Numbers are critical to a game's success and in the past the industry has got the shaft in tracking sales for the most part. The industry-dominating NPD TRSTS don't even include Wal-Mart. Who's fault is that? No idea, but we really need to start modeling Japan's method. Each week they have it down pat.
You aren't going to increase sales by offering American-made games and cheezy pack-ins. Japanese consumers want Japanese games! Christ! Look at the sales for DOA:XBV and Dino Crisis 3 if you need any indication! Stop bundling stuff the Japanese doesn't want and start pimping out Sega and Tecmo again!
Then pick up the new Ninja Turtles game. INTHEGAME.com(Target's site) has a $5 coupon.
IGNORE THE REVIEWS, aside from lacking 4 players, the game kicks ass and people ask too much from it. It's like simple games aren't good enough anymore.
But people just enjoy complaining. We feared the XBox because the industry never supported 3 consoles before.
What happened? Well, none of them faded away, instead it gave each supporter twice as many competitors and turned their fanbase into overly supportive, defensive and blind customers shunning anything that doesn't match their demographic.
"It's not on the _console I bought_, therefore it sucks" is the main attitude today. People are blinded by their fervor to save a couple hundred dollars. Look at how many people flock to complain about exclusive titles? You've seen it all here before, even I'm guilty of it.
You'd have to live in an incubation chamber to not be sick of discussion about GTA or Halo by now. They're both years old, but the hardcore people refuse to move on, because like most humans, they fear change.
The sooner we get Sony or MS to leave the console industry the better, so we can all get back to our normal complaining lives devoid of blind debate and focused back on a simple version choice rather than a tri-fecta of nerd-criticism.
Don't be so quick to blame Canada for this one. Queubec shouldn't even be considered part of the provinces. It's sort of like Texas, but without the cowboy hats or guns.... Make that just without hats.
Bandai also makes the Mega Man Snap-kits that I love(Along with the Gundam ones, of course) and a lot of other products. I wonder if they will continue to make them IF this is a merger? Capcom DOES like Nintendo, but who knows?
The problem with filters is that they [help business and productivity] because it [encourages] the flow of information. Of course, I've found [it helpful] by [complying]. You should try doing that, too, if filters [help] you.
Oh, that reminds me the other thing that pissed me off, too.
Somewhere down the line they decided to ban every single old card set, re-release a new set combining the "Best" of those cards and once again screw everyone over.
Of course, I stopped long before then, at the Orange Islands switch, because I wasn't about to pay for a new league fee prematurely.
WoTC only got the rights to translate the cards from the Japanese game, which Nintendo designed themselves anyway.
But in the process, they altered the game rules, took the foils out of every pack(Inspiring more purchases), added coin flips to some attacks, lowered HP, made COUNTLESS COUNTLESS errors in EVERY set, and had a horrible league set up.
Their Pokemon League was just fine, until the Orange Island set. When that came around, they instantly retired all the old badges, giving any player that didn't start at the beginning NO chance to earn them and forcing veterans to start all over again.
This doesn't even dwell on the cost of the cards, or the fact some sets have YET to be released.
I find it odd they commented heavily equally on all handhelds except the PSP. They failed to mention any inherent flaws with its design, ignoring battery life, moving parts, and numerous other problems altogether.
They also failed to focus on a lot of handhelds like the Game Boy Light, Turbo Express(Hardly mentioned) or the Game.com/Game.com Pocket Pro.
I am a firm advocate of the ESRB(Youthful minds are easily influenced), but if video games affect us as much as the media tries to make it seem, then every bug tester at video game companies would never live long enough to retire anywhere else than a federal prison.
The PS2s have a very short life span(Troll me down and you are blind), just ask any GameStop or EB. The DVD lasers fail after about 9 months to a year.
It will be interesting to see if it is still the same quality of manufacturing for the PSX or not. It would really hurt sales to know your DVD laser will eventually fail.
I suppose since it is also a burner a better laser would be used, but personally I'd be a bit cautious and not become an early adopter.
Since this latest drop, I've been hearing a LOT more people interested in the system. It's sort of like the people who picked up the PSOne, but with better games and a smaller installed userbase, meaning more sales potential.
And I'm even more surprised to see an ad campaign involving the word "millions", "dolllars" and "Nintendo" in it, being that aside from simple commercials, they've survived on pure word-of-mouth advertising for over 100 years.(Yes, they're over 100 years old, they used to make playing cards in 1890ish)
The Sony movie SWAT had enough product placement to make me gag. I can't recommend it to people because there's enough scenes of McD's meals, Dr. Peppers, Gatorades and Sony TVs to make me gag. Really, are they that desperate for cash they have to advertise during a movie we already PAID TO SEE?
There's a good reason not to trust customers, because searching for Trillian online has more cracked versions than anything else. I'm fine with depending on them to sign on, but they need to find a better way to authenticate it.
