Maybe 25% of the US market, but Europe and Japan buy more consoles than the US when combined. Add in smaller markets like Australia (where people don't care about your HDTV), and there's no reason to force everyone to buy it because 5 or 10% of American gamers could use it.
If graphics really mattered, the XBox would be number 1, followed closely by the GameCube, with the PS2 coming in dead last. Graphics don't matter. If Nintendo can say to developers "you'll notice only a slight increase in development cost from last generation", while MS and Sony demand developers spend 4x the cash on art than they did previously, you'll be looking at a lot more third party support for the Rev.
Ask yourself this; if HD was the norm now, and GTA:SA came out on the PS2 on SD, while MS released a game like Red Ninja, but it's in HD? Which would you buy? And would the fact that the Xbox game was in HD, despite the fact it's a terrible, terrible game really have made your choice difficult?
The resolution doesn't matter. Graphics don't matter that much. Asteroids is still a fantastic game, even though it's 2D vectors at a tiny resolution. It's gameplay and marketing and that's why Pokemon gameboy games recently topped 100 million.
And not just maths nerds. Has anyone out there noticed, or does anyone know the reason for, all the geology jokes in the Simpons and Futurama? Not in terms of jokes only geologists would get, but jokes referring to and in support of, geologists.
Example: A rock comes flying through the window, Homer says: "Ah! A Flying rock! Call a geologist!"
Or the Futurama episode I, Roommate where Bender goes on a sober, er, bender, with neon signs flashing by like "public library" and "boring geology lecture".
And Lisa's choice to go for astronomy after dissing geology.
My theory is one of the writers, or the writer's close friend or spouse, is a geologist. Does anyone have any inside info?
Calling a national league of a game noone else cares about a world sport is self aggrandising nonsense.
Agreed. I mean, you Aussies don't call your Aussie Rules Footy league a world series, because no one else in the world cares about Aussie Rules. If my facts are correct, not many people outside of NSW care about it either... but that's beside the point.
Baseball is another area where there's a world series in the US, but there's no teams from Japan, Australia or New Zealand in there.
Nope, it's a moon. But it's a lot bigger than Mercury which is classified as a planet, simply because of it's orbital prejudice. So if you classify planets in terms of mass and volume rather than orbit, it could well be a planet.
Aw shit, here comes Pac-Man.
Hey Pac-Man, what's up?
Me you bitches! I'm high on crack! Wanna freebase?
No Pac-Man drugs are bad!
Nope can't help you man.
Pussies! Whoa! Holy shit!
I think the Revolution will be designed to talk to either the DS or the next generation Gameboy (which is rumoured to appear for next year's E3). This means wireless all the way.
But as an aside, it does let you use the GameCube games with added GBA functionality, like Crystal Chronicles or Wind Waker. We can but wait:)
I just lined up the
NES,
SNES,
N64 and
GCN
controllers and I can see a pattern:
The SNES controller was a vastly improved NES controller, the N64 controller was completely different.
The GC controller is a vastly improved N64 controller...
So I'm guessing the Revolution controller will be completely different. Like nothing we've seen before. I think this comment is a bluff, as all games could be played comfortably on the GC controller, and the revolution has GC ports, so in designing the controller, all they have to do is release a revolution branded GC controller and the complete backwards compatibility problem is solved.
Since the Revolution controllers will be wireless, I'm guessing the Wavebird will work natively without the required receiver (which, if the console shell doesn't change, wouldn't fit the GC ports anyway).
We have a few more months to wait, but I am certain, that if the controller is not completely mind blowingly different, they wouldn't have included the GC ports.
Sorry, but you're wrong on the screen size. Currently, a GBA cartridge can fit comfortably inside the dimensions of a GBA or GBA SP screen. If you take a look at the micro pics, you'll see the screen is smaller than the width of the cartridge, and therefore, smaller than the current GBA's screen.
And the GBA SP has a rechargable battery, so that's nothing new.
