Has the rumoured big announcement been and gone? If so, what was it? Or is it being saved til later? Or didn't it really exist?
So what was Sony's 'megaton'?
- Thread starter Shifty Geezer
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They're announcing they've purchased Microsoft at the end of E3.
MechanizedDeath
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cthellis42 said:
I was wondering the same thing though, about the megaton. But seeing as most of the insiders at GAF got thoroughly owned (seems they were bamboozled by their sources), then maybe it's just not gonna materialize. It clearly wasn't Team Ninja, not like it would have been that big anyway. And it can't be FFXI for the X360 since that wasn't that big either. There is still lots to be shown/announced for the PSP and PS2, so maybe that's where it's at....maybe. PEACE.
You should know by now that every hyped big announcements disappoint.MechanizedDeath said:
Hyped announcements never live up to their hype. It's a universal constant.
I think the PS3 Megaton was, as Mc Fly said, the fact that the show was focused on the PS3 with Videos, and the actual machine.
The MS Megaton have to be Squenix.
Was Nintendo supposed to have a Megaton in the works? (I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really asking.)
What word from GAF then? Have the 'insiders' been ousted? Have they pointed out their amazing Sony-blows-the-world-away Megaton news? Have they accepted they were misled? There's nothing announced so far from what I know that satisfies the hints.
Where's Axsider?
Where's Axsider?
Was it actually a big surprise, though? Among the geek community (the only ones who really noted or cared about the info) we pretty much knew a "new model GBA" was coming, and my natural assumption was another case design and perhaps an added feature or two. (I assumed built-in wireless at the very least, since it's a theme they're playing up with the DS, Rev, et al.) As it turns out, it was basically just new case design + a few nice changes (brighter screen and a common headphone jack) and one not-so-nice one (smaller screen). Most people I talked to about it assumed "smaller" and "differently-shaped" and "trendier fashion" and on the whole it just ended up a bit smaller and less "original-GBA-shaped" than we thought. And with no real features added, which is a bit of downer.PC-Engine said:
I can only assume, then, that they're prepping for the eventual price drop. I do think, though, that they would have been better off adding a competitive function or two instead of applying it ALL to that small a form factor.
DigitalSoul
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Shifty Geezer said:Where's Axsider?
Shall I get the torches and pitchforks or just the shot guns
Iron Tiger
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If somebody came on here beforehand and spilled all the details of the PS3 as they've been announced, they'd have been labelled a lying spammer and hit with the ban stick. The amount of stuff in the PS3 is just astounding. A lot of people expected an HD-DVD/BR hybrid (and a lot of people just expected DVD), a Memory Stick slot, some type of HD video output, wireless connectivity and controllers, no vertex shading on the GPU, and only 256MB RAM (+EDRAM on the GPU). How many people would have believed they'd include standard BR, dual HDMI in addition to multi-AV out, CF and SD slots, 3 ethernet jacks+GigE hub, vertex shading on the GPU, and 512MB total RAM? Just getting to see the front and backplanes of the console with all that stuff bunched on there seems like a megaton to me.