Does having a carbon fibre casing mean I don't have to wrap my laptop up in tinfoil anymore to keep the black helicopter brigade from snooping around it?
If it does maybe I could be like Wolverine and get a carbon fibre skeleton so I don't have to wear tinfoil round my head.
Because the article says people are spending less money and time on gaming. Nintendo's strategy with the Revolution is to have a cheaper console with simple accessible games that don't require hours of constant playing.
I wasn't saying it was definitely going to be Nintendo's big comeback, I was merely suggesting that Nintendo might have seen this trend and are trying to adapt to it.
And on the subject of logic, where on earth did this "people will go to Nintendo now because Nintendo doesn't make games" garbage come from? What you said didn't even make sense.
True, but how much were DVD players when they first came out? IIRC they were about $400, people won't want to spend that every two years. Plus if they buy HD-DVD and in two years it's a dead format I can see them being pretty pissed at having to have two players; one for their old HD-DVD stuff plus a new player so they can watch Blu-ray stuff.
Good points. I seem to recall also that most consumers got into DVDs not because they had a better picture compared to VHS but because they had lots of special features and extras. It seems to me that more and better content not picture/sound quality is responsible for the rise of DVD, when consumers look at the new high-def formats unless they are seduced by better picture, I can't see them being that keen to shell out for it.
Yeah, recently I got a projector and I was amazed to see the amount of artifacts and blurriness to DVDs. HD WMV files (like the trailer to Project Gotham Racing 3 on Xbox 360) look phenomenal.
I mean don't get me wrong a new high-def format is a good thing in many ways, but I can't see your average consumer rushing to adopt it, especially if they have to be wary of a Betamax-like format war where they could find themselves having to buy another player in 2-3 years. And I wonder if the average uninformed consumer would view both Blu-ray and HD-DVD as "Betamax" formats that are competing with DVD?
If people are starting to lose interest in gaming, is this Nintendo's chance to shine with the Revolution, and its ideal of more accessible games and simple/intuitive controls?
It's only been about 3 years since DVD reached its supposed "critical mass" in the market and the players became extremely cheap to buy. Isn't it a bit soon to be trying to replace DVD? I mean VHS lasted for something like 20 years, DVD has managed about 6. I presume the movie industry views high def movies as another means of getting people to double-dip on their films.
I can see the public rejecting the new formats though. Many people have only had DVD players for 2 or 3 years, they aren't going to want to go and buy a new player and start waiting for their favourite films to be re-released in HD, especially if they run the risk of buying the "Betamax" of this war. I would guess Sony's big gamble is that the PS3 sells by the truck load and thereby they get a significant user base with Blu-ray drives.
I'm sure we'll see lots of dirty tricks like HD films having lots of extras and the normal DVDs being left as essentially bare bones to "encourage" people into upgrading.
What is the driving force behind wanting a new format anyway? Is it because the film industry has bought into the bullshit that DVD piracy is somehow hurting legal DVD sales? Is it because the studios can sell us all the films we just bought on DVD again but this time in high def? I suspect it's probably both...
The tin foil hat community has theorised that Sony themselves wrote this virus as a way of scaring PSP owners into updating to the latest 2.01 firmware. The latest version prevents you from downgrading to firmware 1.5 and running emulators and other homebrew games. Because the latest firmware doesn't have a web browser or any other "must have" feature, they need something to spur people into updating...
I agree, I'm certain that's all it was. The Inquirer was most likely having a small joke, but some of their writers have a somewhat offbeat sense of humour so I could see how people could misinterpret the article.
No reassurances this time that no personal data was stolen? Last time they made damn sure to point out that everyone's data was safe but it seems this time they've not told us about that. Could the hackers have a nice big list of email addresses to spam now?
That was my first thought, but when you check the sign up dates, these accounts start receiving mountains of spam about 3 hours after signing up.
I wouldn't really have any problem with people signing up just for a spam drop account, particularly if they kept the junk filter on as that would automatically delete most of the spam after 7 days. Sadly what I think we're seeing though is some sort of mailicious behaviour.
