Somebody can't read. I was counting ALL the consoles of the 16 bit era (NES/Genesis) and ALL the consoles of the current era (PS3/X360/wii), because development costs for a game would be divided across ALL the consoles not just one (few games are exclusive anymore).
Disclaimer --- You receive funding from the gaming corporations. It's so blatantly obvious. Why else would you vociferously defend them as they raise prices close to $100 (and pass laws to make selling used games illegal).
>>>In the 16-bit era, it cost 50k-300k to make a game. This article lists $17m-$20m to produce a game
(1) I doubt the veracity of those numbers. The first seems too low. Way back in the Atari era, they paid solo programmers upto 1 million dollars to make games. The price would have gone up ten years later (SNES era), not down.
(2) The cost is alleviated by the 80 million NES/Genesis market versus the ~300 million Wii/PS3/X360 market. That's a per-console jump from ~1 cent to 5 cents, and not quite as dramatic as the numbers you quoted.
It doesn't violate anything if the corporation Volunteers to collect the use tax. The state government can not force non-residents to comply, but it can politely ask, and apparently amazon said "okay".
"Bah humbug" on your anti-R slam. Most states make Necessities tax free, so the poor are not hurt. They can still buy the food/clothing/rent they need to survive. It is only the well-off wasting their money on luxury, non-needed goods that pay the sales tax.
BTW someone below made a good point:
This tax is ALREADY owed by the citizens. It's called a "use" tax and is applied to out-of-state purchases. Nothing's really changed except that Texas is now forcing delinquent citizens to pay-up. In other words TX and other states are cracking-down on tax dodgers. (Tsk tsk tsk you tax dodgers.)
Okay maybe not. I'll still buy their stuff but much, much less than before. I see no reason why I should have to pay sales taxes to a foreign government. "No taxation without representation."
Oh and if governments start demanding I file ~50 separate sales tax returns on my amazon sales, they can go F themselves. Again: No taxation w/o representation in their foreign governments.
Everywhere I go I hear creative types complaining about the sky falling:
- record companies complain people download CDs instead of buying them (except of course stats show they are making more profit than ever via MP3/AAC sales)
- movie companies complain about movie or TV show downloads; cable complains about hulu
- book and magazine publishers complain that ebooks and text-file sharing is driving them out of business
- now the game companies are taking their turn: "Oh woe is us.... the cheap $5 or free internet games are killing demand for $60-70 AAA games"
These people all have the same thing in common: - They hate the internet. It's making them lose money.
Most modern games I find boring unless it has a really strong story (like the offline Final Fantasy games) to keep me involved. I grow tired of level-after-level of FPS that eventually blur together.
This depressing discussion makes me want to dust off the "PC" known as the commodore amiga (or Sega genesis; very similar hardware), and play some games that were actually FUN to play. And now thanks to the internet: free! (No wait; they were always free.) Screw spending $70 for modern crap. Besides I've only played about 20% of the amiga library.
Nice sarcasm. Also I'm wondering: How have consoles fallen behind PCs? The PS3 and X360 are producing HDTV quality graphics with flawless sound. There's very little room for improvement. They are at the highest audiovisual-resolution possible.
Anyway..... consoles used to come with expansions for extra RAM or additional corprocessors, but those expansions were barely supported. The gamemakers naturally targeted their largest market (the stock console with no expansion).
Obviously the U.S. could only control its own companies & force them to deorbit stuff. Most-likely we could convince the EU to pass similar laws. That would eliminate the addition of ~99% new trash.
Beat me to it..... yes all the suggestions would increase development time and cost.
IMHO if the problem is expensive artists..... just have a few on staff. True the worlds my be a little more pixelated but so what? Im not paying on hundred for a game. Heck right now I only pay nineteen typical.
On the other hand maybe Im just being too cheap. If NES games cost fifty then todays game would natualy be ninty one through dollar devaluation.....
Ahhh good point, but someone has to pay that bill. It might as well be the hospital, otherwise if they were handed a blank check, they'd have no motivation to control costs. They could burn-up all kinds of power w/o consequences.
Some people like Al Gore and Barack Obama think power is already too cheap, and a carbon penalty should be added, to encourage less usage.
I don't see how this is workable. The space junk is spread-out across thousands of miles, and you'd waste a lot of fuel moving around trying to collect it all. Plus, what do you do once you have your pile of trash in your space vehicle? There's no engineers/technicians to assemble it into something usable.
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space..... if you send a rocket into space, make sure to deorbit the spent stages immediately. If your satellite is EOL, then deorbit that too.
