Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is the only confirmed launch title that will feature online play. A page on Nintendo's website actually specificly talked about the online functions, but was taken down shortly after (it wasn't done- there was still placeholder text on the page).
However, Square Enix officials talked about Crystal Chronicles being online way back when we were still calling it the Revolution. They haven't mentioned it since, so they may have dropped it, but it was *supposed* to be online.
I'd guess Madden, Need For Speed Carbon, and Call of Duty 3 would be online too, as those games are online on other platforms. That's just a guess though, don't quote me on that.
However, there is very little first-party online support from Nintendo. We've got an article on that over at NintendoPlayers... http://www.nintendoplayers.com/feature.php?feature ID=18 (written before Tony Hawk was confirmed to be online, but still just as relevant about first party games)
"The Wii doens't need a price drop, as it will be priced well below the XBox 360 and the PS3."
But the games are still priced at the same price as new current-gen games, $50. Launch titles tend to drop in price rapidly. Today even the best Cube launch titles (Metroid Prime!) are $9.99 new, $4.99 used at GameStop.
I'll buy the big titles I want at launch (Zelda, Metroid, maybe Wii Sports so I can force my non-gamer family to play it) and grab everything else when the price dives.
You hadn't heard of it? I interviewed some officials at Atlus at E3. They were only beginning development at the time, but they said you'd use both the pointer and motion sensors- he couldn't give me any official details, but he made an example of, say, making the incision using the pointer (pointing on the screen to cut, 2D, like the DS touch screen), then reaching in with the remote as a different tool in three dimensions.
The lawsuit is just plain stupid. I simply don't understand HOW someone can 'verify' their age over the computer. Short of requiring everyone to scan some sort of documentation of their age and requiring MySpace to hire a staff of thousands more people to daily comb through each user one by one as they register (simply not practical), there is no possible way MySpace (or ANY site on the internet that doesn't require a credit card for that matter) can verify it. They're basicly sueing MySpace for not doing the impossible.
If I'm not mistaken, since this bends the light around the object, none of the light actually hits the object, correct?
So no invisible surveilance cameras or human beings- the light would miss the lens of the camera or the eye of the human and they'd be completely blind.
Actually quite a few people agree that the PS3's price estimate from Merril Lynch is absolutely retarded. Even Merril Lynch Japan thinks its going to cost $500 to manufacture. The $900 price estimate is completely wrong- if you add up the numbers in the article, it only totals to $800, for one (they corrected this later and said, oops, we meant $800). Secondly, the $250 estimate on the Cell processor is based on the assumption that IBM will have low yields, and they've recently said they're having very high yields and it won't cost that much. And remember that the PS3 will NOT contain a Blu-ray player, just a Blu-ray drive, because it already has the Cell and RSX to decode DVD's, so the Blu-ray drive will be a lot less than $350 (probably the $100 estimated by others).
Microsoft SUPPORTS HD-DVD, they don't control it in any shape or form.
Microsoft could just as easily turn around and support Blu-ray tomorrow, would that mean they would control your living room of Blu-ray wins? No. Supporting a format does not mean you control it.
Good point. I wonder how many security blocks Nintendo put on this thing. The newer DS's being sold have a newer firmware that blocks PassMe, but PassMe 2 gets around it (but requires some annoying setup to use). I'd bet the new one will block PassMe 2.
Perhaps that explains the DS shortages in Japan? Maybe Nintendo was busy manufacturing the new models?
Anyway, it's smaller, thinner, lighter, brighter, and only $10 more. What's not to like? I wonder how much I'll get on trade-in with my current DS...
We're definitely getting Intel Macs.
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Check ThinkSecret- they're almost always right, and cite reliable sources (the same ones that leaked the iPod Photo and Mac Mini originally) that we'll have an Intel iBook and Mini.
No, it's not. XBox Live Silver does not support online play in any way shape or form, except on special events. It allows you only to spectate on the people actually playing IIRC, and access to downloads.
Yes, there is maintenence required, but look at how 90% of PC games have free online play similar to Live in most respects.
Comparing World of Warcraft to Live is a joke. Live is what, 32 people per server (on my PC Star Wars Battlefront goes to 64)? World of Warcraft is servers with THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE per server. It's a HUGE difference.
