Found an interesting post from Wired.com today: Why iPhone Games will Rule
- The iPhone’s processor thinks almost twice as fast as the Sony PSP’s brain.
- Its touchscreen is more responsive than the Nintendo DS’s, recognizing subtle finger taps, pinches, and spreads.
- The three-axis accelerometer, like the one in the Wiimote, could replace the thumbstick — Sega has already exploited this ability for an iPhone port of Super Monkey Ball.
- Wi-Fi could make for mean multiplayer mayhem.
- Cell-tower triangulation could be used for location-aware games.
- Attention developers: Get to work!
I haven’t got this gadget so i can’t comment too much about those points.
However, the writer raise two strong claims against the current handheld console: 1/ that iPhone has a faster processor than that of PSP; and 2/ it has a more responsive touch screen. Only time will tell if this proves to be true. It’s still too early to judge if Apple will decide to ‘taste’ the gaming industry thru iPhone.
To further heat up our discussion about CT DS, I found some screenshots of this anticipated game:
Graphically speaking, I can’t notice any much difference from the original version. Will Square Enix add some more extra contents into this ported game?
Is this the time we should walk away from our beloved WinXP?
I am a huge fan of XP myself and find no interest at all in Vista. Apparently, Microsoft’s decision to discontinue XP has made me to rethink about the new OS that I may need to use in case I have to change it. Linux? Or MacOS?
Setting the debate aside, let’s think where our computer MS OS is heading to. The writer in this article describes a process where MS has been working on a new OS system, a microkernel-based system written as a managed code, under a project called Singularity. Midori Project, a derivative of Singularity, is a supposedly Microsoft new puppy to replace Windows in the future. However, we still dunno when or how this project is gonna turn out to be.
Imagine where your computer is window-less, how’s that gonna look like?
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