Umm... I'm used to Nintendo. Where things like this simply don't happen. Hell, I've dropped my DS from standing height onto asphalt and all it got was a little scratch on the case from the experience. The Gamecube according to X-Play is the toughest hardware out there of the current generation, and I've yet to have a Nintendo gaming product die on me in over 20 years. They also don't try to buy marketshare by releasing cutting edge electronics at a fraction of what it costs them to make. And they also have more than 2 9s of build quality. Say what you will about Nintendo, their shit is fischer price tough, and their customer service has no rival. I've come to expect that in my portables. I won't buy another Sony product unless forced to because of third-party support drummed up by the Sony fanboys or I have proof they've changed because the experience sucks ass unless you get lucky. And what bit of the experience is good is all third party anyway, and they go where the market-share is.
So yea, I expect my portable hardware to take some fuckin' abuse, because it all has thus far(cellphone survived a dunk in a lake, shit happens). I also expect my hardware to live past a year, which Sony thus far has been unable to do for me since they entered the market(smoker, on 3rd PS2, went through 2 Playstations). Pardon me for not giving them the benefit of the fucking doubt, they haven't earned it and they certainly haven't earned anyone's loyalty. The Sony fanboy is the saddest fanboy of all.
So anyway yea, that's a flaw. It might not be a serious flaw to you, but it's a flaw. Just as dead-pixels are a flaw in any LCD-based product, the media falling/flying out when the device is twisted is a flaw. More like flawed window breaks when hit by 5MPH gust of wind flaw. The fault does not lie with the consumer, it lies with fucking Sony.
But hey, no one cares, they love all the third party titles guaranteed to come out on the platform if everyone else thinks they'll come out on it and they buy the hardware.
The employer shouldn't hold all the cards, and they currently pretty much do. I'd rather, if the conditions of H1-B were fufilled, that the people who filled those jobs immigrated. That way, they'd hold the cards. If there's a real demand for their specialty that can't otherwise be filled, everyone benefits more from them immigrating then just temping here.
As it is now, the employers get the most benefit from the program, us US programmers get screwed, and the H1-B holders can also get screwed. I'm not too happy with that.
I can rattle off the names of a number of designers... does that count?
Shigero Miyamoto - Too many John Carmack - Too many Peter Molyneux - Populus / Dungeon Keeper Sid Meier - Pirates! John Romero - Lots of stuff pre-Daikatana etc., etc.
There was actually a period where designers had celebrity. Daikatana kinda killed it.
Oh pictures, a year later, but that doesn't cut it, because they were asked for in the context of 3+ players. And that's only two.
And yes... yes I did point it out. Apart from that it was IN the damn post you replied to asking for my e-mail, right below my UID. I only removed my email from public unobfuscated display a month ago. I'm not the AC that's been following you around bitching either.
Sony has had the most underpowered and lowest build quality console for their entire gaming history. The PS1 couldn't push as many polys or texture as well as the N64 could(and the N64 was the first console to support mipmapping), it just wasn't cart based and had enormously larger storage capacity. The PS2 is the lowest powered console of the current generation(yet is priced in the upper tier of console prices), even the Dreamcast, which was released prior to the PS2 generally looks better. For the first time, as they enter into the portable market, Sony has the more powerful console. Of course, having the more powerful handheld console means they also have battery life problems when that power is used.
Sony also doesn't produce many(if any) first/second-party console titles worth noticing. People tend to be more loyal to software publishers and franchises than to platforms. Almost everything decent on Sony's platforms are third party in origin, and you can't count on third parties to produce titles for a platform, as both former SEGA fans and Nintendo fans have learned oh so well.
FF:CC btw, was produced by Square. You also had to have friends(or you could pay the homeless), and a TV, and a house or appt, and have access to 4 handhelds which are more common than the playstation 2, and buy 3 $10 link cables in order to play it 4-player multiplayer. And, it turned out that there was no way in hell they could've done what they did any other way. Nobody made you buy the game, and I doubt you even did.
The DS uses an ARM 7 and an ARM 9, both underclocked for lower power consumption. I don't think the N64 used an ARM processor, much less an ARM 9. IIRC, it used a MIPS processor, and was designed in collaboration with SGI.