Sweet as, mate. If a bunch of your scientists made a cure for something I would thank them too. Though I doubt that'd happen, since you Aussies are busy feeding babies to dingos, right? : )
(Seriously, though, as long as there's no sport involved, you blokes across the ditch are bloody great)
Not to mention, of course (hey, topic!) the natural disasters that are stepping up in size, scope and magnitude. How was last year's hurricane season? Tsunami, anyone?
It's that kind of retarded ignorance that gives sensible environmentalists a bad name. The Tsunami was caused by an Earthquake. The Earthquake was caused by the Indo-Australian tectonic plate sliding in a quick motion under the Asian plate. The energy required was provided by the top cooled convection that drives all plate tectonics.
There's nothing we could have done to prevent, or cause such an event. It's all hard rock geophysical processes, which we're not going to alter through pollution, except for the isostatic continental rebound that will occur when the ice sheets melt (when they do is the issue).
Damn right! 12 and 13 year olds should be allowed to play and buy R18 games if their parents are too stuid or ignorant to realise the content could be harmful. Furthermore, kids should be allowed to buy and watch porn.
Why is there so much opposition to laws that stop kids from buying adult material? It's illegal to supply minors with R18 media, be it games or porn or violent movies, here in NZ. What's you fucking problem? What excludes video games with "adult themes" from being classified as "real" adult material?
"Put it this way. If another brutal dictator arises and is clearly killing his people and sanctions prove to be causing more suffering to his people..would France and Germany act? Pretend the US doesn't even exist...would they act?"
Would the US? Would anyone if it didn't have an impact on their interests?
The Iraq war was not for the betterment of the Iraqi people. Neither was it for the control of WMDs. It was for the interests of the US, ie, petrochemicals.
And if you believe otherwise, and honestly think the US has humanitarian interests at heart, why aren't they cracking down on opressive regimes such as that in Turkmenistan?
Perhaps consider "saving France" as you love to think you did single handedly (America was late to the second world war. Maybe if you'd been a little less lazy, there'd have been no need to "save France"), as a repayment for the very existence of your country. You know that war of independence you had? Well, you can thank the French for helping. Last I recall, the US population were having a hissy fit that the Republic of France refused to go to war just because the US said so.
Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Russia and many, many other countries all suffered great losses during WWII. To expect thanks for turning up late is pure arrogance.
No one is asking you to feel sorry for the Russians. They can't afford to keep putting US astronauts in space.
The USA has put _far_ more into the ISS than any other nation.
So what? Would you like us to throw you a fucking parade? If you're upset, talk to your government, they seem to be fine with throwing huge amounts of cash at the ISS.
A quick question; Is the entire WFCAM team posting in this thread? I'm just wondering if you guys do nothing but read slashdot while you're waiting for the next pic to come through...
3.) Doesn't your innovation mean that, for some folks, the date changes when the sun is overhead?
Yes... but those folks live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
They don't care what day it is anyway!
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Firstly to mr Dick Henry, fuck you. Try taking a look at a world map some time you ignorant halfwit.
I live in New Zealand. The international dateline bends around us so as not to cut through us, and may I just say I care very much if the day changes half way through the sol. I doubt Australia, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands (Tonga, Samoa, etc) and many East asian countries such as Japan would be too supportive of your little plan, either.
I find time an interesting topic, and our current calendar is far from perfect, but neither is our planet's orbit or rotation. The best you can do is stop trying to cram an imperfect natural cycle into whole number-based maths. The solar system doesn't work on whole numbers and the best way to deal with it is to get over yourself.
Well, I would have whacked Ikaruga into my GameCube and played that through my TV card, but I was in the mood for the UT commentator yelling things in that annoying voice : )
Add me to the Gentoo gamers list. The best reason to use Gentoo is that portage has many game binaries ready to go, for example, last night I wanted to blast a few things, so I whipped out my UT2003 CDs, typed "emerge ut2003" as root, followed the installer's instructions and was killing things in less than 20 minutes.
