Yeah, also reasons I like the ipod - lots of accessories and compatibile products out there for it.
I was just point out to the GP that while there are valid reason to not want to own an iPod, there are also valid reasons FOR owning one. So many people seem to have a knee-jerk negative opinion of them.
Plenty unless you don't want to have to deal with switching out music all the time. I got my 60 GB because, at the time, I could have my whole mp3 collection on it. Now, I have expanded my collection so it no longer quit efits, but I am still very pleased that, when I stumble sleepily out the door in the morning, I don't have to change around what's on my iPod. Whatever I want to hear on my commute will be there.
That said, I can see why not everyone would want an iPod. But I'm just trying to explain why someone WOULD... at least until there are more and cheaper 60 GB players out there (the ne Toshiba one looks pretty good and is also 60 GB)
Another thing that would be interesting, though challenging from a designers perspective, would be to create interfaces for his super-senses in game. So, instead of a simplistic "find the threat" button, you could toggle x-ray vision on, or super hearing... and have to actually learn how to use the senses effectively. That could be cool, if done right...
He could try to save things "in the nick of time" for many or most of the puzzles, rather than haul out stupidity like Kryptonite beams everywhere.
This is actually a good solution. You could make flying levels where superman has to get to the disaster or whatever it is, and has a timer... you have to fly him through the city without hurting anyone or crashing through any buildings. When you get to the disaster, it could almost be like a puzzle... say it's a volcano, you have to figure out whether to seal it up (which could cause the pressure to build so it will explode), or drill down into the earth and release the pressure, or some other novel solution.
You could also add in some gameplay that involved him having to achieve goals while not giving away his identity... He is at a press conference as Clark Kent, for example, and terrorists take hostage. So Clark has to disable the terrorists with strategic uses of super-breath or heat vision, but not give himself away. You could add in some sort of "reveal-meter" that measures whether or not people are noticing.
Adding in elements like that that actually reflect the problems supes has in the comics could be really cool.
Also, Superman is vulnerable to magic and illusion still, so those are threats that can be used.
The article isn't really full of it... because the article doesn't say what the synopsis seems to think it does. I read the article, and it basically is a academic analysis of Resident Evil 4, and why it works as a horror game. No mention anywhere that I saw of every game needing horror, or even that every gamer needs horror games. It's simply an analysis of RE4 as a part of the horror genre, with some information about the genre.
I have a DS, but I will be getting a standard console (at least one) as well, because I do crave the "deeper" games, as well as the 4 player games like mario kart or timesplitters/halo/quake/whatever (and not all of my friends have a DS). So I will definitely eventually get at least one console to satisfy those joneses.
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Right now I see each of these boxes as having a significant strike against it: The PS3 is going to (probably) cost too much; the X360 relies heavily on Live! for value and has no standard HD; and the Wii can't do HD.
If that's the ONLY strike against the Wii, then why is he a sucker to want to buy it? Perhaps he simply doesn't care about HD. I know that I, personally, will likely not have an HDTV for the next several years... I think most people are also in the same boat, planning to upgrade to HDTV in a few years but not yet.
I personally will not buy the Wii until i've had a chance to play an in-store unit, but as long as it's pretty fun, I'll be getting one. At $250-$300 including Zelda, that's not an outlandish purchase.
People who want to make galleries of their photos available to family and friends, for free, with tons of features (such as the ability to get your photos one hour printed at your local Target, plus great tagging and organizational features)?
Plus, if you are trying to share photos with friends and family, it's a hell of a lot more effort to IM or email them each time they want to look at a picture then it is to just have a gallery set up. They can look at the pictures anytime they want, without hassling you. They can add your pictures to their favorites, view slideshows, comment, they can even get them printed (if you let them in your preferences).
Also, I have had companies and people approach me with work based on my flickr galleries. It's a decent networking/promotion tool.
I thought they only released quarterly announcements, can you link to a site which shows the weekly ones? I'd love to be able to be able to keep up with the figures weekly.
