Didn't Nintendo say that some upcoming GBA games were going to take advantage of the wireless capability of the DS in addition to using the GBA SP cable link?
Maybe there's so many bugs in recent Microsoft OSes because the code base is starting to get so huge that it's harder and harder to modify a known API without breaking something by mistake.
After all, maybe there's 10 times the bugs in Windows because there's 10 times the code. Earlier mistakes were mostly squashed out, but API or workflow defeciencies always come up late in development, no matter how you plan and when you have something as huge as Windows, it might be hard to reverse the direction they have taken and have to make do with what they have now. It's not as if Microsoft OSes are based on any variant of Unix or something.
Maybe the people who work at Microsoft aren't all big nerds who know 40 million of code by heart.
As far as I know when you get digital HD TV you buy the box and then you pay a subscription fee to have your box working afterwards. I don't see why it should be different for software. You have to cover the development expenses and then cover the support expenses.
Microsoft does not help anyone unless they think they have huge profits to gain from it.
Well, this is want ANY company do, you know.
As for the AIDS claim, Microsoft might be investing in it (I mean the cure for it:p), but do you know that Bill Gates personally DONATES to the cause? Makes you think how much Bill Gates has a hand in everything his company does.
Then you probably won't mind if I tell you that Square is porting the original NES Final Fantasy 3 to it.
From what I see on ebGames. Games are going to be priced relatively the same as current GBA games. It won't hurt to get a DS in a few months since it's likely you'll want to buy a DS game soon, and it will play all your old GBA games (not GB or GBC tough).
Actually, you're not taking away revenue. If you didn't buy the console, Microsoft wouldn't get a single penny for that console and would lose more than 150US$. Now you bought one and they got part of it's investment back.
You have to realize that those FMVs are not going to be in 480, but probably in 1080p (if we're lucky, 1080i... well it's still awesome). Anyway. The point is, 48 seconds of HD is 50 megs (considering the Halo 2 trailer). So 20 minutes is roughly a gig. Hum... so basically, an hour takes 3 gig. Let's say 3.5 because I rounded a few times. That leaves 5.9 gigs for the actual game.
I think one hour of FMVs is pretty decent. That must be what Sqeenix does.
Also, I read long ago (must have been a rumor after all) that Brooks was acutally making a prequel, with young dark helmet played by the kid who stared in Little Vampires.
Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox included all 3 original Ninja Gaiden games that you could unlock after finishing the game with certain items in your inventory.
I don't know much about the state of polls in the US, but some of you guys seem to be pretty much bitching about them, so the methodology used by the US firms seems to be broken.
In Quebec, Canada, where I live, we have a pretty good poll firms. At least when it comes to politics. When a poll is done, there is never more than a 5% difference from the real result. Heck, in 1995, all 3 major poll firms said that Quebec's referendum for independence would end up 50%-50% and turns out it was 49.7% and 50.3% IIRC.
If the polls are so bad in states, maybe the companies should see how polls are done in other countries.
Yes, but your logic fails with people who pay 2000CAN$ for their computers. 150$ more is not much compared to what they spend. I don't know any Windows users who have bought their own copies of Windows, be they student or retired people, yet they all had 2000CAN$ equipment. People copy software because they can. They can't copy hardware so they pay a lot on good hardware knowing that virtually any piece of software is going to be available for free afterwards.
A president or prime minister will never create jobs during his or her term. At most he or she will influence the job market a few years from now with the decisions he makes this year. You don't create jobs. You create an environment which is benificial to the creation of new jobs. And this isn't done overnight.
Anyone who thinks any current government can turn the economy around and create jobs in a matter of months doesn't havea clue how the real world works.
I meant Physically anyway. Problem with heroin over other drugs is that your body physically needs it when you don't have some for a while, while other drugs have a psychological pull on you. That's what I read a long time ago. Anyway, Craving for sex is probably psychological, not physical.
Not having sex for a few days won't get you sick and trembling as if your body physically needs it. Frankly, I think you have too high opinion of sex. Either that or you're a nympho.
Users or network adapters sold? I doesn't say so in the article.
If 1.4 million adapters were sold and only 700,000 people are really using it, how does that make it more popular than XBox live. At least you're pretty sure with XLive that if people are paying it's because they're playing.
The funniest part Kind of like Microsoft advertising on a website that bashes it for its security holes
Actually no. It's pretty clever. They know there are a lot of people who are in the industry who read slashdot. Not all of them are Microsoft haters and work exclusively on Linux, so there's a market opportunity for that.
If modern commercial games work in the emu out of the box, what point is there in buying the console?
because it's the only platform with the games they want to play. (There are a number of excellent games for the GBA.) (emphasis mine)
Huh? Hello!!! Why buying these EXCELLENT games as you put it? Why buying the console? Because buying the fricking game gives the creator money so he doesn't run out of business and MAKES MORE excellent games for said console.
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I'm all for keeping the Sam Fisher character, but I don't want to see Michael Ironside playing him! Sam would look out of shape. :p
Didn't Nintendo say that some upcoming GBA games were going to take advantage of the wireless capability of the DS in addition to using the GBA SP cable link?
Maybe there's so many bugs in recent Microsoft OSes because the code base is starting to get so huge that it's harder and harder to modify a known API without breaking something by mistake.
