Price fixing lawsuits were brought against Sony in Japan last year. Sony wouldn't allow any stores to mark down ANY Sony products without approval. Sony's defense was that people wanted to pay a higher price to know they were getting something good. Too bad Sony's consumer-level goods are shit.
Well, I'm a PC dude and got an iPod thanks to that free deal that people despise. $500 on a mac and using a monitor I already have (Will the one I use on a PC work?) sounds cool to me as a neat gift. I wouldn't completely convert as I need that lovely Windows and Visual Studio to do some school programming, but I can imagine spending time on it.
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Word of mouth sold the game alone. At least 2 million people, 1 in 15 of the Xbox owners pre-purchased the game WITHOUT playing it OR reading a review before hand, and 1 in 3 (YES! 1/3rd, 33%) purchased it for their Xbox within the first 3 weeks.
Hell, if the game was an empty box, it still would have sold that much. Hype of Halo 1 sold this game. Every Xbox owning friend I personally know is disappointed, though. EVERY one.
I got mine. Check my blog (planetmew.com/blog.html), I documented it all. Even exchanged it and paid the $100 to get a 40GB one. Some people don't understand the work it'll take to get a free $300 product and just expect it to fall in their lap.
It's not important to legitimize games with hokey awards shows, but that's not going to stop people from the abominations like last night.
Where there's things to be compared, award shows will be there to highlight it all. Although it's frightening to imagine how an awards show would go if/. handled it. I don't need to think about it.
One would want to think that. Sadly most people never realize the code is actually "Just in bailey." And with a little bit of knowledge of the British culture, you find out "bailey" means "bikini."
Or spend half that on the Garmin ique which is a Palm with a built-in GPS and nav software and a 320x480 screen, twice that of the nearest PPC. http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/
I'm sure the article links to PalmInfocenter. Palm doesn't even exist. You might as well say Palm Pilots. There's TWO companies now. PalmSource and pa1m0ne. pa1m0ne is STILL THE #1 SELLER OF PDAS. The OS market share has been lost but that's because of Sony dropping out of the market.
Right. Because we all know that games with attitude are instantly better than ones that are inherently creative. I'd much rather play Jak & Daxter PSP than Super Mario 64DS because that crazy Daxter is sooo much more mature than a plumber.
If Sony was truly confident about releasing it this year, the specs should be near final. Three main issues exist with the PSP. Launch time, price and playtime. Launch time is only questioned because of the neglect to the other 2 factors. Saying they'll release it this year should do nothing to relieve anyone because they haven't done anything else to confirm it. When they release REAL info regarding playtime and price, THEN you can estimate how far along they are.
Only two situations can exist. They know the price and life. The question is if they are good or not. If it is expensive and dies like a fruitfly, then by not releasing info, they get fanboys to defend Sony by saying "They didn't confirm anything yet." If it is cheap and long lasting, keeping it hidden only instills doubt into the people. There's NO good reason to keep it hidden from us unless it's negative.
Also, I'm not calling the people who put down speculation Sony fanboys. I'm just saying Sony fanboys will use that excuse to defend Sony.
After seeing Nintendo's DS presentations in the US and Japan, there should be no doubts left about the system. You know whether you want it or not. Battery life, price, availability and launch games are set, mostly because it's launching in about 6 weeks. The PSP should be launching in the same timeframe, and battery life and price are hidden. Availability is questionable and launch games are shaky and unconfirmed mostly. (Maybe I'm wrong, but GT4PSP was delayed, right?)
Usually the creator of a title should stand firm behind the final product. It doesn't happen often enough with apologies that I honestly don't know what to think either way. The Nintendo side of me feels confidence in all my MS-hating ways to see hype fail, but at the same time, he made a game to the best of his potential and realizes he's human. I make games, I can understand his enthusiasm to add lots of cool features and see them get removed at the last minute.
What I'd really like to see is an apology from Warren Spector for DX:IW, but all we got is that post-mortem on IGN on how he prefers console games and that it was a wonder the first Deus Ex didn't completely bomb.
