MGS4 was a sequel that revisited an environment AND it did it well. The return to Shadow Moses in MGS4 was one of the heartbreaking and gut wrenching moments.
Plus seeing the shattered remains of Metal Gear REX and using it to trounce a Metal Gear RAY unit was all sorts of satisfying.
he's repeating a really wrong and really dangerous, from a business stand point, notion that total market share and numbers of users dominates, it doesn't. At the end of the day, profits dominate. Rovio isn't going to see the same numbers EA or Konami or Capcom or Bethesda will. Bar none.
He's right that yes, there are way more people playing casual games, but the market for non casual games is going up.
Give it a few months, and there will be thousands there too
That'd be neat if it weren't for the fact that one of the biggest selling points of the Android platform was resolution independence. What was so wrong with the UI, API and OS that they had to retool, well, ANYTHING for tablets?
I can imagine retooling the built in apps for a guaranteed minimum screen spec, but, this is ridiculous.
Making that software super slow and super buggy was also quite bad.
Well, let's be honest, they were competing with iTunes on Windows...
But poor codec support hasn't hurt Apple. AAC/MP3 should be enough for everyone(Unless the Zune didn't support AAC for whatever reason).
What really hurt the Zune was that as an mp3 player, it was outclassed by the iPod and as a touch screen flash based media device(Zune HD), it was outclassed by the iPod Touch. Even if the specs were better(Tegra 1 versus an overclocked iPhone 3G), the iPod Touch has a rich base of applications. The Zune had nothing to leverage. Even worse, Windows Phone 7 can't use Zune apps and the entire ecosystem for apps are separated.
Apple really does take an authoritarian stance here. It's our platform, it's our patch, take it and shut up.
While tyranny is really scary, comparing that to the bumbling incompetence of Microsoft and the some of the various Android OEMs(and by some slight extension, Google), it really makes me appreciate the walled garden a little more.
Not just that but OpenGL wasn't meant as a gaming 3D API, it was meant as an industrial 3D Serious Work API. CAD, CGI, et al.
When 3dfx came around the corner it was all there was. Khronos has to balance it's interests versus vendors who supply a wide variety of products, not just games.
Maybe it would be in Khronos' best interest to fork OpenGL into two projects? OpenGL for serious business apps, and some new API for open standards gaming?
I wonder if they're just going to ban everyone who redeemed a code worth such a small amount. Why the hell do amounts that small exist? must be for fast food promos or something.
The only difference that you had between 360's was did you want one with a shiny disk drive and a harddrive and HD cables thrown in or no hard drive, matte disk drive, and no HD cable.
What the hell are you talking about? That was a particularly bad decision because this meant that developers couldn't rely on having the HDD there anymore, unlike the previous generation of console.
Normally I'd throw out a snarky joke like, "You mean the title should've been Google Releases Stable version of Chrome" but as a browser, Chrome's been pretty stable. Flash still makes it fall over from time to time, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
As an Apple fanboy who regularly shills for Apple for free and picks fights with Android fanboys, I kind of want to jump to this guy's defense, and there's a logical explanation that this guy may just be a really lazy bastard who doesn't want to bother with porting software.
On the other hand, unlike Android and Apple fanboys who have excellent software to fanboy out over, what's there to fanboy out about the Microsoft experience? I'm not sure what percentage of paid Microserfs there are here, so, I'm not sure which side occam's razor would fall on.
The playbook and the touchpad both are heavily invested in the user buying into the phone ecosystem too. RIM's not even bothering with 3G in the Playbook, relying instead on tethering with a Blackberry and the Touchpad's most compelling features require a WebOS phone.
To make the most of their products you're going to have to buy into either WebOS or the Blackberry ecosystem whole hog or not. The iPhone's got some integration with respect to games and apps that have cross iPhone/iPad communication, but, the core OS doesn't require an iOS device to make the most of it.
Given that, I doubt the Playbook will make a huge splash. It's interesting hardware and software, but, I doubt RIM's ability to bring together a product in a new market like this that'll turn a profit, much less be an iPad killer.
I have some hope that the Touchpad's going to make a splash, but, let's face it, WebOS is dead.
I forgot to mention I've got Macs at home and had a Linux netbook until I decided to ditch that for another Mac. Flash is complete shit. Why would anyone *want* it?
I have a Windows machine my work loaned me so I can work from home or on the go, in my single datapoint, Flash is responsible for more browser crashes than any other cause.
The Linux version of Flash is worse than the Mac version which is worse than the PC version which is shit to begin with. The PC version of flash doesn't work fine. Why would you expect it to work fine on mobile? The whole experience is buggy and complete shit.
