Neat concept but you need some sort of camera or high resolution sensor for tracking finger movements when they're not in contact with the backtrack....otherwise you will need a "cursor" displayed on the screen which is also visually distracting.
Apparantly the PSP2 exists.
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Neat concept but you need some sort of camera or high resolution sensor for tracking finger movements when they're not in contact with the backtrack....otherwise you will need a "cursor" displayed on the screen which is also visually distracting.
Among the many gaming adverts on TV I saw last night between movies, there was a DS drawing title. I can't imagine that working with anything other than a stylus. If PSP2 has both touch screen and rear pad, I can understand, but at the moment I don't think picking rear pad over touch screen is the right move.
The "cursor" could simply be a pixel. Once screen resolution gets to the point that pixels are too small, you could build a larger cursor that's still minimal.
http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=874
A back touchscreen isn't essential, but it's useful. Some games that require limited interaction with the screen are probably 100% fine with a touch screen but other games would be impossible or just not fun to play.
Designers could change their game to work with occlusion or give them a new tool to work with and let's see what they can do. There's no reason both technologies couldn't be implemented together.
The comments section mentions 2 workarounds:
I can see a totally different game mechanics around the idea of "tapping your enemies from behind" (If you're playing a ninja, vampire, Flash the superhero, ...)
It may not be the savior for occlusion simply because the users are too stubborn to change/adapt.
Those two workarounds are flawed, at least on the iPhone. The iPhone uses the "magnifying glass" for typing corrections and it's slow and "clunky" at best.
Putting a "second screen" in the corner basically negates the benefits of a touch screen in the first place. You [lose] the effect of direct manipulation if you have to look somewhere you're not touching. It's a disappointment at best.
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Came across this thread while searching through old threads:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=41796
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=41796
Wouldn't say they're very graphically intensive games, I was thinking of graphics more in line with PSP.
Yes, the developers have to present the appropriate scenarios, or the potential customers can't see the benefits.
I've got RageHD on my iPhone4 but I don't plan on testing/playing that game over and over for hours until the battery dies just to post the results here....
I don't play ANY games for that long on my phone.I've got RageHD on my iPhone4 but I don't plan on testing/playing that game over and over for hours until the battery dies just to post the results here....
You could just fully charge the battery, play until that runs to 75% and x4 (or maybe better to run it down to 25% and then play until it runs dry if you can't see a battery indicator ingame), not exact but it'll give a good indication.
I don't either by the way (on my Android phone), the lack of real controls basically only makes them good for some quick simple games IMO.
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I wouldn't call it the most anticipated. How many people are really excited at this idea? In fact how can you anticpaite a presentation if you don't know what it's about?!
I wouldn't call it the most anticipated. How many people are really excited at this idea? In fact how can you anticpaite a presentation if you don't know what it's about?!
Well it would have been a nicer idea back when the PSP was still relevant, Mr Geezer. Given that it is likely that the PSP phone will stand alone in the market, I think people are right to feel uninterested because as a SKU it is unlikely to compete against the iPhone which is the current champion gaming phone. Also knowing Sony it will be priced out of the hands of a large number of game players and it probably won't match up to the qualities of real slide Android phones and others. Most likely a keyboard would be the preferred tradeoff and not physical game controls.
P.S. Look in the 3D architectures forums. You know that scary place where people talk about graphics cards and black magic and old mans beard. We don't really know the date of the presentation but there are many who are anticipating it. Futher more, its hard to say what they will actually present.
Precisely! How can you anticipate something when you don't know what it is? Anticipation by definition has prior-knowledge of what you expect!
That doesn't stop publishers from using countdowns to annoucements of annoucements!
I wouldn't call it the most anticipated. How many people are really excited at this idea? In fact how can you anticpaite a presentation if you don't know what it's about?!
I think the 4 traditional PS's face button with a 5th button with a phone icon kinds of gives it away.
More Sony touch pad/screen patent revealed at:
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/11/27/evidence-sony-prepping-touch-panel-for-psp2/
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/11/27/evidence-sony-prepping-touch-panel-for-psp2/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/03/playstation-phone-zeus-z1-caught-on-video-again-this-time-you/
(Video inside)
[EDIT: It's fat and ugly ^_^]
Also, Jack Tretton said PSP Phone is not PSP2:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40375859
(Video inside)
[EDIT: It's fat and ugly ^_^]
Also, Jack Tretton said PSP Phone is not PSP2:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40375859
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I personally don't see anything wrong with it, then again I never viewed phones as men jewelry
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