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PSP Not A Sellout Hit
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I like Sony. Have for years. I even got to see and play with an import one back in November. However, I don't have the time for the PSP. Sony talks about opportunity gaming, where you play something because you have time in between things to stop and play with {X}.
But you know what? I don't have that kind of time. I can't play my PSP when I'm stuck in traffic (I tried to with my new cell phone, but that was rather risky). I can't play my PSP at work (well, I could try). I can't play my PSP playing basketball, or golf or whatever. And I suspect that other 18-39 year olds that have jobs may not either. And by putting it at a price point so high that you really have to have a lot of 'opportunity' times to play. Unless they market this to kids, but somehow those commercials don't look kiddy to me.
I do have time when I get home however. But then, why would I pay money to look at a small little screen when I can just watch DVD's on any of my TVs. Or play my PS2.
They should really try to market to kids. Hell, when you have no job and people are driving you to places you don't really want to go to, there's opportunity-time galore.
Lots of stabbing over virtual problems nowadays. If video games really did induce violence, why, you could tell what type of gamer the criminal was based on his method of attack:
I'll just list the fun ones; feel free to fill in the others: A(0%,0%) - Has no worldly possesions and spends zero money on tech or games: Monk, Dedicated amish D(75%,0) - You have a giant entertainment system, nice car, possibly the latest GQ. You think games are for kids. E(100%,0) - If this is even possible.. you're a megalomanic scientist who seeks to take over the world by working in your lab to build a giant robot. Or you built a robo-hooker and maintinence costs you everything. K(50%, 25%) - Typical slashdot reader? (more into tech than games, but buys some games) N(100%,50%) - You live at home and you have all game systems. Your mid level stereo bothers your parents. O(25%, 75%) - You have every game system but you play it all on your late 90's 27" TV. S(25%, 100%+) - The EB Games clerks within 40 miles of you know you by name. People keep telling you to by an HD set but you aren't willing to put up the bucks. T(50%,100%) - Not only do you subscribe to most known MMORPGS, you try to play your new game on your console while waiting for the mobs. EB Games and GameStop employees are told to call you to get you to buy their games. V(100%, 100%) - You are either the largest spoiled brat on earth, buying only the newest game every day to play at your palatial mansion; You have a casino credit line at all game stores. All your non-game stuff is probably paid for (you have to have something to play all your games on. You wonder what it might be like to work a day in your life, but then you go back to playing again.
Ok I think I've wasted enough time on this psycho-silly-nerdy comment.
So if an editor sees a 'new' news story which has a slightly different take on a story that he's seen previously, it's fair game! So all I can say is, I welcome our dups overlords! I'll do the same; I'll post similar but slgihtly differently worded posts for each one to garner karma with less effort than ever before;)
My Solution (if you have a Fry's, and this is a 'hot' game that's just been released this week):
1. Look at the Friday's Fry's ad before lunch. If something is ridiculously lower than other places (including online vendors), continue. If not, then you might weigh HOW much demand there is for the game. If the demand is crazy (GTA) 2. Go to Fry's during lunch on friday. You will get the game, 99 times out of 100. If you go after work, then the odds are something like 6 times out of 10. 3. Play.
I personally never pre-order. Who knows if you'll have the time to play when the game comes around. And if you do have some free time, then wait till Fry's puts it on sale.
I spent god knows how long installing the developer's solaris install (I upgrading an old Ultra 60 with 2.6 on it). And now that I've installed all this crap from 5 CD's, don't tell me I have to:
Well, I certainly hope you'd never hear anyone say that; That's so pretentious... almost as bad as referring to yourself in the first-person. The only real and similar case is when I hear NoCal people say, "we were just leaving a party in the city" to someone who doesn't even live there (or maybe that's just the SoCal we-have-the-highest-strip-malls-per-capita and no-downtown-after-sundown inferiority complex.)
Hmm, well in his paid episodes, all computers would have to switch to the Windows line of products. Now that'd be prettty funny to see; imagine everyone on the bridge using a mouse and keyboard, staring at their lcd monitors to do all ship functions:
Captain: What's the oxygen content of the planet's atmosphere?
