At first, I wanted to call bullshit, as $400 seems, well, out there, for a game console. However, I thought the same thing when the original Playstation came out and we know how that turned out.
I'm still betting against though that kind of price hike. Microsoft isn't stupid and they haven't become the de facto standard for gaming yet. Nintendo and Sony remain viable competition, for the for the former especially I don't see a price point anywhere near $400 for the Revolution. Moreover, outside of America (where the people's taste in games are seemingly as bad as their taste in movies) the Xbox is a joke.
In short, Microsoft strategy is to win and then hike up the price and they haven't won yet.
I'll add my own wiki experience to the mix. I was doing a paper on the Japanese writer Higuchi Ichiyo last semester and, not knowing much about her, I ended up using wiki as a source. EVERYTHING I cited from wikipedia was factually wrong. Luckily I ran it by my professor before handing it in, but I will never use Wikipedia as a source on a paper again. They've completely turned me off to using it for any academic purpose. I do still visit wikipedia when I need general information but I even take that with a major grain of salt.
Am I alone in thinking wikipedia should A) have experts come in and run a "stable" version of the encyclopedia and that B) a Google scholars type function is right up wiki's ally?
I'm on Windows to play games and stuff, but my media player of choice is the Windows mplayer port. On OSX as well, I like mplayer more than any other player. It's a quality piece of software.
How do you think we'll get to that level in 1000 years if we don't study and make mistakes now? Do people belittle Aristotle, even though he was often wrong? Great science is built on the back of others work, both right and wrong.
I always apperciate the English speakers (generally Americans) who think Engrish is some way of life. I wonder what their Japanese skills are (let alone English).
I'm not saying America hasn't done anything wrong. I agree completely that America is as culpable as anyone, but I do believe Japan owes Okinawa and some East Asian countries apologies.
Funny you should state it like that, because I agree with you 100%, it just didn't come out in my original statement.
On the other hand, Japan would likely be one of the first countries to sign up as a US ally!
Who mods this shit up? Japan has little real interest in going to war with anyone at this point in time. There are still right wing Japanese nationalists who think Korean is a dialect of Japanese, but for the most part, the country as a whole is not capable of going into a real war or interested in doing so.
There is some economic competition for energy between the two countries, but any half way decent economist could tell you that working together (as they are in other sectors, especially manfacturing) in order to broker better energy deals would help both countries immeasurably. You think no one in Japan has figured this out?
China (as a country and many, but not all of its people) have a HUGE victimization complex concerning Japan. The South Koreans have had this as well, but with the exchange of culture between the countries in the last five years are so, the anger is tending to subside on both sides (though the North Korean hostage issue still galls the Japanese deeply).
However, to my point: China stokes these anti-Japanese sentiments in order to keep the people focused on issues outside the countries poor humanitarian records. In fact, throughout history China has been as brutal as Japan, if not more so, in conquering territories. I am incredulous that a country that crushes Tibet, threatens an independent Taiwan at every opportunity, and actively oppresses Muslim minorities in the Western provinces, has the gall to call out Japan today (especially since very few Japanese alive during the war are still around).
Not to mention Chinese incendary actions, including the military sub that was recently in Japanese waters in Okinawa.
I'm not a Japanese apologist. The Japanese government should apologize to the Asian countries that were harmed during World War II. PM's Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni are nothing but shallow gestures to win votes from the Japanese right. But for a brutal totalitarian regime, which threatens Tibet, Kashmir, Chinese Muslims, and Taiwan on a regular basis, to decry a democratic government who at least nominally have given up war, is laughable.
Are you kidding? Enix has always taken a long time to put out Dragon Quest games, but they are FAR more popular in Japan than Final Fantasy. DQ8 just came out. At the end of November DQ8 was the best selling game in Japan. According to the Magic Box:
Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 2,236, 000 units
More tellingly is that the company is using the game to promote a new franchise, Code Age. SE knows very well that DQ8 is enormous in Japan but won't see much action in the U.S. SE is a Japanese oriented company.
As for the Gameboy, there is a DQ game for it: the Japan only DQ Slime Mori Mori title.