In my state that's no longer true. Prices fluctuate up-and-down with customer demand (though it's usually a fixed-price contract like cellphones), so in theory any one of those ~50 electric companies could have excess profits lying around for research.
Voting for third party at the Legislature, governor, and Congressional level is appropriate. We have established history where third parties have won seats in all these positions.
This is what the government (DHS) will use to acquire your online tax return. Your websurf history. Your down and uploads. And then prosecute you if you did something naughty (like look at a naked girl who's APPEARS to be under 18, or shared a movie via torrent).
>>>It's not like they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up
Well to quote one of the military guy who gave a speech at the Capitol building: "We were told that this War on Terrorism was necessary to defend our country. But we learned the HARD way that our only mission was to terrorize & brutalize arab civilians, and we no longer want to be a part of it! We should be at home defending OUR borders, and our constitution, as we swore an oath to do." (crowd of soldiers cheer)
You can see that and other similar videos on youtube. Like the one where soldiers lined-up in front of the white house, and then proceeded to turn their back on the president. It was their way of saying they no longer consider him their commander-in-chief.
75% of the republican donations from active military goes to Ron Paul.
Even Obama doesn't get as many donations as Paul does (it's about 40% to 60%). If you don't believe me, use your advanced engineering skills & google it.;-)
There's no need. They will soon have CISPA to go after this old guy, and they can do it quietly without the negative press. And ACTA was already signed by Obama. The RIAA/MPAA are only a few weeks shy of full command.
>>> I see the supporters of the Tooth Fairy are out again.
Oooh, save us Ron Paul, you're our only hope. One has only to listen to his supporters to know he hasn't got a hope in hell of winning, and that his policies are based on wishful thinking.
I hope when either President Obama or Romney start rounding-up Americans (anyone who speaks-out against the Iran War will be labeled a "terrorist") that you care one of the first to land in jail w/o right to trial. You deserve to get what you have voted for.
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Ooops you posted twice. :-) BBC video is 25 frames per second..... so I don't understand the comparision.
And HDTV is upto 60 frames per second; aren't people used to seeing a rapid frame rate by now? I guess people are just weird.
Somebody can't read. I was counting ALL the consoles of the 16 bit era (NES/Genesis) and ALL the consoles of the current era (PS3/X360/wii), because development costs for a game would be divided across ALL the consoles not just one (few games are exclusive anymore).
Disclaimer --- You receive funding from the gaming corporations. It's so blatantly obvious. Why else would you vociferously defend them as they raise prices close to $100 (and pass laws to make selling used games illegal).
Ooops..... never mind. I am not Texan and have nothing to worry about. (For now.)
>>>In the 16-bit era, it cost 50k-300k to make a game. This article lists $17m-$20m to produce a game
(1) I doubt the veracity of those numbers. The first seems too low. Way back in the Atari era, they paid solo programmers upto 1 million dollars to make games. The price would have gone up ten years later (SNES era), not down.
(2) The cost is alleviated by the 80 million NES/Genesis market versus the ~300 million Wii/PS3/X360 market. That's a per-console jump from ~1 cent to 5 cents, and not quite as dramatic as the numbers you quoted.
IMHO
It doesn't violate anything if the corporation Volunteers to collect the use tax. The state government can not force non-residents to comply, but it can politely ask, and apparently amazon said "okay".
"Bah humbug" on your anti-R slam. Most states make Necessities tax free, so the poor are not hurt. They can still buy the food/clothing/rent they need to survive. It is only the well-off wasting their money on luxury, non-needed goods that pay the sales tax.
BTW someone below made a good point:
This tax is ALREADY owed by the citizens. It's called a "use" tax and is applied to out-of-state purchases. Nothing's really changed except that Texas is now forcing delinquent citizens to pay-up. In other words TX and other states are cracking-down on tax dodgers. (Tsk tsk tsk you tax dodgers.)
Okay maybe not. I'll still buy their stuff but much, much less than before. I see no reason why I should have to pay sales taxes to a foreign government. "No taxation without representation."
Oh and if governments start demanding I file ~50 separate sales tax returns on my amazon sales, they can go F themselves. Again: No taxation w/o representation in their foreign governments.
Everywhere I go I hear creative types complaining about the sky falling:
- record companies complain people download CDs instead of buying them (except of course stats show they are making more profit than ever via MP3/AAC sales)
- movie companies complain about movie or TV show downloads; cable complains about hulu
- book and magazine publishers complain that ebooks and text-file sharing is driving them out of business
- now the game companies are taking their turn: "Oh woe is us.... the cheap $5 or free internet games are killing demand for $60-70 AAA games"
These people all have the same thing in common:
- They hate the internet.
