Why would Nintendo just shove their profits up Apple's ass like that? That would only benefit Apple, Nintendo wouldn't see much of a sales volume increase (what are high sales numbers on the App Store? I know Angry Birds boasts about high *downloads* counts but that's like saying "millions of people saw this on shelves") while their per-sale revenue would drop to a tiny fraction of its old value. Nintendo's biggest hitters regularly sell 20+ million copies at full retail price, on the App Store their prices would have to go down massively but I'm not convinced that they'll sell 200+ million in turn. Are there even that many iPhones out there?
The casuals moved away from the Wii due to a lack of compelling software. There hasn't been much since New Super Mario Bros Wii that appeals to those people (yes, they play 2D Mario games, that's why NSMBW massively outsold Galaxy 2 despite every hardcore gamer swearing up and down that Galaxy 2 is better).
Sony has the Xperia Play which is an Android phone with gaming controls. It's a pretty niche device though. I wouldn't count on the Vita, the PSP failed because its software library simply wasn't suited for a handheld and the Vita will continue that trend with PS3 ports. That was the reason the DS crushed the PSP outside of Japan, the games for the PSP simply didn't work as well for portable gaming.
They only have comparable features if you ignore the whole controller thing. Which, you know, is pretty damn vital for gaming. Even a basic jump and run is hell to play on an iOS device.
You need at least three fingers on controls to play an FPS, movement, aiming and shooting. There are some workarounds for the impossibility of using a separate finger to fire your gun but they're usually clunky as hell and most games just have you hit a button with your right thumb which means you have to stop aiming. That's clunky.
Even 7 iOS games won't stack up to a game that used to be sold for 60$ at retail and simply has lost value. Sure, you could compare the App Store's top games to some C-grade title on another system but you won't get to buy many of your 7 game packs before you have to delve into the shitpool.
I have yet to see an iOS game that offers the same value-price ratio as Donkey Kong '94.
The system just sucks, that's it. The library is garbage, the battery life problematic (and this is a NINTENDO system! Well, at least it still gets twice the battery life of an iPod Touch when gaming...), the hardware fairly ugly and badly thought out (bottom screen scratching top screen, anyone?), even the system settings have load screens and until recently it was awfully overpriced. The 3D works but it's not really worth the effort of holding the system very steady and there's a general 3D backlash happening to cinemas, that'll likely hit the 3DS too.
If you want to play good games you'll likely end up using your 3DS as a DS with worse graphics (the rescaling is ugly and if you disable it you get a tiny screen) and no option to adjust the brightness without quitting out of the game (on the DSi you can adjust the brightness with select + volume, on the 3DS you have to go into the home screen and you can't do that while playing a DS game).
A few people think "awesome, 3D!" and buy the system but the majority just looks at the library and wonders what the 3DS does that the DS doesn't. There are only a few games even in the green on Metacritic and none of those are system sellers, the best ones (Zelda, Street Fighter) are ports.
The 3DS hardware could use a DS lite-style redesign and the game library needs some titles that convince people that their old DS just won't cut it anymore.
What the 3DS has over the iPod Touch is buttons. Many traditional games suffer badly from the lack of physical inputs, only genres that are adjusted to the device are really usable which really limits the library. Same goes for the rock bottom pricing, at 1$ per game companies will either have to cut enough corners to call it a circle or they'll attempt to trick you into paying a ton more than that in the form of microtransactions (and a ton of games are just crappy excuses for selling microtransactions, like Tiny Tower). It's a sparse diet and the vegetation reflects that.
While simple, cheap minigames probably won't do well at DS-level prices it works the other way around too, the increasing dev costs for those "AAA" games means they can't be sold at single digit prices, especially if they're aimed at the niche that are hardcore gamers. There's just not enough of those to make it up in volume. The iOS systems are going that route with beefier hardware and more middleware like the Unreal Engine that pretty much demand high quality assets and those require high budgets.
I just heard what a crime expert had to say on the situation, while Britain is police-stating it up they're cutting funding for the police as well, they try to maintain a harsh atmosphere but are cutting the size of the police force they'd need to actually maintain it.
My town has groundwater that merely gets the iron and some carbohydration removed before being sent to homes. It's drinkable without that but tends to stain things red and tastes like blood when unfiltered.
