Same thing they did for this generation. Buy their way into consumers with a blitzload of marketing.
As long as MS has cash in the coffers, they'll spend money on marketing. It doesn't matter to them if you only buy the one game or so on the console, just get one...
seriously, for anyone out there who thinks that MS has this all locked up is sniffing glue.
Xbox Live is full of foul-mouthed teenagers who swiped mom's CC#.
Ports are ports. There's no better experience on either console. Graphics are a minor consideration in the overall presentation.
And, in my opinion, the biggest strike MS has against them is the limited Japanese developer support. They don't need to "win" japan to get street cred in the console. They need some solid Japanese games. I might have taken more to the Xbox if there had been a Rez, Katamari Damacy, Ico style game. Or for pete's sake. Even a decent Japanese RPG. Fable wasn't the end all be all of RPG's by any stretch. It was an innovative concept that was beaten to the market by Knights of the Old Republic.
If MS seriously wants to get involved in the console race, they need to start working on some hardware for arcade games in Japan. If MS can break in the Arcade market there, it could drive developers to work a bit more with them for ports.
Look at the pisspoor job he did on the Memory counter. I know the old chestnut of "a bad photoshop" can be applied here because all you have to do is look at the CPU/Memory count and you can see the freakin' grey box around it.
But, hey, maybe my eyes are going.
Any laptop that has built in Bluetoth can't be all bad.
Anyone else remember when this was news?
I'm glad the NYT, for once, is behind on reporting, as opposed to Slashdot.
I'll state this, since I didn't last time. If they adopt a different pricing structure, expect pricing to exceed $2.50 within 2 years for singles. To show some latitude on that price, the labels will get the artist to throw some crap B-side songs on there, which will probably be part of the same "track" download as the single. Probably pretty similar to the HipHop mixtapes that iTMS already gives away for free.
We'll be stuck in the same boat all over again like we've been with the RIAA and CD's.
If you're like me, you have friends and loved ones who are not computer literate.
You are... maybe too computer literate, and you have a hard time with layman's terms.
Call for Help is a great way to learn to speak non-tech speak to the tech disabled.
It's helped me immensly in the past on how to deal with my parents, convince my grandparents to switch to mac to avoid viruses, and advise friends on purchasing PC parts on their own to build their own PC's.
You want relief? Make your friends build their own PC's and then tell them since they built it, THEY can support it!
If they've been peddling GTA to minors, why do stores and the ESRB even have the M rating?
Why not classify it as E and leave it at that?
The platform R* needs to take is to point out that the content that's quite accessible in the game (ie the game itself) is FAR more graphic, realistic, intense and pornographic than a clothes on scene that makes Cinemax look like Larry Flynt.
Remember, pornography doesn't have to mean sexual. And if this means that I buy my next copy of GTA from a adult bookstore or online, then so be it. I'm an adult, and I've got enough common sense to not let a kid of mine play GTA anyway.
"Another successful amendment sets a 20-year jail term for an attack against a rail or mass-transit vehicle; a 30-year sentence if the vehicle carries nuclear material; and life imprisonment -- with the possibility of the death penalty -- if anyone is killed in such an attack."
So, if I put a penny on the train tracks I go to jail? OH CRAP! (runs off...)
Really? Wonderful? You've obviously not played the game. That current GF character featured in the video is a crack whore.
How's a mouthful of CJ from a crack whore "something wonderful"? Maybe I missed something, but I'd consider a loving relationship to contain something that is "wonderful" than a chick you save from a burning slum who turns tricks for you in return.
This has got to be the most pointless add-on for any game. Did they feel like Leisure Suit Larry was a threat? If this was even in the game as a mission, I would have skipped buying it. Seriously. If it's not a integral part of the game, there was no need for it.
Whatever coder that developed it was a complete moron for thinking that this would be a much needed selling point on the PC version.
This isn't like it was some physics demo or monster demo like what they included in Doom 3. It was a stupid inclusion of a bad idea.
No part of GTA or any game has needed to feature the act of sex as to be part of it's success.
Leisure Suit Larry even benefitted from this. That game was about the LACK of sex.
I would not be suprised if this puts the GTA series under even more heavy scrutiny, and could end up getting the license banned in even more countries. There's a logical limit to button pushing. Rockstar needs to take a breather from their paint fumes and rethink the ideaology of nudity and sex being needed to make an already great game sellable.
I like Opera, don't get me wrong. It had features back in the day that no one had, and it's still a great browser. Heck, I'm posting this from Opera.
BUT! Opera's unfortunately never going to be taken as a serious contender.
