Re:What sort of "original" game do you propose?
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Three words... "Word of Mouth".
If a game is special enough it will find its audience, GTA3 was not marketed to casual gamers at first, but its originality shone through and for better or worse is now a mainstream phonomenon.
If consumers really hated the mediocre games that are given prominent retail shelf space then they wouldn't buy them and the retailers, publishers and game developers would try and satisfy the consumer with different types of games. Just like any other medium (film, tv, music) the burden is on the games companies to produce titles that entertain people (to the extend that they want to plonk down $50 for the privilege). Like the rest of the entertainment business games companies live and die by their audience.
Re:What sort of "original" game do you propose?
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You have a point, the reason why publishers love sequels and genre standards is because new original games are a risk that rarely pays off. Who's fault is this ?, its the consumer, the games companies are merely giving us what we tell them we want (with our wallets). Of course if you have an original inventive idea for a game and you are sure it will be popular and sell millions then with current online infratstructure it is easier than ever before for an independant to distribute their their own games.
Who's idea was civanon.org ?, it is a masterful piece of marketing (check out the video featuring George Bush). Focussing upon civ's addictiveness it made me really want the new version whilst at the same time I am worried about how much time I will lose.
In which case, because of the low and slow sales, Apple would be forced to either take their QC (Quality Control) more seriously, or gradually go "bankrupt"
Oh I agree this is how it should be done but unfortuantely wherever human beings are involved you will always come across such glaringly obvious SNAFU's such as this. So in the real world we need early adopters but it isn't advisable to be one yourself.
I get the impression that Nintendo aren't too bothered about rushing to the market place but the timing of this unveiling has me confuzzled.
On one hand it makes perfect sense in that Microsoft are now unable to change their controller to offer similar functionality. On the other hand Sony do have enough time to rip Nintendo off. If this opens up gaming to people who dont usually play games (like nintendo says it does) then Sony would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by rushing a last minute version into the PS3.
I'm not clever enough to try and pick out who the big loser of this generation will be, however I think sony are probably fairly safe (playstation is a massive worldwide brand).
The only other prediction I will make is that Microsoft will regret rushing to market. It seems like they couldn't really make up their minds with regards to the hard drive and so have fudged it by making it optional (a pretty expensive thing to do for both MS and consumers just so you can put a tick on the spec sheet saying it supports hard drives). And Microsoft also faces the prospect of having to re-release the xbox 360 with a HD-DVD drive some time in the future which will inevitably piss off early adopters. In comparison, despite the lack of details so far, the PS3 looks like being the best all round entertainment and gaming platform.
In the article they say that if you turn it horizontally you can hold it, and it looks like, a NES pad. Nintendo have also said that a lot of their old games from nes, snes, 64 and GC will be availiable on the revolution.
We are talking about a difference of 8 days, it isn't that much of a snub to japan, or even that much of a victory for europe.
Microsoft really messed up in japan with the first xbox, if you dont know games then there would be no obvious reason to think that japan is either a) a hugely influential videogame market or b) that the market and whole videogame culture is significantly different from the west.
It really was a rookie mistake on Microsofts part, surely at some point someone with a clue must of realised that Halo just wasn't going to get the japanese as excited as it did everybody else.
If they manage to make the same mistake this time then i will be surprised, not ruling it out though.
It sounds like blu ray is going to be more of a service than a product. I assume their will be players that don't require a net connection, the soultion is to use one of those I guess. I guess it all depends on how compelling the online extras are, to be honest i hardly watch DVD extras anymore, they used to be cool when they were new. As long as i have the movie i'll be happy.
I think the real kicker might be how affordable recordable blu ray is. Ignoring DRM, size is the is the most important factor. Of course just because blu ray is technically better doesnt mean it will win.
Why ?, its not like he said it in public, I am sure most people say things about their colleagues / Bosses / friends / etc. in private that they wouldn't say in public.
Two lasers will be expensive though, at least in the beginning. If the companies behind the formats are going to be happy with duality then they will also need to be happy with a slow adoption rate.
I think its obvious that HD video will be very slowly adopted at least until HDTV prices drop low enough.
