Would the jock rather play a baseball game where Pujols swings when you hit the A button, or when he swings the bat when you swing the controller? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like Pujols.
Would the jock rather play a basketball game where D. Wade shoots a free throw based on button timing, or based on proper hand movement and actual shot technique? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like D. Wade.
Would the jock rather play SSX where you press button combinations to do tricks, or where the Wiimote becomes the board in your hands, and the rider is twisting and turning with you? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like he is in control.
Would the jock rather play Tiger Woods where Woods swings... you get my drift.
Of the list of games in TFA, I think The Godfather is the hardest one to stretch a way to use the Wiimote sensibly. Maybe swinging a billy club to beat some store owner for not paying their protection? I don't know... Whether EA will implement this well is still to be seen (and I'm not keeping my fingers crossed).
Like there hasn't been 3 anti-Microsoft articles on/. on the same day. Right.
Slashdot editors are just giving their customers what they are wanting. If you haven't realized by now that the majority here is into Wii, impartial to 360 and against PS3 then you are slow.
As far as this news is concerned, I cannot see the issue. As a business I have a right to choose how I am paid. If I set up my business so that in exchange for services rendered I must be paid in wooden nickels, that is between me and any possible users of my service. It does not make me monopolistic or create libel against the credit card companies. As someone else has stated here, there is no law forcing me to accept cash, checks, or credit cards. eBay also does not force people to use PayPal.
It's like someone bringing a competitor's coupon to me and then telling me that I have to honor it... especially when the competitor has already shown their intention to take away some of my revenue. Some businesses choose to do so, but no one is forced to do anything.
I know LOTS of people who only have a PS2 for their DVD player (unless you count a notebook computer, not exactly the same as a standalone player.) I was one of them for a long time, until I got a DivX capable standalone, and the DivX was the only reason to get it.
You think people in Japan have room for a DVD player and a game console?
That is one of the big reasons PS2 has the market penetration it currently enjoys. It used to be $200 for both systems, but an XBox does not play DVD without an additional $30 investment. I have at least 3 pals that bought the PS2 over the XBox because they thought it was stupid to have to pay more money for DVD.
You notice they got rid of that on the XBox 360? I wonder why?
Apparently you did not read parent or grandparent post.
1) Create your own works.
If three of the notes are similar to a previous recording, you can be sued for infringement. See grandparent.
2) Pay to derive your works from somebody else's.
They can refuse to sell it to you or charge you a ridiculous amount. Look into sample clearance.
"I'd say that seventy to eighty percent of the time samples get cleared."
Alison Hook - Sample and Infringement Manager, EMI Music Publishing
In case your math skills are a little weak, that means twenty to thirty percent are not. Refused. Denied. So either you write the track and hope you can get it cleared later, and when you can't you wasted all your time, or you wait to write the tune until the sample is cleared anyway, and you might decide later that that sample isn't what you wanted, but spent money to get it...
"I wouldn't recommend that a novice deals with American record companies and publishers - they're real hardballs. They can be really scary even for someone like me."
Sarah Blain - Consigliari (sample clearance company)
So you pay a clearance company more than $500 just to do the work. Not including the price of the sample.
"The more people involved in a record's creation, the more copyright owners you may have to track down and deal with. If the record you sampled was co-written by two or three people, you will have to track them all down and cut a deal that each is happy with."
So one member of a group can hold out, and prevent you from obtaining a sample in the first place.
You could always recreate the sample if you have the permission of the publishing rights owner but not the recording rights owner (major labels mostly), but...
"We usually get approached because someone's asking silly money to clear a sample. But, often it's also because of the time factor: it can take six months to get in touch with people and then you have to negotiate with them. Particularly with dance records, people might lose a hit if they wait that long."
Steven Gibson - Co-owner, Rinse (sample recreation company)
In the end, this all makes the words "Fair Use" seem a little less meaningful.
So, yes. Anyone can clear a sample, with enough time and money in the first place. But usually that amount is thousands of dollars, which I would have a hard time seeing a return of nearly that in dance music land. Awesome tracks are regularly sold for $1000 or less, which wouldn't even pay for the sample clearance...
