Plus it'll have enough power to emulate up to the SNES/Genesis. I wonder if we'll be able to use old GBA flash carts and still take advantage of the improved hardware...
Nah, they don't care. There have been people leaving, bitching, moaning, claiming to leave, trolling, etc. etc. for what seems like forever. Not a bit of it has changed one thing.
Quite simply, if you have a problem with Slashdot, you're not going to be able to change it. Deal with it, or leave.
Like the slashdot blackout. Didn't work. There are plenty of people willing to post and besides that most people according to Taco don't even read the comments anyway.
It looks dated, correct, but it didn't have so much of a wow, jaw dropping effect when it came out. VII did. Hence, the difference between how I remember VII looking and how it actually looks to me now is enormous. I still expect to be wowed by it, and I'm not.
When I play back through 6 it's basically the exact same experience I had when I played it the first time. Everything looks and plays precisely like I expect it to. So, in this sense, 6 has aged better imo.
6 was also the transition game. The first one made by the new team, and an abandonment of the old style, which was completed in VII and gone back to in IX.
Oh and I left off X and X-2 because I don't think I can really judge them yet. I played and beat the hell out of X(all sidequests, all ultimate weapons, all spheres for all characters, max everything) in about 35 hours(verdict: It was pretty, but it was also kinda lame, I saw all the twists coming from a mile away). I haven't gotten a chance to play X-2, since my PS2 is fried. I left out Crystal Chronicles and XI because they're not really in the same genre imo, nor have they been around long enough.
FF VI(3 US) is better than VII. Deeper plot, longer gameplay(we're talking 60 hours first play through.), detailed backgrounds for each character and the sprite based graphics means it looks precisely the same now as it did when it was released.
Try playing back through VII then play through VI. You'll agree. VII was amazing when it was released, but now, well, it just looks ancient and bad and the story isn't any better than any other FF. The can't skip summons are still incredibly annoying as well.
The N64 sold nearly as many units(if not more) as the SNES did.
The Gamecube and XBox are both on target for selling as many units as the N64/SNES/Genesis did(and who places second or third doesn't matter much, I imagine both will sell around the same).
It's not so much Nintendo got defeated as Sony grew the market by around 70 million people, and managed to maintain this into the current generation. Outside of oldschool gamers, Playstation equals games. MS get's the PC gamer nod, and Nintendo gets the oldschool gamer nod.
Anyway, when it comes to the SNES, Nintendo dropped the ball. Genesis beat them out the gates while Nintendo was saying people were happy with their 8-bit systems. The SNES caught up and Nintendo asked SEGA to move over on the current-gen leader throne.
SEGA then fucked up a few systems totally, and Nintendo designed and then didn't release the playstation. The rest is history.
I agree. We always have the summer lull. Nothing really gets released, especially on consoles until the fall. Then all of a sudden everything blitzes the shelves and it's tough as nails to keep up.
Umm, the XBox is third when it comes to game sales(overall, sales per console, and number of games in top 10[they're number 3 on each]). The PS2 is first and the GCN is 2nd.
If MS were even close to #1(or even #2), considering they claim to make $10 per game in liscensing fees, and nintendo says they sell 15 games per console, they would not be burning through cash like it's going out of style.
90%? I disagree with that. It wasn't THAT much better than Shinobi. Which was ranked as 71%.
Anyway. One of the few really, really, really fucking annoying things in Ninja Gaiden was the lack of camera control. I'd call this a gameplay patch to fix that problem.
10 hours is bullshit. Spinning a disk and using the laser constantly draws less energy than powering that huge backlit display or the speaker.
Also, movies shouldn't need to hit the processor at all, the other big power draw. If it does then they should toss an onboard decoder into the thing because THAT is why they get 7-8 hours less battery life out of the thing with movies than they do with games. NOT the disc access.
The other bits are based off of Sony/Nintendo's E3 press conferences as they apply to video game tie ins. I was wrong on the third bit(sales per console) btw, Sony is #1 and Nintendo is #2 for tie ins.
Microsoft has to be in 3rd for total sales because if they weren't in 3rd for tie-ins(Nintendo sells 12.6 games per console on average, per them, and Sony claims #1 whereas MS didn't bring this up at all) they wouldn't be losing nearly as much(if any) money on the XBox and their console sales numbers are on par with the gamecube.
As to other bits, mainly magicbox and NPD funworld.
Making a profit overall, no. MS is losing money hand over fist on the XBox. It's in the billions now. Any other company would be dead and even Microsoft can't keep this up forever.
Look at the numbers from the SEC filings. Nintendo is turning a profit, and so is Sony. If they are selling their systems at a loss(and neither has admitted to doing so for more than brief periods of time) they're making it up on game sales. Microsoft isn't.
Hell, they(as well as Nintendo) are even on track to selling as many units as the SNES/Genesis/N64(30/25 million) did by the end of the current generation and they still haven't made one red cent of profit.
The only explanation for this is that they can't make money off of the games.
None of them have final dev hardware yet(well EA doesn't, and if EA doesn't, no one does).
Kinda tough to nail down a development cost estimate when you don't even have final development systems, especially considering it's SONY.