I think i am one of those people who is becoming infomation overloaded, i am losing the patience to read a book or watch tv because they are too slow for me. This sidebar is awesome, I have been waiting for an rss agregator (like the one in the new mac OS) for sometime. The only problem is my workrate will plumet now.
As for google becoming too powerful, nah, you will always have geeks and users, and the geeks will always find away round the nasty stuff. Also maybe a third popular browser would finally force MS to conform to the standards of the web ?.
Your right of course, the studios are still making a huge amount of money. However another aspect that is worth noting is DVD sales, they are through the roof and generating more revenue than the box office.
Personally I love the cinema experience and don't think that it will die out anytime soon, but I also enjoy watching films at home (protected from those annoying people who talk in cinema's), so do at lot of other people going by DVD sales. DVD's are just one half of the home entertainment pie though, consoles are the other, so its not too saurprising to see the hollywood studios take an intrest in video games.
Ther earth has too musch water, 2 thirds of the earths surface is covered by it, and if global warming continues that will increase. If we could find an energy efficient way of moving water out of the earths gravity well (space elvator perhaps ?) then we could drench the martian surface.
Of course in several cases the linux/freebsd nvidia drivers actually behave MUCH better than their windows counterparts. For example, on FreeBSD, I can swap pretty much any nvidia card for my current one and it will just work. Don't have to touch the configuration at all. On Windows it will usually go to VGA mode and demand that you reinstall the driver, even though it's supposedly a universal download.
Just because its a universal download does not mean the driver that gets installed is universal.
As far as I am aware Intel is planning on implementing the Pentium M processor as a desktop processor anyway, this adapter simply means that you can be ahead of the curve.
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Three words... "Word of Mouth".
If a game is special enough it will find its audience, GTA3 was not marketed to casual gamers at first, but its originality shone through and for better or worse is now a mainstream phonomenon.
If consumers really hated the mediocre games that are given prominent retail shelf space then they wouldn't buy them and the retailers, publishers and game developers would try and satisfy the consumer with different types of games. Just like any other medium (film, tv, music) the burden is on the games companies to produce titles that entertain people (to the extend that they want to plonk down $50 for the privilege). Like the rest of the entertainment business games companies live and die by their audience.
You have a point, the reason why publishers love sequels and genre standards is because new original games are a risk that rarely pays off. Who's fault is this ?, its the consumer, the games companies are merely giving us what we tell them we want (with our wallets). Of course if you have an original inventive idea for a game and you are sure it will be popular and sell millions then with current online infratstructure it is easier than ever before for an independant to distribute their their own games.
Who's idea was civanon.org ?, it is a masterful piece of marketing (check out the video featuring George Bush). Focussing upon civ's addictiveness it made me really want the new version whilst at the same time I am worried about how much time I will lose.
One more turn..., One more turn...
In which case, because of the low and slow sales, Apple would be forced to either take their QC (Quality Control) more seriously, or gradually go "bankrupt"
Oh I agree this is how it should be done but unfortuantely wherever human beings are involved you will always come across such glaringly obvious SNAFU's such as this. So in the real world we need early adopters but it isn't advisable to be one yourself.
It hardly ever pays to be an early adopter. Let other people work out the bugs, then enjoy the fruits of their labor :)
Of course if everyone did this there wouldn't be a second generation.
I guess we all do owe the early adopters some sympathy.
Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"
I don't understand this sentence.
Nuclear power.
I get the impression that Nintendo aren't too bothered about rushing to the market place but the timing of this unveiling has me confuzzled.
On one hand it makes perfect sense in that Microsoft are now unable to change their controller to offer similar functionality. On the other hand Sony do have enough time to rip Nintendo off. If this opens up gaming to people who dont usually play games (like nintendo says it does) then Sony would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by rushing a last minute version into the PS3.
I'm not clever enough to try and pick out who the big loser of this generation will be, however I think sony are probably fairly safe (playstation is a massive worldwide brand).
