360 or even pass it in sales. If they can do that, I'm sure they can convince devs to stay exclusive. I mean, a lot of the companies have pretty strong ties with Sony, between money and relationship I think the PS3 could get third party exclusives as long as it was on par with the 360 in sales. The GTA guys practically offered GTAIV to Sony as an exclusive, which screwed that up, and they would do it again if Sony had the right installbase. That said, there is an opposite side as well. Sony better not let 360 get to far ahead or third parties may start going 360 exclusive. It cost extra to go multiple console and if they can get great sales on 360 and MS pays them enough to make up what they might have gotten on PS3, ouch.
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Flesher's plea agreement with Marion County Attorney Ed Bull indicated that if a presentence investigator recommended Flesher be sent to Fort Des Moines for treatment, the State would recommend that sentence. However, that is not what was recommended.
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"It was one of our first real team-building events," says student Joanna O'Kelley, a triathlete and former collegiate swimmer who came to the Tepper School after spending a few years as a consultant in Washington, D.C. "We could really get physical and get to know each other quickly in an environment where school didn't matter, and it didn't matter what your background was."
Micah Paul Keith, a first-year MBA from Utah, was part of a group that dubbed itself the B-3 Bombers.
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A few students will continue blindfolded while their new classmates watch them wander aimlessly in circles. That's when the second-year students help out by smoothing things over.
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Ever wondered why some people are constantly cheery and others shadowed by gloom? Why some have trouble focusing, are good with people or have strong emotional reactions to seemingly minor occurrences?
Pioneering neuroscientist and psychology professor Richard Davidson, Ph.D., says there's a reason we are who we are. Our emotions and thoughts do not happen to us, he argues. Rather, they are routine, predictable and rooted in the structure of our brains.
"Other schemes of personality were invented without any knowledge of the brain," says Davidson, who compiled his 30 years of research findings into new book The Emotional Life of Your Brain. "This is the first neuroscientific conception of the emotional and social variations among people, based on a modern diagnosis of the brain."
Decades of lab work resulted in a hybrid discipline called "affective neuroscience," or the study of brain mechanisms that underpin our emotions. Davidson says human emotions reach far beyond romance-novel fluff. They are central to the functions of the brain and the life of the mind.
Unlike emotional states, fleeting reactions triggered by an experience and lasting only seconds, and emotional moods, feelings that persist for a few hours or even days, Davidson says it is our emotional styles that shape our lives and how we respond to the world around us. Emotional style, traced to specific brain signatures, is comprised of six dimensions. Where you fall on the spectrum of each, he says, determines how you will feel, think and react.
Resilience: How slowly or quickly you recover from adversity, determined by signals between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.
Outlook: How long you are able to sustain positive emotion, based on levels of activity in the ventral striatum, a region of the brain critical for generating a sense of reward.
Social Intuition: How adept you are at picking up social signals from the people around you, shaped by the interplay between the amygdala and fusiform regions.
Self-Awareness: How well you perceive physical signals that reflect your emotions, determined by the insula's ability to interpret signals from the visceral organs.
Sensitivity to Context: How good you are at regulating your emotional responses depending on the context you find yourself in, driven by activity levels in the hippocampus.
Attention: How sharp and clear your focus is, regulated by the prefrontal cortex.
Davidson explains someone thought to be "agreeable" is likely highly sensitive to context with strong resilience and a positive outlook. A "conscientious" person has well-developed social intuition and focused attention style, while an "impulsive" person may have low self-awareness and an unfocused attention style.
Emotional Life of the Brain is a really great book full of a fascinating summary of neuroscience research to date in a really accessible way – as what is being indicated gets increasingly known I think it will have an enormous impact… The resilience section above you mention is more about dialling down resilience – i.e. if you are too resilient you can bounce back from events too quickly. This can mean you might not fully learn from mistakes or appear walled off from the emotions of others – improving resilience is related to mindfulness practise etc
Adapting one's emotional reactions to events is certainly possible.
Practicing the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude will reshape your mind over time.
Emotions are fast like a jackrabbit, but the mind can win out over time, like the tortoise, with persistence. :-)
Thank you for a very informative post.
I am very interested in your thoughts relating to self regulating/controlling the impact of our thoughts and behaviors stemming from our amygdala?


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A new developer has taken over the site of the former Dix Hills Golf Club and is preparing to build luxury homes priced in the millions.
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A group of state Assembly members from Long Island say the New York Office of Mental Health has reneged on a deal not to reduce beds at Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center.
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Chestnut Hill Elementary School, at 600 South Service Rd., Dix Hills, is in the Half Hollow Hills School District.
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Anyone with information on the drowning is asked to call the Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad at 631-854-8552 .
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A Dix Hills teen is charged with assault after his mother was found unconscious with severe head injuries at their home Saturday evening and police are investigating the death of the teen's 15-year-old brother.
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Emergency personnel and members of the Medical Examiner's office investigate the home on Sunday July 13, 2014, where a woman drowned the night before on Polo Street in Dix Hills.
