I know I'm buying a revolution console on it's launch date. I'm really excited to see all the innovative uses that this controller will get. At first when I saw it I thought "WTF?", but it just seems genius to me now. As for the 360 and PS3 we'll see. Most likely I'll pick up the PS3, but the 360 I'm only going to get if a game blows me away. I think most games will end up being on both the 360 and PS3, but the PS3 will have the HD discs that can hold much more data, which could later hurt the 360 when games are made that utilize that much space.
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One of my friends, who is a serious "has no life (or brains I guess)" gamer, said the human eye can only see 256 colors. I was astonished when he continued to argue the point with me! I mean come on! The most I got him to budge was up to 1000 colors when I talked about how his (massive) pr0n collection has changed in quality since 256 colors.
I'm tired of this comparison of Sony's Betamax and Blue Ray. There is one key difference here, the PS3. Anyone who buys one of these will have a Blue Ray player whether they like it or not. Why would you then buy a HD-DVD player when you already own or plan to buy a PS3? Honestly, I think Sony is brilliant for doing this. If you buy one movie to watch on your PS3, then you are already invested in Blue Ray, and it becomes less likely to switch. The only thing that might hurt them is if they make the PS3 cost more than most consumers are willing to pay, but I'm willing to bet that Sony would take a loss on the PS3 sales to get the Blue Ray players and their game machine into households. How many people believe that either Microsoft or Nintendo will win the next console war? I think they will both gain ground, but both of those consoles will have standard DVD players, at least initially. I don't know how much HD-DVD players will be going for, but buying one of those and a Xbox360 will probably set you back more than the PS3.
Wasn't it decided that HD-DVD drives were delayed to 2006 though? I personally think Sony has a good chance at getting the standard, only because of the PS3 supporting it though. I think Microsoft made a big mistake by not supporting HD-DVD right away on the Xbox360.
If you read into their page some you will also see that they have the support of Roddenberry Jr. They can't be much more legit, besides being on tv at this point.
I'm a sysadmin at an ISP in Oregon, UNICOM. We get requests all the time for customer information. Our policy is to only give out information if we receive a subpoena. If someone doesn't give this to us we tell them that we require it (I've personally told a police officer this who was trying to get info.) We get many emails and letters from RIAA and MPAA, but to my knowledge never anything that we provided customer information for. They send things to try to scare ISPs into providing info, but that tends to be it in my experience.
Sure, there's only a dozen (give or take) games for the 'cube
That's interesting. I own 47 games for my Gamecube. I'm not afraid to admit I have one and love the games. I had a lot of money during this last console generation so I'd buy pretty much any game that I saw looked good. I'm a RPG fan so most of my games are PS1 and PS2 since the other consoles seem to ignore RPGs for the most part. Even buying everything that I thought looked good I've only ended up with 20 X-Box games and that's stretching it since a couple of them came with they sytem that I wouldn't have bought myself and another I got two as gifts that I wouldn't have either.
PS2 - 91 games
PS1 - 82 games
Gamecube - 47 games
GBA - 45 games
XBox - 20 games
DS - 8 games
PSP - 3 games
So maybe someone would have something if their kid was 17 and bought the PC version of the game and saw the hot coffee game. This is just plain nuts. I can't believe how crazy people are going over this with all the other shit in the game already. I'd rather have my kid see someone having sex (unless raped) then someone brutally murdering other people for fun.
It must be more than showing a cartoon boobie considering God of War for the PS2 shows women in your bed with their breasts fully exposed and it is rated M. I imagine they want it rated AO because it actually shows them in the act of having sex, maybe not detailed, but obvious? I personally haven't seen the mod in action so I can't say.
Balls of steel? Hardly. Try scuba diving sometime with a wetsuit. They can take a lot. Just don't move them too fast. Now taking a fencing blade down there during a bout... that would require balls of steel, or a good cup.