After all, maybe there's 10 times the bugs in Windows because there's 10 times the code. Earlier mistakes were mostly squashed out, but API or workflow defeciencies always come up late in development, no matter how you plan and when you have something as huge as Windows, it might be hard to reverse the direction they have taken and have to make do with what they have now. It's not as if Microsoft OSes are based on any variant of Unix or something.
Maybe the people who work at Microsoft aren't all big nerds who know 40 million of code by heart.
As far as I know when you get digital HD TV you buy the box and then you pay a subscription fee to have your box working afterwards. I don't see why it should be different for software. You have to cover the development expenses and then cover the support expenses.
Microsoft does not help anyone unless they think they have huge profits to gain from it.
:p), but do you know that Bill Gates personally DONATES to the cause? Makes you think how much Bill Gates has a hand in everything his company does.
Well, this is want ANY company do, you know.
As for the AIDS claim, Microsoft might be investing in it (I mean the cure for it
What I'd like to know is if the DS can be connected to the Game Cube just like you can connect a GBA. I've seen no reviews so far that says so.
Then you probably won't mind if I tell you that Square is porting the original NES Final Fantasy 3 to it.
From what I see on ebGames. Games are going to be priced relatively the same as current GBA games. It won't hurt to get a DS in a few months since it's likely you'll want to buy a DS game soon, and it will play all your old GBA games (not GB or GBC tough).
Well there's the game The Movies, which is Sim-like where you actually trian actors and make movies, writing the script and dialogue.
Actually, you're not taking away revenue. If you didn't buy the console, Microsoft wouldn't get a single penny for that console and would lose more than 150US$. Now you bought one and they got part of it's investment back.
Actually, it's an MSN account, and you can link it with your gamer tag.
Yeah, that wasn't too clear, was it ? :)
Yeah, 1080p is definitely better than 1080i. I'd rather watch football 720p (on ABC) than 1080i (on NBC).
You have to realize that those FMVs are not going to be in 480, but probably in 1080p (if we're lucky, 1080i... well it's still awesome). Anyway. The point is, 48 seconds of HD is 50 megs (considering the Halo 2 trailer). So 20 minutes is roughly a gig. Hum... so basically, an hour takes 3 gig. Let's say 3.5 because I rounded a few times. That leaves 5.9 gigs for the actual game.
I think one hour of FMVs is pretty decent. That must be what Sqeenix does.
You might have a point here.
Yep! Me too.
Also, I read long ago (must have been a rumor after all) that Brooks was acutally making a prequel, with young dark helmet played by the kid who stared in Little Vampires.
Who says it's going to be bundled with the device and not be an add-on?
I don't know. I just don't like Sony's "gift" to the game world. I sure like their TV's tough.
Sony ;)
Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox included all 3 original Ninja Gaiden games that you could unlock after finishing the game with certain items in your inventory.
I don't know much about the state of polls in the US, but some of you guys seem to be pretty much bitching about them, so the methodology used by the US firms seems to be broken.
In Quebec, Canada, where I live, we have a pretty good poll firms. At least when it comes to politics. When a poll is done, there is never more than a 5% difference from the real result. Heck, in 1995, all 3 major poll firms said that Quebec's referendum for independence would end up 50%-50% and turns out it was 49.7% and 50.3% IIRC.
If the polls are so bad in states, maybe the companies should see how polls are done in other countries.
Yes, but your logic fails with people who pay 2000CAN$ for their computers. 150$ more is not much compared to what they spend. I don't know any Windows users who have bought their own copies of Windows, be they student or retired people, yet they all had 2000CAN$ equipment. People copy software because they can. They can't copy hardware so they pay a lot on good hardware knowing that virtually any piece of software is going to be available for free afterwards.
A president or prime minister will never create jobs during his or her term. At most he or she will influence the job market a few years from now with the decisions he makes this year. You don't create jobs. You create an environment which is benificial to the creation of new jobs. And this isn't done overnight.
Anyone who thinks any current government can turn the economy around and create jobs in a matter of months doesn't havea clue how the real world works.
I meant Physically anyway.
Problem with heroin over other drugs is that your body physically needs it when you don't have some for a while, while other drugs have a psychological pull on you. That's what I read a long time ago. Anyway, Craving for sex is probably psychological, not physical.
sex is addictive as heroin?
Not having sex for a few days won't get you sick and trembling as if your body physically needs it. Frankly, I think you have too high opinion of sex. Either that or you're a nympho.
Users or network adapters sold? I doesn't say so in the article.
If 1.4 million adapters were sold and only 700,000 people are really using it, how does that make it more popular than XBox live. At least you're pretty sure with XLive that if people are paying it's because they're playing.
The funniest part
Kind of like Microsoft advertising on a website that bashes it for its security holes
Actually no. It's pretty clever. They know there are a lot of people who are in the industry who read slashdot. Not all of them are Microsoft haters and work exclusively on Linux, so there's a market opportunity for that.
If modern commercial games work in the emu out of the box, what point is there in buying the console?
because it's the only platform with the games they want to play. (There are a number of excellent games for the GBA.) (emphasis mine)
Huh? Hello!!! Why buying these EXCELLENT games as you put it? Why buying the console? Because buying the fricking game gives the creator money so he doesn't run out of business and MAKES MORE excellent games for said console.
People like you should get a clue.