You can do this on the PS3 as well, and the Dreamcast allowed it before. That's not really new. What I was hoping for when I saw the headline was confirmation that there would be games using the "interactive" powers of the Wiimote. Now that I could (ahem) get behind.
The first article mentions that the NES versions of those games are the best available. Well, not exactly; the best way to play them is through The Story of Llylgamyn, a compilation of the first three games for the Super Famicom. Unfortunately, it was only released in Japan for the Nintendo Power accessory (not to be confused with the magazine). It was a nifty little device similar to the Famicom Disk System; you could go to a store and load games onto a flash ROM inside of it. Of course, you can't do that anymore.
But then, that's what emulation is for. If you can find the ROM, which is easy enough (hint: The name is "Wizardry I-II-III - Story of Llylgamyn (J) (NP).smc"), then you're golden. You might want to use the translation patch for it, but it's not necessary; the games are dual-language, so the only Japanese you'll have to muddle through is in the pre-game menus. A minor note: For some reason Knight of Diamonds is listed as the third game while Legacy of Llylgamyn is listed as a second, which is a transposition. Play them accordingly, or not.
Actually, it does. Subspecies indicate populations that are currently undergoing speciation away from the rest of the species. An example that we're all familiar with is the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) versus the common wolf (Canis lupus lupus). The concept of a subspecies might not be totally concrete, but then, neither is the concept of a species.
This is not happening with black people, of course. We're all Homo sapiens sapiens.
Sony didn't change its stance at all. They've said all along that porn could be allowed on BluRay depending on the licensing policies of the other companies, but that the discs for it wouldn't be pressed at Sony's own factories. Anything else you heard is just FUD from HD-DVD supporters.
DVD-R and DVD+R are nearly indistinguishable from each other, unlike BD and HD-DVD which are very different. It's a lot cheaper to make a dual-format player for the former than it is for the latter.
Not that it really matters; the massive amount of studio support that BluRay has over HD-DVD makes it rather unlikely that HD-DVD will long enough to where dual-format players would be a viable option.
Oddly enough, what everyone THOUGHT was going to be a big advantage for blu-ray--the PS3, hasn't really been that great, as so few people are buying them.
Er, the PS3 is selling a lot better than any dedicated BD player, and a large percentage of owners have expressed intent to buy movies for it, so that is a big advantage for BluRay.
Sure -- if both there had been an equal number of titles released on each format up to this point
Why does one necessarily have to have anything to do with the other? You're assuming that BluRay is playing catch-up with HD-DVD by coming out with movies that already came out on HD-DVD, but it's just as possible that BluRay is simply coming out with more new movies than HD-DVD is. The only way to know for sure would be to look at the list of released movies.
Because BluRay is inextricably linked with the PS3. If one succeeds then the other is likely to follow, and the same if one fails. I agree that this still doesn't belong in the Games section, but that's the rationale.
'And yet while all agree that it was a strong month for Blu-ray, opinion is split on whether the surge in sales is an indicator of stronger user adaption of Blu-ray compared to HD DVD, or simply a reflection of the larger number of new Blu-ray titles that hit the market over the month -- 25 new Blu-ray titles were released in January, compared to just 11 titles on HD DVD for the same period.'
Wouldn't the fact that there are over twice as many new releases for BD than for HD-DVD in itself be an important indicator of stronger adoption of BD?
I got a PS2 for Christmas 2000, making it one of the first produced. It still works quite well enough, though it's a bit slow with booting up DVD games. Once booted, there's little to no slowdown even with those.
Wikipedia is the embodiment of altruism. People helping people for reasons other than to further their own status... sickening.
Have you actually been to Wikipedia lately?
At any rate, I agree that Rand would hate Wikipedia, but only because of its "everyone has a say" open-source traits. Though of course Wikipedia is now making some people "more equal than others."
BD uses the exact same form of DRM that HD-DVD uses, so of course he succeeded in circumventing it. Unfortunately for HD-DVD, though, BD already has other forms of DRM as part of its standard. They just haven't been widely implemented yet.
Yes, obviously the fact that the hype over the Wii has reached such a level that people are willing to kill themselves to get one is not at all interesting or relevant. I suppose now you're going to tell us that the riots and violence surrounding the PS3's launch day had nothing to with it either, right?
Going by standard convention, no, the DS isn't a console. The distinction reflects on the fact that the portable gaming market is quite different from the console gaming market, just as the console gaming market is quite different from the computer gaming market. (Technically, we should be calling all of them computers.)
The NPD reports actual sales numbers, not shipment numbers. Granted, they are only for the US, and even then they're known to be conservative estimates since they don't get data from certain retailers (most notably Wal-Mart), but they're still a reliable metric when used to judge sales trends.
