Posts tagged consoles
Photos: Super Potato gaming store in Japan.
This is the Akihabara Super Potato, where they have games, consoles, and related toys and accessories from all eras spread over three floors.
Check out more photos here.
The Evolution Of Controllers.
Check out the full sized image here.
The graphic can be purchased as a 27 x 39 inch print from PopChartLab.
NES Sneakers.
Guess my Christmas wishlist starts early this year.
Nintendo Power ranks top Nintendo games of all time.
The final issue of Nintendo Power magazine listed their top 285 Nintendo games of all time. (After running 285 issues of the magazine since 1988)
The top ten are below, check out the full list here.
10. Resident Evil 4 (GameCube)
9. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube)
8. Super Metroid (SNES)
7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
6. Mega Man 2 (NES)
5. Super Mario World (SNES)
4. Final Fantasy III (VI) (SNES)
3. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Photo: Wii U goes portable.
A Japanese blogger is seen here playing the Wii U on a bullet train on the way to work. While not exactly meant as a portable console, certain games can be played directly on the gamepad, with the console able to be plugged into a power supply on the train. He even used a mobile phone to start a wi-fi hotspot for those all important Miiverse status updates.
$99 Wii Mini to launch December 7.
Rumored for the last few weeks, the Wii Mini has been officially announced, and will be available in time for Christmas. At an “introductory price” of $99.99, the red and black Wii Mini system comes with the console, sensor bar and a Red MotionPlus controller with Nunchuk. The system features a manual release top-loading design for disks, claimed to offer a longer life span as it has fewer moving parts.
The Wii Mini supports existing Wii peripherals, but has no internet connectivity or Gamecube support.
Update: It seems the Mini is just for Canada at this stage, with no word on the US or worldwide availability.
Image: The Gaming Revolution.
This is actually from a t-shirt on Threadless but I thought it was kind of neat. It’s missing a keyboard and mouse though. Controversial.
Mobile graphics beginning to outperform consoles.
With no new Xbox or Playstation consoles having been released fur such a long time, it’s could be next year before smartphones are able to match their graphics capabilities, according to NVIDIA’s Mike Rayfield.
Several years ago, a PC meant a display that measured 11 inches or more diagonally, a physical keyboard and possibly a network connection. With the advent of mobile devices and smartphones, the idea of a PC has largely been redefined. It is now considered to be anything with a display of at least four inches, with a touchscreen that supplements (or replaces) a physical keyboard and is always connected and “on.”
Video: Next gen video graphics could look this realistic.
This technology is called Separable Subsurface Scattering, and could well be used to power next generation video game graphics in consoles and home PC’s.
The exciting thing about this technology is that it’s written in Direct X 10, which standard on almost every home PC - in fact, many already support the next gen Direct X 11, so this technology can only get better. This video was rendered in real-time using Direct X 10, in full high definition 1080p.
Kinect for Windows to be released next month.
Microsoft has announced the Kinect for Windows system will be available on February 1, for a huge US$249. Yep, that’s at least $100 more than the Xbox version.
Microsoft puts the price difference down to the fact that it can only sell the Xbox version so cheaply as it makes up the loss by having customers pay for Xbox Gold memberships, as well as buying other games and the Xbox console itself.
While unconfirmed, there is unlikely any difference in the actual modules themselves, so in theory users could pick up Kinect for Xbox for $149 (or less on special), and download the software - the Kinect for Windows SDK - and save $100.
Of course Microsoft discourages that, saying the device is “not licensed for general commercial use, supported or under warranty when used on any other platform”.
