But a bad thing I don't read Japanese. I'll own both so that i can have the US version on standby for translation and everyone else can crowd over it so we know what's going on...
Or maybe I'll just skip Mr. Driller for the likes of Metroid Prime:First Hunt.
You're wife sees something that you might like and she spends good money on it and you pitch a little fit and go back to the store to make a scene and return it? Nice going at making her feel like shit for trying to do something for you. Your wife should kick you in the nards and tell you to stop being a little baby.
Tell you what, I'll do you a big favor. Ask your wife to email me so we can hook up together and she can buy me a cool little gift like this and in return I'll show her exactly *how much* I appreciate it!
Roger that, the PSX on pre-release specs seemed like an awesome home entertainment Tivo-esque/PVR system that just happened to play PS2 games as well. By the final release, it was an expensive PS2 with very limited PVR function. Bad Sony.
More than just out of the loop I'd say. Should you even be reading Slashdot Games? Do you know who Nintendo is?
They released those specs about the DS along time ago. They also said it will have compatibility for future Xbox Next and Sony PSP games along with full smartphone capabilities. You better brush on the news dude.
I can name a few that aren't on pc
(1)Mechassault = don't even bring up MW4, it's a different game all together.
(2)Crimson Skies
(3)Panzer Dragoon Orta
(4)Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2
(5)Gaunlet Dark Legacy (cross platform except for PC)
(6) Brute Force
(7) Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
(8)Sega GT Online
Xbox has a nice line of exclusive titles. Not all are entirely excluse, but none of them are on PC at least.
""Given that phone lines are limited to about 33.6K on a good day (56K only works if you've got an ISP picking you up at the first switch before you get filtered), are you actually going to be able to see real, intelligible video through this? I remember back in the modem days, VoIP was ok when net congestion wasn't bad but videoconferencing was a lost cause.""
""Oh well at $110 I think it will share the same success as the n-cage. To expensive for something that can be done by dedicated hardware so much better and more easily.""
As far as the video goes, it really depends on how good the codecs are. You can do some really wicked things with streaming video if you got the right set of codecs even on "pots" bandwidth. Look at existing video phone service you buy at Best Buy.
And the price isn't too bad if you look at how much current video phone equipment costs. Just for the startup package at Best Buy, you are looking at $600 to get started.
I already have multiple GBA's that me and my wife both share. If i were going to go on a trip and wanted to speak and see my family, then this is a pretty decent idea. Hell I could even take it to work and just plug it in to one of the phone lines and call on my break like i normally do. No need for lugging a laptop to work and having to pay for dialup service just to use a little shitty webcam for 20 minutes on my break.
Any geek who thinks that $110 is too much to spend on a new gadget might want to re-think their status of "geekdom". I know I've wasted plenty of money on far more expensive failed technologies. But that's the way the wyrm turns eh?
driver
\Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.] 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
*Taken from websters*
LMAO!! "Back the day...." "Audiogalaxy.." You're funny. I remember when it was all newsgroups. Reassembling this bits you get for 1 song. Scanning the web for lists of FTP servers to grab stuff from. And the unforgettable turn of events when popular FTP servers started requiring RATIO's before you grabbed anything. Friends bringing over their hard drives so you could swap music and what not. IRC DCC's, Fservers!
And all you had was your po audiogalaxy.. OH WOE IS ME....I'm such an old timer!!! I had to use audiogalaxy that wasn't as ooie gui and Kazaa!!!
All of those many many 5 whole yrs!!!!
Get a life polesmoker and stop trying to act like your some fuckin founder...
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But a bad thing I don't read Japanese. I'll own both so that i can have the US version on standby for translation and everyone else can crowd over it so we know what's going on... Or maybe I'll just skip Mr. Driller for the likes of Metroid Prime:First Hunt.
...but I guess it's better than nothing.
You're wife sees something that you might like and she spends good money on it and you pitch a little fit and go back to the store to make a scene and return it? Nice going at making her feel like shit for trying to do something for you. Your wife should kick you in the nards and tell you to stop being a little baby.
Tell you what, I'll do you a big favor. Ask your wife to email me so we can hook up together and she can buy me a cool little gift like this and in return I'll show her exactly *how much* I appreciate it!
Roger that, the PSX on pre-release specs seemed like an awesome home entertainment Tivo-esque/PVR system that just happened to play PS2 games as well. By the final release, it was an expensive PS2 with very limited PVR function. Bad Sony.
More than just out of the loop I'd say. Should you even be reading Slashdot Games? Do you know who Nintendo is? They released those specs about the DS along time ago. They also said it will have compatibility for future Xbox Next and Sony PSP games along with full smartphone capabilities. You better brush on the news dude.
Guess you haven't overcome your fear of "wit" either.
I'd presume that you're a moron except I don't have to "presume" anything in your case.
If they were bundled as a 5 game cart.
Did you set the resolution to 1600x1200 on a 15" monitor again?
Are you high or something?
I can name a few that aren't on pc (1)Mechassault = don't even bring up MW4, it's a different game all together. (2)Crimson Skies (3)Panzer Dragoon Orta (4)Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2 (5)Gaunlet Dark Legacy (cross platform except for PC) (6) Brute Force (7) Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams (8)Sega GT Online Xbox has a nice line of exclusive titles. Not all are entirely excluse, but none of them are on PC at least.
""Given that phone lines are limited to about 33.6K on a good day (56K only works if you've got an ISP picking you up at the first switch before you get filtered), are you actually going to be able to see real, intelligible video through this? I remember back in the modem days, VoIP was ok when net congestion wasn't bad but videoconferencing was a lost cause.""
""Oh well at $110 I think it will share the same success as the n-cage. To expensive for something that can be done by dedicated hardware so much better and more easily.""
As far as the video goes, it really depends on how good the codecs are. You can do some really wicked things with streaming video if you got the right set of codecs even on "pots" bandwidth. Look at existing video phone service you buy at Best Buy.
And the price isn't too bad if you look at how much current video phone equipment costs. Just for the startup package at Best Buy, you are looking at $600 to get started.
I already have multiple GBA's that me and my wife both share. If i were going to go on a trip and wanted to speak and see my family, then this is a pretty decent idea. Hell I could even take it to work and just plug it in to one of the phone lines and call on my break like i normally do. No need for lugging a laptop to work and having to pay for dialup service just to use a little shitty webcam for 20 minutes on my break.
Any geek who thinks that $110 is too much to spend on a new gadget might want to re-think their status of "geekdom". I know I've wasted plenty of money on far more expensive failed technologies. But that's the way the wyrm turns eh?
driver \Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.] 1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. *Taken from websters*
LMAO!! "Back the day...." "Audiogalaxy.." You're funny. I remember when it was all newsgroups. Reassembling this bits you get for 1 song. Scanning the web for lists of FTP servers to grab stuff from. And the unforgettable turn of events when popular FTP servers started requiring RATIO's before you grabbed anything. Friends bringing over their hard drives so you could swap music and what not. IRC DCC's, Fservers! And all you had was your po audiogalaxy.. OH WOE IS ME....I'm such an old timer!!! I had to use audiogalaxy that wasn't as ooie gui and Kazaa!!! All of those many many 5 whole yrs!!!! Get a life polesmoker and stop trying to act like your some fuckin founder...
Anyone happen to notice that this letter contained the word "Bill" 37 times?? Food for thought