While those are all valid complaints, at least the biggest source of potential problems - the hard drive - has been eliminated from the Nano.
Base on that fact alone, it *should* be more reliable than the iPod and iPod mini, but I guess time will tell.
Re:Listless crowd?
on
PAX05 Writeup
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Well, ya kind of have to go with the flow when it comes to concerts. If I went to see, say, James Taylor and started a mosh pit, I would (rightly) earn the ire of everyone around me. On the flipside, if I went to a Pantera show (RIP Dimebag) and was trying to shush everyone around me so I could appreciate the music, I'd again rightly get my ass kicked.
"Interestingly, the original game [Tomb Raider] was almost universally popular when it came out, and had more crossover appeal then most Playstation games."
True - because it was one of the first really well done third-person 3D games besides Mario 64. And Lara Croft *did* appeal to women at first, because she was a tough, attractive chick that hadn't yet been turned into a characture of a 13 yr old's wet dream. As the article correctly points out - once the focus went from the gameplay to Lara's "celebrity" status and the ever-increasing number of polygons that made up her boobs, females promptly tuned TR out.
"If these are why girls don't play games, then why haven't girls stopped watching movies? I notice a lot of prominent advertising for -shudder- Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo, and yet girls still go to movies."
Yeah, but would they if nearly every movie was equivalent to Deuce Bigelow? With the exception of a handful of blockbusters and a few "arty"/niche games, that's pretty much the situation we have now with the gaming industry. You bust shit up, one way or the other. Which doesn't appeal to most (not all) females.
Right... Apple of the "3Ghz in 2005!", cherry-picked benchmark fame? What Apple promises and what they actually deliver usually have very little in common with each other. The chance that they'll actually be able to run all PPC code at anywhere near full speed on x86 is unlikely at best.
MS has plenty of tools to get the job done - they're simply playing their cards close to the chest at this point. With such different platforms, it only makes sense that they would downplay the backward compatibility aspect. If they can pull it off well, great! An extra bonus for the Xbox 360. If it turns out they can't, well, they won't have to backpedal and make some convoluted statement about why they couldn't come through. Under-promise, over-deliver.
Who said anything about it being anyone's "patriotic duty"?
Personally, I prefer the Xbox because I'm not interested in the very Japanese stylings of what many of the PS2 and Gamecube titles offer. It has nothing to do with being "patriotic" - I simply prefer the style of American and European developers.
I love how the Nintendo fanboys love to skew things to make it look like Nintendo is doing better than they really are. If you truly want to compare all three corporations apples to apples, you have to eliminate Nintendo's handheld division. Without that, Nintendo's financial outlook is pretty bleak.
If you insist on comparing all sources of income, then both MS and Sony smack Nintendo around like a two dollar hooker.
Nonsense. It was trivial to download and burn Dreamcast games - moreso than any other console to date. Yet if anything, that helped bury the console. It certainly didn't help it.
Who said anything about Christianity? It's not mentioned in the original topic, nor in the linked articles. One does not have to be Christian to be concerned with what their children are doing.
"You could say the same about the excellent Advance Wars 2 [advancewars.com]. "
Yeah, but you're talking about a far more limited platform. Advance Wars 2 makes good use of the hardware it has to work with. The X86 platform is capable of far more.
Another point to consider when people bring up code bloat and relative speed of the two systems is that MS has taken great pains to keep as much backwards compatibility as possible. Apple, on the other hand, threw the baby out with the bathwater. Yeah, there's classic mode, but it's a half-assed solution at best.
Sure....NET Framework DirectX 9 the addition of IPv6 a rewrite of the firewall major security infrastructure improvements a radically improved update mechanism Set Program Access and Defaults Windows Media Player 10 (contrast this with the awful WMP 8 included with XP RTM) the addition of things like handwriting to Messenger the security center a simpler wireless UI etc. etc.
Slashdot Mirror
While those are all valid complaints, at least the biggest source of potential problems - the hard drive - has been eliminated from the Nano.
Base on that fact alone, it *should* be more reliable than the iPod and iPod mini, but I guess time will tell.
Well, ya kind of have to go with the flow when it comes to concerts. If I went to see, say, James Taylor and started a mosh pit, I would (rightly) earn the ire of everyone around me. On the flipside, if I went to a Pantera show (RIP Dimebag) and was trying to shush everyone around me so I could appreciate the music, I'd again rightly get my ass kicked.
