Good for you fanboy, you obviously forgot to mention that the gameboy, gbc etc... games are played on emulators and sony tries to do everything in its focus to shut the scene out. I am not sure if the latest firmware revisions are hacked up to the degree that you can start the emulations.
Sorry to say that, but without the homebrewers constantly hacking the firmware open the psp would be dead as a brick. It is really funny that nintendo is the only reason why many people even have a psp!
You did not get it, most of them were not bought...
One of the reasons why die prices of the PS3 dropped very swiftly on ebay to the normal market value set by Sony!
Actually it is not this site only, a lot of sites have a lot of negative press. I recently checked a highly pro sony sight, and the only reference to the sixaxis I found there, was that it has problems, severe problems of losing the adjustment too often.
Also you will not find too many comments on the console itself, since only a few peole have it and even a lot of bay sellers probably still sit on theirs.
Sony has done many things right with the PS3 but they ruined their console launch entirely with a price way out of the league of many, and also with technical glitches and a pr desaster second to none.
Sony releases a small number of systems. People stand in line, to sell them off at ebay,
some crooks start a shooting because of the obvious get rich quick scam going on.
The consoles sell out almost no games are bought due to the reselling over bay.
No real interest into the consoles, the prices fall very swiftly for the resold consoles and settle down a little bit above the street price.
Thats the harsh reality!
You probably can forget about most games, and things like mythtv on the PS3, due to the framebuffer device limitation.
Good luck by trying to use the PS3 as a media centre under Linux, you probably are better off with a refurbished 100$ PC for using it as a media hub.
Actually as a computer the PS3 is heavily crippled, lets face it you get a good processor a good vector unit
and for the display a measly framebuffer device...
You can forget this thing for most visul stuff, except basic 2 user interfaces.
By that definition 99% of the games are adventure games, but Metroid definitely is not.
The overhelming element is shooting enemies, a few puzzles in between do not make a game an adventure game.
Sorry...
The closest you can get is action adventure, bug given metroids puzzle densitiv I would not even say that.
Anyway, I think the wii would be the perfect console for a System shock remake;-)
Nintendo never understood some newer aspects of gaming, possibly a sign that people like Myiamoto have reached a certain age. While they still are gifted designers, they have been the last to use the internet, they also only have seen over the nintendo DS which they thankfully made region free, that there is a huge market outside of japan for games which are not so mainstream and outright weird.
I dont think that the japanese and western gaming tastes are too different, it is more the style or the presentation tastes which are hugely different (most westerners are put off by the anime school girl style which many japanese hate the semi realistic western presentation stlye).
But speaking of game tastes.
After all Brain Age is a huge seller in europe as well, having sold way over a million units, and in the USA probably as well. And outright weird games like Trauma Center are huge sellers here as well.
Well there is one huge mistake in this interview, neither Mario World nor Metroid Prime is an adventure game.
The first is a jump and run the other one a shooter...
Anyway, what happend to the rumours that Sam and Max2 will come to the wii?
The nintendo gaming console division seems to be fine, they make a boatload of money thanks to being wiser in their business model, they could go on for another 100 years with that one and being third and still have enough cash.
In your assumption you forgot one thing. Nintendo sells even the hardware with profit. So the calculation of how many games you have to sell til you reach break even is a completely different one, it is zero games in Nintendos case.
Not they sold 600.000 consoles alone in the usa with possibly 6-10 mio to be sold within the next year worldwide and probably cashing in 50-100 dollars on the hardware alone, go figure who the real winner is.
Sony on their hands if they cannot push down the costs significantly very soon has a problem on their hands.
300 dollars is a sum which is hard to get back from game sells, since many non hardcore customers happily settle down with 3-4 games, and from every game sold, Sony raises about 20 dollars. Now Ninteno on their hand has definitely a few sure sellers like Zelda and Mario games which are sure million sellers (Mario and Zelda in the long run probably around 4 mio)
So they might not be happy not being #1 but on the other hand, I rather see Sony going down the drain than Nintendo console business wise!