It's making them lose money.
+1
Most modern games I find boring unless it has a really strong story (like the offline Final Fantasy games) to keep me involved. I grow tired of level-after-level of FPS that eventually blur together.
This depressing discussion makes me want to dust off the "PC" known as the commodore amiga (or Sega genesis; very similar hardware), and play some games that were actually FUN to play. And now thanks to the internet: free! (No wait; they were always free.) Screw spending $70 for modern crap. Besides I've only played about 20% of the amiga library.
Ewww..... have you seen Natalie naked (or bikinclad) lately? Just like Carrie Fisher, I'd prefer she stay covered up.
Nice sarcasm. Also I'm wondering: How have consoles fallen behind PCs? The PS3 and X360 are producing HDTV quality graphics with flawless sound. There's very little room for improvement. They are at the highest audiovisual-resolution possible.
Anyway..... consoles used to come with expansions for extra RAM or additional corprocessors, but those expansions were barely supported. The gamemakers naturally targeted their largest market (the stock console with no expansion).
Obviously the U.S. could only control its own companies & force them to deorbit stuff. Most-likely we could convince the EU to pass similar laws. That would eliminate the addition of ~99% new trash.
Beat me to it..... yes all the suggestions would increase development time and cost.
IMHO if the problem is expensive artists..... just have a few on staff. True the worlds my be a little more pixelated but so what? Im not paying on hundred for a game. Heck right now I only pay nineteen typical.
On the other hand maybe Im just being too cheap.
If NES games cost fifty then todays game would natualy be ninty one through dollar devaluation.....
Ahhh good point, but someone has to pay that bill. It might as well be the hospital, otherwise if they were handed a blank check, they'd have no motivation to control costs. They could burn-up all kinds of power w/o consequences.
Some people like Al Gore and Barack Obama think power is already too cheap, and a carbon penalty should be added, to encourage less usage.
I don't see how this is workable. The space junk is spread-out across thousands of miles, and you'd waste a lot of fuel moving around trying to collect it all. Plus, what do you do once you have your pile of trash in your space vehicle? There's no engineers/technicians to assemble it into something usable.
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space..... if you send a rocket into space, make sure to deorbit the spent stages immediately. If your satellite is EOL, then deorbit that too.
In my state that's no longer true. Prices fluctuate up-and-down with customer demand (though it's usually a fixed-price contract like cellphones), so in theory any one of those ~50 electric companies could have excess profits lying around for research.
Still wondering how power & health costs connect?
"rewards" that might never happen. Just like warp drive has never happened.
What? I'm not following the connect between power & health costs.
How come the government is doing fusion research instead of the private sector, like existing electric companies?
Voting for third party at the Legislature, governor, and Congressional level is appropriate. We have established history where third parties have won seats in all these positions.
This is what the government (DHS) will use to acquire your online tax return. Your websurf history. Your down and uploads. And then prosecute you if you did something naughty (like look at a naked girl who's APPEARS to be under 18, or shared a movie via torrent).
>>>It's not like they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up
Well to quote one of the military guy who gave a speech at the Capitol building: "We were told that this War on Terrorism was necessary to defend our country. But we learned the HARD way that our only mission was to terrorize & brutalize arab civilians, and we no longer want to be a part of it! We should be at home defending OUR borders, and our constitution, as we swore an oath to do." (crowd of soldiers cheer)
You can see that and other similar videos on youtube. Like the one where soldiers lined-up in front of the white house, and then proceeded to turn their back on the president. It was their way of saying they no longer consider him their commander-in-chief.
75% of the republican donations from active military goes to Ron Paul.
Even Obama doesn't get as many donations as Paul does (it's about 40% to 60%). If you don't believe me, use your advanced engineering skills & google it. ;-)
There's no need. They will soon have CISPA to go after this old guy, and they can do it quietly without the negative press.
And ACTA was already signed by Obama.
The RIAA/MPAA are only a few weeks shy of full command.
>>> I see the supporters of the Tooth Fairy are out again.
Oooh, save us Ron Paul, you're our only hope. One has only to listen to his supporters to know he hasn't got a hope in hell of winning, and that his policies are based on wishful thinking.
I hope when either President Obama or Romney start rounding-up Americans (anyone who speaks-out against the Iran War will be labeled a "terrorist") that you care one of the first to land in jail w/o right to trial. You deserve to get what you have voted for.