I bought into the PSP hype, picked up mine on launch day. Im a grown up so GTA didnt peak enough interest to buy it, but I did buy others to try and get into the PSP, Untold Legends, Lumines, Dead To Rights, Popolopis and SSX. I ended up buying a DS back in March after growing frustrated waiting for anything to come out other than Lumines that I had any interest in playing. I already had my gamepark for homebrew and emulation so that wasnt a real draw either. Its been months since I picked up my PSP but I play my DS every day, usually its 5 minutes here and there but thats whats great about the DS, for those without hours of time to dedicate to gaming there is plenty to offer.
I'm evidently not alone on this opinion, heck ive had it listed on craigslist for 3 months with a more than reasonable price and failed to even get a nibble, around here it seems the PSP is already dead.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of something like built in Bluetooth, sure wifi could be used to transfer songs or stream I guess and would be great for gaming but give me an audio device with a wireless stereo headset that doesnt require a dongle the size of the device itself and i will stand in line to buy one.
I like my gamepark but frankly if it was the only handheld I had I would be extremely dissappointed. Its great for emulation but its kinda weak in the resolution and processing power departments, not to mention there isnt a single commercial developer outside of Japan and Korea.
This could actually work for Microsoft if its marketed properly. There are plenty of disgruntled PSP owners (myself included) who want a device that can do more than play games and plenty of Ipod users that are irritated that the repeated requests for features such as wireless continually fall on deaf ears. If they market the device as a media device that just happens to play games they really have a shot at making a dent.
The PSP was a great idea but the Memory Stick Duo and UMD options really killed alot of its potential IMHO. The device had already been out a year before MSD 's of any size significant enough for music or video were affordable. Without the ability to output to a bigger screen, UMD was DOA, after all who the heck wants to rebuy their movies on a format that only works on a dinky little portable screen. The sad part is that if the UMD format had been opened up allowing the option of homeplayers and such the format could have really taken off.
The IPod while a great device is at the Mercy of whatever bone Job's feels like throwing at the users. I love apples design and innovation but the tempermental artist who thinks he knows what you need better than you know what you want act is really getting old.
A fairly generic handheld with a decent screen, standard memory format and decent capabilities would surely be welcomed by those who dont really need a full fledged pda but want something more than a game player.
Based on that resume it appears that the Author based his opinion on game design by finally learning a lesson after a career of making the same mistakkes he is speaking against. Madden makes up 2/3rds of his published resume and other than some graphics upgrades, Madden hasnt really added anything special or changed up gameplay since the Sega Genesis days. In fact, up until they got completely spanked in game reviews (sadly not with madden sheep) by Sega's NFL game there had been no real changes in game mechanics at all.
You have to remember though that Schizophrenia was not even defined until 1908 at the time the Eduard was institutionalized those suffering from Schizophrenia were just concidered flat out nuts. Freudian Theory was the "new science" and sas so outside the realm of Freudianisim that it was like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Though diagnosis was fairly defined treatment was nearly non-existant. Combine this with probablity of Albert having Aspergers himself and his feeling while not right by todays standards were clearly understandable in relation to the time and setting.
Websites seem to go out of their way to make accessing their content as difficult as possible. If I just want to see a screen shot of say "Super Mario Galaxy" at IGN, I have to click through a transitional ad followed by digging throught the article (assunming it dosnt have one of those annoying roll over ads that blocks half the screen and wont go away) to get to the sidebar that has a link to the screenshots which then tell me I need to join some "IGN" club to gain access. I dont visit any gaming site enough to justify paying for access (cash or spam are both payment methods IMHO) so usually I just skip it and search for a gaming blog somewhere with an image or wait for the next months magazine to show up. I realize the need for ad impressions and revenue but there has to be less intrusive and annoying way to do it.
Im evidently the only person who still subscribes to Electronic Gaming Monthly. I still read it regularly, they seem to be the only magazine with the balls to call a crappy game a crappy game anymore even in previews. Its the only one I still get. I have tried them all...NextGen and Dreamcast Magazines were my favorite, beautiful layout, good reviews and interesting articles.
I too avoid rebates at all costs. The two worst offenders in my area are CompUSA and Office Depot, followed slightly by MicroCenter. CompUSA is so bad about them that I have refused to step foot in there after the Black Friday sale last year. I stood in line 3 hours to save what I thought was $50 over what the others were charging on a high end video card. When I finally got in the store they had run out of the cards and according to the sales person only had 4 per store to start with, worse yet the price was actually around $30 higher than everywhere else but with a $75 rebate. There was nothing mentioned about it in the flyer, only a small asterisk which wasnt spelled out anywhere on the paper. After that I left the other things I was planning to buy in the cart and went to Best Buy.
