PCs have an advantage that works against their retail sales, in that you can always go and make your own game if you feel like it. It's a LOT harder to get your hands on an SDK for a console than it is, say, for Flash or Half-Life. The software development community for PC, and the sheer NUMBER of games available for free download, is what people are always going to be attracted to on computers.
That being said, I think that's the main "problem" with retail sales. I think that people are becoming more and more content with downloading their games (legally or not) rather than buying them in the store. It's easier, cheaper, and doesn't require you to get up off of your ass. Steam is headed in the right direction. You need to charge for DOWNLOADING the game. You'll get a helluva lot of people who are willing to let the game download overnight rather than go out and buy the game. Laziness RULES!
That's not impressive, really. You'd still need a helluva lot of them to get a decent amount of storage space. If they because USB compatible, though, then it might help speed up the development of USB drives.
That's my point. It would make no sense to have something like, say, "At Last" by Etta James start playing in the middle of a boss fight. It would be rather ironic, sure, but it would be a weird mood-setter.
I HONESTLY think that Nobuo Uematsu could have done just as well as a classical composer. He could probably drop his career as a game composer now and become one, and get a decent career now.
My favorite would, honestly, have to be the soundtracks written by Nobuo Uematsu, most famous for Final Fantasy. His soundtracks have been adapted into so many different styles, that it shows that you not only need to enhance the mood of the game, but having a song that you can remember and recognize 10 years after playing the game, even when it's a remix of a remix of a techno remix, is TRUELY the sign of a master of the art. (If that was incoherent, sorry, today is not my day for intelligence.)
Space tourism is already here... you know, Dennis Tito?
Tourism generally refers to when the average citizen can go and see it as a leisurely jaunt into a place they haven't seen before. Dennis Tito paid millions of dollars and had to train for months to go up in space... hardly what the average tourist would go through to go on a vacation to, say, France.
The joy of tech is that you never realise you need something until it's put in front of you.
Reminds me of a often-abused quote which I shall bring out and... abuse.
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
Obviously, if this were true, then/. wouldn't exist. (Duh.) Just because you don't see anything else being needed doesn't mean someone else sees a problem that needs to be fixed.
They ALSO don't sell the plain old TI-83 anymore. You're forced to only get the +, which, while it has more features, memory, and such, also costs quite a bit more.
OK, maybe they're not all COMPATIBLE, but they all have the same processor speed and shit. Try running UT2003 on a Pentium II with 400 mHz of speed (which isn't all that old, really).
Another problem that I've seen in my school district is that ALL of the books now are "TI-83 enhanced" or some such thing like that, where many of the lessons involve learning how to do things specifically on the TI-83/+. It makes the calculators a staple around the school, but it would make conversion to a different calculator a bitch. It would probably be at least $1 million spent total, from all the students buying new calculators, the school system buying new class sets of calculators, and the school system getting books that didn't give you instructions on how to make the graphs on the TI-83.
Basically, TI has the market on high school cornered, and there's not much I see HP being able to do about it.
That's not what he was talking about. This is about a console game FIRST, such as Final Fantasy X or Metroid, being ported to PC. The ones you mentioned were PC games being ported to consoles, which happens all the time. Not EVERYONE has computers powerful enough to run all these neat new games, including myself, so there's a market in getting people to get them on a console when they couldn't otherwise play it.
Plus, no one is going to crash a MagLev into a building.
Maybe not, but the inertia caused by going so monumentally fast would create a CATASTROPHIC crash if the train were to ever derail for whatever reason.
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Considering a lot of people want to rip and burn to save money
Since when have people thought of Winamp first for burning and ripping their songs?
Since when do you have to be 18 and have parental permission if not 18 to use Winamp? O_O
Why should I care? All I've ever wanted my Winamp to do is play files.
PCs have an advantage that works against their retail sales, in that you can always go and make your own game if you feel like it. It's a LOT harder to get your hands on an SDK for a console than it is, say, for Flash or Half-Life. The software development community for PC, and the sheer NUMBER of games available for free download, is what people are always going to be attracted to on computers.
