It still is odd that they are saying it. Yesterday came news that Rare was developing Diddy Kong Racing DS with Nintendo. I wonder if there has been a closed door handshake between the two companies.
This remains true in spite of Nintendo targeting everybody else for several years now. It could very well be that adult men are actually more intersted in console gaming than other people.
Look at the Japanese Sales charts. They are here. Now you tell me how successful they have been. Animal Crossing: Wild World has sold more than Final Fantasy 12 in Japan on a system with less than half the userbase, and it is still in the top ten. Brain training 1 and 2 have a decent shot at beating FF 12 too. It is crazy. I thought the DS would be successful in Japan, but it is kicking the ever-loving shit out of every other console combined.
Wake up and smell the coffee. The revolution has already begun, and in a mere 6 months, it will finally be televised.
Contrast this with the Wii's approach where the focus is entirely on how the game plays; a game will be successful or unsuccessful whether it controls well and is fun. Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if the Wii was more powerful than people suspected; that most of the developers just got to a level of graphics that they thought was appropriate. I'm not saying that it is as powerful as either of the other systems, just that Nintendo convinced publishers to approach it from a different angle where the graphics just needed to be "good enough"
I expect that Wii will be less powerful than the other two, but from what I have seen, the graphics look pretty good this long before launch. I remember the videos of Perfect Dark Zero last year. A lot of these Wii titles look better than that now. Most of the games that you see were started on modified GC development kits, once they have final development hardware they will look better.
1) To protect the accelerometer 2) To avoid paying MS some of their profits.
If you think about it, rumble in a motion sensing controller would be really neat. You would have to use it with more intelligently than people use rumble now, but think about this:
If you get shot in an FPS, why would you expect to aim precisely for the next few seconds. In a flight sim, the wobbly nature of a damaged plane could be simulated by the wobbly controller, not some arcane wobble algorythm on screen.
Pointing won't work. Any sort of absolute position detection won't work. Add to that the fact that you will have to move two arms to gain any benefit and you have a pretty useless knock off. Nevermind the rumor that Wii has a second accelerometer in the nunchuck.
If Sony is lucky, it will work as well as the Eye Toy to control games.
The only thing Sony got with this move is the bitter aftertaste of a plaguristic freshman poet.
Heck my old SNES still works fine, can anybody at all say the same thing about their old PS1?
Yes, but my brother didn't kick it or throw it downstairs. The SNES had that happen to it and it still works. I dream of the day where we can buy other Nintendo brand electronics. Nintendo laptop? I'd be the first in fucking line for it.
I do think that parents will still feel a bit silly, when they go into the store to ask for a Wii. But, I'm not sure that silly is bad.
Most non-gamer parents feel silly asking for a PlayStation. Imagine a parent trying to get their kid [em]-eNCHANT-aRM. All games are ridiculous to those who don't play.
I would have never pointed it out if it wasn't in a sentence that talked about grammar. That's what made it funny. I know people make mistakes even after a thorough proofreading. I normally only point out mistakes in posts or comments that criticize other people's grammar. I broke that rule this time, because the context was too good. Thanks for playing along. ^_^
With cosmology, there's almost never a prediction which can be tested though, so it makes sense that it will take more time for a theory to be properly vetted.
Then why are so few accepted as possible? Why is proposing a minor difference so controversial? My comments relate to the mostly untestable science of astronomy, but I am starting to see the same stuck-in-the-mud attitudes seep its way into other sciences.
Right now, astronomers have some serious blinders on literally and figuratively. There are very few places in the sky where we can actually see objects that are far enough away to have cosmological significance. Even then, we can only see that far and not further. Modern cosmology is based on a limited view of the universe.
Now we are finding some crazy shit. Stuff doesn't move the way it is supposed to. The crazy double super secret invisible "cosmological constant" and "dark matter" sound more to me like modern day epicycles than actual scientific theory. The scientific community does not like people who rock the boat, because they like to be right. Competing theories are pushed to the wayside, and something as innocent as sugesting that this universe or a universe existed before us and may have caused what we see today is contriversial.