In MGS3, the love making scene at the end with EVA and Naked Snake in front of the fire place was pretty decent. It was very much a throwback to Bond-era movie making. It wasn't ridiculous, it was also pretty tasteful.
Sometimes games get sex right. MGS4's Naomi/Otacon scene was a little ridiculous... But given where the bar is, it wasn't bad.
So why are iMovie, Garage Band, Pages and other document creation software available on the iPad? Those aren't third party apps mind you. Those are Apple apps. They sort of designed the thing. They don't seem to think the iPad's a content consumption device.
The consumption paradigm for tablets is stupid. The tablet form factor can allow you to do more than just consume. Having a 10 inch multitouch display is nice when working with say, DJ gear that can interface with it and your mixing application on your PC.
Most consumers don't give a crap about who made the disk sitting in their box on their desk, just that it has enough space for justin bieber mp3s and pictures of their children.
Besides, I'm willing to bet with an off the cuff guess given the reliability of a given disk, the reason why consumers find themselves with new disks largely isn't replacement after failure, it's most likely due to a new device purchase. So it really is in the best interest of the drive makers to make sure the drives are durable before they leave the factory.
Sort of true. It's about the money, but not necessarily loans(but given that the loans are guaranteed...).
If you can play sports very well, or you show promise to pump out impressive looking published papers, universities will give you a free ride. Of course, the point of either academic basis for a free ride scholarship or an athletic one serves the purpose of hoodwinking big alumni donors and philanthropists into dumping money into the school. if you can play ball or get published, there's a good chance you're worth more to the school than just the free ride scholarship.
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MGS4 was a sequel that revisited an environment AND it did it well. The return to Shadow Moses in MGS4 was one of the heartbreaking and gut wrenching moments.
Plus seeing the shattered remains of Metal Gear REX and using it to trounce a Metal Gear RAY unit was all sorts of satisfying.
he's repeating a really wrong and really dangerous, from a business stand point, notion that total market share and numbers of users dominates, it doesn't. At the end of the day, profits dominate. Rovio isn't going to see the same numbers EA or Konami or Capcom or Bethesda will. Bar none.
He's right that yes, there are way more people playing casual games, but the market for non casual games is going up.
I can't seem to get it to pick up the FCKEditor. :( HALP.
Give it a few months, and there will be thousands there too
That'd be neat if it weren't for the fact that one of the biggest selling points of the Android platform was resolution independence. What was so wrong with the UI, API and OS that they had to retool, well, ANYTHING for tablets?
I can imagine retooling the built in apps for a guaranteed minimum screen spec, but, this is ridiculous.
Making that software super slow and super buggy was also quite bad.
Well, let's be honest, they were competing with iTunes on Windows...
But poor codec support hasn't hurt Apple. AAC/MP3 should be enough for everyone(Unless the Zune didn't support AAC for whatever reason).
What really hurt the Zune was that as an mp3 player, it was outclassed by the iPod and as a touch screen flash based media device(Zune HD), it was outclassed by the iPod Touch. Even if the specs were better(Tegra 1 versus an overclocked iPhone 3G), the iPod Touch has a rich base of applications. The Zune had nothing to leverage. Even worse, Windows Phone 7 can't use Zune apps and the entire ecosystem for apps are separated.
Since when has Flash been used for Actual Work(tm)?
usually flash is used to AVOID work. ;)
Apple really does take an authoritarian stance here. It's our platform, it's our patch, take it and shut up.
While tyranny is really scary, comparing that to the bumbling incompetence of Microsoft and the some of the various Android OEMs(and by some slight extension, Google), it really makes me appreciate the walled garden a little more.
Not just that but OpenGL wasn't meant as a gaming 3D API, it was meant as an industrial 3D Serious Work API. CAD, CGI, et al.
When 3dfx came around the corner it was all there was. Khronos has to balance it's interests versus vendors who supply a wide variety of products, not just games.
Maybe it would be in Khronos' best interest to fork OpenGL into two projects? OpenGL for serious business apps, and some new API for open standards gaming?
They're caused by the OS which allows such system breaking DRM to hook into the system into the first place.
Still. No. I'm sticking with consoles.
I wonder if they're just going to ban everyone who redeemed a code worth such a small amount. Why the hell do amounts that small exist? must be for fast food promos or something.
The iPad2 comes out tomorrow, which has iOS 4.3
The traditional thing for Apple to do is launch an iOS update right before the hardware refresh.
This isn't suspect. Apple probably doesn't factor P2O into it's release schedules for iOS updates. Safari for desktop maybe, but not iOS.
