This week’s podcast isn’t the best, but at least we tried, right? There’s a lot of chatter, and Scott gets really angry at people criticizing Star Wars.
This week’s news items includes:
- Iranian state television mistakes Medal of Honor footage for reality
- Street Fighter 5 Arcade Mode being considered
- Experimental 5D data storage could store 360TB of games for 13.8 billion years
- Ubisoft boasts about The Division beta’s huge numbers
- HTC’s Vive VR Tech will launch in April priced at $799
This week’ Question of the Week: “When, if ever, will you be getting VR?”
The same company that brought us the NES Advantage has proven the Wii control scheme isn’t as bad as critics speculated. The beauty of adding the “waggle” technology is limiting your button count to a reasonable level without overwhelming gamers.
Sony took pieces of this concept in their PS3 controller and its ability to detect “tilt.” Xbox 360 stuck with the beefy controller with lots of buttons and analog sticks. Not just a D-Pad but two analog sticks and a ton of buttons to press, some pressure sensitive as well. What of our next-generation console? Maybe a few new buttons?
This week we’re on vacation but Don is not, so he took the time to build out a cool mashup of some of the podcasts most memorable “moments.” Of course, most of them are the strangest bloopers and oddities that we had a couple lol’s re-listening to them. Consider this the greatest moments in the last sixty episodes wrapped up in a 4-minute time period. Holy crap.
I don’t know about VR. It could be cool but I can’t afford it.