If they're selling the system for a loss or breaking even and not selling enough games to make up for that loss then homebrew is not exactly helping the situation.
Besides you can homebrew on a DS for half the price and on top of that you actually have some good games to play and decent battery life.
Game consoles aren't sold to make huge levels of profit. The main part of the profit comes from the software (games) sold for them.
You point out the Microsoft and the Xbox which is a horrible example because Microsoft made billions and billions of dollars on software not hardware and the Xbox lost billions and billions of dollars.
So if a beer company made a beer that had slightly more alcohol than normal and a person guy super drunk and crashed (killing an innocent family in the process) does that make it the beer companies fault for having.2% more alcohol than expected?
True, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. What, so she only planned on spilling MOSTLY hot coffee in her lap? If she only got slightly less than 3rd degree burns everything would be fine and dandy? She wasn't planning on 3rd degree burns maybe just something in the 2nd degree range?
She would have sued even if the coffee was just normal hot. Spilling coffee in your lap and getting burned is spilling coffee in your lap and getting burned. It sucks. The coffee being normal tempature only makes it suck slightly less. The fact is you still burned the shit out of your crotch and it fucking sucks. It's your fault not the coffees and not Mc Donalds.
Mc Donalds coffee being too hot and this woman spilling coffee in her lap are two different issues in my opionion (unless the coffee burned her legs off and now she is stuck in a wheel chair).
Mc Donalds wasn't in the right for having super hot coffee. They should be spanked and forced to make slightly colder coffee. This woman doesn't deserve their money for that shit. I've burned my tongue on their coffee too. Where's my money?
If Mc Donalds personally kicked the cup out of her hand and made it spill in her lap then I'd say she had a right to sue. She spilled it in her own damn lap.
The Wii version basically is the GameCube version. The only difference should be that it has Wii controls and it's in widescreen format.
They're the same game.
I get annoyed when people bash the Wii graphics because of Zelda. It's not a Wii game. It's a GameCube game. Up until a few months ago there were no plans to even have a Wii version.
For a while there was a rumor that the GameCube version (the only version) of Zelda would also support Wii controls but that turned out to be false.
Funny, but come on how many of us would really expect our moms to know the difference? It's an honest mistake (even if you think she should have done some research.. that's easy to say if you're uhhhh.. us.)
A lot of people generalize all game systems under whatever the popular brand is at the time. Atari, Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation.. A lot of people don't know the friggen difference. It use to drive me nuts when my friends parents would keep referring to any game system as a Sega. They didn't care to understand. They knew we knew what they were talking about and that was good enough.
What I want to know is why the sales guy didn't explain to her that Zelda is a game written by Nintendo and is exclusive to only Nintendo consoles and explained that the PS3 was a Sony console..
She probably thinks he's just another know-nothing idiot sales person. He basically just told her she was wrong but didn't give any kind of information why?
More blades on a razor is worthless. People who buy that crap are wasting their money.
I have an old single blade razor that you can open up to replace the blade with good, two sided razors that you can buy for cheap. It works far better than any 3 to 5 blade razor I have ever used.
Shoot even my Sensor Excel with 2 blades works worlds better than the new Fusion.
The problem here is that they are banning it for the wrong reasons.
They haven't even played the game, they have absolutely no idea what it is about.
The only reason they are banning the game is the same reason everybody else wants it banned. It's a game called "Bully" and it's made by Rockstar.
That's it. That is the only reason. Because it's called Bully and made by Rockstar it must be some horrible game where you play as a Bully and go around killing innocent children in school.
Fact is these people don't bother to do any research and know nothing about the game. Go read the descriptions some of these people have come up with for the game. They're completely wrong.
Funny thing is these same stores still have games like Saints Row.
Rockstar is making these people all look like idiots.
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I'd say 4 to 1 was pretty accurate. Take a look at the last few weeks of Japans sales numbers. The new ones should be in tomorrow.
For the year (up to Dec 24th) the DS Light sold 7,247,105 in Japan and the PSP sold 1,780,498
That's just the DS Light. There are nearly 1,000,000 DS sales in that time too which pushes the total to well over 8,000,000 for the year.
These numbers are insane. Click the link for the full set of numbers for that week.
December 18 - December 24: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7379
DSL - 485,584 (Year: 7,247,105)
PSP - 138,588 (Year: 1,780,498)
December 11 - December 17: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7371
DSL - 319,708 (Year: 6,761,521)
SP - 48,962 (Year: 1,641,910)
December 04 - December 10: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7347
DSL - 309,630 (Year: 6,441,813)
PSP - 28,930 (Year: 1,592,948)
November 27 - December 03: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7314
DSL - 176,901 (Year: 6,132,183)
PSP - 23,917 (Year: 1,564,018)
If they're selling the system for a loss or breaking even and not selling enough games to make up for that loss then homebrew is not exactly helping the situation.
Besides you can homebrew on a DS for half the price and on top of that you actually have some good games to play and decent battery life.
Great post except for a few tiny things.
Game consoles aren't sold to make huge levels of profit. The main part of the profit comes from the software (games) sold for them.
You point out the Microsoft and the Xbox which is a horrible example because Microsoft made billions and billions of dollars on software not hardware and the Xbox lost billions and billions of dollars.
