Real Time Strategy PC Games

While there’s no shortage of handheld game systems on the market–the Nintendo DS and DSi are still selling well and the PSP continues to hang in there, while the App Store expands its catalog every minute–one of the seemingly no-brainer bets in the mobile gaming realm hasn’t happened yet: the Zune.

We say “no brainer” for several reasons: * Microsoft has a successful gaming platform in the Xbox 360, emphasizing online and downloadable gaming. * Microsoft, compared with Sony and Nintendo, is best able to take on Apple in terms of a media-management software store and the ability to build an equivalent music/games/movies catalog, and making that product PC compatible. * The Zune HD now plays games.

The first point is obvious. The second is debatable, but we say this because Sony, while having a decent media library on PSN, just isn’t historically great at building cross-platform software for syncing the PSP, and Microsoft’s global software reach is simply stronger. The third is technically true–Microsoft launched a small collection of completely free-to-play, ad-supported games for its OLED-screened Zune HD last month, and one of them happens to be an adaptation of Project Gotham Racing.

It’s an interesting prospect (and one we’ve wondered about before) because the Zune HD processor, an Nvidia Tegra, has both HD processing muscle and 3D graphics capability. We downloaded and played with all the Zune HD games currently available–all 12 of them–with some curiosity to see if the Zune could compete as a game device.

Overall, the Zune HD games are similar in quality to iPod Touch and iPhone titles. The Zune HD has an accelerometer and multitouch, just like the iPod Touch, but its screen is smaller, making controls even harder without feeling ham-handed. Now, in fairness, all of the Zune’s games are free, and thus many are of demo quality. PGR, with its Ferrari branding, is a pared-down game, a “lite” version. Still, the track graphics and controls are impressive, and definitely Touch quality. Other games, like Audiosurf Tilt (which generates tracks to music) and a Texas Hold ‘Em, are better than most freebies but are titles we probably wouldn’t pay more than a few bucks for.

The most obvious idea would be to expand the Zune HD in size slightly, add a physical controller (perhaps similar to the sliding PSP Go), and then open up a Zune game marketplace that syncs with Xbox Live. A big move toward this being a possibility was the recent Xbox 360 update that opened up a Zune marketplace on the 360 dashboard. While it currently doesn’t offer games, Microsoft already allows Zunes and Xbox Live accounts to share digital funds for transactions, opening up a smooth doorway to a mobile game console ecosystem.

The current Zune HD is so small–smaller than a PSP Go or an iPod Touch to a significant degree–that Microsoft could even sell a clip-on gamepad (with a speaker, preferably) and still have a portable device that wasn’t bulky. And its price is competitive with the PSP, iPod Touch, and Nintendo DS, at $219 for a 16GB model.

Would you want a Microsoft Zune/Xbox handheld? I’d say the answer would be yes, provided it actually used physical controls. And if they were able to corral the Xbox Live Arcade development community (and even the XNA indie crowd) to make games, it could catch on much faster than anyone might expect.

Right now, the Zune HD isn’t a game platform. But, even in its current form, it could be with a simple strategy shift. The question is, is there room for another mobile gaming platform?

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3. 2010: The Year of the Tablet

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The Great Wall of China into the mobile Internet made high-end Tablet PC Edition iPad market depression cheap war fear

iPad triggered the launch of the Chinese consumer electronics industry’s attention HP pavilion zd8000 battery on the Tablet PC. In response, domestic brands Great Wall Computer unwilling to fall behind others, April 28, 2010, the Great Wall in Beijing released a 7-inch and 11-inch two series of tablet PCs, multi-point pressure sensitive touch screen Gpad and Gbook. The first was on May 1 Gpad Tablet PC during the first U.S. state shelves.

Great Wall Computer’s first step into the mobile Internet

Late last month, Great Wall Computer released two series Tablet PC. Great Wall Computer Week Gengshen the conference president, said: “The launch of Tablet PC Great Wall, mainly the industrial environment as well as user needs mature warming. Gome we will also reach a comprehensive strategic cooperation, and the use of television shopping , Internet Mall and other channels to further dominate the market, together with traditional industry channels for the formation of channels and channel coverage. “This indicates that the Great Wall computers into mobile Internet strategy, the first step.