One difference Microsoft never invented, they are good at looking at markets and then enter them, it usually takes them five years and three attempts to push out the competition.
At no time any innovation has happened during that time. Microsoft never was great at innovation but they used to be great at analyzing the competition and stealing their markets.
The XBox360 is a second gen system, Microsoft usually goes for the third approach to get the market, so I rather doubt that they are in the game for making money now.
Sega has another problem, it is less competing with Nintendo, they do fine in this area, gameplaywise. It is that they have too few franchises and new concepts.
Sonic and Monkey Ball alone does not do it in the long run. They had a possible excellent gameline with Shenmue but failed to port it to platforms with a bigger userbase.
The only recent addition I have seen in their lineup is the DS mini game titles besides that constant rehashes of Sonic and Monkey ball.
While this works for now due to the huge influx of new gamers on the DS, it probably wont work in 3-4 years.
Actually the funny thing is, that those ads probably are one of the major factors why moviegoer numbers are steeply declining.
First of all there are the ads, then the insults and then the trailers.
I guess the insults pushed it over the top for many. If I look into my own surrounding, there used to be a lot of people who went to the theatre once a week. Nowadays it is only twice per year, and it basically was due to the ads, and the insults.
I recently went with them into a movie, after 10 minutes of constant ads we were close to walking out, the following piracy insult basically did it to ruin the experience entirely! Needless to say, no theatre visit anymore for the following months by anyone of us!
The once you have seen it and then it is obvious argument has been brought to the table ad nauseum, and no I do not buy it. First of all most patents filed have prior art to a big degree, secondly, what has happened in the recent past is that everything under the earth has been patented, third, once you face a problem and bring it in front of 100 guys to solve it 20 of those probably at the same time will find the most obvious way.
So obvious really is obvious in most cases!
Actually rooms in central Europe tend to be bigger than in the UK as well, overall I have seen average houses in the US and central europe and they are pretty up to bar roomsizewise.
I am not talking about mansions here, just general average middle class houses. Actually the roomsize even tends to be bigger here than in many suburb s in the US, but Plasma did not take off here, due to energy reasons.
The farwell letter tends to strong suicidal causes (depression probably) with a good mix of schizophrenia in, and a high aggression level towards society which often can be found in teenagers who are in a phase of finding themselves.
The thing which probably has pushed him over the edge violence wise is probably this mix.
Nothing could have prevented that I assume and nothing probably can be blamed.
Besides that christianity in europe != bonhead so called US christian. European christians are very relaxed regarding their believe and normally very tolerant people.
Christian democrats are historically the conservativ parties of many western european countries.
The name partially stems from the close ties those parties had to the local churches and monarchs 100-150 years ago (nowasays the ties are way more loose and a political non influence clause of the churches into politics has been mandatory for decades)
and partially stems from the fact that early social democratic and communist movements were outspokenly atheistic.
Since most countries in europe have a relatively relaxed christian view, this is different to what it sounds to american ears.
In most countries of europe those conservative parties are more on the left side of the political spectrum than the US democrats.
And no in most of our countries we do not have those religious boneheads you people suffer from in the US.
The reactions which basically were triggered in germany do not have anything to do with the political spectrum of the party, similar reactions were issued 3-4 years ago by the social democrats when the shooting occurred in Ehrfuhrt.
But have in mind that every protestantic influenced european country has its fair share of taboos. Sweden it is the alcohol and prostitution, in germany it usually it is media in england it used to be porn and prostituion.
The funny thing is that historically catholic countries have none of those taboos. Western european catholic regions polictically and socially, with the exception of Bavaria
which is the closest you can get to a catholic Taliban region you can get, tend to be socially and politically very relaxed regions. This might historically stem from the fact that catholizism is more forgiving regarding sins, so things do not run into becoming taboos and become easier socially accepted. I know myself it used to be different in the history, but I am speaking of the present here and I am speaking of western europe only, not eastern Europe, where the perfect counterexample is probably Poland!
