You may be used to crappy games on the PC, but I've never had anything from Nintendo crash on me.
As for management, well, they're so disconnected from the real world that our only line of defense should be those who know how things work: the programmers. There's no need to put your job at risk to simply point out the obvious to the suits.
Crysis won't be on the next-gen consoles. It's just too intensive for even the likes of the 360 or PS3, apparently.
If they think all gamers have overpriced Alienware monsters, they're in for a big shock. I'm on Mac and I only plan on buying a Wii, that means no "Crysis" for me either.
Blizzard were able to make WoW run fine on my Mac mini G4/1.42GHz, 1GB RAM with Radeon 9200/32MB (except when there was too many players on-screen), programmers should learn to make scalable games which would allow them to release the game on the Xbox360, PS3 and Wii.
Just because a large portion of Mac users seem to spend every waking hour mocking Windows doesn't mean that obsession is marketable (or is even what sensible Mac Fans do).
You know, it's hard not to mock Windows users when they keep mocking Mac users. It's all about fighting back, especially since Windows really is a poor choice for a home computer, aside from gaming.
And for the record, yes, I was with the PC crowd when Apple was still stuck in the 80's with their crappy Mac OS 9.
If you've seen the widescreen version of The Fifth Element, you see that the moon is a dead sphere of "pure evil". In the 4:3 version, you don't see the first moon and hence can't really make the connection... (cropped content SUCKS).
I never said that Apple should drop FireWire in favor of USB2. What I said is that despite Apple's FireWire, they still added USB2 support to their computers.
I have seen people transforming from complete Intel hater to Intel zealot just after WWDC Mactel announcement.
The Pentium 4 was a POS from day one, there was no need to be an Apple / PowerPC zealot to see that. Clock-for-clock, the P3 was kicking the P4's ass.
As for Apple zealots turning into "Intel Zealots" at WWDC05, well, you have to admit the new Intel Core is quite a step-up from their previous CPUs. And the Core 2 is (again) a big step-up too.
Just because something was good/bad in the past doesn't mean it's gonna be good/bad in the future (i.e. Mac OS 9 sucked but OS X is really good, Apple used to suck with their proprietary hardware and software (ADC, Apple-specific PICT screenshots that won't even load correctly in regular programs, etc) but now they're supporting standards (DVI, USB2, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, PDF, PNG, etc).
WTF are you talking about? If it's about Live, nobody's FORCED to get an XBox Live subscription. I know 5 people with 360's and none of them have a gold subscription for live and they're perfectly happy with it. The free, silver plan gives them everything they want.
Except on-line play against other people, which is what "online gaming" is all about.
Except that the technologies between the PowerGlove and the Wii remote aren't even close. That's like comparing the Atari 2600 joystick with a GameCube gamepad...
Toys'R Us Canada is also taking pre-orders for both. When I pre-ordered my Wii last week, there was about 15 persons on the list for the Wii and 14 persons on the list for the PS3. I was shocked. I wonder, however, if the list will continue to be 50/50 and if the ones on the PS3 list really know how much it will cost them...
Well, there we go. Proof that those so-called "expert/analysts" don't know anything aside from making shocking statistics to grab headlines.
I predict about 70% for the Wii, 30% for the Xbox 360 and 15% for the PS3. I know it adds up to more than 100% but given all those "Xbox 360 + Wii = PS3" comments we've all heard so far, I think it's realistic.
As for the Wii getting 70%? Well, don't forget that we can look at the Nintendo DS for proof: Nintendo are grabbing a lot of non-gamers and the Wii shouldn't be any different. A lot of so-called "hardcore gamers" will go for the Xbox 360 and/or the PS3, but they're only a tiny % of the general population.
Although why they couldn't stick both a GC disk and a Wii disk inside the same box and charge the price of a normal game is beyond me.
I buy the game, keep the Wii disc and sell the GC disc which is an original, hence no pirating nor illegal copy. Nintendo sells one less game. Repeat a million times, Nintendo loses a few million dollars. Easy enough to understand.
The DS-Xtreme seems to be just what we needed and it seems they've made it so it shows up as a mass storage device... So my guess would be that it will work with Windows, OS X, Linux, etc...
I might just buy that instead of waiting for Opera DS... Surely someone's already ported Firefox to the DS already.;-)
AVI equals crap IMO. AVI is a wrapper and you never know which CODECs are required to play the file.
DivX MPEG-4 isn't real MPEG-4 as far as I know (though I could be wrong) and MP3 was the best choice a decade ago.
Everyone should be using real.mp4 files (MPEG-4 or H.264 video with AAC audio), if you ask me. No more AVI/Quicktime/Real Media/Windows Media nonsense. And please no comments about.mp4 files using quicktime as a wrapper....mp4 = MPEG-4/H.264. You won't need 500 CODECs.
The box model implementation is sane now, IE7 does semitransparent PNGs (without requiring non-standard hacks), it supports:hover on everything, and so on.
If IE7 really passes these 3 things, we've already got the biggest problems fixed. No more "IE-only" CSS files to fix the screwed-up boxes, no more hack for PNG (or no more need to stick with GIF), and:hover for everyone.
