The Disks might be some form of hybrid; a partial DVD-RW allowing for the writing of game data to the game disk itself. That's just a guess. There is really no other reason to have a DVD-RW in the system unless they totally plan to push this as a media-center hub and allow for Tivo-like features.
But with a 20GB hard-drive I find that not possible.
What? I thought it was already out? Then what the hell is GuildWars anyway -- I thought that was Diablo III with an improvement on that crappy BattleNET system. Guess not. We're doomed to use BattleNET until Blizzard learns better.
Maybe Blizzard should get their server problems under control first before they attempt to ship another game that's indefinately going to put a bigger load on them. I keep hearing compliants from friends about server downtime in World of Warcraft. I'm glad I didn't buy it.
Clearly you have absolutely no idea how much code a 6MB file (which may well be zipped) actually is. 6MB worth of source code is probably hundreds of files that have 250 - 500 lines of code (average) per file (if it's only text).
Please tell me why you are grouping all the developers under the brand of Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo developers first party games or hires someone to develop second party games. Microsoft does the same; as does Sony, but the majority of the hits on both consoles do not come from first/second party games unlike Nintendo. So please get your shit straight.
And before you go on and say, Halo this, Halo that; I said majority of the games not two games. If you have something to talk about legitimately theft, i.e. something dealing with graphic procedures, etc, then you might have an argument. But to talk about them stealing game innovation ideas is crazy; especially since both don't develop nearly as many first party games as Nintendo does.
Now the developers for both systems is something different; but you can't blame Sony and Microsoft for what third party developers jack from another developer (or Nintendo); even though you clearly want to.
One game? In a few months I'll be able to pick that up for the PS2 as well. What's the appeal there? The new Zelda looks good, but it should have been what we saw originally and not that cartoony bullshit they pulled out of their ass.
Where is Mario? A Real Mario game? I don't want to play golf, or play Mario Party, I want a Real Mario game. How can you have a Nintendo system for how many YEARS without Mario?
I haven't had any problems with the new beta 2.0 OO.org software; it works like a charm and looks even purdier than before. I was really impressed that I was able to transfer Word documents and Powerpoint presentations between OO 2.0, Office 2001, and Office 2003 without a problem.
Apple is not a hardware company, at least, not anymore. Who makes their chips? Who makes them? That's right, IBM does. And I'm sure that they make everything else on that system as well, with the exception of OSX and what other components they buy from companies to slap in their (i.e. Nvidia cards, etc).
1. First of all, Microsoft bought VirualPC for a reason; either be they want to have "VirualWindows" for the Mac, or they want to have backwards compadbility with Xbox titles.
How do you know anything about developer support? Developers will definately be jumping on the bandwagon if its easily enough to port their current games to the next generation console. Microsoft has always had great developer support from any standpoint.
There are going to be at least two versions of the Xbox2 as well; one with a hard disk, one without. You can probably expect to have hard disk upgrades for people who bought the cheaper model. No chipping? Of course there isn't going to be chipping for awhile - it takes time. That's a given with any console.
2. A few months? You may be waiting a bit longer than that. A more powerful on what standpoint? There have been no specifications for the PS3 (besides the chip, but remember about the PS2 can launch a nuclear warhead?).
It will not be cheaper, at least, not for the first few months. All consoles start out about the $200 price range at launch. Any console gamer that has seen at least one generation of consoles should know that. Hell, the PS2 was selling for well above $700 pre-U.S. launch.
Supported by whom? The same people who are going to support this console - developers, developers, developers! The developers are the key in any situation, especially the opening up of three new consoles less than a year and a half apart.
So what does that mean? If, and only If, Sony can pull backwards compadibiltiy out of their ass again, then you might see the same situation that we're in now. Nobody knows for sure if Sony, MS, or Nintendo for that matter, are going to have backwards compadibility. That's going to make any console, the ability to already play hit games. It worked for the PS2; it can, and will, work again.
Thank you, someone that finally looks at the picture from outside the box. If I had mod points I would definately mod you up, but I doubt anyone else will. The Xbox2 (or whatever it is to be called) is probably coming out at a great time, because the fact is, games are evolving faster than expected and shader technology is definately a must.
I don't think that HD support will be as big as they are pushing, but its definately something that I will be utilizing and anyone with an HDTV will also utilize. If Microsoft pushes the HDTV brand on the Xbox2, many people will buy it just because they need something to work on their TV. If Sony and Nintendo don't push it as well, they might possibilty lose sales to people who just play casual games such as sports titles.
