even if Sony bombs on the PS3, they're still in this market because they're so firmly embedded in many other electronics markets.
The problem is that Sony's home electronics divisions are losing money like mad. Those won't save them. What can keep them afloat even in the case of a total flop is their music and movie business.
It seems to me that most games are more successful at using their limited repertoire of possible player actions to create puzzles or areas with different rules. E.g. SMB1 had those castles where you had to find the right path or get reset to the start and SMW had Ghost Houses and bosses that required pushing into the Lava despite Mario's ability to interact with enemies being limited to jumping on them or dying (or using a powerup). Granted, static puzzles won't do much in an MMORPG since everybody plays with a game guide anyway but you could add dynamically created puzzles that follow a certain ruleset.
Railroad Tycoon is an economy sim, not a train simulator. A train simulator is like a flight simulator, just with trains. I.e. you are the driver and can take the train along real routes. You don't worry about building routes or making a profit, you drive the train. Sounds boring and I suppose it really is but since the Microsoft Train Simulator is GAINING shelf space instead of losing it there has to be some pretty large demographic that enjoys it. Probably overlapping with the demographic for model trains.
Don't forget that these are ranked by units sold, not money earned. A 50$ game selling 200k copies is going to bring in more money than a 10$ game selling 500k copies yet would be much lower in rank. Most of the cheap crap in that list is also sold for cheap which means it must make up for its price in volume.
We're talking about PC games here. While it's true that not all PC games are Hentai games in Japan, the vast majority is and as such if you're looking for PC games in a japanese store you get guided into the basement, into the corner with the porn.
PC gaming has pretty much zero presence in Japan and as such including that market would be pointless. Europe is a different thing altogether, in some European markets PC games outsell console games regularly.
Guess what, the new one gets watched more, movies fit the screen and as a bonus,
Where'd you get a widescreen TV that uses the same esoteric format as movies? We've got a 16:9 one and there's always black bars on the top and bottom because movies come in ~2:1 nowadays.
So you can brag about it and pretend your gold cable produces a much better picture? After all if you're in that market you already have plenty of experience with believing Bose speakers make everything sound better.
Well, one of the few advantages the 600$ version has over the 500$ one is that HDMI port so Sony could expect that a large part of the 600$ buyers intend to use the HDMI port.
I don't like the idea of an automatic system, if you want the content on your site to cost money to see you're free to set up a payment system and maybe get together with others who want to sell their content like that to create a unified "premium content" network where the customer gives his billing information once and can easily pay for the sites he wants. If all content providers were to join such a system you'd effectively have an extra fee to use the internet but it'd really require the consent of the content providers rather than one group deciding "Oh, we'll take money from everyone and if you wanted your content to be paid for just ask us and sign this small contract here...".
What do you expect, with that kind of confusing headline and summary you have to RTFA just to get WTF they're trying to say. I mean, "license everything"? What's that supposed to mean, they claim ownership of every random thing on the internet?
Turns out the article says the ministry of education wants to allow schools to use all material available on the internet and be exempt from copyright that way. Guess someone didn't think about warez there.
The copyright group in question wants to offer content providers the option to use some kind of license for their stuff. Strikes me as idiotic since you can attach any license you like to your content without their help...
Get a few hundred gamers out there to declare a vendetta on him and make his gaming life miserable.
I think that's what the developers want you to do. Of course with that kind of money the guy could probably get a pretty powerful ship and hire a few mercs.
I believe making real money by playing a game is always gambling, no matter how much randomness is involved.
MMO money can be converted into real money by trading it for real money with other players. The game maker doesn't approve of that and says all money and items remain his property no matter whose inventory they're in. Money traders circumvent that by saying they're selling the service they're rendering by accruing all that virtual money. When seen that way the virtual money has no value but money sellers would have to report their activity to the IRS.
I think the "legal code" of EVE regarding scams is: 1. You fell for it. You lost the money. Have a nice day. 2. If you don't like it grab a gun and kill the guy.
Dunno, I've got an account with Moneybookers since Play-Asia required that and they say they're free for merchants and take 1% with a maximum fee of 0.70$ per transaction if you use email payment. Withdrawal is 2.40$ per action but if you don't empty the account that often it shouldn't cost too much.
No idea if they're good but the rates seem tolerable even for donations.
Drunk driving and a speeding ticket are separate offenses and as such you can be found guilty of one independent of the other. This law introduces a second way of punishing a person for a single crime if the initial conviction is unsuccessful. Imagine you could be tried for a felony and even if found not guilty your right to vote and bear firearms gets taken away. I know this could be construed as being more severe than being put on the sex offender list but there is no really comparable construct that I'm aware of.
You misunderstood the test: If the person sinks and drowns she was innocent and just a normal human, if she floats and survives she's a witch and must be burned on the stake.
like a simple, black screen stating in large, friendly letters: "War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Net Neutrality costs the consumer"
Or maybe something the average viewer can understand like an analogy involving a supermarket and evil people blocking all the roads there unless the supermarket gives in to their demands with net neutrality being compared to a law saying "you can't put up roadblocks".
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even if Sony bombs on the PS3, they're still in this market because they're so firmly embedded in many other electronics markets.
The problem is that Sony's home electronics divisions are losing money like mad. Those won't save them. What can keep them afloat even in the case of a total flop is their music and movie business.
