If you like various PS2 exclusive franchises then yes you will be buying a PS3, and Sony knows that. You however, looking at the initial price of the PS3 won't be buying it at launch. Sony knows that too.
in 6-12 months the PS3 will not still cost $600, it will slowly be creeping down. As it does more and more people who were holding off on buying it will finally pick it up which will keep the PS3 sales numbers high, which is very good for Sony.
Be died because there were few apps for it and the first versions you had to by the BeBox. BeFS was not new either. There was no good reason to use Be, it solved no problem that couldn't be solved with existing OS's.
Oh you mean the kid next door that doesn't really know anything. Since this thread started on thinking that ATI should open it's drivers to pander to Linux enthusiasts, on those grounds shouldn't you also be advising people to steer clear of nVidia.
Define geek market. Linux users make up a small amount of the purchases in it, most comes from hardcore gamers. They don't care about open drivers, they want raw performance. If you're going to make a business selling to the 'geek market' pandering to Linux users is going to keep you small, the money is coming from retarded gamers who truly believe that everything becomes obsolete in less then 6 months.
I remember seeing a few years ago Computer Associates had some Oracle, DB2 and a few other RDBMS posers outlining the relationships between the system tables. I think they were even free at the time.
They also know those fans aren't that large of a market. There is very little business reason to open up nVidia's or ATI's drivers. Think about it, the only reason anyone here comes up with is they might buy a card in the future if they did. Might, years from now. when their current 1mb card from 10 years ago blows up.
They're also not following W3C standards for accessibility. Google can currently do no wrong, even when they do exactly what others would be blasted for as being wrong.
So this is either just pure marketing, or someone at MS half-arsed an app to automate default file and protocol associations.
Or you don't know what you're talking about.
I'm going with number three. This is about the OEM deciding what is default on your system instead of MS. I don't see what the big deal is about since neither option is any good.
There is only less time available if you spend all your time in the MMO. You may or may not choose to, but since you do not have to a popular MMO can not be pointed at as a reason why crap games do not sell well. If you are the type of person that chooses to spend all there time in WoW then you probably were the person to play older games as well instead of buying new crap for the sake of buying a new game.
people are expected to buy 3 games a year for the PS2... 3 super awesome games this year were sold to 100% of the PS2 owning population
No game is going to appeal to that many people, and only idiots *expect* people to buy any number of games. Why not just make a market analysis, some people go to Denny's and if everyone went there, there would be less people to go to other restaurants. You will never have everyone going to Denny's so the statement is stupid and irrelevant. The WoW causing doom and gloom for games relies on 3 flawed premises. One, people who play WoW NEVER buy anything else while they play it. Two, if they didn't play WoW they would buy games at the same rate as before, and three, just about every gamer plays WoW. None of which are true.
If 1.5 million Americans made up so large a portion of the gaming public that them spending time with WoW is such a horrible thing the gaming industry would not be as large as it is. WoW being a single cause of not selling games ignores the more probable situation where most games currently being released are absolute shit.
I do no play WoW. I do not buy bad games. I have not bought a game in some time because there has been nothing to really appeal to me. Look at that, a reason for not being a consumer whore that doesn't blame WoW.
You can be playing several games at once, playing an MMO does not mean you do nothing else until you grow tired of it and quit. I think you'll find that there are more then 1.5 million Americans that call themselves gamers, so the question is more why aren't they buying your game. Maybe the answer is that it sucks.
No, if they were serious they would have made it distro and packaging tool agnostic. Picking to base it on debs and the way Debian does things would be no different then picking rpm and how Red Hat does things.
Lots of exploits that have been released have been fixed before the exploit made the rounds. Its just that the type of moron MySpace caters to are also the type of moron that won't ever learn how to do things right.
MySpace knows its users are idiots, and that they aren't going anywhere until their 15 minutes of fame are up. What do they care that ads they carry also target those same idiots.
the article states that ATI are working with DirectX 10 under windows XP (with a few modifications to make it fit Vista). So the question is - if they can, and it's obviously possible, why can't we we?
Because we don't develop graphics hardware. A new version of DirectX is pretty useless without hardware that supports the changes. Vista is a beta platform making it a poor choice to develop things on right now, you would never know if a problem is because of what you did or because of Vistas beta code.
So rather then wait for Vista to ship before developers can do work on DirectX 10, they created a developers preview to allow ATI and nVidia to begin to work on supporting the new features. Since a lot of the benefits to Vista are in DirectX 10, they want to have it supported in hardware as soon as possible.
No, it's not funny at all. Why would someone who spent time understanding something have to work for the company that made it? On top of that, few people at Microsoft would ever have to work with so many of the different parts of Windows to be able to be considered an expert in the internals of Windows. There are probably a tonne of people in MS that know a hell of a lot more about their part then he does, but have little to do with other parts.
