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If we’re to believe the hype, 2010 is a year packed with dramatic new gaming and media technologies. Much of this is attributed to the iPad, 3D TVs and new motion controllers. In reality, only a portion of the overall market will have access to these technologies in 2010. Which is good, [...] The annual hi-tech gaming festival of choice ‘kicks off’ this week with the usual showcasing of half-ready, half-baked and, occasionally, brilliant games and gaming technology. Nintendo’s plans to show the 3D Nintendo 3DS and the ‘eve of conference’ appearance of video footage for a handful of 3D games on the PS3 can’t [...] The iPad is already impressing as a gaming platform. Games such as Need For Speed 2 and Mirror’s Edge are selling well and shared gaming is appearing as a standard feature in suitable games. For instance, there’s a very slick Scrabble application for the iPad, with the extra option of letting everyone keep [...] Nintendo’s 3DS 3D upgrade to the DS range is just the kind of development we expected in reply to the arrival of touch tablets. As with the Wii, Nintendo are using novelty and innovation to tap straight into the interest stirred up by 3D movies and the prospect of watching the World Cup [...] The Move system is Sony’s new handheld motion-sensing device for the Playstation 3. It will be autumn 2010 before either the Move or any Move-ready games are available but Sony have set out their plans for the PS3 well in advance of the 2010 E3 [...] The year ahead promises a rash of new technologies, with touch tablets, new graphics cards from AMD and nVidia, and more fast PC processors on the way. Console upgrades and motion controllers from both Sony and Microsoft can also be expected sooner rather than later. Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 2.66GHz
We’re suitably impressed by the appearance of a Microsoft tablet with a full screen. (A split screen tablet may yet be on the way from Microsoft). We’re also far from surprised that the first full screen tablets will be expensive and lack certain features, (e.g. touch/ touch and pen is a key consideration [...] The release of Windows 7 and the new Intel Core i5 chips brings some major changes to the PC market. Related developments include a new range of AMD graphics cards designed to be compatible with Windows 7′s DirectX 11. For business PCs the 4Gb memory limit on 32-bit systems is unnecessarily limiting. [...] |
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