I was just basing my observation on six years in Okinawa. 1000 Bishoujo and Hentai games wouldnt make a dent in Xbox360 sales either. It really is more about nationalisim and less about games. Its the same with most every product put 2 identical dvd players on the shelf one with an RCA logo and one with an AIWA badge and the Aiwa will outsell the RCA by several times. Sadly it reflects on what is wrong over here, we bargain shop for sweatshop goods at walmart with no regards to where its from and whos benefiting in order to save a nickel.
With the exception of ReVolt every one of those titles were flops. Why bother to buy them? Are they not creative enough to come up with their own game concepts and titles?
Remove the microsoft logo and put on a Japanese companies name, no hardware or software lineup changes needed. I guarantee sales would quadruple overnight.
There is only one problem with that...most Joe Six Pack types cant afford it. Out of all my friends who have consoles, I only know one that has it hooked up to a large tv let alone an HD one. Sony IMHO is tremendously overestimating the market for what is for all intent and purposes an HD only console. My consoles are all hooked up to a 20 inch flatscreen because the big screen in the living room is for TV and Movies. My wife doesnt want to sit around and watch the kids and I play games all day. I would imagine many others are im similar circumstances, of course that also totally negates the advantage of the blueray player as well.
I believe this will be the first console war where hype doesnt matter, its not that buyers are getting smarter, just that manufacturers are forcing consumers to really research their purchases when the cost is so high.
2. I don't allow M$ anything in my house, and the sony drm thing didn't affect me as I run linux for everything!
By that logic as a Linux user how does M$'s brand of evil effect you any more than Sonys?
5. The ps3 will run linux!!
For half the price you can build a pc that runs Linux far better so how is that a selling point?
6. Sony have good internal developers (studio liverpool etc), and will always have good 3rd party support. Namco, Squnix, EA etc have supported sony for years.
All of which are actively supporting others as well.
7. I'm gonna buy HD movies for my HD TV!
Well at least there is one of you out there who really cares about replacing their collection.
8. If I buy an x360, I will have to upgrade in 2 years time.
And if Blueray flames out you will be upgrading your PS3 in a year.
9. Its really only 20% more than I paid for my ps2 initially.
Wow you got ripped.
10. I've run out. Is bragging rights a good reason? Probably not.
I did the "ebay" business from 2000-2003. I quit my job in 2002 to do it full time. I mainly sold tv and movie related collectables as well as vintage toys from the 50's-80's. Business was brisk and I made what I thought was decent money at the time. Moneyu was constantly flowing and I put as much of it back into inventory as possible. Things got a bit out of hand in 2003 and I was quickly becoming overwhelmed trying to run the business with just my wife and myself. I hired a bookeeper with the hopes of finding some ways to cut corners and find a way to hire help so that the business cold grow. Instead I found that based on the actual hours put in I was barely making minimum wage most of the time, after ebay fee increases, paypal fees, merchant account fees i found it just wasnt worth the effort. I went back into the workforce, but still have a business on the side related to what I was doing earlier. Now I still buy collectables and resell them locally, mostly to others expecting to get rich on Ebay.
I predict that in the next few years Ebay will be the marketplace equivalent of AOL, full of sellers and suckers (Those who prey on the idiots and those who dont know better). With google and others bringing new options online most of the old guard having been burned too many times before are more than ready to abandon ship as soon as an even semi viable option comes along.
Big difference between paypal vs google and the competing mail services. People have had a choice for years. No one complains about free email its reliable, its there, its ubiquitous. What irritates people with Paypal is the rather random enforcement of buyer and seller protection coupled with their stranglehold on ebay that pretty much makes any other method of payment impossible. After paying listing fees, final value fees, paypal fees, extra paypal fees if you want to be able to take credit cards, and dealing with buyers protection which is in my experience used in scam attempts as much as in real disputes, the ebay/paypal racket is hardly a bargain.
After all that, I still use it on occasion because I have no choice, thats the difference.
Why not provide better supervision of the kids at summer camp so that there is less dirt to post about? Oh wait that would require someone to actually take some responsibility...
