Ok, seems a bit of overkill to make a harddrive attachement for use only with the Virtual Console. The majority of people using the Virtual Console will never purchase anything larger than an N64 title (max is about 64 megabytes).
Let's assume they use a 10GB 1.8" harddrive (or flash equivalent) that's integrated into the angled stand that ships with the console (if one can even purchase bulk quantities of those anymore). That would let you buy roughly 150 of the largest N64 games to fill that storage space. Or over 100 of the largest Neo Geo games. That seems to be more purchasing than the smallest tiny niche portion of the Wii market would buy. This argument disappears if original downloadable content ever arrives for the Wii.
So, if you are going to come out with a harddrive attachement, give it a "normal" size of 80 GB or larger, and allow us to "store" our Wii disc based games on there. Now you would have the ultimate system for lazy people like me that click around in the Wii menu to play old VC games instead of getting up and walking across the room to put in a new Wii disc to play something different. It would be great if we could "surf our Wii channels" and have access to all of our games.
I don't understand why people are confused about the lack of a price cut announcement.
You don't tell the public that a poorly selling, expensive product is going to be $100 cheaper next month unless you want even lower sales for the next month. Lower sales for that month means even lower numbers of customers looking to buy software for the machine.
The announcement of the PS3 price cut will come the same day as the PS3 price cut (see PSP price cut as an example).
Well, seems Katamari Damacy wasn't released in Europe, so nevermind on that one. Makes me worry about getting a US PS3 in a few years though (that is, if any of my games will work)...
Wow, no Ratchet and Clank games listed. Only the Katamari Damacy sequel (We Love Katamari) works. It seems the US/Japan launch version will be the highly desired version on Ebay in a few years. At least for anyone wanting to have only one system hooked up to their TV...
I'm actually very curious why Apple does not support ext2/3 "out of the box"? Currently you can "try" to use ext2fs, but that only works from time to time. I would never trust it with real data that cannot be corrupted.
What is the rational behind not supporting ext2/3 natively in OSX? No demand? It would make our lives a lot easier...
Meantime, tons of popular XBox games (Platinum Hits) aren't supported on the 360. As far as native games go, if I don't want to have a chick fight, drive, or play a sport, I don't have much reason to turn on my 360 at all.
I believe most of the numbers quoted "on the web" are for Japan. In the US, its a much, much closer race. Hopefully the DS Lite will let them pull ahead though.
I wasn't there, but in all the reports I've heard about their presentation, I think they "forgot" to mention PS2 backward compatibility. They demoed PS1 compatibility with the PSP (it was prominently displayed on their slide). Why would they omit any mention of PS2 compatibility? Perhaps problems in development? It wasn't on the short list of "Key" features of the PS3...hmm...
Why not have the DS download the NES and SNES games you bought on your Revolution...similar to the Demo's you can download now (at least in Japan)...works until you poweroff. That would drive sales of the DS in addition to NES/SNES game sales on the Revolution...
I can't wait to go to the theater and watch them slaughter the current generation of tranformers to help introduce this years "New and Improved" series of transformer toys! It will be like 1986 all over again...
Only affected about 11,360 current and former employees...joy. They have switched over to a new numbering system, but only a few of the computer systems can handle the new numbers. They tell us to not use the new numbers just yet. Hehe...looks like by the _end_ of 2006 they'll have switched over...
...it was clear from the talk that Nintendo--the company so afraid of piracy that they shut down emulator sites and made their game discs in the Gamecube spin backwards--has no intention of letting fledgling developers copy their own content to the Revolution and play it.
I've never used Redhat's GUI thingy, but KDE has a _great_ Printing Manager built in that has made all this configuration stuff easy as (gasp) Windows. Its available in K Control panel, under Peripherals->Printers (also in the KMenu by default too). Anyway, on my Gentoo box I have never had a second of problems printing with this handy utility...it will even scan a subnet to find all your network printers, so conveinent!
Wait, people use their computers for things other than benchmarking? From the posts I read in the Internet, every new card or driver rev is followed by 100 posts stating how they gained/lost 10 3DMarks and how their e-penis is so much larger than yours because they overclocked their card and got 50 more 3DMarks...what exactly are these "real-world applications" and "games"? How do these increase your e-penis length?
Don't worry, if you don't speak english yet, our miliatary forces will come in and liberate you from whatever archaic language you've used for millennia...of course only terrorists don't speak english
Ok guys, these games are becoming scarily beautiful and realistic...now where is my virtual reality? Hell, even something as simple as the original Doom series (or even better, Doom Legacy) in fully immersive 3D would be a nice start.
Lawnmower Man? I want that. Come on, it must be trivial now!
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Ok, seems a bit of overkill to make a harddrive attachement for use only with the Virtual Console. The majority of people using the Virtual Console will never purchase anything larger than an N64 title (max is about 64 megabytes).
Let's assume they use a 10GB 1.8" harddrive (or flash equivalent) that's integrated into the angled stand that ships with the console (if one can even purchase bulk quantities of those anymore). That would let you buy roughly 150 of the largest N64 games to fill that storage space. Or over 100 of the largest Neo Geo games. That seems to be more purchasing than the smallest tiny niche portion of the Wii market would buy. This argument disappears if original downloadable content ever arrives for the Wii.