Instead of looking at the total numbers since launch, looking at the monthly numbers is a lot more illuminating. In November, the Wii sold 475K units, while in December it sold 600K. Keeping in mind the Wii was released in the middle of November, this represents a 40% decrease in the sales rate, while the PS3 actually had an increase of about 50%. If this sort of thing keeps up, it could be a major blow to the Wii regardless of whether or not the negative sales growth is due to lowered demand.
The exact numbers for November and December: Wii: 476K 604.2K PS3: 197K 490.7K
And for those of you who scanned over the summary quickly, the XBox 360 sold 1.1 million units in December alone. Further putting things in perspective, the PS2 was still the best-selling console over the holiday season.
The Supreme Court has been using this test for decades to determine whether or not a work is obscene. If a work doesn't pass the test, it can be banned from sale not only to minors, but to anyone in the United States. But very rarely does a work not pass the test, since the SLAPS test ("serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value") has been affirmed to allow even pornography. This law will do nothing to video-game sales.
Getting a wheel for one game? Anyone who really cares about the difference between steering a virtual car with an analog stick and steering a virtual car with a steering wheel is likely enough of a racing fan to already have a steering wheel, much less have a number of games to play with it.
He meant besides graphics. Though I would argue that modern consoles are quite different from the consoles of twenty years ago as well. Not only did enhanced graphics allow for 3D games, but increases in processing power and media capacity allowed for deeper, more complex games. I would say that modern consoles aren't that different in this respect from the consoles of ten years ago, however.
But that's where it stopped. Playstation 3 is not revolutionary compared to the Playstation 2.
I thought that myself until I actually saw PS3 games on my HDTV. The difference in graphical quality between the PS3 and the PS2 is just as large as that difference is between the PS2 and PSX. I would agree that the graphical upgrade is not as dramatic as the one between 8-bit and 16-bit or between 16-bit and 32/64-bit, but it compares very well with the last generation's advances.
Keep in mind that we're comparing final-generation PS2 games with first-generation PS3 games. First-generation PS2 games weren't a great deal better in graphical quality than final-generation PSX games, either.
[The Wii] gives us everything the PS2 did plus a whole new way to play games we've never experienced.
People keep saying this, but it hasn't been proven yet.
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You can do this on the PS3 as well, and the Dreamcast allowed it before. That's not really new. What I was hoping for when I saw the headline was confirmation that there would be games using the "interactive" powers of the Wiimote. Now that I could (ahem) get behind.
Rob
The first article mentions that the NES versions of those games are the best available. Well, not exactly; the best way to play them is through The Story of Llylgamyn, a compilation of the first three games for the Super Famicom. Unfortunately, it was only released in Japan for the Nintendo Power accessory (not to be confused with the magazine). It was a nifty little device similar to the Famicom Disk System; you could go to a store and load games onto a flash ROM inside of it. Of course, you can't do that anymore.
But then, that's what emulation is for. If you can find the ROM, which is easy enough (hint: The name is "Wizardry I-II-III - Story of Llylgamyn (J) (NP).smc"), then you're golden. You might want to use the translation patch for it, but it's not necessary; the games are dual-language, so the only Japanese you'll have to muddle through is in the pre-game menus. A minor note: For some reason Knight of Diamonds is listed as the third game while Legacy of Llylgamyn is listed as a second, which is a transposition. Play them accordingly, or not.
Rob
And to do all of the world scripting, no less? No wonder that place is full of perverts!
Rob
Actually, it does. Subspecies indicate populations that are currently undergoing speciation away from the rest of the species. An example that we're all familiar with is the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) versus the common wolf (Canis lupus lupus). The concept of a subspecies might not be totally concrete, but then, neither is the concept of a species.
This is not happening with black people, of course. We're all Homo sapiens sapiens.
Rob
Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Britannica[ citation needed ]
Fixed.
Rob
Sony didn't change its stance at all. They've said all along that porn could be allowed on BluRay depending on the licensing policies of the other companies, but that the discs for it wouldn't be pressed at Sony's own factories. Anything else you heard is just FUD from HD-DVD supporters.
Rob
DVD-R and DVD+R are nearly indistinguishable from each other, unlike BD and HD-DVD which are very different. It's a lot cheaper to make a dual-format player for the former than it is for the latter.
Not that it really matters; the massive amount of studio support that BluRay has over HD-DVD makes it rather unlikely that HD-DVD will long enough to where dual-format players would be a viable option.
Rob
You're all asking the wrong questions... The real question here is how a company can declare itself the winner of a competition...
I think everybody here is asking that question.
Rob
How the hell did you miss "Dewey Defeats Truman"?
Rob
Oddly enough, what everyone THOUGHT was going to be a big advantage for blu-ray--the PS3, hasn't really been that great, as so few people are buying them.
Er, the PS3 is selling a lot better than any dedicated BD player, and a large percentage of owners have expressed intent to buy movies for it, so that is a big advantage for BluRay.