Another easy way to insure that the only people that can put out music are mainstream artists sponsored by major labels. They can pay for samples. You cannot. They control the samples and can refuse to allow you use.
So, yes, compared to the total deaths in S. Korea from cancer (~65,000 in 2004) or suicide (~12,000 in 2004) [source] I would say it is rather insignificant.
I mean, "every day, 37 Korean children under the age of 14 are killed or injured as pedestrians in road traffic accidents." [source] These people were playing video games too much.
I consider Mario Tennis, Mario Super Sidekicks, Mario Golf, etc. to be revamps of sports games. Sports games have been around as long as there have been electronic games.
So again, recycled concepts.
And if I told you that I'm playing that one side-scrolling Mario game with the mushrooms and goombas, would you have any idea even which system I was talking about? Yes, each game has some differences but at the core Mario 1, 2, 3, World, 64, plus Mario Land, Wario etc are all the same game.
As to the article - I hope this does not hurt Slashdotters opinions of Takahashi's. People should remember that this is a video game designer that doesn't play video games. What would he know?
If DualShock wasn't implemented in PS2 would Katamari be any good? That is a game that relies on a certain controller to work - it could possibly be ported to XBox but not as easily to GameCube. Look at games like DDR, Guitar Hero, and Donkey Konga. People like (for the most part) new, different controllers. I agree with Takahashi that Nintendo is putting all of it's emphasis on the controller - that's why the Revolution was created in the first place. The hardware drives the controller, and that is it's primary purpose.
In the end - no one cares what you think, Takahashi. Your first, one, and only game (while awesome) only came out on PS2 anyway. The sequel was a rushed rehash (still, even more awesome) - again on PS2 exclusive. Why would we believe you would develop for the Revolution?
I fully expect to see him eating his words someday...
Sell some things below cost and other things above cost? Wow, that's evil. Lower your prices below your competition and then raise them when competition is gone? Oh man, get your pitchforks!
Ever heard of a gas station? If WalMart is evil then the gas station is the KKK.
Indeed, capitalism at its finest. Consumer demand drives the price of goods and services. If there was no demand for the goods at Wal-mart's prices, they would be forced to change those prices or find new goods.
Would you rather buy your toilet paper from socialists or communists?
"I long for an emulator that plays my old SNES games as it is kind of cumbersome to have many many systems to hook up. A fully functioning Link to the Past on Xbox 360 would make me buy it."
Xbox and Dreamcast have fully ported emulators that run at speed with full sound. What's the problem?
I will honestly say that my modded Xbox is one of my most prized possessions. While the Xbox is not what I would call portable it is nice to be able to take all my favorite Xvid rips with me to a friend's house or on vacation. And it was so much cheaper and easier to do than build a media center pc.
And I think Microsoft knows about this, as they have discontinued selling the first Xbox at $149, and now only sell the Forza pack exclusively at $179, fifty bucks more than you could get a PS2 for.
I got the go-kart. It was fun. But then it broke and I didn't know anything about engine repair at age 8. So I went back inside and started programming again.
I doubt that your career path would have ended at NASCAR hero anyway.
Again, Microsoft screws up, then disables functionality of the device.
And this is the encouragement to buy a 360? That they can force a flash upgrade on me at anytime to disable the ability to play a certain file or something?
Slashdot Mirror
I assert that your opinion may be incorrect.
Would the jock rather play a baseball game where Pujols swings when you hit the A button, or when he swings the bat when you swing the controller? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like Pujols.
Would the jock rather play a basketball game where D. Wade shoots a free throw based on button timing, or based on proper hand movement and actual shot technique? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like D. Wade.
Would the jock rather play SSX where you press button combinations to do tricks, or where the Wiimote becomes the board in your hands, and the rider is twisting and turning with you? In the case of the latter, the jock feels more like he is in control.
Would the jock rather play Tiger Woods where Woods swings... you get my drift.
