In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle you fought the BioLizard which had ATTACHED ITSELF TO THE MOON. Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought that was one of the most amazing battles ever.
Yeah, I loved it how when they announced the Cube-Exclusives they made statements saying there's too many sequels nowawadays being that their publisher is the maker of Mega Man, Street Fighter and every other cashcow you can imagine.
Although I do like the Mega Man Battle Network stuff, it works out pretty fresh, too.
All of MS's statements are heavily biased. Their console:game purchase ratio includes the two-in-one disc you get when you buy it(As if there's any other way), and their definition of worldwide is "USA, Europe and Australia." They also issued one when DOA:XBV was released in Japan and made the XBox outsell the Cube for one week. They compared sales of a GAME to sales of a CONSOLE. That's BS considering at the SAME TIME Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire was out for over 2 months and in that SAME WEEK outsold the entire Japanese annual XBox console sales. How about the one when they recalled the XBox over the spinning disc during ejection? They didn't expect Japanese gamers to be so finicky. Great, insult your customers. .. And after seeing their top sellers be Dino Crisis 3 and DOA:XBV, their current strategy is to release more American games to boost sales.
See, they aren't admitting half their troubles. Every press release you have to read, pay attention to the details for real desperate humor.
And yes, GCN is leading worldwide. So far this year 300,000 PS2s were sold, 144,000 XBoxen and 100,000 GCNs(3:1.5:1). Compare that to 30,000 PS2s, 15,000 Cubes a week and 900 XBoxen a week in Japan(3:2:0.07). The ratio is heavily weighted outside of English-speaking countries.
The major appeal of the XBox is the power. The whole philosophy is that it does games better. But the change is so marginal that people don't want to change what they have. The real strategy for success is to focus on the fun you can have with an XBox. The power-edge has proven itself successful only in the USA by a scant margin. Elsehwhere it's glossed over. If MS would concentrate on what a majority of the consumers do, then they could hit it off.
Until then, I'm keeping my Cube and GBA. It serves me well.
A cheap knock-off, plus a derivative title(FF8) of a derivative title(FF7) is hardly a perfect game. I'd say it's the ultimate rehash if anything.
And any relation to XBV automatically lowers my interest in the game by half because I detest crap-games that are mispromoted. If they called it DOA:Date Fantasy that would be another ball of wax.
Right, on launch day, between my group of friends, we got 3 Cubes at Wal-Mart and 2 at Target. Heck, like any place, they had lines around the place. And Nintendo Power has ads for Wal-Mart in the magazine.
Whether they do that just to cover bad sales, or whether the demographics mesh well is undetermined, but regardless, NPD is missing a large chunk of sales at a point of business where it matters.
I'm betting these are NPD TRSTS reports, pretty much the only source of USA sales data. However, that's not too good, because each company needs to report to them. Heck WAL-MART DOESN'T PARTICIPATE, so all of you buying at Wal-Mart aren't adding to any tracking numbers, and would it be too bold to say a large portion of Cubes would be bought there?
Let me get this straight. With an XBox you get Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT. Now you (also?) get Clone Wars and Tetris Worlds. Buy an XBL pack(Which is almost a prerequiste to make an XBox worth it) and you get Mech Assualt free?
That's... 5 games free with an XBox. Anybody notice a problem here? Honestly, and aside from Mech Assault, those titles aren't stellar enough to make me want to buy one.
The FIRST Tribes 2 was horrible, but the patch that came out a year later made it much more tolerable. Of course there's a bit of a threshold it broke there by waiting too long to patch it.
Wait, so even though Hudson had their own fairly successful console, they have no IP like Master Higgins, Bonk, ZONK, Bomberman or any other Turbo-Grafx 16 game they made? What about the Bomber Jetterz/Generations character? Max? Birdy? The Hige-hige Dan?
And I'm obliged to mention Hudson is the group behind both Sonic Shuffle AND Mario Party. They know how to make a fun game.
Also check out a game on the GBA by the name of Konami's Krazy Racers featuring such hits as Ninja from MGS, Mystical Ninja Goemon, Dracula and many others. Looks like you stopped purchasing games when THE GBA LAUNCHED IN JAPAN OVER TWO YEARS AGO.
I could give a 1,000 reasons why it failed in Japan. Seeing articles here like "Balmer to introduce more American games" makes it even more clear. Aside from a much-needed-but-still-unrefined-retooling of the controller, they've done everything they possibly could to insult Japanese gamers from the TV commercials, to keeping the recall underwraps and simultaneously insulting them by saying they care too much, on top of treating their employees at their XBox branch in Japan like criminals.