Enix is alive and kicking around as well as it always has.
For those of you that didn't RTFA, the game is Korean, not Japanese. Hip Hop culture is big in both countries, but seems to be much bigger in Korea (I only know about Japan, where musically and culturally the indie rock scene is also big). Obviously it is building on the success that DDR and other Japanese music games (and their Korean knock offs) have had.
The obvious joke I just have to add is: "In Korea, dancing games are only for old people."
Therin lies the problem I have with vegetarinsim - isn't it possible to respect something and to eat it? No, that's not the start to an off color joke; when I eat a burger, I'm thankful to the cow that gave up its life. Don't play with the food and don't waste it and the cow's life wasn't in vain. Certainly you can buy meat from farms that treat their animals with care and respect during their lives and then kill them in the most humane way possible. You'll live from it and then, eventually, your own body will go to to the ground and provide life to other organisims.
Does eating a burger mean you hate cows? Or animal life?
I've been using version 2.81 for my music needs. Until it becomes unusuable, I intend to stay with it; 2.91 added a bunch of video crap (I use the windows mplayer port and bsplayer for video and I don't apperciate winamp taking it over). 5 is far less intrusive, but 2.81 is powerful enough for me to get the job done.
If this country needs more scientists, funding schools and having a much more integrated, learning intensive science curriculum before undergraduate studies would help more than a TV show.
C'mon, he was trying to make a joke! I know this is slashdot and we're nerding it up, but c'mon! Can't we have one joke about porn and wives without the dreary heard of file permissions?!
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
-- E.B. White
And? The real console FPS is coming out later
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I'll admit I haven't played Halo 2 yet and I don't have an XBox. Most of my PS2 games are Japanese RPGs (Phantom Brave, Disgaea) and most of my Cube games are the AAA titles (Zelda, Metroid, etc.). I have played Halo 1 and I don't see what the big deal is.
Everything Halo does has been done before, especially in Quake. Maybe the kids playing Halo now missed Quake (didn't have PCs, too young, whatever). The graphics seem pretty lack luster (if that is even a legitmate game play issue) and the single player is awful. The game can be ok in multiplayer, but I'd have more fun in a 4 way Dr. Mario or Wario Ware.
I'm no fan of FPSes, but I was thoroughly engrossed by Metroid Prime. It perfectly translated the desperation and fear of being alone from the 2D classics into a 3D world. I have never played an FPS all the way through but I beat Prime several times. Maybe its the difference in PC gamers and console gamers (I count myself in the latter).
Personally, I think most of the fanbase for Halo and GTA are casual American gamers who haven't grown up worshipping Japanese games. That could mean there's a legitimate movement to "American style" games in the U.S., but to me it seems like casual gamers are just that, casual.
I'm a Nintendo fanboy (though I have a PS2, Dreamcast, and a lot of other machines), but if this is a decent game, it could really be the PSP's killer app, the same way the original Final Fantasy 7 was for the PS1 (I actually bought a PS1 back in the day just to play FF7).
FF7 is still probably the best loved game in the series in Japan and even if the PSP doesn't do well here, if it sells big in Japan the PSP can continue to hang on long enough for one or two killer (machine selling) titles to come through the pipe.
Between the rumored price point and launch titles, the PSP looks like it can rival the DS. It's defintley trying to steal some of the thunder from the recent DS announcements. I'm not convinced that the PSP is worth my cash, but it certainly looks better than it did a few weeks ago, after the DS pricing and battery life and tons of screen shots came out.
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At first, I wanted to call bullshit, as $400 seems, well, out there, for a game console. However, I thought the same thing when the original Playstation came out and we know how that turned out.
I'm still betting against though that kind of price hike. Microsoft isn't stupid and they haven't become the de facto standard for gaming yet. Nintendo and Sony remain viable competition, for the for the former especially I don't see a price point anywhere near $400 for the Revolution. Moreover, outside of America (where the people's taste in games are seemingly as bad as their taste in movies) the Xbox is a joke.
In short, Microsoft strategy is to win and then hike up the price and they haven't won yet.
