I like your analysis, Smack, it's very astute.
X-Box isn't going to have many games geared toward adults at launch. Halo, while a shoot-em-up, is sci-fi, and so doesn't really equate in the minds of adults with the violent acts we've been hearing about. Munch's Odyssee and THPS2x are teen games; I remember playing Abe's Odyssee a couple years back. Throw in the sports series already on the shelves, and a racing game and a party game, (not sure what they're called) and you have a system that appears to be innocent to the parents. The main problem that will probably influence sales to your expectations is that most stores won't be selling the units alone, but rather bundled with an extra controller and a game or two. The parents are still getting a slight deal with the bundle, but a $450 price tag is gonna turn them off real quick.
As I'm only almost 18, I've only been around for a little less than two thirds of its lifespan, but I'm impressed by the progress as well. I still remember playing Hard Hat Harry on the old Apple II/e in 4th grade and Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego in 5th. Now, I'm a hard-core Rogue Spear and Counterstrike player, so I appreciate everything that Intel has done for us. Here's to thirty more years, Intel.
Why can't these people see that it's not the friggin' games? I play Half-Life, TFC, and Rogue Spear regularly, but I don't want to take any people out at my school. (I admit, I'm a junior in HS) However, these kids enjoyed Doom 2. This is a game that has an energy weapon that can kill basically everyone in a 75-foot radius. Rogue Spear has more realistic weapons than that. These parents just need to accept that the kids were mentally unstable.
Imagine the Internet reconfigured to use these switches...this would cut page seek times by a quarter at least, but it's a little too overpowered to use without much technology to take care of it. Maybe the quantum spin duplication technology that they've been researching would make this an instantaneous transmission technology. Now THAT is power.
I can see how this will help house population, but this will become the tallest building in the world, and it'll no doubt be seen from space. Do we really want aliens to make their first landing at the highest artificial construct, and find a communist dictatorship that has a spy plane and a bunch of Taoism?
These Dutch databanks are going to become the secret Swiss bank accounts of the twenty-first century. Now if only we can stop the terrorists who kidnap the Prime Minister of England in return for their old school permanent records...
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I like your analysis, Smack, it's very astute. X-Box isn't going to have many games geared toward adults at launch. Halo, while a shoot-em-up, is sci-fi, and so doesn't really equate in the minds of adults with the violent acts we've been hearing about. Munch's Odyssee and THPS2x are teen games; I remember playing Abe's Odyssee a couple years back. Throw in the sports series already on the shelves, and a racing game and a party game, (not sure what they're called) and you have a system that appears to be innocent to the parents. The main problem that will probably influence sales to your expectations is that most stores won't be selling the units alone, but rather bundled with an extra controller and a game or two. The parents are still getting a slight deal with the bundle, but a $450 price tag is gonna turn them off real quick.
As I'm only almost 18, I've only been around for a little less than two thirds of its lifespan, but I'm impressed by the progress as well. I still remember playing Hard Hat Harry on the old Apple II/e in 4th grade and Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego in 5th. Now, I'm a hard-core Rogue Spear and Counterstrike player, so I appreciate everything that Intel has done for us. Here's to thirty more years, Intel.
Is there any possible way to sync them together?
Of course real-life drug dealers will want to take part in this. And the Palestinians and Israelis will play a game of Laser Tag for the Western Wall.
Why can't these people see that it's not the friggin' games? I play Half-Life, TFC, and Rogue Spear regularly, but I don't want to take any people out at my school. (I admit, I'm a junior in HS) However, these kids enjoyed Doom 2. This is a game that has an energy weapon that can kill basically everyone in a 75-foot radius. Rogue Spear has more realistic weapons than that. These parents just need to accept that the kids were mentally unstable.
Imagine the Internet reconfigured to use these switches...this would cut page seek times by a quarter at least, but it's a little too overpowered to use without much technology to take care of it. Maybe the quantum spin duplication technology that they've been researching would make this an instantaneous transmission technology. Now THAT is power.
I can see how this will help house population, but this will become the tallest building in the world, and it'll no doubt be seen from space. Do we really want aliens to make their first landing at the highest artificial construct, and find a communist dictatorship that has a spy plane and a bunch of Taoism?
These Dutch databanks are going to become the secret Swiss bank accounts of the twenty-first century. Now if only we can stop the terrorists who kidnap the Prime Minister of England in return for their old school permanent records...