I run a few webmail systems myself, you would be amazed at how quickly people manage to eat up space. On one system we have a problem with people who sign up, turn off the spam blocker and then sign up for lots of spam. Their inbox fills up but they never actually use the service, making us wonder what the point to signing up was. We suspect it's just people who have a grudge against the company to whom we are supplying the webmail.
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There is generally a lot of respect and mutual admiration between game designers. Itagaki is something of an exception; he's extremely arrogant and he's always saying nasty things about other developers and their games.
He also recently called gamers who couldn't finish Ninja Gaiden on normal difficulty "pussies" (well it was translated as that). I tried pointing that out at 1UP.com here but the asshole running that page kept editing and deleting my posts. I don't know why he has a comments box if he's going to delete and edit anyone that doesn't agree with him, but the point stands, Itagaki is incredibly conceited.
"how exactly do you hype a series about a rag tag group of cowboys flying around in a spaceship getting into scrapes?"
I've never been able to come up with anything short or snappy to describe it either. The best I've been able to manage is "it's a bit like Han Solo getting his own TV show", but I'm not sure if that description does more harm than good when people realise Jewel Staite looks nothing like Chewbacca.
Seconded, I've had motherboards from Gigabyte, Abit, Shuttle and Epox (and Asus of course) and I've always found the Asus boards to be excellent, both stable and with lots of excellent features.
Compared to the piece of shit Shuttle SN25P I recently had that kept destroying my RAID array I would certainly be interested to hear what the grandparent doesn't like about Asus motherboards.
Absolutely. I personally find I upload 5 times what I'm ever able to download on eMule but it is the only place to go if what you're searching for is rare or old. The breadth of data on offer is staggering and it's no surprise it is the most popular P2P app these days.
While the question is about encouraging a gamer community I think it's worth looking at the way Tecmo discouraged it. All the people at NinjaHacker.net (now offline) were fans of various Tecmo franchises, particularly the DOA games. They had worked out ways of changing the costumes of the characters in these games, which spurred a huge number of alternate costumes for the various characters in the games. One costume made a character look like the Terminator, one make Ryu in DOA look like he did in Ninja Gaiden and there were dozens of others. These were the dedicated fans a games company would love to have, yet Tecmo decided to sue the site's owners under the DMCA and threatened to go after the people who contributed the alternate costumes! While that is a valid response, surely the first step should have been to just ask NinjaHacker.net to cease whatever it was that they objected too? Surely threatening to sue all your fans isn't the best way to endear them to you?
Conversely Bungee love their community, would we have Red vs Blue if Tecmo had made it I wonder? Bungee is an example of how to do communities right, as they support and encourage what people do. Heck they even offer advice to game modders on how to do things. I just boycott Tecmo games now on the principle that they do not allow modding, I should have the right to do whatever I want with software I've bought.
I tried making that point here but the asshole guy who wrote the article edited and deleted my posts because he only likes feedback that agrees with him... Perhaps I take a leaf from Tecmo's book and sue him for modding my posts?
I agree, some of the answers start out sounding like they were written by a real person but then part of the way through the style changes to that bland, PR release style that marketing people use.
For example I think "Oh yeah, there were definitely things we wished we could have done differently during the development of World of Warcraft." was probably one of the development team. I think originally there would have been a list of things they would have done differently there but obviously the PR department would see that as admitting their product has faults and changed it to some wishy-washy "But we learned from those challenges..." answer.
I wonder if the recent success of things like the Jade Empire Limited Edition (which included an extra playable character) the Halo 2 boxset (that included lots of documentaries that explained why they didn't finish the game) and the Half Life 2 Gold package has opened up a new market?
It seems hardcore gamers are willing to pay more if there are a few extras thrown it. I worry though that this will create some sort of two-tiered market where you don't get all the features in your game unless you pay for the super special edition.
I suppose a more benign form of this is Xbox Live where you pay a subscription and get extras for many games, like Ninja Gaiden's Hurricane Packs. Still it's not something I'd like to see become common.
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Does having a carbon fibre casing mean I don't have to wrap my laptop up in tinfoil anymore to keep the black helicopter brigade from snooping around it?
If it does maybe I could be like Wolverine and get a carbon fibre skeleton so I don't have to wear tinfoil round my head.
