{"id":10565,"date":"2011-03-09T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mark-rein-sony-s-ngp-is-a-fantastic-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10565-mark-rein-sony-s-ngp-is-a-fantastic-experience","title":{"rendered":"Mark Rein: Sony\u2019s NGP is a \u201cfantastic experience\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After snubbing Nintendo&rsquo;s new 3DS for not being able to support the Unreal Engine, Epic&rsquo;s Mark Rein has taken the industry diss one further, and openly endorsed the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love console game experiences. I love, love, love playing Gears of War, Call of Duty, Borderlands &ndash; I just love those kinds of games. And you really need the Dualshock type controls to do it effectively,&rdquo; he told Eurogamer over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-03-08-epic-traditional-portable-gaming-is-safe\" target=\"_blank\">GDC.<\/a> &ldquo;The NGP delivers it in spades. You really do want to play those kinds of games on it for sustained periods of time. Sat down on your couch, or in a hotel room, or somewhere you don&rsquo;t have a big TV. It&rsquo;s a fantastic experience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to compare the handheld with full-sized consoles, saying it represents more or less the same kind of investment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yeah, I&rsquo;m going to buy one,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;All I can ever do is speculate on what I think. That&rsquo;s the trap people get caught in, saying &lsquo;Well, I&rsquo;d like one, but nobody else is going to buy one.&rsquo; No &ndash; you need to stop that sentence at &lsquo;I&rsquo;d like one.&rsquo; When you get your hands round that device and you see some of the things that are going to ship on it, you&rsquo;ll go &lsquo;Want. Want, want, want.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The NGP is scheduled to launch towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic\u2019s overlord chooses his weapon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}