Not only that, the X360 is much cheaper in Japan than in the US. I don't recall the exact number but I think it was 324$ for the Arm version (not the crippled Core one, that one's probably even cheaper).
Games? The only game that's worth buying seems to be PGR 3 and is that enough to buy a 400$ console for it? Sure, there's going to be more games in the future but that's not a reason to buy the system NOW. New features of Live? Well, they're not that useful without games to play on Live. New Controller? Perhaps but once again I wonder what that's going to help when you don't have any games. Multimedia Capabilities? Um, is there anything new? Okay, so it takes streams from PCs but didn't some XBMC thingamajig add that to the XB already?
And while it looks better than the PS2 or XB it doesn't look 400$ worth of better.
Since that coalition formed they have announced that they will disregard the constitution regarding debts, now they're trying to violate the right on freedom of expression (the exception is ONLY for youth protection and a complete ban is NOT youth protection!). Couldn't this be construed as an attempt to destroy the federalistic democratic foundation of the country? I mean, those fuckers openly stated they will disregard the constitution, isn't that enough to immediately and forcefully disband their parties or at least the coalition?
If they think violent games pose a great threat to the peace of society they should immediately ban all religious scriptures and confiscate them, preferrably even disband all religious institutions, there are more people claiming "God made me do it" than those claiming "Counterstrike made me do it" so religion is obviously a greater threat to society than games, right? Wait, what's that, you've read the Bible and don't go on killing sprees, those wackos are just exceptions?
Windows world? One where OTHER people control what your hardware looks like? One where developers DON'T have to pay MS a license fee on every piece of software they release? One that does NOT control the living room?
They have subsidiaries, Nintendo of America (NoA), Nintendo of Europe (NoE), Nintendo of Australia Ltd (NAL) and I think they even have one for New Zealand. The japanese main part is usually referred to as NCL (Nintendo Co Ltd). I'm not privvy with all that business stuff so I don't know if branches is the right word for those.
How is Pokemon licensed? Sure, they licensed it to some companies to make movies, toys and trading card games out of it but Pokemon is as much a licensed game as Super Mario Bros is.
If your local Nintendo branch will bother with it you'll see customized ratings but knowing NAL you'll most likely just end up with a system using the PEGI ratings for that.
Whoa, cheating, what a great reason to make someone's 50$ (and probably more since there can be more than one game tied to an account) investment useless. What's next, trashing your car when you're caught speeding?
If they just let you download it without any restrictions, no one would buy the game, they would just get it from P2P or some site that sticks it up.
So what. So it takes maybe a day or two longer for the warez release to come out. Those who don't know how to go onto a warez site or grab it off P2P obviously wouldn't be able to even without copy protection.
And to me as the end user it does not fucking matter what they hope to accomplish with their DRM, all that matters is what it means to ME. And I've learned that those who simply warez the game have a much easier time with getting it to work than stupid old me who buys every game in a store in an age where people look at you funny when you tell them you pay for games.
By the way, to me it's worthless that I could theoretically download the game while paying for it with a credit card. I have no credit card and in my experience it's both faster and cheaper to just grab a physical copy and not bothering with all that download crap. Plus physical copies tend to hit the bargain bin sooner or later, price drops on downloads seem much rarer.
You can pay Valve ten bucks to unregister the key so you can sell your copy. Fucking abusive bastards are probably attempting to kill off the used game market.
Except the PPEs are low complexity cores meant for embedded devices, your desktop CPU includes many features the PPEs don't, like out-of-order processing. Wouldn't surprise me if a GHz in one of those is worth even less than a GHz in a Pentium 4.
BTW, the TeraFLOPS includes the GPU, the CPU itself gets only a few hundred GigaFLOPS.
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Not only that, the X360 is much cheaper in Japan than in the US. I don't recall the exact number but I think it was 324$ for the Arm version (not the crippled Core one, that one's probably even cheaper).
Games? The only game that's worth buying seems to be PGR 3 and is that enough to buy a 400$ console for it? Sure, there's going to be more games in the future but that's not a reason to buy the system NOW.
New features of Live? Well, they're not that useful without games to play on Live.