It seems to me that most games are more successful at using their limited repertoire of possible player actions to create puzzles or areas with different rules. E.g. SMB1 had those castles where you had to find the right path or get reset to the start and SMW had Ghost Houses and bosses that required pushing into the Lava despite Mario's ability to interact with enemies being limited to jumping on them or dying (or using a powerup). Granted, static puzzles won't do much in an MMORPG since everybody plays with a game guide anyway but you could add dynamically created puzzles that follow a certain ruleset.
Railroad Tycoon is an economy sim, not a train simulator. A train simulator is like a flight simulator, just with trains. I.e. you are the driver and can take the train along real routes. You don't worry about building routes or making a profit, you drive the train. Sounds boring and I suppose it really is but since the Microsoft Train Simulator is GAINING shelf space instead of losing it there has to be some pretty large demographic that enjoys it. Probably overlapping with the demographic for model trains.
Don't forget that these are ranked by units sold, not money earned. A 50$ game selling 200k copies is going to bring in more money than a 10$ game selling 500k copies yet would be much lower in rank. Most of the cheap crap in that list is also sold for cheap which means it must make up for its price in volume.
We're talking about PC games here. While it's true that not all PC games are Hentai games in Japan, the vast majority is and as such if you're looking for PC games in a japanese store you get guided into the basement, into the corner with the porn.
PC gaming has pretty much zero presence in Japan and as such including that market would be pointless. Europe is a different thing altogether, in some European markets PC games outsell console games regularly.
Yes but the PS3 doesn't do DVI so HDMI is your only option for HDCP.
Guess what, the new one gets watched more, movies fit the screen and as a bonus,
Where'd you get a widescreen TV that uses the same esoteric format as movies? We've got a 16:9 one and there's always black bars on the top and bottom because movies come in ~2:1 nowadays.
So you can brag about it and pretend your gold cable produces a much better picture? After all if you're in that market you already have plenty of experience with believing Bose speakers make everything sound better.
Well, one of the few advantages the 600$ version has over the 500$ one is that HDMI port so Sony could expect that a large part of the 600$ buyers intend to use the HDMI port.
I don't like the idea of an automatic system, if you want the content on your site to cost money to see you're free to set up a payment system and maybe get together with others who want to sell their content like that to create a unified "premium content" network where the customer gives his billing information once and can easily pay for the sites he wants. If all content providers were to join such a system you'd effectively have an extra fee to use the internet but it'd really require the consent of the content providers rather than one group deciding "Oh, we'll take money from everyone and if you wanted your content to be paid for just ask us and sign this small contract here...".
We haven't lost the WC, it's still securely bolted down in the bathroom.
So if it only played .wav files would you buy it?
What's fair use of a patent?
What do you expect, with that kind of confusing headline and summary you have to RTFA just to get WTF they're trying to say. I mean, "license everything"? What's that supposed to mean, they claim ownership of every random thing on the internet?
Turns out the article says the ministry of education wants to allow schools to use all material available on the internet and be exempt from copyright that way. Guess someone didn't think about warez there.
The copyright group in question wants to offer content providers the option to use some kind of license for their stuff. Strikes me as idiotic since you can attach any license you like to your content without their help...
Also, separating Texas would mean Bush is no longer born in the US and as such not eligible for presidency...
He didn't explain any Left. Left is socialism.
Get a few hundred gamers out there to declare a vendetta on him and make his gaming life miserable.
I think that's what the developers want you to do. Of course with that kind of money the guy could probably get a pretty powerful ship and hire a few mercs.
I believe making real money by playing a game is always gambling, no matter how much randomness is involved.
MMO money can be converted into real money by trading it for real money with other players. The game maker doesn't approve of that and says all money and items remain his property no matter whose inventory they're in. Money traders circumvent that by saying they're selling the service they're rendering by accruing all that virtual money. When seen that way the virtual money has no value but money sellers would have to report their activity to the IRS.
I think the "legal code" of EVE regarding scams is:
1. You fell for it. You lost the money. Have a nice day.
2. If you don't like it grab a gun and kill the guy.
So killing a character in a MUD with permadeath is pretty much murder? Does playing Nethack qualify as suicide, then?
supports gun control and abortion? Oh wait, we're not talking about that type of con?
Dunno, I've got an account with Moneybookers since Play-Asia required that and they say they're free for merchants and take 1% with a maximum fee of 0.70$ per transaction if you use email payment. Withdrawal is 2.40$ per action but if you don't empty the account that often it shouldn't cost too much.
No idea if they're good but the rates seem tolerable even for donations.
Drunk driving and a speeding ticket are separate offenses and as such you can be found guilty of one independent of the other. This law introduces a second way of punishing a person for a single crime if the initial conviction is unsuccessful. Imagine you could be tried for a felony and even if found not guilty your right to vote and bear firearms gets taken away. I know this could be construed as being more severe than being put on the sex offender list but there is no really comparable construct that I'm aware of.
You misunderstood the test: If the person sinks and drowns she was innocent and just a normal human, if she floats and survives she's a witch and must be burned on the stake.
like a simple, black screen stating in large, friendly letters:
"War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Net Neutrality costs the consumer"
Or maybe something the average viewer can understand like an analogy involving a supermarket and evil people blocking all the roads there unless the supermarket gives in to their demands with net neutrality being compared to a law saying "you can't put up roadblocks".