You've nailed it right on the head. The reason why I don't even bother with PC games even though I DO have a decent graphics card is that it requires way too much tweaking and jumping through hoops to get a decent play experience. You either have to spend $500+ on a video card or wait until decent video cards are cheap before running a game well than came out 6 months ago.
What developers really need to do is to make their games AWARE of the state of the computer. If a game is only running at 25FPS because HDR is on, give a cue to turn it off. What would be really nice is a to have a playtest of your system for 5 minutes or so and then have the game figure out what settings would be best to maintain 30FPS (for eye-candy) or 60FPS (for smooth framerates).
You see, once you realize that all news is really infotainment, you can just say that Stewart and Colbert are just much better as entertaining us compared to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc...
Oh, and they make us laugh too!
I can't even see how someone would really even go about distributing these "malware" affected copies, short of giving people discs simply because of the way Bittorrent works. Just about all torrent sites have a comment section, and if a torrent is crap, people will say so and the number of people leeching/seeding will drop like flies.
I'd have to say that this is pretty much the worse/. article I've ever read. Editors, please stop spreading FUD; no company, even Microsoft, deserves crap like this. Let them earn their scorn the hard way.
Don't get confused and use incorrect examples. For the console war, a similarity is drawn between the Xbox and the PS2. They were both the same price, and Microsoft was able to get SOME recognition for its online service. Trying to use Nintendo though is a HORRIBLE example as they could care less about market share. They make money off of everything they sell and that's what has kept them around for so long (and they make good products too).
In any case, I don't expect the Zune to do well, but that's not really Microsoft's goal. The first generation of anything from MS is always "subpar" but it's later iterations that really do well. I'm waiting for Apple to "screw up" so to speak, and then Microsoft will come out with something really amazing. But you have to start out somewhere first.
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That's because tech-savvy Firefox users never have to go to www.google.com. They type "google " in the address bar instead!
You've nailed it right on the head. The reason why I don't even bother with PC games even though I DO have a decent graphics card is that it requires way too much tweaking and jumping through hoops to get a decent play experience. You either have to spend $500+ on a video card or wait until decent video cards are cheap before running a game well than came out 6 months ago. What developers really need to do is to make their games AWARE of the state of the computer. If a game is only running at 25FPS because HDR is on, give a cue to turn it off. What would be really nice is a to have a playtest of your system for 5 minutes or so and then have the game figure out what settings would be best to maintain 30FPS (for eye-candy) or 60FPS (for smooth framerates).
You see, once you realize that all news is really infotainment, you can just say that Stewart and Colbert are just much better as entertaining us compared to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc... Oh, and they make us laugh too!
wow, that's like saying, "hey, i want to incriminate myself."
I can't even see how someone would really even go about distributing these "malware" affected copies, short of giving people discs simply because of the way Bittorrent works. Just about all torrent sites have a comment section, and if a torrent is crap, people will say so and the number of people leeching/seeding will drop like flies.
/. article I've ever read. Editors, please stop spreading FUD; no company, even Microsoft, deserves crap like this. Let them earn their scorn the hard way.
I'd have to say that this is pretty much the worse
Don't get confused and use incorrect examples. For the console war, a similarity is drawn between the Xbox and the PS2. They were both the same price, and Microsoft was able to get SOME recognition for its online service. Trying to use Nintendo though is a HORRIBLE example as they could care less about market share. They make money off of everything they sell and that's what has kept them around for so long (and they make good products too).
In any case, I don't expect the Zune to do well, but that's not really Microsoft's goal. The first generation of anything from MS is always "subpar" but it's later iterations that really do well. I'm waiting for Apple to "screw up" so to speak, and then Microsoft will come out with something really amazing. But you have to start out somewhere first.
DS games can hold up to 128MB or 1Gb (Gigabit). Geez, I thought /.-ers would know the difference between a GB and a Gb.