Here are some specs, they may change, in fact they probably will at least once between now and the first time the thing is publically played in September. Now, write code for it.
As to the person who replied who stated it's a bad idea to piss Sony off. No it isn't. Gamers go where the games are, and most of the Western companies can be all cozy in Microsoft or Nintendo land next-generation.
Everything I've seen makes it look like Sony is fumbling, they haven't dropped the ball yet, but remember, the game is theirs to lose and the odds are stacked against them.
XBox... exclusive. Oh, that's rich, especially the PLENTY bit.
Man, you're funny for a guy posting on the internet with a PC that can probably play many of these "exclusives" for way under $600, even after MS tax.
There are only two publishers that matter that put any exclusive content on the XBox. SEGA and Tecmo. Not too shabby, but without Square-Enix and a sane luggable hardware design they'll never get Japan and without Japan they'll never get the older franchise games that really move units and add value.
And, you're assuming the XBox is going to get lots and lots of quality exclusives in the next generation it missed out on in this one. You psychic or did you cut a faustian marketing deal with Microsoft?
Really? I love the cube controller, it's the most comfortable and easy to pick up and use controller out. Plus the wavebird is awesome.
Can't get near the efficency out of it as you can with a dual-shock or S controller, but it's very simple to just pick up and play.
The c-stick works great for what it's meant to be used for, camera control, I almost never touch the d-pad, and I haven't noticed a problem with hitting anything. Everything seems pretty well-laid out to me. Heck I can toss a cube controller to anyone(even non-gamers) and they can normally just go right into playing. That says good design to me.
You may dislike it, but do you really think it's a BAD controller? Like old IR controller bad?
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Plus it'll have enough power to emulate up to the SNES/Genesis. I wonder if we'll be able to use old GBA flash carts and still take advantage of the improved hardware...
Probably not, but it'd be nice.
I think it's changed recently. TMP and FK have both reported being banned after only 3 downmods within 24 hours.
Nah, they don't care. There have been people leaving, bitching, moaning, claiming to leave, trolling, etc. etc. for what seems like forever. Not a bit of it has changed one thing.
Quite simply, if you have a problem with Slashdot, you're not going to be able to change it. Deal with it, or leave.
Like the slashdot blackout. Didn't work. There are plenty of people willing to post and besides that most people according to Taco don't even read the comments anyway.
Yea, we're totally off-topic. Like, the topic is out over there across the atlantic and we're sitting here in Cali.
No refunds. You post off-topic in thread... no slashdot for you, come back, 72 hours.
We're next to totally invisible now man. Maybe we should try to HOF this story?
But hey. It takes 3 downmods within 24 hours to autban you for 72 hours IIRC.
Here is happy fun clicky link to original post griping about the dupes and the 500/503 errors.
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Three doses of me daily really will make your boobs bigger.
It's around the world at the equator in about an hour.
Ayup. You've been able to do this for ages.
Nothing new. Of course real telcos generally don't let you pass whatever the hell you want to pass.
Just another case of VoIP people not having their shit together I guess.
It looks dated, correct, but it didn't have so much of a wow, jaw dropping effect when it came out. VII did. Hence, the difference between how I remember VII looking and how it actually looks to me now is enormous. I still expect to be wowed by it, and I'm not.
When I play back through 6 it's basically the exact same experience I had when I played it the first time. Everything looks and plays precisely like I expect it to. So, in this sense, 6 has aged better imo.
6 was also the transition game. The first one made by the new team, and an abandonment of the old style, which was completed in VII and gone back to in IX.
Oh and I left off X and X-2 because I don't think I can really judge them yet. I played and beat the hell out of X(all sidequests, all ultimate weapons, all spheres for all characters, max everything) in about 35 hours(verdict: It was pretty, but it was also kinda lame, I saw all the twists coming from a mile away). I haven't gotten a chance to play X-2, since my PS2 is fried. I left out Crystal Chronicles and XI because they're not really in the same genre imo, nor have they been around long enough.
FF VI(3 US) is better than VII. Deeper plot, longer gameplay(we're talking 60 hours first play through.), detailed backgrounds for each character and the sprite based graphics means it looks precisely the same now as it did when it was released.
Try playing back through VII then play through VI. You'll agree. VII was amazing when it was released, but now, well, it just looks ancient and bad and the story isn't any better than any other FF. The can't skip summons are still incredibly annoying as well.
Anyway, I'd rank them: VI, VII, IX, VIII, IV, V.
Then why is the XBox, which has arguably the best online system, number 3/3 in regards to game tie ins?
The N64 sold nearly as many units(if not more) as the SNES did.
The Gamecube and XBox are both on target for selling as many units as the N64/SNES/Genesis did(and who places second or third doesn't matter much, I imagine both will sell around the same).
It's not so much Nintendo got defeated as Sony grew the market by around 70 million people, and managed to maintain this into the current generation. Outside of oldschool gamers, Playstation equals games. MS get's the PC gamer nod, and Nintendo gets the oldschool gamer nod.
Anyway, when it comes to the SNES, Nintendo dropped the ball. Genesis beat them out the gates while Nintendo was saying people were happy with their 8-bit systems. The SNES caught up and Nintendo asked SEGA to move over on the current-gen leader throne.