Google wins. Why? They offer the option to download the damn videos.
It's the only way to get the videos on your iPod, PSP, Gameboy (via Play-Yan micro), etc...
I wish, however, that Google would get rid of that "Windows/Mac" option (AVI sucks) and replaced it with MP4 and H264.
Granted, the iPod option is H.264 but it's resized to 320x240 and the PSP is MP4 but it's resized for the PSP's widescreen which is also lower resolution than my computer display.
Or even OS/9 (CoCo2/CoCo3), or GEOS (for C64/C128)?
These kids today... They think personnal computers started with the Macintosh, the IBM PC and.... hum... Linux, which is younger than anything else on the market ATM, AFAIK.
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You may be used to crappy games on the PC, but I've never had anything from Nintendo crash on me.
As for management, well, they're so disconnected from the real world that our only line of defense should be those who know how things work: the programmers. There's no need to put your job at risk to simply point out the obvious to the suits.
Blizzard were able to make WoW run fine on my Mac mini G4/1.42GHz, 1GB RAM with Radeon 9200/32MB (except when there was too many players on-screen), programmers should learn to make scalable games which would allow them to release the game on the Xbox360, PS3 and Wii.
Enough with the crappy programmers already!
And for the record, yes, I was with the PC crowd when Apple was still stuck in the 80's with their crappy Mac OS 9.
If you've seen the widescreen version of The Fifth Element, you see that the moon is a dead sphere of "pure evil". In the 4:3 version, you don't see the first moon and hence can't really make the connection... (cropped content SUCKS).
Oups sorry, I replied to you instead of the flamebait reply above yours.
I never said that Apple should drop FireWire in favor of USB2. What I said is that despite Apple's FireWire, they still added USB2 support to their computers.
As for Apple zealots turning into "Intel Zealots" at WWDC05, well, you have to admit the new Intel Core is quite a step-up from their previous CPUs. And the Core 2 is (again) a big step-up too.
Just because something was good/bad in the past doesn't mean it's gonna be good/bad in the future (i.e. Mac OS 9 sucked but OS X is really good, Apple used to suck with their proprietary hardware and software (ADC, Apple-specific PICT screenshots that won't even load correctly in regular programs, etc) but now they're supporting standards (DVI, USB2, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, PDF, PNG, etc).
Except that the technologies between the PowerGlove and the Wii remote aren't even close. That's like comparing the Atari 2600 joystick with a GameCube gamepad...
Toys'R Us Canada is also taking pre-orders for both. When I pre-ordered my Wii last week, there was about 15 persons on the list for the Wii and 14 persons on the list for the PS3. I was shocked. I wonder, however, if the list will continue to be 50/50 and if the ones on the PS3 list really know how much it will cost them...
Well, there we go. Proof that those so-called "expert/analysts" don't know anything aside from making shocking statistics to grab headlines.
I predict about 70% for the Wii, 30% for the Xbox 360 and 15% for the PS3. I know it adds up to more than 100% but given all those "Xbox 360 + Wii = PS3" comments we've all heard so far, I think it's realistic.
As for the Wii getting 70%? Well, don't forget that we can look at the Nintendo DS for proof: Nintendo are grabbing a lot of non-gamers and the Wii shouldn't be any different. A lot of so-called "hardcore gamers" will go for the Xbox 360 and/or the PS3, but they're only a tiny % of the general population.
The DS-Xtreme seems to be just what we needed and it seems they've made it so it shows up as a mass storage device... So my guess would be that it will work with Windows, OS X, Linux, etc...
;-)
I might just buy that instead of waiting for Opera DS... Surely someone's already ported Firefox to the DS already.
AVI equals crap IMO. AVI is a wrapper and you never know which CODECs are required to play the file.
.mp4 files (MPEG-4 or H.264 video with AAC audio), if you ask me. No more AVI/Quicktime/Real Media/Windows Media nonsense. And please no comments about .mp4 files using quicktime as a wrapper... .mp4 = MPEG-4/H.264. You won't need 500 CODECs.
DivX MPEG-4 isn't real MPEG-4 as far as I know (though I could be wrong) and MP3 was the best choice a decade ago.
Everyone should be using real
Planet = orbit around star
Moon = orbit around planet
If you must, then apply your "minimum size/mass" requirements afterward, but don't mess with the two rules above... How fu**ing difficult is that?
Google wins. Why? They offer the option to download the damn videos.
It's the only way to get the videos on your iPod, PSP, Gameboy (via Play-Yan micro), etc...
I wish, however, that Google would get rid of that "Windows/Mac" option (AVI sucks) and replaced it with MP4 and H264.
Granted, the iPod option is H.264 but it's resized to 320x240 and the PSP is MP4 but it's resized for the PSP's widescreen which is also lower resolution than my computer display.
I mean, seriously, has Sony completely lost it? Weird "dust balls" talking "gangsta street"-style? Finger puppets theater in a cardboard box?
What's next, Sony?
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Or even OS/9 (CoCo2/CoCo3), or GEOS (for C64/C128)?
These kids today... They think personnal computers started with the Macintosh, the IBM PC and.... hum... Linux, which is younger than anything else on the market ATM, AFAIK.
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