I do not think it is weasally, I think more along the lines of a huge generation gap in understanding certain media.
Politicians tend to be rather old, and old people tend to have two problems generally, they develop a certain paranoia about things they do not understand and they do not understand a lot of newer things.
And yes weasly politicians are a huge problem worldwide, same goes for lobbying, as far as I understand german politics as an outsider from a neighbouring country, the political system has shifted hugely to a lobbyist influenced onem (it used to be more hidden in the past but there always was a strong link)
But the cry for a games prohibition is not lobbying influenced it is really more along the lines of a generation gap!
Yes that is the funny thing, both incidents, Ehrfuhrt and the other one were done by young adults.
In the first case the school system and being stamped a total loser definitely was the cause in the other one it is rather unclear. In the first case the weapons were obtained by legal means and the guy either learned shooting in the military or shooting club.
But in both cases the usual bunch of we go on a witchhunt politicians crawl out and start to talk about how to ban things they are afraid of instead of looking at the entire situation.
It is easier to sell this over lets protect the children than to go into a real analysis of the situation. I am glad that other incidents which were very similar (the Kampusch case) were done by people above 40 otherweise probably all children already would be chained down so that no harm can be done to them by the bad internet and games!
Actually the funny thing is:
Schützenverein (shoot club) = good...
Draft military after 16 with possible war entry = good
games + internet = root of all evil... and an adult
with 18 shooting clearly was caused by games nothing else...
There clearly is a generation gap in germany regarding this issues. Those people come from a generation which does not know anything about thos issues and clearly have a problem to see the complexities of the situation.
(see also me longer comment regarding this)
Germany already has the strongest laws in the world regarding this. The main problem is, that the causes of the incident are not very clear yet. The main problem in germany is that once an incident happens, the usual 5 or 6 politicians crawl out of their holes and the minute this happens they cry to the media they need more enforcement regarding the internet and regarding games (in the 80s it was movies, that has worn off)
The problem in this case is, the guy, a young adult, being 18, you become entirely adult with 19 in germany, left a note on the net sort of a help cry which led to this incident, the games definitely were not the cause of this, though they might be a small part to the puzzle as probably was other media. The main question to this case is, why did no one really notice upfront, and why did the last message of him go mostly unnoticed and how did this young man (he was not a child anymore) develop such a hatred that he did not see any other solution anymore than to do what he did (he did not come from a broken background, he had a nice family and generally grew up in a suburbian environment).
The main problem for the usual bunch of politicians this time is, that the media does not buy the cheap, lets ban what we do not understand trick anymore. To my suprise yesterday evening I saw in german public TV ZDF a very unbiased view to the whole issue and the general consensous in the press so far seems, that lets do a more rigorous ban on something those guys simply do not understand is not the solution you only remove a small part of the puzzle why the causes themselves seem to be elsewhere.
Have in mind the last two incidents were done by young adults, one being definitely member in a Schützenverein (which is sort of a shooting club) but those bonehead politicians never even mentioned the word. The general consensous in this generation gap of politics is, young people = games are a media form we grew up with and can deal with it, internet = opportunities
Old people = internet root of all evil we have to control it, games = root of all evil we have to ban it.
As far as I can see at least there seems to be a slow generation shift in the general media towards younger people who have a clearer view regarding this complex net of causes and results. People like Stoiber (being over retirement age), Merkel (slowly creeping against retirement age) and others simply do not get it. They are on a witch hunt without result because it is easier to target something they do not understand than to look at the real causes which are maybe harder to solve or impossible to solve on the side of politics.
Inofficial numbers on the net speak about roughly 600.000 worldwide so far...
But it is released so far only in japan and the USA...
It pretty much is sold out, every unit produced is sold!