I would like to see that proof you claim to have. If you point at the Laffer curve I expect a proof that the peak of that thing is actually at a lower tax rate because everything I've seen indicates that it peaks at a pretty damn high rate and that some people use it for propaganda purposes as if the peak was at 0%.
One opinion I read on the whole govt spending matter is that the current economic situation isn't a good one for thinking about government austerity, the govt should increase spending to counter the recession and worry about the budget balancing once the recession is over.
High tax rates? We're paying substantially more taxes in most of Europe and we have no real problem with businesses fleeing the country. Baiting businesses with low tax rates didn't work for Ireland.
China is busy downgrading its rating for the US, I don't think they'll be willing to throw money at the US forever. Especially if at some point another country becomes the cheaper option for outsourcing.
To me the issue is that there even was a debate and that the politicians saw fit to turn this into a game of chicken. That alone should've forced a downgrade.
At very least the Reps and Tea Party should split into two parties so people can choose which one they vote for. Of course that's not going to happen, the TP wants to piggyback on the strength of the Reps in the two party system.
Whatever reprocessing can do, it apparently doesn't get rid of the nuclear waste problems Germany is having so either France only recycles local materials or the volume is too low to cover it all.
One reactor almost melted down when it was shut down as someone forgot (or more likely cut costs) to fuel up the diesel generators. Making plants fool- and capitalist-proof is a pretty impossible task.
It's industry-lobbied politicians extending the reactor lifetimes. The industry paid a ton to get those reactors built and now they want to squeeze every penny out of the thing. Japan didn't have much public resistance against nuclear power and yet they had a massively outdated plant blow up. Even with newer reactors built the old ones get extended because of lobby pressure. In Germany we overcame the lobby pressure and our old reactors finally have a shutdown schedule. The conservatives would happily have extended the things like they were Disney copyrights.
Probably makes sense. China recycles anything, no matter how many workers it kills and has its own nuclear weapons production so proliferation isn't a concern, China got all the nukes it wants.
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Infinite Space isn't a port or remake. Neither is Radiant Historia. You just aren't looking hard enough.
Not if it's a nerd wielding it, he couldn't even lift it off the ground.
Why would Nintendo just shove their profits up Apple's ass like that? That would only benefit Apple, Nintendo wouldn't see much of a sales volume increase (what are high sales numbers on the App Store? I know Angry Birds boasts about high *downloads* counts but that's like saying "millions of people saw this on shelves") while their per-sale revenue would drop to a tiny fraction of its old value. Nintendo's biggest hitters regularly sell 20+ million copies at full retail price, on the App Store their prices would have to go down massively but I'm not convinced that they'll sell 200+ million in turn. Are there even that many iPhones out there?
The casuals moved away from the Wii due to a lack of compelling software. There hasn't been much since New Super Mario Bros Wii that appeals to those people (yes, they play 2D Mario games, that's why NSMBW massively outsold Galaxy 2 despite every hardcore gamer swearing up and down that Galaxy 2 is better).
Sony has the Xperia Play which is an Android phone with gaming controls. It's a pretty niche device though. I wouldn't count on the Vita, the PSP failed because its software library simply wasn't suited for a handheld and the Vita will continue that trend with PS3 ports. That was the reason the DS crushed the PSP outside of Japan, the games for the PSP simply didn't work as well for portable gaming.
They only have comparable features if you ignore the whole controller thing. Which, you know, is pretty damn vital for gaming. Even a basic jump and run is hell to play on an iOS device.
You need at least three fingers on controls to play an FPS, movement, aiming and shooting. There are some workarounds for the impossibility of using a separate finger to fire your gun but they're usually clunky as hell and most games just have you hit a button with your right thumb which means you have to stop aiming. That's clunky.
Even 7 iOS games won't stack up to a game that used to be sold for 60$ at retail and simply has lost value. Sure, you could compare the App Store's top games to some C-grade title on another system but you won't get to buy many of your 7 game packs before you have to delve into the shitpool.
I have yet to see an iOS game that offers the same value-price ratio as Donkey Kong '94.
The system just sucks, that's it. The library is garbage, the battery life problematic (and this is a NINTENDO system! Well, at least it still gets twice the battery life of an iPod Touch when gaming...), the hardware fairly ugly and badly thought out (bottom screen scratching top screen, anyone?), even the system settings have load screens and until recently it was awfully overpriced. The 3D works but it's not really worth the effort of holding the system very steady and there's a general 3D backlash happening to cinemas, that'll likely hit the 3DS too.