It is understood that the Great Wall released two series of tablet PCs, and the ARM architecture across the X86 architecture. China Great Wall Computer is not only the first launch of Tablet PC manufacturers, but also worldwide, the first Tablet PC released two architecture firms. These two series will support an unprecedented 10-point touch, 3G, GPS and other relevant applications have joined its inside.

As the mobile Internet era, Tablet PC like a huge and delicious cake cause of many coveted industry giants. In mainland China, Great Wall Computer lifted into the Tablet PC market pioneer flag, the Great Wall is also the first step in the computer into the Internet strategy.

Stand in the gap before the Tablet PC

Album function, electronic reader, use Twitter and Facebook, send e-mail, watching movies, Skype VoIP, music, graphics, download software, play games, browse the web, iPad several applications that lead the IT industry, new business model. The industry believes that the advent of Apple iPad is likely to rewrite the entire industry’s profitability model. However, the content of media  Tablet PC only wants to break in the profit model on the dominance of the hardware still a complex process. Apple’s IBM ThinkPad R50 battery iPhone model only as a reference  especially in China’s consumer environment, the ability to create and then successfully copy Apple’s model of Apple myth yet to be verified.

For China’s companies, there is another problem in front of them, that is the technical bottleneck. Industry experts believe that the current view of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows7, although the increase in specialized settings for the touch screen, but some details still to continue the traditional line that some details here, or if by fingers to click very difficult. If the screen is not big enough, this difficulty is even more increased. Not their own proprietary operating system, Tablet PC is the largest technical difficulties. Moreover, the current objective of hardware performance constraints, Tablet PC and the Internet is likely to face the same embarrassment in this market.

High-end flat depression in the Chinese market, cheap bayonet fighting terrorism

Great Wall Computer now played low cards, and released two series of Gpad offset the price of computers has been set at 1999 yuan. The GBOOK probably early in June listed the price is still unknown specific. Great Wall Gpad price or less than half the iPad, which became the largest market now selling point, the user’s attention, which far exceeds the expectations of product performance, this is a signal for alarm: the market, many domestic manufacturers seem to have the energy to the endless price war with no long-term significance of the war of words.

As the Tablet PC’s start, if not to its own brand and differentiate the functions of applications to attract the market, then the future of other domestic manufacturers Tablet PC price war is difficult to break the shackles of the. If the high-end markets to evolve into cheap melee, it means greatly devalued the domestic industry prospects.

Senior analysts also believe that if there is no long-term strategy of mature HP pavilion ZV6000 Battery consideration, cut into the country early for Tablet PC is bound to face a series of unpredictable business risks.

Apple iPad’s Hot, caused either hardware or software giants are on the Tablet PC market leader in beach landing, the influx of these companies have Tablet PC market. Market analyst IDC, said: “iPad success for the industry to see the Tablet PC to return to personal consumer electronics market confidence.”

Today, many vendors are emphasizing their own tablet PCs cheaper. Although the price of any product has been restricting the most important factor universal coverage. However, if the manufacturers to invest our energy on endless price war, that the end can only be short-lived.

Domestic PC makers, only considering the premise of consumer demand, have their own different features, efforts to break the technical bottlenecks in the Tablet PC market to gain a firm foothold.

Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu said in a telephone interview with the enterprise technology market from the economic downturn after the resumption of growth in server sales decline, the two PC giants expect strong demand from the server will get the benefits. You will see signs of strong growth enterprise market, and even desktop computers too.

The world’s largest PC maker Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce in the May 18 financial report. According to FactSet Research survey of analysts, analysts predict sales of Hewlett-Packard is 29.86 billion U.S. dollars, profit of 1.06 dollars per share.

This result was higher than last year’s results. HP’s sales revenue last year was 27.4 billion U.S. dollars, profits of 86 cents per share.