What I meant by balls of steel is that it would take real guts to wear that thing because it is so ugly!:)
My parents were the same way, I bought them a DVD player and I found my dad still buying Spiderman on VHS. I built myself a MythTV box then reluctantly gave them my old ReplayTV unit. My parents fell in love with the ease of recording with it. I was surprised how much so. After using it it is difficult to go back to using a VHS again.
there is a market for shorter - play in one session kind of games
That's what I love about Katamari Damacy. You can play in short sessions easily. Plus the unique gameplay keeps the levels from getting stale very fast.
A longer game has to be really good to keep my attention without switching to another game before I finish. Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime I & II, and Prince of Persia the sands of time are a few that I won and managed not get distracted from. Countless others didn't fare so well.
Man when I saw no HD I thought it meant no HDTV output, or no Blue-ray HD discs. Scared me. The hard drive I can live with being optional, the others I refuse.
Back in 1997 a (now) friend of mine started his own ISP at the age of 15. His family was poorer than dirt and his mom (only parent) was more dependent on him than he was on her. Even his brother and sister were down on their luck badly. He was determined and pulled it off. He colocated his equipment with my ISP for a fee and paid for phone lines to my building. Later when his business got bigger we even teamed up, running for many years before selling to a larger ISP/telecommunications company. We retain very nice jobs at this ISP to this day. It gave us a foot in the door, an opportunity we wouldn't have easily had for the lack of college experience. We have higher up jobs in the company than people with full college degrees.
I know a girl at 14 that started a website that within two years was bringing her in between $7000 and $11,000 a month. She had NO experience with programming or HTML, she used a program like Frontpage to do the design. By the time she finished high school she had college paid for, a nice new car, a nice expensive laptop, and money in the bank. Man I was jealous of her.
Why do you need to be an intern? If you have the will you can make something happen for yourself. There are many opportunities if you know where to look. You say you have c++ experience? Make a program, sell it or use it to show your abilities (I had a computer magazine publish a C64 program I wrote in high school.) Make a website to make money perhaps if you know how. Fix computers maybe (my high school paid me to fix their computers.)
I don't know your situation, but I assume you have a roof over your head that doesn't cost you money. Take this opportunity to start something of your own that may grow into something that does make money by the time you are out of high school. Why wait until college to do what you can do now?
Hmm, that's interesting. I'm still skeptical that they won't have it as an option for games that support it. I haven't seen Nintendo release any specs as of yet, here's hoping.
Do you have a source for this information? The Gamecube already does 480P, I have my doubts that they wouldn't at least do 720P/1080i this time around.
I agree, the hardware is going to be so close. It is going to come down to the software.
For me it mostly comes down to the hardware. Sure all the consoles will be able to play games nearly the same, a lot of the same games will be on all of them, but only one will have blue-ray. I think this could be a giant foot-in-the-door for Sony and I'm very surprised at Microsoft leaving out HD-DVD. Some games are already filling up DVDs as it is. I don't want to swap discs or install to a hard drive to play. Another thing that I thought was really cool was the dual HD output which I believe will be another Sony exclusive. Backward compatibility with all of my PS1 and PS2 games is also a huge factor for me. I'm going to wait it out and see what both have to offer, but I think I've already decided. I think Sony did a tremendous job at E3 and some people are going to be persuaded by that. I know a few Xbox fans that are thinking of jumping ship after seeing E3 footage, but not vice-versa.
Sometimes I get my new games cheaper by buying them at Costco. They don't carry a big selection, but they are usually $5 to $10 cheaper on brand new titles.
Hmm Good point. Microsoft would only choose that name if they owned the domain already. Unless they are that stupid. Do a lookup on XboxNext.com and they do own that. Personally, I hope they choose X-Box Next, less syllables.
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I know I'm buying a revolution console on it's launch date. I'm really excited to see all the innovative uses that this controller will get. At first when I saw it I thought "WTF?", but it just seems genius to me now. As for the 360 and PS3 we'll see. Most likely I'll pick up the PS3, but the 360 I'm only going to get if a game blows me away. I think most games will end up being on both the 360 and PS3, but the PS3 will have the HD discs that can hold much more data, which could later hurt the 360 when games are made that utilize that much space.