SEGA's biggest problem was releasing their next generation consoles too early. More than a few months jump just gives the competition too much time to build up the hype machine, even if the hype simply isnt true. Sony built up a fan base with the psx that caused fanboys everywhere to latch on to every word. Emotion Engine, Built-In hard drive, bazillions of textures, higher poly counts...in the end most of the hype ment nothing but people bought into it. In hindsight SEGA should have waited about a year, they lost the specs war but in alot of peoples minds SEGA was well on their way to winning the gameplay war.
The ps2 has never performed at the level the hype suggested, the good thing about this is that even the fanboys are a bit more jaded now. People want to see performance and quality, not just a spec sheet. This generation seems poised to be the one where gameplay finally wins out over hype. May the best console win.
I will admit to being guilty of this. I refuse to cheat in a rpg, but its rare that I dont end up cheating in a fps. I admit to being non-coordinated when it comes to gaming, but I still want to see the story and the cool graphics. Sad I know, but I get as much fun out of blasting away the bad guys without having to restart levels every 10 minutes.
This may sound like Tin Foil Hat conspiracy, but I believe what is going on with the big game studios is more a result of sticking to what they know and minimizing risks. When you know that licensing a big name like spider-man guarantee's at least a minimal amount of sales, why risk even a minimal budget on something that you dont know is going to sell at all. Most big game companies seem to take the approach that the more "visible" the game the better the game will be. They arent really going after gamers they are going after TV watchers and Movie goers. The bonus for them is that if they can convince the public that they are the only option then they can continue to shovel out crap at will.
Small Indy devs are more interested in pushing the envelope and creating new things, things that are risky. If something takes off it gets noticed but if it flops...usually thats it..game over. Take Castle Wolfenstien and Doom that little indy company Id pushed a new way to interact in a game world that revolutionized the industry. Back then before the days of anti aliasing and pixel shading, a company could afford a couple of Jazz Jackrabbits and Commander Keens before they hit it big. Today you get one chance unless you develop it in you basement you arent going to get the infusion of capital to ever bring an original idea to fruition.
The flaw in the big studios logic is that for most people that play games regularly they care more about the game being fun and different more than if Joe Movie Star's voice is in it, or if its a licensed character. I cant remember the last really good game I played that had either a license or a popular voice, if it did it wasnt one that stood out enough to notice.
Still the notion that there are no hit indy games is just noise. You can look as small as bejeweled or as big as Homeworld or Freedom Force to see that small publishers do still exist, they just have to have a product thats good enough to drown out the noise around them trying to convince games that they dont exist. Of couse the ones that do break through usually get bought by the big fish so that they can pump out sequels while tying up the original developers to wallow in the stagnant waters they created.
Sadly, many of todays games could easily be made for 1/3rd their budgets if they would forget the voices (who cares) and forget the hours of lovely boring cut scenes that most games skip over in the first place. I love cinematics as much as anyone but give it a bit of a rest, if I wanted a freakin movie i'd buy a ticket and go see one.
The biggest problem with Science starts with grade schools. In most schools today the amount of hoops you have to go through to make the class interesting. Over the top safety concerns and budget cuts have really restricted the ability to provide interesting presentations and interactive experimentation. Sometimes "think of the children" tends to result in children that can't think.
I spoke with my oldest daughters teacher about the experiments they would be doing this year, sadly they cant even make a potato battery or pickle light due to the threat of fire or something goofy. I actually got reprimanded by the teacher last year for showing my daughter some kitchen experiments that she proceeded to bring up in class, since the students were wanting to see them. Now instead of shattering a hot dog with liquid nitrogen kids get to do things like a baking soda submarine...wheeeee! No wonder the students dont care and the teachers are bored out their minds.
While im not much of a GTA fan myself, I could definately see the appeal of the wii remote as a control for the game, gun (check), knife (check), baseball bat (check), it can even be a steering wheel for the vehicles. If you really think about it the Wiimote might be the best interface for GTA type game ever....even the hot coffee mod takes on a whole new level. EWWWW!
I guess there is obviously a market for this stuff but am I alone in prefering a few different devices that do what they are supposed to do well, rather than a single device that half asses everything. I gave up on the PDA because they kept trying to "converge" it making the latest incarnations mostly crap. I go out of my way for a simple phone, my big requirements are signal and sound quality. I guess I was brought up on the KISS principle, its hard to believe that im alone in that.