Halo 2 wouldn't have been on my top 5 FPS games of the year, and I don't think it's going to be on theirs either. Being a PC gamer, I tend not to think about playing Halo 2 unless my friends at college (who don't own gaming rigs) are bored.
Think about it though, they are debuting the console to most of their target auidence. First of all, G4 isn't across the whole nation, but a good part of it. G4 isn't going anywhere, Comcast bought TechTV and merged them together and then cut all the good geek stuff. This crappy TV channel will be around for awhile now.
Would they have been better debuting it on G4 or QVC? Maybe. But I think they are attempting to sell this thing as more than just a game console; more like an entertainment center.
I was waiting for this to happen, it was only a matter of time, and I'm glad that it is happening. But why did you pick AOL? My god; couldn't you have joined up with Google or Yahoo, or someone better than AOL? Ugh. I still need to use the AIM service through Trillian because my friends refuse to move to Jabber.
As soon as a read this article to myself I started to laugh, well, at least inside (I was in a public place and a geek laughing at a bunch of text on the screen might not be the best thing for his image). Anyway; this specifically reminds of the products that Creative advertises as "Gamer's Soundcards" that they specifically sell targetting towards gaming.
The fact is; any decent soundcard would do for gaming and you don't need to buy the specific product. But because of the fact that it says "Gamer" on it, and that they're giving away some cheap games with it, people buy it. You really have to love the marketing twists that TPTB put on the consumers.
Yep. I have a few customers that have done the same thing except they have Comcast cable and they always yelled at the son because he was "using up all the bandwidth". Mind you, they came to us with computer problems, and that was never the case.
So in the end, instead of listening to us, they bought him his own Verizon DSL line. The problem had to do with the fact that Comcast needed to re-run their cable lines because they were about 10 years too old. But after all, it is Comcast.
I had the same problem with a friend's wireless router and it turned out there was a bad NIC card in the one computer. As the old saying goes; you're only as strong as your weakest link. That so does apply with networks as well; check your cables (ethernet, replace, etc) and make sure that the NIC cards are working properly (and not at half-duplex).
But for all purposes; Linksys owns Netgear, and the only company that I have absolutely had problems with (no matter which hardware combination we used) was SMC. Their network hardware sucked. We attempted to use the wireless AP and it was impossible to get working. That was a few years ago, so I'm not sure if they got their shit together.
Yeah, great going, this was reported (and then later replied back by AOL) a few days ago. Great going Slashdot; I need another place for my tech news now.
If nobody is going to take these people to court then there is absolutely no reason to hand these people warning letters. They have no intention of changing their practices unless they are taken to court: they are no better than Apple or Microsoft.
There needs to be some sort of Guild that just goes around and kills all of the gil-sellers camping for it. When the move, you follow. Make their life a living fucking hell, and keep doing it. That sounds like fun to me; it may get boring after awhile, that's why you have shifts. Square should pay people to do this.
Because the company employees themselves are the only ones who realize that their computer systems are shit. Normally the people who build the stuff (or work for the company) know exactly what goes into it; when you buy from another comapany, you have a general idea, but you don't work there so you can pull the sheet over your eyes.
Wow, that's definately impressive. I have a lot of respect for anyone developing a MMOG; and this shows that at least Everquest (being years old) is still being supported by SOE. But I would probably take the same approach as you and stick those nice level 150s there to force-teach people to stop me from working;).
My local game store was definately not as lucky; it wouldn't even respond to touch requests with the stylus, and some of the buttons weren't responding either. The touch screen was scratched so much that you couldn't even read the LCD display below, and there were so many smudge marks on the top screen that I don't think a bottle of Windex could fix it.
I had the pleasure of playing one though away from the game store, and I was definately impressed with the design. The lack of games though was something that turned me off, along with the awkward way of holding the stylus to aim on Metroid Hunters.
I'm not a big console (or handheld) gamer, so I would definately be waiting for the PSP to release and see the games for the two systems. Battery life isn't a big problem for me, I don't plan on playing this thing for hours upon hours without being near a car outlet, wall outlet, or another means of charging.
I'll make my choice (if there is one for me to make) when PSP releases here in the U.S.
Instead of buying a system for one game, I'll just wait until it's ported to the PS2 next month. I don't need to be spending $100 for one or two games; when the new Zelda comes out that may be a different story. We need a real Mario game as well; or at least just port Mario 64 to the Gamecube.