One of my friends, who is a serious "has no life (or brains I guess)" gamer, said the human eye can only see 256 colors. I was astonished when he continued to argue the point with me! I mean come on! The most I got him to budge was up to 1000 colors when I talked about how his (massive) pr0n collection has changed in quality since 256 colors.
I'd like to see a boxing game where you hold a controller in both hands, thus letting you punch the opponent where you would like to.
Sure looks legit to me. They even have videos of gameplay.
I'm tired of this comparison of Sony's Betamax and Blue Ray. There is one key difference here, the PS3. Anyone who buys one of these will have a Blue Ray player whether they like it or not. Why would you then buy a HD-DVD player when you already own or plan to buy a PS3? Honestly, I think Sony is brilliant for doing this. If you buy one movie to watch on your PS3, then you are already invested in Blue Ray, and it becomes less likely to switch. The only thing that might hurt them is if they make the PS3 cost more than most consumers are willing to pay, but I'm willing to bet that Sony would take a loss on the PS3 sales to get the Blue Ray players and their game machine into households. How many people believe that either Microsoft or Nintendo will win the next console war? I think they will both gain ground, but both of those consoles will have standard DVD players, at least initially. I don't know how much HD-DVD players will be going for, but buying one of those and a Xbox360 will probably set you back more than the PS3.
weeks away from commercialization
Wasn't it decided that HD-DVD drives were delayed to 2006 though? I personally think Sony has a good chance at getting the standard, only because of the PS3 supporting it though. I think Microsoft made a big mistake by not supporting HD-DVD right away on the Xbox360.
If you read into their page some you will also see that they have the support of Roddenberry Jr. They can't be much more legit, besides being on tv at this point.
I'm a sysadmin at an ISP in Oregon, UNICOM. We get requests all the time for customer information. Our policy is to only give out information if we receive a subpoena. If someone doesn't give this to us we tell them that we require it (I've personally told a police officer this who was trying to get info.) We get many emails and letters from RIAA and MPAA, but to my knowledge never anything that we provided customer information for. They send things to try to scare ISPs into providing info, but that tends to be it in my experience.
Sure, there's only a dozen (give or take) games for the 'cube
That's interesting. I own 47 games for my Gamecube. I'm not afraid to admit I have one and love the games. I had a lot of money during this last console generation so I'd buy pretty much any game that I saw looked good. I'm a RPG fan so most of my games are PS1 and PS2 since the other consoles seem to ignore RPGs for the most part. Even buying everything that I thought looked good I've only ended up with 20 X-Box games and that's stretching it since a couple of them came with they sytem that I wouldn't have bought myself and another I got two as gifts that I wouldn't have either.
PS2 - 91 games
PS1 - 82 games
Gamecube - 47 games
GBA - 45 games
XBox - 20 games
DS - 8 games
PSP - 3 games
So maybe someone would have something if their kid was 17 and bought the PC version of the game and saw the hot coffee game. This is just plain nuts. I can't believe how crazy people are going over this with all the other shit in the game already. I'd rather have my kid see someone having sex (unless raped) then someone brutally murdering other people for fun.
But how dare they show some cartoon boobie!
It must be more than showing a cartoon boobie considering God of War for the PS2 shows women in your bed with their breasts fully exposed and it is rated M. I imagine they want it rated AO because it actually shows them in the act of having sex, maybe not detailed, but obvious? I personally haven't seen the mod in action so I can't say.
Balls of steel? Hardly. Try scuba diving sometime with a wetsuit. They can take a lot. Just don't move them too fast. Now taking a fencing blade down there during a bout... that would require balls of steel, or a good cup.
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What I meant by balls of steel is that it would take real guts to wear that thing because it is so ugly!
Also, Batman isn't real.