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Good for you fanboy, you obviously forgot to mention that the gameboy, gbc etc... games are played on emulators and sony tries to do everything in its focus to shut the scene out.
I am not sure if the latest firmware revisions are hacked up to the degree that you can start the emulations.
Sorry to say that, but without the homebrewers constantly hacking the firmware open the psp would be dead as a brick. It is really funny that nintendo is the only reason why many people even have a psp!
You did not get it, most of them were not bought... One of the reasons why die prices of the PS3 dropped very swiftly on ebay to the normal market value set by Sony!
Actually it is not this site only, a lot of sites have a lot of negative press. I recently checked a highly pro sony sight, and the only reference to the sixaxis I found there, was that it has problems, severe problems of losing the adjustment too often. Also you will not find too many comments on the console itself, since only a few peole have it and even a lot of bay sellers probably still sit on theirs. Sony has done many things right with the PS3 but they ruined their console launch entirely with a price way out of the league of many, and also with technical glitches and a pr desaster second to none.
Sony releases a small number of systems. People stand in line, to sell them off at ebay, some crooks start a shooting because of the obvious get rich quick scam going on. The consoles sell out almost no games are bought due to the reselling over bay. No real interest into the consoles, the prices fall very swiftly for the resold consoles and settle down a little bit above the street price. Thats the harsh reality!
You probably can forget about most games, and things like mythtv on the PS3, due to the framebuffer device limitation. Good luck by trying to use the PS3 as a media centre under Linux, you probably are better off with a refurbished 100$ PC for using it as a media hub.
Actually as a computer the PS3 is heavily crippled, lets face it you get a good processor a good vector unit and for the display a measly framebuffer device... You can forget this thing for most visul stuff, except basic 2 user interfaces.
By that definition 99% of the games are adventure games, but Metroid definitely is not. The overhelming element is shooting enemies, a few puzzles in between do not make a game an adventure game. Sorry... The closest you can get is action adventure, bug given metroids puzzle densitiv I would not even say that. Anyway, I think the wii would be the perfect console for a System shock remake ;-)
Nintendo never understood some newer aspects of gaming, possibly a sign that people like Myiamoto have reached a certain age. While they still are gifted designers, they have been the last to use the internet, they also only have seen over the nintendo DS which they thankfully made region free, that there is a huge market outside of japan for games which are not so mainstream and outright weird. I dont think that the japanese and western gaming tastes are too different, it is more the style or the presentation tastes which are hugely different (most westerners are put off by the anime school girl style which many japanese hate the semi realistic western presentation stlye). But speaking of game tastes. After all Brain Age is a huge seller in europe as well, having sold way over a million units, and in the USA probably as well. And outright weird games like Trauma Center are huge sellers here as well.
Well there is one huge mistake in this interview, neither Mario World nor Metroid Prime is an adventure game. The first is a jump and run the other one a shooter...
Anyway, what happend to the rumours that Sam and Max2 will come to the wii?
Ok... I have a mario kart DS to offer... If you pay me the shitload of money for the online mario kart you can have it ;-)
The nintendo gaming console division seems to be fine, they make a boatload of money thanks to being wiser in their business model, they could go on for another 100 years with that one and being third and still have enough cash. In your assumption you forgot one thing. Nintendo sells even the hardware with profit. So the calculation of how many games you have to sell til you reach break even is a completely different one, it is zero games in Nintendos case. Not they sold 600.000 consoles alone in the usa with possibly 6-10 mio to be sold within the next year worldwide and probably cashing in 50-100 dollars on the hardware alone, go figure who the real winner is. Sony on their hands if they cannot push down the costs significantly very soon has a problem on their hands. 300 dollars is a sum which is hard to get back from game sells, since many non hardcore customers happily settle down with 3-4 games, and from every game sold, Sony raises about 20 dollars. Now Ninteno on their hand has definitely a few sure sellers like Zelda and Mario games which are sure million sellers (Mario and Zelda in the long run probably around 4 mio) So they might not be happy not being #1 but on the other hand, I rather see Sony going down the drain than Nintendo console business wise!