The fact that they force themselves to identify the software to websites as IE should be telling enough. I can't log into my freakin' bank account from Opera. I can't check Gmail from Opera. If it's being seen as IE, why isn't this working?
What's it going to take for Opera to stop this practice and get enough credibility behind it to get this stigma/limitation to go away?
I can't even call local tech support people without someone not knowing what Opera is.
Distance yourself from IE, or being like IE. That's a starting recommendation.
None of my 7 year old DVD's have problems. Infact, the bulk of my library of DVD's is over 4 years old, with 30% of it 6-7 years old. No problems to speak of here.
I think you're exaggerating your rot%. I've even got CD's from late 80's (mc hammer) that are in good shape. Unfortunately.
On commercial sites, I really only run adblock on (mostly news) sites that don't know the bounds of rational taste and good judgement on advertising on their site.
Yes, this includes Slashdot. And, I've got a massive block on IGN as well.
But on sites I enjoy reading for their original content, like VGCats, Penny-Arcade, or PVP, I leave the adblocks off, and frequently I'll purchase goods and services from those advertisers they support.
Japan has had a variation of our ATSC signal for YEARS in Japan. The japanese haven't seemed to care about HD in the previous generation.
I think most people expecting full HD from day one with everything aren't going to be satisfied with the revolution period.
People like myself who wanted a HD ATSC compatible television for the future are more concerned about quality content rather than video that looks like it was photo-realistic.
The 5 minutes spent covering this was FAR deeper and much more timely than anything on G4. If Spike wants to venture to a VG channel, at least it won't be G4.
Slashdot Mirror
Same thing they did for this generation. Buy their way into consumers with a blitzload of marketing.
As long as MS has cash in the coffers, they'll spend money on marketing. It doesn't matter to them if you only buy the one game or so on the console, just get one...
seriously, for anyone out there who thinks that MS has this all locked up is sniffing glue.
Xbox Live is full of foul-mouthed teenagers who swiped mom's CC#.
Ports are ports. There's no better experience on either console. Graphics are a minor consideration in the overall presentation.
And, in my opinion, the biggest strike MS has against them is the limited Japanese developer support. They don't need to "win" japan to get street cred in the console. They need some solid Japanese games. I might have taken more to the Xbox if there had been a Rez, Katamari Damacy, Ico style game. Or for pete's sake. Even a decent Japanese RPG. Fable wasn't the end all be all of RPG's by any stretch. It was an innovative concept that was beaten to the market by Knights of the Old Republic.
If MS seriously wants to get involved in the console race, they need to start working on some hardware for arcade games in Japan. If MS can break in the Arcade market there, it could drive developers to work a bit more with them for ports.
I'll be driving down the road, and I'll start hearing the meow mix jingle in my car.
Then I'll realize that I need a tuneup.
Please, by all means, point out some form of modern animation that isn't done on computers so luddites can go worship it.
Flash, Toon Boom Studio, Illustrator, After Effects, and Combustion are your future of 2D animation.
Don't like it? Disney's releasing their old animated fare at a pretty steady clip.
Who wants to doctor a photo at 1280X1024?
Look at the pisspoor job he did on the Memory counter. I know the old chestnut of "a bad photoshop" can be applied here because all you have to do is look at the CPU/Memory count and you can see the freakin' grey box around it.
But, hey, maybe my eyes are going.
Any laptop that has built in Bluetoth can't be all bad.
Anyone else remember when this was news? I'm glad the NYT, for once, is behind on reporting, as opposed to Slashdot. I'll state this, since I didn't last time. If they adopt a different pricing structure, expect pricing to exceed $2.50 within 2 years for singles. To show some latitude on that price, the labels will get the artist to throw some crap B-side songs on there, which will probably be part of the same "track" download as the single. Probably pretty similar to the HipHop mixtapes that iTMS already gives away for free. We'll be stuck in the same boat all over again like we've been with the RIAA and CD's.
If you're like me, you have friends and loved ones who are not computer literate.
You are... maybe too computer literate, and you have a hard time with layman's terms.
Call for Help is a great way to learn to speak non-tech speak to the tech disabled.
It's helped me immensly in the past on how to deal with my parents, convince my grandparents to switch to mac to avoid viruses, and advise friends on purchasing PC parts on their own to build their own PC's.
You want relief? Make your friends build their own PC's and then tell them since they built it, THEY can support it!
No, actually, if you take Barbie's clothes off, she's as naked as a naked sim is in the game. No 3rd party modifications needed.
If they've been peddling GTA to minors, why do stores and the ESRB even have the M rating?
Why not classify it as E and leave it at that?
The platform R* needs to take is to point out that the content that's quite accessible in the game (ie the game itself) is FAR more graphic, realistic, intense and pornographic than a clothes on scene that makes Cinemax look like Larry Flynt.
