All fair points. Though I will say that although I do stick to fighting games, I don't tend to play solo often. I voice chat all the time, because the feature is there and easy to get to... and as for sending and receiving messages, like I also said I play with a select group though that group is pretty big and we usually keep in contact through other means. Now I won't pretend the xbox360 is amazing. I don't presume to understate it and if I do I appologize. I just think it's a bit overrated, and some people are saying it like it's the be all and end all of gaming for blind people. Some people don't care about sending messages and whatnot, they just want to pop in a game and enjoy it. Now I won't pretend that if I get an xbox360 I wouldn't use it... you bet your ass I would leap on it and have it for when I wanted it. But I'm not going to fork out money for it, simply because then the issue of games and which console to buy them on becomes an issue. All our SF 4 problems needed was an adaptation on our part, namely a usb keyboard. The only problems we had were because of the fact that it was harder to find friends. Now there, credits to the xbox. However, I'm a firm believer in using what you have to your fullest, rather than craving after other stuff which in essence you already have. As to the greenday dlc, yes, I can do it exactly the same way a sighted person does... they have to load the game, click on the store, go to the artists, find greenday and the songs. I have to do the exact same there.. lol. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:35 AM Subject: [brandon's list] Re: PS3 VS Xbox 360: my thoughts.
Clement. let's say you want to get some greenday DLC right now on PS3. can you go into the store and purchase that content easily without having to go through a ton of newer DLC to try and find it? you can't. of course you'll find it eventually, but that's not something people want to deal with. I want to use the console like a sighted gamer does. when my cousin comes over and plays modern warfare, it feels like I'm actually interacting more and am more involved with what he's doing. I often comment on things like what map he's playing and such. on ps3 it went like this: what map are you on? what level are you on? etc. you're a person that enjoys playing alone and sticks mostly to fighting games. , or that's what it seems to me. I don't. I like getting involved in my games. I like to voicechat whenever possible, join party, send and receive messages. I like to fully use the capabilities of my console. also I could definitely believe Microsoft's accessible design was done on purpose. Microsoft knows how to design accessible sites, and they've been doing so for years. Do you believe that Apple's implementation of voiceover was also a mistake? I go with what works for me at the time. if apple makes a console with voiceover implementation and an accessible site, I'll most likely buy it. you say you're ok with getting things whenever you can get it. well I'm not. I want things when I want them, not when a sighted person feels like purchasing it for me. I asked someone to get me that Lammer Jammy game a few days ago, and they told me to wait. well guess what? I have no choice but to wait. and I really want to play that game badly. but I need to wait till it is convenient for this person to download the game for me. I could definitely do without such inconveniences, and if this game was available on 360, I would've been had it. look at all the trouble we've had whenever we've tried to play street fighter on ps3? many times we couldn't get it to work. no need to worry about such things on 360. now I'm not trying to change your mind here, if you prefer ps3, that's fine. but don't try and understate the impact the 360 has on blind gamers and simply write it off as not important. because to many blind gamers, it makes all the difference.----- Original Message ----- From: "Clement Chou" <chou.clement@xxxxxxxxx>To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 11:03 AM Subject: [brandon's list] Re: PS3 VS Xbox 360: my thoughts.You can't honestly expect Sony to listen to an audience who probably makes up for less than 3% of the market... any big company will not listen to accessibility requests, we've just been lucky with harmonix and microsoft... though I'lm willing t bet you they haven't designed all that specifically with blind people in mind. The future of gaming for blind people may indeed be with the xbox360 or whatever they have next. But right now, aside from that web interface, I don't see any other benefits from switching over. Though of course, it all depends on how much you use everything on your console... me for example. The most I'll get into doing that is watching videos, logging in and checking for updates. There isn't much I like to get on the store, and if there is anything, well, I'll wait for sighted help when I can get it. I refuse to believe that all blind people are living in isolation without sighted assistance. Now Yohandy you could be different, I don't know. Maybe you like to use all the chat features and the like, whereas I stick to msn, facebook and skype for chatting when I play. The only regular dlc I get is for rock band and I can do that on my own with no trouble. When you come down to it, it's all personal preference... there's no blanket statement as to which is better and which isn't. It's all dependent on what you like. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yohandy" <yohandy85@xxxxxxxxx>To: <brandonslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:53 AM Subject: [brandon's list] Re: PS3 VS Xbox 360: my thoughts.Well thing is, interfaces you can get around. but lack of accessibility you can't. what good is a great interface, if you can't access most of it? let's say downloading games on the ps3 console is much easier, well we need to ask for sighted assistance each time we want to get something, so what good is such an interface? as a matter of fact, there isn't much we can do on the ps3's interface anyway, so it's essentially useless to us regardless of its ease of use to the average gamer. I've been a Sony gamer for many years, but I had to open my eyes and look at the bigger picture. with the ways things are going these days, with touch interfaces and the like, I think the future for the blind gamer will be the 360. look at vita. completely touch based interface. next xbox is rumored to have a controller with touch features, but the major diference is that xbox has kinect, we can use it for navigating around. ps3 doesn't have such a device, only the playstation move. and that's of no use to us when it comes to navigation. I have a move so I should know lol. also there is this: when you go into the avatar editor on the xbox site, there's a button that says: Avatar Editor with accessibility. there are also many accessibility links throughout the xbox sites. so that should solidify in your minds microsoft's stand for gamers with disabilities. sony on the other hand, always ignores my accessibility requests. answer me this: what good will a great d-pad on the ps4 be, if the entire interface is touch based and we can't use it? it's time we all look at the bigger picture.