System - Units Sold - Total Sold (Current Year) Nintendo DS Lite - 135,614 - 2,056,107 PSP - 24,595 - 823,958 PlayStation 2 - 18,513 - 671,928 GameBoy Advance SP - 4,364 - 150,734 GameBoy Micro - 1,270 - 97,487 Xbox 360 - 1,245 - 51,488 Nintendo DS - 1,159 - 868,537 GameCube - 798 - 51,374 GameBoy Advance - 30 - 2,747 Xbox - 43 - 1,523
As you can see, the DS + DS Lite has sold (this year so far) about 3 and a half times the amount of PSPs sold. While the PSP is indeed a high selling handheld, the DS is a phenomenon. It was sold out for several weeks earlier in the year, a nintendo first.
If you look at current game charts (also on that same link from above), you will see some interesting numbers as well:
1 New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo NDS 2 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu Nintendo NDS 3 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju no Nouo Nintendo NDS 4 Metroid Prime: Hunters Nintendo NDS 5 World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 Konami PS2 6 Tetris DS Nintendo NDS 7 Animal Crossing: Wild World Nintendo NDS 8 Eigoga Nigatena Otona no Nintendo NDS 9 Jikkyou Powerful Major League Konami PS2 SPT 10 Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy Square Enix PSP
7 of the top 10 Japanese games are for the NDS. 2 are for the PS2. And 1, #10, is for the PSP. The top game of the week, New Mario Bros, sold 334,208 copies. #10, "Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable" for the PSP sold 15,640.
So yes, the DS is destroying over there. Here, the PSP has the lead from what I have read (though there are no official nation-wide sales figures, so it's hard sometimes to tell). I'm sure Nintendo hopes the DS Lite will turn the tide in the West. We'll see soon if it worked, I guess.
Here is the wrap up of last weeks games sold in the US.
Where are you getting these figures? There is no central US game sales figures that I know off... most sites use either figures from best buy or ebgames, or amazon... all of which are useful, but none are really comprehensive.
Last night I compared my DS & Mario Kart to my friends new Lite @ Mario Kert, side by side, and it was pretty painful to note now much better it looked on his. I will be getting one of these as soon as the US gets other colors besides white.
It's a bit better, with some new strategies (dual screen battles, dual strike powers)... and I already beat Advance Wars, so Dual Strike was a welcome game for me!
I'd also recommend New Super Mario Brothers (it's great!) and Age of Empires for the DS...
I have yet to find a PSP game I'm interested in enough to justify buying it. The GTA game has gotten lukewarm reviews and, honestly, I'm pretty GTAed out. I hope GTA4 adds some cool new dimensions to the experience, because I've played GTA3 3 times now if you count LC and SA.
It's worth noting that the difficulty is only half of his argument. The other half can be summarised as "Screenshots can be art just as much as photography can".
The other half isn't really valid either - anything can be artistic. In fact, most of the photos posted on flickr aren't really reated as art. But they ARE photos. In my example, I wouldn't accuse either the poet or the programmer of being unartistic, unclever, or unanything... but I'd try and keep the poems on the poetry site, and the code on the code site. That's all that Flickr is doing here, as you say.
That justification (that it's hard to take a screenshot) doesn't make much sense considering that Flickr is a site thats goal is to be a community for people who enjoy photography. Thus, when people go to the public areas, they should see photographs. Not because it's hard to take a photograph, but because it's the interest that the site is designed to promote.
To put it another way, if I had a website dedicated to people posting their poetry, I would probably delist people if they posted perl code - and not because I thought writing a poem is harder or easier, just because it's not what the site is for.
Photoshop preserves EXIF data, I believe... I know I have used it to change contrast and so forth on an image, and it has kept the EXIF data on the file.
With 100 million+ PS2's sold you are in the vast minority of gamers. If Sony is marketing the PS3 as a machine to play PS2 games for people that haven't yet played those games, that's pretty ridiculous.
