If you use a mod chip to pirate video games, that's the same as downloading a game (that is still in print) for free over the internet. You are stealing. You can call it what you like, but you are obtaining a game for free, or in this case, for the cost of a mod chip. It's not just about modifying your hardware, it's about modifying your hardware to pirate games.
Exclusive games: MGS 4, Heavenly Sword, Lair and more are PS3 exclusives; granted, MGS 4 may come out for other consoles too, but that isn't a sure thing yet and aside from MGS 4 tehre's no indication that these other games are heading to other consoles or the PC. As for network support, I don't know of any games out for both the 360 and the PS3 that don't both have network support. As far as framerate, I haven't had a single problem with the framerate on my PS3 games...so again, I don't know where you're coming from there.
As far as the PC, I haven't had trouble with a driver in years; PCs have come a long way from that sort of trouble. Generally the only thing you might have to do is get the latest driver, and if you can't go to a website and download and install a file, you don't deserve to use a PC, ever. Pack it up and take it back.
"However, what really does it for Microsoft is Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect and BioShock. If one of those doesn't sell you a buggy, overheating, now-under-warranty Xbox 360, nothing will."
Dare I point out that Bioshock is coming the PC as is Fallout 3 (so who cares about the console versions). What's more, considering both Halo and Halo 2 have both come to PC, my bet is that Halo 3 eventually will too. Finally, my bet is that Mass Effect will hit the PC at some point too, as all of Bioware's RPGs have at one point or another. So...reason to buy a 360 again when everything they have that's worth playing is for sure or almost certainly will hit the PC in the near future (or another console)? Oh yeah...none. I'll stick with my PC, PS3, and Wii; thanks a bunch, come again.
To some extent, I agree with what you are saying. People couldn't access the "Hot Coffee" materials unless they downloaded online content (or modified the code themselves, if they played on a computer). But at the same time, the content WAS on the disc, it WAS part of the program and that does technically make it content included with the game.
As a side note, this article is pointless; this is nothing new and I'm mystified as to why Slashdot put it up as a story.
You forget, they're shipping to a place that has far fewer people buying products, from talking to my Australian buddies, almost every luxury product is more expensive than in other countries. That being said, video games in particular get boned by Australia by their draconic video game laws, which often involve jumping through a lot of hoops just to get permission to sell your game in Australia.
...that mostly Wii's are being bought by gamers. There was a study, though I don't have the link on-hand, that noted that only about 10% of Wiis are being bought by people new to video games (ie, they didn't previously own a console). I think people are reasonably skeptical about Nintendo emphasizing Wii Fit at E3 when they have other great games out that people are more interested in.
...all this article does is confuse what Nintendo is doing. They aren't "abandoning" the "hardcore" gamer, they're trying to branch out. To be honest, I don't think the writer even knows what a "hardcore" gamer is or what games they play. I think he confuses people who game regularly with the "hardcore" gamer. If playing Mario makes you a hardcore gamer, then almost every teenager in the world is a hardcore gamer.
The Genesis also was sold at a profit; unlike the X-Box 360; it was a different time of course, but every console sold meant profit in Sega's pocket. What's more, Sega immediately had a great lineup of games, the 360 is a year in and they've only got two games that aren't also going to the PS3 or PC that I would want to play, Mass Effect and Halo 3 (note that Gears of War has been announced for the PC); though my bet is that both of those will hit the PC in the next year or two. Lost Odyssey might be good as well, but I haven't seen enough of it to make a decision one way or another. The point is this: I don't think Microsoft has enough exclusive games to keep people interested, their Halo fans have bought the console immediately, and now it comes down to the rest of the market. The rest of the market, is unimpressed.
That aside, this a huge hit to take for Microsoft's game division, my bet is that the 360 MUST turn a profit by the end of its lifespan, or Microsoft will back out of the console market.
Silicon Knights has been working working on this game for almost a decade now, and now they're desperately looking for a way to pull out a profit when they still don't have anything to show. This lawsuit is pretty fucking ridiculous, did you see what they are looking for in damages? The profits from Gears of War. Yeah, okay, we'll just hand that right over to you since we totally did screw you. Nobody else seems to be complaining about these sorts of problems; I smell a scam.
1. The PS3's price is too high for some people, mind you, I have a PS3 and didn't mind paying the price (mind you, I didn't mind paying a mere few hundred bucks for the PS3, but others do).