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I bought into the PSP hype, picked up mine on launch day. Im a grown up so GTA didnt peak enough interest to buy it, but I did buy others to try and get into the PSP, Untold Legends, Lumines, Dead To Rights, Popolopis and SSX. I ended up buying a DS back in March after growing frustrated waiting for anything to come out other than Lumines that I had any interest in playing. I already had my gamepark for homebrew and emulation so that wasnt a real draw either. Its been months since I picked up my PSP but I play my DS every day, usually its 5 minutes here and there but thats whats great about the DS, for those without hours of time to dedicate to gaming there is plenty to offer.
I'm evidently not alone on this opinion, heck ive had it listed on craigslist for 3 months with a more than reasonable price and failed to even get a nibble, around here it seems the PSP is already dead.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of something like built in Bluetooth, sure wifi could be used to transfer songs or stream I guess and would be great for gaming but give me an audio device with a wireless stereo headset that doesnt require a dongle the size of the device itself and i will stand in line to buy one.
I like my gamepark but frankly if it was the only handheld I had I would be extremely dissappointed. Its great for emulation but its kinda weak in the resolution and processing power departments, not to mention there isnt a single commercial developer outside of Japan and Korea.
This could actually work for Microsoft if its marketed properly. There are plenty of disgruntled PSP owners (myself included) who want a device that can do more than play games and plenty of Ipod users that are irritated that the repeated requests for features such as wireless continually fall on deaf ears. If they market the device as a media device that just happens to play games they really have a shot at making a dent.
The PSP was a great idea but the Memory Stick Duo and UMD options really killed alot of its potential IMHO. The device had already been out a year before MSD 's of any size significant enough for music or video were affordable. Without the ability to output to a bigger screen, UMD was DOA, after all who the heck wants to rebuy their movies on a format that only works on a dinky little portable screen. The sad part is that if the UMD format had been opened up allowing the option of homeplayers and such the format could have really taken off.
The IPod while a great device is at the Mercy of whatever bone Job's feels like throwing at the users. I love apples design and innovation but the tempermental artist who thinks he knows what you need better than you know what you want act is really getting old.
A fairly generic handheld with a decent screen, standard memory format and decent capabilities would surely be welcomed by those who dont really need a full fledged pda but want something more than a game player.
Based on that resume it appears that the Author based his opinion on game design by finally learning a lesson after a career of making the same mistakkes he is speaking against. Madden makes up 2/3rds of his published resume and other than some graphics upgrades, Madden hasnt really added anything special or changed up gameplay since the Sega Genesis days. In fact, up until they got completely spanked in game reviews (sadly not with madden sheep) by Sega's NFL game there had been no real changes in game mechanics at all.
You have to remember though that Schizophrenia was not even defined until 1908 at the time the Eduard was institutionalized those suffering from Schizophrenia were just concidered flat out nuts. Freudian Theory was the "new science" and sas so outside the realm of Freudianisim that it was like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Though diagnosis was fairly defined treatment was nearly non-existant. Combine this with probablity of Albert having Aspergers himself and his feeling while not right by todays standards were clearly understandable in relation to the time and setting.
Websites seem to go out of their way to make accessing their content as difficult as possible. If I just want to see a screen shot of say "Super Mario Galaxy" at IGN, I have to click through a transitional ad followed by digging throught the article (assunming it dosnt have one of those annoying roll over ads that blocks half the screen and wont go away) to get to the sidebar that has a link to the screenshots which then tell me I need to join some "IGN" club to gain access. I dont visit any gaming site enough to justify paying for access (cash or spam are both payment methods IMHO) so usually I just skip it and search for a gaming blog somewhere with an image or wait for the next months magazine to show up. I realize the need for ad impressions and revenue but there has to be less intrusive and annoying way to do it.
Im evidently the only person who still subscribes to Electronic Gaming Monthly. I still read it regularly, they seem to be the only magazine with the balls to call a crappy game a crappy game anymore even in previews. Its the only one I still get. I have tried them all...NextGen and Dreamcast Magazines were my favorite, beautiful layout, good reviews and interesting articles.
I too avoid rebates at all costs. The two worst offenders in my area are CompUSA and Office Depot, followed slightly by MicroCenter. CompUSA is so bad about them that I have refused to step foot in there after the Black Friday sale last year. I stood in line 3 hours to save what I thought was $50 over what the others were charging on a high end video card. When I finally got in the store they had run out of the cards and according to the sales person only had 4 per store to start with, worse yet the price was actually around $30 higher than everywhere else but with a $75 rebate. There was nothing mentioned about it in the flyer, only a small asterisk which wasnt spelled out anywhere on the paper. After that I left the other things I was planning to buy in the cart and went to Best Buy.