If you remember, half the time spent playing any Playstation game seemed to be waiting on shit to load, the best games for it, were imo, good in spite of this, but it happens to piss me off to this day. You don't have visible load times on Nintendo platforms(or on Microsoft's platform), except for shitty ports in the Gamecube era. Maybe you don't care, some of us do.
Nintendo also actually likes to at least break even on their hardware. Many industry analysts are pegging the loss Sony is taking on the PSP at upwards of $250. And the PSP has some problems, we have legitimate concerns about the thing. I would buy it in a heartbeat if it gets released here with Nintendo-level build quality/durability and a 6 hour battery life running at full clip, but that's not going to happen.
BTW Techni, when are you going to post those pics of you and your friends playing FF:CC? It's been what? A year now? Signing up for a photobucket account too complex or something?
SP lasts me about 20 hours with no lighting with no problem. And the screen works GREAT in daylight(the frontlighting actually makes it look worse). It's only if you confine yourself inside or try to play at night that you have problems with it, but that's what the light is for. You still get over 10 hours with the light on, I typically get around 12.
And the SP is also only $80. Versus $225 for the PSP value pack, which gets 3 hours of battery life playing these games with graphics from this century. Batteries for the SP or DS are $15, and you only need a screwdriver to replace them(due to product safety regs in at least one country about products marketed to children), versus $50 for the PSP. So, to get the same battery life as the $150 DS, you need to spend $275, and then you can only play puzzle games you could've just played on your SP. In order to play games from "this century" you're spending $325, $10 more per game(easily) and having to keep 3 batteries charged(so convienant) just to get to what to many of us is acceptable battery life.
Wow, what a fucking deal! I'm totally going to buy them for my kids. You know, the people who most often have the time to use this type of device.
And to anyone expecting Sony or a third party to fix this. Battery tech advances like molassis. You might be able to get 4 hours out of the thing with an expensive new battery sometime this year.
I think the DS is Nintendo's test-bed for putting a touch-screen onto the controller for the revolution ala the Dreamcast VMU... but useful. They seem to be going in this direction(GBA->GCN connectivity, the DS). We might know when E3 rolls around I think.
After muxing around with it... it really makes a big difference. Can't wait for the first crop of RPGs to hit the thing.
They both run Emacs CE. Yea I know there are better operating systems out there, but this one is open source, and if you hit the right button combos, it summons demons!
My Flash 2 Advance works fine and my understanding is that most of them work a-ok(The DS boots the cart just like a normal GBA cart(same CPU, etc. etc.)... now getting access to the full DS hardware via a GBA flash cart... that's not doable yet).
Well, FASA is defunct, so any one of them would do. Shadowrun used a staged damage system depending upon the severity of an attack, so while it did have 10 hitpoints, it used wound categories(Light, Moderate, Severe, Deadly). For cyberpunk 2020 with elves and magic, it was a pretty realistic system.
Or you could go with Paranoia... which had no real rules to speak of.
You want something like ICE's Rolemaster(you mentioned laptops and intense calculations/table lookups), one of the old FASA RPGs, or even.. I guess... some of the White Wolf stuff.
You Anal? Wow. Wonderful little personal fact to share.
Yes it is a Microsoft problem. You'd have to be a fool to develop for the XBox and not expect rampant piracy(It's just sooo damn easy). Apart from that... no... not MS's fault.
If you're waiting on battery tech to improve as much as it would have to... you're going to either be waiting a very, very long time or spending a small fortune.
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Umm... I'm used to Nintendo. Where things like this simply don't happen. Hell, I've dropped my DS from standing height onto asphalt and all it got was a little scratch on the case from the experience. The Gamecube according to X-Play is the toughest hardware out there of the current generation, and I've yet to have a Nintendo gaming product die on me in over 20 years. They also don't try to buy marketshare by releasing cutting edge electronics at a fraction of what it costs them to make. And they also have more than 2 9s of build quality. Say what you will about Nintendo, their shit is fischer price tough, and their customer service has no rival. I've come to expect that in my portables. I won't buy another Sony product unless forced to because of third-party support drummed up by the Sony fanboys or I have proof they've changed because the experience sucks ass unless you get lucky. And what bit of the experience is good is all third party anyway, and they go where the market-share is.