Also, if you want a PS2, they are easy enough to get. And cheap - on my local craigslist board I see them offered for $150 with tons of accessories and 10+ games all the time. No need to buy a $500 or $600 PS3.
That's pretty unlikely. While I do think it will fail to duplicate the sucess of the PS2, there's no way the PS3 will sell as few copies as either the Xbox 1 or the Gamecube, just based on brand loyalty, if nothing else, and neither of them are in the bargain bin.
I have also read that import DS units will not allow you to connect to in-store kiosks. (Game stores have kiosks that let you download demos wirelessly to your DS). However, since I've never done that even with my non-import DS, that's no biggie.
Is it? There have been some very successful franchises over the last few years... Civ IV, the Sims, etc.
I think that PC gaming is still viable... for game genres that are better on a PC than on a console. I couldn't imagine playing a RTS or Civ game on a console (though, perhaps, the Wiimote will change that). Likewise, WoW or other MMORPGs wouldn't be as easy to play on a console. However, consoles are better for other types of games.
I really doubt PC Gaming will die out overall, though certain genres of PC gaming probably will.
* All the same exclusive games that 103+ million people bought Playstation 2s for * Complete backwards compatibility with 8000+ Playstation games * Complete backwards compatibility with 8000+ Playstation 2 games
I fail to see why people tout this as a reason to buy a PS3. Yes, I love my exclusive PS2 games...and I can continue to play them on my PS2, as I do now. That's not going to convince me to buy a PS3. I'm gonna buy a PS3 when there are games out that I want to play enough to justify the price of said games + the console. Not a moment sooner.
Rootkits on CDs? DRM? Proprietary format afrer proprietary format (memory stick, ATRAC, UMD)? Consoles that are more expensive because they are using them as a trojan for their new media format and not just as a game system? The attitude that consumers should feel lucky for the chance to pay $599 for a console?
There is a lot to dislike about Sony's strategy at the moment. The main thing dissuading me from buying a PS3 is the price. I just won't buy it at the announced price. I don't play games enough to justify it. Even though I can afford it, there are other things I would use more for the price. Once it comes down in a year or two, I'll probably pick one up. By then there will be a strong library of games for it, as well.
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Yeah, also reasons I like the ipod - lots of accessories and compatibile products out there for it.
I was just point out to the GP that while there are valid reason to not want to own an iPod, there are also valid reasons FOR owning one. So many people seem to have a knee-jerk negative opinion of them.
Plenty unless you don't want to have to deal with switching out music all the time. I got my 60 GB because, at the time, I could have my whole mp3 collection on it. Now, I have expanded my collection so it no longer quit efits, but I am still very pleased that, when I stumble sleepily out the door in the morning, I don't have to change around what's on my iPod. Whatever I want to hear on my commute will be there.
That said, I can see why not everyone would want an iPod. But I'm just trying to explain why someone WOULD... at least until there are more and cheaper 60 GB players out there (the ne Toshiba one looks pretty good and is also 60 GB)
Another thing that would be interesting, though challenging from a designers perspective, would be to create interfaces for his super-senses in game. So, instead of a simplistic "find the threat" button, you could toggle x-ray vision on, or super hearing... and have to actually learn how to use the senses effectively. That could be cool, if done right...
The article isn't really full of it... because the article doesn't say what the synopsis seems to think it does. I read the article, and it basically is a academic analysis of Resident Evil 4, and why it works as a horror game. No mention anywhere that I saw of every game needing horror, or even that every gamer needs horror games. It's simply an analysis of RE4 as a part of the horror genre, with some information about the genre.
Really? I thought it required a Pentium to run. I remrmeber my 486 66 was not able to run it.
I have a DS, but I will be getting a standard console (at least one) as well, because I do crave the "deeper" games, as well as the 4 player games like mario kart or timesplitters/halo/quake/whatever (and not all of my friends have a DS). So I will definitely eventually get at least one console to satisfy those joneses.
