Reminds me of POGs... or Crazy Bones... or just about any other useless piece of cardboard/plastic that companies charge $10 for and get rich for a few months off of.
Keep him away from anime (the Toonami variety) if you don't want him to ask for stuff like that. Crappy anime such as DBZ is like a breeding ground for crappy toys and trading card games.
THere's a difference, though. Contrary to many fanboys' beliefs, Nintendo has no software division to fall back on. 5 wonderful games a year does not a software division make. Sega has a much larger one and as such was able to make the move it did. Nintendo is not.
I'm not saying it won't leave the business. I'm just saying it won't make the same move as Sega.
This is the main drawback. With a PC, it's easy to just pull out a card and replace it. With this "console", it seems to be that you'd either have to replace the console or just live with not being able to play the game. It leaves you in a bad situation. This is a REPLACEMENT for a PC, not a secondary PC.
I guess the closest a lot of Americans have come to seeing a real Japanese apartment would be Piro's Japanese friend (can't recall the name offhand) in the early days of MegaTokyo, where it was covered all over with magazines and the floor doubled as a table and a bed.
I'm sure when it said "starts right up", it didn't mean that it played right away... that it installed first... especially if you finished RTFA before you posted. -_-
It mentions that it will be able to install 2-disc games... but it doesn't mention how long it will take to do so, and whether it will let you choose which installation you can make. Some games allow you to choose how much of the game you want to install, to limit HD space used. I'd be interested to know how this works.
(Oh, and apologies for posting twice, but I had two separate thoughts on this subject. O_O)
From the article: DISCover itself is not making any consoles. DISCover's business model is to help electronics manufacturers tap into the gaming industry.
Isn't this what 3D0 tried... and failed miserably at?
Many gaming companies use their figures in terms of how many they have shipped. If they've shipped all of their games/consoles/whatever, they've "sold out". The sell-through rate is a less-used figure in gaming.
Maybe there is a correlation between GC lovers and Apple lovers. hmmm.....
I don't agree with that, considering I have a GCN yet can't STAND the Mac OS. It looks pretty and all, but it's too goddamn hard for me to adjust after using Windows for so long.
Actually, there was one point where Sega was trying to pump as many DCs into the market as possible to try to get the install base high before PS2 came out. This was working rather well in Japan, but they ran into a chip shortage, and were only able to manufacture about 2/3 of the systems that they wanted to and had to redirect consoles from the US and European markets to meet demand.
The US market didn't care all that much, since DC wasn't doing too well anyway, but the European market was kind of miffed.
But if you recall, the only current batteries that are out for the GCN last 2 hours on a charge that's over twice as long. It may be designed for portability, but it's not very good at it currently.
Actually, the most recent Pokemon game does need a bit more in translation than the previous 2 N64 ones. This being because unlike the Pokemon Stadium games, where it was just a place for you to fight with your Pokemon in 3D, this one also contains its own entirely original RPG in 3D, with dialogue and everything, and that requires a lot of translation.
But that limits their revenue as well as their profit. What I was getting at is that there's a difference between saying that the companies are going to get billions of dollars in revenue in the next 4 years, and that those same companies are going to get billions of dollars in profit in the next 4 years.
Isn't there a difference between revenue and profit? Just because a bunch of companies are getting a bunch of money from their subscribers doesn't mean they're profiting more. Because the more people that play MMORPGs, the more servers they need to handle the load, the more tech support they need to help people with issues, the more full-time coders they need to help fix the bugs that come up, and the more designers, coders, artists, etc. they need to create new content for the game to keep people coming back. The bigger a game gets, the more they need to spend on it, so just because they have more revenue doesn't mean they have more profit.
Well, it depends on the radio station. There's one near here Washington's 104 that actually hardly has DJs on it at all. It's mostly nonstop music, without the annoyance of DJs.
They have a lot of commercials, though... which I guess is the tradeback, since DJ segments are practically commericals anyway.
That's not the same thing, though. Making something a "two-try" situation is not the same thing as adapting to the skill level of a player... all this "two-try" does is make you think "Well... THAT wasn't the right way." It doesn't change the difficulty of the CORRECT path in any way, shape, or form, and this is what adaptive AI is about (at least, from what I've seen.)
Well, since I only really listen to the radio that's built into my Walkman, I'll hold my breath till Walkmen come standard with this new equipment. -_-
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Reminds me of POGs... or Crazy Bones... or just about any other useless piece of cardboard/plastic that companies charge $10 for and get rich for a few months off of.
Keep him away from anime (the Toonami variety) if you don't want him to ask for stuff like that. Crappy anime such as DBZ is like a breeding ground for crappy toys and trading card games.
