It's good to see them stating sales rather than shipments, unlike Sony, which likes to brag about how many units have been shipped out of their factories but not about how many have actually left the store.
That said, I'm a big Nintendo fan, and even I feel inclined to take these numbers as being slightly exagerated, if only by rounding up. Still, this is very, very nice to hear. Perhaps there is room in this industry for innovation after all.
Will players be able to drop whatever the new analogue of skill boxes are in order to go back and try something new? Or will class choices now be permanent like in other MMORPGs?
People really could stand to take better care of their stuff. I've had a 4G iPod for more than a year now, and there are hardly any scratches on it at all. It's simply a matter of being responsible and not tossing your precious electronic devices into a pile of nails and scorpions. In my opinion, this lawsuit is ridiculous and should be thrown out.
What he's doing there with his paragraphs is actually standard newspaper practice. I used to write for my college's newspaper, and my editor would hack apart my lengthy paragraphs into stuttering, syncopated messes all the time. The reasoning for it was the column width used in the paper, which is typically very narrow. Paragraphs that are normal length in a paperback sized page suddenly look enormous when copied to a newspaper column. In order to keep readers from being intimidated, and thus not reading the articles printed, editors usually chop long paragraphs up.
Don't forget, the XBox 360 has a similar function on its controllers. If this turns into a problem on that console, Nintendo has more than enough time to take it off of the Revolution controller.
I'm holding one in my hands right now. The edge limit is octagonal, not hexagonal.
I know a lot of people don't like the way that Nintendo's analog sticks have these octagons underneath them, because it feels restrictive, but I personally prefer it, because I know where absolute left is, where absolute up-left is, etc.
I took the time to read through some of the other articles on this site, and I am convinced that these writers are all just a big bunch of cookie-cutter rantaholics. They seem to enjoy bitching and nothing else, and at least in the articles that I read, they don't really know what they're talking about.
As an example: there is an article up there entitled "I hate Puppies, or how Nintendogs will ruin the world," the general gist of which being that Nintendogs is stupid, and I'll be over here playing real games. And then in the article linked in this Slashdot post, we get this: "Look at Nintendog's sales--they're they're spectacular. 'Nuff said. Games are games. Let's keep them that way." Granted, these are from two different writers, but I'm not trying to point out hypocrisy; I'm pointing out that many of these writers are know-nothing blowhards.
The writer makes some valid points, but her reputability is marred by that of her colleagues.
They probably left it out because nobody really knows just what the Revolution is going to be yet. Let's just hope they spill the beans on something at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend.
Sony and MS, yes, but I'm torn on whether I want to believe Nintendo will follow suit. A lot of analysts are expecting Nintendo to stick to the current price points ($199 console, $50 games), at least for first and second party software.
Just because it's not scientific, does not mean that it is worthless. As long as potential biases are noted in the writeup following a survey/study, the results are still perfectly useful. And also keep in mind that no matter how many lengths one goes to to make a survey sample representative, it is never going to be perfectly so. There is always some error, and there is always some insight to be gained, "scientific" or not.
You misunderstand. The delay wasn't because Nintendo is having trouble implementing it. The delay is because Nintendo didn't implement it at all, and now, they've decided to do the right thing and put it in.
Yeah, I can't stand the 12-year-olds either, but I find that I tend to have more good experiences than bad once my level starts holding steady. I'm a measley 10, and most of the people I get matched up with are at least not complete idiots.
And if anyone really is a problem, I usually just mute them and make note of their name so I can leave feedback after the match. Of course, I'm making a rather optimistic assumption that Bungie actually pays attention to feedback.
It was done for the sake of ease of use. Allowing the user to set all of the parameters they want will lead to confusion for people who don't understand online multiplayer gaming. "What's a host?" you'll hear them say. So by automating the whole thing, even making the distinction of who is hosting completely transparent, you make the multiplayer experience much more streamlined and easy to use.
And you can still set any parameters you want. It just requires that you host a game, and invite your friends to join in. It's not much unlike hosting a game on the PC.
Games back in the cartridge era were typically in the $60 range. There were even a few N64 games that were $70. We really just got spoiled when cheap optical media allowed companies to lower the prices to $50.
Honestly, I've seen this coming for a long time. I'm not going to complain.
I used to go to the University of Delaware. One year (2002?), at the beginning of the fall semester, they manually knocked the speed of the network down to 56k levels, and blamed it on the rampant music sharing going on. Then they gradually trickled it back up to full speed, and said it was because they were cracking down on piracy by crippling the connections of anyone who downloaded more then 1 gig of data in one day. I got nailed three or four times for that. They bumped my port down to something like.5k/s for a month.
Anything that prevents that sort of knee-jerk idiocy from happening again is okay in my book. I still think there are better options, though. I can see it becoming a big DRM nuisance really easily.
It's a psychological thing. The key phrase is at the end, "...who have the ability to test two at a time." Male brains are physiologicially incapable of processing more than one thought at a time. That is why when a man is driving, as in actually concentrating on it, his ability to have a conversation diminishes - he's simply not capable of doing both.
Female brains, on the other hand, are capable of processing more than one thought at a time (I'm not sure if it's only two, it might be more). The female brain essentially has hyperthreading.
I'm not really sure why they would need to be able to test two at the same time, but then again, I also didn't RTFA because my firewall at work blocked it for some reason.
These jokers remind me of those annoying liberal arts majors in college who constantly complained to their engineering friends about how hard their majors were. "Oh my God! You have no idea how difficult English Lit really is! Look at this book! It's got like a hundred pages, and I have to read them all! Ooh, and in Introductory Algebra, oh my God, the teacher started writing all these letters on the board instead of numbers, and I was all like 'Oh my God!'"