New Controller? Perhaps but once again I wonder what that's going to help when you don't have any games.
Multimedia Capabilities? Um, is there anything new? Okay, so it takes streams from PCs but didn't some XBMC thingamajig add that to the XB already?
And while it looks better than the PS2 or XB it doesn't look 400$ worth of better.
Where does SCART fit in there?
Well, what other reason is there to buy an Xbox 360 now when your old consoles are still working?
Since that coalition formed they have announced that they will disregard the constitution regarding debts, now they're trying to violate the right on freedom of expression (the exception is ONLY for youth protection and a complete ban is NOT youth protection!). Couldn't this be construed as an attempt to destroy the federalistic democratic foundation of the country? I mean, those fuckers openly stated they will disregard the constitution, isn't that enough to immediately and forcefully disband their parties or at least the coalition?
If they think violent games pose a great threat to the peace of society they should immediately ban all religious scriptures and confiscate them, preferrably even disband all religious institutions, there are more people claiming "God made me do it" than those claiming "Counterstrike made me do it" so religion is obviously a greater threat to society than games, right? Wait, what's that, you've read the Bible and don't go on killing sprees, those wackos are just exceptions?
The logic is AFAIK that games are toys and toys must not contain Nazi symbols.
Windows world? One where OTHER people control what your hardware looks like? One where developers DON'T have to pay MS a license fee on every piece of software they release? One that does NOT control the living room?
They have subsidiaries, Nintendo of America (NoA), Nintendo of Europe (NoE), Nintendo of Australia Ltd (NAL) and I think they even have one for New Zealand. The japanese main part is usually referred to as NCL (Nintendo Co Ltd). I'm not privvy with all that business stuff so I don't know if branches is the right word for those.
How is Pokemon licensed? Sure, they licensed it to some companies to make movies, toys and trading card games out of it but Pokemon is as much a licensed game as Super Mario Bros is.
So daddy comes home and turns on the Rev to find that the password is gone. Think lil' Timmy can think up a convincing explaination for that?
If your local Nintendo branch will bother with it you'll see customized ratings but knowing NAL you'll most likely just end up with a system using the PEGI ratings for that.
The DS already has it so you can expect the Rev to have it in the HW, too.
I think that they should only be excluded from online play. Banning them from their own offline games borders on self-justice.
Whoa, cheating, what a great reason to make someone's 50$ (and probably more since there can be more than one game tied to an account) investment useless. What's next, trashing your car when you're caught speeding?
If they just let you download it without any restrictions, no one would buy the game, they would just get it from P2P or some site that sticks it up.
So what. So it takes maybe a day or two longer for the warez release to come out. Those who don't know how to go onto a warez site or grab it off P2P obviously wouldn't be able to even without copy protection.
And to me as the end user it does not fucking matter what they hope to accomplish with their DRM, all that matters is what it means to ME. And I've learned that those who simply warez the game have a much easier time with getting it to work than stupid old me who buys every game in a store in an age where people look at you funny when you tell them you pay for games.
By the way, to me it's worthless that I could theoretically download the game while paying for it with a credit card. I have no credit card and in my experience it's both faster and cheaper to just grab a physical copy and not bothering with all that download crap. Plus physical copies tend to hit the bargain bin sooner or later, price drops on downloads seem much rarer.
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Well, pastors are SOL when it comes to whores so it's not like that's something extraordinary.
You can pay Valve ten bucks to unregister the key so you can sell your copy. Fucking abusive bastards are probably attempting to kill off the used game market.
You laugh but for some people even that is too complicated.
Except the PPEs are low complexity cores meant for embedded devices, your desktop CPU includes many features the PPEs don't, like out-of-order processing. Wouldn't surprise me if a GHz in one of those is worth even less than a GHz in a Pentium 4.
BTW, the TeraFLOPS includes the GPU, the CPU itself gets only a few hundred GigaFLOPS.
Widescreen monitor? You mean the X360 comes with one of those? Sweet, my old TV could use a replacement.
Why would you buy a system for PC ports? If you want PC games, isn't it wiser to just use your PC for them?
I count two, Kameo and Gun but the latter is multiplatform...
We're using integers 'round here!
And they say copyright infringement destroys culture...