If anything, i'd ask Nintendo or Sony if they want to give me money for the rights just to stuff it in Microsofts monopolistic face. Carmack has enough sense to see the poor monopoly marketing MS is doing with the XBox (Selling at a huge loss, posting lame announcements bashing other consoles whenever possible, giving away free consoles everywhere trying to artificially inflate their numbers, etc).. He knows if he gives them exclusive rights he'll be directly supporting a monopoly.
Maybe you haven't noticed the isles and idles of Anime to rent at every single movie rental store and chain! Or if you go into your local DVD shop, or video game shop, or favorite book shop, guess what? Yep, They've got shelves and shelves full of Anime and Manga to buy!
You don't get out often, do you? Anime has been more popular than PacMan years and years ago.
And the judge will laugh at them. If they had sued for maybe $100 or so, the amount a student MIGHT spend in a years time, it would be better. The fact that they shared them might fall under some other clause, but not for attributable software losses, for that they'll have to go after the people who downloaded all the files indivually.
Everyone I know who has bought one thinks it was a waste of money so far. It sounds great on paper but the unit is very cheaply made, and emulation is sub par. Not to mention it's total piracy. Wonder why Slashdot posted a blatant piracy article?
It really depends where you're coming from. Obviously you were a channel surfer before the Tivo purchase. Most people who say they watch more TV since they bought Tivo are the crowd of people who REFUSED to watch anything on TV because it was so full of crap (Think: TV rots your mind bumperstickers, etc). Then comes Tivo, a way to record ONLY what you want to see, all those interesting looking shows that somehow are aired at 3am while you're in bed. Or during those long work nights doing server installs. Suddenly, you come home after a week and find you have about 12 hours of TV shows that you REALLY like and would have missed otherwise. Man, Tivo is god.
If AOL can promote this so that everyone knows what a PVR can really do, people will soon realise that a much better alternative exists and Tivo sales could rise a bit. This could be good.
EA wanted to release their sports games to be able to be inter-console playable. Meaning, if I bought NFL on my Gamecube, and my friend bought it on his XBox, we could play them together. Microsoft will NOT allow any cross compatable gaming through Live! So EA has decided that they will take the PS2 / Gamecube share and cut Microsoft out of the picture. PS2 and Gamecube owners will be playing games with each other, while XBox people will be stuck with just XBox people. As for the infrastructure, SEGA SNAP has been available for some time now which allows PS2 and Gamecube games to go online in a very easy prebuilt environment. It's basically a Live! solution for the PS2 & Cube.. But for free. No first time $50 / year fee, and then $10 month after the first year like Live! offers.
I mean really, most of those games if people are losing in a sports game just disconnect halfway through. If they're losing a race, they drop out. A lot of the games being offered are all inferior ports from the PC with shoddy controls. No mouse, no keyboard.. Nothing. It's really quite cool for the first month you have it, but the gleam quickly wears off and it's back to enjoying a good single player RPG. Console online games were a flash in the pan and nothing more. Keep giving me good console games and ill buy them, if I want online action, ive got the PC that handles it just fine.
Out of all three systems, the one that consistantly has hits every month is the Gamecube. Nearly every magazines "Game of the Month" is a Gamecube title. Xbox has Halo, Splinter Cell, and Panzer Dragoon which are all good titles, but dont even come near the Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Animal Crossing, etc offerings on the Cube gameplay wise, and award wise. PS2 has Gran Turismo 3, Final Fantasy X, and a few other great games, but still, they all pale in comparison to a single Metroid game.
For the most part, Nintendo has been doing really well with its Cube console, a lot of the games are unique, and the ports it does get are usually filled with goodies and can connect to the GBA that everyone owns.
Also, SSX Trickey DID have the DVD extras on the Gamecube. There are NOT many multidisc games, in fact, I think there is only one. Leaving DVD out of the Cube was the best design ever, how many pirated Cube games do you see? Exactly.
You seem to like to smoke the crack, sir. Pass it over to me next.
Imagine if developers actually went with this. ALl the FPS games would be using stupid controllers, and we'd have 10 billion Halo clones. Meh. I'll pass, thanks.
The PS1 had a HUGE base installed as well, and in fact, devs are still bringing out games for it. In Japan the PS1 is selling just as much as the XBox. Why did they bother with the PS2? Because people always want more and better technology. The PS2 has a little ways it can go to be on par with the XBox and Gamecube.
It isn't the fact that they've won already, it's the fact that their standard games all look like total ass on High Def TVs, unlike the Cube and XBox.. They need to keep updating so people can get the games looking good on their sets. Just because they have 25 million owners doesn't mean none of us want some upgraded technology for our spoiled lifestyles.
Would also go against their marketing hype....
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After all, the entire "draw" of the XBox is the fact that it is has XBox Live! - You know, that FOUR BILLION investment Microsoft has commited to? The main selling point of the XBox. They just announced they had sold an entirely low amount of XBox Live! units totalling 350,000 - Which is squat for the investment they've put into it. Most people aren't even playing it anymore, it was exciting for a week, and then wore off quickly. A lot of people are quickly noticing that Xbox was nothing more than a flash in the pan that offers nothing exclusive, and the games are not your typical fun console games, but rather rehashed PC game ports that everyones already sick of.