Ensign: It's.. (click-click, taptaptaptap, click) Take a look captain, according to this excel data sheet on this system, it looks good.
Captain: Hold on, (click-click).. I've got it. Ok, I'll head up a drop team, and there of use will go down and investigate. Hold on, first let me enter this into Outlook and Project first... (clickity-click tap tap taptaptaptpatpatpatpatatptapt)...
Compiling simple AP Comp sci project with Turbo Pascal on an Apple IIe = compiling a full ACE-TAO tree on a 3.0Ghz Fedora box. If you get rid of GUIs, it's all good.
For science fiction to succeed away from its own little niche of fans, it needs writers who can develop stories that appeal to a wide audience. After all, a bad science fiction story is, in the end, just another bad story.
They needed to have Scott Bakula be like Kirk (and his old QL character Sam) and make out with the hot chick at some point in every episode. At least try to appeal to the whole male demographic than to the "grr, I'll try to watch this crappy show no matter what" geek-set.
I certainly didn't know five years ago that I wanted a hard drive based MP3 player, but with technology comes desires to push that technology even further.
Jeez, and how 'ahead' are these guys? My friends and I knew we wanted ANY sort of portable MP3 player back in 1996. Homebrewed HD-based MP3 players were the only ones that had been implemented (heard about some who homebrewed one into his car), but that was it. CD ones were not around yet. We certainly wished one would be manufactured, but Rio didn't come out with their stuff for another 3 years.
Boy did those 3 years hurt. The best we could do to make our music portable was to attach a notebook running winamp to the input to a car stereo. But I would always worry about the car's effects on the notebook's HD, so we didn't do it that often.
Madden is king, they can do what they want for the most part, but ESPN is going to find out that they can't hope to stay in the game without some kind of price advantage.
Right. As far as I see it, I don't like the EA versions $30 more than I do the ESPN versions. But I'd say that I do like EA (especially NBA Live) maybe $10 or even $15 more than ESPN. NBA 2K5 was the first game I literally threw across the room because the controls were so damn annoying. Maybe it was because they kept throwing the fast break passes all the way back to people that weren't in the break.
Don't they pollute with a lot of buggy crap software? The cumlative explatives incurred by their software has polluted much of the free world. Ok fine, I guess I'll give a VOLCANO the benefit of the doubt. MS is in second.
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I like Sony. Have for years. I even got to see and play with an import one back in November. However, I don't have the time for the PSP. Sony talks about opportunity gaming, where you play something because you have time in between things to stop and play with {X}.
But you know what? I don't have that kind of time. I can't play my PSP when I'm stuck in traffic (I tried to with my new cell phone, but that was rather risky). I can't play my PSP at work (well, I could try). I can't play my PSP playing basketball, or golf or whatever. And I suspect that other 18-39 year olds that have jobs may not either. And by putting it at a price point so high that you really have to have a lot of 'opportunity' times to play. Unless they market this to kids, but somehow those commercials don't look kiddy to me.
I do have time when I get home however. But then, why would I pay money to look at a small little screen when I can just watch DVD's on any of my TVs. Or play my PS2.
They should really try to market to kids. Hell, when you have no job and people are driving you to places you don't really want to go to, there's opportunity-time galore.
Lots of stabbing over virtual problems nowadays. If video games really did induce violence, why, you could tell what type of gamer the criminal was based on his method of attack:
;)
Pistol shot, shotgun blast - fpser
knife attack- *RPGer
+1 knife attack- NWNer, or other D&D v3er
sword slash- rich RPGer
hit&runner- racer
drive-by shooting - GTAer
Just watch the news tonight and see all the havok games have done
I... can't... help killing with my -1 Cursed Mr. Stabby
I think there's something interesting in this:
- --Q------R- -----H------I------JE
There should be multi-dimensional spread;
X=% of Discretionary spending spent on tech:
Y=% of tech spending spent on games:
100%--S------T------U------V
75%---O------P---
50%---K------L------M------N
25%---G
0%A---B------C------D------
0%----25%---50%---75%---100%+
I'll just list the fun ones; feel free to fill in the others:
A(0%,0%) - Has no worldly possesions and spends zero money on tech or games: Monk, Dedicated amish
D(75%,0) - You have a giant entertainment system, nice car, possibly the latest GQ. You think games are for kids.
