I think the argument is very relavent. Yeah, gimmicky games have existed for every system but now everybody wants to design systems around gimmicky ideas. I remeber being totally immersed in many games without the need for fancy peripherals, I didn't need them because the games were fun. I had a Wii for a year before I sold it because the controls became very annoying and most of the games that were released were crap, Even the fun games were hampered by the controls. From what I 've seen of the Natal promos and videos, it just doesn't look very appealing. Yeah, the ideas seem pretty cool but I can see the controls growing old pretty quickly.
Hardware backward compatibility was actually a big selling point for me when the PS3 was first released as I have a huge library of PS2 games and it would allow me to disconnect my PS2 and have one less console to worry about. I held out for a price drop as I could not justify the initial price of the system (and I was enjoying my 360 so much at the time).
The initial change was disheartening for me as I don't put a whole lot of faith in software emulation. It may work great for some but if I was going to pay the asking price at the time, I wanted hardware emulation. After the later move to no emulation, I lost almost all interest.
I would still like to get a PS3 but the desire now is for less a game console (the exclusive games just aren't there) and for more media streaming and a linux box to play around with (I don't have much interest in Blu-Ray). As good as it may be for those purposes, I cannot justify the current asking price to use it for these purposes.
"When my car was broken into, I was told by the responding police officer that I might have prevented it by keeping my seats and visible areas clear of junk that would entice criminals." It seems to me that the media companies may be taking this approach by making movies and music so bad that nobody wants to steal it.
I never had trouble canceling my emusic subscription. With only 1 or 2 clicks I was out, Far easier than some other services I have tried to terminate.
IMO Final Fantasy VII should be at the top of the list. I must have wasted a thousand hours of my life playing this game. I think OoT definitely deserved to be in the top 3.
Same here. I've been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu for about 6 months now and I find myself using Ubuntu about 95% of the time. Once XP is no longer supported, It will be linux only for me.
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I think the argument is very relavent. Yeah, gimmicky games have existed for every system but now everybody wants to design systems around gimmicky ideas. I remeber being totally immersed in many games without the need for fancy peripherals, I didn't need them because the games were fun. I had a Wii for a year before I sold it because the controls became very annoying and most of the games that were released were crap, Even the fun games were hampered by the controls. From what I 've seen of the Natal promos and videos, it just doesn't look very appealing. Yeah, the ideas seem pretty cool but I can see the controls growing old pretty quickly.
Hardware backward compatibility was actually a big selling point for me when the PS3 was first released as I have a huge library of PS2 games and it would allow me to disconnect my PS2 and have one less console to worry about. I held out for a price drop as I could not justify the initial price of the system (and I was enjoying my 360 so much at the time). The initial change was disheartening for me as I don't put a whole lot of faith in software emulation. It may work great for some but if I was going to pay the asking price at the time, I wanted hardware emulation. After the later move to no emulation, I lost almost all interest. I would still like to get a PS3 but the desire now is for less a game console (the exclusive games just aren't there) and for more media streaming and a linux box to play around with (I don't have much interest in Blu-Ray). As good as it may be for those purposes, I cannot justify the current asking price to use it for these purposes.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. I feel burned for the $20 I spent on my legit copy.
I can't believe they're talking about renting out all of that stuff (internally). I'm betting some of that stuff is quite valuable.
I can see the rental agreement now.
Return a game late: $5/day
Scratch/Damage/Lose a game: A beating with a big stick
At least that would be my rental agreement if that were my stuff. But if that were my stuff I wouldn't be renting it out.
"When my car was broken into, I was told by the responding police officer that I might have prevented it by keeping my seats and visible areas clear of junk that would entice criminals."
It seems to me that the media companies may be taking this approach by making movies and music so bad that nobody wants to steal it.
I never had trouble canceling my emusic subscription. With only 1 or 2 clicks I was out, Far easier than some other services I have tried to terminate.
IMO Final Fantasy VII should be at the top of the list. I must have wasted a thousand hours of my life playing this game. I think OoT definitely deserved to be in the top 3.
Same here. I've been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu for about 6 months now and I find myself using Ubuntu about 95% of the time. Once XP is no longer supported, It will be linux only for me.