Doesn't anyone remember the comments MS made during the recall?
I saw the n45 at Fry's for $20 and bought it in a heartbeat. Once I removed that stupid bar, I loved it even more. The best part is the d-pad.
As for these mods, my ex-roommate did 3, only 2 were successful, and in the end it was more for fun than thriftiness since you still need more componnents than just that controller.
At E3 this year, 4 stations were running the XBox and 2 on the PC. I ain't getting no FPS for the console when it's on the PC, too, it's just stupid. I'm just praying it was like that because it needed optimization at the time, but the hands-on review for GameSpy I saw was the XBox version.
My mother says I have ADD. I probably do, but she still doesn't trust the effects of Ritalin. I turned out just fine.
You know the funny thing? Growing up, I had some problems. The doctor recommended that my parents buy me an NES to improve my hand-eye coordination. Well, it helped.;)
How often do we just diagnose every little boy with ADD or ADHD? Honestly, how many boys ages 4-10 have you EVER KNOWN TO BEHAVE? It's not the majority, so surely that means it's the GOOD kids who have problems./me plays the frasier video game!
The only games I've recently heard people mention a high level of difficulty on is Mega Man Battle Network and Ikaruga, both GCN-Only(God bless Dreamcast) games.
I was trying to get an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, but somehow ended up with some anime from the 80's dubbed in Spanish. That's about the only mis-named file I've ever gotten.
Wow, I haven't completed SMS yet(About 40%), although I'm not that dedicated, but getting every star is hardly an easy task. Don't these reviewers ever think that it's been 5 years since SM64 and they've played so many games that there's no more challenge left? It takes a smart person to seperate himself from his opinions and consider what the public believes. Like it or not, it's the second best seller on the GameCube, below SSBM and above Wind Waker.
Right, you buy Nintendo because you know what is to come. Reliability. With the XBox or PS2, you bank on the success of non-Japanese developers to woo you on a monthly basis.
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Come on, I know you are out there! Or are you just upset after EGM posted the world's worst estimate on console sales?
In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle you fought the BioLizard which had ATTACHED ITSELF TO THE MOON. Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought that was one of the most amazing battles ever.
Yeah, I loved it how when they announced the Cube-Exclusives they made statements saying there's too many sequels nowawadays being that their publisher is the maker of Mega Man, Street Fighter and every other cashcow you can imagine.
Although I do like the Mega Man Battle Network stuff, it works out pretty fresh, too.
Leading the XBox for 2nd place. Sorry, most of these discussions are about 2nd place now that Sony has dominance.
And the ironic thing is that their top-selling title, Pokemon, requires the person to read a heavy amount of text.
All of MS's statements are heavily biased. .
Their console:game purchase ratio includes the two-in-one disc you get when you buy it(As if there's any other way), and their definition of worldwide is "USA, Europe and Australia." They also issued one when DOA:XBV was released in Japan and made the XBox outsell the Cube for one week. They compared sales of a GAME to sales of a CONSOLE. That's BS considering at the SAME TIME Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire was out for over 2 months and in that SAME WEEK outsold the entire Japanese annual XBox console sales. How about the one when they recalled the XBox over the spinning disc during ejection? They didn't expect Japanese gamers to be so finicky. Great, insult your customers. .
And after seeing their top sellers be Dino Crisis 3 and DOA:XBV, their current strategy is to release more American games to boost sales.
See, they aren't admitting half their troubles.
Every press release you have to read, pay attention to the details for real desperate humor.
And yes, GCN is leading worldwide. So far this year 300,000 PS2s were sold, 144,000 XBoxen and 100,000 GCNs(3:1.5:1). Compare that to 30,000 PS2s, 15,000 Cubes a week and 900 XBoxen a week in Japan(3:2:0.07). The ratio is heavily weighted outside of English-speaking countries.
The major appeal of the XBox is the power.
The whole philosophy is that it does games better.
But the change is so marginal that people don't want to change what they have. The real strategy for success is to focus on the fun you can have with an XBox. The power-edge has proven itself successful only in the USA by a scant margin. Elsehwhere it's glossed over. If MS would concentrate on what a majority of the consumers do, then they could hit it off.
Until then, I'm keeping my Cube and GBA. It serves me well.
A cheap knock-off, plus a derivative title(FF8) of a derivative title(FF7) is hardly a perfect game. I'd say it's the ultimate rehash if anything.
And any relation to XBV automatically lowers my interest in the game by half because I detest crap-games that are mispromoted. If they called it DOA:Date Fantasy that would be another ball of wax.
