Monday, May 7, 2007

4/30 - 5/06 Front Page News

Spider-Man and the Sinister Systems!!!

It's obvious that Spider-man is a cashcow. Anything involving him and movies/videogames rakes in money.. Even former head-of-all-things-Playstation, Ken Kutaragi, used the Spider-Man font on the Playstation 3! THE FONT!! Well.. here we are in the year 2007 basking in the glow of the next generation of systems facing a problem... Each system is vastly different from each other technologically and in user experience. Xbox has Live Arcade and its achievement system, Nintendo has its wii-mote and PS3 has cell technology and SixAxis. Because of this, porting has become a problem. THQ has turned their backs on porting, and instead is embracing console specific development. Activision, however, has not...

Activision, along with Vicarious Visions and Treyarch, instead has gone and made something like 3 different Spider-Man 3 games for 8 different systems. Being a fan of Spider-Man myself.. I am left with a dilemma.. which system or systems should I buy the game for? Wii? 360? PS3? ALL? I just don't have the money... damn you Activision for being so greedy!

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