It got rave reviews, sold well, and propelled console sales ahead of the PS2 for the week that it came out. And it was high on most year-end lists, if not at the top.
I wonder if the translation was bad, or if Miyamoto was on a particularly cranky day - he usually comes off as much more genial than in that interview.
One has to assume Nintendo's got a bang-up E3 planned this year, though. Obviously the DS, but I'd guess new Mario and Zelda games announced at E3, as well as footage of Metroid Prime 2... probably good, considering the criticism they took for being underwhelming last E3.
Yeah. The only thing that matters then is posting well and intelligently enough that you can abuse your moderator points without ever losing your karma.
Because in the instance of MtG, this applies to every level of play.
Steroid cocktails don't make a difference at a local road race, because no one is using them. Neither do expensive running shoes.
But in Magic, money matters immediately. Especially on the casual level, the players stratify clearly based on money spent on cards. The player who buys two boosters a week is better than the player who buys one is better than the player who buys one every other week.
I'm not sure which quote from the article I think is worse - referring to it as the "so-called 'open source' movement, or refering to infected computers as an "army of zombie PCs."
Either way, wow. What a terrible article.
Anyway, it should be easy to distance the open source community from this virus - it's not as though the writer of it released the source or anything, or put it out under the GPL.
Though there would be something dryly amusing if he had.
Of course, the reason why textbook publishers keep pumping out new editions is because the used book market destroys their market share. If they don't keep putting out new editions, then they'll see money from about one out of every six uses of a book.
Making the situation far worse is the way in which university bookstores price gouge - far worse than the book companies. They'll buy a book back for around 20% of its sale value, then sell it again at 80%. Then repeat the process endlessly. They make much more money off of used books, so they sell them whenever they can. Authors make no money at all on used books. So the reason the prices are so high is that publishers price the book to recoup some of the lost sales. Of course, the book stores, since they have a captive market, will frequently heavily mark up a new book as well.
The situation is bad enough that some book publishers, I don't know how seriously, have proposed binding a $100 bill into every fifth book, so that students would rip their books apart at the end of the semester, thus making them impossible to sell back.
The real solution, frankly, is to stop letting companies like Barnes and Noble run college bookstores, and for colleges to sell textbooks at cost to students - with no markups at all.
Interesting, though seemingly unremarkable - I believe Pixar already has a program whereby you can scan in a McCall's pattern, and it will sew the garment and fit it to one of their characters...
The article mentions Namco... but Namco is doing an exclusive for Nintendo already - Donkey Konga. And they put out Pac-Man Vs. as well - a small thing, but a very, very good game all the same.
They also mention how Squaresoft's exclusives are all on the PS2 now... which is odd, what with Crystal Chronicles out in only a few weeks.
I really wish commentators on Nintendo would bother to at least pretend to have done any research on their articles.
Like the guy linked to, I've had some accuracy problems with the ReplayTV channel guide myself. Typically, I call ReplayTV tech support, and they call my cable provider and get it sorted out. I'm not sure how it is he failed to get that sorted out - shouldn't have been hard.
On top of that, his wanting to record the Daily Show and Gilmore Girls without regard for date and time is just silly - Daily Show airs the same episode four times during the day, and there's no reason to get all four, and Gilmore Girls only airs once a week.
Yeah, but I think this system will probably have more than one color, not cause motion sickness, and be playable without neck pain. I mean, it's just a guess, but I think Nintendo probably learned on that one.
Well, this wasn't what I expected - a mid-level console - more portable than a Gamecube, but still, by the description of it, probably not going to fit into my coat pocket like my GBA does and still leave room for my iPod.
Still, in the end I have to take a deep breath and say that Nintendo still has many of the best game designers in the industry, and that they've made some damn fine use of some pretty strange toys before. (I mean, who knew GBA connectivity would lead to something as cool as Pac-Man vs? Or that the e-Reader would lead to neat things like the Super Mario Brothers 3 level cards?) It certainly sounds like an idea that could be really cool. And I have no doubt that Nintendo can carry it off.
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I just went through all 34 categories, and never once did I pick the winning game.
(Note: In some categories, I didn't vote because I hadn't played enough of the games.)
Mega Man 2 beat by Mega Man X?
Civ2 beat by Civ3?
Quake 3 beat by Quake 2?
Gabriel Knight outperforming Kings Quest's IV-VI combined?
Ultima Online as the best Ultima?
I knew Gamespy readers were dumb, but wow.
And since Gamespy skews towards newer gamers against Nintendo, my guess is on a GTA3 victory.
As for Nethack under text adventures, well, it doesn't have any graphics?
That or Gamespy is stupid.
Probably the latter.
"The fact is, most internet users are not into child porn."
And yet Britney Spears was the most popular Google search in 2003.
It's rather like making movies about moviemaking, I suppose.
I dunno, I think that using version numbers to communicate with non-geeks is kind of like putting up a sign that says "No Spanish Spoken" in English.