Right now I see each of these boxes as having a significant strike against it: The PS3 is going to (probably) cost too much; the X360 relies heavily on Live! for value and has no standard HD; and the Wii can't do HD.
If that's the ONLY strike against the Wii, then why is he a sucker to want to buy it? Perhaps he simply doesn't care about HD. I know that I, personally, will likely not have an HDTV for the next several years... I think most people are also in the same boat, planning to upgrade to HDTV in a few years but not yet.
I personally will not buy the Wii until i've had a chance to play an in-store unit, but as long as it's pretty fun, I'll be getting one. At $250-$300 including Zelda, that's not an outlandish purchase.
People who want to make galleries of their photos available to family and friends, for free, with tons of features (such as the ability to get your photos one hour printed at your local Target, plus great tagging and organizational features)?
Plus, if you are trying to share photos with friends and family, it's a hell of a lot more effort to IM or email them each time they want to look at a picture then it is to just have a gallery set up. They can look at the pictures anytime they want, without hassling you. They can add your pictures to their favorites, view slideshows, comment, they can even get them printed (if you let them in your preferences).
Also, I have had companies and people approach me with work based on my flickr galleries. It's a decent networking/promotion tool.
I thought they only released quarterly announcements, can you link to a site which shows the weekly ones? I'd love to be able to be able to keep up with the figures weekly.
The PSP is doing better here, by all accounts, than in Japan.
Some hard #s:
May 29 - Jun 4, 2006
System - Units Sold - Total Sold (Current Year)
Nintendo DS Lite - 135,614 - 2,056,107
PSP - 24,595 - 823,958
PlayStation 2 - 18,513 - 671,928
GameBoy Advance SP - 4,364 - 150,734
GameBoy Micro - 1,270 - 97,487
Xbox 360 - 1,245 - 51,488
Nintendo DS - 1,159 - 868,537
GameCube - 798 - 51,374
GameBoy Advance - 30 - 2,747
Xbox - 43 - 1,523
As you can see, the DS + DS Lite has sold (this year so far) about 3 and a half times the amount of PSPs sold. While the PSP is indeed a high selling handheld, the DS is a phenomenon. It was sold out for several weeks earlier in the year, a nintendo first.
If you look at current game charts (also on that same link from above), you will see some interesting numbers as well:
1 New Super Mario Bros. Nintendo NDS
2 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu Nintendo NDS
3 Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju no Nouo Nintendo NDS
4 Metroid Prime: Hunters Nintendo NDS
5 World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 Konami PS2
6 Tetris DS Nintendo NDS
7 Animal Crossing: Wild World Nintendo NDS
8 Eigoga Nigatena Otona no Nintendo NDS
9 Jikkyou Powerful Major League Konami PS2 SPT
10 Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy Square Enix PSP
7 of the top 10 Japanese games are for the NDS. 2 are for the PS2. And 1, #10, is for the PSP. The top game of the week, New Mario Bros, sold 334,208 copies. #10, "Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable" for the PSP sold 15,640.
So yes, the DS is destroying over there. Here, the PSP has the lead from what I have read (though there are no official nation-wide sales figures, so it's hard sometimes to tell). I'm sure Nintendo hopes the DS Lite will turn the tide in the West. We'll see soon if it worked, I guess.
Here is the wrap up of last weeks games sold in the US.
Where are you getting these figures? There is no central US game sales figures that I know off... most sites use either figures from best buy or ebgames, or amazon... all of which are useful, but none are really comprehensive.
Last night I compared my DS & Mario Kart to my friends new Lite @ Mario Kert, side by side, and it was pretty painful to note now much better it looked on his. I will be getting one of these as soon as the US gets other colors besides white.
Wow, I didn't realize that it was out for the PS2, for $20? I may have to get that. I'm kinda tired of the GTA games, but $20 is cheap...
Advance Wars - no better than my GBA version
It's a bit better, with some new strategies (dual screen battles, dual strike powers)... and I already beat Advance Wars, so Dual Strike was a welcome game for me!
