A lot of Playstations and Playstation 2s stopped reading discs out of warranty and Sony did nothing about it. Both the original consoles (not so much the slim second generation ones) were terrible for that, and a friend of mine working at game retailer says it really killed the second hand console market for them.
Yeah, I thought Sony's failure rate was a lot at the time, too. Then Microsoft came along with the 360 and put Sony's failure rate to shame. My friend works with the thermal engineer who was on the original Xbox 360 design team. He resigned when Microsoft told him it had to be in stores by Christmas '05. Better to leave than to have your career ruined.
But hey, wanna go to the mall with me? Let's like, get an Orange Julius and I can show you these awesome legwarmers that are on sale at MerriGoRound. It'll be totally killer!
No CD rot, no worrying about dings on the disc. Only thing is worrying about losing the things because they are so small.
BluRay has a scratch proof coating and excellent error correction. Also, who is going to pay for all those flash cards? Console developers already don't like paying 10 cents or less per optical disc. The future, if anything, is downloaded games. And a grim future it is-one where you can't resell your games, or bring them to your friend's house.
Yes, you have failed to do the math on my trips to the movies, which include multiple people, snacks, and fuel.
Keep moving those goalposts! Maybe you'll win an argument one of these days. In the meantime, enjoy spouting off self-righteous nonsense about celebrity culture. Rage, rage against the excesses of Adam Sandler and Beyonce!
My HDTV is a 32" Sharp AQUOS 1080p.
Your TV probably still too small to be able to see a great difference between Bluray and DVD. It's probably not worth it.
Cheap? When I was young and dating, it wasn't cheap for me. Did your parents own an oil company or something?
Yeah, and all the hundreds of teenagers packed into the movie theaters in the ghetto? All their parents own oil companies too. And see those people waiting in the drive-thru at McDonald's? Oil millionaires. And we hang out with the most vapid celebrities you could imagine every weekend, luxuriating ourselves with popcorn while you squint in the dark at your tiny-ass, primitive HDTV. We'd invite you out, but you're just so...poor.
I actually found it cheaper to buy an HDTV than to go to the movies once a month for a year.
Math fail.
Unfortunately for the Blu-Ray wankers, I also find that an upconverted DVD looks fucking fantastic.
Hey, I don't doubt that a Blu-Ray is indistinguishable from an upscaled DVD if you did truly spend only $120 on it (the cost to go to the movies once a month for a year). Now if your HDTV is bigger than 9 inches, you might be able to see the difference.
The movie industry is going to slaughter itself, and it can't happen soon enough for me -- not because I want less movies to be produced,
Dream on. Movie attendance is still a lot higher than it was in the 80's and 90's. It's a cheap date, especially for those too young to drive. The movie theater isn't going anywhere.
I'm not looking for Chaucer here, but nearly every paragraph reads like an itemized list of loosely related topics.
Verily, the Goodwife of Bath bespouke of many a Challenge to Programming Railes Dexterously. Forthwith, Rails had Not Been Invented in the Twelfth Century of Our Lord. Thus, her gentle wares stoop'd belowest the Most Odious Keyboard festoon'd with Discarded Wrappers of Doritos. All at Comdex Merchant Festival were most mov'd by her mellifluous gabbing and comely visage.
It's not "steampunk," it's Art Deco/Art Noveau with some Modern thrown in. Steampunk has already been done to death in video games, particularly Final Fantasy.
Physical distribution is the way of the past it's already dead, publisher just haven't figured it out yet...
Tell that to the millions of people in the US who are still unable to get broadband. Also, tell me how you are going to reconcile 10 GB + of game size with download caps which are being introduced everywhere.
Also, what's going to happen when you want to bring a game over to your friend's house to play? Do you:
A)Call him 4+ hours ahead of time so he can download it, promising to pay him back to the download cap?
B)Give him your Xbox Live online password so he can validate the DRM? (Thus giving him full access to playing online as you, your credit card no., etc)
C)Bring your backup hard drive to his place and "restore" over his console, erasing his entire system (he will restore from his own backup when you leave)?
The answer is probably A & B if console manufacturers quit using physical discs. That's very, very bad for the consumer.
What happened to iTunes being the "one stop solution" that rescues poor n00bs from the burdens of a multitude of tools?
The MPAA and our elected officials happened. If it were legal, ripping DVDs would be in iTunes, you can bet on that. Now compare this method to getting movies onto the second most popular portable movie playing device, the PSP. It's exactly the same method. Really, what else do you want Apple to do?
You think the arcade version of Bionic Commando was better than the NES version? I've played through both and I have to tell you, you're not only wrong, you're fucking crazy. Do you think the NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was better?
Almost killed gaming by putting flashy graphics over fun? Are you fucking serious? Name *one* game that sold well that had "flashy" graphics and zero fun.
Not really. Those huge-budget games need to sell at least a million copies to break even. Anything less and it's a big money loss. Take Mirror's Edge for example.
