Bass Bottles posted:

I'm not sure there was a viable western market for the Vita tho

Like, Nintendo cultivated a large fanbase in the west for their handhelds. Enough of it survived to eventually bail out the 3DS. Sony handhelds never had that, though, and they def weren't going to attract NEW people...

Bass Bottles posted:

I didn't know it did well in Europe that's interesting

Germstore posted:

Oh look, it's Stux making GBS threads up a not-Sony thread.

Xavier434 posted:

So is the XB1 and PS4 but no one actually gives a poo poo because just like the SNES and the Wii U they each have some pretty good games.

Tenzarin posted:

Doesn't help the last good Zelda was on SNES.

Tenzarin posted:

PS4 is good but you know they should really make some games worth playing on it.

SilverSupernova posted:

To this day it saddens me just how badly Sony hosed that up. At least with the PSP they actually bothered to make a variety of games based on their IPs. It bombed, but I still got some mileage out of it. What little they even do with the Vita anymore just seems to be targeting one specific demographic with incredibly Japanese style games. That's not such a bad thing, but the problem is that they do very little to appeal to other things.

Want to play WipEout? gently caress you we care about that less than Nintendo cares about F-Zero.
Maybe Ratchet & Clank, or Twisted Metal? Haha no!

Granted, this problem also extends to the PS4, but at least that gets 3rd party support.

Tenzarin posted:

Its cool, they also came out on the PC.

Also Link to the Past is the best zelda game.

Tenzarin posted:

Nice straw man, now were doing future game of the year comparisons now?

Mercury Crusader posted:

lol if you think last guardian is being released

Tenzarin posted:

Its been like 3 months this year, theres no goty yet.

Tenzarin posted:

Its way to early to even bother naming candidates.

Name me the ps4 exclusives already chosen as goty candidates?

Motto posted:

In retrospect TLG's delays aren't a big deal, the bulk of it was probably just the PS3 to PS4 shift.

Tenzarin posted:

Nier 2: unreleased
Persona 5: unreleased, Suicide is bad ok, Persona is bad
Last guardian: unreleased

Good list of ps4 games released already.

Lady Naga posted:

Stux which publication are you basing last years GOTY on or are you saying like a personal winner or

Tenzarin posted:

Bloodborne sucked, lovely action souls, next.

Tenzarin posted:

Lets see just how much its talked about after April when its not the newest release from software.

Lady Naga posted:

its actually weird that golden joystick voted for noted bad game ds 2 in 2014 but last year witcher won over bloodborne

Lady Naga posted:

but i mean if youre gonna vote in a souls game at least wait until the good one

Tenzarin posted:

This is actually pretty true except with Bloodborne, which was a huge step back because Miyaka wanted to make a lovely action souls.

Tenzarin posted:

Demons souls wasn't.

Motto posted:

I care about one of these

Saoshyant posted:

Confirming that the console is x86, however, means that ports from PC/other consoles will be much, much easier to do.

Sprite141 posted:

Sometimes you need to stagger releases, though not for months at a time ala every console this generation.

E Equals MC Hammer posted:

Riiiiiiiiidge raceeeerrrrrrr

Edit: can I just say at this point, Stux, I feel really sad each time I see you eat a huge probation

Dexo posted:

The Wii U was more powerful than a PS3 tho?

Like Every Wii U game p much ran at 1080/60 besides poo poo like split screen Multiplayer on Mario Kart.

As opposed to the 900p/30 most games ran at on the PS3(besideds like CoD multiplayer and other exceptions.)

MechaCrash posted:

I carry two, plus a battery for my phone, a coin purse, loose change, a nail clipper, a Swiss army knife, folding scissors, and some dice. And that's just in one pocket (the other is a wallet, Vita, deck of cards, and microfiber cloth). Maybe you just need to find the right pants.

Okay, sometimes it looks like I'm wearing jodhpurs but that's the price you pay for having all of your poo poo at hand all the time.

MechaCrash posted:

Relaxed fit Wrangler jeans. I can get all that in there, but it can get a little tight, and they do stick out a bit just because of the bulk.

All of the talk of pants does seem like a bit of a tangent, but if you can't cleanly fit a portable in your pocket, I don't think it's very portable at all.

MechaCrash posted:

At this point I just think it's funny that everybody pounced on the coin purse so hard that nobody noticed "two 3DSes." Maybe because it was just assumed that it's an American one and a Japanese one? Which is the case, of course, but still, I thought someone would've asked about that part, at least. Iwata said, and I summarize, "region locking was a mistake because it doesn't actually help the customer," so I'm hoping the NX isn't region locked.

But if you must know, the coin purse is to hold pennies because I want to keep them away from the other coins. If I need some pennies, I don't want to have to rifle through quarters, and vice versa. And I only have four or five other coins, usually, and I can and do spend those. Pennies are a bit harder to get rid of, and there's more of them because I use them as counters in card games. It's not one of those old lady style coin purses with the clasp, it's one of those squeezy deals and it doesn't carry all that much. I have it because one of my uncles gave it to me so I figured eh, gently caress it, why not. I only have three dice, which isn't enough for a bag, and I carry them mostly because gently caress it why not, with a dose of habit on top. They're pretty small d6es, after all, and don't take up much room.

PBS Newshour posted:

Please MechaCrash, take a picture of all the stuff you carry in your pockets laid out. Please please please.

Kashuno posted:

going third party has been great for Sega, ofc

Trent posted:

I concede that dual shock is closer to modern controllers, but N64 had right hand directional input first (not better) and the trigger on the back rather than just shoulder buttons on top was a big deal. People also seem to forget that analog was a huge move. That Sony moved the tech along a year later doesnt erase this.

Trent posted:

Expansion slots, force feedback, right-side directional control, trigger opposite stick, and analog inputs. Not just one innovation.

I actually think you could say that multiple ways to hold it was a good/interesting idea in theory, and even led to the wiimote's forward/sideways/nunchuk layout.

Nothing about it was the best ever, but it did a lot of innovative stuff that's stuck around/evolved.

Trent posted:

Ever seen a wiimote? You know, one of if not the best selling controller of all time?

Dr Cheeto posted:

This isn't true at all but don't let me keep you from having the standard goon meltdown over Nintendo hardware.

BillmasterCozb posted:

how would they have done that

Wamdoodle posted:

Ah yes the ubermenschen that are the Overwatch and Call of Duty players

Wamdoodle posted:

Yeah me neither

Instant Sunrise posted:

Instant Sunrise posted:

because this:



is extremely similar to the now traditional thumbstick that all modern controllers have.

also not to mention that the PSX controller/dual analog/dual shock is a derivative of the SNES/SFC controller.

BattleHamster posted:

There are so many weird stand-alone arcade cabinets and third party controllers out there (especially for PC) I think you could make this argument for just about anything except the earliest arcade games.

In my mind the innovation was Nintendo being the first to decide that analog would be the primary control method for their console and making it successful in a much larger market.