Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Microsoft: " Nobody plays anymore first-person shooters on the PC "

In less than two months will be marketed Kinect, the new control system to the Xbox 360 does not control. Microsoft has a long history of promoting its new product, with the top executives to go out often in the media and to support their statements in Kinect. Not missing, however, and excesses .
The Kudo Tsunoda is one of the Microsoft people who contributed to the development of Kinect, so it is perfectly normal to speak with the best words for the new control system . However, his enthusiasm leads him often to excess. A few days after finding that the Kinect will sell much more than the iPad, a Tsunoda invoked a rather extreme argument to refute those who are reluctant to Kinect.

According to Tsunoda, skeptics say Kinect now for something similar to what they said when they get their first first-person shooters on consoles : that "no suit was handled in those games ", the FPS " have been constructed for keyboard and mouse etc. The Tsunoda says that over time the FPS on consoles perfectly matched with games like Halo, to the extent that today " almost no one plays FPS on PC ".

It is true that in recent years have seen very significant FPS on consoles . From this point, however , to be said that PC gaming is dead (at least in terms of the shooters) is a huge distance. A huge number of gamers still prefer mouse and keyboard for FPS. And ultimately , sales of graphics cards show that PC gaming has a respectable market share.

New Phenom II and Athlon II by AMD

Can the upcoming Bulldozer, Llano and Bobcat to monopolize the interest the news on the AMD, but there are current trade needs to be addressed. The company then announced not one , not two , but nine new processors and Phenom II Athlon II, the number of nuclei ranging from two to six.

In highlights of the new releases is undoubtedly the exapyrinos Phenom II X6 1075T at 3.0GHz (3.5GHz to Turbo), which fills the gap between the 1055T and 1090T. The suggested retail price is $ 239 , a figure that does not have anything to counter the Intel, so AMD has the ambition to attract the public wants strong six cores at a low price . The other two received Phenom II is the quad Phenom II X4 970 BE (3.5GHz) and dinuclear Phenom II X2 560 BE (3.3GHz).

The Athlon II include the Athlon II X4 645 (3.1GHz), Athlon II X3 450 (3.2GHz), Athlon II X2 265 (3.3GHz), and low-power versions of the Athlon II X4 615e (2.5GHz), Athlon II X3 420e (2.6GHz) and Athlon II X2 250e (3.0GHz).



The new processors are expected to be marketed in the coming weeks.

Can the upcoming Bulldozer, Llano and Bobcat to monopolize the interest the news on the AMD, but there are current trade needs to be addressed. The company then announced not one , not two , but nine new processors and Phenom II Athlon II, the number of nuclei ranging from two to six. The highlights of the new releases is undoubtedly the exapyrinos Phenom II X6 1075T at 3.0GHz (3.5GHz to Turbo), which fills the gap between the 1055T and 1090T. The suggested retail price is $ 239 , a figure that does not have anything to counter the Intel, so AMD has the ambition to attract the public wants strong six cores at a low price . The other two received Phenom II is the quad Phenom II X4 970 BE (3.5GHz) and dinuclear Phenom II X2 560 BE (3.3GHz). The Athlon II include the Athlon II X4 645 (3.1GHz), Athlon II X3 450 (3.2GHz), Athlon II X2 265 (3.3GHz), and low-power versions of the Athlon II X4 615e (2.5GHz), Athlon II X3 420e (2.6GHz) and Athlon II X2 250e (3.0GHz). The new processors expected to be marketed in the coming weeks.