I run openbox on XOrg for my desktop environment, since I like a clean , fast, no nonsense desktop that relies on hotkeys rather than stumbling around with the mouse.
The only time I use Windows for gaming is when I go to LAN parties, as it's usually quicker to get games going on Windows. The good news is more and more games are being released with Linux clients, and I think the next few years will see Linux clients being fairly normal with major game releases.
"As a citizen of the US, I absolutely DO NOT want a third party to be able to accurately aim a missile at the White House, the Capitol, or a nuclear power plant."
Last time I checked, the USA did not own space. But I suppose my disagreement with the policy of the US makes me a hostile, so my opinion counts for nothing.
Well, they would probably grumble a little, then get to work on a way to figure out a way around it, just as they have been doing for decades.
Rubbish. The US military and government would throw a hissy fit, demanding this and that and threatening sanctions. Just like they've done when countires have threatened other US interests and resources in the past.
What pisses me off is the US's statement that they'll locally block the European system in places they don't want potential "enemies" (read, China), having accurate location tracking.
I wonder how the US would react if, say, China started blocking GPS from certain places to hold back it's enemies. Tibet for example.
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If graphics really mattered, the XBox would be number 1, followed closely by the GameCube, with the PS2 coming in dead last. Graphics don't matter. If Nintendo can say to developers "you'll notice only a slight increase in development cost from last generation", while MS and Sony demand developers spend 4x the cash on art than they did previously, you'll be looking at a lot more third party support for the Rev.
Ask yourself this; if HD was the norm now, and GTA :SA came out on the PS2 on SD, while MS released a game like Red Ninja, but it's in HD? Which would you buy? And would the fact that the Xbox game was in HD, despite the fact it's a terrible, terrible game really have made your choice difficult?
The resolution doesn't matter. Graphics don't matter that much. Asteroids is still a fantastic game, even though it's 2D vectors at a tiny resolution. It's gameplay and marketing and that's why Pokemon gameboy games recently topped 100 million.
I rest my case.
Example: A rock comes flying through the window, Homer says: "Ah! A Flying rock! Call a geologist!"
Or the Futurama episode I, Roommate where Bender goes on a sober, er, bender, with neon signs flashing by like "public library" and "boring geology lecture".
And Lisa's choice to go for astronomy after dissing geology.
My theory is one of the writers, or the writer's close friend or spouse, is a geologist. Does anyone have any inside info?
Agreed. I mean, you Aussies don't call your Aussie Rules Footy league a world series, because no one else in the world cares about Aussie Rules. If my facts are correct, not many people outside of NSW care about it either... but that's beside the point.
Baseball is another area where there's a world series in the US, but there's no teams from Japan, Australia or New Zealand in there.
Nope, it's a moon. But it's a lot bigger than Mercury which is classified as a planet, simply because of it's orbital prejudice. So if you classify planets in terms of mass and volume rather than orbit, it could well be a planet.
I want a movie showing the exploits of Han, Luke et al as they strive to return Chewie to his home, to his wife and kid, in time for christmas.
YOU IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT DOUBLES!
Aw shit, here comes Pac-Man.
Hey Pac-Man, what's up?
Me you bitches! I'm high on crack! Wanna freebase?
No Pac-Man drugs are bad!
Nope can't help you man.
Pussies! Whoa! Holy shit!
But as an aside, it does let you use the GameCube games with added GBA functionality, like Crystal Chronicles or Wind Waker. We can but wait :)
The SNES controller was a vastly improved NES controller, the N64 controller was completely different.
The GC controller is a vastly improved N64 controller...
So I'm guessing the Revolution controller will be completely different. Like nothing we've seen before. I think this comment is a bluff, as all games could be played comfortably on the GC controller, and the revolution has GC ports, so in designing the controller, all they have to do is release a revolution branded GC controller and the complete backwards compatibility problem is solved.
Since the Revolution controllers will be wireless, I'm guessing the Wavebird will work natively without the required receiver (which, if the console shell doesn't change, wouldn't fit the GC ports anyway).
