Nintendo already have GBA base, and if it would release free SDK and make it easy to get license it will attract a lot of small/indie developers.
Right, because Nintendo gets along so well with 3rd party developers and the indie gaming scene. Read "Game Over"... Nintendo wants CONTROL and lots of it.
Care to back up that statistic, cauze it sounds like bullshit to me. BTW: I might not care if someone killed you, but anyone else in the world, yeah, I dont think they desirve to die, and it is MY DEAL because I dont like people killing unborn people? OK Dimwit?!?!
Though I'm sure you are college educated, you should try to present yourself as such online:
"Care to back up that statistic, 'cause it sounds like bullshit to me. BTW: I might not care if someone killed you, but [if they killed] anyone else in the world, yeah, [I would be upset]. I dont think they deserve to die and it is MY DEAL because I dont like people killing unborn people? OK, Dimwit? (only one question mark is necessary)
Try using google to answer your questions and try an education to help with making your points.
No thanks. Any issue I might agree with them on is swamped by this.
No joke, I don't think we should have even given women the right to vote. But good Lord, now they want control of their bodies! Who do they think they are?
------ What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand ----
I guess the whole "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" part. Also, the lack of a question mark from your sentence (unless it is a statement - which rarely, if ever, begin with 'What').
WwWonka (545303) said: I think the greatest video story ever told was that of the lonely hungry yellow orb with eyeballs. Always running from his past, devouring the needed fuel to keep him going and learning life as he traveled the mazes of unpredictability. Chased by the undead that could never understand his ideology nor motives only to cause this lost soul to consume a secret drug like substance that multiplied his anger and made him insanely aggressive for short uncontrollable periods of time. It is a story of a journey that will never subside and never end.
Oh, and he liked to eat fruit.
That was one of the funniest things I've ever read on slashdot. Mod it up!
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "All your base are belong to us." You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the game before. Because that's what it says in the game, right? Isn't it? "All your base are belong to us." And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to use in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart person you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God, you're so funny!
Oh, and nowhere near $100, try $70 of todays dollars for a $50 game. Which btw is about the pricepoint most N64 games came out at, long after Nintendo lost their monopoly. They were expensive because of the cartridge medium, not because Nintendo priced higher than people do today.
$50 in 1980 = $113 in 2004
$50 in 1985 = $87 in 2004
$50 in 1990 = $71.65 in 2004
$50 in 1995 = $61.45 in 2004
Now, simultaneously prices for what made up cartridges were dropping. So, a $50 nintendo game was actually quite expensive. Today, many games (for any system) are between $20-$40, which shows a wide gulf between the past and the present. If you truly think they priced the games at $50 because of component costs, then where exactly did the big N make money?
Gaming prices weren't much higher then than they are now, and they used FAR more expensive media. The SNES and NES were both quality products as were all Nintendo original games. Yes, unfortunately, that $50 is near $100 in today's money. Which means that prices have come down thanks to competition (would you pay $90 for a GameCube game?).
Microsoft meanwhile, used their position to push utter garbage onto the Desktop and Server markets. Only fixed things when absolutely forced(and still not always then), etc., etc And one could argue that Sony or Nintendo have pushed "utter garbage" onto gaming markets. It's a matter of opinion. Both firms seem to have abused their monopoly powers, you defend Nintendo by stating they put out quality games. Why couldn't they do that under competition? What if competiting games were better? We won't ever know.
Around Slashdot its easy to be a Nintendo fanboy. You play the underdog and get modded up.
Each company has their own priority? Yes, to make money. And they all work their ways to do that. Microsoft, it appears, will be porting PC games. MS does offer quality games and isn't just advertising and hype. I would say PS2 has far more advertising and hype of far more marginal games, but again, it uses marketing to make money. And Nintendo's games may be the cat's pajamas, but if no one in the U.S. is buying them, who cares? Nintendo hasn't been going up in this country for a while. You may think Nintendo is some gaming eden, a non-profit entity putting forth quality games. They are as cut-throat as anyone else but losing in the US market.
What do you think the console Market would look like with MS in the position Nintendo was in in the late 80s?
The exact same. After reading "Game Over" about Nintendo's rise and fall in the 1980s and 1990s, I can tell you there's not much more that company could have done to prevent competition. Nintendo was a monopolistic juggernaut who controlled all licesning and the entire market.
It's not like Sony and Nintendo are saints here. Sony entered for pretty much the same reasons as MS - to gain entry into a profitable market and to control the profitable market.
It's easy to hate MS just because they are MS. But Sony and Nintendo are businesses as well, and the early PS1 years remind me a lot of the current XBox scheming.
Except that the crew is unionized and gets paid a set wage. Yes, they could try to hire less crew, but with bigger and bigger movies that wouldn't work. That, and Hollywood continues to take in huge amounts of money per year on their movies.