Remember, pornography doesn't have to mean sexual.
And if this means that I buy my next copy of GTA from a adult bookstore or online, then so be it. I'm an adult, and I've got enough common sense to not let a kid of mine play GTA anyway.
If not for Ken and Barbie dolls how else will girls learn about how to change men to their liking?
It's all female empowerment, man...
I wouldn't let my sims bathe or potty anyway.
It pains me to think that the possibility of recompiling the game minus the hot coffee code could make it unstable.
Then again, I already own the game, so it doesn't really affect me if they do.
That and I know absolutely nothing about coding, so my entire point could be moot.
Too late...
Although, I can add it to my baby shower registry...
Isn't that what got you the baby in the first place CJ?
Considering that EB's under a pending purchase with Gamestop soon, I wouldn't count them on stocking the title too much longer.
"Another successful amendment sets a 20-year jail term for an attack against a rail or mass-transit vehicle; a 30-year sentence if the vehicle carries nuclear material; and life imprisonment -- with the possibility of the death penalty -- if anyone is killed in such an attack."
So, if I put a penny on the train tracks I go to jail? OH CRAP! (runs off...)
Wasn't this and Poppler's the only non-trademarked names in the year 3000? What will the people of the future do now?
Huh...
Really? Wonderful?
You've obviously not played the game. That current GF character featured in the video is a crack whore.
How's a mouthful of CJ from a crack whore "something wonderful"? Maybe I missed something, but I'd consider a loving relationship to contain something that is "wonderful" than a chick you save from a burning slum who turns tricks for you in return.
Anyone care to raise their hand here?
Who here gets off on polygon boobies?
This has got to be the most pointless add-on for any game. Did they feel like Leisure Suit Larry was a threat? If this was even in the game as a mission, I would have skipped buying it. Seriously. If it's not a integral part of the game, there was no need for it.
Whatever coder that developed it was a complete moron for thinking that this would be a much needed selling point on the PC version.
This isn't like it was some physics demo or monster demo like what they included in Doom 3. It was a stupid inclusion of a bad idea.
No part of GTA or any game has needed to feature the act of sex as to be part of it's success.
Leisure Suit Larry even benefitted from this. That game was about the LACK of sex.
I would not be suprised if this puts the GTA series under even more heavy scrutiny, and could end up getting the license banned in even more countries. There's a logical limit to button pushing. Rockstar needs to take a breather from their paint fumes and rethink the ideaology of nudity and sex being needed to make an already great game sellable.
Cancer! It's so YUMMY!
I like Opera, don't get me wrong. It had features back in the day that no one had, and it's still a great browser. Heck, I'm posting this from Opera.
BUT! Opera's unfortunately never going to be taken as a serious contender.
The fact that they force themselves to identify the software to websites as IE should be telling enough. I can't log into my freakin' bank account from Opera. I can't check Gmail from Opera. If it's being seen as IE, why isn't this working?
What's it going to take for Opera to stop this practice and get enough credibility behind it to get this stigma/limitation to go away?
I can't even call local tech support people without someone not knowing what Opera is.
Distance yourself from IE, or being like IE. That's a starting recommendation.
None of my 7 year old DVD's have problems. Infact, the bulk of my library of DVD's is over 4 years old, with 30% of it 6-7 years old. No problems to speak of here.
I think you're exaggerating your rot%. I've even got CD's from late 80's (mc hammer) that are in good shape. Unfortunately.
ahem.
On commercial sites, I really only run adblock on (mostly news) sites that don't know the bounds of rational taste and good judgement on advertising on their site.
Yes, this includes Slashdot.
And, I've got a massive block on IGN as well.
But on sites I enjoy reading for their original content, like VGCats, Penny-Arcade, or PVP, I leave the adblocks off, and frequently I'll purchase goods and services from those advertisers they support.
We use a white board and some dry erase markers.
Call us out of date, but being bogged down with more software is the last thing we need at work.
Japan has had a variation of our ATSC signal for YEARS in Japan. The japanese haven't seemed to care about HD in the previous generation.
I think most people expecting full HD from day one with everything aren't going to be satisfied with the revolution period.
People like myself who wanted a HD ATSC compatible television for the future are more concerned about quality content rather than video that looks like it was photo-realistic.
The 5 minutes spent covering this was FAR deeper and much more timely than anything on G4. If Spike wants to venture to a VG channel, at least it won't be G4.
Advertising agencies and news sources have been reporting on how badly they want to get into the VG business.
Think of the the game Run Like Hell It's a freakin' ad for Bawls!
This will get a LOT worse. count on it.