Never say never when it comes to statements like that. Remember those guys who said back in 93: "You'll never play a blood soaked slugathon like DOOM on a kiddie console". Or the ones who said a few years later "You'll never have internet play on a console".
There are two console MMORPG's, both PS2 games (though FFXI has an Xbox port), both with keyboard support. Past trends prove that there will be more, it's only a matter of time.
note the traditional I'm sure future consoles will push more towards this type of gaming (and towards PCs) due to its popularity.
Let's just face it, paid software is great but unless the really basic stuff gets ironed out, Windows will not satisfy the needs of basic people.
I used to suggest installing Vista to people, but after running into some trouble with how it handles user account control, I won't. Somehow, someone thought it'd be a great idea not to prompt you only once to complete and action, but to rather require that you're really sure that you approve by prompting multiple times for anything that requires even a small amount of privileged access. Now that was easy to clear up in the phone.
The general population wants what they know and until a Linux distribution is pulled together in a nice, neat, familiar (to mainstream users, meaning Windows) package, they will not buy it.
You mean like Ubuntu or Fedora?
Doh, I forgot they're free...
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Why not? Who says there's not consciousness out there just waiting to take control of some matter, manmade or otherwise?
If you'd rather we could contract it out to the Chinese.
Never say never when it comes to statements like that. Remember those guys who said back in 93: "You'll never play a blood soaked slugathon like DOOM on a kiddie console". Or the ones who said a few years later "You'll never have internet play on a console".
There are two console MMORPG's, both PS2 games (though FFXI has an Xbox port), both with keyboard support. Past trends prove that there will be more, it's only a matter of time.
note the traditional
I'm sure future consoles will push more towards this type of gaming (and towards PCs) due to its popularity.
Or an MMO.
Certain genre's will never be comfortable on a traditional gaming console.
Dual core has major advantages for modern gaming rigs. Especially those with multiple monitors.
Try running a second desktop with a web browser on your P4 and watch how it kills your FPS.
I wanna see you play WoW or WAR on your Xbox.
Happiness isn't profit? Since when does it have to be a monetary return?
Nope, the mailman.
Hooray for reasons to punch babies!
It will be "justice". The deaths of millions of innocents for no good reason. Just like the socialists of the 20th century did.
Socialists like G. W. Bush?
I believe the correct spelling would be: Whose Gate? /troll
Since when do you use Firefox for creating documents? I thought it was a web browser.
Let's just face it, paid software is great but unless the really basic stuff gets ironed out, Windows will not satisfy the needs of basic people. I used to suggest installing Vista to people, but after running into some trouble with how it handles user account control, I won't. Somehow, someone thought it'd be a great idea not to prompt you only once to complete and action, but to rather require that you're really sure that you approve by prompting multiple times for anything that requires even a small amount of privileged access. Now that was easy to clear up in the phone.
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The general population wants what they know and until a Linux distribution is pulled together in a nice, neat, familiar (to mainstream users, meaning Windows) package, they will not buy it.
You mean like Ubuntu or Fedora? Doh, I forgot they're free...