No, the C64 was most definitely a game machine first. It just happened to have a keyboard and a smattering of productivity software.
Yeah, because it's shit. Everyone else benefits, but it would drastically hurt the US.
"Interestingly, the original game [Tomb Raider] was almost universally popular when it came out, and had more crossover appeal then most Playstation games."
True - because it was one of the first really well done third-person 3D games besides Mario 64. And Lara Croft *did* appeal to women at first, because she was a tough, attractive chick that hadn't yet been turned into a characture of a 13 yr old's wet dream. As the article correctly points out - once the focus went from the gameplay to Lara's "celebrity" status and the ever-increasing number of polygons that made up her boobs, females promptly tuned TR out.
"If these are why girls don't play games, then why haven't girls stopped watching movies? I notice a lot of prominent advertising for -shudder- Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo, and yet girls still go to movies."
Yeah, but would they if nearly every movie was equivalent to Deuce Bigelow? With the exception of a handful of blockbusters and a few "arty"/niche games, that's pretty much the situation we have now with the gaming industry. You bust shit up, one way or the other. Which doesn't appeal to most (not all) females.
Well, that's one, I guess. Very much the exception, not the rule.
Right... Apple of the "3Ghz in 2005!", cherry-picked benchmark fame? What Apple promises and what they actually deliver usually have very little in common with each other. The chance that they'll actually be able to run all PPC code at anywhere near full speed on x86 is unlikely at best.
MS has plenty of tools to get the job done - they're simply playing their cards close to the chest at this point. With such different platforms, it only makes sense that they would downplay the backward compatibility aspect. If they can pull it off well, great! An extra bonus for the Xbox 360. If it turns out they can't, well, they won't have to backpedal and make some convoluted statement about why they couldn't come through. Under-promise, over-deliver.
Who said anything about it being anyone's "patriotic duty"?
Personally, I prefer the Xbox because I'm not interested in the very Japanese stylings of what many of the PS2 and Gamecube titles offer. It has nothing to do with being "patriotic" - I simply prefer the style of American and European developers.
I love how the Nintendo fanboys love to skew things to make it look like Nintendo is doing better than they really are. If you truly want to compare all three corporations apples to apples, you have to eliminate Nintendo's handheld division. Without that, Nintendo's financial outlook is pretty bleak.
If you insist on comparing all sources of income, then both MS and Sony smack Nintendo around like a two dollar hooker.
"Leela"
Nonsense. It was trivial to download and burn Dreamcast games - moreso than any other console to date. Yet if anything, that helped bury the console. It certainly didn't help it.
Meh. Between my 16:10 AR monitor at home and my dual monitor setup at work, I'll never go back to the "square" screen.
True - the clips on the site make it sound more like a dulcimer than a guitar.
This is just rationalizing semantic bullshit from people who don't want to pay for software they use.
"Strangely enough, some have even said that the post-movie seasons of South Park are far more intellectual than the pre-movie seasons."
Not much of an accomplishment, considering the bar wasn't set particularly high...
Actually, I believe those were both by Mel Gibson - an Australian.
Just because your experience is lacking doesn't negate Minter's accomplishments.
With that attitude, why should anyone ever leave their own home?
Who said anything about Christianity? It's not mentioned in the original topic, nor in the linked articles. One does not have to be Christian to be concerned with what their children are doing.
Funny... I thought Halo anchored their launch. And the Xbox certainly didn't suffer for it.
"You could say the same about the excellent Advance Wars 2 [advancewars.com]. "
Yeah, but you're talking about a far more limited platform. Advance Wars 2 makes good use of the hardware it has to work with. The X86 platform is capable of far more.
Are you implying that the mini is an acceptable PVR solution? 'Cause there's more to being a PVR than form factor...
Care to link to some of that documentation?
Another point to consider when people bring up code bloat and relative speed of the two systems is that MS has taken great pains to keep as much backwards compatibility as possible. Apple, on the other hand, threw the baby out with the bathwater. Yeah, there's classic mode, but it's a half-assed solution at best.
Sure... .NET Framework
DirectX 9
the addition of IPv6
a rewrite of the firewall
major security infrastructure improvements
a radically improved update mechanism
Set Program Access and Defaults
Windows Media Player 10 (contrast this with the awful WMP 8 included with XP RTM)
the addition of things like handwriting to Messenger
the security center
a simpler wireless UI
etc. etc.