No, but Angle Grinder Man IS! And boy, does it take balls of steel to wear that outfit!
My parents were the same way, I bought them a DVD player and I found my dad still buying Spiderman on VHS. I built myself a MythTV box then reluctantly gave them my old ReplayTV unit. My parents fell in love with the ease of recording with it. I was surprised how much so. After using it it is difficult to go back to using a VHS again.
there is a market for shorter - play in one session kind of games
That's what I love about Katamari Damacy. You can play in short sessions easily. Plus the unique gameplay keeps the levels from getting stale very fast.
A longer game has to be really good to keep my attention without switching to another game before I finish. Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime I & II, and Prince of Persia the sands of time are a few that I won and managed not get distracted from. Countless others didn't fare so well.
This just screams early web porn shop.. lol
;) It had no pictures of people on it.
LOL, no, she would have made much more for that.
Can we stick to the acronym "HDD" for Hard Disk Drive?
I couldn't agree more. I also saw it as High Definition at first.
Man when I saw no HD I thought it meant no HDTV output, or no Blue-ray HD discs. Scared me. The hard drive I can live with being optional, the others I refuse.
Back in 1997 a (now) friend of mine started his own ISP at the age of 15. His family was poorer than dirt and his mom (only parent) was more dependent on him than he was on her. Even his brother and sister were down on their luck badly. He was determined and pulled it off. He colocated his equipment with my ISP for a fee and paid for phone lines to my building. Later when his business got bigger we even teamed up, running for many years before selling to a larger ISP/telecommunications company. We retain very nice jobs at this ISP to this day. It gave us a foot in the door, an opportunity we wouldn't have easily had for the lack of college experience. We have higher up jobs in the company than people with full college degrees.
I know a girl at 14 that started a website that within two years was bringing her in between $7000 and $11,000 a month. She had NO experience with programming or HTML, she used a program like Frontpage to do the design. By the time she finished high school she had college paid for, a nice new car, a nice expensive laptop, and money in the bank. Man I was jealous of her.
Why do you need to be an intern? If you have the will you can make something happen for yourself. There are many opportunities if you know where to look. You say you have c++ experience? Make a program, sell it or use it to show your abilities (I had a computer magazine publish a C64 program I wrote in high school.) Make a website to make money perhaps if you know how. Fix computers maybe (my high school paid me to fix their computers.)
I don't know your situation, but I assume you have a roof over your head that doesn't cost you money. Take this opportunity to start something of your own that may grow into something that does make money by the time you are out of high school. Why wait until college to do what you can do now?
Hmm, that's interesting. I'm still skeptical that they won't have it as an option for games that support it. I haven't seen Nintendo release any specs as of yet, here's hoping.
Do you have a source for this information? The Gamecube already does 480P, I have my doubts that they wouldn't at least do 720P/1080i this time around.
I agree, the hardware is going to be so close. It is going to come down to the software.
For me it mostly comes down to the hardware. Sure all the consoles will be able to play games nearly the same, a lot of the same games will be on all of them, but only one will have blue-ray. I think this could be a giant foot-in-the-door for Sony and I'm very surprised at Microsoft leaving out HD-DVD. Some games are already filling up DVDs as it is. I don't want to swap discs or install to a hard drive to play. Another thing that I thought was really cool was the dual HD output which I believe will be another Sony exclusive. Backward compatibility with all of my PS1 and PS2 games is also a huge factor for me. I'm going to wait it out and see what both have to offer, but I think I've already decided. I think Sony did a tremendous job at E3 and some people are going to be persuaded by that. I know a few Xbox fans that are thinking of jumping ship after seeing E3 footage, but not vice-versa.
Sometimes I get my new games cheaper by buying them at Costco. They don't carry a big selection, but they are usually $5 to $10 cheaper on brand new titles.
Hmm Good point. Microsoft would only choose that name if they owned the domain already. Unless they are that stupid. Do a lookup on XboxNext.com and they do own that. Personally, I hope they choose X-Box Next, less syllables.