"There is no question that both the core gamer and gift giver are very enthusiastic about this great product. In fact, our attach ratio of games and accessories to date has never been higher for any release in GameStop's history."
Could it perhaps be that the reason the attach rate is so high is because the stores forced people to pre-order the 360 with lots of games they didn't want along with some useless peripherals thrown in with it? Then when they buy the machine they have to buy the games and accessories they want thereby ensuring Gamestop et al get to flog as much crap as possible.
Similar I would think to Sony UK's current tactic of forcing all shops selling PSPs to bundle games that no-one wants with the system, otherwise they don't get supplied with stock.
Wake me when Sony have released a firmware that lets me run my emulators and homebrew games. Until then I'll happily carry on using firmware 1.0 on my PSP and just buying games for my DS instead.
"File sharing is reducing the probability that any act is able to sell millions of records"
How about file sharing is allowing people to sample the artificial crap the music industry churns out these days and they decide not to waste their money on the product?
Funnier still is that the UK and US governments deliberately mis-quoted Chirac, they claimed Chirac had promised to block any vote for war in the UN. What Chirac actually said was that he would not vote for war unless the weapons inspectors were allowed to complete their inspection and confirmed the presences of WMDs. Which is quite reasonable if you ask me...
But that didn't stop Bush & Co from demonising the French and starting a nationwide backlash against them just to prevent their reasonable criticism from being heard. I don't have any great love for the French but we should at least criticise them for something they did actually do.
Of course if you show people pictures of games they enjoyed they're going to want to play them. I mean they're stuck in a room being shown pictures of chairs and other boring items, you show them a picture of Super Mario World of course they're going to want to play it.
If they'd shown a naked picture of Lindsay Lohan would they have concluded that all the subjects were sex addicts because they wanted to have sex with her?
Just look at the big external brick used to power it in the Anandtech article! Take something that big out of the casing and it's bound to be smaller. It would have ended up the same size as the Xbox 1 otherwise.
I'm in the UK so I've never heard Thompson speak but I've always imagined he sounds like Pastor Richards from Vice City with his rantings about immorality...
You could always register your displeasure by buying some bootlegs on Ebay...;)
What annoys me even more about all the Trek boxsets is that they have virtually no extras. There are no commentaries to speak of, there's just one set of extras on the last disc of the season. Usually they are just a bunch of archived interviews and the occasional retrospective from the cast and crew. For the money they're asking I'd expect a lot more than that.
Indeed, I'm sure the timing of this "wonder drug" has nothing to do with the imminent ban of smoking in public places that the government is planning too.
Sorry I own all the consoles and generally prefer playing on them to the PC, perhaps you should try thinking of some other excuse for Halo's mediocrity.
To people who listen to whatever sites like IGN, 1Up et al say, Halo might be a console seller. To anyone willing to realise that Halo is the Emperor's New Clothes that isn't the case.
"DC: Had tons of amazing games...but no Halo 3 X360: Will have Halo 3. And it will be huge."
How the hell do they know Halo 3 will be huge? If it's like the last one it won't be finished and it won't be a patch on the FPS games the PC has been doing for years.
Who the fuck is bribing the whole games industry into giving the Halo franchise such a cock sucking? It's average at best and nothing revolutionary, why everyone hails these games as the second coming I don't know. And before anyone tells me about Halo 2 on Live, it's full of squealing 13 year olds who call everyone gay when they get fragged.
I think this is partially an inertia thing. I remember the days of the 8-bit consoles where you needed a graphics score to check the game wasn't badly programmed. Back then a bad graphics score meant you had flickering sprites, slowdown and possibly graphical glitches. These days it's extremely uncommon to find a game that has "bad" graphics. Uninspiring or boring graphics maybe, but not usually badly programmed.
I think it's the same with the sound score in a review, way back when you wanted to make sure you didn't end up with something that had a bunch of beeps for a soundtrack.
As I said at the start, I think it's an inertia thing, no-one wants to change the way games are reviewed because everyone expects marks out of 10 (or a percentage) for graphics, sound, gameplay and an overall score. I would personally prefer a review that tells me what the games is about, how the controls work and what (if any) problems the reviewer found but without including a score. Scores are very subjective, would someone who bought Ninja Gaiden and found it impossble rate it as highly as someone who loves difficult games?
Exactly, if they say something like "Yeah dude, it's like totally that time of the month for me" you know it's a guy pretending to be a girl. Guys pretending to be girls get their period every few hours.
Well here's an easy voting tip: Don't vote for Tony Blair in anything, he's pro-patents and he's a lying scumbag too. Just ask him where all of Saddam's WMDs are!
Along with "Get this man into surgery I can see a cancerous lump on his lung... no wait, it's just a stuck pixel."
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Plus we established yesterday that Visual Studio rots the brain too. Sounds like developing in.Net is a real hazard to your health as you end up a vegetable with no control over your body. Maybe Davros programmed the Daleks in C#?
Unless I'm missing some sarcasm here, the article is referring to the same GamePC article posted on/. the other day. The only new thing this time round is the review by the Register.
While I expect the benchmark results to be fairly accurate, news sites and games sites don't really strike me as the best for reviewing chips for the server market.
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"There is no question that both the core gamer and gift giver are very enthusiastic about this great product. In fact, our attach ratio of games and accessories to date has never been higher for any release in GameStop's history."
Could it perhaps be that the reason the attach rate is so high is because the stores forced people to pre-order the 360 with lots of games they didn't want along with some useless peripherals thrown in with it? Then when they buy the machine they have to buy the games and accessories they want thereby ensuring Gamestop et al get to flog as much crap as possible.
