I dunno. I've played X-Box a lot and the only reason I own one is because it was given to me for free. I still haven't gone out and bought any games for it. With the exception of Halo which I've played to death I really am not interested in much X-Box has to offer. Perhaps when Halo 2 comes out.
I'm all for making troops life easier while in a combat zone, but uh, shouldn't more money/time/expertise be used towards something a little more useful? Say....water or electricity for the population of the country the army is currently occupying.
You mean like the $87 billion that was approved earlier this year?
As an Airman trust me when I say that stuff like this can be very big for morale. And something that needs to be raised right now, especially in the combat areas is higher morale.
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You mean your one-time "benefit" of somewhere in the vicinity of $300? Real big help there.. Just in time to help boost Christmas spending so he can claim a "recovery" and a "robust, booming economy". Bzzzt.
Don't forget, while people got that $300 back because of federal tax cuts, how much did state taxes go up? What services are being cut because they can no longer be funded? How much was your school taxes raised? Property tax?
While Bush made out like the good guy for giving people a few bucks, many are too uninformed or don't want to like to the fact that they are still getting taxed almost as much to even more because the states are now having to cover what the federal government cannot.
Sunday I'm having lunch with my Senators and the Senators from Rhode Island. I'll make sure that if they aren't aware of what Hatch is up to they will be and I'll make sure they know why this is a bad idea. Yeah I doubt this has a chance of passing but hey, the way this Administration and Congress are going soon I'll be calling Dubya Big Brother.
The Combat Mission games have been hailed as the best wargames ever developed, and even some of the best PC games developed period. It's a truly amazing achievement, considering that Combat Mission was started in a garage by two or three guys, and that the only place to get it was online.
BigTime Software and battlefront.com have done a wonderful job with the CM series. While it isn't the best selling video game of all time it gets great reviews and has a wonderful community following. CMBO and CMBB sold well considering they were only released on the internet at first and have since both gone on the be released in stores as Special Editions. And soon we'll have CMAK and I'm sure that'll do just as well and get rave reviews just like the others.
Combat Mission is a great example of the good an independent company can do if they have the freedom to make a game how they want and don't have to deal with upper management, market researchers, etc. getting in the way.
battlefront.com offers several games for sale only over the internet including their very successful Combat Mission series. The CM series is great but if I'd never been offered a demo to play I highly doubt I'd own both games that are out today and have my credit card ready for when the third goes on sale.
The fact is, games are expensive. I'm not just going to blindly buy a video game. For console games I'll rent them before I buy them and for computer games I get a demo first. It's how it is. I'm not going to throw my hard earned money away on crap.
Now I'm not the most familiar with online console gaming but I know with online computer games many of these need to be patched. And it's possible to do this with a computer. But with a console game it's not possible to patch it. I suppose the gaming companies could fix the problems and release an updated game but it'd just piss off those who already have the game.
I'll use Civ3 Play the World for example. It was terrible out of the box. Multiplayer didn't even really work. But several patches later and while not perfect is much, much better than it was on release. If PtW had been released for play online with a console Firaxis would have had plenty of pissed off people.
Put it all together and you have the Cable Science Network (CSN). A C-SPAN for science.
I don't think they should be shooting for the C-SPAN of science. That's not exactly the most entertaining of television for the majority of Americans. They will have to spice it up in some way while still sticking to true science. Otherwise its audience will only be those who already are truly into science the same way that most who watch C-SPAN are already very much into politics.
"...combines the game console's microprocessor and graphics chip, will start at 'several' hundred thousand units before growing to more than a million units by next year."
That's a lot of units for a console that's reaching the beginning of the end. Most people who own PS2s already have one. I doubt that they'll be able to move that many chips.
Taken from a story at planetgamecube.com : Nintendo blames much of the losses on the unexpected appreciation of the Japanese yen, citing roughly 40 billion yen in foreign exchange losses for the time span. Nintendo also disclosed it had originally planned to reduce the GameCube's price earlier in the year, and expects the new price to vastly improve sales during the holiday season.
Nintendo just dropped the price of the GC. Now sales have gone up significantly. And with the sales of the consoles are sales of games. I'll bet that Nintendo will be back in the black real soon.
You bring up a good point. You already have a PS2. A lot of people already have a PS2. So is there really all that much of a market for this? Not only that, this will more than likely be more expensive. Will that hurt sales? I'm not so sure this will be a big seller.
Eh, I doubt I'd ever get one. I'm really not impressed with the all in one appliances. They just never seem to be as good as if you buy all the components seperatly. Sure it might be more expensive and take up more room but there are advantages. One being quality but also is a greater number of features that are left out of the all in one devices.
For instance, my DVD player has many more features that the PS2/X-box DVD players have. Not only that I have never had a problem with my DVD player but have had issues with both game consoles' DVD players.
Well the first thing MSN should do is get rid of all the damn clutter they have on their page. Perhaps after that and a big improvement on their search capabilities I'd consider ever using it.