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Officials say the residents of 2 Polo St. were cleaning up their backyard following a party the night before when they notice a body in the deep end of their pool at around 2:40 p.m. Police identified the body as Rajkumari Motwani, 55, of Rego Park, Queens.
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Families and individuals in the community are invited to participate in an Advent Festival at the First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell on Sunday, December 2. The free afternoon event will begin at 2:00 in the church's Fellowship Hall. It is not necessary to be a church member to attend.
The Advent Festival offers more than a dozen craft stations where participants can make tree ornaments and other Christmas decorations for the home. All materials are supplied at no cost, and projects have been chosen to appeal to multiple ages and abilities. Leaders will be available at each station to give directions and help when needed.
Many new projects are planned for this year, along with some repeat favorites, such as cookie decorating and a paper crafts table for younger children. New ideas include a flowerpot nutcracker, a tube sock snowman, and a beaded Bible bookmark.
Special hand-crafted candleholders made of wood will also be a new feature. Participants will take home a holder and candles to be lit each Sunday during Advent, the period leading up to Christmas. After participants have made as many crafts as possible in the allotted two hours, the event will conclude with a brief devotional time noting the First Sunday of Advent and featuring the lighting of the first candle. The festival will end with a carol sing led by church members Kris George and Rey Mercado.
"This is the best way to get fully into the Christmas spirit," says West Caldwell resident Jack Stoddard, a church member who is co-chairing the festival with his wife, Lynne. "This is a favorite tradition for our church family and we are happy to welcome community residents to share the fun. Many church volunteers have contributed ideas and energy to plan and carry out the Advent Festival. We all hope that the festival will be a great way to create warm memories of the holiday season," he says.
Parents are encouraged to attend the festival and work on the craft projects with their children, as this is intended to be an opportunity to promote family togetherness. However, many of the crafts are suitable for adult individuals.
Although there is no cost to participate in the Advent Festival, pre-registration is necessary. The organizers must know how many are coming in each age group to make sure that the right quantities of materials are prepared. Signing up can be done during the Coffee Hour after the 10:00 Sunday worship service, or by calling the church office at 973-228-0310. The registration deadline is Sunday, Nov. 25.
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Cost: $25, and $15 for those under 15 years old. Registration includes commemorative tee shirt.
All proceeds support the Shepherd's Gate annual grant program benefiting nonprofit organizations that protect the battered, feed the hungry, house the homeless, and assist the poor and disenfranchised. Last year's International Festival raised $37,000 which was distributed to 13 local, national, and international organizations.
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Campaigns run by a team raise 70% more money than campaigns that run solo. Team members help you manage your campaign and reach more people. When you add a team member, they will receive an invitation to join your campaign. They will not be able to access your Dashboard or edit your campaign unless you make than an Admin. Below are instructions on how to add team members to your campaign and adjust admin settings.
How to Add Team Members to a New Campaign
You can add team members during your campaign set up. As you are creating your campaign, you will see a tab that says, "3. Enhance Your Campaign". The first section on this tab is Campaign Team. You should see your account listed as the Owner along with a space for you to define your role on the project. Your role is generally your title, e.g. Director or Founder.
Directly below your role, you will see a place for you to add a teammate:
- Enter the email address of the teammate you'd like to add
- If you would like to make them an administrator, check the box that says Admin. As an Admin, they can edit the campaign and view the Dashboard.
- Click Send Invite. An email will be sent to them inviting them to the team. If they do not have an Indiegogo account yet, they will be asked to create an account before joining the team.
- Click Save to save your new teammates
You can remove a team member at any time by clicking Remove next to their name.
After the teammate has accepted your invitation, you will be able to add their role.
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Funeral services for Billy Ray Dickey, 53, of Nabb, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Grayson Funeral Home in New Washington, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. He died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, at St. Catherine Regional Hospital in Charlestown.
He was born April 29, 1959, in Louisville, Ky., to Floyd and Marie Dickey. He was an employee for IDX in Jeffersonville, where he worked in distribution.
Survivors include his sons, Chris Dickey and his wife, Jessica, of Nabb, and Doug Dickey and his wife, Winda, of Queens, N.Y.; a daughter, Amy Kligman andher husband, Misha, of Kansas City, Mo.; his father, Floyd Dickey, of San Antonio, Tex.; brothers, Jerry Dickey and his wife, Brenda, of New Washington, and Mike Dickey and his wife, Lisa, of Charlestown; sisters, Joyce Bower and her husband, Chuck, and JoAnn Smith and her husband, Marvin, all of Nabb, and Janice Embry and her husband, James, of Charlestown; grandchildren, Rayleigh, Cy and Allen Dickey; nieces and nephews, Adam Dickey, Michael Dickey, Hallie Ennis, Carol Bower, Larry Bower, Michelle Morris, Floyd Smith, Angela Crace, Victoria, Tanner and Katie Embry and many great nieces and nephews and family and friends that he cared for.