Meanwhile, Carnival Games takes a minimal amount of development costs, sells millions, and makes the developer and publisher a ton of money. But have the publishers caught on to this? No, instead they raise the average game price by $10, spend more than ever on big budget nonsense, and piss and moan about the used market killing their profits. Hopefully one day they'll get it.
BTW, getting your own video onto an iPod sucks big donkey balls. The iTunes interface there is a total train wreck that clearly seems engineered to discourage you from doing anything but buying your stuff over again from the iTunes store.
Really? Is ripping with Handbrake and dragging and dropping into your iTunes library that hard? The worst thing about video on iPod is their expensive proprietary connector.
You really made a mess with the your post for a number of reasons: - Sentence fragments - No formatting - Poor choice of worsd / - Lack of experience at posting legible text to a website - and a lot of others. If you have a literate background you would understand.
I'd argue if you're going to ignore the 360 because of the infrequent (really, they are in the grand scheme of things) hardware issues then there's probably not a suitable gaming system out there for you at all because the others have equally large issues albeit in other areas.
Like what other areas? The PS3 gets nearly every game that the 360 does, and it has a built-in Bluray player and a fine crop of exclusives. Yes, the graphics are marginally better on the 360 version most of the time. If you can tell without pathologically examining screenshots online, then get a 360. 360 does have better DLC for some titles, like Fallout 3 and GTA IV, but that's not enough for me.
I just can't bring myself to spend $300 on a system that I know will fail someday. I've owned everything from Atari 2600 to Playstation 3, including most of the SEGA, Nintendo, and Sony consoles, and I have NEVER had a console fail on me, besides the original Game Boy. I don't believe in rewarding poor design with my money, no matter how generous the warranty. One of my friends knows the thermal engineer for Xbox360. As soon as he got the mandate that the system had to be in stores by Christmas 2005, he quit and said "don't put my name on this." He didn't want his career ruined by the poor design.
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You mean likeI Downloaded a Ghost?
Yes, someone has already done this. Hard to believe but it's true!
God's postmortem email vengeance is terrible! Way to go and I like your style!
FAT32? Are you F-ing serious? What is this, 1999 again?
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Talk about a waste of a perfectly good hard drive...
Yeah, it's such a waste compared the Xbox 360's backup system, which forces you to use up an entire dri-oh wait, it's even worse!
A lot of Playstations and Playstation 2s stopped reading discs out of warranty and Sony did nothing about it. Both the original consoles (not so much the slim second generation ones) were terrible for that, and a friend of mine working at game retailer says it really killed the second hand console market for them.
Yeah, I thought Sony's failure rate was a lot at the time, too. Then Microsoft came along with the 360 and put Sony's failure rate to shame. My friend works with the thermal engineer who was on the original Xbox 360 design team. He resigned when Microsoft told him it had to be in stores by Christmas '05. Better to leave than to have your career ruined.
Well, if you're already standing in the middle of your dessert, it probably means you dropped it. So naturally you'd scream for more!
But hey, wanna go to the mall with me? Let's like, get an Orange Julius and I can show you these awesome legwarmers that are on sale at MerriGoRound. It'll be totally killer!
Signed, Gwen
No CD rot, no worrying about dings on the disc. Only thing is worrying about losing the things because they are so small.
BluRay has a scratch proof coating and excellent error correction. Also, who is going to pay for all those flash cards? Console developers already don't like paying 10 cents or less per optical disc. The future, if anything, is downloaded games. And a grim future it is-one where you can't resell your games, or bring them to your friend's house.
Yes, you have failed to do the math on my trips to the movies, which include multiple people, snacks, and fuel.
Keep moving those goalposts! Maybe you'll win an argument one of these days. In the meantime, enjoy spouting off self-righteous nonsense about celebrity culture. Rage, rage against the excesses of Adam Sandler and Beyonce!
My HDTV is a 32" Sharp AQUOS 1080p.
Your TV probably still too small to be able to see a great difference between Bluray and DVD. It's probably not worth it.
Cheap? When I was young and dating, it wasn't cheap for me. Did your parents own an oil company or something?
Yeah, and all the hundreds of teenagers packed into the movie theaters in the ghetto? All their parents own oil companies too. And see those people waiting in the drive-thru at McDonald's? Oil millionaires. And we hang out with the most vapid celebrities you could imagine every weekend, luxuriating ourselves with popcorn while you squint in the dark at your tiny-ass, primitive HDTV. We'd invite you out, but you're just so...poor.
I mostly agree with you, but Tarantino movies are a bad example. Those movies are made for the theater, especially Grindhouse.
I actually found it cheaper to buy an HDTV than to go to the movies once a month for a year.
Math fail.
Unfortunately for the Blu-Ray wankers, I also find that an upconverted DVD looks fucking fantastic.
Hey, I don't doubt that a Blu-Ray is indistinguishable from an upscaled DVD if you did truly spend only $120 on it (the cost to go to the movies once a month for a year). Now if your HDTV is bigger than 9 inches, you might be able to see the difference.
