OutrageousEmu said:
...did you just reject it based on a launch library not containing as many games as all of Steam combined?
Life ain't fair. I ain't going to give PSV a free pass just because it is new.
Sony COULD make a console based on x86 architecture, plug into steam and use all Steam games is synchronicity like the Windows/Mac relationship on Steam, but they aren't. Some way so out the box it has an inherently large collection of games, like how PS2's backwards compatibility with extra texture-processing was a great feature.
As a result they are ending up with a far too limited library to justify its cost. At least, for the foreseeable future (next few years).
Besides, that takes the argument that the system itself is limmited by being a handheld. The graphical quality is still the same level as the Ps3. Considering its pool of exclusives, the fact that you wouldn't use it as a portable doesn't make it any less of a valid and useful console. I can guarantee you you won't find a game like Gravity Rush on the PC, and it is completely worth playing.
But even beyond that, on a personal note - dude, join a play or something. Go out drinking with friends. That actually sounds really lonely.
Besides which, if you're actually calling Rage a good game, you're starved for good gaming content. I don't think anyone can argue about that.
Well, if it is "on the same level" as PS3 that is a VERY broad level! And I don't hold PS3's graphics in very high regard.
As to on the same level, have you played the likes of Rage HD on iPod Touch? Or Infinity Blade? These games are good for not depending on twin thumbsticks but touchscreen controls and the precision of a Gyroscope. They also look damn good and are not too deep, they are simple short games easy to drop in and drop out.
Yes, I suppose you won't find a game precisely the same as Gravity Rush(Daze) on PC, but there are games of equivalent worth and originality. It's hardly worth spending hundreds of dollars to get access to. I suspect I'll pick up the PSV many MANY years from now, probably after the system is dead. OR just wait for Sony to relent and release such games on PS3.
on a personal note - dude, join a play or something. Go out drinking with friends. That actually sounds really lonely.
Well, I am not elaborating on my life for brevity, I DID state I have other engagements and gave only two examples as the details of my life aren't really relevant, only my general situation. Though since you insinuate I'm a loner I do spend a lot of my time at a local internet cafe where I'm friends with the owner, we often hang out after hours and are working on a minecraft mod. And whether drinking, in a play or mod building there is no place for a PSV in all of that.
And I mean Rage HD on iOS (not the PC/360 version which was a bit "what's the point?") for to spite its negative reviews has a really compelling control scheme, that was not available at time of reviews but well after as an update. The gyro control scheme, amazingly precise, I could shake the device around like a madman and it still tracks orientation without lag, it was like a laser pointer through a "virtual window".
I WAS keen on PSV as a companion to my PS3, but the cost has clearly ballooned far out out of control, the PSV is clearly too powerful for Sony to sell it at a competitive price, without gouging us somewhere else. I like all the controls (rear touchscreen, thumbsticks, medium-sized multi-touch) but it could do without a quad-core and such powerful graphics. Handheld is supposed to be simple but flexible games.
Things like Crysis or Uncharted aren't suitable on a 5-inch screen in often bright sunlight, but games with broad and simple graphics like Minecraft or WoW that are easy to discern and easy to render! I'm not expecting Black Ops on PSV, I'm expecting Xotic, Aaaa Reckles.. Gravity, Cave Story +, Defy Gravity, Jamestown and Breath of Death VII
PSP tried to be "Almost a PS2 in your pocket" and it suffered for it. PSV needs to be PSV, not "PS2.5-Pocket-Edition".
