Keep in mind that the 360 loses less money than the original per unit (considering the 200$ per unit loss on the original that isn't too difficult). They're still throwing money out but at a slower rate.
What I'm not sure about is if this isn't predatory pricing. Leveraging a monopoly to sell a product in another market below cost? MS has been convicted of having a monopoly and as such shouldn't be able to legally do that.
The actual word "battery" means "a bunch of identical things"
Actually it means getting battered. A battery of weapons would batter an enemy. At least that's what Wikipedia says, I think not too long ago it quoted Franklin as saying he'll call it battery because that's what touching it feels like.
No, you also need an enemy that wants to look good in the media. You can try using that approach against the Russians, they'll just set up a line of tanks outside the city and tell you that you can either send all the insurgents out or they'll keep firing until they are sure all insurgents are dead. Sure, vietnam was different but you don't exactly have huge forests available to pull the fighting into (and even then they could just burn them down).
If your life is put in danger, you are allowed to respond with deadly force BUT NOT ANY EARLIER. If he only has a knife or his fists you aren't allowed to shoot him without giving him a warning (i.e. pulling out the gun and telling him to fuck off). Murdering people over petty crimes should not be allowed.
Europe doesn't buy Madden but they buy FIFA 200x. Different game, same EA.
If you're going to quote sales, make sure you use the UK charts, as that's where more than 1/2 the games in Europe are sold.
The problem is that the territories aren't homogenous, what sells in the UK may be a total flop in the rest of Europe or some game sells everywhere except the UK. The UK charts aren't representative of the entire market.
The original Mario Bros was an arcade game, the Atari got a port of it as did numerous other platforms. It came after Donkey Kong but before Super Mario Bros.. There are variants of it in other Nintendo games, for example the battle game in SMB3 and a remake of the arcade game in all Super Mario Advance games and Mario & Luigi.
The AC was pointing out that Europe - which MS does need, and indeed was expecting to win with the XBox - probably prefers Japanese games over American games, and THAT'S why MS needs Japanese developers.
Then that AC was probably pulling things out of his butt because EA Sports games regularly top the sales charts here while japanese games rarely even enter them (except for the Gamecube sales charts but I don't know when the last time was that system got a new game).
I wonder where people get the DS whooping PSP ass thing from. Fanboyism?
Software sales are a lot better for the DS than the PSP and the system clearly trounces the PSP in Japan (other territories don't have as much consistent sales data tracking). Overall they're equal in the US, the DS wins by a few million units in Japan (gap widening) and noone knows what it's like in Europe. The software sales are the strangest bit, the DS is getting overproportionally more software sales than the PSP (or at least it gets titles into the top ten much more frequently).
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These people have essentially left the market. They aren't even looking to see if there are better games.
If it really runs Linux and it's not crippled too much that would be true.
It was insightful in its sarcasm?
"Kant can only be understtod in German. Hegel, on the other hand, cannot be understood in any language." (I think that was in the Illuminatus! books)
Keep in mind that the 360 loses less money than the original per unit (considering the 200$ per unit loss on the original that isn't too difficult). They're still throwing money out but at a slower rate.
What I'm not sure about is if this isn't predatory pricing. Leveraging a monopoly to sell a product in another market below cost? MS has been convicted of having a monopoly and as such shouldn't be able to legally do that.
In the SNES vs. Megadrive battle the SNES completely dominated in Japan yet people in the west remember the Megadrive as the market leader.
What you need to keep in mind is that games are more expensive in Japan than the US so that conversion isn't what it'll end up costing.
Don't think of Jack, think of Hunter S..
Wind? No. Not enough land to do it effeciently.
It's more effective to not build them on land anyway.
tital energy systems
Now that's an idea I'm fully behind.
The actual word "battery" means "a bunch of identical things"
Actually it means getting battered. A battery of weapons would batter an enemy. At least that's what Wikipedia says, I think not too long ago it quoted Franklin as saying he'll call it battery because that's what touching it feels like.
The muggers could act in groups which makes it impossible for the victim to shoot all attackers before one of them pulls the trigger.
No, you also need an enemy that wants to look good in the media. You can try using that approach against the Russians, they'll just set up a line of tanks outside the city and tell you that you can either send all the insurgents out or they'll keep firing until they are sure all insurgents are dead. Sure, vietnam was different but you don't exactly have huge forests available to pull the fighting into (and even then they could just burn them down).
Self-defense is legal. You can learn how to accomplish that without a weapon and even how to do that when threatened with a gun at short range.
All criminals? No. 99% of them? Yes. Some people will have illegal guns but those aren't the ones trying to mug you for spare change.
If your life is put in danger, you are allowed to respond with deadly force BUT NOT ANY EARLIER. If he only has a knife or his fists you aren't allowed to shoot him without giving him a warning (i.e. pulling out the gun and telling him to fuck off). Murdering people over petty crimes should not be allowed.
They could use the huge savings to build a button that makes it snow on the beach!
The only purpose is to keep the bums from setting up home in there.
Europe doesn't buy Madden but they buy FIFA 200x. Different game, same EA.
If you're going to quote sales, make sure you use the UK charts, as that's where more than 1/2 the games in Europe are sold.
The problem is that the territories aren't homogenous, what sells in the UK may be a total flop in the rest of Europe or some game sells everywhere except the UK. The UK charts aren't representative of the entire market.
BTW, UKers buy Sonic like mad.
The original Mario Bros was an arcade game, the Atari got a port of it as did numerous other platforms. It came after Donkey Kong but before Super Mario Bros.. There are variants of it in other Nintendo games, for example the battle game in SMB3 and a remake of the arcade game in all Super Mario Advance games and Mario & Luigi.
MB was also the game that introduced Luigi.
Even DirectX based renderers can be portable, look at the Unreal Engine.
The AC was pointing out that Europe - which MS does need, and indeed was expecting to win with the XBox - probably prefers Japanese games over American games, and THAT'S why MS needs Japanese developers.
Then that AC was probably pulling things out of his butt because EA Sports games regularly top the sales charts here while japanese games rarely even enter them (except for the Gamecube sales charts but I don't know when the last time was that system got a new game).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDvrovKgeM
I wonder where people get the DS whooping PSP ass thing from. Fanboyism?
Software sales are a lot better for the DS than the PSP and the system clearly trounces the PSP in Japan (other territories don't have as much consistent sales data tracking). Overall they're equal in the US, the DS wins by a few million units in Japan (gap widening) and noone knows what it's like in Europe. The software sales are the strangest bit, the DS is getting overproportionally more software sales than the PSP (or at least it gets titles into the top ten much more frequently).
if people decide they don't want to wave a Wii stick around and the system tanks, Nintendo won't be selling anything at Christmas.
They'll be selling DSs and GBAs.