If you're betting Microsoft would give Live away for free if they could, you'd lose that bet, since Nintendo IS giving it out for free- Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on the Revolution will be a centralized online service like Live, and free. The Nintendo DS one is also centralized (though lower cost due to it being a handheld- no voice chat because the system couldn't handle that on top of the game, low bandwidth due to the 2 mbps cap on the WiFi) and free. GameSpy is giving it out free on PCs for every game (they charge for a premium, advertisement-free version with the caps removed so you can have more contacts).
Microsoft could easily allow a free version of XBox Live (perhaps with some features capped to give incentives for the higher version, like GameSpy does), but they choose not to.
Something that isn't even mentioned in the article is this. We know that Microsoft sells the XBox for a big loss- I recall hearing that the number was around $75 per system, initially at launch. I have come to believe that the original plan was to make that money back on XBox Live subscriptions. Think about this- if every XBox user bought Live and paid for four years, Microsoft makes $200 per user just off Live. Heck, if less than half of XBox users paid for a Live subscription and kept it for four years it would pay off the losses incurred from the system. At the same time they could sell a more powerful system for the same price as some of the competition (PS2 and XBox are the same price to this day- interestingly, the GameCube is at a lower price yet is more powerful than the PS2 and sold at a profit).
Unfortunately, the percentage of users on XBox Live is much smaller (the numbers I hear are 10-20%). Microsoft took a big loss on the XBox. And now they are doing it again, but this time they are trying to make Live much more appealing- with the Arcade and demos and trailers, they want people to be willing to get Live even if they don't want to play any games online. If they can get the majority of XBox users to pay for Live, they can keep selling more powerful systems for losses to keep ahead on the competition.
Also unfortunately, it seems the competition have other ideas. Sony is gambling that by putting a Blu-ray player in every home, they'll make a fortune off of Blu-ray, so they're willing to sell the PS3 for an even higher loss than Microsoft ever did methinks- even if they take an overall loss on their games division, they'll take the loss and gain total control over the movie market. And Nintendo has the right idea- they said, "You know what, it's stupid to throw away money and sell for a massive loss and lose profitableness for bragging points on who has the most powerful system. We're out of this race- we'll sell a lower priced system with free online play, hundreds of downloadable classic games and a controller that gives you new ways of play. Having slightly better graphics than your competitor isn't so important anymore."
And to the above poster: There was an interesting interview in this month's Maxim with the head game designer at Nintendo (I think that is his title, he is the guy that invented Mario Bros etc.)
He said the big challenge is that games have become so complex, that there are no casual gamers. That the world has been divided into two types of people: those who play games, and those who don't play games.
I see his point- I haven't played a video game in years, aside from ones that can be learned in 5 minutes. I just don't have the time to spend hours every day attaining levels and learning complex controls and commands.
That would be Shigeru Miyamoto. Yeah. He also said in the interview that Nintendo wanted to change all that with the Revolution controller being so intuitive and easy.
I've noticed that tendency. Games are becoming staggeringly complicated; on some Adventure games and RPG's I'll get halfway through the game before I realize what some of the items I have can be used for. There aren't many games that can be learned in five minutes, except maybe Burnout 3 (that button is accelerate, that one is brake, that on is boost, try to run into other cars, game learned!).
My Dish Network DVR has no USB ports. How am I supposed to transfer anything? I'm going to assume this only works with either the latest model or the high end models.
Apple's "One More Thing" conference is at October 12th at 10 AM PST. Two hours from now. According to ThinkSecret and AppleInsider we should see new iPods.
Not necessarily. Just make it a user option. If the site works with opera, its reported that opera is looking. If it blocks them, the user checks a "pretend to be IE" box, and bam, it works.
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http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?article ID=419
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Ubisoft announced 7 launch titles just this last week.
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?articl
Midway also announced 6 titles.
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is the only confirmed launch title that will feature online play. A page on Nintendo's website actually specificly talked about the online functions, but was taken down shortly after (it wasn't done- there was still placeholder text on the page).
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However, Square Enix officials talked about Crystal Chronicles being online way back when we were still calling it the Revolution. They haven't mentioned it since, so they may have dropped it, but it was *supposed* to be online.
I'd guess Madden, Need For Speed Carbon, and Call of Duty 3 would be online too, as those games are online on other platforms. That's just a guess though, don't quote me on that.