Of the list of games in TFA, I think The Godfather is the hardest one to stretch a way to use the Wiimote sensibly. Maybe swinging a billy club to beat some store owner for not paying their protection? I don't know... Whether EA will implement this well is still to be seen (and I'm not keeping my fingers crossed).
Maybe because this completely kills the rental business? I for one haven't bought a game in a long time, but I have rented a few...
Like there hasn't been 3 anti-Microsoft articles on /. on the same day. Right.
Slashdot editors are just giving their customers what they are wanting. If you haven't realized by now that the majority here is into Wii, impartial to 360 and against PS3 then you are slow.
Right. Lots of people can do your job. No one else can do that baseball player's job as well, or he'd be out of a job, like you...
eBay owns 25% stake in craigslist as well.
As far as this news is concerned, I cannot see the issue. As a business I have a right to choose how I am paid. If I set up my business so that in exchange for services rendered I must be paid in wooden nickels, that is between me and any possible users of my service. It does not make me monopolistic or create libel against the credit card companies. As someone else has stated here, there is no law forcing me to accept cash, checks, or credit cards. eBay also does not force people to use PayPal.
It's like someone bringing a competitor's coupon to me and then telling me that I have to honor it... especially when the competitor has already shown their intention to take away some of my revenue. Some businesses choose to do so, but no one is forced to do anything.
I know LOTS of people who only have a PS2 for their DVD player (unless you count a notebook computer, not exactly the same as a standalone player.) I was one of them for a long time, until I got a DivX capable standalone, and the DivX was the only reason to get it.
You think people in Japan have room for a DVD player and a game console?
That is one of the big reasons PS2 has the market penetration it currently enjoys. It used to be $200 for both systems, but an XBox does not play DVD without an additional $30 investment. I have at least 3 pals that bought the PS2 over the XBox because they thought it was stupid to have to pay more money for DVD.
You notice they got rid of that on the XBox 360? I wonder why?
Would it be where they state "I hope they spend some amounts for this project if they want to make some benefit for humanity?
Please try to read the post before being a jackass.
1) Create your own works.
If three of the notes are similar to a previous recording, you can be sued for infringement. See grandparent.
2) Pay to derive your works from somebody else's.
They can refuse to sell it to you or charge you a ridiculous amount. Look into sample clearance.
"I'd say that seventy to eighty percent of the time samples get cleared." Alison Hook - Sample and Infringement Manager, EMI Music Publishing
In case your math skills are a little weak, that means twenty to thirty percent are not. Refused. Denied. So either you write the track and hope you can get it cleared later, and when you can't you wasted all your time, or you wait to write the tune until the sample is cleared anyway, and you might decide later that that sample isn't what you wanted, but spent money to get it...
"I wouldn't recommend that a novice deals with American record companies and publishers - they're real hardballs. They can be really scary even for someone like me." Sarah Blain - Consigliari (sample clearance company)
So you pay a clearance company more than $500 just to do the work. Not including the price of the sample.
"The more people involved in a record's creation, the more copyright owners you may have to track down and deal with. If the record you sampled was co-written by two or three people, you will have to track them all down and cut a deal that each is happy with."
So one member of a group can hold out, and prevent you from obtaining a sample in the first place.
You could always recreate the sample if you have the permission of the publishing rights owner but not the recording rights owner (major labels mostly), but...
"We usually get approached because someone's asking silly money to clear a sample. But, often it's also because of the time factor: it can take six months to get in touch with people and then you have to negotiate with them. Particularly with dance records, people might lose a hit if they wait that long." Steven Gibson - Co-owner, Rinse (sample recreation company)
In the end, this all makes the words "Fair Use" seem a little less meaningful.
So, yes. Anyone can clear a sample, with enough time and money in the first place. But usually that amount is thousands of dollars, which I would have a hard time seeing a return of nearly that in dance music land. Awesome tracks are regularly sold for $1000 or less, which wouldn't even pay for the sample clearance...
