With the 360, and more so the PS3, current games can be downloaded. The 360 and PS3 have the smaller arcadey games like Worms, Geometry Wars, and Flow and the old PSx (and possibly, soon, PS2) games that are comparable to the VC games (kind of... the scope on the other two is still a bit bigger than the Wii's since there's a lot more storage available on those consoles).
In addition, though, you can also get demos of and downloadable content for current-gen games, which is a huge benefit, and the PS3 even has a complete version of Tekken 5 available for download. The capability to download multi-GB current-gen games is there, and who knows - in a couple years maybe we'll be downloading entire PS3 games for $10 less than buying them in-store (okay, so they'll probably be priced the same, knowing the industry...:sigh:).
It's really far more than what the VC is cut out to do.
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Why the fuck don't they film that instead? Because if you name it "Halo" you'll get every 14-25yo male in the country to see it?
The graphics on the Wii aren't bad when you're playing Wii sports, Warioware, Trauma Center, etc. Once you get to something more realistic and detailed, though, things start to look bad on a large HDTV. Zelda, quite frankly, just looks "blah". Don't even get me started on Far Cry.
Even the little downloadable games on the 360 and PS3 are better looking than big-budget Wii games like Zelda. Hell, now that the PS3 smooths and upscales PS2 games to 1080p, the PS2 games I play look better than it as well (God of War looked almost current-gen).
I know graphics aren't everything, but some Wii games are honestly just hard to look at, and that does impact my enjoyment of the game.
its not a gamers console, its a non-gamers console. I love this statement, as it succinctly describes my problem with the Wii. Almost everything is made with casual play in mind, and there are very, very few good deep experiences to be had with it. That's great for some people, but I'm enjoying my 360 and PS3 a ton right now, and my Wii hasn't been turned on since the last time I had a party.
Wii Sports is fun as hell, and Warioware is an awesome party game, but unless I have people over, the 360/PS3 is on.
A single company holding a massive data mine containign cross-referenced information about the browsing habits and search terms of loads of people is another step toward a less free internet. So the answer to keeping the internet free is to have the government step in and restrict? Or is Google not allowed to enjoy the freedom?
What bastardization of the word "monopoly" are you using to describe a ~65% marketshare? That's like saying that Coke has a monopoly on cola just because they're the most popular.
How about 2 other reasons: First of all, the one that the news agency appearantly saw, i.e. that Google is "stealing" their content. Robots.txt
And second, how about you not enjoying the idea of Google keeping your outdated pages in Cache? Robots.txt
If you want to be listed in Google, you play by their rules. If you don't agree to those rules, you block them. It's simple.
[quote]Or do you really believe that people are more interested in Paris Hilton's jail term than in the president wiretapping them?[/quote]
You're pretty blind if you think that's [i]not[/i] the case. The attitude people take with wiretapping is "bad guys will get caught, and people with nothing to hide will be fine." The attitude people take with celebrities is "HOLY SHIT! I need to know EVERYTHING that EVER happens to them!"
They don't have to sell PS3s BETWEEN now and then. People will buy them once FFXIII comes out. You mention that it would sell 360s - why wouldn't it sell PS3s?
Basically, the PS3 is doing poorly now because of the lack of good games, particularly good RPGs, which are a Japanese staple. I'll guarantee you that PS3s will fly off the shelves once FFXIII comes out.
No, the Final Fantasy XIII series is not PS3 exclusive. They've said that they want to develop a ton of games using the same world, and they're branching out onto other consoles to do that. See also the mobile phone game. Nobody every said anything about the FFXIII "base" game, people are just jumping to conclusions (illogical ones, at that, considering how long FFXIII has been in development for the PS3, how badly the 360 is doing in Japan, and how much Square loves their CG, meaning they require a TON of disc space...)
I'd say that, given the success of the DS, that's the most likely place for an offshoot. They're already making an FFXII offshoot on the DS.
How does it decide that I typed it in wrong? If the address doesn't resolve, you typed it in wrong. That's it.
If they don't, they're software is causing IE to not function as intended. What's funny is that IE functions like this already - it brings you to an MSN search page. This is just Dell sending people to Google instead.
So you mean that the ten seconds that I have to wait which really doesn't interrupt the flow of anything at all is comparable to completely uninstalling and reinstalling video card drivers (a couple reboots, rearranging all your desktop icons again because your resolution got changed back to 800x600...)? Nonsense.
Console gaming is easier to deal with than PC gaming. There really is no arguing that.
The point I was trying to get at is that vegetables are simply not a good source of calories. You could eat celery all day nonstop and not get anything useful out of it. Therefore, trying to make judgments by the caloric content of it is a bit flawed.
