Really, there are so many ignorant people out there. I'm glad you got marked troll, because thats exactly what you are doing. Nintendo has always said they make their games for everyone. Mature people dont need edgy violence and crap to make fun games. They just make good gameplay. If good gameplay isnt enough for you, then you should probably not be buying games to begin with.
Just wanted to point out that they've stated countless times they dont specifically target any gaming audience. They make their systems for EVERYONE to play. Young and Old. The original NES was never made for kids, it was made for everyone. And it worked. I remember spending days playing MegaMan with my friend and his dad. The whole 'Nintendo is for kids' is such an ignorant statement, you can easily tell who the uninformed gamers are. Anyone who has any inkling of gaming history knows that Nintendo is for everyone. If games appear to be more simple, or less violent, it isn't just for the kids, its for the people who are actually MATURE enough to not need this stuff to make a game great.
$120!? Who in the.. what? This is serious?
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People actually paid $120 to get into a convention for WoW? Don't they already pay $15 a month to play the game? I suppose they had a few bands play, but man. For $120 I would have expected a Cirque show done entirely in Blizzard themed garb.
Sorry, didn't mean to come off like a troll or anything. But $120? That is just crazy. You could buy a Nintendo DS for that much.
I never had to use the stylus for Castlevania. It doesn't require pixel perfect precision for the end boss seals. In fact, using your finger is probably easier overall anyways.
Really, this DS game delivers. The second screen support, despite being a map most of the time, is a fantastic addition, and the length of the game so far has been much longer, and a far better experience than the former best in series Symphony of the Night. While the music might not be up to par with it, everything else is done as good, and often times better. Seriously, this game rocks, and I can honestly say after owning a stack of DS games, that this handheld is going to keep me from buying any next generation console. Nintendo has a fantastic system on their hands!
Game developers are complaining that it is going to be hard to port to other systems?? It's supposed to be hard. That's the entire point of having more than one console on the market. If they all played the exact same games, why would Sony or Microsoft have even bothered to make consoles instead of letting Nintendo just do it?
Look, People buy consoles for all the unique games available. They certainly are not looking for some random crappy port that is already available elsewhere. If you want Mario you buy Nintendo, if you want Gran Turismo you buy PS2, if you want Halo you buy XBox.
Devs need to quit worrying about ports, and start making new and unique games for platforms. Leave Half-Life 2 on the PC and bring something new and exciting to the PS3, and something entirely different to the Gamecube, and yet something completely different to the XBox. Thats what they're there for. Different gaming types. Not ports!
I dont think any of us are willing to pay that much for a game today. If anything, games should be going down in cost since the market is so huge. Bump games down to $20-30 each. I would be more inclined to buy repeats this way.
There is no way in hell im paying $60 for another Halo sequel, or Gran Turismo 30.
In all seriousness, it is absolutely amazing to see so many companies who want to get into the handheld market fail so miserably. It is like a voodoo curse on anyone other than Nintendo that even thinks of trying to break into the market. Sony came out with this very fast, slick handheld, and.. then.. nothing! They release it all at different times all over the world basically forcing people to buy the competition. It's like Sony gave up at the last minute or something out of nowhere. Huge shortage of decent games to buy, and even the ones that are worth buying are priced right out of the handhedl market! Have you even seen how much the PSP movies cost?? You can go buy the DVD which is higher quality, tons of extras for around $10-15 at places, or you can buy the PSP version that is lower res, virtually no extras, and costs $30!! Did some marketing goon just show up on launch day and say "Hey, lets set prices for this stuff so no one buys it!!" and they all went "Okay!!"??
Seriously, where is all the sensible PSP marketing? I sometimes wonder if Nintendo plants people into other companies that have any sort of draw and have them derail their products on purpose. It is just UNREAL how bad everyone has failed trying to get into the handheld market.