Or give your western townsperson a ray gun for a head.
Because they had to set aside money for all of these prizes.
If they make it more like Zone.com, that means that the new Live will launch with hyper-powerful versions of Bejeweled! O_O
THere's a difference, though. Contrary to many fanboys' beliefs, Nintendo has no software division to fall back on. 5 wonderful games a year does not a software division make. Sega has a much larger one and as such was able to make the move it did. Nintendo is not.
I'm not saying it won't leave the business. I'm just saying it won't make the same move as Sega.
This is the main drawback. With a PC, it's easy to just pull out a card and replace it. With this "console", it seems to be that you'd either have to replace the console or just live with not being able to play the game. It leaves you in a bad situation. This is a REPLACEMENT for a PC, not a secondary PC.
I guess the closest a lot of Americans have come to seeing a real Japanese apartment would be Piro's Japanese friend (can't recall the name offhand) in the early days of MegaTokyo, where it was covered all over with magazines and the floor doubled as a table and a bed.
I'm sure when it said "starts right up", it didn't mean that it played right away... that it installed first... especially if you finished RTFA before you posted. -_-
It mentions that it will be able to install 2-disc games... but it doesn't mention how long it will take to do so, and whether it will let you choose which installation you can make. Some games allow you to choose how much of the game you want to install, to limit HD space used. I'd be interested to know how this works.
(Oh, and apologies for posting twice, but I had two separate thoughts on this subject. O_O)
From the article: DISCover itself is not making any consoles. DISCover's business model is to help electronics manufacturers tap into the gaming industry.
Isn't this what 3D0 tried... and failed miserably at?
Many gaming companies use their figures in terms of how many they have shipped. If they've shipped all of their games/consoles/whatever, they've "sold out". The sell-through rate is a less-used figure in gaming.
Maybe there is a correlation between GC lovers and Apple lovers. hmmm.....
I don't agree with that, considering I have a GCN yet can't STAND the Mac OS. It looks pretty and all, but it's too goddamn hard for me to adjust after using Windows for so long.
For the 5020352303205th time, Nintendo has stated that the day they stop making systems is the day they get out of the video game business altogether.
Actually, there was one point where Sega was trying to pump as many DCs into the market as possible to try to get the install base high before PS2 came out. This was working rather well in Japan, but they ran into a chip shortage, and were only able to manufacture about 2/3 of the systems that they wanted to and had to redirect consoles from the US and European markets to meet demand.
The US market didn't care all that much, since DC wasn't doing too well anyway, but the European market was kind of miffed.
But if you recall, the only current batteries that are out for the GCN last 2 hours on a charge that's over twice as long. It may be designed for portability, but it's not very good at it currently.
Actually, the most recent Pokemon game does need a bit more in translation than the previous 2 N64 ones. This being because unlike the Pokemon Stadium games, where it was just a place for you to fight with your Pokemon in 3D, this one also contains its own entirely original RPG in 3D, with dialogue and everything, and that requires a lot of translation.
But that limits their revenue as well as their profit. What I was getting at is that there's a difference between saying that the companies are going to get billions of dollars in revenue in the next 4 years, and that those same companies are going to get billions of dollars in profit in the next 4 years.
Isn't there a difference between revenue and profit? Just because a bunch of companies are getting a bunch of money from their subscribers doesn't mean they're profiting more. Because the more people that play MMORPGs, the more servers they need to handle the load, the more tech support they need to help people with issues, the more full-time coders they need to help fix the bugs that come up, and the more designers, coders, artists, etc. they need to create new content for the game to keep people coming back. The bigger a game gets, the more they need to spend on it, so just because they have more revenue doesn't mean they have more profit.
Well, it depends on the radio station. There's one near here Washington's 104 that actually hardly has DJs on it at all. It's mostly nonstop music, without the annoyance of DJs. They have a lot of commercials, though... which I guess is the tradeback, since DJ segments are practically commericals anyway.
This makes me think: "Hmm... Seti@Home with an Aqua theme..."
That's not the same thing, though. Making something a "two-try" situation is not the same thing as adapting to the skill level of a player... all this "two-try" does is make you think "Well... THAT wasn't the right way." It doesn't change the difficulty of the CORRECT path in any way, shape, or form, and this is what adaptive AI is about (at least, from what I've seen.)
Well, since I only really listen to the radio that's built into my Walkman, I'll hold my breath till Walkmen come standard with this new equipment. -_-
You'd think that they'd adopt something similar to 555-xxxx, and make the URLs something that had no meaning whatsoever, but they DID OWN THEM.
Noooo! I heard from someone that it was Anna Nicole Smith. >_>