They have learned. They learned that as long as the game and movie come out at the same time it will sell fast enough that the word of mouth on how bad it it won't kill sales before a profit is made.
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If you like various PS2 exclusive franchises then yes you will be buying a PS3, and Sony knows that. You however, looking at the initial price of the PS3 won't be buying it at launch. Sony knows that too.
in 6-12 months the PS3 will not still cost $600, it will slowly be creeping down. As it does more and more people who were holding off on buying it will finally pick it up which will keep the PS3 sales numbers high, which is very good for Sony.
I saw it. No one cared. By the time playing movies on your PC became a problem, existing OS's could do it just fine.
I just wish I could find a copy.
Be died because there were few apps for it and the first versions you had to by the BeBox. BeFS was not new either. There was no good reason to use Be, it solved no problem that couldn't be solved with existing OS's.
Oh you mean the kid next door that doesn't really know anything. Since this thread started on thinking that ATI should open it's drivers to pander to Linux enthusiasts, on those grounds shouldn't you also be advising people to steer clear of nVidia.
Define geek market. Linux users make up a small amount of the purchases in it, most comes from hardcore gamers. They don't care about open drivers, they want raw performance. If you're going to make a business selling to the 'geek market' pandering to Linux users is going to keep you small, the money is coming from retarded gamers who truly believe that everything becomes obsolete in less then 6 months.
I remember seeing a few years ago Computer Associates had some Oracle, DB2 and a few other RDBMS posers outlining the relationships between the system tables. I think they were even free at the time.
They also know those fans aren't that large of a market. There is very little business reason to open up nVidia's or ATI's drivers. Think about it, the only reason anyone here comes up with is they might buy a card in the future if they did. Might, years from now. when their current 1mb card from 10 years ago blows up.
Any decade now.
They're also not following W3C standards for accessibility. Google can currently do no wrong, even when they do exactly what others would be blasted for as being wrong.
Bless you.
Since when is the 37th anniversary significant? Definitely deserves a mention but 30 years is more of a milestone.
Why? Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.
I'm going with number three. This is about the OEM deciding what is default on your system instead of MS. I don't see what the big deal is about since neither option is any good.
No game is going to appeal to that many people, and only idiots *expect* people to buy any number of games. Why not just make a market analysis, some people go to Denny's and if everyone went there, there would be less people to go to other restaurants. You will never have everyone going to Denny's so the statement is stupid and irrelevant. The WoW causing doom and gloom for games relies on 3 flawed premises. One, people who play WoW NEVER buy anything else while they play it. Two, if they didn't play WoW they would buy games at the same rate as before, and three, just about every gamer plays WoW. None of which are true.
If 1.5 million Americans made up so large a portion of the gaming public that them spending time with WoW is such a horrible thing the gaming industry would not be as large as it is. WoW being a single cause of not selling games ignores the more probable situation where most games currently being released are absolute shit.
I do no play WoW. I do not buy bad games. I have not bought a game in some time because there has been nothing to really appeal to me. Look at that, a reason for not being a consumer whore that doesn't blame WoW.
You can be playing several games at once, playing an MMO does not mean you do nothing else until you grow tired of it and quit. I think you'll find that there are more then 1.5 million Americans that call themselves gamers, so the question is more why aren't they buying your game. Maybe the answer is that it sucks.
No, if they were serious they would have made it distro and packaging tool agnostic. Picking to base it on debs and the way Debian does things would be no different then picking rpm and how Red Hat does things.
Lots of exploits that have been released have been fixed before the exploit made the rounds. Its just that the type of moron MySpace caters to are also the type of moron that won't ever learn how to do things right.
MySpace knows its users are idiots, and that they aren't going anywhere until their 15 minutes of fame are up. What do they care that ads they carry also target those same idiots.
So rather then wait for Vista to ship before developers can do work on DirectX 10, they created a developers preview to allow ATI and nVidia to begin to work on supporting the new features. Since a lot of the benefits to Vista are in DirectX 10, they want to have it supported in hardware as soon as possible.
No, it's not funny at all. Why would someone who spent time understanding something have to work for the company that made it? On top of that, few people at Microsoft would ever have to work with so many of the different parts of Windows to be able to be considered an expert in the internals of Windows. There are probably a tonne of people in MS that know a hell of a lot more about their part then he does, but have little to do with other parts.
Yep, they'll shoot their players. You realize everything your complaining about is a problem with users, not the game.
But you would have been wrong if he had. So he wouldn't give you the money.
But that meant you were right and forsaw that, so he should have.
But if he had you would have been wrong, so he shouldn't.
But...
There would be no way to verify the x% required Canadian content. If its not 15% Canadian crap, it can't be on the CBC.
How am I supposed to ogle an animated Lucy Lawless?
They have learned. They learned that as long as the game and movie come out at the same time it will sell fast enough that the word of mouth on how bad it it won't kill sales before a profit is made.