Everyone I know uses AIM, but AIM doesnt work everywhere I go. I also have ICQ people. Will Googletalk ever talk to these people? If it only uses jabber, then I wont bother using it, since everyone has already made their beds in AIM, MSN, ICQ. They need to be 100% compatable with ALL protocols if they want this to take off. I tried getting one person to try it out. They wont. They have too many people on ICQ to leave.
If they start to make games that require this, their sales will take a hit, the userbase will get pissed and move elsewhere.
Pretty much every 360 game has to run with no HD limitation unless it is a subscription service that changes constantly.
I doubt Bethesda, or especially Bungi would alienate their players. I would imagine the non-HD version will be the biggest seller, and not being able to play Halo 3? Wow, that would go down as being a worse product than the Virtual Boy.
Since the day WoW opened, we have experienced slow and laggy gameplay. To this day, nine months or so later it is still happening. I play on the IceCrown server, which seems to reboot itself about 4-5 times every single night. Yet, all the customers that play on this server still pay their monthly fee with no reimbursements.
Is there ever going to be a fix for this? Thousands of paying subscribers would like to know why their servers just simply reboot several times a night, disconnect them, lag out during raids, split their instances, and basically make the entire game nearly unplayable!
This is seriously disturbing. The difference between the Tivo content and the one posted above is the Tivo content will be LEGIT. Who the hell wants to pay seven grand when the RIAA/MPAA come knocking on your door because you wanted to see the latest episode of CSI that you missed? I dont.
1. DirectTV accounts for very very little of their subscriber base. Comcast will be using their machines in the near future.
2. There are no products available right now that even come close to what the Tivo offers. The highly touted MOXI box has fallen fla with broken season passes and terrible analogue recording, and the other built-it yourself kits use the absolute worst TV Guide data i've ever seen. Sure, eventually someone might make a product as good, but for right now, it's like the iPod. It does one thing, and it does it well enough to stay on top.
3. No one likes integration. Industry has proven that people simply dont like it if their built-in DVD player dies, they have to send their entire TV/VCR in for repairs along with it. Seperare components have been, and will always be top choice for consumers.
4. Tivo has always had mainstream content. They have had movie previews and trailers from every major film maker on their boxes. The studios are just realising how important broadband could be to them. You only need to look at the success of BSG for evidence of this. Now the studios just need to capitalize on it, and Tivo will be an excellent outlet for this.
5. Tivo IS the iPod of the living room. Has been for the past 6 years. Where have you been?
$60 Games will make me rent from now on.
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There are far too many games being released today that aren't even worth the $50 being charged as is. If they think they can suddenly bump it to $60 for the same crap, I think they're going to find out real quick what the last console crash was like first hand.
If a game is going to cost $60, it had better get 9/10 or 10/10 reviews from nearly everywhere, and be hailed as the next best thing. If it is even SHY of that, 8/10 or an average 3/5 game, then I can think they can kiss any sales goodbye.
I have a feeling this next generation will be dubbed generation rental.
You say you have all these tabs open in a browser. The entire idea of dashboard is to have all this info available to you at a single glance. When I hit F12 on my Mac, my dashboard pops up and I have an animated weather map, a doppler radar, all the latest earthquakes overlayed on a world map, a current listing of the gas prices in a 5 mile radius of me, current CNN and Slashdot headlines, and a complete rundown on all my vital system statisics.
I get all this current information the second I hit F12, it takes me a few seconds to scan it, then I hit F12 again and im back to working again.
You're trying to tell me your tabs are doing all this? You dont have to load them up every time you boot into the OS? I'm sorry, but the entire idea, again, is all this personalized info at a touch of a button, that appears and disappears as quick as you want. Always updates, all the time.
"10.4 is not that much better if you forget about useless toys like Spotlight and Widgets, it certainly is not a completely new OS and even as an incremental update it is quite lackluster compared to 10.1->10.2 or 10.2->10.3."
It is pretty obvious that you've not even used 10.4 by calling Spotlight or Widgets "useless toys". They are the single most productivity increasing features to any OS to date. There are literally dozens of new features going from 10.3 -> 10.4. Moreso than we saw from 2000 to XP. Lame excuses for an update policy? More like reality.