BMO Capital analyst Keith Bachman in a note to clients Friday, said in a report, we believe that HP’s April financial results this quarter is very strong.

Dell plans to announce on May 20 its fiscal first-quarter financial report. According to FactSet Research survey of analysts predict Dell’s fiscal first quarter revenue was 14.25 billion U.S. HP Pavilion DV4000 Battery dollars, profit of 26 cents per share.

Dell’s financial results are higher than the same period last year. Dell last year is 12.34 billion U.S. dollars sales revenue, profit is 15 cents per share.

Dell has been facing fierce competition from rivals Hewlett-Packard, Dell needs to increase its services and software product portfolio.

You may be thinking about innovative ways to maintain your brain in top shape in 2009. Two recent scientific studies published by Dr. Arthur Kramer and colleagues suggest an intriguing possibility: playing strategy video games. Especially if you are 60-years-old or over.The two studies are:1) Basak C, et al “Can training in a real-time strategy video gameattenuate cognitive decline in older adults?” Psychol Aging 2008; DOI: 10.1037/a0013494.2) Boot, W. R., Kramer, A. F., Simons, D. J., Fabiani, M. & Gratton, G. (2008) The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. Acta Psychologica, 129, 387-398.Let’s first review the first study, a landmark experiment in that it showed wide and significant cognitive benefits in adults over 60 years old who played a strategy videogame (Rise of Nations) for 23 hours.A team at the University of Illinois recruited 40 adults over 60 years old, half of whom were asked to play a computer game called Rise of Nations, a role-playing game in which you have to build your own empire: game players have to build cities, feed and employ their people, maintain an adequate military and expand their territory.Both the experiment and the control groups were assessed before, during and after the video game training on a variety of tests, and the “gamers” became significantly better – and faster – at switching between tasks as compared to the comparison group. Their working memory, as reflected in the tests, was also significantly improved and their reasoning ability was enhanced.Really remarkable results.The second study, in contrast, found no comparable cognitive benefits for college students in their early 20s who played the same game for the same number of hours, regardless of whether they play videogames often or don’t. How come this contrast?In order to better understand this, I contacted Dr. Arthur Kramer, one of the scientists involved in both studies, to ask a few questions.Question: What may, in your view, explain the different effect of the videogame Rise of Nations on non-gamers, contrasting both studies?Answer: Certainly one of the most notable between our two studies was the age of the study participants – with young adults serving as subjects in the Acta Psychologica paper and older adults serving as subjects in the Psychology & Aging study. We observed training benefits for the older but not for the younger adults. There are several reasons why this might have been the case. First, older adults perform more poorly on the target abilities that we were trying to train – that is executive control processes – than younger adults. So it might be the case that video game training benefits are more readily observed for cognitive processes that are somewhat degraded. Second, while it is quite easy to find older adults who have never played video games (and especially strategy-based games like Rise Of Nations) it is very difficult to find completely naïve younger adults (although the younger adults subjects in our study did play video games less than 1 hour per week). So it is conceivable that video game training based gains might be more readily observed the less experience that someone has with video games. These seem to be the most likely reasons for the different effects in the two studies.Question: What is the main implication from both studies combined/ what do we know today that we didn’t know 3 months ago?Answer: First, I think that our results suggest promise with regard to video game playing and older adults cognition. However, given, to my knowledge, this is the first attempt to improve executive control abilities of older adults via strategy-based video game playing certainly additional studies should be conducted to further explore this relationship, particularly with real-world tasks as transfer tasks. Second, the results of our study with younger adults suggest that caution is in order with regard to assuming that video game training will enhancing, perceptual, attentional and cognitive abilities of young people. Clearly, there are important boundary conditions of such relationships that we don’t yet know.In short, your brain needs Novelty and Challenge at all ages. And a videogame such as Rise of Nations may provide that Novelty and Challenge especially if you are an adult who is not playing videogames already.

German / Deutsch / ドイツ語Urban Assault is a combined first-person shooter and real-time strategy computer game developed by the German company TerraTools and published by Microsoft. It was released on July 31, 1998.

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