Cerulean Studios already fought AOL and won. If you hoof it on over to Trillian's website and logging into the member's section, you can get the beta Yahoo-patch.
A price would change sales significantly for the PS2 or Cube, but the XBox's demographic is FAR TOO SPECIFIC to have any real effect beyond convincing those who were just about ready to get it, should a price drop occur. Given that the main pull of the system is on graphics, fps's, fighters and sports games, you won't get many people caving in for it.
Some people like a variety of AAA games, I'm one of them. When all your top sellers are first person shooters(Aside from ONE RPG in the last 3 years of it's life) something is awry.
Just remember, the top selling version of Soul Calibur II is the Cube one.
Well, the main reason is price-point. N64 games are smaller and fit on encrypted flashcards easier.
And as for the other posts with mine, every "crack" of a console has to work BOTH ways. Meaning a way to emulate it on something else and a way to play simple media on the actual device.
When a news release for a disc browser is big, you know any sort of EITHER-WAY piracy is a ways off.
On top of that all, you'd need the Panasonic/Matsushita Q($500), which is the only Cube device that takes DVD media directly.
The iQue is a PalmOS device. They're making it seem like its above what it is. Trust me, I want one, but there's something unsettling about not saying "A Palm with built-in GPS" as opposed to the archaic name used for PPCs.
Besides if they were real geeks, they'd know they could easily use the iQue as a master-remote and eliminate all their troubles. Any Palm device can use one of about 3 different programs to emulate any IR hardware. Pity they're going to mis-use the iQue as just a GPS, just like most people will mis-use the Zodiac as just a gaming device.
But this is all for not, these people will probably break something 30 seconds after the guys leave and be unable to reboot their computer. There's no respect for these guys("BITCH!"?), and honestly, you have to be pretty bad to start off with to be picked for this, I assume./animosity toward luddites? Maybe. . .
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Numbers are critical to a game's success and in the past the industry has got the shaft in tracking sales for the most part. The industry-dominating NPD TRSTS don't even include Wal-Mart. Who's fault is that? No idea, but we really need to start modeling Japan's method. Each week they have it down pat.
You aren't going to increase sales by offering American-made games and cheezy pack-ins. Japanese consumers want Japanese games! Christ! Look at the sales for DOA:XBV and Dino Crisis 3 if you need any indication! Stop bundling stuff the Japanese doesn't want and start pimping out Sega and Tecmo again!
Then pick up the new Ninja Turtles game. INTHEGAME.com(Target's site) has a $5 coupon.
IGNORE THE REVIEWS, aside from lacking 4 players, the game kicks ass and people ask too much from it. It's like simple games aren't good enough anymore.
But people just enjoy complaining. We feared the XBox because the industry never supported 3 consoles before.
What happened? Well, none of them faded away, instead it gave each supporter twice as many competitors and turned their fanbase into overly supportive, defensive and blind customers shunning anything that doesn't match their demographic.
"It's not on the _console I bought_, therefore it sucks" is the main attitude today. People are blinded by their fervor to save a couple hundred dollars. Look at how many people flock to complain about exclusive titles? You've seen it all here before, even I'm guilty of it.
You'd have to live in an incubation chamber to not be sick of discussion about GTA or Halo by now. They're both years old, but the hardcore people refuse to move on, because like most humans, they fear change.
The sooner we get Sony or MS to leave the console industry the better, so we can all get back to our normal complaining lives devoid of blind debate and focused back on a simple version choice rather than a tri-fecta of nerd-criticism.
Because they say that the code is easily portable and sometimes I want the cars in GTA3 that Vice City simply doesn't have.
Vice City overshadows Liberty City.
Honestly, they make no attempt to say they even plan on completing the original MTA.
Don't be so quick to blame Canada for this one. Queubec shouldn't even be considered part of the provinces. It's sort of like Texas, but without the cowboy hats or guns. ... Make that just without hats.
What, so you forget about the GB and N64 versions, too? AND the SNES sequel?
Bandai also makes the Mega Man Snap-kits that I love(Along with the Gundam ones, of course) and a lot of other products. I wonder if they will continue to make them IF this is a merger? Capcom DOES like Nintendo, but who knows?
This will drive down the cost of the Game Axe so I can get one cheaply. Portable NES competition could be a very interesting market.
The problem with filters is that they [help business and productivity] because it [encourages] the flow of information. Of course, I've found [it helpful] by [complying]. You should try doing that, too, if filters [help] you.
[Vote Bush]
Oh, that reminds me the other thing that pissed me off, too.
Somewhere down the line they decided to ban every single old card set, re-release a new set combining the "Best" of those cards and once again screw everyone over.
Of course, I stopped long before then, at the Orange Islands switch, because I wasn't about to pay for a new league fee prematurely.
WoTC only got the rights to translate the cards from the Japanese game, which Nintendo designed themselves anyway.
