While I don't think the PS3 will "obviously" fail, I think it's worth noting that the PS3, for all its supposed success, will be out-sold by the DS Lite this week in Japan. After all, only having 80,000 units tends to hurt your ability to compete with a system that sells over 150,000 units per week in Japan alone. If they don't step up production, then regardless of popularity they won't be able to reach the top spot at all.
Why would game makers care what their ratings are? They don't get their money through viewership, they get their money by selling games. Retail profits are the only thing that matters to them business-wise. And if they wanted to track in-game advertising, they're more than capible of doing it themselves instead of paying Neilsen. see: Battlefield 2142
Using screenshots as boxart would be really really tricky, since you'd want to give the buyer a feel for the game, not necessarily an example of it. Besides, that's what the back of the box is for.
The idea is mostly old, except that I've never seen anyone present it quite this way... From what I read of the patent, it sounds like programming in a modern IDE that has a context-sensitive command list. I know it's not really hard-core programming, but Dreamweaver will display common commands as you type them to help you auto-complete things and theoretically get the job done faster.
Imagine that, but with natural speech... They use a grammar parser to figure out that the verb comes next, and as you're typing it comes up with the list of conjugations. This way, if you're shaky in a language and can only remember the infinitive, you can start typing that and it'll let you know what the other forms are.
From a UI standpoint, it sounds interesting. I don't know if it's patent-worthy, but it's definitely worth writing into a future version of MS Word.
I don't see any Wii hype anywhere but on Digg and Slashdot. Sorry.
Man,... you must be going blind, then. Or you never read anything at all related to video games. The Wii's had a turn on the cover of almost every video game magazine on the rack, as well as articles on CNN and in Time. And I'm sure there's plenty more that I didn't see.
Look, the simple matter is that the DS is selling faster than any system ever. Period. And the PSP is easily the technically superior one, but the DS has it beat on price. Everyone said the touchscreen was a gimmick and that nobody would like it and it's turned out to be one of the most intuitive and novel gaming interfaces produced in the past decade.
The way it looks to me, if Nintendo just keeps on doing for the Wii whatever the hell it's doing with the DS, they're gonna have a success on their hands. Probably not take the #1 spot, but definitely not the complete and utter dismal failure the Yankee Group is predicting.
Funny that they claimed that there would be a small up-turn in total consoles sold next-gen over current gen, but somehow the total they predict for all 3 consoles comes in under what the PS2 sold. In Japan alone.
Seriously, I doubt the Yankee Group's adding skills, much less their predicting skills.
Thanks for calling me an idiot... for NOT concluding that a game I haven't yet played has worse controls than another game I haven't yet played. For all your anger, I think I'll just keep on reserving my judgement.
What I was a bit surprised to read in this ruling was that the judge said the President of the United States had willfully and knowingly broken the Fourth Amendment. That's an impeachable offense...
But with Bush, what isn't?
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Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
Syncing is easy... just walk up there and do a big arm "clap" in view of all three cameras. Then, delete anything that comes before the frame where your hands come together. This way, each video will start at the same moment in time.
(of course, this doesn't sync refresh, but your animation package will be interpolating anyway, so it doesn't matter much.)
There's no lack of camera control... according to people who played the E3 demo, you hold Z and move the remote to move the camera. It's just that the people at n-sider never bothered to ask and just assumed that since a 2nd analog stick was missing, the camera control must not be there.
I'm ready to say good-ridance to the WW camera... it was surprisingly hard to use.
If you can't wait for black, you could import a Japanese or European one from Lik-Sang. The DSs aren't region protected in any way. It will cost you a premium, but you'll have it.
I have one of the older blue DSs... and I love it. I've played with the Lites, and I'm impressed, but as long as what I have plays the games well, I'm happy with it.
Yeah... I love whoever decided to tag this "fud" (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) when in it's actually claiming that performance is good. If you're happy with the performance you get under Linux, then there should be no FUD for you... your set up is fine and runs well. But if you'd like to use Windows, but still AMP, I guess you have a little less to fear on the performance tip.
I use WAMP for development and LAMP for production. The main reason is that the server admins want Linux, but can't provide me with a testing server, so my workstation has to pull double-duty. My workstation is often times much much faster than the production server, but it's almost entirely due to the fact that there's no load on it. I've had no portability or migration issues, save for some weird stuff in GD.
I'd say that overall, with my experiences and the text of the article, I can develop confidently knowing that as long as we stay in an AMP environment my code will function well on either platform. That definitely aleviates a lot of FUD from my day-to-day programming.
Perhaps that's a bit long of a file name, but it's at least descriptive. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten files titled Agenda 01.doc when they should be more like Tech Committee Agenda 2006-05-01.doc -- it's not excessively long, but with a file name like that I know EXACTLY what's in that file.