I could be wrong about things like the cosmoligical constant and dark matter or any other crazy theory I have in my head. My problem is that there are very few healthy debates on any of these untouchable theories. What debates that do occur can jeopardize dissenters' positions and funding. Now is not a good time for science in my view.
Honestly, I've always thought basing everything on the assumption of some sort of start to time was foolish. This theory is the one that scientists have floated a couple of times before called Oscillating Universe.
I personally think both theories are far too limited in scope to describe the universe, but with only a BS in Astronomy, who among you would listen to my babblings?
I like anime and manga. I just like good anime and manga.
Like "Field of Dreams" Evangelion gets worse every time I see it. The stupid religous references, the gaping plot holes, the third grade technobabble, the expostiton by blunt trauma, and the absolutely inexplicable ending all add up to something I'm ashamed I sat through.
Anyone can flame me all they want, but this is only my opinion.
That series embodies everything that is bad about anime. Give me a Cowboy Bebop over an Evangelion anyday.
I consider what I did a service and last time I checked, doing a service where nothing is produced physically isn't taxable.
If that were true, waitstaff wouldn't have to pay takes. The tax is on income, not the actual service. Things like sales tax might not apply, but the money itself is taxable.
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It still is odd that they are saying it. Yesterday came news that Rare was developing Diddy Kong Racing DS with Nintendo. I wonder if there has been a closed door handshake between the two companies.
I don't know about Master Cheif, but we will soon find out if Snake has what it takes to kick Mario, Link, or Pikachu butt.
(I'm not necessarily a Spongebob fan)
The craziest rumor I've heard about the Wii is that the Spongebob game is actually really fun.
This remains true in spite of Nintendo targeting everybody else for several years now. It could very well be that adult men are actually more intersted in console gaming than other people.
Look at the Japanese Sales charts. They are here. Now you tell me how successful they have been. Animal Crossing: Wild World has sold more than Final Fantasy 12 in Japan on a system with less than half the userbase, and it is still in the top ten. Brain training 1 and 2 have a decent shot at beating FF 12 too. It is crazy. I thought the DS would be successful in Japan, but it is kicking the ever-loving shit out of every other console combined.
Wake up and smell the coffee. The revolution has already begun, and in a mere 6 months, it will finally be televised.
Contrast this with the Wii's approach where the focus is entirely on how the game plays; a game will be successful or unsuccessful whether it controls well and is fun. Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if the Wii was more powerful than people suspected; that most of the developers just got to a level of graphics that they thought was appropriate. I'm not saying that it is as powerful as either of the other systems, just that Nintendo convinced publishers to approach it from a different angle where the graphics just needed to be "good enough"
I expect that Wii will be less powerful than the other two, but from what I have seen, the graphics look pretty good this long before launch. I remember the videos of Perfect Dark Zero last year. A lot of these Wii titles look better than that now. Most of the games that you see were started on modified GC development kits, once they have final development hardware they will look better.
I remember!
Banning the "cheap goal" in SNES NHL '94 under penalty of an ass kicking.
The screams of "Mom! JOE KEEPS BREATHING THROUGH HIS NOSE!" when I was winning. Those were the days.
Adults generally don't use the word "grown-ups."
They could license the tech, but Microsoft owns a stake in that company.
I'm sure Sony took rumble out
1) To protect the accelerometer
2) To avoid paying MS some of their profits.
If you think about it, rumble in a motion sensing controller would be really neat. You would have to use it with more intelligently than people use rumble now, but think about this:
If you get shot in an FPS, why would you expect to aim precisely for the next few seconds. In a flight sim, the wobbly nature of a damaged plane could be simulated by the wobbly controller, not some arcane wobble algorythm on screen.