Meanwhile, I was busy with three lab reports and studying for an exam, all on the same night, which, oh yeah, happened to be the same night that I was turning 21.
Damn, so now we have to wait even longer for the copyright on Happy Birthday to expire? Do they have any idea how terrible For He's a Jolly Good Fellow sounds??
I got the sense Adams was in a bad mood while writing the thing.
He was, actually. He said so himself. I forget when it was that I read it. He also said that he was thinking about making The Salmon of Doubt into another HG book, so he could end the series with less of a downer. Poetic irony then stepped in and killed him.
The reason you actually like the new ones is because you're not a brainless metooian who dislikes the new trilogy and the Special Editions just because everyone else does. You think on your own. To you I say: HOW DARE YOU DEFY THE HIVE??
God I hate it when it becomes trendy to piss and moan about something.
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It's good to see them stating sales rather than shipments, unlike Sony, which likes to brag about how many units have been shipped out of their factories but not about how many have actually left the store. That said, I'm a big Nintendo fan, and even I feel inclined to take these numbers as being slightly exagerated, if only by rounding up. Still, this is very, very nice to hear. Perhaps there is room in this industry for innovation after all.
Derp, perhaps a link would be nice, huh? Linky
Kris Straub, creator of Checkerboard Nightmare and Starslip Crisis, gives an interesting commentary on this news.
Will players be able to drop whatever the new analogue of skill boxes are in order to go back and try something new? Or will class choices now be permanent like in other MMORPGs?
People really could stand to take better care of their stuff. I've had a 4G iPod for more than a year now, and there are hardly any scratches on it at all. It's simply a matter of being responsible and not tossing your precious electronic devices into a pile of nails and scorpions. In my opinion, this lawsuit is ridiculous and should be thrown out.
I know. I'm not saying it's good. You'll notice I already voiced my disapproval of the practice. I'm just saying, that's what happens in the biz.
What he's doing there with his paragraphs is actually standard newspaper practice. I used to write for my college's newspaper, and my editor would hack apart my lengthy paragraphs into stuttering, syncopated messes all the time. The reasoning for it was the column width used in the paper, which is typically very narrow. Paragraphs that are normal length in a paperback sized page suddenly look enormous when copied to a newspaper column. In order to keep readers from being intimidated, and thus not reading the articles printed, editors usually chop long paragraphs up.
Don't forget, the XBox 360 has a similar function on its controllers. If this turns into a problem on that console, Nintendo has more than enough time to take it off of the Revolution controller.
I know a lot of people don't like the way that Nintendo's analog sticks have these octagons underneath them, because it feels restrictive, but I personally prefer it, because I know where absolute left is, where absolute up-left is, etc.
As an example: there is an article up there entitled "I hate Puppies, or how Nintendogs will ruin the world," the general gist of which being that Nintendogs is stupid, and I'll be over here playing real games. And then in the article linked in this Slashdot post, we get this: "Look at Nintendog's sales--they're they're spectacular. 'Nuff said. Games are games. Let's keep them that way." Granted, these are from two different writers, but I'm not trying to point out hypocrisy; I'm pointing out that many of these writers are know-nothing blowhards.
The writer makes some valid points, but her reputability is marred by that of her colleagues.
They probably left it out because nobody really knows just what the Revolution is going to be yet. Let's just hope they spill the beans on something at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend.
Sony and MS, yes, but I'm torn on whether I want to believe Nintendo will follow suit. A lot of analysts are expecting Nintendo to stick to the current price points ($199 console, $50 games), at least for first and second party software.
Just because it's not scientific, does not mean that it is worthless. As long as potential biases are noted in the writeup following a survey/study, the results are still perfectly useful. And also keep in mind that no matter how many lengths one goes to to make a survey sample representative, it is never going to be perfectly so. There is always some error, and there is always some insight to be gained, "scientific" or not.
You misunderstand. The delay wasn't because Nintendo is having trouble implementing it. The delay is because Nintendo didn't implement it at all, and now, they've decided to do the right thing and put it in.
And if anyone really is a problem, I usually just mute them and make note of their name so I can leave feedback after the match. Of course, I'm making a rather optimistic assumption that Bungie actually pays attention to feedback.
And you can still set any parameters you want. It just requires that you host a game, and invite your friends to join in. It's not much unlike hosting a game on the PC.
Honestly, I've seen this coming for a long time. I'm not going to complain.
Cue the Comcast and Verizon lobbyists!
Anything that prevents that sort of knee-jerk idiocy from happening again is okay in my book. I still think there are better options, though. I can see it becoming a big DRM nuisance really easily.
"Psychology," not Scientology. Try picking up a textbook. It's a fact.
Female brains, on the other hand, are capable of processing more than one thought at a time (I'm not sure if it's only two, it might be more). The female brain essentially has hyperthreading.
I'm not really sure why they would need to be able to test two at the same time, but then again, I also didn't RTFA because my firewall at work blocked it for some reason.
Meanwhile, I was busy with three lab reports and studying for an exam, all on the same night, which, oh yeah, happened to be the same night that I was turning 21.
Engineers > Actors -- Get in line, theater major.
Damn, so now we have to wait even longer for the copyright on Happy Birthday to expire? Do they have any idea how terrible For He's a Jolly Good Fellow sounds??
I got the sense Adams was in a bad mood while writing the thing. He was, actually. He said so himself. I forget when it was that I read it. He also said that he was thinking about making The Salmon of Doubt into another HG book, so he could end the series with less of a downer. Poetic irony then stepped in and killed him.
The reason you actually like the new ones is because you're not a brainless metooian who dislikes the new trilogy and the Special Editions just because everyone else does. You think on your own. To you I say: HOW DARE YOU DEFY THE HIVE??
God I hate it when it becomes trendy to piss and moan about something.