But in the process, they altered the game rules, took the foils out of every pack(Inspiring more purchases), added coin flips to some attacks, lowered HP, made COUNTLESS COUNTLESS errors in EVERY set, and had a horrible league set up.
Their Pokemon League was just fine, until the Orange Island set. When that came around, they instantly retired all the old badges, giving any player that didn't start at the beginning NO chance to earn them and forcing veterans to start all over again.
This doesn't even dwell on the cost of the cards, or the fact some sets have YET to be released.
WoTC makes me sick.
I find it odd they commented heavily equally on all handhelds except the PSP. They failed to mention any inherent flaws with its design, ignoring battery life, moving parts, and numerous other problems altogether.
They also failed to focus on a lot of handhelds like the Game Boy Light, Turbo Express(Hardly mentioned) or the Game.com/Game.com Pocket Pro.
I am a firm advocate of the ESRB(Youthful minds are easily influenced), but if video games affect us as much as the media tries to make it seem, then every bug tester at video game companies would never live long enough to retire anywhere else than a federal prison.
The PS2s have a very short life span(Troll me down and you are blind), just ask any GameStop or EB. The DVD lasers fail after about 9 months to a year.
It will be interesting to see if it is still the same quality of manufacturing for the PSX or not. It would really hurt sales to know your DVD laser will eventually fail.
I suppose since it is also a burner a better laser would be used, but personally I'd be a bit cautious and not become an early adopter.
Since this latest drop, I've been hearing a LOT more people interested in the system. It's sort of like the people who picked up the PSOne, but with better games and a smaller installed userbase, meaning more sales potential.
And I'm even more surprised to see an ad campaign involving the word "millions", "dolllars" and "Nintendo" in it, being that aside from simple commercials, they've survived on pure word-of-mouth advertising for over 100 years.(Yes, they're over 100 years old, they used to make playing cards in 1890ish)
The Intellivision got an upgrade to add VOICE!
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The NES had many MBC upgrades, one of which quadrupled the resolution!
You got the SNES/Genesis because the sprites looked so much better, the controller had more buttons and the music was tons better.
With the PSX/Saturn came CDs and 3D. Wow!
With the DC/PS2/Etc. came... BETTER 3D and uh... DVD? MS added a harddrive. .
Aside from polishing off little things with consoles, there's no real limits they can't reach if they just don't use too many polygons.
But wherever Mario is, I'll go.
I take it you never saw Spider-Man in theatres, or else you would remember the can-twist scene in Parker's bedroom.
There's uses for products, and there's scenes used to only glorify the product.
The Sony movie SWAT had enough product placement to make me gag. I can't recommend it to people because there's enough scenes of McD's meals, Dr. Peppers, Gatorades and Sony TVs to make me gag. Really, are they that desperate for cash they have to advertise during a movie we already PAID TO SEE?
There's a good reason not to trust customers, because searching for Trillian online has more cracked versions than anything else. I'm fine with depending on them to sign on, but they need to find a better way to authenticate it.
Cerulean Studios already fought AOL and won.
If you hoof it on over to Trillian's website and logging into the member's section, you can get the beta Yahoo-patch.
How's that for response time?
A price would change sales significantly for the PS2 or Cube, but the XBox's demographic is FAR TOO SPECIFIC to have any real effect beyond convincing those who were just about ready to get it, should a price drop occur. Given that the main pull of the system is on graphics, fps's, fighters and sports games, you won't get many people caving in for it.
Some people like a variety of AAA games, I'm one of them. When all your top sellers are first person shooters(Aside from ONE RPG in the last 3 years of it's life) something is awry.
Just remember, the top selling version of Soul Calibur II is the Cube one.
Well, the main reason is price-point. N64 games are smaller and fit on encrypted flashcards easier.
And as for the other posts with mine, every "crack" of a console has to work BOTH ways. Meaning a way to emulate it on something else and a way to play simple media on the actual device.
When a news release for a disc browser is big, you know any sort of EITHER-WAY piracy is a ways off.
On top of that all, you'd need the Panasonic/Matsushita Q($500), which is the only Cube device that takes DVD media directly.
"Handheld PC with built-in GPS"
/animosity toward luddites? Maybe. . .
The iQue is a PalmOS device. They're making it seem like its above what it is. Trust me, I want one, but there's something unsettling about not saying "A Palm with built-in GPS" as opposed to the archaic name used for PPCs.
Besides if they were real geeks, they'd know they could easily use the iQue as a master-remote and eliminate all their troubles. Any Palm device can use one of about 3 different programs to emulate any IR hardware. Pity they're going to mis-use the iQue as just a GPS, just like most people will mis-use the Zodiac as just a gaming device.
But this is all for not, these people will probably break something 30 seconds after the guys leave and be unable to reboot their computer. There's no respect for these guys("BITCH!"?), and honestly, you have to be pretty bad to start off with to be picked for this, I assume.