What's particularly stunning is that pretty much any avid video gamer will tell you that sports titles don't sell as well as non-sports titles. Major liquidations of stock will ultimately leave the retailer with a bargain bin full of only sports titles. Sell games on eBay and the sports titles will consistently get lower prices than the non-sports titles. Yet for some reason some executives just don't give the non-sports titles a fair go.
As a seperate point, language translation aside, we wouldn't have to worry about what to and what not to make available in a particular country if it wasn't for damn region coding. The Gameboy does fine and it doesn't have region coding, why can't we shake it off the consoles?
It's been a few months since I got my iPod and my 2,500 track music collection is just starting to feel small. I realised that I haven't a clue what interesting music is out there, no idea what to get next, if anything.
In the past I've found out about music in many different ways: MP3.com (Electrostatic), news articles (Kyoko Date), anime (Sharon Apple), soundtracks (Craig Armstrong), free samples on the InterWeb (Delerium), radio, TV, friends, etc. Recently I haven't found any musical acts worth following-up, mostly because I don't really know where to look. And I don't know where to look because I'm not trying particularly -- while I'd like some new stuff on my iPod, I'm spending money on DVDs at the moment.
Maybe you want to consider recording some live events and editing up yourself a DVD...
Umm, how does that work? Surely if the law of the land disposes of an entire contract if there's a problem with one bit then the section that says "If one bit is bad then the rest isn't affected" would also be thrown out.
I am *so* not a lawyer, but my believe is that here in Australia if one bit of a contract is found to be "bad" (impossible/illegal/etc) then the whole thing gets thrown out.
I'd rather someone worked out a sync system so my contacts and appointments on my desktop were available on my GBA. There's even a nice suspend mode available.
Bad Logic. The original poster didn't say anything about people already owning a console. You know, I bet there's dozens, even hundreds, of people in the world that don't own a current generation games console. *gasp*
Meanwhile, it's nice to see someone tackling the real major issue affecting people's buying decisions -- price of the games. I guess they ran out of other variables to change.
My PS2 is the only DVD player in the house. It's never had a problem playing a disc. I have a 3rd party remote and I use DVD Region X to play non-Australian releases.
Dick Smith is supposed to like rescuing things. There's contact details on this page -- anyone got a fax they can use for personal business such that they can fire off a heads-up?
Two outcomes are not automatically of equal probability. I automatically question the legitimacy of anyone that makes this basic mistake -- at least if any of their other opinions/positions involve stats.
Are Nintendo going to do anything about the fact that you can't close a GBAsp with a US e-reader plugged in? It seems as if the designers of the GBAsp only had the Japanese e-reader to play with, as it has no comm port passthrough that sticks out. Of course, the Japanese e-reader doesn't play US cards...
Did you give up on IR because your TV remote control doesn't talk IrDA with your notebook either?
No, but I didn't pay A$500+ for the remote that came with my TV. Anyway, my Sony VCR remote can control my TV, and my old Creative Labs Infra CD remote works with my Audigy 2 Platinum.
BTW: The Notebook supports all the profiles from the 1.1 version (or whatever) and the headset is a 1.0 version (again, or whatever). What's more, it was Ericsson that volunteered that its BT products would would with every future device, not me.
Finally something to make up for the fact that Nintendo screwed over Australia for the sake of Europe. RGB might be popular there, but equipment in Oz tends to go for S-Video first. Finding out that the PAL GC has no S-video stopped me from buying one. Since I'm a huge fan of the GBA, bundling the adapter will probably change my mind.
That is of course if Australia ever sees the bundle.
And the Microsoft keyboards only play nicely with the Microsoft dongle and my Ericsson headset that's absolutely guaranteed to be compatible with all future Bluetooth products doesn't appear as a headset to my Fujitsu notebook. I've pretty much given up on the technology.
Well, it hasn't happened in Australia. All new release consoles games are A$99 unless discounted by the store/chain. For the price of two games I can get the entire season 1 box set of Andromeda (or whatever).
Also, I thought that the core of the earth was populated by materials much denser than iron. Uranium, plutonium, people who watched the Bachelorette... Wouldn't the iron not actually get down all that far?
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As a seperate point, language translation aside, we wouldn't have to worry about what to and what not to make available in a particular country if it wasn't for damn region coding. The Gameboy does fine and it doesn't have region coding, why can't we shake it off the consoles?
In the past I've found out about music in many different ways: MP3.com (Electrostatic), news articles (Kyoko Date), anime (Sharon Apple), soundtracks (Craig Armstrong), free samples on the InterWeb (Delerium), radio, TV, friends, etc. Recently I haven't found any musical acts worth following-up, mostly because I don't really know where to look. And I don't know where to look because I'm not trying particularly -- while I'd like some new stuff on my iPod, I'm spending money on DVDs at the moment.
Maybe you want to consider recording some live events and editing up yourself a DVD...
Umm, how does that work? Surely if the law of the land disposes of an entire contract if there's a problem with one bit then the section that says "If one bit is bad then the rest isn't affected" would also be thrown out.
So, does anyone know if I'm even close?
I'd rather someone worked out a sync system so my contacts and appointments on my desktop were available on my GBA. There's even a nice suspend mode available.
They could have been named David Nelson.
Meanwhile, it's nice to see someone tackling the real major issue affecting people's buying decisions -- price of the games. I guess they ran out of other variables to change.
But then, I wasn't an early adopter.
I hope they paid for this ad, as there doesn't appear to be any other point for the article...
Dick Smith is supposed to like rescuing things. There's contact details on this page -- anyone got a fax they can use for personal business such that they can fire off a heads-up?
Try emulating a Commodore SID chip on a PC and you'll get your answer.
Two outcomes are not automatically of equal probability. I automatically question the legitimacy of anyone that makes this basic mistake -- at least if any of their other opinions/positions involve stats.
Are Nintendo going to do anything about the fact that you can't close a GBAsp with a US e-reader plugged in? It seems as if the designers of the GBAsp only had the Japanese e-reader to play with, as it has no comm port passthrough that sticks out. Of course, the Japanese e-reader doesn't play US cards...
Crud. medical.
And for that post you win an adheasive medal strips.
BTW: The Notebook supports all the profiles from the 1.1 version (or whatever) and the headset is a 1.0 version (again, or whatever). What's more, it was Ericsson that volunteered that its BT products would would with every future device, not me.
That is of course if Australia ever sees the bundle.
And the Microsoft keyboards only play nicely with the Microsoft dongle and my Ericsson headset that's absolutely guaranteed to be compatible with all future Bluetooth products doesn't appear as a headset to my Fujitsu notebook. I've pretty much given up on the technology.
No. No. No. No. No. Yes, I mean no.
Not only that but the product shot in the brochure is obviously a doctored GB Xchanger flash cart pic.
If a bot activates a click-through agreement, does anyone hear it fall?
Well, it hasn't happened in Australia. All new release consoles games are A$99 unless discounted by the store/chain. For the price of two games I can get the entire season 1 box set of Andromeda (or whatever).
Also, I thought that the core of the earth was populated by materials much denser than iron. Uranium, plutonium, people who watched the Bachelorette... Wouldn't the iron not actually get down all that far?