We have a few more months to wait, but I am certain, that if the controller is not completely mind blowingly different, they wouldn't have included the GC ports.
And the GBA SP has a rechargable battery, so that's nothing new.
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Take that Cheshire!
Sweet as, mate. If a bunch of your scientists made a cure for something I would thank them too. Though I doubt that'd happen, since you Aussies are busy feeding babies to dingos, right? : ) (Seriously, though, as long as there's no sport involved, you blokes across the ditch are bloody great)
It's that kind of retarded ignorance that gives sensible environmentalists a bad name. The Tsunami was caused by an Earthquake. The Earthquake was caused by the Indo-Australian tectonic plate sliding in a quick motion under the Asian plate. The energy required was provided by the top cooled convection that drives all plate tectonics.
There's nothing we could have done to prevent, or cause such an event. It's all hard rock geophysical processes, which we're not going to alter through pollution, except for the isostatic continental rebound that will occur when the ice sheets melt (when they do is the issue).
Why is there so much opposition to laws that stop kids from buying adult material? It's illegal to supply minors with R18 media, be it games or porn or violent movies, here in NZ. What's you fucking problem? What excludes video games with "adult themes" from being classified as "real" adult material?
Would the US? Would anyone if it didn't have an impact on their interests?
The Iraq war was not for the betterment of the Iraqi people. Neither was it for the control of WMDs. It was for the interests of the US, ie, petrochemicals.
And if you believe otherwise, and honestly think the US has humanitarian interests at heart, why aren't they cracking down on opressive regimes such as that in Turkmenistan?
Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Russia and many, many other countries all suffered great losses during WWII. To expect thanks for turning up late is pure arrogance.
The USA has put _far_ more into the ISS than any other nation.
So what? Would you like us to throw you a fucking parade? If you're upset, talk to your government, they seem to be fine with throwing huge amounts of cash at the ISS.
A quick question; Is the entire WFCAM team posting in this thread? I'm just wondering if you guys do nothing but read slashdot while you're waiting for the next pic to come through...
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3.) Doesn't your innovation mean that, for some folks, the date changes when the sun is overhead?
Yes ... but those folks live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
They don't care what day it is anyway!
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Firstly to mr Dick Henry, fuck you. Try taking a look at a world map some time you ignorant halfwit.
I live in New Zealand. The international dateline bends around us so as not to cut through us, and may I just say I care very much if the day changes half way through the sol. I doubt Australia, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands (Tonga, Samoa, etc) and many East asian countries such as Japan would be too supportive of your little plan, either.
I find time an interesting topic, and our current calendar is far from perfect, but neither is our planet's orbit or rotation. The best you can do is stop trying to cram an imperfect natural cycle into whole number-based maths. The solar system doesn't work on whole numbers and the best way to deal with it is to get over yourself.
Well, I would have whacked Ikaruga into my GameCube and played that through my TV card, but I was in the mood for the UT commentator yelling things in that annoying voice : )
Or: "They only call it Red Hat, because Red Helmet was taken"
I run openbox on XOrg for my desktop environment, since I like a clean , fast, no nonsense desktop that relies on hotkeys rather than stumbling around with the mouse.
The only time I use Windows for gaming is when I go to LAN parties, as it's usually quicker to get games going on Windows. The good news is more and more games are being released with Linux clients, and I think the next few years will see Linux clients being fairly normal with major game releases.
Last time I checked, the USA did not own space. But I suppose my disagreement with the policy of the US makes me a hostile, so my opinion counts for nothing.
Well, they would probably grumble a little, then get to work on a way to figure out a way around it, just as they have been doing for decades.
Rubbish. The US military and government would throw a hissy fit, demanding this and that and threatening sanctions. Just like they've done when countires have threatened other US interests and resources in the past.
I wonder how the US would react if, say, China started blocking GPS from certain places to hold back it's enemies. Tibet for example.