Did you read what I wrote? I did not say that Apple would not do this. In fact, Apple does this with every damn product they make. Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based (by which I assume they mean "smaller," because everything else makes no sense at all) iPhone? No shit? We knew that the day Apple announced the iPhone. It's not news.
Apple will release a better, smaller version of a current product at some unspecified later date. In other news, tomorrow's sun will be a bright ball of fire, and the cars of the future will have four wheels.
If you would perceive it as random, it probably would not be random, since it would have to do a lot of non-random things trying to avoid patterns and repetition. The fact that you think it's not random is almost proof that it pretty much is random:-)
There are a bunch of Wii games that look great. Sonic is very pretty. I like Mario Strikers, too. I actually like Excite Truck, but here, opinions very. I will say, though, that there are a lot of Wii games that look like shit. These are often PS2 ports (Godfater, for example). It's not that the Wii couldn't do better, it's just that the developers don't really try.
While the GC and the Wii are very similar, the Wii is an updated version of the GC. It's about 2-3 times as fast, so you're not going to see a big update in graphics, but it can definitely do more than the GC.
I agree. Home is a stupid idea. Reminds me of all those "3D virtual stores" we had a decade ago where, instead of just searching for what you wanted like you can on modern online stores, you had to virtuall walk through a virtual store and click on the stuff you wanted information about. It's a 2D screen, the most functional UI is 2D.
Home looks interesting, but it's no replacement for what the 360 offers. It's an entirely new idea for an entirely different target audience.
Not sure how online works on a 360 (I don't play often enough to pay), but as far as I can tell, the friend list on the PS3 is used by the games. Startdust, for example, knows my friends' high scores. What exactly is a global friends list, and why does the PS3 not have one? What would they have to do to make matchmaking easier? And how is Sony's system different from the gamer tag?
I don't think that Nintendo is sitting on a ton of stockpiled Wiis, but it isn't inconceivable that they could be stockpiling some for the holidays. There are some very significant reasons why holiday console sales are more important than sales during other times.
Nintendo probably wouldn't do that. The actual shop chains, however, do do that, because having them in stock for the holidays means they can advertise them as in stock.
No. They have a history of making money, which is the result of careful predictions. They didn't expect the Wii (or the DS, for that matter) to sell half as well as they are selling, and now they are scrambling to increase production.
I don't really think that they can "only" produce a handful of them.
A handful of them? Where did you get that idea? They have now reached almost 9 million sold consoles within a bit more than half a year. I see now way how or why that could imply that they are restricting shipments. The stores are not sold out because Nintendo is selling so few consoles. They are sold out because people buy them so quickly!
I am certain Nintendo is doing everything they can to get production up. They know that they have to ship now to win this generation. They need to surpass the combined numbers of the PS3 and the 360 in order to be the console everyone makes games for, and they're doing everything they can to get there as quickly as possible.
And Nintendo is selling them as fast as they can make them. Until production catches up with demand, they won't cut the price. It's obvious, however, that the Wii will be the first console going below 200 US$, which will guarantee mass market appeal.
no, but this story has nothing to do with the rootkit, other than the fact that both divisions are a part of the sony umbrella.
Yeah, the part after "other than" seems pretty important.
everytime i hear rootkit brought up, i think to myself "uhm, but wasnt it exploiting a known microsoft security flaw? as always, if it wasnt for the rootkit MS would have never patched it."
What has Microsoft got to do with it? I'm not saying that Microsoft is better.
way i see it, there were two wrongs done here. how can you hold one company in contempt and then push for the other one? they are both at fault here.
What??? I'm certainly not pushing for Microsoft! In fact, while I believe that both companies are essentially evil (as in "will do whatever it takes to make money as long as they hope to get away with it"), if given a choice between MS and Sony, I will favor Sony simply because they are incompetent. If one of these two companies reaches any kind of dominant market position, I want it to be Sony, because Sony will fuck up sooner or later and lose the position, while Microsoft possibly won't.
I don't understand where you got the idea that in order to be against Sony, you have to be for Microsoft. They are both evil.
The alternative to selling movies on UMDs is selling them in an online store, or on memory sticks (which they are now starting to do). Or not trying to sell anything at all if there's no chance of success. That would be another idea.