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Is this the most blatant slashvertisement we've had yet?
Don't the current consoles have options to restrict access to ratings of your choice?
Fortunately, all you have to do is look in the article summary at the top where it says "almost 40%" :)
I do fast forward most of the time, but sometimes during that fast forwarding I will actually stop and rewind an ad that grabs my eye.
To me, this shows that people will watch well-made commercials. (Witness: Superbowl commercials. People love them.)
And don't forget your Google Gear, too.
Sorry, I rushed out the comment.
:sigh:).
With the 360, and more so the PS3, current games can be downloaded. The 360 and PS3 have the smaller arcadey games like Worms, Geometry Wars, and Flow and the old PSx (and possibly, soon, PS2) games that are comparable to the VC games (kind of... the scope on the other two is still a bit bigger than the Wii's since there's a lot more storage available on those consoles).
In addition, though, you can also get demos of and downloadable content for current-gen games, which is a huge benefit, and the PS3 even has a complete version of Tekken 5 available for download. The capability to download multi-GB current-gen games is there, and who knows - in a couple years maybe we'll be downloading entire PS3 games for $10 less than buying them in-store (okay, so they'll probably be priced the same, knowing the industry...
It's really far more than what the VC is cut out to do.
The graphics on the Wii aren't bad when you're playing Wii sports, Warioware, Trauma Center, etc. Once you get to something more realistic and detailed, though, things start to look bad on a large HDTV. Zelda, quite frankly, just looks "blah". Don't even get me started on Far Cry.
Even the little downloadable games on the 360 and PS3 are better looking than big-budget Wii games like Zelda. Hell, now that the PS3 smooths and upscales PS2 games to 1080p, the PS2 games I play look better than it as well (God of War looked almost current-gen).
I know graphics aren't everything, but some Wii games are honestly just hard to look at, and that does impact my enjoyment of the game.
Digital delivery, like the PS3 and 360 have? Yet another feature I love about the other consoles that the Wii left out...
Wii Sports is fun as hell, and Warioware is an awesome party game, but unless I have people over, the 360/PS3 is on.
Crap, I'd better take down my links to Google.
So you think we should be selling vodka and cigs to 7th graders?
What bastardization of the word "monopoly" are you using to describe a ~65% marketshare? That's like saying that Coke has a monopoly on cola just because they're the most popular.
If you want to be listed in Google, you play by their rules. If you don't agree to those rules, you block them. It's simple.
If there's a demand for one that doesn't, then there will come a service that fills that demand.
[quote]Or do you really believe that people are more interested in Paris Hilton's jail term than in the president wiretapping them?[/quote]
You're pretty blind if you think that's [i]not[/i] the case. The attitude people take with wiretapping is "bad guys will get caught, and people with nothing to hide will be fine." The attitude people take with celebrities is "HOLY SHIT! I need to know EVERYTHING that EVER happens to them!"
So? If you don't like using Google, don't use their services. You can't get around the ISP tracking nearly as easily.
They don't have to sell PS3s BETWEEN now and then. People will buy them once FFXIII comes out. You mention that it would sell 360s - why wouldn't it sell PS3s?
Basically, the PS3 is doing poorly now because of the lack of good games, particularly good RPGs, which are a Japanese staple. I'll guarantee you that PS3s will fly off the shelves once FFXIII comes out.
Sadly for Sony, this looks to be a yearish away.
Is that the inverse of Microsoft and Nintendo telling us that high-capacity disks aren't current-gen?
No, the Final Fantasy XIII series is not PS3 exclusive. They've said that they want to develop a ton of games using the same world, and they're branching out onto other consoles to do that. See also the mobile phone game. Nobody every said anything about the FFXIII "base" game, people are just jumping to conclusions (illogical ones, at that, considering how long FFXIII has been in development for the PS3, how badly the 360 is doing in Japan, and how much Square loves their CG, meaning they require a TON of disc space...)
I'd say that, given the success of the DS, that's the most likely place for an offshoot. They're already making an FFXII offshoot on the DS.
Don't forget "no integrated recharging".
So you mean that the ten seconds that I have to wait which really doesn't interrupt the flow of anything at all is comparable to completely uninstalling and reinstalling video card drivers (a couple reboots, rearranging all your desktop icons again because your resolution got changed back to 800x600...)? Nonsense.
Console gaming is easier to deal with than PC gaming. There really is no arguing that.
The point I was trying to get at is that vegetables are simply not a good source of calories. You could eat celery all day nonstop and not get anything useful out of it. Therefore, trying to make judgments by the caloric content of it is a bit flawed.