So yea, I expect my portable hardware to take some fuckin' abuse, because it all has thus far(cellphone survived a dunk in a lake, shit happens). I also expect my hardware to live past a year, which Sony thus far has been unable to do for me since they entered the market(smoker, on 3rd PS2, went through 2 Playstations). Pardon me for not giving them the benefit of the fucking doubt, they haven't earned it and they certainly haven't earned anyone's loyalty. The Sony fanboy is the saddest fanboy of all.
So anyway yea, that's a flaw. It might not be a serious flaw to you, but it's a flaw. Just as dead-pixels are a flaw in any LCD-based product, the media falling/flying out when the device is twisted is a flaw. More like flawed window breaks when hit by 5MPH gust of wind flaw. The fault does not lie with the consumer, it lies with fucking Sony.
But hey, no one cares, they love all the third party titles guaranteed to come out on the platform if everyone else thinks they'll come out on it and they buy the hardware.
The employer shouldn't hold all the cards, and they currently pretty much do. I'd rather, if the conditions of H1-B were fufilled, that the people who filled those jobs immigrated. That way, they'd hold the cards. If there's a real demand for their specialty that can't otherwise be filled, everyone benefits more from them immigrating then just temping here.
As it is now, the employers get the most benefit from the program, us US programmers get screwed, and the H1-B holders can also get screwed. I'm not too happy with that.
H1-B Visa holders aren't immigrants though. I wish that they were.
Only thing worth watching on the whole network imo!
I can rattle off the names of a number of designers... does that count?
Shigero Miyamoto - Too many
John Carmack - Too many
Peter Molyneux - Populus / Dungeon Keeper
Sid Meier - Pirates!
John Romero - Lots of stuff pre-Daikatana
etc., etc.
There was actually a period where designers had celebrity. Daikatana kinda killed it.
Oh pictures, a year later, but that doesn't cut it, because they were asked for in the context of 3+ players. And that's only two.
And yes... yes I did point it out. Apart from that it was IN the damn post you replied to asking for my e-mail, right below my UID. I only removed my email from public unobfuscated display a month ago. I'm not the AC that's been following you around bitching either.
I did. It was unobfuscated IN my damn profile and clearly visible on every slashdot post I wrote. I pointed this out and you shut the hell up.
Last time I brought it up was 8 months ago, and my e-mail was public. Go sign up for an account here. It's free and you can link to it!
Slashdot... unbiased. Hahahahaha. That's funny... really, really, really funny.
Sony has had the most underpowered and lowest build quality console for their entire gaming history. The PS1 couldn't push as many polys or texture as well as the N64 could(and the N64 was the first console to support mipmapping), it just wasn't cart based and had enormously larger storage capacity. The PS2 is the lowest powered console of the current generation(yet is priced in the upper tier of console prices), even the Dreamcast, which was released prior to the PS2 generally looks better. For the first time, as they enter into the portable market, Sony has the more powerful console. Of course, having the more powerful handheld console means they also have battery life problems when that power is used.
Sony also doesn't produce many(if any) first/second-party console titles worth noticing. People tend to be more loyal to software publishers and franchises than to platforms. Almost everything decent on Sony's platforms are third party in origin, and you can't count on third parties to produce titles for a platform, as both former SEGA fans and Nintendo fans have learned oh so well.
FF:CC btw, was produced by Square. You also had to have friends(or you could pay the homeless), and a TV, and a house or appt, and have access to 4 handhelds which are more common than the playstation 2, and buy 3 $10 link cables in order to play it 4-player multiplayer. And, it turned out that there was no way in hell they could've done what they did any other way. Nobody made you buy the game, and I doubt you even did.
The DS uses an ARM 7 and an ARM 9, both underclocked for lower power consumption. I don't think the N64 used an ARM processor, much less an ARM 9. IIRC, it used a MIPS processor, and was designed in collaboration with SGI.
If you remember, half the time spent playing any Playstation game seemed to be waiting on shit to load, the best games for it, were imo, good in spite of this, but it happens to piss me off to this day. You don't have visible load times on Nintendo platforms(or on Microsoft's platform), except for shitty ports in the Gamecube era. Maybe you don't care, some of us do.