The only difference that you had between 360's was did you want one with a shiny disk drive and a harddrive and HD cables thrown in or no hard drive, matte disk drive, and no HD cable.
What the hell are you talking about? That was a particularly bad decision because this meant that developers couldn't rely on having the HDD there anymore, unlike the previous generation of console.
Some of us play games where the objective isn't to explode torsos with rockets.
The PC sucks as a gaming platform. Driver issues, system breaking DRM, online issues, crashes...
Consoles have DRM, but it's a walking DRM box, if I keep all my DRM in one place, I don't have to worry about it breaking my shit.
We don't need to cut spending, we need to increase it. Austerity only hurts the people, it never helps.
We need to increase taxes to somewhere around Reagan era tax levels and close tax loopholes for mega corps.
Of course, I'm dreaming, but, hey, never let a little reality get in the way of dreaming.
Normally I'd throw out a snarky joke like, "You mean the title should've been Google Releases Stable version of Chrome" but as a browser, Chrome's been pretty stable. Flash still makes it fall over from time to time, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
As an Apple fanboy who regularly shills for Apple for free and picks fights with Android fanboys, I kind of want to jump to this guy's defense, and there's a logical explanation that this guy may just be a really lazy bastard who doesn't want to bother with porting software.
On the other hand, unlike Android and Apple fanboys who have excellent software to fanboy out over, what's there to fanboy out about the Microsoft experience? I'm not sure what percentage of paid Microserfs there are here, so, I'm not sure which side occam's razor would fall on.
But do the people who use it create actual meaningful content?
The Gorillaz put out an album recently that was mostly composed on an iPad, and it rocked.
The playbook and the touchpad both are heavily invested in the user buying into the phone ecosystem too. RIM's not even bothering with 3G in the Playbook, relying instead on tethering with a Blackberry and the Touchpad's most compelling features require a WebOS phone.
To make the most of their products you're going to have to buy into either WebOS or the Blackberry ecosystem whole hog or not. The iPhone's got some integration with respect to games and apps that have cross iPhone/iPad communication, but, the core OS doesn't require an iOS device to make the most of it.
Given that, I doubt the Playbook will make a huge splash. It's interesting hardware and software, but, I doubt RIM's ability to bring together a product in a new market like this that'll turn a profit, much less be an iPad killer.
I have some hope that the Touchpad's going to make a splash, but, let's face it, WebOS is dead.
I forgot to mention I've got Macs at home and had a Linux netbook until I decided to ditch that for another Mac. Flash is complete shit. Why would anyone *want* it?
3. Flash works fine on:
[citation needed]
I have a Windows machine my work loaned me so I can work from home or on the go, in my single datapoint, Flash is responsible for more browser crashes than any other cause.
The Linux version of Flash is worse than the Mac version which is worse than the PC version which is shit to begin with. The PC version of flash doesn't work fine. Why would you expect it to work fine on mobile? The whole experience is buggy and complete shit.
In MGS3, the love making scene at the end with EVA and Naked Snake in front of the fire place was pretty decent. It was very much a throwback to Bond-era movie making. It wasn't ridiculous, it was also pretty tasteful.
Sometimes games get sex right. MGS4's Naomi/Otacon scene was a little ridiculous... But given where the bar is, it wasn't bad.
So why are iMovie, Garage Band, Pages and other document creation software available on the iPad? Those aren't third party apps mind you. Those are Apple apps. They sort of designed the thing. They don't seem to think the iPad's a content consumption device.
The consumption paradigm for tablets is stupid. The tablet form factor can allow you to do more than just consume. Having a 10 inch multitouch display is nice when working with say, DJ gear that can interface with it and your mixing application on your PC.
You mean to tell me Damon Albarn of the Gorillaz is a sellout no one should listen to? seriously?
Most consumers don't give a crap about who made the disk sitting in their box on their desk, just that it has enough space for justin bieber mp3s and pictures of their children.
Besides, I'm willing to bet with an off the cuff guess given the reliability of a given disk, the reason why consumers find themselves with new disks largely isn't replacement after failure, it's most likely due to a new device purchase. So it really is in the best interest of the drive makers to make sure the drives are durable before they leave the factory.
Sort of true. It's about the money, but not necessarily loans(but given that the loans are guaranteed...).
If you can play sports very well, or you show promise to pump out impressive looking published papers, universities will give you a free ride. Of course, the point of either academic basis for a free ride scholarship or an athletic one serves the purpose of hoodwinking big alumni donors and philanthropists into dumping money into the school. if you can play ball or get published, there's a good chance you're worth more to the school than just the free ride scholarship.