Same deal, years of planning, plenty of money, and full backing of Microsoft. Not only are they losing BILLIONS every year, he convinced them to just invest even MORE money into the system and they FELL FOR IT. A month later, get this, HE LEFT THE COMPANY. Unbelievable!
I couldn't have said it better myself. You are spot on. Miyamto works directly with everyone. Nintendo of late have been farming out games and game ideas to 3rd party dvelopers and working directly with them. When all is said and done, the games are FANTASTIC. It's one of the main reasons Nintendo is still regarded as the last lone true console available. Sony and Microsoft are becoming the bane of everything I DISLIKE about console gaming, every day it becomes more and more like crappy PC games. I hate it. I want that simplicity and fun to stay. That is why I am scared for what will happen to SEGA. While they have lost the console battle, I dont want to see them absorbed by anyone other than a die hard console game company so that their gameplay and franchises dont go down the drain. If Nintendo had any compassion they'd invest into SEGA heavily. I dont want to see these go, otherwise they've got my $$$.. The future of console gaming is NOT online, its NOT hard drives and ethernet connectors, or large $200 joysticks, or DVD players with 5.1, and all this other uselss crap. It's all about FUN games, and that's it.
Or maybe you missed that. The USA invests more money into other countries economies, into their infrastructure, into their wellbeing 100-fold of anyone else on the planet. Your happy sunshine hippy ideals are no good, because they will never exist. The USA tries to better the world in every nook and cranny, we give relief when countries need it. We give them leg-up kits when they need it. And when countries such as Kuiwait or Bosnia plead for our help, we will be there to help them and free them of the atrocities that have been commited on them. The USA has been appointed the policeman of the world unwillingly. We are damned if we do, and damned if we dont.
PS2 has an installed gamer base of around 25 million. The PC market, while larger overall, has a MUCH smaller "gamer" share. You would see around 3 million sales at the most. Console gaming sales have eclipsed PC game sales years ago. This is nothing new.
However, it is a bad idea to just limit yourself to just a single platform, I agree. They should have released it simultaniously to the PC and Gamecube as well.
Look at cable descramblers as proof...The original Playstation chips were illegal as hell also. You simply cannot allow illegal content to be shown/played on a licensed system. Just buy something else.
Unfortunately, the majority of people who are using the mod chips, especially on the Microsoft XBox, are using it for illegal content. They are running non-licensed software, and pirated software (Emulators, Rips of rented games, etc). This really isn't any different than buying illegal cable descramblers and getting illegal TV channels, even though it still allows you to watch legit TV still.
The bad seeds are costing developers too much money. If it isn't taken care of, then you wont even have a choice of buying a console "in the first place".
Help weeds out the bad seeds, and report piracy to the SPA. If people all used them legit, and actually bought all the software, this wouldn't be an issue.
You read correct, for every Microsoft training seminar from various outlets that run over $600 for a few days training, they are throwing in free X-Boxs. Microsoft has been artificially inflating their market shares by doing all these underhanded techniques. It's really going to a new level. Developers will be the ones complaining soon enough when they find out that no one is buying their games because that market share that Microsoft is claiming are mostly people who never wanted an X-Box to begin with.
Between the Gamecube and GameBoys Nintendo has pretty much full reign of the entire market. Microsoft has a very, very small slice. And yes, the Gameboy market is considered a console to NPD and other market share reporting industry companies.
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If anything, i'd ask Nintendo or Sony if they want to give me money for the rights just to stuff it in Microsofts monopolistic face. Carmack has enough sense to see the poor monopoly marketing MS is doing with the XBox (Selling at a huge loss, posting lame announcements bashing other consoles whenever possible, giving away free consoles everywhere trying to artificially inflate their numbers, etc) .. He knows if he gives them exclusive rights he'll be directly supporting a monopoly.
You don't get out often, do you? Anime has been more popular than PacMan years and years ago.
And the judge will laugh at them. If they had sued for maybe $100 or so, the amount a student MIGHT spend in a years time, it would be better. The fact that they shared them might fall under some other clause, but not for attributable software losses, for that they'll have to go after the people who downloaded all the files indivually.
Everyone I know who has bought one thinks it was a waste of money so far. It sounds great on paper but the unit is very cheaply made, and emulation is sub par. Not to mention it's total piracy. Wonder why Slashdot posted a blatant piracy article?
It really depends where you're coming from. Obviously you were a channel surfer before the Tivo purchase. Most people who say they watch more TV since they bought Tivo are the crowd of people who REFUSED to watch anything on TV because it was so full of crap (Think: TV rots your mind bumperstickers, etc). Then comes Tivo, a way to record ONLY what you want to see, all those interesting looking shows that somehow are aired at 3am while you're in bed. Or during those long work nights doing server installs. Suddenly, you come home after a week and find you have about 12 hours of TV shows that you REALLY like and would have missed otherwise. Man, Tivo is god.
