A small part of me wants RIAA to succeed in this - heresy I know. The notion is that if they win, terrestrial radio broadcasters will all but stop putting the mainstream music on the air and cater more towards local or indie artists, since they would be most likely to trade profit for exposure. Not only would this give those artists the chance they could desperately be wanting, but in a perfect world, would force the studios and labels to see 'the error of their ways'. It's a pipedream, but as most dreams are, it's a happy one.
And you've obviously never taken an Economics class. Absolutely everything I said was correct. I do believe I even pointed out they could increase production capacity - though I never went into ALL the factors as to why they don't. Of course increasing production requires increases in costs (labor, materials, consumables - like power, et al). Of course increasing costs decreases profit per unit.
As someone has already pointed out, well before I am here, increasing production to fully meet real and implied demand would, in the long run, be a very bad thing. Once they get those factories up and running, well, they're up and running - using resources and costing money to maintain. When, not if, demand slips, those factories are then superfluous and only cost. So the whole point of my original post is, still, entirely valid. They are not losing anything by not meeting 100% of all demand - they are in fact making more than they would otherwise.
First off, don't misunderstand the subject line - there is definitely a high demand for the Wii, artificially inflated or otherwise. This is due, in part, to two major factors: the novelty of fairly well done motion control and the accessibility of the console to a significantly wider user base than the typical 'hardcore gamers'.
That said, Nintendo is not 'losing a billion in sales' - they are, in fact, creating 'a billion in sales'. Okay, so the knee-jerk reaction is 'huh, stores are always sold out, I can't get one, they're losing my money - how are they creating sales'. Ironically, the question is its own answer. By restricting sales to North America, keeping the influx of consoles at a relatively low number - compared to actual demand - Nintendo is creating a sense of scarcity. This perceived lack of Wii increases the immediate demand for the console, virtually ensuring that new product delivered to stores will sell out within a day or two - three or four at the outside.
This has the effect of creating a stronger the secondary market on E-bay, Craigslist, or the classifieds. People are willing to snatch them up at ridiculous prices in order to get one NOW, rather than wait a week or two for the next shipment and try to get one then - bird in the hand. This leads to further 'gotta have it' frenzy.
By keeping production where it's at - does anyone REALLY believe they couldn't kick it up a few notches? - they are ensuring that the initial sales life of the console continues for a good long time. During which time they can maintain the price for the console itself, the accessories, and the games. It's a cash cow, a print-your-own-money machine. But the instant they jack up production and flood the market to satisfy all the demand - real and hyped - the consoles start lingering on the shelf longer, it's no longer the console to own, the novelty wears off and sales slump. Why on Earth would they want that!
No, I read the article, thanks. However this is not a statement of fact, it is a statement of this individual's - who is not the presiding judge over the (potential) case - opinion. Hence the complaint. It may help if you read the article again:
A professor at the New York Law School is arguing that...
I didn't see a ruling there, I saw an opinion.
I don't use Facebook, so I could be wrong about what choices are being posted, collected, then distributed, but it sounded to me like the 'choices' weren't necessarily rentals, but favorite/preferred/liked movies. If that's the case, Blockbuster wasn't distributing rental information. Also, as another poster pointed out, aren't the users of Facebook putting this information out there freely and willfully anyhow?
Whoa! A political-esque story that's sure to ruin G-dub's day and it wasn't posted by Kdawson! I wonder if he's the one that submitted it, under a disguise!
Sarcasm aside, I'm more shocked that kdawson put something up that didn't bash conservatives or the Bush administration. Granted, those two subjects (as well as liberals, equally) have plenty of fodder.
Aww, you say that like Daley's on the take or something. There's plenty of evidence to support that he's not dirty. *pockets a $5,000 check signed by the Friends of Daley*
Sadly I cannot disagree. Ordinarily I'd blame Tom Cruise or some other Scientologist clown, but really, this time I have to put blame where it belongs - on Chi-town's corrupt, mobbed up Mayor. Dick (I know it's Richard) Daley for the loss.