Well, at least when they screw the order up and you have to wait 10 minutes while they do it again you'll be able to pass the time on Mario Kart.
Scotty's been messing with the timeline again! What next, Mr. Scott? Warp drive in the Victorian era?
Because the article says people are spending less money and time on gaming. Nintendo's strategy with the Revolution is to have a cheaper console with simple accessible games that don't require hours of constant playing.
I wasn't saying it was definitely going to be Nintendo's big comeback, I was merely suggesting that Nintendo might have seen this trend and are trying to adapt to it.
And on the subject of logic, where on earth did this "people will go to Nintendo now because Nintendo doesn't make games" garbage come from? What you said didn't even make sense.
Since when did that stop them from suing people? ;)
True, but how much were DVD players when they first came out? IIRC they were about $400, people won't want to spend that every two years. Plus if they buy HD-DVD and in two years it's a dead format I can see them being pretty pissed at having to have two players; one for their old HD-DVD stuff plus a new player so they can watch Blu-ray stuff.
Good points. I seem to recall also that most consumers got into DVDs not because they had a better picture compared to VHS but because they had lots of special features and extras. It seems to me that more and better content not picture/sound quality is responsible for the rise of DVD, when consumers look at the new high-def formats unless they are seduced by better picture, I can't see them being that keen to shell out for it.
Yeah, recently I got a projector and I was amazed to see the amount of artifacts and blurriness to DVDs. HD WMV files (like the trailer to Project Gotham Racing 3 on Xbox 360) look phenomenal.
I mean don't get me wrong a new high-def format is a good thing in many ways, but I can't see your average consumer rushing to adopt it, especially if they have to be wary of a Betamax-like format war where they could find themselves having to buy another player in 2-3 years. And I wonder if the average uninformed consumer would view both Blu-ray and HD-DVD as "Betamax" formats that are competing with DVD?
If people are starting to lose interest in gaming, is this Nintendo's chance to shine with the Revolution, and its ideal of more accessible games and simple/intuitive controls?
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It's only been about 3 years since DVD reached its supposed "critical mass" in the market and the players became extremely cheap to buy. Isn't it a bit soon to be trying to replace DVD? I mean VHS lasted for something like 20 years, DVD has managed about 6. I presume the movie industry views high def movies as another means of getting people to double-dip on their films.
I can see the public rejecting the new formats though. Many people have only had DVD players for 2 or 3 years, they aren't going to want to go and buy a new player and start waiting for their favourite films to be re-released in HD, especially if they run the risk of buying the "Betamax" of this war. I would guess Sony's big gamble is that the PS3 sells by the truck load and thereby they get a significant user base with Blu-ray drives.
I'm sure we'll see lots of dirty tricks like HD films having lots of extras and the normal DVDs being left as essentially bare bones to "encourage" people into upgrading.
What is the driving force behind wanting a new format anyway? Is it because the film industry has bought into the bullshit that DVD piracy is somehow hurting legal DVD sales? Is it because the studios can sell us all the films we just bought on DVD again but this time in high def? I suspect it's probably both...
The tin foil hat community has theorised that Sony themselves wrote this virus as a way of scaring PSP owners into updating to the latest 2.01 firmware. The latest version prevents you from downgrading to firmware 1.5 and running emulators and other homebrew games. Because the latest firmware doesn't have a web browser or any other "must have" feature, they need something to spur people into updating...
I agree, I'm certain that's all it was. The Inquirer was most likely having a small joke, but some of their writers have a somewhat offbeat sense of humour so I could see how people could misinterpret the article.
No reassurances this time that no personal data was stolen? Last time they made damn sure to point out that everyone's data was safe but it seems this time they've not told us about that. Could the hackers have a nice big list of email addresses to spam now?
That was my first thought, but when you check the sign up dates, these accounts start receiving mountains of spam about 3 hours after signing up.
I wouldn't really have any problem with people signing up just for a spam drop account, particularly if they kept the junk filter on as that would automatically delete most of the spam after 7 days. Sadly what I think we're seeing though is some sort of mailicious behaviour.