The movie industry is going to slaughter itself, and it can't happen soon enough for me -- not because I want less movies to be produced,
Dream on. Movie attendance is still a lot higher than it was in the 80's and 90's. It's a cheap date, especially for those too young to drive. The movie theater isn't going anywhere.
P**p will soon be powering your hi-fi stereo system and your premier acoustic guitars.
I'm not looking for Chaucer here, but nearly every paragraph reads like an itemized list of loosely related topics.
Verily, the Goodwife of Bath bespouke of many a Challenge to Programming Railes Dexterously. Forthwith, Rails had Not Been Invented in the Twelfth Century of Our Lord. Thus, her gentle wares stoop'd belowest the Most Odious Keyboard festoon'd with Discarded Wrappers of Doritos. All at Comdex Merchant Festival were most mov'd by her mellifluous gabbing and comely visage.
Does it affect FP performance? If so, I think I might be r00t3d!
It's not "steampunk," it's Art Deco/Art Noveau with some Modern thrown in. Steampunk has already been done to death in video games, particularly Final Fantasy.
No, your mom has to special order your adult diapers because they don't make them in your size! Because YOU'RE OBSCENELY FAT AND INCONTINENT!
How does that taste, fancy-pants? I just burned you to a crisp!
Physical distribution is the way of the past it's already dead, publisher just haven't figured it out yet...
Tell that to the millions of people in the US who are still unable to get broadband. Also, tell me how you are going to reconcile 10 GB + of game size with download caps which are being introduced everywhere.
Also, what's going to happen when you want to bring a game over to your friend's house to play? Do you:
A)Call him 4+ hours ahead of time so he can download it, promising to pay him back to the download cap?
B)Give him your Xbox Live online password so he can validate the DRM? (Thus giving him full access to playing online as you, your credit card no., etc)
C)Bring your backup hard drive to his place and "restore" over his console, erasing his entire system (he will restore from his own backup when you leave)?
The answer is probably A & B if console manufacturers quit using physical discs. That's very, very bad for the consumer.
Sucks rocks? What kind of weird fetish is that?
What happened to iTunes being the "one stop solution" that
rescues poor n00bs from the burdens of a multitude of tools?
The MPAA and our elected officials happened. If it were legal, ripping DVDs would be in iTunes, you can bet on that. Now compare this method to getting movies onto the second most popular portable movie playing device, the PSP. It's exactly the same method. Really, what else do you want Apple to do?
You think the arcade version of Bionic Commando was better than the NES version? I've played through both and I have to tell you, you're not only wrong, you're fucking crazy. Do you think the NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was better?
Almost killed gaming by putting flashy graphics over fun? Are you fucking serious? Name *one* game that sold well that had "flashy" graphics and zero fun.
Final Fantasy. Over and over and over again.
Not really. Those huge-budget games need to sell at least a million copies to break even. Anything less and it's a big money loss. Take Mirror's Edge for example.
Meanwhile, Carnival Games takes a minimal amount of development costs, sells millions, and makes the developer and publisher a ton of money. But have the publishers caught on to this? No, instead they raise the average game price by $10, spend more than ever on big budget nonsense, and piss and moan about the used market killing their profits. Hopefully one day they'll get it.
BTW, getting your own video onto an iPod sucks big donkey balls.
The iTunes interface there is a total train wreck that clearly
seems engineered to discourage you from doing anything but buying
your stuff over again from the iTunes store.
Really? Is ripping with Handbrake and dragging and dropping into your iTunes library that hard? The worst thing about video on iPod is their expensive proprietary connector.
It's the only way to get off the energy teat.
Let's nuke! I enjoy! Give nukes to everyone, no coal. Real terrorist-free energy!
You really made a mess with the your post for a number of reasons: - Sentence fragments - No formatting - Poor choice of worsd / - Lack of experience at posting legible text to a website - and a lot of others. If you have a literate background you would understand.
I'd argue if you're going to ignore the 360 because of the infrequent (really, they are in the grand scheme of things) hardware issues then there's probably not a suitable gaming system out there for you at all because the others have equally large issues albeit in other areas.
Like what other areas? The PS3 gets nearly every game that the 360 does, and it has a built-in Bluray player and a fine crop of exclusives. Yes, the graphics are marginally better on the 360 version most of the time. If you can tell without pathologically examining screenshots online, then get a 360. 360 does have better DLC for some titles, like Fallout 3 and GTA IV, but that's not enough for me.
I just can't bring myself to spend $300 on a system that I know will fail someday. I've owned everything from Atari 2600 to Playstation 3, including most of the SEGA, Nintendo, and Sony consoles, and I have NEVER had a console fail on me, besides the original Game Boy. I don't believe in rewarding poor design with my money, no matter how generous the warranty. One of my friends knows the thermal engineer for Xbox360. As soon as he got the mandate that the system had to be in stores by Christmas 2005, he quit and said "don't put my name on this." He didn't want his career ruined by the poor design.