If that's your worry you should never buy any binary blobs from anyone. They don't need an online download platform to stick spyware into, they could just do that with the code you buy at retail.
1. You have to compare that to the 40$ controller, not the whole system (since it goes into each controller) 2. The components massively went down in price since the launch of the Wii, I heard about it being by an order of magnitude.
Secondly, the Wii motion plus is rumoured to be a 20$ item or included with several upcoming Wii motion plus games, so how can it go from being 'too expensive' only a few years ago to being a 'throwaway item' now?
How is 20$ individually, 10$ in a bundle (the bundled version costs a bit more than the unbundled one) a throwaway item?
They can probably sell a combination device as well but the little plug-in is much cheaper than a whole new remote and many people already have a remote and only want to upgrade.
And it requires a fairly large court (which you usually don't own and have to rent) and human opponents near you and doesn't come with computer assistance that can make anyone feel like a world class player.
Do you perhaps mean a gyroscope? The Wiimote had accelerometers from the start. Of course it's not a new idea, Microsoft had a gamepad built around a gyroscope (or pendulum or soemthing, either way it reacted to tilting) in the year 2000 but the regular controller shape doesn't lend itself to motion controls.
They work well when I try them, with golf the important part is to have an actual golf stance, otherwise it's hard to judge the force required. Yeah, some people figured out how to play couch potato golf but that's missing the whole point.
FPS is fairly rare (in part because third parties are fairly afraid to make any investments into Wii games that can carry more than a well-made flash game or a really badly made core game) on the Wii but not completely nonexistent. While The Conduit (big, hyped up title) isn't released yet some people liked Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (not released in Europe as far as I can tell) for having 32 player online multiplayer, Metroid Prime 3 is pretty much a must-have on the system despite almost feeling closer to Hunters than Prime 1/Super and Onslaught (WiiWare) is a lot of fun if you want a more arcadey game like Serious Sam.
I have no idea why the genre is so rare though, maybe because it's primarily graphics driven with few other selling points employed by FPSes or maybe publishers feel that Wii gamers can't grasp the concept of a nunchuk and instead produce rail shooters (so much that "it's going to be a rail shooter" has become a meme on some websites whenever new Wii games get announced), preferring to run with the crowd than charge into the empty spaces with lots of money waiting for them.
They aren't aimed at kids (kids can deal with a lot of difficulty and very long games because they have the time, many kids played Contra back in the day, I grew up on Gradius and R-Type), they're aimed at people who aren't veteran gamers yet. That's the whole point of the Wii, recruiting new gamers. Also I'm not exactly sure how many games actually handle mature themes maturely, most still involve tons of blood and violence that would turn away older people.
BTW, Galaxy was easier than SMS because SMS was frustrating as fuck with many deaths happening due to camera issues and other similarily lame things, often with no checkpoints. Galaxy simply feels more fair to the player. Besides, games on all platforms are getting easier all the time.
I recall reading a decade ago or so that there's only enough nuclear fuel for maybe a hundred years, would it really be feasible to run the whole world on nuclear power for long?
I think those kWh figures were for one year or the duration of the test or something, I don't think it's the cost the system will have for its entire lifespan.
In my experience review sites generally use a lower scale for portable games so a game of equal quality will score lower. In fact I suspect the high GTA score is related to the game being almost like the console versions and thus getting scored like one of them and ending up much higher than other games on the system. Of course the 360 has 139 games with a Metacritic score of 80 or higher and I can't even find more than 5 games (3 of which are XBLA downloadables) I really like on the system... The list reads like the PC release list with a few games that weren't released here anyway added in.
Not just greed, sheer nuzmbers. When you've got hundreds of thousands of people who want attention there's simply not enough attention available to make them all successful and if there's nothing that makes a few stand out from the crowd (at first glance, not just after you download and listen to them) people might get frustrated by the sheer volume of garbage and run away completely (cf Atari 2600).
Water vapor is a fast cycle. Obviously there are many factors involved in the climate and if you were to remove, say, the water vapor the Earth would look vastly different but these factors are insufficient to explain the results. Sun activity also changes but again not enough to explain the data. That the climate has feedback mechanisms is not disputed. However these mechanisms cannot by themselves explain the speed of the change we're seeing. Of course the climate changes by itself but not this fast.
The cable on the sensor bar is about as long as the video cable on the 360 so I don't buy that explanation, the big, fat, hot systems can't be much further from the TV either and usually go into the cabinet below it. What seems more plausible is that they've followed the strategy they have mentioned so often which also includes stepping back the traditional values that have overshot the consumer and in this case those are the graphics (as evidenced by the increased system prices of the HD consoles to get any significant leap above the last generation).
I think copyright encourages creativity because it tells people to get their own ideas. If someone wants to write Harry Potter fan fiction maybe first he should think about why he wants to use that particular setting. In the Spring community we have people with various levels of respect for copyright, the ones with little tend to simply rip their material straight from existing games, contributing very little new stuff while those who respect it are forced to create their own material, thus contributing more new stuff overall (and mind you, the ripped stuff is from a game that predates proper 3d acceleration so it looks like shit and we really need new material).
Considering how people have often complained about the controls in GTA (either the aiming system on the consoles or the vehicles and such on the PC) the Wiimote might actually be helpful there since it can easily serve as a pointer for aiming and a steering wheel for driving.
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Okay, then make it bribing the local functionaries of the mob or whoever else managed to get the firepower advantage first.
- Who knows what kind of spyware is in Impulse
If that's your worry you should never buy any binary blobs from anyone. They don't need an online download platform to stick spyware into, they could just do that with the code you buy at retail.