One difference Microsoft never invented, they are good at looking at markets and then enter them, it usually takes them five years and three attempts to push out the competition. At no time any innovation has happened during that time. Microsoft never was great at innovation but they used to be great at analyzing the competition and stealing their markets. The XBox360 is a second gen system, Microsoft usually goes for the third approach to get the market, so I rather doubt that they are in the game for making money now.
Sega has another problem, it is less competing with Nintendo, they do fine in this area, gameplaywise. It is that they have too few franchises and new concepts. Sonic and Monkey Ball alone does not do it in the long run. They had a possible excellent gameline with Shenmue but failed to port it to platforms with a bigger userbase. The only recent addition I have seen in their lineup is the DS mini game titles besides that constant rehashes of Sonic and Monkey ball. While this works for now due to the huge influx of new gamers on the DS, it probably wont work in 3-4 years.
Actually the funny thing is, that those ads probably are one of the major factors why moviegoer numbers are steeply declining. First of all there are the ads, then the insults and then the trailers. I guess the insults pushed it over the top for many. If I look into my own surrounding, there used to be a lot of people who went to the theatre once a week. Nowadays it is only twice per year, and it basically was due to the ads, and the insults. I recently went with them into a movie, after 10 minutes of constant ads we were close to walking out, the following piracy insult basically did it to ruin the experience entirely! Needless to say, no theatre visit anymore for the following months by anyone of us!
The once you have seen it and then it is obvious argument has been brought to the table ad nauseum, and no I do not buy it. First of all most patents filed have prior art to a big degree, secondly, what has happened in the recent past is that everything under the earth has been patented, third, once you face a problem and bring it in front of 100 guys to solve it 20 of those probably at the same time will find the most obvious way. So obvious really is obvious in most cases!
Actually rooms in central Europe tend to be bigger than in the UK as well, overall I have seen average houses in the US and central europe and they are pretty up to bar roomsizewise. I am not talking about mansions here, just general average middle class houses. Actually the roomsize even tends to be bigger here than in many suburb s in the US, but Plasma did not take off here, due to energy reasons.
The farwell letter tends to strong suicidal causes (depression probably) with a good mix of schizophrenia in, and a high aggression level towards society which often can be found in teenagers who are in a phase of finding themselves. The thing which probably has pushed him over the edge violence wise is probably this mix. Nothing could have prevented that I assume and nothing probably can be blamed.
Besides that christianity in europe != bonhead so called US christian. European christians are very relaxed regarding their believe and normally very tolerant people.
Christian democrats are historically the conservativ parties of many western european countries.
The name partially stems from the close ties those parties had to the local churches and monarchs 100-150 years ago (nowasays the ties are way more loose and a political non influence clause of the churches into politics has been mandatory for decades) and partially stems from the fact that early social democratic and communist movements were outspokenly atheistic.
Since most countries in europe have a relatively relaxed christian view, this is different to what it sounds to american ears. In most countries of europe those conservative parties are more on the left side of the political spectrum than the US democrats.
And no in most of our countries we do not have those religious boneheads you people suffer from in the US.
The reactions which basically were triggered in germany do not have anything to do with the political spectrum of the party, similar reactions were issued 3-4 years ago by the social democrats when the shooting occurred in Ehrfuhrt.
But have in mind that every protestantic influenced european country has its fair share of taboos. Sweden it is the alcohol and prostitution, in germany it usually it is media in england it used to be porn and prostituion.
The funny thing is that historically catholic countries have none of those taboos. Western european catholic regions polictically and socially, with the exception of Bavaria which is the closest you can get to a catholic Taliban region you can get, tend to be socially and politically very relaxed regions. This might historically stem from the fact that catholizism is more forgiving regarding sins, so things do not run into becoming taboos and become easier socially accepted. I know myself it used to be different in the history, but I am speaking of the present here and I am speaking of western europe only, not eastern Europe, where the perfect counterexample is probably Poland!
