Making a smaller version of existing technology could be a breakthrough (fission reactor in your pocket?) but in this case probably isn't. OTOH the other contenders aren't really breakthroughs, either.
I'm not sure what you mean but I think you misread "HD media" (which I used to refer to both BRD and HDDVD) as "HDDVD". Means there is only one device playing either of those that people want and it happens to play Blu-Ray.
Games are also delayed. Some never get released. The original Katamari, for example, was never released here. There are many others (especially RPG's) which just never reach our shores.
That's not just Australia, it's the same for Europe. No Katamari here. The only thing a search for "Katamari" on Amazon brings up is the soundtrack for the second game that costs an outrageous 36 Euros.
The PC games market seems to be pretty close to that, big releases are usually mere days apart (that can be explained with shipping delays) and completely localized (except for games where that causes a delay, then you can buy the english version now or the localized one later), as opposed to english voices for all versions (with subtitles) and months of delays as is common in the console games market. Very little regional lockout, prices that are pretty similar in Europe and the US, etc. I just wish more publishers would go with the PC market than the console one...
It often helps to seek out the review with the lowest rating and look at the complaints, perhaps contrast it with on with a very high rating.
Look at a game like The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, which even Shigeru Miyamoto now calls "boring" and basically unfinished. But it has a score of 94.9% on GameRankings, because the press bought the hype that they themselves helped create.
Miyamoto said it "wasn't all that it could have been", boring is something completely different. It could have used more dungeons and done away with the stupid triforce hunt but other than that it was a very good game. Certainly more fun to me than Ocarina of Time which Miyamoto didn't apologize for.
I had one of those and two flat 2ers attached to each other were still impossible to separate since you couldn't hold the lower one in position while prying away at the upper one. I used a bread knife for those situations.
Oh, hey, Mr. You-are-all-peecee-fanboys, where have you been? There have been so many Xbox 360 or PS 3 stories that didn't involve you calling random people MS fanboys, you're getting out of shape!
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Making a smaller version of existing technology could be a breakthrough (fission reactor in your pocket?) but in this case probably isn't. OTOH the other contenders aren't really breakthroughs, either.
I've seen it in stores already so I suppose it's out (here in Europe, at least).
I don't know what OS you are running but if it's any current one it shouldn't be possible to make the necessary system changes over a network.
And hell, it's a console, why would you connect it to the network anyway?
You mean the timesquare, then? A cube has eight corners, otherwise it's not a cube but a square or a tetraeder.
How many people dropped their gambling addiction after figuring out how much they lost?
Sony Computer Entertainment did, Sony as a whole didn't.
I have the money to buy a home theatre system but I don't have the space to use more than 2.1.
Which was a one-off spike attributed to Halo 2 that even their PR droids said wouldn't last and they wouldn't be profitable before 2007.
I'm not sure what you mean but I think you misread "HD media" (which I used to refer to both BRD and HDDVD) as "HDDVD". Means there is only one device playing either of those that people want and it happens to play Blu-Ray.
Except the only device that plays HD media that people actually look forward to is the Playstation 3.
1G$? I wish, it's only 600-700M. A 1:2 exchange rate would rock but the Euro is worth about 1.2 dollars on average.
Roll the ten sided dies, if you roll an 18 or over we will obey.
No equipment to lose?
Games are also delayed. Some never get released. The original Katamari, for example, was never released here. There are many others (especially RPG's) which just never reach our shores.
That's not just Australia, it's the same for Europe. No Katamari here. The only thing a search for "Katamari" on Amazon brings up is the soundtrack for the second game that costs an outrageous 36 Euros.
The PC games market seems to be pretty close to that, big releases are usually mere days apart (that can be explained with shipping delays) and completely localized (except for games where that causes a delay, then you can buy the english version now or the localized one later), as opposed to english voices for all versions (with subtitles) and months of delays as is common in the console games market. Very little regional lockout, prices that are pretty similar in Europe and the US, etc. I just wish more publishers would go with the PC market than the console one...
GURPS makes you more resistent towards the tiring effects of wandering around in a desert if your skin color is black but I wouldn't call that racism.
Well, there is this game called "Total Overdose" which seems to involve mexicans.
Bob. Everyone's favourite wanker.
It often helps to seek out the review with the lowest rating and look at the complaints, perhaps contrast it with on with a very high rating.
Look at a game like The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker, which even Shigeru Miyamoto now calls "boring" and basically unfinished. But it has a score of 94.9% on GameRankings, because the press bought the hype that they themselves helped create.
Miyamoto said it "wasn't all that it could have been", boring is something completely different. It could have used more dungeons and done away with the stupid triforce hunt but other than that it was a very good game. Certainly more fun to me than Ocarina of Time which Miyamoto didn't apologize for.
I had one of those and two flat 2ers attached to each other were still impossible to separate since you couldn't hold the lower one in position while prying away at the upper one. I used a bread knife for those situations.
That leaves the question what kind of signal the X360 sends over SCART.
Flamebait? Hello? I was pointing out the differences between the console and PC market.
Probable outcome: They'll try to hide their DRM better.
Oh, hey, Mr. You-are-all-peecee-fanboys, where have you been? There have been so many Xbox 360 or PS 3 stories that didn't involve you calling random people MS fanboys, you're getting out of shape!
Must be the parts of Europe that don't consider outlawing violent games because I'm not seeing it.