2. When the PS2 shipped, it was the cheapest DVD player out there; if you look at the initial statistics on what people were playing on their PS2, the top discs played were DVDs. To be honest, people aren't nearly as excited about Blu-ray and HD-DVD as they were about DVDs (with good reasons).
There is no such thing as pretty code, just fuckable code; the type of code that you'll never really wanna look at for too long, but it's all right looking.
1. Absolutely crush any fan-based creativity so only you can create new material for the game without being sued.
2. ?
3. Profit?
Seriously, Games Workshop seems to be run by complete idiots now, take a hint from the video games that so many of your potential fans now go to, people like to create fan movies and content; it helps your image and ultimately helps you sell stuff, embrace it! It's odd, a few years ago Games Workshop seemed to be on the road to a big return to doing extremely well again, but now I'm thinking they may start bleeding money again.
There's nothing wrong with regulating internet traffic based on what is being sent, so long as the website it's sent from doesn't matter; throttling and controlling the speed that something is sent based on what is being sent is fine, video needs more speed than e-mail, after all. What people oppose is websites having to pay to get their content through faster; the study is talking about the former while the latter is what is being opposed, it's a trick that AT&T and others have used to drum up opposition to Net Neutrality.
The Geek Squad are nothing more than a bunch of crappy hacks. Anytime somebody has had the Geek Squad working on their computer, I just want to reformat the sucker. I've had them tell people that their Internet Explorer is broken and all they can use is Firefox. Nevermind that if Internet Explorer is "broken" then the customer is likely to run in significant problems in the future. Half the time they just try and push overpriced parts on a customer when they don't need them. Ethics from Geek Squad? My ass; their very job is to be unethical.
Welcome to America; if you speak the truth, you will be smeared, so just shut your mouth and don't rock the boat. Honestly, this is a blog putting out a smear job; he cites a POSTER as being more reliable than a peer-reviewed study? Give me a break.
Wrong. VHS beat Betamax because VHS had porn (yes I am dead serious here). Without the porn industry, VHS and Betamax would still have been dueling it out when DVDs came along.
The problem is, what you describe isn't convenient for the consumer. Anti-Virus programs and Firewalls cause enough trouble with software installation as is, nevermind what you're suggesting. Don't get me wrong, what you're suggesting is GREAT for users who know what they are doing, but the vast majority of consumers are complete idiots when it comes to computers; I've worked tech support long enough to know that. Yeah sure, when I install a program, I simply disable my Anti-Virus program anyway, but how many users know to do that? How many users are running security software that came on their computer by default and don't know it? The answer to the first question is not many, and the second is a lot.
You may say "well screw the ignorant consumers"; but let's not forget what a company is there to do, make money. If somebody made your security software, my bet is that it wouldn't sell well; people would quickly get sick of having to deal their security software interfering with valid software installations.
Wrong. AO is for essentially the NC-17 of the video game ratings board; extreme violence or nudity are what will get you this rating. It's also worth noting that an AO rating is only the "kiss of death" for CONSOLES. There's nothing to prevent you from releasing a game on the PC with an AO rating, and in fact there are quite a few games that are rated AO released for the PC; most of which are porn games, mind you, but some of which are simply too violent for a mere Mature rating. If you ask me, Rockstar should just release Manhunt 2 as-is on the PC, and be free of the console's clamp down.
Well, let's put it this way: it's their console, they control what goes on it. Let's face it, the console companies aren't being "morality police", they're doing what's good for their bottom line. Manhunt 2 (and any other AO game released on a console) is sure to cause a hellstorm of lawsuits, and the consoles don't want to be hit with one. The other thing is that if they release one AO game on their console, they open up their console to many more AO games; the vast majority of which are porn games. Porn games means cries that consoles are "porn machines" and God knows that no console company currently in existence wants to see cries of that (though with internet connectivity...they already have begun to see such cries). In essence, the console makers are looking at the bottom line, and AO games don't look to really boost that bottom line, compared to all the crap they'll receive in return.
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Yes, because everybody is equal when they're a corpse.
If you use a mod chip to pirate video games, that's the same as downloading a game (that is still in print) for free over the internet. You are stealing. You can call it what you like, but you are obtaining a game for free, or in this case, for the cost of a mod chip. It's not just about modifying your hardware, it's about modifying your hardware to pirate games.