(quotes from here)
Another easy way to insure that the only people that can put out music are mainstream artists sponsored by major labels. They can pay for samples. You cannot. They control the samples and can refuse to allow you use.
You believe it is the year 1999, but actually it is closer to 2199...
I think CowboyNeal is self-taught spelling.
"You want some more?"
0.000000153% of the total world's population.
10/48,422,644
0.000020651% of the South Korean population.
So, yes, compared to the total deaths in S. Korea from cancer (~65,000 in 2004) or suicide (~12,000 in 2004) [source] I would say it is rather insignificant.
I mean, "every day, 37 Korean children under the age of 14 are killed or injured as pedestrians in road traffic accidents." [source] These people were playing video games too much.
Wait, this is slashdot...
So I can watch reruns of Saved by the Bell? I think not. What king of the asshats thought up that one?
Oh - and if you haven't noticed, most of Adult Swim's commercials are either self-gratification or completely irrelevant to the audience.
I consider Mario Tennis, Mario Super Sidekicks, Mario Golf, etc. to be revamps of sports games. Sports games have been around as long as there have been electronic games.
So again, recycled concepts.
And if I told you that I'm playing that one side-scrolling Mario game with the mushrooms and goombas, would you have any idea even which system I was talking about? Yes, each game has some differences but at the core Mario 1, 2, 3, World, 64, plus Mario Land, Wario etc are all the same game.
As to the article - I hope this does not hurt Slashdotters opinions of Takahashi's. People should remember that this is a video game designer that doesn't play video games. What would he know?
If DualShock wasn't implemented in PS2 would Katamari be any good? That is a game that relies on a certain controller to work - it could possibly be ported to XBox but not as easily to GameCube. Look at games like DDR, Guitar Hero, and Donkey Konga. People like (for the most part) new, different controllers. I agree with Takahashi that Nintendo is putting all of it's emphasis on the controller - that's why the Revolution was created in the first place. The hardware drives the controller, and that is it's primary purpose.
In the end - no one cares what you think, Takahashi. Your first, one, and only game (while awesome) only came out on PS2 anyway. The sequel was a rushed rehash (still, even more awesome) - again on PS2 exclusive. Why would we believe you would develop for the Revolution?
I fully expect to see him eating his words someday...
Now, that's a completely new economic concept.
Sell some things below cost and other things above cost? Wow, that's evil.
Lower your prices below your competition and then raise them when competition is gone? Oh man, get your pitchforks!
Ever heard of a gas station? If WalMart is evil then the gas station is the KKK.
Indeed, capitalism at its finest. Consumer demand drives the price of goods and services. If there was no demand for the goods at Wal-mart's prices, they would be forced to change those prices or find new goods.
Would you rather buy your toilet paper from socialists or communists?
Mod way up please! That's the funniest thing I've read all day.
1. Take one of those overlay-LCD's for overhead projectors
2. Put a webcam behind it
3. ???
4. Profit!
Xbox and Dreamcast have fully ported emulators that run at speed with full sound. What's the problem?
I will honestly say that my modded Xbox is one of my most prized possessions. While the Xbox is not what I would call portable it is nice to be able to take all my favorite Xvid rips with me to a friend's house or on vacation. And it was so much cheaper and easier to do than build a media center pc.
And I think Microsoft knows about this, as they have discontinued selling the first Xbox at $149, and now only sell the Forza pack exclusively at $179, fifty bucks more than you could get a PS2 for.
I got the go-kart. It was fun. But then it broke and I didn't know anything about engine repair at age 8. So I went back inside and started programming again.
I doubt that your career path would have ended at NASCAR hero anyway.
Would you say they have been "degoogled"?
Or "ungooglable"?
Again, Microsoft screws up, then disables functionality of the device.
And this is the encouragement to buy a 360? That they can force a flash upgrade on me at anytime to disable the ability to play a certain file or something?
Because Apple was working on OSX for X86 before Cell was even past layout...
And here's the worlds tiniest violin playing just for your DRM concerns...
Here's an idea -- don't buy it.