True but if I buy a PSP I'm buying it to play games. That's what I look for when I buy a portable gaming device. I don't care about the other fancy stuff as much. While nice it isn't necessary. That's why I like Nintendo's approach to things, they focus on the games and gaming aspects of their devices not fancy doo-dads that aren't the best price and raise the price. If I want a portable DVD player I'll buy a portable DVD player. In the end it'll be better than a hybrid thing that's trying to do several things at once.
and other details emerged - the system's battery life was "...said to be comparable to other high-end devices (roughly 3-6 hours)"
This doesn't seem like a lot to me. I did a quick Google search and saw that the official stats on the GBA SP give it 10 hours light on/17 hours light off. Now that's three times longer than the PSP. That's pretty significant. They'll have to definatly increase batterly life before I'd look at getting one of these.
C'mon, everyone knows this is frivolous. The RIAA has nothing but good intentions here. You can trust them. I mean take a look back at all their past actions and ask yourself, "Why wouldn't the RIAA want to be my friend?"
"ESPN.com's new games Web site, ESPN Gamer, gave 'Madden' a higher review than 'ESPN NFL Football'."
Maybe because Madden is a better game? Just because it's ESPN Football doesn't mean that ESPN can't be impartial and not give another game a higher rating.
Back in this story Nintendo is saying they aren't focusing on online support for the GC2. People aren't using it an da lot of games aren't being made for it. Online gaming is still in its infancy and has a long way to go before it is mainstream.
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I dunno. I've played X-Box a lot and the only reason I own one is because it was given to me for free. I still haven't gone out and bought any games for it. With the exception of Halo which I've played to death I really am not interested in much X-Box has to offer. Perhaps when Halo 2 comes out.
You mean like the $87 billion that was approved earlier this year?
As an Airman trust me when I say that stuff like this can be very big for morale. And something that needs to be raised right now, especially in the combat areas is higher morale.
You mean your one-time "benefit" of somewhere in the vicinity of $300? Real big help there.. Just in time to help boost Christmas spending so he can claim a "recovery" and a "robust, booming economy". Bzzzt.
Don't forget, while people got that $300 back because of federal tax cuts, how much did state taxes go up? What services are being cut because they can no longer be funded? How much was your school taxes raised? Property tax?
While Bush made out like the good guy for giving people a few bucks, many are too uninformed or don't want to like to the fact that they are still getting taxed almost as much to even more because the states are now having to cover what the federal government cannot.
Sunday I'm having lunch with my Senators and the Senators from Rhode Island. I'll make sure that if they aren't aware of what Hatch is up to they will be and I'll make sure they know why this is a bad idea. Yeah I doubt this has a chance of passing but hey, the way this Administration and Congress are going soon I'll be calling Dubya Big Brother.
Combat Mission is a great example of the good an independent company can do if they have the freedom to make a game how they want and don't have to deal with upper management, market researchers, etc. getting in the way.
And will that be the reason you buy your PS3 considering you already have a PS2 with a built in DVD player?
The fact is, games are expensive. I'm not just going to blindly buy a video game. For console games I'll rent them before I buy them and for computer games I get a demo first. It's how it is. I'm not going to throw my hard earned money away on crap.
I'll use Civ3 Play the World for example. It was terrible out of the box. Multiplayer didn't even really work. But several patches later and while not perfect is much, much better than it was on release. If PtW had been released for play online with a console Firaxis would have had plenty of pissed off people.
I don't think they should be shooting for the C-SPAN of science. That's not exactly the most entertaining of television for the majority of Americans. They will have to spice it up in some way while still sticking to true science. Otherwise its audience will only be those who already are truly into science the same way that most who watch C-SPAN are already very much into politics.
One things for sure, the N-Gage sure isn't exploding off the shelves.
At $700+ I don't know how many Joe Average's are going to be getting these. This really seems more like a toy for geeks.
That's a lot of units for a console that's reaching the beginning of the end. Most people who own PS2s already have one. I doubt that they'll be able to move that many chips.
You are incorrect, they do not use Euros in the UK. They still use Pounds there.
Nintendo just dropped the price of the GC. Now sales have gone up significantly. And with the sales of the consoles are sales of games. I'll bet that Nintendo will be back in the black real soon.
You bring up a good point. You already have a PS2. A lot of people already have a PS2. So is there really all that much of a market for this? Not only that, this will more than likely be more expensive. Will that hurt sales? I'm not so sure this will be a big seller.
For instance, my DVD player has many more features that the PS2/X-box DVD players have. Not only that I have never had a problem with my DVD player but have had issues with both game consoles' DVD players.
Well the first thing MSN should do is get rid of all the damn clutter they have on their page. Perhaps after that and a big improvement on their search capabilities I'd consider ever using it.
This doesn't seem like a lot to me. I did a quick Google search and saw that the official stats on the GBA SP give it 10 hours light on/17 hours light off. Now that's three times longer than the PSP. That's pretty significant. They'll have to definatly increase batterly life before I'd look at getting one of these.
Maybe because Madden is a better game? Just because it's ESPN Football doesn't mean that ESPN can't be impartial and not give another game a higher rating.
Forget joke IDs, send them a whole bunch AOL CDs.
Back in this story Nintendo is saying they aren't focusing on online support for the GC2. People aren't using it an da lot of games aren't being made for it. Online gaming is still in its infancy and has a long way to go before it is mainstream.
So that's who my parents are. All these years of searching. Thank you so much.