YenRug

You're still missing the point, though, how do you know work wasn't started on MP3 before MP2 was finished? I'm not saying it was, but you're working on the basis that it wasn't.

Yeah, but Nintendo deserved to be skewered, put on a spit and then basted in their own juices, not just lambasted, for that E3 showing. OK, Pac-Man Vs is a good fun little diversion, but that wasn't something to base pretty much your whole E3 showing around.

You're making cerain assumptions with that statement, though. The fact they finished MP2 in Q4 2004 does not mean that they had not already started planning and outlining MP3, especially as it seems to have been planned as a loose "trilogy" from the start. When it became clear that the next one would almost be on the next-gen console, they would have most likely started ramping up new assets with that in mind. By the end of MP2 development, the designers and concept makers would have had very little to do with it, at that stage it would have been down to coders and artists for any changes required.

Well, the one problem is using the word revolve, it's the wrong usage of the word, as it means to spin. Evolve is related to Evolution, but Revolve only relates to Revolution if you're meaning that you're talking about making a full turn around an axis. Your tagline would need to be something more like: "Evolution brought you this far, now it's time for the Revolution."

There's a problem with that theory, though. Sony is the sort of company that wouldn't keep a feature, like that, secret. Sony would be crowing from the rooftops about how their's is truly a next gen machine and you shouldn't even be considering the competition. They did the same thing with the PS2 and Dreamcast, told people that they should wait a year for the superior machine; people did wait and found they got a system that wasn't quite as powerful as the Dreamcast. Right now, Sony would be telling everyone about this feature to spoil Xbox360 sales, plain and simple.

Spong's June release is more realistic: Nintendo announce in April that the system will get a near simultaneous global launch; they show off the system and software at E3 in May, possibly revealing something special about it too; June is used to build up the hype until launch date(s).

I laughed when I heard his comment, "this next generation is all about the graphics!" Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what they said about the current generation of consoles?

I remember ARCADE, it was a brilliant mag, basically a gamer lifestyle one in the same was as things like FHM are a men's lifestyle one. Sadly Future screwed it up by relaunching it as some crappy pulp paper thing, was absolute rubbish, can only assume they didn't have the numbers to keep it running.

All Nintendo's online games should be free, however they have always stated that third party games might incur extra charges, this is not contradicted by what Jim Merrick said at all.

I played King's Field on the PS1, really enjoyed it, but I believe a PS3 version is already in the works. Shame really, as soon as I saw this thread I knew why you were suggesting it.

Currently: US$200 = GB£112.01 + [email protected]% = GB£131.61 So not exactly a great price at £200, I'd realistically expect to see it nearer the £150 mark, though you have to remember a thing called hedging where companies price a product to give them leeway if there's a huge change in exchange rates. Don't forget, those aren't official figures, they're just what some analyst plucked out of... the air.

Why do people keep on insisting on suggesting wired headsets? Are you all forgetting that the Revolution is using Bluetooth? You know, that wireless protocol that all of those wireless headsets, for mobile phones, use. Anyone else seeing this very slight connection I'm hinting at?

Potentially, it's sometime from the 1st of April onwards, nothing more definite than that at present.

Chances are that they were basing their news of Spong, but didn't want to mention that they were the source. Wasn't Gaming Horizon, by any chance, as they did that with the Mario Paint story...

Once every year they do a working in the industry special issue, usually comes with a booklet interviewing different people at different companies, mix of different jobs, i.e. graphic artist, modeller, producer, director and so on. Sadly, I think this year's issue has already been and gone.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on. And this forum is annoying the heck out me, keeps on saying this is a duplicate of one I posted within the last 5 minutes, despite it failing to actually add the post to the thread. Hopefully adding this extra text will stop it being a pain!

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on. And this forum is annoying the heck out me, keeps on saying this is a duplicate of one I posted within the last 5 minutes, despite it failing to actually add the post to the thread. Hopefully adding this extra text will stop it being a pain!

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

The important part is this: So the original patent, upon which this is simply an expansion, is from 1999, pointing towards the N64 DD add-on.

It's based on what is called interferenc patterns, the pattern is shifted in certain places so that the unfocussed eye can perceive them. Get reasonably close to the image, say about 10 cms, and then let your eyes relax trying to not focus on anything. Eventually your eyes will, hopefully, pick up on the embedded image and you will then be able to focus on it. What you end with is similar to those 3D images you get when wearing glasses, however the only colours are those you can see on the main image, but certain shapes will be lifted away from the background. It's a very strange sensation when you get it to work.

I can't normally see these 3D images, either, but I was able to see this one. Took about 5 minutes, though.