I run a few webmail systems myself, you would be amazed at how quickly people manage to eat up space. On one system we have a problem with people who sign up, turn off the spam blocker and then sign up for lots of spam. Their inbox fills up but they never actually use the service, making us wonder what the point to signing up was. We suspect it's just people who have a grudge against the company to whom we are supplying the webmail.
There is generally a lot of respect and mutual admiration between game designers. Itagaki is something of an exception; he's extremely arrogant and he's always saying nasty things about other developers and their games.
He also recently called gamers who couldn't finish Ninja Gaiden on normal difficulty "pussies" (well it was translated as that). I tried pointing that out at 1UP.com here but the asshole running that page kept editing and deleting my posts. I don't know why he has a comments box if he's going to delete and edit anyone that doesn't agree with him, but the point stands, Itagaki is incredibly conceited.
"how exactly do you hype a series about a rag tag group of cowboys flying around in a spaceship getting into scrapes?"
I've never been able to come up with anything short or snappy to describe it either. The best I've been able to manage is "it's a bit like Han Solo getting his own TV show", but I'm not sure if that description does more harm than good when people realise Jewel Staite looks nothing like Chewbacca.
Seconded, I've had motherboards from Gigabyte, Abit, Shuttle and Epox (and Asus of course) and I've always found the Asus boards to be excellent, both stable and with lots of excellent features.
Compared to the piece of shit Shuttle SN25P I recently had that kept destroying my RAID array I would certainly be interested to hear what the grandparent doesn't like about Asus motherboards.
Absolutely. I personally find I upload 5 times what I'm ever able to download on eMule but it is the only place to go if what you're searching for is rare or old. The breadth of data on offer is staggering and it's no surprise it is the most popular P2P app these days.
While the question is about encouraging a gamer community I think it's worth looking at the way Tecmo discouraged it. All the people at NinjaHacker.net (now offline) were fans of various Tecmo franchises, particularly the DOA games. They had worked out ways of changing the costumes of the characters in these games, which spurred a huge number of alternate costumes for the various characters in the games. One costume made a character look like the Terminator, one make Ryu in DOA look like he did in Ninja Gaiden and there were dozens of others. These were the dedicated fans a games company would love to have, yet Tecmo decided to sue the site's owners under the DMCA and threatened to go after the people who contributed the alternate costumes! While that is a valid response, surely the first step should have been to just ask NinjaHacker.net to cease whatever it was that they objected too? Surely threatening to sue all your fans isn't the best way to endear them to you?
Conversely Bungee love their community, would we have Red vs Blue if Tecmo had made it I wonder? Bungee is an example of how to do communities right, as they support and encourage what people do. Heck they even offer advice to game modders on how to do things. I just boycott Tecmo games now on the principle that they do not allow modding, I should have the right to do whatever I want with software I've bought.
I tried making that point here but the asshole guy who wrote the article edited and deleted my posts because he only likes feedback that agrees with him... Perhaps I take a leaf from Tecmo's book and sue him for modding my posts?
Well since J Edgar Hoover was into cross-dressing I'm sure all the tranny pr0n is safe.
I agree, some of the answers start out sounding like they were written by a real person but then part of the way through the style changes to that bland, PR release style that marketing people use.
For example I think "Oh yeah, there were definitely things we wished we could have done differently during the development of World of Warcraft." was probably one of the development team. I think originally there would have been a list of things they would have done differently there but obviously the PR department would see that as admitting their product has faults and changed it to some wishy-washy "But we learned from those challenges..." answer.
I wonder if the recent success of things like the Jade Empire Limited Edition (which included an extra playable character) the Halo 2 boxset (that included lots of documentaries that explained why they didn't finish the game) and the Half Life 2 Gold package has opened up a new market?
It seems hardcore gamers are willing to pay more if there are a few extras thrown it. I worry though that this will create some sort of two-tiered market where you don't get all the features in your game unless you pay for the super special edition.
I suppose a more benign form of this is Xbox Live where you pay a subscription and get extras for many games, like Ninja Gaiden's Hurricane Packs. Still it's not something I'd like to see become common.
Wikipedia explains it better than I can. :)