However, there is very little first-party online support from Nintendo. We've got an article on that over at NintendoPlayers...
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/feature.php?featur
(written before Tony Hawk was confirmed to be online, but still just as relevant about first party games)
"The Wii doens't need a price drop, as it will be priced well below the XBox 360 and the PS3."
But the games are still priced at the same price as new current-gen games, $50. Launch titles tend to drop in price rapidly. Today even the best Cube launch titles (Metroid Prime!) are $9.99 new, $4.99 used at GameStop.
I'll buy the big titles I want at launch (Zelda, Metroid, maybe Wii Sports so I can force my non-gamer family to play it) and grab everything else when the price dives.
You hadn't heard of it? I interviewed some officials at Atlus at E3. They were only beginning development at the time, but they said you'd use both the pointer and motion sensors- he couldn't give me any official details, but he made an example of, say, making the incision using the pointer (pointing on the screen to cut, 2D, like the DS touch screen), then reaching in with the remote as a different tool in three dimensions.
"A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."
I got some Apple stickers with my PowerBook. If I slap that on my Windows PC, is it now an 'Apple-labeled computer'?
The lawsuit is just plain stupid. I simply don't understand HOW someone can 'verify' their age over the computer. Short of requiring everyone to scan some sort of documentation of their age and requiring MySpace to hire a staff of thousands more people to daily comb through each user one by one as they register (simply not practical), there is no possible way MySpace (or ANY site on the internet that doesn't require a credit card for that matter) can verify it. They're basicly sueing MySpace for not doing the impossible.
Actually, any REGULAR DS manufactured after mid-2005 requires the PassKey 2, because of a newer firmware.
The DS Lite has the same firmware as the newer regular DS's, so buy the PassKey 2 either way.
If I'm not mistaken, since this bends the light around the object, none of the light actually hits the object, correct?
So no invisible surveilance cameras or human beings- the light would miss the lens of the camera or the eye of the human and they'd be completely blind.
Actually quite a few people agree that the PS3's price estimate from Merril Lynch is absolutely retarded. Even Merril Lynch Japan thinks its going to cost $500 to manufacture. The $900 price estimate is completely wrong- if you add up the numbers in the article, it only totals to $800, for one (they corrected this later and said, oops, we meant $800). Secondly, the $250 estimate on the Cell processor is based on the assumption that IBM will have low yields, and they've recently said they're having very high yields and it won't cost that much. And remember that the PS3 will NOT contain a Blu-ray player, just a Blu-ray drive, because it already has the Cell and RSX to decode DVD's, so the Blu-ray drive will be a lot less than $350 (probably the $100 estimated by others).
Microsoft SUPPORTS HD-DVD, they don't control it in any shape or form. Microsoft could just as easily turn around and support Blu-ray tomorrow, would that mean they would control your living room of Blu-ray wins? No. Supporting a format does not mean you control it.
Very good point, but I wouldn't want to buy a used DS, what with scratched touchscreens and all.
I wonder if it still takes flash cartridges =P
Good point. I wonder how many security blocks Nintendo put on this thing. The newer DS's being sold have a newer firmware that blocks PassMe, but PassMe 2 gets around it (but requires some annoying setup to use). I'd bet the new one will block PassMe 2.
Considering that Nintendo just finished denying that there was no redesigned DS, this came as a surprise.
Perhaps that explains the DS shortages in Japan? Maybe Nintendo was busy manufacturing the new models?
Anyway, it's smaller, thinner, lighter, brighter, and only $10 more. What's not to like? I wonder how much I'll get on trade-in with my current DS...
Check ThinkSecret- they're almost always right, and cite reliable sources (the same ones that leaked the iPod Photo and Mac Mini originally) that we'll have an Intel iBook and Mini.
No, it's not. XBox Live Silver does not support online play in any way shape or form, except on special events. It allows you only to spectate on the people actually playing IIRC, and access to downloads.
Yes, there is maintenence required, but look at how 90% of PC games have free online play similar to Live in most respects.
Comparing World of Warcraft to Live is a joke. Live is what, 32 people per server (on my PC Star Wars Battlefront goes to 64)? World of Warcraft is servers with THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE per server. It's a HUGE difference.