I dunno, I kind of like the nightlife downtown. Sure, it's no Chicago, New York, or New Orleans (pre-Katrina), but it has it's saving graces. For a small big city, it ain't bad really.
Honestly, I have to question the statements about the new Battlestar Galactica RPG that Zonk made. I played in each of the two modules/rounds offered at GenCon and in both cases registration was sold out, but we had to resort to finding willing players using generic tickets to sit a playable table. I just don't think it was as wildly successful as Zonk is making it out to be. I wandered over to the Margret Weis booth several times and it looked to me that the 'big sellers' were the Serenity corebook and literary books being sold. Maybe sales will pick up with the new season or when the book goes to Amazon, I can't speak to that, but while a good setting, it's not the big hit they were hoping it to be.
If you want to talk about an EXCELLENT game that was, in my experience, full-up all the time - check out Witch Hunter by Paradigm Concepts [Paradigm Concepts, Inc.]. It's a fairly imaginative setting that exploded at Origins this year. The game was popular enough that for almost every slot it was offered, the team in charge of the campaign - 'Witch Hunter: Dark Providence' - had to find judges so they could offer more tables per slot. Paradigm, by the way, is the superb team behind the Living Arcanis campaign.
Thank you, I'm quite certain I knew what I was talking about. *I* was being ironic, you failed to see it. Obviously Darkwing was not dangerous - in a traditional sense - he was a buffoon, but his catch phrase was "Let's get dangerous". Which, more often than not, meant he was about to screw something up and hurt himself - the only one he was a danger to was himself.
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A small part of me wants RIAA to succeed in this - heresy I know. The notion is that if they win, terrestrial radio broadcasters will all but stop putting the mainstream music on the air and cater more towards local or indie artists, since they would be most likely to trade profit for exposure. Not only would this give those artists the chance they could desperately be wanting, but in a perfect world, would force the studios and labels to see 'the error of their ways'. It's a pipedream, but as most dreams are, it's a happy one.
And you've obviously never taken an Economics class. Absolutely everything I said was correct. I do believe I even pointed out they could increase production capacity - though I never went into ALL the factors as to why they don't. Of course increasing production requires increases in costs (labor, materials, consumables - like power, et al). Of course increasing costs decreases profit per unit.
As someone has already pointed out, well before I am here, increasing production to fully meet real and implied demand would, in the long run, be a very bad thing. Once they get those factories up and running, well, they're up and running - using resources and costing money to maintain. When, not if, demand slips, those factories are then superfluous and only cost. So the whole point of my original post is, still, entirely valid. They are not losing anything by not meeting 100% of all demand - they are in fact making more than they would otherwise.
First off, don't misunderstand the subject line - there is definitely a high demand for the Wii, artificially inflated or otherwise. This is due, in part, to two major factors: the novelty of fairly well done motion control and the accessibility of the console to a significantly wider user base than the typical 'hardcore gamers'.
That said, Nintendo is not 'losing a billion in sales' - they are, in fact, creating 'a billion in sales'. Okay, so the knee-jerk reaction is 'huh, stores are always sold out, I can't get one, they're losing my money - how are they creating sales'. Ironically, the question is its own answer. By restricting sales to North America, keeping the influx of consoles at a relatively low number - compared to actual demand - Nintendo is creating a sense of scarcity. This perceived lack of Wii increases the immediate demand for the console, virtually ensuring that new product delivered to stores will sell out within a day or two - three or four at the outside.
This has the effect of creating a stronger the secondary market on E-bay, Craigslist, or the classifieds. People are willing to snatch them up at ridiculous prices in order to get one NOW, rather than wait a week or two for the next shipment and try to get one then - bird in the hand. This leads to further 'gotta have it' frenzy.
