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?”
If you’re a Netflix subscriber and own an Xbox 360 you’ll be able to watch the entire library of Netflix programming on your console. This deal, recently announced at E3, puts Microsoft in a great way in terms of being the console to buy for multi-media entertainment against its Rival Sony.
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?
I don’t know about VR. It could be cool but I can’t afford it.