If you're betting Microsoft would give Live away for free if they could, you'd lose that bet, since Nintendo IS giving it out for free- Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on the Revolution will be a centralized online service like Live, and free. The Nintendo DS one is also centralized (though lower cost due to it being a handheld- no voice chat because the system couldn't handle that on top of the game, low bandwidth due to the 2 mbps cap on the WiFi) and free. GameSpy is giving it out free on PCs for every game (they charge for a premium, advertisement-free version with the caps removed so you can have more contacts).
Microsoft could easily allow a free version of XBox Live (perhaps with some features capped to give incentives for the higher version, like GameSpy does), but they choose not to.
Something that isn't even mentioned in the article is this. We know that Microsoft sells the XBox for a big loss- I recall hearing that the number was around $75 per system, initially at launch. I have come to believe that the original plan was to make that money back on XBox Live subscriptions. Think about this- if every XBox user bought Live and paid for four years, Microsoft makes $200 per user just off Live. Heck, if less than half of XBox users paid for a Live subscription and kept it for four years it would pay off the losses incurred from the system. At the same time they could sell a more powerful system for the same price as some of the competition (PS2 and XBox are the same price to this day- interestingly, the GameCube is at a lower price yet is more powerful than the PS2 and sold at a profit).
Unfortunately, the percentage of users on XBox Live is much smaller (the numbers I hear are 10-20%). Microsoft took a big loss on the XBox. And now they are doing it again, but this time they are trying to make Live much more appealing- with the Arcade and demos and trailers, they want people to be willing to get Live even if they don't want to play any games online. If they can get the majority of XBox users to pay for Live, they can keep selling more powerful systems for losses to keep ahead on the competition.
Also unfortunately, it seems the competition have other ideas. Sony is gambling that by putting a Blu-ray player in every home, they'll make a fortune off of Blu-ray, so they're willing to sell the PS3 for an even higher loss than Microsoft ever did methinks- even if they take an overall loss on their games division, they'll take the loss and gain total control over the movie market. And Nintendo has the right idea- they said, "You know what, it's stupid to throw away money and sell for a massive loss and lose profitableness for bragging points on who has the most powerful system. We're out of this race- we'll sell a lower priced system with free online play, hundreds of downloadable classic games and a controller that gives you new ways of play. Having slightly better graphics than your competitor isn't so important anymore."
And to the above poster:
There was an interesting interview in this month's Maxim with the head game designer at Nintendo (I think that is his title, he is the guy that invented Mario Bros etc.)
He said the big challenge is that games have become so complex, that there are no casual gamers. That the world has been divided into two types of people: those who play games, and those who don't play games.
I see his point- I haven't played a video game in years, aside from ones that can be learned in 5 minutes. I just don't have the time to spend hours every day attaining levels and learning complex controls and commands.
That would be Shigeru Miyamoto. Yeah. He also said in the interview that Nintendo wanted to change all that with the Revolution controller being so intuitive and easy.
I've noticed that tendency. Games are becoming staggeringly complicated; on some Adventure games and RPG's I'll get halfway through the game before I realize what some of the items I have can be used for. There aren't many games that can be learned in five minutes, except maybe Burnout 3 (that button is accelerate, that one is brake, that on is boost, try to run into other cars, game learned!).
Patent laws are far more important than human lives; what gives them the right to do this?
Just kidding, of course. Good for Taiwan. Patent laws should not cause the death of people.
My Dish Network DVR has no USB ports. How am I supposed to transfer anything? I'm going to assume this only works with either the latest model or the high end models.
Apple's "One More Thing" conference is at October 12th at 10 AM PST. Two hours from now. According to ThinkSecret and AppleInsider we should see new iPods.
I believe you can control by tilting the controller in place, rather than lifting your whole arm up. They talk about it in the 1UP article.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=14588 3
The DS is outselling the PSP by 4 times in Japan and has a 1.2 million unit lead worldwide. "Irrelevant" my foot.
Not necessarily. Just make it a user option. If the site works with opera, its reported that opera is looking. If it blocks them, the user checks a "pretend to be IE" box, and bam, it works.
I heard of a guy in a RadioShack, who, when asked the difference, said, "The Apple one only works with Macs, the HP one works with PC's!" ...idiots.
http://www.ndshb.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=s howpage&pid=26
There you go, how to hack the GBA MP to run homebrew.
You'll need PassMe to run DS code.