I was just basing my observation on six years in Okinawa. 1000 Bishoujo and Hentai games wouldnt make a dent in Xbox360 sales either. It really is more about nationalisim and less about games. Its the same with most every product put 2 identical dvd players on the shelf one with an RCA logo and one with an AIWA badge and the Aiwa will outsell the RCA by several times. Sadly it reflects on what is wrong over here, we bargain shop for sweatshop goods at walmart with no regards to where its from and whos benefiting in order to save a nickel.
With the exception of ReVolt every one of those titles were flops. Why bother to buy them? Are they not creative enough to come up with their own game concepts and titles?
Remove the microsoft logo and put on a Japanese companies name, no hardware or software lineup changes needed. I guarantee sales would quadruple overnight.
There is only one problem with that...most Joe Six Pack types cant afford it. Out of all my friends who have consoles, I only know one that has it hooked up to a large tv let alone an HD one. Sony IMHO is tremendously overestimating the market for what is for all intent and purposes an HD only console. My consoles are all hooked up to a 20 inch flatscreen because the big screen in the living room is for TV and Movies. My wife doesnt want to sit around and watch the kids and I play games all day. I would imagine many others are im similar circumstances, of course that also totally negates the advantage of the blueray player as well.
I believe this will be the first console war where hype doesnt matter, its not that buyers are getting smarter, just that manufacturers are forcing consumers to really research their purchases when the cost is so high.
2. I don't allow M$ anything in my house, and the sony drm thing didn't affect me as I run linux for everything!
By that logic as a Linux user how does M$'s brand of evil effect you any more than Sonys?
5. The ps3 will run linux!!
For half the price you can build a pc that runs Linux far better so how is that a selling point?
6. Sony have good internal developers (studio liverpool etc), and will always have good 3rd party support. Namco, Squnix, EA etc have supported sony for years.
All of which are actively supporting others as well.
7. I'm gonna buy HD movies for my HD TV!
Well at least there is one of you out there who really cares about replacing their collection.
8. If I buy an x360, I will have to upgrade in 2 years time.
And if Blueray flames out you will be upgrading your PS3 in a year.
9. Its really only 20% more than I paid for my ps2 initially.
Wow you got ripped.
10. I've run out. Is bragging rights a good reason? Probably not.
You forgot reason 11. Fanboy
I did the "ebay" business from 2000-2003. I quit my job in 2002 to do it full time. I mainly sold tv and movie related collectables as well as vintage toys from the 50's-80's. Business was brisk and I made what I thought was decent money at the time. Moneyu was constantly flowing and I put as much of it back into inventory as possible. Things got a bit out of hand in 2003 and I was quickly becoming overwhelmed trying to run the business with just my wife and myself. I hired a bookeeper with the hopes of finding some ways to cut corners and find a way to hire help so that the business cold grow. Instead I found that based on the actual hours put in I was barely making minimum wage most of the time, after ebay fee increases, paypal fees, merchant account fees i found it just wasnt worth the effort. I went back into the workforce, but still have a business on the side related to what I was doing earlier. Now I still buy collectables and resell them locally, mostly to others expecting to get rich on Ebay.
I predict that in the next few years Ebay will be the marketplace equivalent of AOL, full of sellers and suckers (Those who prey on the idiots and those who dont know better). With google and others bringing new options online most of the old guard having been burned too many times before are more than ready to abandon ship as soon as an even semi viable option comes along.
Big difference between paypal vs google and the competing mail services. People have had a choice for years. No one complains about free email its reliable, its there, its ubiquitous. What irritates people with Paypal is the rather random enforcement of buyer and seller protection coupled with their stranglehold on ebay that pretty much makes any other method of payment impossible. After paying listing fees, final value fees, paypal fees, extra paypal fees if you want to be able to take credit cards, and dealing with buyers protection which is in my experience used in scam attempts as much as in real disputes, the ebay/paypal racket is hardly a bargain.
After all that, I still use it on occasion because I have no choice, thats the difference.
Why not provide better supervision of the kids at summer camp so that there is less dirt to post about? Oh wait that would require someone to actually take some responsibility...
