My mom just got one too. And this after suffering through years of me playing Atari and the NES, she was the last person who I thought would ever express an interest in video games.
But she saw an add for Brain Training and had to have it. After looking all over town for a DS Lite, she finally got one at WalMart and I haven't heard from her since....
Park rangers at national parks do rock. I've always been impressed with them. The Democrates always try and pork barrel funds into their states through surreptitious "park programs", but the employees at the national parks always rise apart from politics and do a great job.
I'm currently auditing the IT operations of a large insurance company.. and guess what - Their data is all fed into custom built applications and SAP and then ultimately dumped into spreadsheets on open network shares for the officers to use and "clean up".
"pull a Nintendo".. by offering 100% backward compatibility over multiplle generations?? I can only guess thats certainly what you mean, since the 360 sure as heck doesn't.
I'd *love* to hear what you find. I left software development last year, but I still check on my former employee's application every so often to see whats happened to it.
Simply knowing what a SNES controller looks like (and even more - commenting on its buttons) shows that you are 99% more likley a "gamer" than the typical consumer.
And Nintendo is going after the typical consumer here, not you.
Think about it.. their 6 year old product is still the top selling console in the US and the top selling home console in Japan (and I only assume the same is true for Europe).
Why would the want to cut off sales from their cash cow when there is no imminent threat? They're going to ride the PS2 as long as they can (without hurting the PS3).. after all, Sony is in the business of making money, not producing shiny new videogames for the betterment of mankind.
MSFT doesn't exist to produce video games. Sooner or later Balmer and the shareholders are going to get sick of sinking $1 billion dollars a year into a black hole and pull the plug.
The ponies joke was funny the first 30 times. Now its reminds me of that kid in school who got way too excited about something and couldn't stop talking about it.
Sony fanboys?!?! I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through. I don't even have a PS2.
Take a look at the software and hardware sales for the past 5 months (covering the launch of 360, Christmas season, and the typical begining-of-year lull) and tell me that the 360 is doing well.
PS2 is king. 360 hardware is coming in second now (after selling less than the Gamecube during december!). 360 software appears to be doing well, but I'd say its only because of 2 abnormalities.. its the only new stuff being released right now and its priced $10 higher (many of the software sales chart rank games on revenue, not # of titles sold)
so riddle me this Batman: Why would Sony even give a shit about the 360 when their 6 year old console, which already has 100 million units sold, is still outselling it month to month? They can sit back, laugh, and wait as long as they want. (or until Nintendo comes around this fall and blows everyones minds)
Sony seems to be in defensive mode, beset by rivals
I'd say that no company with the best selling product, even 5 months after their competitors next-gen version is out, is in a defensive mode.
Sony is delaying the release simply because they can. Why rush?... They're killing the competition with their 5 year old cash cow as it is. They'd be fools to pull the PS2 from the market now.
I've recently deployed 2 HP9200 Digital Senders here in our office and they've been great.
I've got them set up with 2 options; users can either have their documents PDF'd and sent to them by email, or they can have them sent directly to a specific folder on the network (where our document management system automatically picks them up and routes them in).
They're simple to use and they produce properly constructed PDF files. (2 of the biggest problems we had in the past with people scanning documents the 'old fashioned way')
The only gotcha is OCR'ing. Currently with our configurations, the documents can't be OCRed. HP claims that a fix to this is in the works, so we'll see.....
I killed the first 2 bosses and then put the controller down. It was too frustrating trying to figure out the controls while trying to maintain a decent camera angle.
Mario 64 got it right 10 years ago. You'd think somebody else would be able to do it by now.
If you can't see the difference between the Mario platformers or the Zelda titles and if you can't recognize the accolades that each has received, thats not the fault of the mods
I'm with you. I've been a Nintendo fanboy for years, but just last night I thought I try out Shadow of the Colussus. I've read so much good press about the title, and I love out-of-the-ordinary games.
But I'll be damned if I didnt think that game was awful. The controls reminded me of Prince of Persia ala '93 and the camera angle was awful. I don't care if the designers decided to make the game entirely out of the color grey, or go only with level bosses that still doesn't make it an "innovative" or even "artistic" game.
The game *mechanics* are just like every other game I've played on the PS2; worse so since the controls were terrible.
I think I've been spoiled on Nintendo's first party games
because, historically when introducing new colors for the gameboy models sales go up. Same system, same capabilities, just a new die color in the plastic shell.
Why in the world would Sony launch a new console while thier PS2 is the current best selling console? They would only be competing with themselves, and that my friend is bad business.
The 360 has barely put a dent in PS2 sales therfore Sony can sit back and wait. The longer they can drag out the launch of the PS3, the more they can allow the PS2 to act as a cash cow. And even better, the longer they wait, the more steam they can take out of the only other competitor on the horizon (the Revolution)
I'm right there with you. Have you seen the box art for the up coming Brain Training game?
One of the flagstaff 'blue ocean' titles, and they drop what I consider a great, descriptive name and then give it a bland photoshop job cover. The result fits in better with those 99cent self help books you see in the checkout aisle, rather than a hip adult mental excercise program.
I predict that the US market see's sales close to 1/4th that of Japan because of NOAs marketing.
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My mom just got one too. And this after suffering through years of me playing Atari and the NES, she was the last person who I thought would ever express an interest in video games.
But she saw an add for Brain Training and had to have it. After looking all over town for a DS Lite, she finally got one at WalMart and I haven't heard from her since....
how they would make money?
with volume, of course!
A luddite on Slashdot?!? Now I've seen everything.