I'll add my own wiki experience to the mix. I was doing a paper on the Japanese writer Higuchi Ichiyo last semester and, not knowing much about her, I ended up using wiki as a source. EVERYTHING I cited from wikipedia was factually wrong. Luckily I ran it by my professor before handing it in, but I will never use Wikipedia as a source on a paper again. They've completely turned me off to using it for any academic purpose. I do still visit wikipedia when I need general information but I even take that with a major grain of salt.
Am I alone in thinking wikipedia should A) have experts come in and run a "stable" version of the encyclopedia and that B) a Google scholars type function is right up wiki's ally?
It's just the NES - Nintendo Entertainment System. The Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System? Get a clue people.
I'm on Windows to play games and stuff, but my media player of choice is the Windows mplayer port. On OSX as well, I like mplayer more than any other player. It's a quality piece of software.
Because we all know the /. editors are genetic scientists, right?
How do you think we'll get to that level in 1000 years if we don't study and make mistakes now? Do people belittle Aristotle, even though he was often wrong? Great science is built on the back of others work, both right and wrong.
The first entry can be "entirely useful."
I always apperciate the English speakers (generally Americans) who think Engrish is some way of life. I wonder what their Japanese skills are (let alone English).
Listen, if you are really interested in gaming, you get a Windows PC
You miss spelled game console.
I'm not saying America hasn't done anything wrong. I agree completely that America is as culpable as anyone, but I do believe Japan owes Okinawa and some East Asian countries apologies.
Funny you should state it like that, because I agree with you 100%, it just didn't come out in my original statement.
On the other hand, Japan would likely be one of the first countries to sign up as a US ally!
Who mods this shit up? Japan has little real interest in going to war with anyone at this point in time. There are still right wing Japanese nationalists who think Korean is a dialect of Japanese, but for the most part, the country as a whole is not capable of going into a real war or interested in doing so.
There is some economic competition for energy between the two countries, but any half way decent economist could tell you that working together (as they are in other sectors, especially manfacturing) in order to broker better energy deals would help both countries immeasurably. You think no one in Japan has figured this out?
China (as a country and many, but not all of its people) have a HUGE victimization complex concerning Japan. The South Koreans have had this as well, but with the exchange of culture between the countries in the last five years are so, the anger is tending to subside on both sides (though the North Korean hostage issue still galls the Japanese deeply).
However, to my point: China stokes these anti-Japanese sentiments in order to keep the people focused on issues outside the countries poor humanitarian records. In fact, throughout history China has been as brutal as Japan, if not more so, in conquering territories. I am incredulous that a country that crushes Tibet, threatens an independent Taiwan at every opportunity, and actively oppresses Muslim minorities in the Western provinces, has the gall to call out Japan today (especially since very few Japanese alive during the war are still around).
Not to mention Chinese incendary actions, including the military sub that was recently in Japanese waters in Okinawa.
I'm not a Japanese apologist. The Japanese government should apologize to the Asian countries that were harmed during World War II. PM's Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni are nothing but shallow gestures to win votes from the Japanese right. But for a brutal totalitarian regime, which threatens Tibet, Kashmir, Chinese Muslims, and Taiwan on a regular basis, to decry a democratic government who at least nominally have given up war, is laughable.
Yeah, except for a few trivial things, it could happen. Hey, frogs could grow claws and live in toilets too! Clawed Frogs you say?
Are you kidding? Enix has always taken a long time to put out Dragon Quest games, but they are FAR more popular in Japan than Final Fantasy. DQ8 just came out. At the end of November DQ8 was the best selling game in Japan. According to the Magic Box:
Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 2,236, 000 units
More tellingly is that the company is using the game to promote a new franchise, Code Age. SE knows very well that DQ8 is enormous in Japan but won't see much action in the U.S. SE is a Japanese oriented company.
As for the Gameboy, there is a DQ game for it: the Japan only DQ Slime Mori Mori title.
Enix is alive and kicking around as well as it always has.