There are 22 million PSPs in the whole world. There's a gazilliontrillion* DVD players in the whole world. The PSP is not a viable target hardware for movies. Whether it is a failure as a portable gaming system is an entirely different question.
Dude, a good hacker and a good engineer are very different things. You can spend 20 years learning everything about computers, writing hundreds of thousands of lines of codes, and not be an engineer. You can be a great engineer, and not know anything about computers.
Yeah, sounds like he's implying this could be used to write a virus. Please note that the article he links to does not mention this. It's pure FUD - as long as you need physical access, this is a good development since it may allow us to hack the iPhone, install stuff on it, change parameters, figure out how stuff works, and so on.
Dude. It's not a great game. It's a piece of crap with absolutely awesome graphics. I mean, the game has an average ratio of 58% on gamerankings.com.
Now, I will admit that I have only played the demo (which is great to impress your friends with, by the way), but the thing is virtually unplayable. You spend most of the time trying to hit invisible enemies that hit at you from off camera. How this game ever got into production is beyond me - I guess Sony needed to fill the shelves with something.
If the PS3 were the only console I had, I guess I would have been forced to buy it. In this case, I might have played it for a bit (I might also have cut open my wrists, which seems like a good alternative to playing Genji). Maybe I would have got used to the camera and all the invisible enemies beating the living crap out of me. However, I have to wonder why in the world I would want to go through this learning curve if it is so freaking annoying. What in the world posessed you when you decided to play this game for more than five minutes?
The difference is - as you've implied - that Apple generally tries to solve a problem that has no open solution (there were no alternatives to AppleTalk or ADB, for example). Sony often just tries to control markets with its proprietary formats (there really was no need for Memory Sticks). Which is probably why Apple is changing, and Sony isn't: Technology has caught up with Apple, so they don't need to rely on proprietary formats anymore. Sony, on the other hand, still tries to control as many markets as it can.
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Did you read what I wrote? I did not say that Apple would not do this. In fact, Apple does this with every damn product they make. Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based (by which I assume they mean "smaller," because everything else makes no sense at all) iPhone? No shit? We knew that the day Apple announced the iPhone. It's not news.
Apple will release a better, smaller version of a current product at some unspecified later date. In other news, tomorrow's sun will be a bright ball of fire, and the cars of the future will have four wheels.
If you would perceive it as random, it probably would not be random, since it would have to do a lot of non-random things trying to avoid patterns and repetition. The fact that you think it's not random is almost proof that it pretty much is random :-)
If Bluray doesn't win, it'll probably take even more than 10 years to break it, so... :-)
I hope you're the dude who wrote the specs for the Blu-Ray DRM. If you are, I have a feeling it will be cracked soon.
There are a bunch of Wii games that look great. Sonic is very pretty. I like Mario Strikers, too. I actually like Excite Truck, but here, opinions very. I will say, though, that there are a lot of Wii games that look like shit. These are often PS2 ports (Godfater, for example). It's not that the Wii couldn't do better, it's just that the developers don't really try.
Hopefully, this will improve soon.
While the GC and the Wii are very similar, the Wii is an updated version of the GC. It's about 2-3 times as fast, so you're not going to see a big update in graphics, but it can definitely do more than the GC.
I agree. Home is a stupid idea. Reminds me of all those "3D virtual stores" we had a decade ago where, instead of just searching for what you wanted like you can on modern online stores, you had to virtuall walk through a virtual store and click on the stuff you wanted information about. It's a 2D screen, the most functional UI is 2D.
Home looks interesting, but it's no replacement for what the 360 offers. It's an entirely new idea for an entirely different target audience.
Not sure how online works on a 360 (I don't play often enough to pay), but as far as I can tell, the friend list on the PS3 is used by the games. Startdust, for example, knows my friends' high scores. What exactly is a global friends list, and why does the PS3 not have one? What would they have to do to make matchmaking easier? And how is Sony's system different from the gamer tag?
Why, did you buy a now all-but-useless HD-DVD player and want Microsoft to save your sunk investment?
Nintendo probably wouldn't do that. The actual shop chains, however, do do that, because having them in stock for the holidays means they can advertise them as in stock.