No... they won't need to migrate anything. Some fortune 500 company who didn't install windows correctly is gonna have all their computers shut off at once and MS is going to get sued like there's no tomorrow. And that'll pretty much be the end of WGA.
And it takes practice to learn to play DDR, which is both exhausting and fun. Gamers will learn the new control schemes if the games are fun enough to warrant playing.
(Also, the FPS games on the Wii are designed to be played while sitting in a chair, with your arm resting on your leg... this is what we mean by "small wrist movements, not big arm movements.")
The Wii's online service does 2 things XBL doesn't, although they're relatively minor:
It's free to play games on it - no subscription fees.
The emulators will be put in place in a more structured manner (as opposed to just a giant emulator+rom executable on XBL), this reduces file size, but also makes it easier for publishers to release their old content on the VC.
These things aren't trend-setting or new concepts, but minor improvements over the XBL service. Whether it all comes out as seamlessly as XBL did, only time will tell. (I'm hoping it does.)
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Most of them seem to work by measuring rate of rotation (probably because that's a really easy thing to do). If you refuse to move your wrists or elbows, turning the controller 90 degrees about the y axis requires you to move your hand around like a tennis raquet. If you do use your wrists and elbows, you could do it all within the space of a few inches.
Some games (Sonic Wild Fire and Excitetruck) don't require you to move the controller at all, just rotate it in-place.
Know what would make both of you happy, and probably wouldn't be very difficult? Set up some sort of "quiet transponder..." a bluetooth device that tells cellphones that you're in a "quiet area." And when you enter a quiet area your cell phone would automatically:
(a) turn the ringer to the lowest setting it has (if you left it on at all),
(b) turn on vibrate,
(c) set the faceplate lights to their lowest brightness.
That way, you won't miss a call, and your call will be less of a disturbance to the people around you. Of course, it would require cellphone makers to agree on some sort of standard for the thing, and that's like herding cats.
The real future of interpreted language programming is on the web. With advances in Javascript, CSS, browser compatibility, and server-side languages, you can pull off a lot of really cool stuff in a web application. A web application that can be accessed at any time from anywhere. For many tasks, it's quite helpful.
Hell, when I went in March to see my girlfriend, the only person I ever saw with a PSP was her brother. His friends said they wanted to get one, but that it was too expensive.
While antecdotal, that's a great example. Most friends that I have who want a PS3 are angry about the price. Why angry? Because they really want a PS3, but they can't even remotely afford one.
I tell them they should either look into getting a Wii, or stow their money until the games they want most come out (like MGS4). If they're lucky, they'll see a PS3 price break by then (but that's probably not likely unless MGS4 is delayed a lot).
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While I don't think the PS3 will "obviously" fail, I think it's worth noting that the PS3, for all its supposed success, will be out-sold by the DS Lite this week in Japan. After all, only having 80,000 units tends to hurt your ability to compete with a system that sells over 150,000 units per week in Japan alone. If they don't step up production, then regardless of popularity they won't be able to reach the top spot at all.
Why would game makers care what their ratings are? They don't get their money through viewership, they get their money by selling games. Retail profits are the only thing that matters to them business-wise. And if they wanted to track in-game advertising, they're more than capible of doing it themselves instead of paying Neilsen. see: Battlefield 2142
Using screenshots as boxart would be really really tricky, since you'd want to give the buyer a feel for the game, not necessarily an example of it. Besides, that's what the back of the box is for.
The idea is mostly old, except that I've never seen anyone present it quite this way... From what I read of the patent, it sounds like programming in a modern IDE that has a context-sensitive command list. I know it's not really hard-core programming, but Dreamweaver will display common commands as you type them to help you auto-complete things and theoretically get the job done faster.
Imagine that, but with natural speech... They use a grammar parser to figure out that the verb comes next, and as you're typing it comes up with the list of conjugations. This way, if you're shaky in a language and can only remember the infinitive, you can start typing that and it'll let you know what the other forms are.
From a UI standpoint, it sounds interesting. I don't know if it's patent-worthy, but it's definitely worth writing into a future version of MS Word.
Look, the simple matter is that the DS is selling faster than any system ever. Period. And the PSP is easily the technically superior one, but the DS has it beat on price. Everyone said the touchscreen was a gimmick and that nobody would like it and it's turned out to be one of the most intuitive and novel gaming interfaces produced in the past decade.
The way it looks to me, if Nintendo just keeps on doing for the Wii whatever the hell it's doing with the DS, they're gonna have a success on their hands. Probably not take the #1 spot, but definitely not the complete and utter dismal failure the Yankee Group is predicting.
Well, they were actually going by units sold.
Funny that they claimed that there would be a small up-turn in total consoles sold next-gen over current gen, but somehow the total they predict for all 3 consoles comes in under what the PS2 sold. In Japan alone.
Seriously, I doubt the Yankee Group's adding skills, much less their predicting skills.