Considering that they just announced GTA 4, and Rockstar hadn't exactly been dormant the past two years or so, I knew a delay was coming.
Exclusive games: MGS 4, Heavenly Sword, Lair and more are PS3 exclusives; granted, MGS 4 may come out for other consoles too, but that isn't a sure thing yet and aside from MGS 4 tehre's no indication that these other games are heading to other consoles or the PC. As for network support, I don't know of any games out for both the 360 and the PS3 that don't both have network support. As far as framerate, I haven't had a single problem with the framerate on my PS3 games...so again, I don't know where you're coming from there. As far as the PC, I haven't had trouble with a driver in years; PCs have come a long way from that sort of trouble. Generally the only thing you might have to do is get the latest driver, and if you can't go to a website and download and install a file, you don't deserve to use a PC, ever. Pack it up and take it back.
...the iBox? No buttons, no plugs, no batteries, no wifi, no nothing; just a box, the simplest type of entertainment and technology you can find.
"However, what really does it for Microsoft is Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect and BioShock. If one of those doesn't sell you a buggy, overheating, now-under-warranty Xbox 360, nothing will." Dare I point out that Bioshock is coming the PC as is Fallout 3 (so who cares about the console versions). What's more, considering both Halo and Halo 2 have both come to PC, my bet is that Halo 3 eventually will too. Finally, my bet is that Mass Effect will hit the PC at some point too, as all of Bioware's RPGs have at one point or another. So...reason to buy a 360 again when everything they have that's worth playing is for sure or almost certainly will hit the PC in the near future (or another console)? Oh yeah...none. I'll stick with my PC, PS3, and Wii; thanks a bunch, come again.
To some extent, I agree with what you are saying. People couldn't access the "Hot Coffee" materials unless they downloaded online content (or modified the code themselves, if they played on a computer). But at the same time, the content WAS on the disc, it WAS part of the program and that does technically make it content included with the game. As a side note, this article is pointless; this is nothing new and I'm mystified as to why Slashdot put it up as a story.
You forget, they're shipping to a place that has far fewer people buying products, from talking to my Australian buddies, almost every luxury product is more expensive than in other countries. That being said, video games in particular get boned by Australia by their draconic video game laws, which often involve jumping through a lot of hoops just to get permission to sell your game in Australia.
...that mostly Wii's are being bought by gamers. There was a study, though I don't have the link on-hand, that noted that only about 10% of Wiis are being bought by people new to video games (ie, they didn't previously own a console). I think people are reasonably skeptical about Nintendo emphasizing Wii Fit at E3 when they have other great games out that people are more interested in.
...all this article does is confuse what Nintendo is doing. They aren't "abandoning" the "hardcore" gamer, they're trying to branch out. To be honest, I don't think the writer even knows what a "hardcore" gamer is or what games they play. I think he confuses people who game regularly with the "hardcore" gamer. If playing Mario makes you a hardcore gamer, then almost every teenager in the world is a hardcore gamer.
The Genesis also was sold at a profit; unlike the X-Box 360; it was a different time of course, but every console sold meant profit in Sega's pocket. What's more, Sega immediately had a great lineup of games, the 360 is a year in and they've only got two games that aren't also going to the PS3 or PC that I would want to play, Mass Effect and Halo 3 (note that Gears of War has been announced for the PC); though my bet is that both of those will hit the PC in the next year or two. Lost Odyssey might be good as well, but I haven't seen enough of it to make a decision one way or another. The point is this: I don't think Microsoft has enough exclusive games to keep people interested, their Halo fans have bought the console immediately, and now it comes down to the rest of the market. The rest of the market, is unimpressed. That aside, this a huge hit to take for Microsoft's game division, my bet is that the 360 MUST turn a profit by the end of its lifespan, or Microsoft will back out of the console market.
Holy crap! I can't play all the GREAT Linux only games on my PS3 like umm...well...uhhh....nevermind; stupid troll.
Silicon Knights has been working working on this game for almost a decade now, and now they're desperately looking for a way to pull out a profit when they still don't have anything to show. This lawsuit is pretty fucking ridiculous, did you see what they are looking for in damages? The profits from Gears of War. Yeah, okay, we'll just hand that right over to you since we totally did screw you. Nobody else seems to be complaining about these sorts of problems; I smell a scam.
