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Why Consoles Overwhelm PC Games At Retail

Posted by simoniker on from the kicking-and-screaming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the GameCube at $99 and PlayStation 2 sales still huge, people are starting to really notice the shrinkage of PC games at retail. Why? What does the future hold? An article at JoeUser.com asks that question and looks at what is likely to happen to PC games as consoles slowly take over most of the retail space for games." This piece, written by Brad Wardell, creator of Galactic Civilizations, argues: "The issue isn't whether the PC game market will die. It won't. The issue is whether PC games will be able to keep up with console games from a production values point of view."

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  1. help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    im in my first year of uni taking cs classes and im stumped on my homework tonight can anyone help me? im taking a java class, and i havent been going to class much recently because it is so boring and the teacher is an idiot and i got most of my homework without the book (people told me the book was a waste), anyway we're suposed to creat a quick sort algerhytm optimized for integers (integers are like 0, 1, 2... i think), i guess this just means a fast way of sorting numbers or something, but im a bit unclear on the details of how i do this. i thought this was built into java, so its stupid to implement it again, but thats what my idiot profesor wants us to do.

    please, somebody help me, i really want to be a programmer, ive just been a little lazy and promise that i am going to work realy hard from now on. thanks *so* much for you help ;-) what goes around comes around...

    1. Re:help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Google

    2. Re:help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i did search google but all i find are generic alrogithms. i need one for numbers specifically (meaning it is extra fast for numbers). thanks for your help.

    3. Re:help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      also, if i copy it off google my profesor will catch me and acuse me of cheating. i was hoping that somebody on slashdot would help me out with something that wont appear on google if my profesor queries it.

    4. Re:help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's called a "bubble sort" or something like that, basically you use a loop and do

      IF X > Y THEN
      X = Y
      END IF

      And do that for all of your numbers. When you reach the end of the list you will have the smallest number stored in location Z. Write that to the file and take it out of the input list, and start the sort over again until all of your numbers are gone. For a list from largest to smallest, just make it IF X Y.

    5. Re:help me please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      oh, one other question, does anyone know if their is a site that does like open source homework? i mean like people work collaritively and post homework solutions for things like this quick sort / bubble sort algarithm?? i mean, im never going to use this crap in the real world right? so theirs no harm in a little 'creative sharing'.

  2. Re:welcome the return to normalcy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KarWhorez 4ever :D