Thanks for calling me an idiot... for NOT concluding that a game I haven't yet played has worse controls than another game I haven't yet played. For all your anger, I think I'll just keep on reserving my judgement.
(rimshot)
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
Syncing is easy... just walk up there and do a big arm "clap" in view of all three cameras. Then, delete anything that comes before the frame where your hands come together. This way, each video will start at the same moment in time.
(of course, this doesn't sync refresh, but your animation package will be interpolating anyway, so it doesn't matter much.)
There's no lack of camera control... according to people who played the E3 demo, you hold Z and move the remote to move the camera. It's just that the people at n-sider never bothered to ask and just assumed that since a 2nd analog stick was missing, the camera control must not be there.
I'm ready to say good-ridance to the WW camera... it was surprisingly hard to use.
If you can't wait for black, you could import a Japanese or European one from Lik-Sang. The DSs aren't region protected in any way. It will cost you a premium, but you'll have it.
I have one of the older blue DSs... and I love it. I've played with the Lites, and I'm impressed, but as long as what I have plays the games well, I'm happy with it.
Maybe he's just faking his death so that people will remember that he died on a power of two.
(On second thought... I've met some computer scientists who might actually be crazy enough to try something like that...)
Yeah... I love whoever decided to tag this "fud" (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) when in it's actually claiming that performance is good. If you're happy with the performance you get under Linux, then there should be no FUD for you... your set up is fine and runs well. But if you'd like to use Windows, but still AMP, I guess you have a little less to fear on the performance tip.
I use WAMP for development and LAMP for production. The main reason is that the server admins want Linux, but can't provide me with a testing server, so my workstation has to pull double-duty. My workstation is often times much much faster than the production server, but it's almost entirely due to the fact that there's no load on it. I've had no portability or migration issues, save for some weird stuff in GD.
I'd say that overall, with my experiences and the text of the article, I can develop confidently knowing that as long as we stay in an AMP environment my code will function well on either platform. That definitely aleviates a lot of FUD from my day-to-day programming.
Perhaps that's a bit long of a file name, but it's at least descriptive. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten files titled Agenda 01.doc when they should be more like Tech Committee Agenda 2006-05-01.doc -- it's not excessively long, but with a file name like that I know EXACTLY what's in that file.
No... they won't need to migrate anything. Some fortune 500 company who didn't install windows correctly is gonna have all their computers shut off at once and MS is going to get sued like there's no tomorrow. And that'll pretty much be the end of WGA.
And it takes practice to learn to play DDR, which is both exhausting and fun. Gamers will learn the new control schemes if the games are fun enough to warrant playing.
... this is what we mean by "small wrist movements, not big arm movements.")
(Also, the FPS games on the Wii are designed to be played while sitting in a chair, with your arm resting on your leg
- It's free to play games on it - no subscription fees.
- The emulators will be put in place in a more structured manner (as opposed to just a giant emulator+rom executable on XBL), this reduces file size, but also makes it easier for publishers to release their old content on the VC.
These things aren't trend-setting or new concepts, but minor improvements over the XBL service. Whether it all comes out as seamlessly as XBL did, only time will tell. (I'm hoping it does.)Most of them seem to work by measuring rate of rotation (probably because that's a really easy thing to do). If you refuse to move your wrists or elbows, turning the controller 90 degrees about the y axis requires you to move your hand around like a tennis raquet. If you do use your wrists and elbows, you could do it all within the space of a few inches.
Some games (Sonic Wild Fire and Excitetruck) don't require you to move the controller at all, just rotate it in-place.
Know what would make both of you happy, and probably wouldn't be very difficult? Set up some sort of "quiet transponder..." a bluetooth device that tells cellphones that you're in a "quiet area." And when you enter a quiet area your cell phone would automatically:
(a) turn the ringer to the lowest setting it has (if you left it on at all),
(b) turn on vibrate,
(c) set the faceplate lights to their lowest brightness.
That way, you won't miss a call, and your call will be less of a disturbance to the people around you. Of course, it would require cellphone makers to agree on some sort of standard for the thing, and that's like herding cats.
The real future of interpreted language programming is on the web. With advances in Javascript, CSS, browser compatibility, and server-side languages, you can pull off a lot of really cool stuff in a web application. A web application that can be accessed at any time from anywhere. For many tasks, it's quite helpful.
My last video card cost $180 and was obsolete before it arrived in the mail.
My gamecube cost $200 and lasted me for 5 years.
And I have something to play other than RTS, MMORPG, and FPS games.
I tell them they should either look into getting a Wii, or stow their money until the games they want most come out (like MGS4). If they're lucky, they'll see a PS3 price break by then (but that's probably not likely unless MGS4 is delayed a lot).
A dangerously inacurate thing to say with so many Brits hanging around. We in the US get it fairly nice when it comes to game console pricing.