By keeping production where it's at - does anyone REALLY believe they couldn't kick it up a few notches? - they are ensuring that the initial sales life of the console continues for a good long time. During which time they can maintain the price for the console itself, the accessories, and the games. It's a cash cow, a print-your-own-money machine. But the instant they jack up production and flood the market to satisfy all the demand - real and hyped - the consoles start lingering on the shelf longer, it's no longer the console to own, the novelty wears off and sales slump. Why on Earth would they want that!
A professor at the New York Law School is arguing that
I didn't see a ruling there, I saw an opinion.
I don't use Facebook, so I could be wrong about what choices are being posted, collected, then distributed, but it sounded to me like the 'choices' weren't necessarily rentals, but favorite/preferred/liked movies. If that's the case, Blockbuster wasn't distributing rental information. Also, as another poster pointed out, aren't the users of Facebook putting this information out there freely and willfully anyhow?
So by 'light years' do you mean "miles and miles" or "decades". I'm only curious because one usage is correct and one is not.
Doesn't really matter. Once it dies you just have to wait for it to respawn at a graveyard and run back to your desk.
Whoa! A political-esque story that's sure to ruin G-dub's day and it wasn't posted by Kdawson! I wonder if he's the one that submitted it, under a disguise!
Thanks to this I think I blew my funny fuse...
Have you ever tried to get a Klingon off using Furry? Not a pretty sight, let me tell you. I still have the nightmares.
Yeah, fair enough. I deserved that...
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He keeps saying those words... I do not think they mean what the thinks they mean...
So a misinformed Senator makes a statement based on his own bias and misunderstanding or reality, and you take it as Gospel?
This needs to be modded up more than damn near anything else posted today.
Sarcasm aside, I'm more shocked that kdawson put something up that didn't bash conservatives or the Bush administration. Granted, those two subjects (as well as liberals, equally) have plenty of fodder.
So you do, in fact, care how brilliant he is, yes?
Must be an echo in the fiber...somehow...
Aww, you say that like Daley's on the take or something. There's plenty of evidence to support that he's not dirty. *pockets a $5,000 check signed by the Friends of Daley*
Sadly I cannot disagree. Ordinarily I'd blame Tom Cruise or some other Scientologist clown, but really, this time I have to put blame where it belongs - on Chi-town's corrupt, mobbed up Mayor. Dick (I know it's Richard) Daley for the loss.
I dunno, I kind of like the nightlife downtown. Sure, it's no Chicago, New York, or New Orleans (pre-Katrina), but it has it's saving graces. For a small big city, it ain't bad really.
Honestly, I have to question the statements about the new Battlestar Galactica RPG that Zonk made. I played in each of the two modules/rounds offered at GenCon and in both cases registration was sold out, but we had to resort to finding willing players using generic tickets to sit a playable table. I just don't think it was as wildly successful as Zonk is making it out to be. I wandered over to the Margret Weis booth several times and it looked to me that the 'big sellers' were the Serenity corebook and literary books being sold. Maybe sales will pick up with the new season or when the book goes to Amazon, I can't speak to that, but while a good setting, it's not the big hit they were hoping it to be.
If you want to talk about an EXCELLENT game that was, in my experience, full-up all the time - check out Witch Hunter by Paradigm Concepts [Paradigm Concepts, Inc.]. It's a fairly imaginative setting that exploded at Origins this year. The game was popular enough that for almost every slot it was offered, the team in charge of the campaign - 'Witch Hunter: Dark Providence' - had to find judges so they could offer more tables per slot. Paradigm, by the way, is the superb team behind the Living Arcanis campaign.
It was GenCon's 40th anniversary, not Dungeons and Dragons.
Zonk must have failed his Spot and Listen checks all weekend.
Thank you, I'm quite certain I knew what I was talking about. *I* was being ironic, you failed to see it. Obviously Darkwing was not dangerous - in a traditional sense - he was a buffoon, but his catch phrase was "Let's get dangerous". Which, more often than not, meant he was about to screw something up and hurt himself - the only one he was a danger to was himself.
That's just because Darkwing's no longer around. He was all about getting dangerous!