For those of you that didn't RTFA, the game is Korean, not Japanese. Hip Hop culture is big in both countries, but seems to be much bigger in Korea (I only know about Japan, where musically and culturally the indie rock scene is also big). Obviously it is building on the success that DDR and other Japanese music games (and their Korean knock offs) have had.
The obvious joke I just have to add is: "In Korea, dancing games are only for old people."
The footage from the Saruman/Ganfalf fight was in the Gameboy Advance ROTK game. Wormtongue defintely kills Saruman at Orthanc.
So I think Asia (Asia is mostly influenced by China, it will need to be compatible with it...)
;)
With a comment like that, you must be either American or Chinese
Wrong on both counts. According to the Mozilla store the firefox is a red panda (Ailurus fulgens), not a fox and not a canine of any kind.
According to the site:
In case you didn't know, the Chinese name for a red panda is hunho or firefox, due to their color and similar size to a fox.
Therin lies the problem I have with vegetarinsim - isn't it possible to respect something and to eat it? No, that's not the start to an off color joke; when I eat a burger, I'm thankful to the cow that gave up its life. Don't play with the food and don't waste it and the cow's life wasn't in vain. Certainly you can buy meat from farms that treat their animals with care and respect during their lives and then kill them in the most humane way possible. You'll live from it and then, eventually, your own body will go to to the ground and provide life to other organisims.
Does eating a burger mean you hate cows? Or animal life?
I've been using version 2.81 for my music needs. Until it becomes unusuable, I intend to stay with it; 2.91 added a bunch of video crap (I use the windows mplayer port and bsplayer for video and I don't apperciate winamp taking it over). 5 is far less intrusive, but 2.81 is powerful enough for me to get the job done.
If this country needs more scientists, funding schools and having a much more integrated, learning intensive science curriculum before undergraduate studies would help more than a TV show.
C'mon, he was trying to make a joke! I know this is slashdot and we're nerding it up, but c'mon! Can't we have one joke about porn and wives without the dreary heard of file permissions?!
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
-- E.B. White
I'll admit I haven't played Halo 2 yet and I don't have an XBox. Most of my PS2 games are Japanese RPGs (Phantom Brave, Disgaea) and most of my Cube games are the AAA titles (Zelda, Metroid, etc.). I have played Halo 1 and I don't see what the big deal is.
Everything Halo does has been done before, especially in Quake. Maybe the kids playing Halo now missed Quake (didn't have PCs, too young, whatever). The graphics seem pretty lack luster (if that is even a legitmate game play issue) and the single player is awful. The game can be ok in multiplayer, but I'd have more fun in a 4 way Dr. Mario or Wario Ware.
I'm no fan of FPSes, but I was thoroughly engrossed by Metroid Prime. It perfectly translated the desperation and fear of being alone from the 2D classics into a 3D world. I have never played an FPS all the way through but I beat Prime several times. Maybe its the difference in PC gamers and console gamers (I count myself in the latter).
Personally, I think most of the fanbase for Halo and GTA are casual American gamers who haven't grown up worshipping Japanese games. That could mean there's a legitimate movement to "American style" games in the U.S., but to me it seems like casual gamers are just that, casual.
Yup.
Those "exclusive" WS titles were really just ports.
You misspelled "Dragon Quest."
No, read again. I said it was the best loved game of the series. DQ is more popular than Final Fantasy, but out of FF, 7 is the favorite.
So Bush was right and there are internets?!?!
I'm a Nintendo fanboy (though I have a PS2, Dreamcast, and a lot of other machines), but if this is a decent game, it could really be the PSP's killer app, the same way the original Final Fantasy 7 was for the PS1 (I actually bought a PS1 back in the day just to play FF7).
FF7 is still probably the best loved game in the series in Japan and even if the PSP doesn't do well here, if it sells big in Japan the PSP can continue to hang on long enough for one or two killer (machine selling) titles to come through the pipe.
Between the rumored price point and launch titles, the PSP looks like it can rival the DS. It's defintley trying to steal some of the thunder from the recent DS announcements. I'm not convinced that the PSP is worth my cash, but it certainly looks better than it did a few weeks ago, after the DS pricing and battery life and tons of screen shots came out.