Right, on launch day, between my group of friends, we got 3 Cubes at Wal-Mart and 2 at Target. Heck, like any place, they had lines around the place. And Nintendo Power has ads for Wal-Mart in the magazine.
Whether they do that just to cover bad sales, or whether the demographics mesh well is undetermined, but regardless, NPD is missing a large chunk of sales at a point of business where it matters.
I'm betting these are NPD TRSTS reports, pretty much the only source of USA sales data. However, that's not too good, because each company needs to report to them. Heck WAL-MART DOESN'T PARTICIPATE, so all of you buying at Wal-Mart aren't adding to any tracking numbers, and would it be too bold to say a large portion of Cubes would be bought there?
Well, don't forget the PSP is running a bunch o processors, more inputs, a spinning disc and usb ports along with other things i can't imagine yet.
Let me get this straight.
With an XBox you get Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT. Now you (also?) get Clone Wars and Tetris Worlds. Buy an XBL pack(Which is almost a prerequiste to make an XBox worth it) and you get Mech Assualt free?
That's... 5 games free with an XBox. Anybody notice a problem here? Honestly, and aside from Mech Assault, those titles aren't stellar enough to make me want to buy one.
The FIRST Tribes 2 was horrible, but the patch that came out a year later made it much more tolerable. Of course there's a bit of a threshold it broke there by waiting too long to patch it.
So Mr. G&W, Ice Climbers, Dr. Mario, and some of the other crazy people in SSBM aren't for the classic gamer?
Wait, so even though Hudson had their own fairly successful console, they have no IP like Master Higgins, Bonk, ZONK, Bomberman or any other Turbo-Grafx 16 game they made? What about the Bomber Jetterz/Generations character? Max? Birdy? The Hige-hige Dan?
And I'm obliged to mention Hudson is the group behind both Sonic Shuffle AND Mario Party. They know how to make a fun game.
Also check out a game on the GBA by the name of Konami's Krazy Racers featuring such hits as Ninja from MGS, Mystical Ninja Goemon, Dracula and many others. Looks like you stopped purchasing games when THE GBA LAUNCHED IN JAPAN OVER TWO YEARS AGO.
I could give a 1,000 reasons why it failed in Japan. Seeing articles here like "Balmer to introduce more American games" makes it even more clear. Aside from a much-needed-but-still-unrefined-retooling of the controller, they've done everything they possibly could to insult Japanese gamers from the TV commercials, to keeping the recall underwraps and simultaneously insulting them by saying they care too much, on top of treating their employees at their XBox branch in Japan like criminals.
Doesn't anyone remember the comments MS made during the recall?
Seriously, there's like a whole 10 people left in Japan that want an XBox. That's die-hard fan appreciation there!
I saw the n45 at Fry's for $20 and bought it in a heartbeat. Once I removed that stupid bar, I loved it even more. The best part is the d-pad.
As for these mods, my ex-roommate did 3, only 2 were successful, and in the end it was more for fun than thriftiness since you still need more componnents than just that controller.
At E3 this year, 4 stations were running the XBox and 2 on the PC. I ain't getting no FPS for the console when it's on the PC, too, it's just stupid. I'm just praying it was like that because it needed optimization at the time, but the hands-on review for GameSpy I saw was the XBox version.
Don't people care about real gamers anymore?
My mother says I have ADD. I probably do, but she still doesn't trust the effects of Ritalin. I turned out just fine.
;)
You know the funny thing? Growing up, I had some problems. The doctor recommended that my parents buy me an NES to improve my hand-eye coordination. Well, it helped.
How often do we just diagnose every little boy with ADD or ADHD? Honestly, how many boys ages 4-10 have you EVER KNOWN TO BEHAVE? It's not the majority, so surely that means it's the GOOD kids who have problems. /me plays the frasier video game!
The only games I've recently heard people mention a high level of difficulty on is Mega Man Battle Network and Ikaruga, both GCN-Only(God bless Dreamcast) games.
I was trying to get an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, but somehow ended up with some anime from the 80's dubbed in Spanish. That's about the only mis-named file I've ever gotten.
Wow, I haven't completed SMS yet(About 40%), although I'm not that dedicated, but getting every star is hardly an easy task. Don't these reviewers ever think that it's been 5 years since SM64 and they've played so many games that there's no more challenge left? It takes a smart person to seperate himself from his opinions and consider what the public believes. Like it or not, it's the second best seller on the GameCube, below SSBM and above Wind Waker.
Right, you buy Nintendo because you know what is to come. Reliability. With the XBox or PS2, you bank on the success of non-Japanese developers to woo you on a monthly basis.