I'd also recommend New Super Mario Brothers (it's great!) and Age of Empires for the DS...
I have yet to find a PSP game I'm interested in enough to justify buying it. The GTA game has gotten lukewarm reviews and, honestly, I'm pretty GTAed out. I hope GTA4 adds some cool new dimensions to the experience, because I've played GTA3 3 times now if you count LC and SA.
It's worth noting that the difficulty is only half of his argument. The other half can be summarised as "Screenshots can be art just as much as photography can".
The other half isn't really valid either - anything can be artistic. In fact, most of the photos posted on flickr aren't really reated as art. But they ARE photos. In my example, I wouldn't accuse either the poet or the programmer of being unartistic, unclever, or unanything... but I'd try and keep the poems on the poetry site, and the code on the code site. That's all that Flickr is doing here, as you say.
That justification (that it's hard to take a screenshot) doesn't make much sense considering that Flickr is a site thats goal is to be a community for people who enjoy photography. Thus, when people go to the public areas, they should see photographs. Not because it's hard to take a photograph, but because it's the interest that the site is designed to promote.
To put it another way, if I had a website dedicated to people posting their poetry, I would probably delist people if they posted perl code - and not because I thought writing a poem is harder or easier, just because it's not what the site is for.
Photoshop preserves EXIF data, I believe... I know I have used it to change contrast and so forth on an image, and it has kept the EXIF data on the file.
Well, it got them linked on slashdot, which means clicks & ad revenue... so it seems to be successful.
Oh, how about because I don't have a PS2.
With 100 million+ PS2's sold you are in the vast minority of gamers. If Sony is marketing the PS3 as a machine to play PS2 games for people that haven't yet played those games, that's pretty ridiculous.
Also, if you want a PS2, they are easy enough to get. And cheap - on my local craigslist board I see them offered for $150 with tons of accessories and 10+ games all the time. No need to buy a $500 or $600 PS3.
That's pretty unlikely. While I do think it will fail to duplicate the sucess of the PS2, there's no way the PS3 will sell as few copies as either the Xbox 1 or the Gamecube, just based on brand loyalty, if nothing else, and neither of them are in the bargain bin.
The only difference is color.
I have also read that import DS units will not allow you to connect to in-store kiosks. (Game stores have kiosks that let you download demos wirelessly to your DS). However, since I've never done that even with my non-import DS, that's no biggie.
PC gaming is dying outside of MMORPGs.
Is it? There have been some very successful franchises over the last few years... Civ IV, the Sims, etc.
I think that PC gaming is still viable... for game genres that are better on a PC than on a console. I couldn't imagine playing a RTS or Civ game on a console (though, perhaps, the Wiimote will change that). Likewise, WoW or other MMORPGs wouldn't be as easy to play on a console. However, consoles are better for other types of games.
I really doubt PC Gaming will die out overall, though certain genres of PC gaming probably will.
* All the same exclusive games that 103+ million people bought Playstation 2s for
* Complete backwards compatibility with 8000+ Playstation games
* Complete backwards compatibility with 8000+ Playstation 2 games
I fail to see why people tout this as a reason to buy a PS3. Yes, I love my exclusive PS2 games...and I can continue to play them on my PS2, as I do now. That's not going to convince me to buy a PS3. I'm gonna buy a PS3 when there are games out that I want to play enough to justify the price of said games + the console. Not a moment sooner.
Rootkits on CDs? DRM? Proprietary format afrer proprietary format (memory stick, ATRAC, UMD)? Consoles that are more expensive because they are using them as a trojan for their new media format and not just as a game system? The attitude that consumers should feel lucky for the chance to pay $599 for a console?
There is a lot to dislike about Sony's strategy at the moment. The main thing dissuading me from buying a PS3 is the price. I just won't buy it at the announced price. I don't play games enough to justify it. Even though I can afford it, there are other things I would use more for the price. Once it comes down in a year or two, I'll probably pick one up. By then there will be a strong library of games for it, as well.