Today on Headline
RePLAY: Microsoft Points may get discontinued and the PS Vita could’ve been
thinner.
Microsoft Points may
be a thing of the past, if rumor is to be believed. An unnamed source told
Inside Mobile Apps that the currency system could be phased out by the end of
the year.
Instead, transactions would
use real money to purchase content for the Windows Phone, the Zune Marketplace
and Xbox Live.
Of course, when asked
for confirmation, a Microsoft spokesman responded with the usual “we do not
comment on rumors or speculation” line.
*Source: Inside MobileApps
If you thought the PS
Vita wasn’t thin enough, PS Vita designer Takashi Sogabe agrees with you. Sogabe spoke at a round-table interview at
Sony Computer Entertainment’s Japanese HQ last month and told journalists that
the original design was slimmer than the retail version.
“Speaking not only
about the PS Vita, we always have a battle between engineers and designers. The
original design of the PS Vita, for example, was very much thinner than the current
retail product,” said Sogabe. “From a designer's point of view, thinner is better-looking,
but the engineers wanted to put all the features in.”
“Maybe it will become
thinner in the future, but the engineers would have to come up with a means to
do that,” continued Sogabe. “The main effort for me was to make this product
happen.”
Sogabe went on discussing
other details about the design process, “The buttons and analogue sticks were
perhaps not in the best position from a design point of view, but we felt they
were the best solution from a publisher's point of view.”
“As a designer, I
wanted to use metal rather than plastic,” he added, “but because there are a
lot of antennae in the body, we couldn't use metal.”
*Source: CVG
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