If you want to play good games you'll likely end up using your 3DS as a DS with worse graphics (the rescaling is ugly and if you disable it you get a tiny screen) and no option to adjust the brightness without quitting out of the game (on the DSi you can adjust the brightness with select + volume, on the 3DS you have to go into the home screen and you can't do that while playing a DS game).
A few people think "awesome, 3D!" and buy the system but the majority just looks at the library and wonders what the 3DS does that the DS doesn't. There are only a few games even in the green on Metacritic and none of those are system sellers, the best ones (Zelda, Street Fighter) are ports.
The 3DS hardware could use a DS lite-style redesign and the game library needs some titles that convince people that their old DS just won't cut it anymore.
What the 3DS has over the iPod Touch is buttons. Many traditional games suffer badly from the lack of physical inputs, only genres that are adjusted to the device are really usable which really limits the library. Same goes for the rock bottom pricing, at 1$ per game companies will either have to cut enough corners to call it a circle or they'll attempt to trick you into paying a ton more than that in the form of microtransactions (and a ton of games are just crappy excuses for selling microtransactions, like Tiny Tower). It's a sparse diet and the vegetation reflects that.
While simple, cheap minigames probably won't do well at DS-level prices it works the other way around too, the increasing dev costs for those "AAA" games means they can't be sold at single digit prices, especially if they're aimed at the niche that are hardcore gamers. There's just not enough of those to make it up in volume. The iOS systems are going that route with beefier hardware and more middleware like the Unreal Engine that pretty much demand high quality assets and those require high budgets.
I just heard what a crime expert had to say on the situation, while Britain is police-stating it up they're cutting funding for the police as well, they try to maintain a harsh atmosphere but are cutting the size of the police force they'd need to actually maintain it.
My town has groundwater that merely gets the iron and some carbohydration removed before being sent to homes. It's drinkable without that but tends to stain things red and tastes like blood when unfiltered.
You have to do both. Obama offered both, the Reps refused. Now they agreed on smaller cuts and no tax increases.
I would like to see that proof you claim to have. If you point at the Laffer curve I expect a proof that the peak of that thing is actually at a lower tax rate because everything I've seen indicates that it peaks at a pretty damn high rate and that some people use it for propaganda purposes as if the peak was at 0%.
One opinion I read on the whole govt spending matter is that the current economic situation isn't a good one for thinking about government austerity, the govt should increase spending to counter the recession and worry about the budget balancing once the recession is over.
High tax rates? We're paying substantially more taxes in most of Europe and we have no real problem with businesses fleeing the country. Baiting businesses with low tax rates didn't work for Ireland.
China is busy downgrading its rating for the US, I don't think they'll be willing to throw money at the US forever. Especially if at some point another country becomes the cheaper option for outsourcing.
But how much of the total tax income does the income tax constitute? The US has many more taxes than that.
To me the issue is that there even was a debate and that the politicians saw fit to turn this into a game of chicken. That alone should've forced a downgrade.
At very least the Reps and Tea Party should split into two parties so people can choose which one they vote for. Of course that's not going to happen, the TP wants to piggyback on the strength of the Reps in the two party system.
That's a continuum fallacy. There's a very clear difference between your HDMI cable and the internet.
The Xperia Play has buttons, I think that's the main deciding factor. Playing Minecraft with all the buttons overlaid on the main view won't be fun.
Whatever reprocessing can do, it apparently doesn't get rid of the nuclear waste problems Germany is having so either France only recycles local materials or the volume is too low to cover it all.
One reactor almost melted down when it was shut down as someone forgot (or more likely cut costs) to fuel up the diesel generators. Making plants fool- and capitalist-proof is a pretty impossible task.
It's industry-lobbied politicians extending the reactor lifetimes. The industry paid a ton to get those reactors built and now they want to squeeze every penny out of the thing. Japan didn't have much public resistance against nuclear power and yet they had a massively outdated plant blow up. Even with newer reactors built the old ones get extended because of lobby pressure. In Germany we overcame the lobby pressure and our old reactors finally have a shutdown schedule. The conservatives would happily have extended the things like they were Disney copyrights.
Probably makes sense. China recycles anything, no matter how many workers it kills and has its own nuclear weapons production so proliferation isn't a concern, China got all the nukes it wants.