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    • GigaBoots Podcast Episode X — Maverick Hunger (for news!)

    September 10th, 2011 by GigaDan | Podcast


     
    Dan, Bob, and Dr. Aggro from GigaBoots.com sit down for their bi-weekly pod­cast to dis­cuss the lat­est in gam­ing news and have a round­table on whether or not Nin­tendo has lost con­fi­dence in the 3DS and what it’s prospects are going for­ward.
     
    Note: the MP3 down­load link will be up later today.


    7 Responses to “GigaBoots Podcast Episode X — Maverick Hunger (for news!)”


    1. LTE and 4G
      September 11th, 2011

      So LTE is some­where between 4G and 3G? If AT&T bought T-Mobile, would the PSV of had this? Could it be good enough for online gam­ing? Could it war­rant the pur­chase of 3G?

      GigaDan

      GigaDan Reply:
      September 11th, 2011 at 3:45 am

      I don’t know if it’s enough for online gam­ing but the LTE tech­nol­ogy is dif­fer­ent enough from 3G where you would need a dif­fer­ent chip. As such, the Vita would be inca­pable of doing 4G on the 3G model.

      Just a thought Reply:
      September 11th, 2011 at 4:20 am

      Well i wasnt so much ask­ingif it will be 4G com­pa­ra­ble. Rather if it could deliver enough so we could play that CoD: Future Game online on the sub­way. this and other online games being the rea­son why to get the model.

      GigaDan

      GigaDan Reply:
      September 11th, 2011 at 4:32 am

      Tech­nol­ogy like that is hard to find accu­rate band­width num­bers on, but I’ll try find­ing out again. I too am inter­ested in find­ing out.


    2. Just a thought
      September 11th, 2011

      When you guys are dis­cussing the fea­tures on PS3 being “hit or miss” for the most part, it got me think­ing about the orig­i­nal motion con­trols on the PS3. Those were some­thing that Sony was clearly push­ing not just to remove the stink of lack of rum­ble, but to com­pete with the Wii con­trol scheme.
      In the long that didnt work out as since the addi­tion of rum­ble, motion con­trols were just another tick on the box, and then with move, that box is no longer needed. I can remem­ber a state­ment from Sony early on say­ing that rum­ble couldnt coex­ist with motion con­trols and that this was the rea­son they decided to go ahead with­out at launch. True or not, this got me think­ing.
      What if the orig­i­nal Six­Axis came with a cam­era on the back? This with the EyeToy(2) could have meant for some real ino­v­a­tive games out the gate and pos­si­bly jumped on the whole Kinect/Move/Wii’s been doing it for 5 years band­wagon much much ear­liar. Do you think a cam­era addi­tion on the con­troller, some­thing like how the Vita is set up, could have been suc­cess­ful and com­pet­i­tive with the Wii and future Kinect, and do you think this would have had an impact on rum­ble even­tu­ally com­ing in.


    3. Asuran
      September 12th, 2011

      Hey guys as a tech blog­ger have to cor­rect you. You’re right about the 3 4G tech­nolo­gies but have them con­fused. T-Mobile and ATT have whats called HSPA+. It’s being mar­keted as “4G” but is actu­ally a faster ver­sion of “3G” and is just “3G” in europe. The sec­ond 4G tech was the first to launch in the US and is called Wimax. It pro­vides much bet­ter speeds than EVDO Rev-A which is sprint and verizon’s “3G” (CDMA net­work 3G as opposed to T-mobile and ATT’s GSM) but has seri­ous long term issues since it does not play well with large num­bers of users. Sprints 4G while start­ing at around 10 mbs down drops to 1 mb in crowded areas. The final and best or “true 4G” to use your words is LTE. LTE is in use by Ver­i­zon nation­wide now and will be rolled out by ATT next year. Until then all ATT “4G” phones are HSPA+ as are T-mobile (low­est 4G) Sprint is Wimax (2nd best and good in less pop­u­lated areas) and Verizon’s 4G (LTE and by far the best.) haha you have it back­wards my friend. Also to answer the per­son above me, I tether my Droid Charge and with a steady down rate of a stag­ger­ing 25mbs down 15 up and an amaz­ing ping it is more than enough to game. I nor­mally keep a phone on each net­work since I always have some­thing to review. If you need any help with facts on mobile infra­struc­ture let me know and shoot me an email. Great pod­cast otherwise.

      GigaDan

      GigaDan Reply:
      September 12th, 2011 at 8:47 pm

      Thanks for clar­i­fy­ing that. It’s been years since I’ve sold con­tracts for phones. But yes, I’m glad you came in here and posted all of the cor­rect acronyms and performances.

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