No. They have a history of making money, which is the result of careful predictions. They didn't expect the Wii (or the DS, for that matter) to sell half as well as they are selling, and now they are scrambling to increase production.
A handful of them? Where did you get that idea? They have now reached almost 9 million sold consoles within a bit more than half a year. I see now way how or why that could imply that they are restricting shipments. The stores are not sold out because Nintendo is selling so few consoles. They are sold out because people buy them so quickly!
I am certain Nintendo is doing everything they can to get production up. They know that they have to ship now to win this generation. They need to surpass the combined numbers of the PS3 and the 360 in order to be the console everyone makes games for, and they're doing everything they can to get there as quickly as possible.
And Nintendo is selling them as fast as they can make them. Until production catches up with demand, they won't cut the price. It's obvious, however, that the Wii will be the first console going below 200 US$, which will guarantee mass market appeal.
Yeah, the part after "other than" seems pretty important.
everytime i hear rootkit brought up, i think to myself "uhm, but wasnt it exploiting a known microsoft security flaw? as always, if it wasnt for the rootkit MS would have never patched it."What has Microsoft got to do with it? I'm not saying that Microsoft is better.
way i see it, there were two wrongs done here. how can you hold one company in contempt and then push for the other one? they are both at fault here.What??? I'm certainly not pushing for Microsoft! In fact, while I believe that both companies are essentially evil (as in "will do whatever it takes to make money as long as they hope to get away with it"), if given a choice between MS and Sony, I will favor Sony simply because they are incompetent. If one of these two companies reaches any kind of dominant market position, I want it to be Sony, because Sony will fuck up sooner or later and lose the position, while Microsoft possibly won't.
I don't understand where you got the idea that in order to be against Sony, you have to be for Microsoft. They are both evil.
The alternative to selling movies on UMDs is selling them in an online store, or on memory sticks (which they are now starting to do). Or not trying to sell anything at all if there's no chance of success. That would be another idea.
There are 22 million PSPs in the whole world. There's a gazilliontrillion* DVD players in the whole world. The PSP is not a viable target hardware for movies. Whether it is a failure as a portable gaming system is an entirely different question.
* number made up
Tons of researchers research stuff that others already know.
Dude, a good hacker and a good engineer are very different things. You can spend 20 years learning everything about computers, writing hundreds of thousands of lines of codes, and not be an engineer. You can be a great engineer, and not know anything about computers.
Yeah, sounds like he's implying this could be used to write a virus. Please note that the article he links to does not mention this. It's pure FUD - as long as you need physical access, this is a good development since it may allow us to hack the iPhone, install stuff on it, change parameters, figure out how stuff works, and so on.
This is not bad news, it's good news.
More important than the warranty is, in my opinion, that Microsoft claims that they fixed the issue. I quote Peter Moore from an interview by N'Gai Croal:
Not quite as reassuring as I would have liked, but still good to know.
Dude. It's not a great game. It's a piece of crap with absolutely awesome graphics. I mean, the game has an average ratio of 58% on gamerankings.com.
Now, I will admit that I have only played the demo (which is great to impress your friends with, by the way), but the thing is virtually unplayable. You spend most of the time trying to hit invisible enemies that hit at you from off camera. How this game ever got into production is beyond me - I guess Sony needed to fill the shelves with something.
If the PS3 were the only console I had, I guess I would have been forced to buy it. In this case, I might have played it for a bit (I might also have cut open my wrists, which seems like a good alternative to playing Genji). Maybe I would have got used to the camera and all the invisible enemies beating the living crap out of me. However, I have to wonder why in the world I would want to go through this learning curve if it is so freaking annoying. What in the world posessed you when you decided to play this game for more than five minutes?
The difference is - as you've implied - that Apple generally tries to solve a problem that has no open solution (there were no alternatives to AppleTalk or ADB, for example). Sony often just tries to control markets with its proprietary formats (there really was no need for Memory Sticks). Which is probably why Apple is changing, and Sony isn't: Technology has caught up with Apple, so they don't need to rely on proprietary formats anymore. Sony, on the other hand, still tries to control as many markets as it can.
"... on store shelves."
Every country. Except yours.