SEGA's biggest problem was releasing their next generation consoles too early. More than a few months jump just gives the competition too much time to build up the hype machine, even if the hype simply isnt true. Sony built up a fan base with the psx that caused fanboys everywhere to latch on to every word. Emotion Engine, Built-In hard drive, bazillions of textures, higher poly counts...in the end most of the hype ment nothing but people bought into it. In hindsight SEGA should have waited about a year, they lost the specs war but in alot of peoples minds SEGA was well on their way to winning the gameplay war.
The ps2 has never performed at the level the hype suggested, the good thing about this is that even the fanboys are a bit more jaded now. People want to see performance and quality, not just a spec sheet. This generation seems poised to be the one where gameplay finally wins out over hype. May the best console win.
Yep I screwed it up...realized after I posted. Embarasing but I'll blame it on ulala, been playing space channel 5 with the kids all week :)
What about cheat codes?
I will admit to being guilty of this. I refuse to cheat in a rpg, but its rare that I dont end up cheating in a fps. I admit to being non-coordinated when it comes to gaming, but I still want to see the story and the cool graphics. Sad I know, but I get as much fun out of blasting away the bad guys without having to restart levels every 10 minutes.
This may sound like Tin Foil Hat conspiracy, but I believe what is going on with the big game studios is more a result of sticking to what they know and minimizing risks. When you know that licensing a big name like spider-man guarantee's at least a minimal amount of sales, why risk even a minimal budget on something that you dont know is going to sell at all. Most big game companies seem to take the approach that the more "visible" the game the better the game will be. They arent really going after gamers they are going after TV watchers and Movie goers. The bonus for them is that if they can convince the public that they are the only option then they can continue to shovel out crap at will.
Small Indy devs are more interested in pushing the envelope and creating new things, things that are risky. If something takes off it gets noticed but if it flops...usually thats it..game over. Take Castle Wolfenstien and Doom that little indy company Id pushed a new way to interact in a game world that revolutionized the industry. Back then before the days of anti aliasing and pixel shading, a company could afford a couple of Jazz Jackrabbits and Commander Keens before they hit it big. Today you get one chance unless you develop it in you basement you arent going to get the infusion of capital to ever bring an original idea to fruition.
The flaw in the big studios logic is that for most people that play games regularly they care more about the game being fun and different more than if Joe Movie Star's voice is in it, or if its a licensed character. I cant remember the last really good game I played that had either a license or a popular voice, if it did it wasnt one that stood out enough to notice.
Still the notion that there are no hit indy games is just noise. You can look as small as bejeweled or as big as Homeworld or Freedom Force to see that small publishers do still exist, they just have to have a product thats good enough to drown out the noise around them trying to convince games that they dont exist. Of couse the ones that do break through usually get bought by the big fish so that they can pump out sequels while tying up the original developers to wallow in the stagnant waters they created.
Sadly, many of todays games could easily be made for 1/3rd their budgets if they would forget the voices (who cares) and forget the hours of lovely boring cut scenes that most games skip over in the first place. I love cinematics as much as anyone but give it a bit of a rest, if I wanted a freakin movie i'd buy a ticket and go see one.
The biggest problem with Science starts with grade schools. In most schools today the amount of hoops you have to go through to make the class interesting. Over the top safety concerns and budget cuts have really restricted the ability to provide interesting presentations and interactive experimentation. Sometimes "think of the children" tends to result in children that can't think.
I spoke with my oldest daughters teacher about the experiments they would be doing this year, sadly they cant even make a potato battery or pickle light due to the threat of fire or something goofy. I actually got reprimanded by the teacher last year for showing my daughter some kitchen experiments that she proceeded to bring up in class, since the students were wanting to see them. Now instead of shattering a hot dog with liquid nitrogen kids get to do things like a baking soda submarine...wheeeee! No wonder the students dont care and the teachers are bored out their minds.
While im not much of a GTA fan myself, I could definately see the appeal of the wii remote as a control for the game, gun (check), knife (check), baseball bat (check), it can even be a steering wheel for the vehicles. If you really think about it the Wiimote might be the best interface for GTA type game ever....even the hot coffee mod takes on a whole new level. EWWWW!
I guess there is obviously a market for this stuff but am I alone in prefering a few different devices that do what they are supposed to do well, rather than a single device that half asses everything. I gave up on the PDA because they kept trying to "converge" it making the latest incarnations mostly crap. I go out of my way for a simple phone, my big requirements are signal and sound quality. I guess I was brought up on the KISS principle, its hard to believe that im alone in that.
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