It's really annoying to see people say how they would hate to pay $129 for updates for OSX. The problem is, these are not updates, they're huge releases that are the equivlent of going from Win95 to 2000 to XP to Longhorn. These are not service packs and small additions, these are giant revamps worthy of the cost.
To be fair, add up the costs of 95 + 2000 + XP + Longhorn and compare to $129+129+129+129.
I dont think this will fly unless they have the owner of the Tivo select a password to use to subscribe to ads. That way outside forces cant sign you up for ads you dont want info for. Simply hitting one button to get more info that gives out your personal information would be a very very bad idea and very abusive.
I am going to assume you can choose to disable this feature entirely?
I dont think your quite understand Apples business model. They make their money off the hardware they sell, not the software. OSX is a great OS, which may sell quite a bit on "generic" hardware, but not nearly enough to compete with selling $3k dual processor machines that only cost them peanuts to make.
You will see Apple selling OSX to "generic" hardware the day Dell creates and licenses their own OS to make more profits. If you think that will happen, you're nuts.
If Microsoft is serious about getting into professional media creation and editing they will need to get their apps onto the OSX platform whether they like it or not.
"But as generalized computer monitors - and in that I'm including common applications such as design or photographic work - LCD's work as well or better than CRT's and good ones don't cost much more, if any."
How you got modded up is beyond me. Everything you've typed is incorrect on such a level. Color representation, especially for the DELL LCD you mentioned is so far gone from its Apple counterpart it isn't funny. And even compared to a Lacie professional CRT it looks even worse. Stick them all side by side and it is night and day. No one in their right mind uses LCDs for photographic and design work. They simply do not work "as well or better" in any way, shape, or form. I dont think you've even dipped your toe into the media and design industry.
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So yes, his comments are correct. If the games really suck, so does the system.
Really, there are so many ignorant people out there. I'm glad you got marked troll, because thats exactly what you are doing. Nintendo has always said they make their games for everyone. Mature people dont need edgy violence and crap to make fun games. They just make good gameplay. If good gameplay isnt enough for you, then you should probably not be buying games to begin with.
Just wanted to point out that they've stated countless times they dont specifically target any gaming audience. They make their systems for EVERYONE to play. Young and Old. The original NES was never made for kids, it was made for everyone. And it worked. I remember spending days playing MegaMan with my friend and his dad. The whole 'Nintendo is for kids' is such an ignorant statement, you can easily tell who the uninformed gamers are. Anyone who has any inkling of gaming history knows that Nintendo is for everyone. If games appear to be more simple, or less violent, it isn't just for the kids, its for the people who are actually MATURE enough to not need this stuff to make a game great.
Sorry, didn't mean to come off like a troll or anything. But $120? That is just crazy. You could buy a Nintendo DS for that much.
I never had to use the stylus for Castlevania. It doesn't require pixel perfect precision for the end boss seals. In fact, using your finger is probably easier overall anyways.
Really, this DS game delivers. The second screen support, despite being a map most of the time, is a fantastic addition, and the length of the game so far has been much longer, and a far better experience than the former best in series Symphony of the Night. While the music might not be up to par with it, everything else is done as good, and often times better. Seriously, this game rocks, and I can honestly say after owning a stack of DS games, that this handheld is going to keep me from buying any next generation console. Nintendo has a fantastic system on their hands!
Yeah, real slick there.
Look, People buy consoles for all the unique games available. They certainly are not looking for some random crappy port that is already available elsewhere. If you want Mario you buy Nintendo, if you want Gran Turismo you buy PS2, if you want Halo you buy XBox.
Devs need to quit worrying about ports, and start making new and unique games for platforms. Leave Half-Life 2 on the PC and bring something new and exciting to the PS3, and something entirely different to the Gamecube, and yet something completely different to the XBox. Thats what they're there for. Different gaming types. Not ports!
