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My laptop video card isn't enough to run GTA 4. Can I do what I stated above. Also if possible, can I have a price range?
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No. Laptop video is generally not upgradable. External options do exist, but you need a Expresscard slot, an Expresscard, a PCI-Expressx16 adapter, an external power supply (500W or so), and then an external video card. With all those cables, adapters and power supplies, might as well have bought a desktop in the first place then. External video for laptops is just not all that practical.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616
In most cases, it is cheaper to sell the existing laptop and buy either a gaming laptop, or a desktop that can be upgraded to a gaming machine. Those laptop adapters are also slow compared to a real PCI-E x16 slot in desktops, they usually run at x1 speeds. You cannot run a high end gaming card, even with those external adapters
No. Laptop video is generally not upgradable. External options do exist, but you need a Expresscard slot, an Expresscard, a PCI-Expressx16 adapter, an external power supply (500W or so), and then an external video card. With all those cables, adapters and power supplies, might as well have bought a desktop in the first place then. External video for laptops is just not all that practical.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616
In most cases, it is cheaper to sell the existing laptop and buy either a gaming laptop, or a desktop that can be upgraded to a gaming machine. Those laptop adapters are also slow compared to a real PCI-E x16 slot in desktops, they usually run at x1 speeds. You cannot run a high end gaming card, even with those external adapters
Why do Sega not produce Games consoles anymore?
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Also why hldid nintendo go for a different market with the nintendo wii? Can you see another manufacturer coming into the game console market, e.g Apple?
Thanks!
Answer
SEGA dropped out of console manufacturing simply because:
1) Their previous consoles sold so poorly (SEGA CD, SEGA Saturn, SEGA Dreamcast,)
2) The Dreamcast in particular was a pretty decent system that had a VERY big flaw: The discs had NO copyright protection whatsoever which lead to mass pirating. Which caused many developers to pull away from developing games for it. The only companies that did were those who were under contract to do so, this is a big reason why allot of Dreamcast's later games were ported to the PS2 (as they made little revenue on the DC.)
3) The release of the PS2. If anything, it was Sony's console that brought down the final blows. Nintendo had NOTHING to do with it as their own system (the Gamecube) was also suffering.
4) They actually were making more money from games they helped make as a third party developer. In fact they did so well from 99 - 05 that they've become a mainstream developer.
*The Professor* SEGA never went bankrupt (came close though.) What they did was shift from hardware to software development.
The Apple did actually try to release a console called the Pippin in the early 90s.
http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/what-was-the-name-of-apples-failed-game-console/
It failed miserably. They haven't bothered since, plus with the success of the IPOD & IPAD they've felt little need to go there again. And NO, the IPAD is not "like" a console. That's like saying a car is "like" a skateboard, An IPAD has more in common with a laptop than it does with a home console.
Systems in development:
Valve's "Steambox" is looking more and more like reality as recent new confirms that they are indeed making a "steam-like" console.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/01/09/xi3-steam-box/1
The ouya - An Android based console. But is unlikely to be a mainstream release.
http://www.ouya.tv/
Nvidia's Project Shield - Android based handheld system ..... looks a bit weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMPMxvzaw0&list=PLE196726F02565118&index=18
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414048,00.asp
Of course the Two big ones:
The XBox 720 (AKA XBox Infinity)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413873,00.asp
The PS4 (AKA Orbis)
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-release-date-news-and-rumours-937822
Side Not: I actually loved the Dreamcast and was deeply upset when it was discontinued. A real shame.
SEGA dropped out of console manufacturing simply because:
1) Their previous consoles sold so poorly (SEGA CD, SEGA Saturn, SEGA Dreamcast,)
2) The Dreamcast in particular was a pretty decent system that had a VERY big flaw: The discs had NO copyright protection whatsoever which lead to mass pirating. Which caused many developers to pull away from developing games for it. The only companies that did were those who were under contract to do so, this is a big reason why allot of Dreamcast's later games were ported to the PS2 (as they made little revenue on the DC.)
3) The release of the PS2. If anything, it was Sony's console that brought down the final blows. Nintendo had NOTHING to do with it as their own system (the Gamecube) was also suffering.
4) They actually were making more money from games they helped make as a third party developer. In fact they did so well from 99 - 05 that they've become a mainstream developer.
*The Professor* SEGA never went bankrupt (came close though.) What they did was shift from hardware to software development.
The Apple did actually try to release a console called the Pippin in the early 90s.
http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/what-was-the-name-of-apples-failed-game-console/
It failed miserably. They haven't bothered since, plus with the success of the IPOD & IPAD they've felt little need to go there again. And NO, the IPAD is not "like" a console. That's like saying a car is "like" a skateboard, An IPAD has more in common with a laptop than it does with a home console.
Systems in development:
Valve's "Steambox" is looking more and more like reality as recent new confirms that they are indeed making a "steam-like" console.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/01/09/xi3-steam-box/1
The ouya - An Android based console. But is unlikely to be a mainstream release.
http://www.ouya.tv/
Nvidia's Project Shield - Android based handheld system ..... looks a bit weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMPMxvzaw0&list=PLE196726F02565118&index=18
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414048,00.asp
Of course the Two big ones:
The XBox 720 (AKA XBox Infinity)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413873,00.asp
The PS4 (AKA Orbis)
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-release-date-news-and-rumours-937822
Side Not: I actually loved the Dreamcast and was deeply upset when it was discontinued. A real shame.
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