The only other prediction I will make is that Microsoft will regret rushing to market. It seems like they couldn't really make up their minds with regards to the hard drive and so have fudged it by making it optional (a pretty expensive thing to do for both MS and consumers just so you can put a tick on the spec sheet saying it supports hard drives). And Microsoft also faces the prospect of having to re-release the xbox 360 with a HD-DVD drive some time in the future which will inevitably piss off early adopters. In comparison, despite the lack of details so far, the PS3 looks like being the best all round entertainment and gaming platform.
In the article they say that if you turn it horizontally you can hold it, and it looks like, a NES pad. Nintendo have also said that a lot of their old games from nes, snes, 64 and GC will be availiable on the revolution.
We are talking about a difference of 8 days, it isn't that much of a snub to japan, or even that much of a victory for europe.
Microsoft really messed up in japan with the first xbox, if you dont know games then there would be no obvious reason to think that japan is either a) a hugely influential videogame market or b) that the market and whole videogame culture is significantly different from the west.
It really was a rookie mistake on Microsofts part, surely at some point someone with a clue must of realised that Halo just wasn't going to get the japanese as excited as it did everybody else.
If they manage to make the same mistake this time then i will be surprised, not ruling it out though.
It sounds like blu ray is going to be more of a service than a product. I assume their will be players that don't require a net connection, the soultion is to use one of those I guess. I guess it all depends on how compelling the online extras are, to be honest i hardly watch DVD extras anymore, they used to be cool when they were new. As long as i have the movie i'll be happy.
I think the real kicker might be how affordable recordable blu ray is. Ignoring DRM, size is the is the most important factor. Of course just because blu ray is technically better doesnt mean it will win.
Why ?, its not like he said it in public, I am sure most people say things about their colleagues / Bosses / friends / etc. in private that they wouldn't say in public.
Sigh, we are truly living in the age of invented diseases.
Two lasers will be expensive though, at least in the beginning. If the companies behind the formats are going to be happy with duality then they will also need to be happy with a slow adoption rate.
I think its obvious that HD video will be very slowly adopted at least until HDTV prices drop low enough.
You seriously trying to give a reason to defend spam ?.
I dont want emails about viagra and all that shit, I dont care whether other people repsond to them, if they send them to me then that pisses me off.
You just need to make the individuals right to a spam free inbox financially more expensive than the potential rewards of a massive spam offensive.
I think i am one of those people who is becoming infomation overloaded, i am losing the patience to read a book or watch tv because they are too slow for me. This sidebar is awesome, I have been waiting for an rss agregator (like the one in the new mac OS) for sometime. The only problem is my workrate will plumet now.
As for google becoming too powerful, nah, you will always have geeks and users, and the geeks will always find away round the nasty stuff. Also maybe a third popular browser would finally force MS to conform to the standards of the web ?.
Your right of course, the studios are still making a huge amount of money. However another aspect that is worth noting is DVD sales, they are through the roof and generating more revenue than the box office.
Personally I love the cinema experience and don't think that it will die out anytime soon, but I also enjoy watching films at home (protected from those annoying people who talk in cinema's), so do at lot of other people going by DVD sales. DVD's are just one half of the home entertainment pie though, consoles are the other, so its not too saurprising to see the hollywood studios take an intrest in video games.
Mine cant even be measured in Aeons, some sort of hyperdimensional physics is need to caulculate the frequency in my sex life.
Two words: Nuclear Weapons.
Ther earth has too musch water, 2 thirds of the earths surface is covered by it, and if global warming continues that will increase. If we could find an energy efficient way of moving water out of the earths gravity well (space elvator perhaps ?) then we could drench the martian surface.
Every problem has a solution.
Of course in several cases the linux/freebsd nvidia drivers actually behave MUCH better than their windows counterparts. For example, on FreeBSD, I can swap pretty much any nvidia card for my current one and it will just work. Don't have to touch the configuration at all. On Windows it will usually go to VGA mode and demand that you reinstall the driver, even though it's supposedly a universal download.
Just because its a universal download does not mean the driver that gets installed is universal.
As far as I am aware Intel is planning on implementing the Pentium M processor as a desktop processor anyway, this adapter simply means that you can be ahead of the curve.
surely it makes it a lot easier to program a PSP though ?
U read the RTFA ?
Dude thats cheating !