There is no way in hell im paying $60 for another Halo sequel, or Gran Turismo 30.
Seriously, where is all the sensible PSP marketing? I sometimes wonder if Nintendo plants people into other companies that have any sort of draw and have them derail their products on purpose. It is just UNREAL how bad everyone has failed trying to get into the handheld market.
Google! Add AIM/MSN/ICQ support asap!!
Pretty much every 360 game has to run with no HD limitation unless it is a subscription service that changes constantly.
I doubt Bethesda, or especially Bungi would alienate their players. I would imagine the non-HD version will be the biggest seller, and not being able to play Halo 3? Wow, that would go down as being a worse product than the Virtual Boy.
Is there ever going to be a fix for this? Thousands of paying subscribers would like to know why their servers just simply reboot several times a night, disconnect them, lag out during raids, split their instances, and basically make the entire game nearly unplayable!
What is being done about this?
This is seriously disturbing. The difference between the Tivo content and the one posted above is the Tivo content will be LEGIT. Who the hell wants to pay seven grand when the RIAA/MPAA come knocking on your door because you wanted to see the latest episode of CSI that you missed? I dont.
2. There are no products available right now that even come close to what the Tivo offers. The highly touted MOXI box has fallen fla with broken season passes and terrible analogue recording, and the other built-it yourself kits use the absolute worst TV Guide data i've ever seen. Sure, eventually someone might make a product as good, but for right now, it's like the iPod. It does one thing, and it does it well enough to stay on top.
3. No one likes integration. Industry has proven that people simply dont like it if their built-in DVD player dies, they have to send their entire TV/VCR in for repairs along with it. Seperare components have been, and will always be top choice for consumers.
4. Tivo has always had mainstream content. They have had movie previews and trailers from every major film maker on their boxes. The studios are just realising how important broadband could be to them. You only need to look at the success of BSG for evidence of this. Now the studios just need to capitalize on it, and Tivo will be an excellent outlet for this.
5. Tivo IS the iPod of the living room. Has been for the past 6 years. Where have you been?
If a game is going to cost $60, it had better get 9/10 or 10/10 reviews from nearly everywhere, and be hailed as the next best thing. If it is even SHY of that, 8/10 or an average 3/5 game, then I can think they can kiss any sales goodbye.
I have a feeling this next generation will be dubbed generation rental.
Right up your alley.
I get all this current information the second I hit F12, it takes me a few seconds to scan it, then I hit F12 again and im back to working again.
You're trying to tell me your tabs are doing all this? You dont have to load them up every time you boot into the OS? I'm sorry, but the entire idea, again, is all this personalized info at a touch of a button, that appears and disappears as quick as you want. Always updates, all the time.
It is pretty obvious that you've not even used 10.4 by calling Spotlight or Widgets "useless toys". They are the single most productivity increasing features to any OS to date. There are literally dozens of new features going from 10.3 -> 10.4. Moreso than we saw from 2000 to XP. Lame excuses for an update policy? More like reality.
To be fair, add up the costs of 95 + 2000 + XP + Longhorn and compare to $129+129+129+129.
Who comes out on top now?
However, my XP Box is now my new Amiga. It's only good for playing games. Real work gets done on the Mac now.
I am going to assume you can choose to disable this feature entirely?
You will see Apple selling OSX to "generic" hardware the day Dell creates and licenses their own OS to make more profits. If you think that will happen, you're nuts.
If Microsoft is serious about getting into professional media creation and editing they will need to get their apps onto the OSX platform whether they like it or not.
How you got modded up is beyond me. Everything you've typed is incorrect on such a level. Color representation, especially for the DELL LCD you mentioned is so far gone from its Apple counterpart it isn't funny. And even compared to a Lacie professional CRT it looks even worse. Stick them all side by side and it is night and day. No one in their right mind uses LCDs for photographic and design work. They simply do not work "as well or better" in any way, shape, or form. I dont think you've even dipped your toe into the media and design industry.