I'm simply saying they should ditch it for the standard system and offer it as a very cheap upgrade part and encourage developers to produce games for it. That way people can buy the system NOW, be able to still play their old games and some of the newer games be able to use the online feature and such. And when the are ready they can purchase the blueray player.
[a] 7th-8th grade algebra teacher complained to me last night, "They can't figure anything out on their own. Even their video games don't teach them problem solving. It's all 'jump-jump-squat', over and over again."
This teacher obviously hasn't been around for very long them. 80% of my middle school classmates couldn't figure out a damn thing in math class. And this was 15 years ago.
If sony ditched the Blue-Ray they could potentially drop the price but $200 or more. I wonder if they have considered doing it. There is no reason to expect games to need Blue-Ray for a few more years and Sony could even get away with providing it as a cheap addon in a few years. If they push out a few AA titles that require it then people will buy it too. But making people buy a blue-ray drive when noone wants one now is just stupid. Sony! Either GIVE AWAY blueray drives if its that important to you, or provide it as an option. Forcing the cost of blueray into your next gen system with be the death of both..
but can't we either control them 100% or if not, just keep them shutdown and force locatable landlines to be used instead?
You do realize of course that the "war" with Iraq is over and we are currently in a joint peacekeeping operation with the Iraq government. To do any of this we would have to get the governments approval. Yea that would go over like a lead brick..
Apparently disposable cell phones are VERY common in developing nations. This means that there is a lot of people to track. If someone can switch phone numbers on a regular basis, tracking and snooping on them can be very hard if a majority of the traffic is legitimate.
F!! i meant to say Not that this "isn't" a bad patent. I was just attempting to explain it was more than just the one-click point, while not defending the patent itself..:(
No.. One click is just the nickname for the patent. That patent covers storage of users Credit and Address info so you can order and have something delievered by a simple single click of an Order button. (Not that this is a bad patent, but the number of clicks is more of a side effect of the system and not the system itself)
Dude, you should totally opt to join focus groups. You can give weird answers and throw them off. DO it carefully enough so they don't think your lying and you get free stuff for being SOOO helpful!:)
No the problem is they instigated MAD after the war has already started. Imagine Russia had been bombing the US with small nukes for years. The US starts a massive attack and Russia replies with a massive attack and a threat to attack our allies if we don't surrender. (OK yes this couldn't happend with nukes as everyone would be destroyed in no time so imagine a convential bombing campain is probably closer to reality)
get rid of game rentals - why rent when for $20 you can own?
I don't know, people still rent movies and they are $20. But then again movies don't have the replay value of games. Personally I prefer to rent whenever I can, if I like it then I'll buy it. This wouldn't change, I would just be more likely to buy. Now with the $5 and $10 "classic" games I'll be buying them up like cheap Human Stimulation Engineers.
No I mean by get as in to sell. Imagine trying to put it into a 30 second commercial so that the average consumer will want to go out and buy it. I've seen the trailer they made for E3, I wouldn't have bought it on that alone. Heres to hoping it will sell on word on mouth. Because it doesn't fit into a sound byte unfortunately.
I'm NOT knocking the game, just realizing how terribly difficult it will be to sell.. I feel sorry for the marketing guys here.. Good luck. Hopefully they will come out with something brilliant!
Yea I was wondering about that too. I'm sure evolution of galaxies you occasionally visit is highly random and only done when you visit them. Meaning the game could wait till you visit them next to say. Ok now 1000 years has past sense you last visited them. Lets randomly generate improments based on that. Its possible that planets your closly aligned with specially ones you are at war with or have an allience with might be tracked better. But who knows. Its all procedural:)
I don't know personally while the game is amazing I think for the casual gaming crowd (the buyers that made The Sims such a success) its going to be a hard sell. Most of these people simply won't get it. I wouldn't have "gotten" it if I hadn't watched the full GDC footage.
But, in the end, if they pick themselves up, dust themselves off, reset the retail price for the non-crippled P3 to something reasonable - as in, less than $500 US and less than 500 EUs - then they can still regain the market.
But they can't. Sony PS3 is so hightech (with their 3 cell processors and blue-ray) they are losing a lot of money selling at $599. I think the $499 version is so crimpled is because they know the buyers of this version arn't as likly to buy as many games, so they can't afford to sell a system that mearly cost them $100 less as they can't expect much game license recoup. In the end, Sony has two chances with the PS3. 1.) Market it as a computer alternative and include a full linux distrubtion. 2.) Drop a processor or two as the games being made right now don't even come close to using the full functionality.