If AOL can promote this so that everyone knows what a PVR can really do, people will soon realise that a much better alternative exists and Tivo sales could rise a bit. This could be good.
EA wanted to release their sports games to be able to be inter-console playable. Meaning, if I bought NFL on my Gamecube, and my friend bought it on his XBox, we could play them together. Microsoft will NOT allow any cross compatable gaming through Live! So EA has decided that they will take the PS2 / Gamecube share and cut Microsoft out of the picture. PS2 and Gamecube owners will be playing games with each other, while XBox people will be stuck with just XBox people. As for the infrastructure, SEGA SNAP has been available for some time now which allows PS2 and Gamecube games to go online in a very easy prebuilt environment. It's basically a Live! solution for the PS2 & Cube.. But for free. No first time $50 / year fee, and then $10 month after the first year like Live! offers.
I mean really, most of those games if people are losing in a sports game just disconnect halfway through. If they're losing a race, they drop out. A lot of the games being offered are all inferior ports from the PC with shoddy controls. No mouse, no keyboard.. Nothing. It's really quite cool for the first month you have it, but the gleam quickly wears off and it's back to enjoying a good single player RPG. Console online games were a flash in the pan and nothing more. Keep giving me good console games and ill buy them, if I want online action, ive got the PC that handles it just fine.
For the most part, Nintendo has been doing really well with its Cube console, a lot of the games are unique, and the ports it does get are usually filled with goodies and can connect to the GBA that everyone owns.
Also, SSX Trickey DID have the DVD extras on the Gamecube. There are NOT many multidisc games, in fact, I think there is only one. Leaving DVD out of the Cube was the best design ever, how many pirated Cube games do you see? Exactly.
You seem to like to smoke the crack, sir. Pass it over to me next.
Imagine if developers actually went with this. ALl the FPS games would be using stupid controllers, and we'd have 10 billion Halo clones. Meh. I'll pass, thanks.
The PS1 had a HUGE base installed as well, and in fact, devs are still bringing out games for it. In Japan the PS1 is selling just as much as the XBox. Why did they bother with the PS2? Because people always want more and better technology. The PS2 has a little ways it can go to be on par with the XBox and Gamecube.
It isn't the fact that they've won already, it's the fact that their standard games all look like total ass on High Def TVs, unlike the Cube and XBox .. They need to keep updating so people can get the games looking good on their sets. Just because they have 25 million owners doesn't mean none of us want some upgraded technology for our spoiled lifestyles.
Do you smell that? It's the smell of failure.
Hmmph! Bad timing, neh? Good luck trying to get Carmack to support that system now.
Chaos Strikes Back is my #1 all time fav RPG ever!
Same deal, years of planning, plenty of money, and full backing of Microsoft. Not only are they losing BILLIONS every year, he convinced them to just invest even MORE money into the system and they FELL FOR IT. A month later, get this, HE LEFT THE COMPANY. Unbelievable!
I couldn't have said it better myself. You are spot on. Miyamto works directly with everyone. Nintendo of late have been farming out games and game ideas to 3rd party dvelopers and working directly with them. When all is said and done, the games are FANTASTIC. It's one of the main reasons Nintendo is still regarded as the last lone true console available. Sony and Microsoft are becoming the bane of everything I DISLIKE about console gaming, every day it becomes more and more like crappy PC games. I hate it. I want that simplicity and fun to stay. That is why I am scared for what will happen to SEGA. While they have lost the console battle, I dont want to see them absorbed by anyone other than a die hard console game company so that their gameplay and franchises dont go down the drain. If Nintendo had any compassion they'd invest into SEGA heavily. I dont want to see these go, otherwise they've got my $$$ .. The future of console gaming is NOT online, its NOT hard drives and ethernet connectors, or large $200 joysticks, or DVD players with 5.1, and all this other uselss crap. It's all about FUN games, and that's it.
nuff said.
Just step aside and let us keep helping people.
However, it is a bad idea to just limit yourself to just a single platform, I agree. They should have released it simultaniously to the PC and Gamecube as well.
Look at cable descramblers as proof. ..The original Playstation chips were illegal as hell also. You simply cannot allow illegal content to be shown/played on a licensed system. Just buy something else.
The bad seeds are costing developers too much money. If it isn't taken care of, then you wont even have a choice of buying a console "in the first place".
Help weeds out the bad seeds, and report piracy to the SPA. If people all used them legit, and actually bought all the software, this wouldn't be an issue.
What's next, wanting to vote without having to register?
You read correct, for every Microsoft training seminar from various outlets that run over $600 for a few days training, they are throwing in free X-Boxs. Microsoft has been artificially inflating their market shares by doing all these underhanded techniques. It's really going to a new level. Developers will be the ones complaining soon enough when they find out that no one is buying their games because that market share that Microsoft is claiming are mostly people who never wanted an X-Box to begin with.
Between the Gamecube and GameBoys Nintendo has pretty much full reign of the entire market. Microsoft has a very, very small slice. And yes, the Gameboy market is considered a console to NPD and other market share reporting industry companies.