1. The PS3's price is too high for some people, mind you, I have a PS3 and didn't mind paying the price (mind you, I didn't mind paying a mere few hundred bucks for the PS3, but others do). 2. When the PS2 shipped, it was the cheapest DVD player out there; if you look at the initial statistics on what people were playing on their PS2, the top discs played were DVDs. To be honest, people aren't nearly as excited about Blu-ray and HD-DVD as they were about DVDs (with good reasons).
There is no such thing as pretty code, just fuckable code; the type of code that you'll never really wanna look at for too long, but it's all right looking.
1. Absolutely crush any fan-based creativity so only you can create new material for the game without being sued. 2. ? 3. Profit? Seriously, Games Workshop seems to be run by complete idiots now, take a hint from the video games that so many of your potential fans now go to, people like to create fan movies and content; it helps your image and ultimately helps you sell stuff, embrace it! It's odd, a few years ago Games Workshop seemed to be on the road to a big return to doing extremely well again, but now I'm thinking they may start bleeding money again.
There's nothing wrong with regulating internet traffic based on what is being sent, so long as the website it's sent from doesn't matter; throttling and controlling the speed that something is sent based on what is being sent is fine, video needs more speed than e-mail, after all. What people oppose is websites having to pay to get their content through faster; the study is talking about the former while the latter is what is being opposed, it's a trick that AT&T and others have used to drum up opposition to Net Neutrality.
The Geek Squad are nothing more than a bunch of crappy hacks. Anytime somebody has had the Geek Squad working on their computer, I just want to reformat the sucker. I've had them tell people that their Internet Explorer is broken and all they can use is Firefox. Nevermind that if Internet Explorer is "broken" then the customer is likely to run in significant problems in the future. Half the time they just try and push overpriced parts on a customer when they don't need them. Ethics from Geek Squad? My ass; their very job is to be unethical.
...welcome our new half-squid-half-octopus overlords.
Welcome to America; if you speak the truth, you will be smeared, so just shut your mouth and don't rock the boat. Honestly, this is a blog putting out a smear job; he cites a POSTER as being more reliable than a peer-reviewed study? Give me a break.
Wrong. VHS beat Betamax because VHS had porn (yes I am dead serious here). Without the porn industry, VHS and Betamax would still have been dueling it out when DVDs came along.
Sounds like you got Vundo, there's a fix for it now.
The problem is, what you describe isn't convenient for the consumer. Anti-Virus programs and Firewalls cause enough trouble with software installation as is, nevermind what you're suggesting. Don't get me wrong, what you're suggesting is GREAT for users who know what they are doing, but the vast majority of consumers are complete idiots when it comes to computers; I've worked tech support long enough to know that. Yeah sure, when I install a program, I simply disable my Anti-Virus program anyway, but how many users know to do that? How many users are running security software that came on their computer by default and don't know it? The answer to the first question is not many, and the second is a lot. You may say "well screw the ignorant consumers"; but let's not forget what a company is there to do, make money. If somebody made your security software, my bet is that it wouldn't sell well; people would quickly get sick of having to deal their security software interfering with valid software installations.
Wrong. AO is for essentially the NC-17 of the video game ratings board; extreme violence or nudity are what will get you this rating. It's also worth noting that an AO rating is only the "kiss of death" for CONSOLES. There's nothing to prevent you from releasing a game on the PC with an AO rating, and in fact there are quite a few games that are rated AO released for the PC; most of which are porn games, mind you, but some of which are simply too violent for a mere Mature rating. If you ask me, Rockstar should just release Manhunt 2 as-is on the PC, and be free of the console's clamp down.
Well, let's put it this way: it's their console, they control what goes on it. Let's face it, the console companies aren't being "morality police", they're doing what's good for their bottom line. Manhunt 2 (and any other AO game released on a console) is sure to cause a hellstorm of lawsuits, and the consoles don't want to be hit with one. The other thing is that if they release one AO game on their console, they open up their console to many more AO games; the vast majority of which are porn games. Porn games means cries that consoles are "porn machines" and God knows that no console company currently in existence wants to see cries of that (though with internet connectivity...they already have begun to see such cries). In essence, the console makers are looking at the bottom line, and AO games don't look to really boost that bottom line, compared to all the crap they'll receive in return.