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The Disks might be some form of hybrid; a partial DVD-RW allowing for the writing of game data to the game disk itself. That's just a guess. There is really no other reason to have a DVD-RW in the system unless they totally plan to push this as a media-center hub and allow for Tivo-like features.
But with a 20GB hard-drive I find that not possible.
Microsoft Linux.
What? I thought it was already out? Then what the hell is GuildWars anyway -- I thought that was Diablo III with an improvement on that crappy BattleNET system. Guess not. We're doomed to use BattleNET until Blizzard learns better.
Maybe Blizzard should get their server problems under control first before they attempt to ship another game that's indefinately going to put a bigger load on them. I keep hearing compliants from friends about server downtime in World of Warcraft. I'm glad I didn't buy it.
Clearly you have absolutely no idea how much code a 6MB file (which may well be zipped) actually is. 6MB worth of source code is probably hundreds of files that have 250 - 500 lines of code (average) per file (if it's only text).
Please tell me why you are grouping all the developers under the brand of Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo developers first party games or hires someone to develop second party games. Microsoft does the same; as does Sony, but the majority of the hits on both consoles do not come from first/second party games unlike Nintendo. So please get your shit straight.
And before you go on and say, Halo this, Halo that; I said majority of the games not two games. If you have something to talk about legitimately theft, i.e. something dealing with graphic procedures, etc, then you might have an argument. But to talk about them stealing game innovation ideas is crazy; especially since both don't develop nearly as many first party games as Nintendo does.
Now the developers for both systems is something different; but you can't blame Sony and Microsoft for what third party developers jack from another developer (or Nintendo); even though you clearly want to.
One game? In a few months I'll be able to pick that up for the PS2 as well. What's the appeal there? The new Zelda looks good, but it should have been what we saw originally and not that cartoony bullshit they pulled out of their ass.
Where is Mario? A Real Mario game? I don't want to play golf, or play Mario Party, I want a Real Mario game. How can you have a Nintendo system for how many YEARS without Mario?
I haven't had any problems with the new beta 2.0 OO.org software; it works like a charm and looks even purdier than before. I was really impressed that I was able to transfer Word documents and Powerpoint presentations between OO 2.0, Office 2001, and Office 2003 without a problem.
What about Doogie Houser M.D.?
Apple is not a hardware company, at least, not anymore. Who makes their chips? Who makes them? That's right, IBM does. And I'm sure that they make everything else on that system as well, with the exception of OSX and what other components they buy from companies to slap in their (i.e. Nvidia cards, etc).
You don't know Jack?
1. First of all, Microsoft bought VirualPC for a reason; either be they want to have "VirualWindows" for the Mac, or they want to have backwards compadbility with Xbox titles.
How do you know anything about developer support? Developers will definately be jumping on the bandwagon if its easily enough to port their current games to the next generation console. Microsoft has always had great developer support from any standpoint.
There are going to be at least two versions of the Xbox2 as well; one with a hard disk, one without. You can probably expect to have hard disk upgrades for people who bought the cheaper model. No chipping? Of course there isn't going to be chipping for awhile - it takes time. That's a given with any console.
2. A few months? You may be waiting a bit longer than that. A more powerful on what standpoint? There have been no specifications for the PS3 (besides the chip, but remember about the PS2 can launch a nuclear warhead?).
It will not be cheaper, at least, not for the first few months. All consoles start out about the $200 price range at launch. Any console gamer that has seen at least one generation of consoles should know that. Hell, the PS2 was selling for well above $700 pre-U.S. launch.
Supported by whom? The same people who are going to support this console - developers, developers, developers! The developers are the key in any situation, especially the opening up of three new consoles less than a year and a half apart.
So what does that mean? If, and only If, Sony can pull backwards compadibiltiy out of their ass again, then you might see the same situation that we're in now. Nobody knows for sure if Sony, MS, or Nintendo for that matter, are going to have backwards compadibility. That's going to make any console, the ability to already play hit games. It worked for the PS2; it can, and will, work again.
Thank you, someone that finally looks at the picture from outside the box. If I had mod points I would definately mod you up, but I doubt anyone else will. The Xbox2 (or whatever it is to be called) is probably coming out at a great time, because the fact is, games are evolving faster than expected and shader technology is definately a must.
I don't think that HD support will be as big as they are pushing, but its definately something that I will be utilizing and anyone with an HDTV will also utilize. If Microsoft pushes the HDTV brand on the Xbox2, many people will buy it just because they need something to work on their TV. If Sony and Nintendo don't push it as well, they might possibilty lose sales to people who just play casual games such as sports titles.