SEGA then fucked up a few systems totally, and Nintendo designed and then didn't release the playstation. The rest is history.
I agree. We always have the summer lull. Nothing really gets released, especially on consoles until the fall. Then all of a sudden everything blitzes the shelves and it's tough as nails to keep up.
Umm, the XBox is third when it comes to game sales(overall, sales per console, and number of games in top 10[they're number 3 on each]). The PS2 is first and the GCN is 2nd.
If MS were even close to #1(or even #2), considering they claim to make $10 per game in liscensing fees, and nintendo says they sell 15 games per console, they would not be burning through cash like it's going out of style.
If you lock things down enough, there ceases to be any point in your users having PCs.
May as well go back to thin clients operating off a mainframe.
No. It's not ranked by gamers. It's ranked by media outlets and review sites, where your game has to seriously suck in order to score less than a 70%.
90%? I disagree with that. It wasn't THAT much better than Shinobi. Which was ranked as 71%.
Anyway. One of the few really, really, really fucking annoying things in Ninja Gaiden was the lack of camera control. I'd call this a gameplay patch to fix that problem.
10 hours is bullshit. Spinning a disk and using the laser constantly draws less energy than powering that huge backlit display or the speaker.
Also, movies shouldn't need to hit the processor at all, the other big power draw. If it does then they should toss an onboard decoder into the thing because THAT is why they get 7-8 hours less battery life out of the thing with movies than they do with games. NOT the disc access.
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The first bit, yea. It was linked to already.
The other bits are based off of Sony/Nintendo's E3 press conferences as they apply to video game tie ins. I was wrong on the third bit(sales per console) btw, Sony is #1 and Nintendo is #2 for tie ins.
Microsoft has to be in 3rd for total sales because if they weren't in 3rd for tie-ins(Nintendo sells 12.6 games per console on average, per them, and Sony claims #1 whereas MS didn't bring this up at all) they wouldn't be losing nearly as much(if any) money on the XBox and their console sales numbers are on par with the gamecube.
As to other bits, mainly magicbox and NPD funworld.
US Top 10 Sales for 1st Quarter 2004:
#1 PS2 - 4(all by EA)
#2 Gamecube - 4(3 Nintendo, 1 Square)
#3 XBox - 2 (Halo and Ninja Gaiden)
As it currently stands -
Total Console Sales Worldwide:
#1 PS2
#2 Gamecube/Xbox (bounces up and down worldwide, XBox might lead now by a slim margin)
Total Game Sales Worldwide:
#1 PS2
#2 Gamecube
#3 XBox
Game Sales Per Console Sold:
#1 Gamecube
#2 PS2
#3 XBox
Making a profit overall, no. MS is losing money hand over fist on the XBox. It's in the billions now. Any other company would be dead and even Microsoft can't keep this up forever.
Look at the numbers from the SEC filings. Nintendo is turning a profit, and so is Sony. If they are selling their systems at a loss(and neither has admitted to doing so for more than brief periods of time) they're making it up on game sales. Microsoft isn't.
Hell, they(as well as Nintendo) are even on track to selling as many units as the SNES/Genesis/N64(30/25 million) did by the end of the current generation and they still haven't made one red cent of profit.
The only explanation for this is that they can't make money off of the games.
None of them have final dev hardware yet(well EA doesn't, and if EA doesn't, no one does).
Kinda tough to nail down a development cost estimate when you don't even have final development systems, especially considering it's SONY.
Here are some specs, they may change, in fact they probably will at least once between now and the first time the thing is publically played in September. Now, write code for it.
As to the person who replied who stated it's a bad idea to piss Sony off. No it isn't. Gamers go where the games are, and most of the Western companies can be all cozy in Microsoft or Nintendo land next-generation.
Everything I've seen makes it look like Sony is fumbling, they haven't dropped the ball yet, but remember, the game is theirs to lose and the odds are stacked against them.
XBox... exclusive. Oh, that's rich, especially the PLENTY bit.
Man, you're funny for a guy posting on the internet with a PC that can probably play many of these "exclusives" for way under $600, even after MS tax.
There are only two publishers that matter that put any exclusive content on the XBox. SEGA and Tecmo. Not too shabby, but without Square-Enix and a sane luggable hardware design they'll never get Japan and without Japan they'll never get the older franchise games that really move units and add value.
And, you're assuming the XBox is going to get lots and lots of quality exclusives in the next generation it missed out on in this one. You psychic or did you cut a faustian marketing deal with Microsoft?
Really? I love the cube controller, it's the most comfortable and easy to pick up and use controller out. Plus the wavebird is awesome.
Can't get near the efficency out of it as you can with a dual-shock or S controller, but it's very simple to just pick up and play.
The c-stick works great for what it's meant to be used for, camera control, I almost never touch the d-pad, and I haven't noticed a problem with hitting anything. Everything seems pretty well-laid out to me. Heck I can toss a cube controller to anyone(even non-gamers) and they can normally just go right into playing. That says good design to me.
You may dislike it, but do you really think it's a BAD controller? Like old IR controller bad?