E(100%,0) - If this is even possible.. you're a megalomanic scientist who seeks to take over the world by working in your lab to build a giant robot. Or you built a robo-hooker and maintinence costs you everything.
K(50%, 25%) - Typical slashdot reader? (more into tech than games, but buys some games)
N(100%,50%) - You live at home and you have all game systems. Your mid level stereo bothers your parents.
O(25%, 75%) - You have every game system but you play it all on your late 90's 27" TV.
S(25%, 100%+) - The EB Games clerks within 40 miles of you know you by name. People keep telling you to by an HD set but you aren't willing to put up the bucks.
T(50%,100%) - Not only do you subscribe to most known MMORPGS, you try to play your new game on your console while waiting for the mobs. EB Games and GameStop employees are told to call you to get you to buy their games.
V(100%, 100%) - You are either the largest spoiled brat on earth, buying only the newest game every day to play at your palatial mansion; You have a casino credit line at all game stores. All your non-game stuff is probably paid for (you have to have something to play all your games on. You wonder what it might be like to work a day in your life, but then you go back to playing again.
Ok I think I've wasted enough time on this psycho-silly-nerdy comment.
So if an editor sees a 'new' news story which has a slightly different take on a story that he's seen previously, it's fair game! So all I can say is, I welcome our dups overlords! I'll do the same; I'll post similar but slgihtly differently worded posts for each one to garner karma with less effort than ever before ;)
My Solution (if you have a Fry's, and this is a 'hot' game that's just been released this week):
1. Look at the Friday's Fry's ad before lunch. If something is ridiculously lower than other places (including online vendors), continue. If not, then you might weigh HOW much demand there is for the game. If the demand is crazy (GTA)
2. Go to Fry's during lunch on friday. You will get the game, 99 times out of 100. If you go after work, then the odds are something like 6 times out of 10.
3. Play.
I personally never pre-order. Who knows if you'll have the time to play when the game comes around. And if you do have some free time, then wait till Fry's puts it on sale.
Ok, thanks for all the pretty pictures, but...
HOW DO I FRICKING ADD USERS?
What happened to admintool?
I spent god knows how long installing the developer's solaris install (I upgrading an old Ultra 60 with 2.6 on it). And now that I've installed all this crap from 5 CD's, don't tell me I have to:
groupadd blah blahblah
user_add blah blah blah blah
Geez.
I'm switching to Debian or Gentoo damnit.
"...We should see a Motorola phone with iTunes onboard within the next two weeks, making March the month of music phones."
/. is Ameri-centric?
Well, if you're not in the US. Darn it. Neither is the SE V800. Darn it 2. Who says
Well, I certainly hope you'd never hear anyone say that; That's so pretentious... almost as bad as referring to yourself in the first-person. The only real and similar case is when I hear NoCal people say, "we were just leaving a party in the city" to someone who doesn't even live there (or maybe that's just the SoCal we-have-the-highest-strip-malls-per-capita and no-downtown-after-sundown inferiority complex.)
1. Use the force, Luke!
2. Don't shoot food!
3: Run! Run!
4: Pizza Time!
5: Finish Him!
[Tekken Male] Hyahhh!!!
[DOA] fuwafuwa!
[Tekken Male] ?!?! piyopiyopiyo
'RING OUT!'
Tekken Lose!
DDR might be fun, but I say watching it freestyle to Snaps' "The Power" would be FAR cooler.
Hmm, well in his paid episodes, all computers would have to switch to the Windows line of products. Now that'd be prettty funny to see; imagine everyone on the bridge using a mouse and keyboard, staring at their lcd monitors to do all ship functions:
Captain: What's the oxygen content of the planet's atmosphere?
Ensign: It's.. (click-click, taptaptaptap, click) Take a look captain, according to this excel data sheet on this system, it looks good.