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'Rocketts Red Glare' celebrates Memorial Day with fireworks
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Rocketts Landing will make the Richmond skyline sparkle this Memorial Day with Rocketts Red Glare on Sunday, May 27. The free event will feature fireworks, live music and family-friendly activities to celebrate the long holiday weekend.
Rocketts Red Glare will kick-off at 5:30 p.m. with a performance by local musician Colin Healy on the volleyball court adjacent to The Boathouse. Virginia party band Kings of Swing will take the stage at 6:30 p.m. and play throughout the fireworks show, which begins around 9 p.m. During the event, replicas of Christopher Columbus' famous Pinta and Nina ships will be docked at Rocketts Landing with guided tours available.
"We're excited to welcome Richmonders to Rocketts Landing to celebrate the official start of summer," said Richard Souter, vice president of The WVS Companies, developer of the Village at Rocketts Landing. "Situated on the river's banks and with the city skyline as a backdrop, everyone will get a great view of the fireworks."
Wine and craft beer will be available, with a portion of proceeds going to the Neighborhood Resource Center, a nonprofit that supports the Greater Fulton Community in Eastern Henrico. Dessert vendors also will be on-hand. Picnic baskets are welcome, along with chairs and blankets for seating.
For more information, including details on complimentary parking, visit http://www.facebook.com/rockettslanding or go to http://www.rockettsvillage.com and click "Upcoming Events."
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The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
The funds were raised at the annual casino night held in February, club president Adam Cherry said. The Rotary Club also helped purchase the Virginia-based charity's first pink jeep three years ago. > Read more.
Agencies combine on new entry point to Chickahominy
Canoeing and kayaking enthusiasts soon will have a new access point to the Chickahominy River. VDOT, the James River Association and Henrico County Parks and Recreation are teaming up to establish a new site in Eastern Henrico.
The James River Association negotiated the deal with VDOT to procure official access to the area located just east of I-295 on North Airport Road in Sandston. The site includes a park-and-ride commuter lot bordering the Chickahominy River and has been an unofficial launch site used by paddlers for years. > Read more.
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Take in a show at several locations this weekend! West End Comedy will provide laughs at HATTheatre; the production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes" will close Sunday; and the youth theatre company CharacterWorks will present "Footloose" at The Steward School. Another show perfect for the kids – "Despicable Me 2" is playing at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center tonight. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Is there an Echo in here?
'Earth to Echo' aims to become this generation's 'ET'
It's no secret that all found-footage genre movies are the same. Grab a couple of characters, give one of them a camera, and expose them to something supernatural that's content to lurk just off-screen until the last five minutes. Everything else will just fall into place.
But that formula isn't particularly family friendly, if only because that thing waiting a few feet to the left of the cast is usually plotting their violent doom.
That's what sets Earth to Echo apart from the pack. It, too, follows a group of characters armed with a camera and a tendency to encounter unknown life forms. But all those familiar parts have been rearranged just enough to make it suitable for a much younger audience. > Read more.
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An eclectic array of events are taking place this weekend throughout the county. In the West End, we have the Richmond Wedding Expo, the Under the Stars Family Film Series and Henrico Theatre Company's production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes." In the eastern part of the county, we have a blood drive at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, Gallmeyer Farm's annual Sweet Corn Festival and an origami workshop at Fairfield Library. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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And at the halfway point of the 2014 British Open , it's a guy who was born barely an hour's flight away from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club - Northern Ireland native Rory McIlroy - who's in the best position to add a third Grand Slam trophy to an already burgeoning career mantelpiece.
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The Northern Irishman, ranked eighth in the world after going nearly two years without a Major championship victory, started with a bogey on the opening hole - but never looked back after that, firing seven birdies to finish 12 under par and open up a four-shot lead over the field.
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No one had a brighter smile than Martin Kaymer when he stepped onto the practice green outside the clubhouse at Royal Liverpool.
Players listed in only the first category for which they qualified. Four spots are still to be determined: British Open champions 60 or under on July 20: Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen, Stewart Cink, Padraig Harrington, Tiger Woods, Todd Hamilton, Ben Curtis, David Duval, Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard, John Daly, Nick ... (more)
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To better meet customer demand, American Airlines today launched a new large-jet service from Chicago to Albuquerque.
Beginning Aug. 1, the 76-seat American Eagle jets will fly from Chicago O-Hare International Airport to Albuquerque International Sunport.
"For the first time in American Airlines history we are offering large regional jet flying as an option," said Chuck Schubert, the company's vice president of network planning. "In addition to strengthening our longstanding partnership with Republic Airways, this is a strong step forward in the diversification of our fleet and an important enhancement from one of our key hubs."
American's fleet plan calls for the transitioning out of smaller regional aircraft such as ATRs and E-135s by the end of 2013. Deploying large regional jets such as the E-175 allows American to more effectively compete by offering customers more choices with the right-size aircraft to match market demand.
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