Braid wasn't a spare time effort, it was full time though made with a smaller team than the big name games.
I'm not sure I'd want Catbert as the messiah...
Because we have a hard enough time to keep buildings in one piece when a hurricane passes by?
1. You have to compare that to the 40$ controller, not the whole system (since it goes into each controller)
2. The components massively went down in price since the launch of the Wii, I heard about it being by an order of magnitude.
I don't recall any shooting in those.
Secondly, the Wii motion plus is rumoured to be a 20$ item or included with several upcoming Wii motion plus games, so how can it go from being 'too expensive' only a few years ago to being a 'throwaway item' now?
How is 20$ individually, 10$ in a bundle (the bundled version costs a bit more than the unbundled one) a throwaway item?
They can probably sell a combination device as well but the little plug-in is much cheaper than a whole new remote and many people already have a remote and only want to upgrade.
And it requires a fairly large court (which you usually don't own and have to rent) and human opponents near you and doesn't come with computer assistance that can make anyone feel like a world class player.
Do you perhaps mean a gyroscope? The Wiimote had accelerometers from the start. Of course it's not a new idea, Microsoft had a gamepad built around a gyroscope (or pendulum or soemthing, either way it reacted to tilting) in the year 2000 but the regular controller shape doesn't lend itself to motion controls.
Unlikely, people won't use peripherials that seem too dorky and nothing is dorkier than a whole suit.
They work well when I try them, with golf the important part is to have an actual golf stance, otherwise it's hard to judge the force required. Yeah, some people figured out how to play couch potato golf but that's missing the whole point.
FPS is fairly rare (in part because third parties are fairly afraid to make any investments into Wii games that can carry more than a well-made flash game or a really badly made core game) on the Wii but not completely nonexistent. While The Conduit (big, hyped up title) isn't released yet some people liked Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (not released in Europe as far as I can tell) for having 32 player online multiplayer, Metroid Prime 3 is pretty much a must-have on the system despite almost feeling closer to Hunters than Prime 1/Super and Onslaught (WiiWare) is a lot of fun if you want a more arcadey game like Serious Sam.
I have no idea why the genre is so rare though, maybe because it's primarily graphics driven with few other selling points employed by FPSes or maybe publishers feel that Wii gamers can't grasp the concept of a nunchuk and instead produce rail shooters (so much that "it's going to be a rail shooter" has become a meme on some websites whenever new Wii games get announced), preferring to run with the crowd than charge into the empty spaces with lots of money waiting for them.
Random american media whore whores himself out for the media, entire branch of science invalid! What Al Gore says does not shape reality.
They aren't aimed at kids (kids can deal with a lot of difficulty and very long games because they have the time, many kids played Contra back in the day, I grew up on Gradius and R-Type), they're aimed at people who aren't veteran gamers yet. That's the whole point of the Wii, recruiting new gamers. Also I'm not exactly sure how many games actually handle mature themes maturely, most still involve tons of blood and violence that would turn away older people.
BTW, Galaxy was easier than SMS because SMS was frustrating as fuck with many deaths happening due to camera issues and other similarily lame things, often with no checkpoints. Galaxy simply feels more fair to the player. Besides, games on all platforms are getting easier all the time.
I recall reading a decade ago or so that there's only enough nuclear fuel for maybe a hundred years, would it really be feasible to run the whole world on nuclear power for long?
I think those kWh figures were for one year or the duration of the test or something, I don't think it's the cost the system will have for its entire lifespan.
In my experience review sites generally use a lower scale for portable games so a game of equal quality will score lower. In fact I suspect the high GTA score is related to the game being almost like the console versions and thus getting scored like one of them and ending up much higher than other games on the system. Of course the 360 has 139 games with a Metacritic score of 80 or higher and I can't even find more than 5 games (3 of which are XBLA downloadables) I really like on the system... The list reads like the PC release list with a few games that weren't released here anyway added in.
Not just greed, sheer nuzmbers. When you've got hundreds of thousands of people who want attention there's simply not enough attention available to make them all successful and if there's nothing that makes a few stand out from the crowd (at first glance, not just after you download and listen to them) people might get frustrated by the sheer volume of garbage and run away completely (cf Atari 2600).
Has been found by courts to mean that that part of your harddrive is a public area.
Water vapor is a fast cycle. Obviously there are many factors involved in the climate and if you were to remove, say, the water vapor the Earth would look vastly different but these factors are insufficient to explain the results. Sun activity also changes but again not enough to explain the data. That the climate has feedback mechanisms is not disputed. However these mechanisms cannot by themselves explain the speed of the change we're seeing. Of course the climate changes by itself but not this fast.
The cable on the sensor bar is about as long as the video cable on the 360 so I don't buy that explanation, the big, fat, hot systems can't be much further from the TV either and usually go into the cabinet below it. What seems more plausible is that they've followed the strategy they have mentioned so often which also includes stepping back the traditional values that have overshot the consumer and in this case those are the graphics (as evidenced by the increased system prices of the HD consoles to get any significant leap above the last generation).
I think copyright encourages creativity because it tells people to get their own ideas. If someone wants to write Harry Potter fan fiction maybe first he should think about why he wants to use that particular setting. In the Spring community we have people with various levels of respect for copyright, the ones with little tend to simply rip their material straight from existing games, contributing very little new stuff while those who respect it are forced to create their own material, thus contributing more new stuff overall (and mind you, the ripped stuff is from a game that predates proper 3d acceleration so it looks like shit and we really need new material).
Considering how people have often complained about the controls in GTA (either the aiming system on the consoles or the vehicles and such on the PC) the Wiimote might actually be helpful there since it can easily serve as a pointer for aiming and a steering wheel for driving.