No because dialup is painfully slow, it has a very low burst speed. What many people want and are paying for $50 a month is high burst low total usage. The infrastucture can handle 1/100th of these people being high usage users. What they really need to do is offer a real package to the high usage users.. But you would probably not be willing to pay for it.
In the US atleast. That kinda bandwidth is cheap in say South Korea. We really need to stop BSing about how the "internet" wasn't designed for high bandwidth applications. It obviously can handle it, just not with outdated telcom equipment we insist on using here.
The thing is that the general purpose PC is now become so cheap you can have a general purpose PC AND several specific purpose computing devices as well. There simply isn't much money to be made from the manufacturing of the general purpose PC anymore (well there is money to be made, but its from bulk quantity now). Seriously I could definatly see a time when people stop buying 500 dollar video cards for their PC, and just simply stick to buying $600 gamespheres.
Bullshit. Radiation exposure has to be over a certain level before it accumulated. Think of it like a burn as radiation cooks you in a similar way to fire. Small amount of radiation warms your cells up a tiny bit. If you get burned, you will scar. So getting burned occasionally adds up to the scaring and damages you organs and brain and whatnot. Simply being warmed by a fire provides no damage whatsoever (assuming you get away from the fire occassionally) and certainly doesn't accumulate daily.
Either way an intelligent designer (no that that type of intelligent designer) will understand this issue though and design their games with breaks though. I've seen clips of people playing game that where for the most part they can sit and rest their arms on their legs just making small hand movements. But then periodically they must stand up for serious battles. Otherwise people will quickly tire of your game.. A game that people don't realize they are excersising is great. A game people quit because its too much excersing is a bad thing (atleast in this country).
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I'm simply saying they should ditch it for the standard system and offer it as a very cheap upgrade part and encourage developers to produce games for it. That way people can buy the system NOW, be able to still play their old games and some of the newer games be able to use the online feature and such. And when the are ready they can purchase the blueray player.
Ah, but the percentages wern't nearly as high.
[a] 7th-8th grade algebra teacher complained to me last night, "They can't figure anything out on their own. Even their video games don't teach them problem solving. It's all 'jump-jump-squat', over and over again."
This teacher obviously hasn't been around for very long them. 80% of my middle school classmates couldn't figure out a damn thing in math class. And this was 15 years ago.
If sony ditched the Blue-Ray they could potentially drop the price but $200 or more. I wonder if they have considered doing it. There is no reason to expect games to need Blue-Ray for a few more years and Sony could even get away with providing it as a cheap addon in a few years. If they push out a few AA titles that require it then people will buy it too. But making people buy a blue-ray drive when noone wants one now is just stupid. Sony! Either GIVE AWAY blueray drives if its that important to you, or provide it as an option. Forcing the cost of blueray into your next gen system with be the death of both..
but can't we either control them 100% or if not, just keep them shutdown and force locatable landlines to be used instead?
You do realize of course that the "war" with Iraq is over and we are currently in a joint peacekeeping operation with the Iraq government. To do any of this we would have to get the governments approval. Yea that would go over like a lead brick..
Apparently disposable cell phones are VERY common in developing nations. This means that there is a lot of people to track. If someone can switch phone numbers on a regular basis, tracking and snooping on them can be very hard if a majority of the traffic is legitimate.
F!! i meant to say Not that this "isn't" a bad patent. I was just attempting to explain it was more than just the one-click point, while not defending the patent itself.. :(
No.. One click is just the nickname for the patent. That patent covers storage of users Credit and Address info so you can order and have something delievered by a simple single click of an Order button.
(Not that this is a bad patent, but the number of clicks is more of a side effect of the system and not the system itself)
Dude, you should totally opt to join focus groups. You can give weird answers and throw them off. DO it carefully enough so they don't think your lying and you get free stuff for being SOOO helpful! :)
No the problem is they instigated MAD after the war has already started. Imagine Russia had been bombing the US with small nukes for years. The US starts a massive attack and Russia replies with a massive attack and a threat to attack our allies if we don't surrender. (OK yes this couldn't happend with nukes as everyone would be destroyed in no time so imagine a convential bombing campain is probably closer to reality)
No parent was saying that they wanted to modify Googles Tools to work with PHP instead of Java.
get rid of game rentals - why rent when for $20 you can own?
