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regift_of_the_gods writes:
"The results from the 2013 holiday season through January are leaking in, and they look grim: not great for Sony, bad for Microsoft, terrible for Nintendo. The PS4 seems to be outselling the Xbox One but both are far behind their respective sales totals of 2006/2007, when they faced off with the previous generation of consoles. An anonymous developer quoted in the TechCrunch piece notes: 'There are 2+ year old GPUs that outperform these boxes, and even budget GPUs releasing now in the $150 range outclass these machines... This means whilst the casuals are moving to mobile/web, the high end enthusiasts are moving to PC where games are better looking. The traditional consoles are caught in a pincer movement.'
Sony has just completed a round of layoffs at its Santa Monica game studio. Meanwhile, the future of Xbox within Microsoft remains cloudy, with the departure of CEO Steve Ballmer and the ascension of Stephen Elop as head of the Devices and Services group, which includes the Nokia/Lumia handsets and the Surface tablet as well as Xbox. There are rumors that Microsoft is negotiating to sell the Xbox division to Amazon, which seems to be trying to enter the game platform industry. Elop wrote the (in)famous 'burning platform' memo when he was CEO at Nokia, as a prelude to abandoning the Symbian and MeeGo operating systems in favor of Windows Phone; he also stated last year that he would consider divesting Xbox and Bing if he was named CEO."
(Score: 1) by Aiwendil on Monday March 10 2014, @02:54PM
So true, oh so true, how could I have missed that one..
Those I miss, but it was soo long since I last saw a good one (circa 1994 or something like that) I had forgotten those existed, I guess the closest thing we have today are khanacademy (it is heavily game-ified)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday March 11 2014, @04:33AM
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ [kerbalspaceprogram.com]
Because of this game, I had to watch Gravity with a BIG grain of salt. Before I knew nothing of orbital mechanics or transfer windows or orbital rendezvous. The physics are close enough that you can do the math if so inclined, but presented in a way you can still do it without knowing any of the math.
Fun and educational. Even has an .Edu version for schools. Some physics programs are using it to introduce the concepts to new students because it does it allows a detailed visualization. So they're not all gone. Just very hard to find.
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday March 11 2014, @04:49AM
The violence in KSP is limited to spectacular failures ('sposions!) that can kill the little green turnips (unless you plan escape towers and such) so it is educational, fun and very low in the violence category. As they are all named and persistent (with permadeath except for the main 3 characters) you actually try not to kill them. It requires a good bit of planning, design and finally execution to do it successfully. This makes an accomplishment like first orbit feel like a real accomplishment.
Preview, preview, when will I learn to preview....not today apparently...
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