I have one... it's called the Dual Shock. I can also use an N64 controller. Same widgit does both-$15.
Pointing won't work. Any sort of absolute position detection won't work. Add to that the fact that you will have to move two arms to gain any benefit and you have a pretty useless knock off. Nevermind the rumor that Wii has a second accelerometer in the nunchuck.
If Sony is lucky, it will work as well as the Eye Toy to control games.
The only thing Sony got with this move is the bitter aftertaste of a plaguristic freshman poet.
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Heck my old SNES still works fine, can anybody at all say the same thing about their old PS1?
Yes, but my brother didn't kick it or throw it downstairs. The SNES had that happen to it and it still works. I dream of the day where we can buy other Nintendo brand electronics. Nintendo laptop? I'd be the first in fucking line for it.
I do think that parents will still feel a bit silly, when they go into the store to ask for a Wii. But, I'm not sure that silly is bad.
Most non-gamer parents feel silly asking for a PlayStation. Imagine a parent trying to get their kid [em]-eNCHANT-aRM. All games are ridiculous to those who don't play.
I would have never pointed it out if it wasn't in a sentence that talked about grammar. That's what made it funny. I know people make mistakes even after a thorough proofreading. I normally only point out mistakes in posts or comments that criticize other people's grammar. I broke that rule this time, because the context was too good. Thanks for playing along. ^_^
Horrifying grammar is a common problem, but its not a problem I can fix in a semester-long class.
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With cosmology, there's almost never a prediction which can be tested though, so it makes sense that it will take more time for a theory to be properly vetted.
Then why are so few accepted as possible? Why is proposing a minor difference so controversial? My comments relate to the mostly untestable science of astronomy, but I am starting to see the same stuck-in-the-mud attitudes seep its way into other sciences.
Right now, astronomers have some serious blinders on literally and figuratively. There are very few places in the sky where we can actually see objects that are far enough away to have cosmological significance. Even then, we can only see that far and not further. Modern cosmology is based on a limited view of the universe.
Now we are finding some crazy shit. Stuff doesn't move the way it is supposed to. The crazy double super secret invisible "cosmological constant" and "dark matter" sound more to me like modern day epicycles than actual scientific theory. The scientific community does not like people who rock the boat, because they like to be right. Competing theories are pushed to the wayside, and something as innocent as sugesting that this universe or a universe existed before us and may have caused what we see today is contriversial.
I could be wrong about things like the cosmoligical constant and dark matter or any other crazy theory I have in my head. My problem is that there are very few healthy debates on any of these untouchable theories. What debates that do occur can jeopardize dissenters' positions and funding. Now is not a good time for science in my view.
Honestly, I've always thought basing everything on the assumption of some sort of start to time was foolish. This theory is the one that scientists have floated a couple of times before called Oscillating Universe.
I personally think both theories are far too limited in scope to describe the universe, but with only a BS in Astronomy, who among you would listen to my babblings?
I like anime and manga. I just like good anime and manga.
Like "Field of Dreams" Evangelion gets worse every time I see it. The stupid religous references, the gaping plot holes, the third grade technobabble, the expostiton by blunt trauma, and the absolutely inexplicable ending all add up to something I'm ashamed I sat through.
Anyone can flame me all they want, but this is only my opinion.
That series embodies everything that is bad about anime. Give me a Cowboy Bebop over an Evangelion anyday.
The truely funny thing is that I have read more that one article criticizing the name "Wii" then giving "Gizmondo" as an example of a "cool" name.
You have never heard someone call a GameCube "the Cube?" I'd imagine you don't have a Cube then.
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Enjoy, or not, at your leisure.
I consider what I did a service and last time I checked, doing a service where nothing is produced physically isn't taxable.
If that were true, waitstaff wouldn't have to pay takes. The tax is on income, not the actual service. Things like sales tax might not apply, but the money itself is taxable.
Or straight men who wear women's clothing. Not that I'd know...
SHUT UP!