I don't know, people still rent movies and they are $20. But then again movies don't have the replay value of games. Personally I prefer to rent whenever I can, if I like it then I'll buy it. This wouldn't change, I would just be more likely to buy. Now with the $5 and $10 "classic" games I'll be buying them up like cheap Human Stimulation Engineers.
Yea, though console controller have been getting more expensive. And the Wii IS a controller plus a souped up GC :)
No I mean by get as in to sell. Imagine trying to put it into a 30 second commercial so that the average consumer will want to go out and buy it. I've seen the trailer they made for E3, I wouldn't have bought it on that alone. Heres to hoping it will sell on word on mouth. Because it doesn't fit into a sound byte unfortunately.
I'm NOT knocking the game, just realizing how terribly difficult it will be to sell.. I feel sorry for the marketing guys here.. Good luck. Hopefully they will come out with something brilliant!
Yea I was wondering about that too. I'm sure evolution of galaxies you occasionally visit is highly random and only done when you visit them. Meaning the game could wait till you visit them next to say. Ok now 1000 years has past sense you last visited them. Lets randomly generate improments based on that. Its possible that planets your closly aligned with specially ones you are at war with or have an allience with might be tracked better. But who knows. :)
Its all procedural
I don't know personally while the game is amazing I think for the casual gaming crowd (the buyers that made The Sims such a success) its going to be a hard sell. Most of these people simply won't get it. I wouldn't have "gotten" it if I hadn't watched the full GDC footage.
Obviously it was a conspiracy moron.. The issue is was it Al-Quadas conspiracy or the US governments.. OR both..
good idea.. Though running power over the exterier would be difficult at best.. Still the same problem as mentioned earlier with batteries.
But, in the end, if they pick themselves up, dust themselves off, reset the retail price for the non-crippled P3 to something reasonable - as in, less than $500 US and less than 500 EUs - then they can still regain the market.
But they can't. Sony PS3 is so hightech (with their 3 cell processors and blue-ray) they are losing a lot of money selling at $599. I think the $499 version is so crimpled is because they know the buyers of this version arn't as likly to buy as many games, so they can't afford to sell a system that mearly cost them $100 less as they can't expect much game license recoup. In the end, Sony has two chances with the PS3.
1.) Market it as a computer alternative and include a full linux distrubtion.
2.) Drop a processor or two as the games being made right now don't even come close to using the full functionality.
Ok what does the 6600 have that the 7300 GS doesn't have the both support pixel shader 3.0.
No because dialup is painfully slow, it has a very low burst speed. What many people want and are paying for $50 a month is high burst low total usage. The infrastucture can handle 1/100th of these people being high usage users. What they really need to do is offer a real package to the high usage users.. But you would probably not be willing to pay for it.
In the US atleast. That kinda bandwidth is cheap in say South Korea. We really need to stop BSing about how the "internet" wasn't designed for high bandwidth applications. It obviously can handle it, just not with outdated telcom equipment we insist on using here.
The thing is that the general purpose PC is now become so cheap you can have a general purpose PC AND several specific purpose computing devices as well. There simply isn't much money to be made from the manufacturing of the general purpose PC anymore (well there is money to be made, but its from bulk quantity now). Seriously I could definatly see a time when people stop buying 500 dollar video cards for their PC, and just simply stick to buying $600 gamespheres.
Bullshit. Radiation exposure has to be over a certain level before it accumulated. Think of it like a burn as radiation cooks you in a similar way to fire. Small amount of radiation warms your cells up a tiny bit. If you get burned, you will scar. So getting burned occasionally adds up to the scaring and damages you organs and brain and whatnot. Simply being warmed by a fire provides no damage whatsoever (assuming you get away from the fire occassionally) and certainly doesn't accumulate daily.
Either way an intelligent designer (no that that type of intelligent designer) will understand this issue though and design their games with breaks though. I've seen clips of people playing game that where for the most part they can sit and rest their arms on their legs just making small hand movements. But then periodically they must stand up for serious battles. Otherwise people will quickly tire of your game.. A game that people don't realize they are excersising is great. A game people quit because its too much excersing is a bad thing (atleast in this country).