Rob
Sure -- if both there had been an equal number of titles released on each format up to this point
Why does one necessarily have to have anything to do with the other? You're assuming that BluRay is playing catch-up with HD-DVD by coming out with movies that already came out on HD-DVD, but it's just as possible that BluRay is simply coming out with more new movies than HD-DVD is. The only way to know for sure would be to look at the list of released movies.
Rob
Because BluRay is inextricably linked with the PS3. If one succeeds then the other is likely to follow, and the same if one fails. I agree that this still doesn't belong in the Games section, but that's the rationale.
Rob
'And yet while all agree that it was a strong month for Blu-ray, opinion is split on whether the surge in sales is an indicator of stronger user adaption of Blu-ray compared to HD DVD, or simply a reflection of the larger number of new Blu-ray titles that hit the market over the month -- 25 new Blu-ray titles were released in January, compared to just 11 titles on HD DVD for the same period.'
Wouldn't the fact that there are over twice as many new releases for BD than for HD-DVD in itself be an important indicator of stronger adoption of BD?
Rob
Here, it's one of the few non-hentai titles ever to reach our shores.
Fixed.
Rob
I got a PS2 for Christmas 2000, making it one of the first produced. It still works quite well enough, though it's a bit slow with booting up DVD games. Once booted, there's little to no slowdown even with those.
Rob
What started as some catharsis for 'anoon', the poster and former co-director of Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game
So you're saying that he's metaphorically joined Game Developers Anoonymous?
Rob
Wikipedia is the embodiment of altruism. People helping people for reasons other than to further their own status ... sickening.
Have you actually been to Wikipedia lately?
At any rate, I agree that Rand would hate Wikipedia, but only because of its "everyone has a say" open-source traits. Though of course Wikipedia is now making some people "more equal than others."
Rob
BD uses the exact same form of DRM that HD-DVD uses, so of course he succeeded in circumventing it. Unfortunately for HD-DVD, though, BD already has other forms of DRM as part of its standard. They just haven't been widely implemented yet.
Rob
Yes, obviously the fact that the hype over the Wii has reached such a level that people are willing to kill themselves to get one is not at all interesting or relevant. I suppose now you're going to tell us that the riots and violence surrounding the PS3's launch day had nothing to with it either, right?
Rob
Going by standard convention, no, the DS isn't a console. The distinction reflects on the fact that the portable gaming market is quite different from the console gaming market, just as the console gaming market is quite different from the computer gaming market. (Technically, we should be calling all of them computers.)
Rob
The NPD reports actual sales numbers, not shipment numbers. Granted, they are only for the US, and even then they're known to be conservative estimates since they don't get data from certain retailers (most notably Wal-Mart), but they're still a reliable metric when used to judge sales trends.
Rob
Instead of looking at the total numbers since launch, looking at the monthly numbers is a lot more illuminating. In November, the Wii sold 475K units, while in December it sold 600K. Keeping in mind the Wii was released in the middle of November, this represents a 40% decrease in the sales rate, while the PS3 actually had an increase of about 50%. If this sort of thing keeps up, it could be a major blow to the Wii regardless of whether or not the negative sales growth is due to lowered demand.
The exact numbers for November and December:
Wii: 476K 604.2K
PS3: 197K 490.7K
And for those of you who scanned over the summary quickly, the XBox 360 sold 1.1 million units in December alone. Further putting things in perspective, the PS2 was still the best-selling console over the holiday season.
Rob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
The Supreme Court has been using this test for decades to determine whether or not a work is obscene. If a work doesn't pass the test, it can be banned from sale not only to minors, but to anyone in the United States. But very rarely does a work not pass the test, since the SLAPS test ("serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value") has been affirmed to allow even pornography. This law will do nothing to video-game sales.
Rob
Getting a wheel for one game? Anyone who really cares about the difference between steering a virtual car with an analog stick and steering a virtual car with a steering wheel is likely enough of a racing fan to already have a steering wheel, much less have a number of games to play with it.
Rob
He meant besides graphics. Though I would argue that modern consoles are quite different from the consoles of twenty years ago as well. Not only did enhanced graphics allow for 3D games, but increases in processing power and media capacity allowed for deeper, more complex games. I would say that modern consoles aren't that different in this respect from the consoles of ten years ago, however.
But that's where it stopped. Playstation 3 is not revolutionary compared to the Playstation 2.
I thought that myself until I actually saw PS3 games on my HDTV. The difference in graphical quality between the PS3 and the PS2 is just as large as that difference is between the PS2 and PSX. I would agree that the graphical upgrade is not as dramatic as the one between 8-bit and 16-bit or between 16-bit and 32/64-bit, but it compares very well with the last generation's advances.
Keep in mind that we're comparing final-generation PS2 games with first-generation PS3 games. First-generation PS2 games weren't a great deal better in graphical quality than final-generation PSX games, either.
[The Wii] gives us everything the PS2 did plus a whole new way to play games we've never experienced.
People keep saying this, but it hasn't been proven yet.
Rob