I do not think it is weasally, I think more along the lines of a huge generation gap in understanding certain media. Politicians tend to be rather old, and old people tend to have two problems generally, they develop a certain paranoia about things they do not understand and they do not understand a lot of newer things. And yes weasly politicians are a huge problem worldwide, same goes for lobbying, as far as I understand german politics as an outsider from a neighbouring country, the political system has shifted hugely to a lobbyist influenced onem (it used to be more hidden in the past but there always was a strong link) But the cry for a games prohibition is not lobbying influenced it is really more along the lines of a generation gap!
Yes that is the funny thing, both incidents, Ehrfuhrt and the other one were done by young adults. In the first case the school system and being stamped a total loser definitely was the cause in the other one it is rather unclear. In the first case the weapons were obtained by legal means and the guy either learned shooting in the military or shooting club. But in both cases the usual bunch of we go on a witchhunt politicians crawl out and start to talk about how to ban things they are afraid of instead of looking at the entire situation. It is easier to sell this over lets protect the children than to go into a real analysis of the situation. I am glad that other incidents which were very similar (the Kampusch case) were done by people above 40 otherweise probably all children already would be chained down so that no harm can be done to them by the bad internet and games!
Yes I can remember the incident puts every us redneck joke into oblivion this was way worse...
Actually the funny thing is:
Schützenverein (shoot club) = good... Draft military after 16 with possible war entry = good games + internet = root of all evil... and an adult with 18 shooting clearly was caused by games nothing else...
There clearly is a generation gap in germany regarding this issues. Those people come from a generation which does not know anything about thos issues and clearly have a problem to see the complexities of the situation. (see also me longer comment regarding this)
Germany already has the strongest laws in the world regarding this. The main problem is, that the causes of the incident are not very clear yet. The main problem in germany is that once an incident happens, the usual 5 or 6 politicians crawl out of their holes and the minute this happens they cry to the media they need more enforcement regarding the internet and regarding games (in the 80s it was movies, that has worn off)
The problem in this case is, the guy, a young adult, being 18, you become entirely adult with 19 in germany, left a note on the net sort of a help cry which led to this incident, the games definitely were not the cause of this, though they might be a small part to the puzzle as probably was other media. The main question to this case is, why did no one really notice upfront, and why did the last message of him go mostly unnoticed and how did this young man (he was not a child anymore) develop such a hatred that he did not see any other solution anymore than to do what he did (he did not come from a broken background, he had a nice family and generally grew up in a suburbian environment).
The main problem for the usual bunch of politicians this time is, that the media does not buy the cheap, lets ban what we do not understand trick anymore. To my suprise yesterday evening I saw in german public TV ZDF a very unbiased view to the whole issue and the general consensous in the press so far seems, that lets do a more rigorous ban on something those guys simply do not understand is not the solution you only remove a small part of the puzzle why the causes themselves seem to be elsewhere.
Have in mind the last two incidents were done by young adults, one being definitely member in a Schützenverein (which is sort of a shooting club) but those bonehead politicians never even mentioned the word. The general consensous in this generation gap of politics is, young people = games are a media form we grew up with and can deal with it, internet = opportunities
Old people = internet root of all evil we have to control it, games = root of all evil we have to ban it.
As far as I can see at least there seems to be a slow generation shift in the general media towards younger people who have a clearer view regarding this complex net of causes and results. People like Stoiber (being over retirement age), Merkel (slowly creeping against retirement age) and others simply do not get it. They are on a witch hunt without result because it is easier to target something they do not understand than to look at the real causes which are maybe harder to solve or impossible to solve on the side of politics.
Inofficial numbers on the net speak about roughly 600.000 worldwide so far... But it is released so far only in japan and the USA... It pretty much is sold out, every unit produced is sold!