Weren't they just saying that MMORPGs like WOW were actually hurting PC game sales because everybody was too addicted to WOW?
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Seems like a game as addiciting as WOW might not actually be a good thing
I do kind of agree with you tho.. Just had to point that out!
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and dad
"The other white meat" campaign killed good off pig in America. Less fat means less flavor.
If I wanted chicken I would eat chicken. Give me back my fatty pigs you bastards.
Freaking right. That's what I was thinking. Makes me want to take another trip there.
Mail order? What's the point if it takes more than 2 days I could just go buy some cheap stuff like you said.
"Have you become so immersed in the current culture of Instant Gratification, that when you weigh the individual bonuses and global bonuses"
All the freaking time dude, and so do you.
http://www.classicnovas.net/features/snova/index.h tm
How ever the hell I want. When ever the hell I want.
That's how and when.
So if a beer company made a beer that had slightly more alcohol than normal and a person guy super drunk and crashed (killing an innocent family in the process) does that make it the beer companies fault for having .2% more alcohol than expected?
True, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. What, so she only planned on spilling MOSTLY hot coffee in her lap? If she only got slightly less than 3rd degree burns everything would be fine and dandy? She wasn't planning on 3rd degree burns maybe just something in the 2nd degree range?
She would have sued even if the coffee was just normal hot. Spilling coffee in your lap and getting burned is spilling coffee in your lap and getting burned. It sucks. The coffee being normal tempature only makes it suck slightly less. The fact is you still burned the shit out of your crotch and it fucking sucks. It's your fault not the coffees and not Mc Donalds.
Mc Donalds coffee being too hot and this woman spilling coffee in her lap are two different issues in my opionion (unless the coffee burned her legs off and now she is stuck in a wheel chair).
Mc Donalds wasn't in the right for having super hot coffee. They should be spanked and forced to make slightly colder coffee. This woman doesn't deserve their money for that shit. I've burned my tongue on their coffee too. Where's my money?
If Mc Donalds personally kicked the cup out of her hand and made it spill in her lap then I'd say she had a right to sue. She spilled it in her own damn lap.
"If enough people are having these problems, then it is "normal use", no matter how stupid you may think it is."
By enough you mean most right? For that to qualify it would have to be more than 50%. That's well over half a million people.
If half a million people had this problem the case would be won and over by now.
Nice try anyway man.
There are warnings all over the screen before you play the game AND in the manual that comes with the system.
In order for what this guy said to be true a majority (more than 50%) of the people who own a Wii would have to be having this problem.
Half a million people broke their Wiimote straps and TV's from playing the Wii? That's news to me.
The Wii version basically is the GameCube version. The only difference should be that it has Wii controls and it's in widescreen format.
They're the same game.
I get annoyed when people bash the Wii graphics because of Zelda. It's not a Wii game. It's a GameCube game. Up until a few months ago there were no plans to even have a Wii version.
For a while there was a rumor that the GameCube version (the only version) of Zelda would also support Wii controls but that turned out to be false.
Funny, but come on how many of us would really expect our moms to know the difference? It's an honest mistake (even if you think she should have done some research.. that's easy to say if you're uhhhh.. us.)
A lot of people generalize all game systems under whatever the popular brand is at the time. Atari, Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation.. A lot of people don't know the friggen difference. It use to drive me nuts when my friends parents would keep referring to any game system as a Sega. They didn't care to understand. They knew we knew what they were talking about and that was good enough.
What I want to know is why the sales guy didn't explain to her that Zelda is a game written by Nintendo and is exclusive to only Nintendo consoles and explained that the PS3 was a Sony console..
She probably thinks he's just another know-nothing idiot sales person. He basically just told her she was wrong but didn't give any kind of information why?
Skipping the 2.0 release and waiting for the 3.0 release sounds about as stupid as skipping the 1.0 release and waiting for the 2.0 release.
It's a point release with new features. 2 million downloads in 24 hours. That's a lot of beta testers.
Who didn't expect problems? Since when did point releases have a perfect track record? I'm sure it'll be fine long before version 2.5.
More blades on a razor is worthless. People who buy that crap are wasting their money.
I have an old single blade razor that you can open up to replace the blade with good, two sided razors that you can buy for cheap. It works far better than any 3 to 5 blade razor I have ever used.
Shoot even my Sensor Excel with 2 blades works worlds better than the new Fusion.
Did the upgrade to 2003 come with your new computer?
"Thank god I tune out Ubuntu fanboys."
Doesn't look like you're doing a very good job.
Except when they do stuff like tresspass on your property, break into your house, etc..
The problem here is that they are banning it for the wrong reasons.
They haven't even played the game, they have absolutely no idea what it is about.
The only reason they are banning the game is the same reason everybody else wants it banned. It's a game called "Bully" and it's made by Rockstar.
That's it. That is the only reason. Because it's called Bully and made by Rockstar it must be some horrible game where you play as a Bully and go around killing innocent children in school.
Fact is these people don't bother to do any research and know nothing about the game. Go read the descriptions some of these people have come up with for the game. They're completely wrong.
Funny thing is these same stores still have games like Saints Row.
Rockstar is making these people all look like idiots.
That doesn't mean they are stupid.
You can only cache so much on a 20 gig drive when all your ages are 25 gigs or larger and they're alread talking about games using up to 50 gigs?