Why the hell did they default Firefox to dump downloads on the desktop, instead of defaulting it to letting you pick a directory?
Other than that, shiny, but wow... what a stupid default.
Lukewarm reaction?
It got rave reviews, sold well, and propelled console sales ahead of the PS2 for the week that it came out. And it was high on most year-end lists, if not at the top.
What the hell more do you want?
I wonder if the translation was bad, or if Miyamoto was on a particularly cranky day - he usually comes off as much more genial than in that interview.
One has to assume Nintendo's got a bang-up E3 planned this year, though. Obviously the DS, but I'd guess new Mario and Zelda games announced at E3, as well as footage of Metroid Prime 2... probably good, considering the criticism they took for being underwhelming last E3.
Yeah. The only thing that matters then is posting well and intelligently enough that you can abuse your moderator points without ever losing your karma.
There's something very sad when comments I write shooting for funny get moderated insightful. =/
It's possible to wring even less functionality out of Windows XP?
Revolutionary!
If it's any consolation, I was shooting for about +3 funny.
Because in the instance of MtG, this applies to every level of play.
Steroid cocktails don't make a difference at a local road race, because no one is using them. Neither do expensive running shoes.
But in Magic, money matters immediately. Especially on the casual level, the players stratify clearly based on money spent on cards. The player who buys two boosters a week is better than the player who buys one is better than the player who buys one every other week.
I'm not entirely convinced that MtG players are so much "Athletes of the Mind" as "Athletes of the Wallet"...
I'm not sure which quote from the article I think is worse - referring to it as the "so-called 'open source' movement, or refering to infected computers as an "army of zombie PCs."
Either way, wow. What a terrible article.
Anyway, it should be easy to distance the open source community from this virus - it's not as though the writer of it released the source or anything, or put it out under the GPL.
Though there would be something dryly amusing if he had.
Of course, the reason why textbook publishers keep pumping out new editions is because the used book market destroys their market share. If they don't keep putting out new editions, then they'll see money from about one out of every six uses of a book.
Making the situation far worse is the way in which university bookstores price gouge - far worse than the book companies. They'll buy a book back for around 20% of its sale value, then sell it again at 80%. Then repeat the process endlessly. They make much more money off of used books, so they sell them whenever they can. Authors make no money at all on used books. So the reason the prices are so high is that publishers price the book to recoup some of the lost sales. Of course, the book stores, since they have a captive market, will frequently heavily mark up a new book as well.
The situation is bad enough that some book publishers, I don't know how seriously, have proposed binding a $100 bill into every fifth book, so that students would rip their books apart at the end of the semester, thus making them impossible to sell back.
The real solution, frankly, is to stop letting companies like Barnes and Noble run college bookstores, and for colleges to sell textbooks at cost to students - with no markups at all.
Interesting, though seemingly unremarkable - I believe Pixar already has a program whereby you can scan in a McCall's pattern, and it will sew the garment and fit it to one of their characters...
It's very nice and considerate of them to not release games on the DS.
I wonder if they'll extend the favor to more systems.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't an open beta when they just put the client up and anyone can join?
I have played Pacman Vs.
It is great.
Absolutely great.
Easily worth $20.
The article mentions Namco... but Namco is doing an exclusive for Nintendo already - Donkey Konga. And they put out Pac-Man Vs. as well - a small thing, but a very, very good game all the same.
They also mention how Squaresoft's exclusives are all on the PS2 now... which is odd, what with Crystal Chronicles out in only a few weeks.
I really wish commentators on Nintendo would bother to at least pretend to have done any research on their articles.
Like the guy linked to, I've had some accuracy problems with the ReplayTV channel guide myself. Typically, I call ReplayTV tech support, and they call my cable provider and get it sorted out. I'm not sure how it is he failed to get that sorted out - shouldn't have been hard.
On top of that, his wanting to record the Daily Show and Gilmore Girls without regard for date and time is just silly - Daily Show airs the same episode four times during the day, and there's no reason to get all four, and Gilmore Girls only airs once a week.
So, yeah. He's a whiny little geek.
Yeah, but I think this system will probably have more than one color, not cause motion sickness, and be playable without neck pain. I mean, it's just a guess, but I think Nintendo probably learned on that one.
Zelda as a killer app for GBA connectivity?
I'll give you Animal Crossing and Final Fantasy... and you should really have Pac-Man vs. on that list...
But Zelda?
Tingle sucked in that game.
Well, this wasn't what I expected - a mid-level console - more portable than a Gamecube, but still, by the description of it, probably not going to fit into my coat pocket like my GBA does and still leave room for my iPod.
Still, in the end I have to take a deep breath and say that Nintendo still has many of the best game designers in the industry, and that they've made some damn fine use of some pretty strange toys before. (I mean, who knew GBA connectivity would lead to something as cool as Pac-Man vs? Or that the e-Reader would lead to neat things like the Super Mario Brothers 3 level cards?) It certainly sounds like an idea that could be really cool. And I have no doubt that Nintendo can carry it off.
Still... huh.