So, if you are going to come out with a harddrive attachement, give it a "normal" size of 80 GB or larger, and allow us to "store" our Wii disc based games on there. Now you would have the ultimate system for lazy people like me that click around in the Wii menu to play old VC games instead of getting up and walking across the room to put in a new Wii disc to play something different. It would be great if we could "surf our Wii channels" and have access to all of our games.
I don't understand why people are confused about the lack of a price cut announcement.
You don't tell the public that a poorly selling, expensive product is going to be $100 cheaper next month unless you want even lower sales for the next month. Lower sales for that month means even lower numbers of customers looking to buy software for the machine.
The announcement of the PS3 price cut will come the same day as the PS3 price cut (see PSP price cut as an example).
Well, seems Katamari Damacy wasn't released in Europe, so nevermind on that one. Makes me worry about getting a US PS3 in a few years though (that is, if any of my games will work)...
Wow, no Ratchet and Clank games listed. Only the Katamari Damacy sequel (We Love Katamari) works. It seems the US/Japan launch version will be the highly desired version on Ebay in a few years. At least for anyone wanting to have only one system hooked up to their TV...
I'm actually very curious why Apple does not support ext2/3 "out of the box"? Currently you can "try" to use ext2fs, but that only works from time to time. I would never trust it with real data that cannot be corrupted.
What is the rational behind not supporting ext2/3 natively in OSX? No demand? It would make our lives a lot easier...
Why did you buy a Xbox 360 then?
I believe most of the numbers quoted "on the web" are for Japan. In the US, its a much, much closer race. Hopefully the DS Lite will let them pull ahead though.
I wasn't there, but in all the reports I've heard about their presentation, I think they "forgot" to mention PS2 backward compatibility. They demoed PS1 compatibility with the PSP (it was prominently displayed on their slide). Why would they omit any mention of PS2 compatibility? Perhaps problems in development? It wasn't on the short list of "Key" features of the PS3...hmm...
Why not have the DS download the NES and SNES games you bought on your Revolution...similar to the Demo's you can download now (at least in Japan)...works until you poweroff. That would drive sales of the DS in addition to NES/SNES game sales on the Revolution...
Whew, I had never even heard of Captcha before...
A captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
I can't wait to go to the theater and watch them slaughter the current generation of tranformers to help introduce this years "New and Improved" series of transformer toys! It will be like 1986 all over again...
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/news.cfm?newsI D=436
Only affected about 11,360 current and former employees...joy. They have switched over to a new numbering system, but only a few of the computer systems can handle the new numbers. They tell us to not use the new numbers just yet. Hehe...looks like by the _end_ of 2006 they'll have switched over...
This think put it best I believe.
...it was clear from the talk that Nintendo--the company so afraid of piracy that they shut down emulator sites and made their game discs in the Gamecube spin backwards--has no intention of letting fledgling developers copy their own content to the Revolution and play it.
I've never used Redhat's GUI thingy, but KDE has a _great_ Printing Manager built in that has made all this configuration stuff easy as (gasp) Windows. Its available in K Control panel, under Peripherals->Printers (also in the KMenu by default too). Anyway, on my Gentoo box I have never had a second of problems printing with this handy utility...it will even scan a subnet to find all your network printers, so conveinent!
Wait, people use their computers for things other than benchmarking? From the posts I read in the Internet, every new card or driver rev is followed by 100 posts stating how they gained/lost 10 3DMarks and how their e-penis is so much larger than yours because they overclocked their card and got 50 more 3DMarks...what exactly are these "real-world applications" and "games"? How do these increase your e-penis length?
Don't worry, if you don't speak english yet, our miliatary forces will come in and liberate you from whatever archaic language you've used for millennia...of course only terrorists don't speak english
Ah, everyone's constant search for better eye candy to fill their desktops...
Ok guys, these games are becoming scarily beautiful and realistic...now where is my virtual reality? Hell, even something as simple as the original Doom series (or even better, Doom Legacy) in fully immersive 3D would be a nice start.
Lawnmower Man? I want that. Come on, it must be trivial now!
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I'm sorry, but anyone who wants to buy peroxide for rocketry is a terrorist. G.W. will back me up on that.
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Peroxide (high concentration stuff) is actually really hard to get and quite dangerous...I don't think many people will be signing up to make peroxide
How did you write the book without a computer? Hand written then transcribed, typewriter, or were electronic typewriters allowed?
I'm sure that would affect pricing if it was Unix or Linux based...
Actually it was up up down down left right left right a b a b start, and it gave 30 lives in Contra, but who's really counting?
I know what my code would be...
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-A...ah, nevermind
But seriously, if this thing was beeping, who wouldn't just pop that sucker out and toss it?
Trust me, I've done research in the field of Porous Silicon. This explains quite a few mini-explosions that happened with my experiments though.
ALSO, it takes chilling the porous silicon down to LIQUID OXYGEN temperatures...yeah, so liquid oxygen is dangerous enough!
What do you mean? Wasn't that demonstrated on the transmeta chip during the debut...I remember Linus getting smacked down on there...