From what I've read so far, the game works, and is fun, but a majority of the features that made it stand out were removed. Multiplayer Being a female Having Children
Having experience with both kinds, I definetly prefer the nub. The touchscreen always has too many involved little tricks and makes it more complicated than a normal mouse.
Wow! That slit down the middle makes me think it's just a vagina. I can't get a better view, but I also imagine the scroll button placement helps to further that logic.
They said the PSP played mp3s. Wow. Talk about a giant misstep. Sony has not embelish at ALL about the major features of the PSP. It plays MUSIC FILES on MEMORY STICK DUOs. We know NOTHING more about it. My bet? It only plays ATRAC3 files to save on licensing and because it'd help keep the price down, just like the Clies in Japan or that new iPod-ripoff. If someone isn't clever enough to notice that the PSP isn't going to play mp3s, they don't deserve my time.
The PSP, playing your mp3s, dvds and PS2 games in a handheld, but you'll need to buy them all again.
I know it probably won't happen, but in the back of my mind I just wonder how these guys would react if LucasArts published their game. It would send the most confusing statement to everyone. "We won't publish adventure games, but we'll publish them!"
If he really had the skill to do what he wanted, he would have made the ports flush in a tighter matrix and not recessed like the chasm that is the SNES and GB Player slot. I'm sure that things weighs a ton, I know it's noisy and it's a waste of consoles.
And what's with the huge knobs? Short notice? Was he rushed? You want to take your time on these things.
Is this the same series that started with Descent: Freespace? Because that's the only one that comes to mind. I loved those old Descent games and I think they were from Interplay, right?
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Price fixing lawsuits were brought against Sony in Japan last year. Sony wouldn't allow any stores to mark down ANY Sony products without approval. Sony's defense was that people wanted to pay a higher price to know they were getting something good. Too bad Sony's consumer-level goods are shit.
EA owns the Mutant sports line.
Well, I'm a PC dude and got an iPod thanks to that free deal that people despise.
$500 on a mac and using a monitor I already have (Will the one I use on a PC work?) sounds cool to me as a neat gift. I wouldn't completely convert as I need that lovely Windows and Visual Studio to do some school programming, but I can imagine spending time on it.
Word of mouth sold the game alone. At least 2 million people, 1 in 15 of the Xbox owners pre-purchased the game WITHOUT playing it OR reading a review before hand, and 1 in 3 (YES! 1/3rd, 33%) purchased it for their Xbox within the first 3 weeks.
Hell, if the game was an empty box, it still would have sold that much. Hype of Halo 1 sold this game. Every Xbox owning friend I personally know is disappointed, though. EVERY one.
I got mine. Check my blog (planetmew.com/blog.html), I documented it all. Even exchanged it and paid the $100 to get a 40GB one.
Some people don't understand the work it'll take to get a free $300 product and just expect it to fall in their lap.
It's not important to legitimize games with hokey awards shows, but that's not going to stop people from the abominations like last night.
/. handled it. I don't need to think about it.
Where there's things to be compared, award shows will be there to highlight it all. Although it's frightening to imagine how an awards show would go if
One would want to think that.
Sadly most people never realize the code is actually "Just in bailey." And with a little bit of knowledge of the British culture, you find out "bailey" means "bikini."
Or spend half that on the Garmin ique which is a Palm with a built-in GPS and nav software and a 320x480 screen, twice that of the nearest PPC.
http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/
I'm sure the article links to PalmInfocenter.
Palm doesn't even exist. You might as well say Palm Pilots.
There's TWO companies now. PalmSource and pa1m0ne. pa1m0ne is STILL THE #1 SELLER OF PDAS. The OS market share has been lost but that's because of Sony dropping out of the market.
So PalmSource is #2 and pa1m0ne is STILL #1.
Right. Because we all know that games with attitude are instantly better than ones that are inherently creative. I'd much rather play Jak & Daxter PSP than Super Mario 64DS because that crazy Daxter is sooo much more mature than a plumber.