Halo 2 wouldn't have been on my top 5 FPS games of the year, and I don't think it's going to be on theirs either. Being a PC gamer, I tend not to think about playing Halo 2 unless my friends at college (who don't own gaming rigs) are bored.
Look out, we've got a fan boy on our hands! Swab the deck matties.
Think about it though, they are debuting the console to most of their target auidence. First of all, G4 isn't across the whole nation, but a good part of it. G4 isn't going anywhere, Comcast bought TechTV and merged them together and then cut all the good geek stuff. This crappy TV channel will be around for awhile now.
Would they have been better debuting it on G4 or QVC? Maybe. But I think they are attempting to sell this thing as more than just a game console; more like an entertainment center.
I was waiting for this to happen, it was only a matter of time, and I'm glad that it is happening. But why did you pick AOL? My god; couldn't you have joined up with Google or Yahoo, or someone better than AOL? Ugh. I still need to use the AIM service through Trillian because my friends refuse to move to Jabber.
As soon as a read this article to myself I started to laugh, well, at least inside (I was in a public place and a geek laughing at a bunch of text on the screen might not be the best thing for his image). Anyway; this specifically reminds of the products that Creative advertises as "Gamer's Soundcards" that they specifically sell targetting towards gaming.
The fact is; any decent soundcard would do for gaming and you don't need to buy the specific product. But because of the fact that it says "Gamer" on it, and that they're giving away some cheap games with it, people buy it. You really have to love the marketing twists that TPTB put on the consumers.
Yep. I have a few customers that have done the same thing except they have Comcast cable and they always yelled at the son because he was "using up all the bandwidth". Mind you, they came to us with computer problems, and that was never the case.
So in the end, instead of listening to us, they bought him his own Verizon DSL line. The problem had to do with the fact that Comcast needed to re-run their cable lines because they were about 10 years too old. But after all, it is Comcast.
I had the same problem with a friend's wireless router and it turned out there was a bad NIC card in the one computer. As the old saying goes; you're only as strong as your weakest link. That so does apply with networks as well; check your cables (ethernet, replace, etc) and make sure that the NIC cards are working properly (and not at half-duplex).
But for all purposes; Linksys owns Netgear, and the only company that I have absolutely had problems with (no matter which hardware combination we used) was SMC. Their network hardware sucked. We attempted to use the wireless AP and it was impossible to get working. That was a few years ago, so I'm not sure if they got their shit together.
Yeah, great going, this was reported (and then later replied back by AOL) a few days ago. Great going Slashdot; I need another place for my tech news now.
If nobody is going to take these people to court then there is absolutely no reason to hand these people warning letters. They have no intention of changing their practices unless they are taken to court: they are no better than Apple or Microsoft.
There needs to be some sort of Guild that just goes around and kills all of the gil-sellers camping for it. When the move, you follow. Make their life a living fucking hell, and keep doing it. That sounds like fun to me; it may get boring after awhile, that's why you have shifts. Square should pay people to do this.
Because the company employees themselves are the only ones who realize that their computer systems are shit. Normally the people who build the stuff (or work for the company) know exactly what goes into it; when you buy from another comapany, you have a general idea, but you don't work there so you can pull the sheet over your eyes.
Wow, that's definately impressive. I have a lot of respect for anyone developing a MMOG; and this shows that at least Everquest (being years old) is still being supported by SOE. But I would probably take the same approach as you and stick those nice level 150s there to force-teach people to stop me from working ;).
My local game store was definately not as lucky; it wouldn't even respond to touch requests with the stylus, and some of the buttons weren't responding either. The touch screen was scratched so much that you couldn't even read the LCD display below, and there were so many smudge marks on the top screen that I don't think a bottle of Windex could fix it.
I had the pleasure of playing one though away from the game store, and I was definately impressed with the design. The lack of games though was something that turned me off, along with the awkward way of holding the stylus to aim on Metroid Hunters.
I'm not a big console (or handheld) gamer, so I would definately be waiting for the PSP to release and see the games for the two systems. Battery life isn't a big problem for me, I don't plan on playing this thing for hours upon hours without being near a car outlet, wall outlet, or another means of charging.
I'll make my choice (if there is one for me to make) when PSP releases here in the U.S.
Instead of buying a system for one game, I'll just wait until it's ported to the PS2 next month. I don't need to be spending $100 for one or two games; when the new Zelda comes out that may be a different story. We need a real Mario game as well; or at least just port Mario 64 to the Gamecube.