Seriously. Imagine every addicted player sitting at their computer when suddenly whole races of people are killed off. Their own character, whom they've spent months developing, gone. At this point, the player stares in shock at the screen, but a glint of sunlight breaks in the room. He looks out the window, sees the "real world" and goes and builds up himself instead of a fake character.
Guess it's too much to ask for. And yes, I realize this was just the way to end the beta.
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Right, because Nintendo gets along so well with 3rd party developers and the indie gaming scene. Read "Game Over"... Nintendo wants CONTROL and lots of it.
They beat Sega (genesis), Sony (Playstation), Sega (Dreamcast) Sony again (Playstation 2) and Microsoft (Xbox).
Yup, Nintendo's N64 and GameCube have really taken over the market and competitors should stop wasting their money.(Sarcasm shutting down)
Nintendo will be dethroned. Competition is great for the market.
Mod this up if you can. I was wondering why that name was so familiar!
Yeesh, get a sense of humor, conservatives!
Are you arguing about the use of quotation marks? Where did we leave off?
Oh, thank God! I was worried. So, I must have missed the finding of the WMDs. Where did they find them?
Though I'm sure you are college educated, you should try to present yourself as such online: "Care to back up that statistic, 'cause it sounds like bullshit to me. BTW: I might not care if someone killed you, but [if they killed] anyone else in the world, yeah, [I would be upset]. I dont think they deserve to die and it is MY DEAL because I dont like people killing unborn people? OK, Dimwit? (only one question mark is necessary)
Try using google to answer your questions and try an education to help with making your points.
Hmmm... 77 percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. Something to think about. BTW, it's a fetus and BTW it's not yours.
No joke, I don't think we should have even given women the right to vote. But good Lord, now they want control of their bodies! Who do they think they are?
I guess the whole "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" part. Also, the lack of a question mark from your sentence (unless it is a statement - which rarely, if ever, begin with 'What').
Oh, and he liked to eat fruit.
That was one of the funniest things I've ever read on slashdot. Mod it up!
Whoosh!
Adapted Family Guy.
$50 in 1980 = $113 in 2004
$50 in 1985 = $87 in 2004
$50 in 1990 = $71.65 in 2004
$50 in 1995 = $61.45 in 2004
Now, simultaneously prices for what made up cartridges were dropping. So, a $50 nintendo game was actually quite expensive. Today, many games (for any system) are between $20-$40, which shows a wide gulf between the past and the present. If you truly think they priced the games at $50 because of component costs, then where exactly did the big N make money?
Microsoft meanwhile, used their position to push utter garbage onto the Desktop and Server markets. Only fixed things when absolutely forced(and still not always then), etc., etc And one could argue that Sony or Nintendo have pushed "utter garbage" onto gaming markets. It's a matter of opinion. Both firms seem to have abused their monopoly powers, you defend Nintendo by stating they put out quality games. Why couldn't they do that under competition? What if competiting games were better? We won't ever know.
Each company has their own priority? Yes, to make money. And they all work their ways to do that. Microsoft, it appears, will be porting PC games. MS does offer quality games and isn't just advertising and hype. I would say PS2 has far more advertising and hype of far more marginal games, but again, it uses marketing to make money. And Nintendo's games may be the cat's pajamas, but if no one in the U.S. is buying them, who cares? Nintendo hasn't been going up in this country for a while. You may think Nintendo is some gaming eden, a non-profit entity putting forth quality games. They are as cut-throat as anyone else but losing in the US market.
The exact same. After reading "Game Over" about Nintendo's rise and fall in the 1980s and 1990s, I can tell you there's not much more that company could have done to prevent competition. Nintendo was a monopolistic juggernaut who controlled all licesning and the entire market.
It's not like Sony and Nintendo are saints here. Sony entered for pretty much the same reasons as MS - to gain entry into a profitable market and to control the profitable market.
It's easy to hate MS just because they are MS. But Sony and Nintendo are businesses as well, and the early PS1 years remind me a lot of the current XBox scheming.
Except that the crew is unionized and gets paid a set wage. Yes, they could try to hire less crew, but with bigger and bigger movies that wouldn't work. That, and Hollywood continues to take in huge amounts of money per year on their movies.
That's an interesting stat, but where is the "video" component in simon?
I love idle speculation though!
Dammit, I always wanted to be a member except my parents bought the far less cool Apple PowerMac 6100/60, not the 7100/66.
Or, did you mean the 700 club?
You need a new gym to try! Plenty of "scenery" at mine!
Guess it's too much to ask for. And yes, I realize this was just the way to end the beta.
Oh, wow, you should warn me before making a joke like that. I'm at work!
BTW, owning a mac, I've long since given up delusions about "taking over" the marketplace, I would suggest the same for Linux users.
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