Park rangers at national parks do rock. I've always been impressed with them. The Democrates always try and pork barrel funds into their states through surreptitious "park programs", but the employees at the national parks always rise apart from politics and do a great job.
I'm currently auditing the IT operations of a large insurance company .. and guess what - Their data is all fed into custom built applications and SAP and then ultimately dumped into spreadsheets on open network shares for the officers to use and "clean up".
And guess what? They're failing!
"pull a Nintendo" .. by offering 100% backward compatibility over multiplle generations?? I can only guess thats certainly what you mean, since the 360 sure as heck doesn't.
You're forgetting about the 7800, and the add-ons for the 5200 and Colecovision
I'd *love* to hear what you find. I left software development last year, but I still check on my former employee's application every so often to see whats happened to it.
:)
If you find anything good, post it to your blog
Simply knowing what a SNES controller looks like (and even more - commenting on its buttons) shows that you are 99% more likley a "gamer" than the typical consumer.
And Nintendo is going after the typical consumer here, not you.
"this is your captain speaking, we've just reached our cruising altitude... holy crap is that a snake... on the plane!"
2007 launch for sure.
.. their 6 year old product is still the top selling console in the US and the top selling home console in Japan (and I only assume the same is true for Europe).
Think about it
Why would the want to cut off sales from their cash cow when there is no imminent threat? They're going to ride the PS2 as long as they can (without hurting the PS3).. after all, Sony is in the business of making money, not producing shiny new videogames for the betterment of mankind.
You're forgetting on thing though...
MSFT doesn't exist to produce video games. Sooner or later Balmer and the shareholders are going to get sick of sinking $1 billion dollars a year into a black hole and pull the plug.
The ponies joke was funny the first 30 times. Now its reminds me of that kid in school who got way too excited about something and couldn't stop talking about it.
Sony fanboys?!?! I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through. I don't even have a PS2.
.. its the only new stuff being released right now and its priced $10 higher (many of the software sales chart rank games on revenue, not # of titles sold)
Take a look at the software and hardware sales for the past 5 months (covering the launch of 360, Christmas season, and the typical begining-of-year lull) and tell me that the 360 is doing well.
PS2 is king. 360 hardware is coming in second now (after selling less than the Gamecube during december!). 360 software appears to be doing well, but I'd say its only because of 2 abnormalities
so riddle me this Batman: Why would Sony even give a shit about the 360 when their 6 year old console, which already has 100 million units sold, is still outselling it month to month? They can sit back, laugh, and wait as long as they want. (or until Nintendo comes around this fall and blows everyones minds)
Sony seems to be in defensive mode, beset by rivals
I'd say that no company with the best selling product, even 5 months after their competitors next-gen version is out, is in a defensive mode.
Sony is delaying the release simply because they can. Why rush?... They're killing the competition with their 5 year old cash cow as it is. They'd be fools to pull the PS2 from the market now.
I've recently deployed 2 HP9200 Digital Senders here in our office and they've been great.
I've got them set up with 2 options; users can either have their documents PDF'd and sent to them by email, or they can have them sent directly to a specific folder on the network (where our document management system automatically picks them up and routes them in).
They're simple to use and they produce properly constructed PDF files. (2 of the biggest problems we had in the past with people scanning documents the 'old fashioned way')
The only gotcha is OCR'ing. Currently with our configurations, the documents can't be OCRed. HP claims that a fix to this is in the works, so we'll see.....
yes of course. You must have recieved the same time limited offers that I did.
You should see the exciting scientifically proven results I've had with Vicerex.
I don't run virus protection and I've never had an 'infection'. To me, Mcafee and Norton are nothing more than snake oil.
(How do I know? I do occasionaly run spyware/virus scans, and other than the typical suspicious cookie file, never found anything.)
I killed the first 2 bosses and then put the controller down. It was too frustrating trying to figure out the controls while trying to maintain a decent camera angle.
Mario 64 got it right 10 years ago. You'd think somebody else would be able to do it by now.
If you can't see the difference between the Mario platformers or the Zelda titles and if you can't recognize the accolades that each has received, thats not the fault of the mods
I'm with you. I've been a Nintendo fanboy for years, but just last night I thought I try out Shadow of the Colussus. I've read so much good press about the title, and I love out-of-the-ordinary games.
But I'll be damned if I didnt think that game was awful. The controls reminded me of Prince of Persia ala '93 and the camera angle was awful. I don't care if the designers decided to make the game entirely out of the color grey, or go only with level bosses that still doesn't make it an "innovative" or even "artistic" game.
The game *mechanics* are just like every other game I've played on the PS2; worse so since the controls were terrible.
I think I've been spoiled on Nintendo's first party games
The PS3's main comptetitor is the PS2, which is still selling pretty well. Sony wants to ride its cash cow as long as possible.
because, historically when introducing new colors for the gameboy models sales go up. Same system, same capabilities, just a new die color in the plastic shell.
Wierd, but true.
Why in the world would Sony launch a new console while thier PS2 is the current best selling console? They would only be competing with themselves, and that my friend is bad business.
The 360 has barely put a dent in PS2 sales therfore Sony can sit back and wait. The longer they can drag out the launch of the PS3, the more they can allow the PS2 to act as a cash cow. And even better, the longer they wait, the more steam they can take out of the only other competitor on the horizon (the Revolution)
I'm right there with you. Have you seen the box art for the up coming Brain Training game?
One of the flagstaff 'blue ocean' titles, and they drop what I consider a great, descriptive name and then give it a bland photoshop job cover. The result fits in better with those 99cent self help books you see in the checkout aisle, rather than a hip adult mental excercise program.
I predict that the US market see's sales close to 1/4th that of Japan because of NOAs marketing.