That being said, I think that's the main "problem" with retail sales. I think that people are becoming more and more content with downloading their games (legally or not) rather than buying them in the store. It's easier, cheaper, and doesn't require you to get up off of your ass. Steam is headed in the right direction. You need to charge for DOWNLOADING the game. You'll get a helluva lot of people who are willing to let the game download overnight rather than go out and buy the game. Laziness RULES!
I think this article, and the comments associated with it, constitute about 4 drinks already. @_@
That's not impressive, really. You'd still need a helluva lot of them to get a decent amount of storage space. If they because USB compatible, though, then it might help speed up the development of USB drives.
That's my point. It would make no sense to have something like, say, "At Last" by Etta James start playing in the middle of a boss fight. It would be rather ironic, sure, but it would be a weird mood-setter.
Computers that fit in a pocket...
Are great for throwing at coworkers.
But that's not the same as licensing music to put into a game. When you LICENSE music, you're paying for the right to include that song in a game.
It also means that they decide when a song gets played, so songs fit the mood more.
I'd sure LOVE to have Britney Spears start playing when I'm beating the shit out of a pedestrian in GTA3.
I HONESTLY think that Nobuo Uematsu could have done just as well as a classical composer. He could probably drop his career as a game composer now and become one, and get a decent career now.
My favorite part is some of the crazy as hell commercials that pop up. Whoever wrote those things has a SICK mind.
My favorite would, honestly, have to be the soundtracks written by Nobuo Uematsu, most famous for Final Fantasy. His soundtracks have been adapted into so many different styles, that it shows that you not only need to enhance the mood of the game, but having a song that you can remember and recognize 10 years after playing the game, even when it's a remix of a remix of a techno remix, is TRUELY the sign of a master of the art. (If that was incoherent, sorry, today is not my day for intelligence.)
GamingFM plays gaming music 24 hours a day.
Everything that's being nominated for those vaporware awards.
Apparently so. There's an exchange rate and everything. -_-
Space tourism is already here... you know, Dennis Tito?
Tourism generally refers to when the average citizen can go and see it as a leisurely jaunt into a place they haven't seen before. Dennis Tito paid millions of dollars and had to train for months to go up in space... hardly what the average tourist would go through to go on a vacation to, say, France.
The joy of tech is that you never realise you need something until it's put in front of you.
/. wouldn't exist. (Duh.) Just because you don't see anything else being needed doesn't mean someone else sees a problem that needs to be fixed.
Reminds me of a often-abused quote which I shall bring out and... abuse.
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
Obviously, if this were true, then
for someone to come back to our time would contaminate all human life
So why hasn't Michael Jackson been quarantined yet?
To see what Bob Barker looked like when it wasn't OBVIOUS that he was a reanimated corpse.
I'M ONTO YOU, BARKER!
They ALSO don't sell the plain old TI-83 anymore. You're forced to only get the +, which, while it has more features, memory, and such, also costs quite a bit more.
OK, maybe they're not all COMPATIBLE, but they all have the same processor speed and shit. Try running UT2003 on a Pentium II with 400 mHz of speed (which isn't all that old, really).
Another problem that I've seen in my school district is that ALL of the books now are "TI-83 enhanced" or some such thing like that, where many of the lessons involve learning how to do things specifically on the TI-83/+. It makes the calculators a staple around the school, but it would make conversion to a different calculator a bitch. It would probably be at least $1 million spent total, from all the students buying new calculators, the school system buying new class sets of calculators, and the school system getting books that didn't give you instructions on how to make the graphs on the TI-83.
Basically, TI has the market on high school cornered, and there's not much I see HP being able to do about it.
That's not what he was talking about. This is about a console game FIRST, such as Final Fantasy X or Metroid, being ported to PC. The ones you mentioned were PC games being ported to consoles, which happens all the time. Not EVERYONE has computers powerful enough to run all these neat new games, including myself, so there's a market in getting people to get them on a console when they couldn't otherwise play it.
Plus, no one is going to crash a MagLev into a building. Maybe not, but the inertia caused by going so monumentally fast would create a CATASTROPHIC crash if the train were to ever derail for whatever reason.
Because they've been building useless things like MagLev trains.