Nintendo also actually likes to at least break even on their hardware. Many industry analysts are pegging the loss Sony is taking on the PSP at upwards of $250. And the PSP has some problems, we have legitimate concerns about the thing. I would buy it in a heartbeat if it gets released here with Nintendo-level build quality/durability and a 6 hour battery life running at full clip, but that's not going to happen.
Ignore parent. Well-known troll and liar.
Parent is not a girl.
BTW Techni, when are you going to post those pics of you and your friends playing FF:CC? It's been what? A year now? Signing up for a photobucket account too complex or something?
Nope I was wrong. The eject is just a few mm to the right of the right shoulder. He could be hitting it.
From everything I've read, the UMD ejects by pushing down on it, just like the DS. The guy's fingers are on the shoulders.
Demons... and space marines. Tada! We're all happy.
DS warranty is 1 year. You should've said 90 days it might've worked better.
SP lasts me about 20 hours with no lighting with no problem. And the screen works GREAT in daylight(the frontlighting actually makes it look worse). It's only if you confine yourself inside or try to play at night that you have problems with it, but that's what the light is for. You still get over 10 hours with the light on, I typically get around 12.
And the SP is also only $80. Versus $225 for the PSP value pack, which gets 3 hours of battery life playing these games with graphics from this century. Batteries for the SP or DS are $15, and you only need a screwdriver to replace them(due to product safety regs in at least one country about products marketed to children), versus $50 for the PSP. So, to get the same battery life as the $150 DS, you need to spend $275, and then you can only play puzzle games you could've just played on your SP. In order to play games from "this century" you're spending $325, $10 more per game(easily) and having to keep 3 batteries charged(so convienant) just to get to what to many of us is acceptable battery life.
Wow, what a fucking deal! I'm totally going to buy them for my kids. You know, the people who most often have the time to use this type of device.
And to anyone expecting Sony or a third party to fix this. Battery tech advances like molassis. You might be able to get 4 hours out of the thing with an expensive new battery sometime this year.
I think the DS is Nintendo's test-bed for putting a touch-screen onto the controller for the revolution ala the Dreamcast VMU... but useful. They seem to be going in this direction(GBA->GCN connectivity, the DS). We might know when E3 rolls around I think.
After muxing around with it... it really makes a big difference. Can't wait for the first crop of RPGs to hit the thing.
Oh no! 5 Degrees Celcius... So Cold! Not even freezing! Whoever shall brave such extremes?
It's only 41 degrees F. I went out to get my mail this morning, it was colder, I was wearing but pajamas and a t-shirt. Ooohhhh... extreme!
They both run Emacs CE. Yea I know there are better operating systems out there, but this one is open source, and if you hit the right button combos, it summons demons!
My Flash 2 Advance works fine and my understanding is that most of them work a-ok(The DS boots the cart just like a normal GBA cart(same CPU, etc. etc.)... now getting access to the full DS hardware via a GBA flash cart... that's not doable yet).
Not really citizen. Friend computer decided what happened more often than dice were rolled in that particular gem of a game.
Well, FASA is defunct, so any one of them would do. Shadowrun used a staged damage system depending upon the severity of an attack, so while it did have 10 hitpoints, it used wound categories(Light, Moderate, Severe, Deadly). For cyberpunk 2020 with elves and magic, it was a pretty realistic system.
Or you could go with Paranoia... which had no real rules to speak of.
You want something like ICE's Rolemaster(you mentioned laptops and intense calculations/table lookups), one of the old FASA RPGs, or even.. I guess... some of the White Wolf stuff.
You Anal? Wow. Wonderful little personal fact to share.
Yes it is a Microsoft problem. You'd have to be a fool to develop for the XBox and not expect rampant piracy(It's just sooo damn easy). Apart from that... no... not MS's fault.
If you're waiting on battery tech to improve as much as it would have to... you're going to either be waiting a very, very long time or spending a small fortune.
Umm... only article on Lik Sang I can find says they can't comment on the battery life yet.
It sounds like you're astroturfing... do you have a link?