Captain: Hold on, (click-click).. I've got it. Ok, I'll head up a drop team, and there of use will go down and investigate. Hold on, first let me enter this into Outlook and Project first... (clickity-click tap tap taptaptaptpatpatpatpatatptapt)...
Compiling simple AP Comp sci project with Turbo Pascal on an Apple IIe = compiling a full ACE-TAO tree on a 3.0Ghz Fedora box.
If you get rid of GUIs, it's all good.
Xbox 365. It'd be cooler, I think, and remind you how MS thinks you should use their product(s).
For science fiction to succeed away from its own little niche of fans, it needs writers who can develop stories that appeal to a wide audience. After all, a bad science fiction story is, in the end, just another bad story.
They needed to have Scott Bakula be like Kirk (and his old QL character Sam) and make out with the hot chick at some point in every episode. At least try to appeal to the whole male demographic than to the "grr, I'll try to watch this crappy show no matter what" geek-set.
Is Lik Sang fully legit now? I thought they were taken down for modchips a few years ago.
I guess this shows a corollary of "With enough eyes, all intractable bugs (problems) are obvious".
With too few eyes, there's at least one simple problem that is not obvious.
I forsee the first game using it will be a text adventure game called, "Tour":
You find yourself in a large pine forest. The ground is thickly covered with freshly crushed needles. [pssst]
You see a river to the East.
You see a large clearing to the North.
> E
You have wandered down into a grotto with a wild, frothy river bounding along besides you. [pssst] A large cliff blocks your way to the South.
> W
Pine Forest
> verbose
Maximum Verbosity.
You find yourself in a large pine forest, overflowing with piles of freshly crushed needles.
You see a river to the East.
You see a large clearing to the North.
> aromatic
Maximum Aromaticity.
You find yourself in a large pine forest, overflowing with piles of freshly crushed needles. [pssst]
You see a river to the East.
You see a large clearing to the North.
> N
You find yourself in a lush field of lavenders and paisleys. [psst] You dance in the simple happiness of it.
You see a dense forest to the South.
You see a never-ending garden of roses to the East.
You see a tremendous glacier to the North.
> smell
Smelling... [psssssst]
I certainly didn't know five years ago that I wanted a hard drive based MP3 player, but with technology comes desires to push that technology even further.
Jeez, and how 'ahead' are these guys? My friends and I knew we wanted ANY sort of portable MP3 player back in 1996. Homebrewed HD-based MP3 players were the only ones that had been implemented (heard about some who homebrewed one into his car), but that was it. CD ones were not around yet. We certainly wished one would be manufactured, but Rio didn't come out with their stuff for another 3 years.
Boy did those 3 years hurt. The best we could do to make our music portable was to attach a notebook running winamp to the input to a car stereo. But I would always worry about the car's effects on the notebook's HD, so we didn't do it that often.
Madden is king, they can do what they want for the most part, but ESPN is going to find out that they can't hope to stay in the game without some kind of price advantage.
Right. As far as I see it, I don't like the EA versions $30 more than I do the ESPN versions. But I'd say that I do like EA (especially NBA Live) maybe $10 or even $15 more than ESPN. NBA 2K5 was the first game I literally threw across the room because the controls were so damn annoying. Maybe it was because they kept throwing the fast break passes all the way back to people that weren't in the break.
If Dell is successful, then any one 'entity' should be able to demand that X should be cheaper.
If we band together, we can demand the following to lower in price (in no particular order):
4GB USB Flash Drives
Any Adobe Product
3CCD Video cameras
Plasma TVs
Viper RT-10s
Diamond Rings
The Stupid Housing Market in LA
That would help us (or me) a bit. Thanks!
No, it is not.
If people could just learn to write their replies BELOW what they're quoting. Top posting is just wrong.
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Don't they pollute with a lot of buggy crap software? The cumlative explatives incurred by their software has polluted much of the free world.
Ok fine, I guess I'll give a VOLCANO the benefit of the doubt. MS is in second.
There'd be no:
H HH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Gran Turismo
Xenogears
3D Final Fantasies
Bushido Blade
Puzzle Fighter
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AlsoI would have probably more bored through college (or more drunk).