Similar I would think to Sony UK's current tactic of forcing all shops selling PSPs to bundle games that no-one wants with the system, otherwise they don't get supplied with stock.
Wake me when Sony have released a firmware that lets me run my emulators and homebrew games. Until then I'll happily carry on using firmware 1.0 on my PSP and just buying games for my DS instead.
"File sharing is reducing the probability that any act is able to sell millions of records"
How about file sharing is allowing people to sample the artificial crap the music industry churns out these days and they decide not to waste their money on the product?
Yes there are multi-platform girls these days, Bangkok has a version with an extra joystick called the ladyboy.
Funnier still is that the UK and US governments deliberately mis-quoted Chirac, they claimed Chirac had promised to block any vote for war in the UN. What Chirac actually said was that he would not vote for war unless the weapons inspectors were allowed to complete their inspection and confirmed the presences of WMDs. Which is quite reasonable if you ask me...
But that didn't stop Bush & Co from demonising the French and starting a nationwide backlash against them just to prevent their reasonable criticism from being heard. I don't have any great love for the French but we should at least criticise them for something they did actually do.
Of course if you show people pictures of games they enjoyed they're going to want to play them. I mean they're stuck in a room being shown pictures of chairs and other boring items, you show them a picture of Super Mario World of course they're going to want to play it.
If they'd shown a naked picture of Lindsay Lohan would they have concluded that all the subjects were sex addicts because they wanted to have sex with her?
Just look at the big external brick used to power it in the Anandtech article! Take something that big out of the casing and it's bound to be smaller. It would have ended up the same size as the Xbox 1 otherwise.
D'you think if we give it its red ball it will go away and not destroy us all?
I'm in the UK so I've never heard Thompson speak but I've always imagined he sounds like Pastor Richards from Vice City with his rantings about immorality...
No need, Thompson has just bailed the case!
Is it the game of working out ways to piss off Sony by circumventing their crappy DRM?
You could always register your displeasure by buying some bootlegs on Ebay... ;)
What annoys me even more about all the Trek boxsets is that they have virtually no extras. There are no commentaries to speak of, there's just one set of extras on the last disc of the season. Usually they are just a bunch of archived interviews and the occasional retrospective from the cast and crew. For the money they're asking I'd expect a lot more than that.
Indeed, I'm sure the timing of this "wonder drug" has nothing to do with the imminent ban of smoking in public places that the government is planning too.
No dude, you're gay ;)
Sorry I own all the consoles and generally prefer playing on them to the PC, perhaps you should try thinking of some other excuse for Halo's mediocrity.
To people who listen to whatever sites like IGN, 1Up et al say, Halo might be a console seller. To anyone willing to realise that Halo is the Emperor's New Clothes that isn't the case.
"DC: Had tons of amazing games...but no Halo 3
X360: Will have Halo 3. And it will be huge."
How the hell do they know Halo 3 will be huge? If it's like the last one it won't be finished and it won't be a patch on the FPS games the PC has been doing for years.
Who the fuck is bribing the whole games industry into giving the Halo franchise such a cock sucking? It's average at best and nothing revolutionary, why everyone hails these games as the second coming I don't know. And before anyone tells me about Halo 2 on Live, it's full of squealing 13 year olds who call everyone gay when they get fragged.
I think this is partially an inertia thing. I remember the days of the 8-bit consoles where you needed a graphics score to check the game wasn't badly programmed. Back then a bad graphics score meant you had flickering sprites, slowdown and possibly graphical glitches. These days it's extremely uncommon to find a game that has "bad" graphics. Uninspiring or boring graphics maybe, but not usually badly programmed.
I think it's the same with the sound score in a review, way back when you wanted to make sure you didn't end up with something that had a bunch of beeps for a soundtrack.
As I said at the start, I think it's an inertia thing, no-one wants to change the way games are reviewed because everyone expects marks out of 10 (or a percentage) for graphics, sound, gameplay and an overall score. I would personally prefer a review that tells me what the games is about, how the controls work and what (if any) problems the reviewer found but without including a score. Scores are very subjective, would someone who bought Ninja Gaiden and found it impossble rate it as highly as someone who loves difficult games?
Ur not a gurl, they don't exists on the internets!!11! Post a pic to prove it!111
Exactly, if they say something like "Yeah dude, it's like totally that time of the month for me" you know it's a guy pretending to be a girl. Guys pretending to be girls get their period every few hours.
Don't you read the feedback on eBay? It's always stuff like "The item never arrived, just like my date for the prom!!!" when girls leave feedback.
Well here's an easy voting tip: Don't vote for Tony Blair in anything, he's pro-patents and he's a lying scumbag too. Just ask him where all of Saddam's WMDs are!
Along with "Get this man into surgery I can see a cancerous lump on his lung... no wait, it's just a stuck pixel."
Plus we established yesterday that Visual Studio rots the brain too. Sounds like developing in .Net is a real hazard to your health as you end up a vegetable with no control over your body. Maybe Davros programmed the Daleks in C#?
The 3DMark picture shows the core clocked at 882Mhz, does that mean it's not benchmark stable at 1Ghz or just that ATITool was mis-reading the core?
Unless I'm missing some sarcasm here, the article is referring to the same GamePC article posted on /. the other day. The only new thing this time round is the review by the Register.
While I expect the benchmark results to be fairly accurate, news sites and games sites don't really strike me as the best for reviewing chips for the server market.