So how long until we see JSRF, Crazy Taxi 3 and PDO on the PS2 and Cube? (Yes, I like Crazy Taxi 3. :-P)
If Sony was truly confident about releasing it this year, the specs should be near final.
Three main issues exist with the PSP. Launch time, price and playtime. Launch time is only questioned because of the neglect to the other 2 factors. Saying they'll release it this year should do nothing to relieve anyone because they haven't done anything else to confirm it. When they release REAL info regarding playtime and price, THEN you can estimate how far along they are.
Only two situations can exist. They know the price and life. The question is if they are good or not.
If it is expensive and dies like a fruitfly, then by not releasing info, they get fanboys to defend Sony by saying "They didn't confirm anything yet."
If it is cheap and long lasting, keeping it hidden only instills doubt into the people. There's NO good reason to keep it hidden from us unless it's negative.
Also, I'm not calling the people who put down speculation Sony fanboys. I'm just saying Sony fanboys will use that excuse to defend Sony.
After seeing Nintendo's DS presentations in the US and Japan, there should be no doubts left about the system. You know whether you want it or not. Battery life, price, availability and launch games are set, mostly because it's launching in about 6 weeks.
The PSP should be launching in the same timeframe, and battery life and price are hidden. Availability is questionable and launch games are shaky and unconfirmed mostly. (Maybe I'm wrong, but GT4PSP was delayed, right?)
Usually the creator of a title should stand firm behind the final product. It doesn't happen often enough with apologies that I honestly don't know what to think either way. The Nintendo side of me feels confidence in all my MS-hating ways to see hype fail, but at the same time, he made a game to the best of his potential and realizes he's human. I make games, I can understand his enthusiasm to add lots of cool features and see them get removed at the last minute.
What I'd really like to see is an apology from Warren Spector for DX:IW, but all we got is that post-mortem on IGN on how he prefers console games and that it was a wonder the first Deus Ex didn't completely bomb.
I haven't used my account in a long ass time, but I log in (Have to re-activate it) and I'm still at 2MB.
Shouldn't there be a law against deleting my emails? That's crap. It cleared out everything!
That way we can get atrophy of ALL our muscles instead of just our legs.
From what I've read so far, the game works, and is fun, but a majority of the features that made it stand out were removed.
Multiplayer
Being a female
Having Children
Those are some of the major ones.
Having experience with both kinds, I definetly prefer the nub. The touchscreen always has too many involved little tricks and makes it more complicated than a normal mouse.
Wow! That slit down the middle makes me think it's just a vagina. I can't get a better view, but I also imagine the scroll button placement helps to further that logic.
They said the PSP played mp3s. Wow. Talk about a giant misstep. Sony has not embelish at ALL about the major features of the PSP. It plays MUSIC FILES on MEMORY STICK DUOs. We know NOTHING more about it. My bet? It only plays ATRAC3 files to save on licensing and because it'd help keep the price down, just like the Clies in Japan or that new iPod-ripoff. If someone isn't clever enough to notice that the PSP isn't going to play mp3s, they don't deserve my time.
The PSP, playing your mp3s, dvds and PS2 games in a handheld, but you'll need to buy them all again.
In the game MagiNation, the main character is named Tony Jones because it was an easy one to think up. It just ended up sticking.
I know it probably won't happen, but in the back of my mind I just wonder how these guys would react if LucasArts published their game. It would send the most confusing statement to everyone. "We won't publish adventure games, but we'll publish them!"
If he really had the skill to do what he wanted, he would have made the ports flush in a tighter matrix and not recessed like the chasm that is the SNES and GB Player slot. I'm sure that things weighs a ton, I know it's noisy and it's a waste of consoles.
And what's with the huge knobs? Short notice? Was he rushed? You want to take your time on these things.
The funny thing is that I asked my girlfriend for the correct spelling and I added the c and didn't even pay attention to the rest. D'oh!
All I can say is:
Schenll! Schenll!
I can't wait.
Is this the same series that started with Descent: Freespace? Because that's the only one that comes to mind. I loved those old Descent games and I think they were from Interplay, right?