1) Nintendo is sacrificing its "old" audience (that enjoys adventure games, etc that require time) for a "new" audience (casual gamers).
2) As an adult, you are pressed for time and prefer casual games, and Nintendo is overlooking you.
I think that 1 is more correct than 2, though I don't think it's totally correct. The whole point of the Revolution (and its more-intuitive controller) is to get casual gamers off of Yahoo! games and onto a console. Nintendo knows that casual gamers don't sit down for three-hour FPS sessions. They know that you want to sit down and relax for the 20 minutes you've got while dinner is the oven or whatever. That's what they're planning to deliver, though I don't think that they're going to give up on traditional gamers entirely.
And I'm not just saying this because I hope it's true. They've proven with the DS that they can and will attract the casual gamer audience - titles like Nintendogs, Brain Age, and the new Tetris are all perfectly suited for a person who has 10-30 minutes here and there for gaming. I think the Revolution will have a lot of titles like this, and I think that (like the DS's inventive control system) the controller will facilitate this. It won't happen entirely *because* of the controller, but the controller will help. First, like the DS controls, it will inspire designers to think outside the box of what a video game can be. Then, it will attract casual gamers who use their mouse button to click on card games and find ten buttons too annoying to memorize.
Mature people have jobs, families and friends. It is fun. Communicating with people who you like is fun. Changing activities is fun. Community projects are fun.
So playing games (whether board or video) with my husband or siblings is not "mature"? Even if it involves communicating and changing which games we play now and then? "Mature fun" must involve charity work of some sort, or in some other way "combine fun and responsibilities"? If you're not fulfilling some sort of responsibility with your fun, it's not "mature"?
Ah, spoken like a true Hardcore Gamer. One who doesn't realize that 90% of the population isn't made up of Hardcore Gamers like you. Sony and MS make good money by convincing all you HGs to pay out the wazoo for the next big FPS; they have decent marketshare, but out of how much of the total population? Nintendo's whole marketing concept for the next generation (including the DS) is exactly what you say - they're targeting the other 90% of us, not you 10% HGs. Sony and MS can fight over your dollars. Nintendo will be selling $200 consoles to people who have never bought one before while the only people who buy PS3s or 360s for twice that are the people who owned their predecessors. Us non-HGs might not buy EVERY GAME THAT COMES OUT OMG!, but there are far more of us, so it'll add up to Nintendo doing just fine. Like they always have.
mature people do not play them. They do not have time.
I think you misspelled "boring". Because that's what I call people who don't have time for anything fun in their lives. And I don't really think that someone who does have time for fun, but spends it watching TV or hanging out at a bar or something can really be automatically classed as "more mature" than someone who spends it playing games.
Good to hear that anything you don't personally enjoy (or maybe it's anything that's free) doesn't count as gaming. Because gaming is some sacred, macho genre of killing time that must involve killing something else at the same time. Or spending hundreds of dollars. Or something.
Why can't you accept that different people enjoy different types of games? That doesn't mean that some of them *aren't* games.
a large percentage of women do not have to work for a living, so can stay at home and do what they please.
Ah, but how many housewives are there without kids? I'm one at the moment for a few more months til I start grad school, but by and large, most housewives are at home for a reason - to raise the kids. And if you don't think that's a full-time job, you're not just un-PC, you're fucking crazy. *I* have time to play video games during the day sometimes. If I had kids? I don't think so.
1. You have obviously never been a non-Christian in the mid-western United States. I can assure you that the majority around here will most certainly harass you, even after you ask them to stop.
Actually, I have been most of my life, although I did live on the east coast for a few years. I did have a friend drag me to youth group a couple times in high school, but beyond that I've never had anyone try to convert me. Even my devoutly Lutheran husband. I'm sorry you've had worse experiences.
That is horrible. And it's equally horrible that law enforcement would do nothing to stop the harrassment.
I hope you realize that the majority of Christians aren't like that. They probably think you'd be better off if you were Christian, but they wouldn't harrass you about it or try to force it on you. But I think at this point it's rather silly to argue about who stole whom's customs or rituals or celebrations - most of the "stealing" went on centuries to millennia ago, it seems like it's time to bury the hatchet.
Just once, I would like to revere my Gods, in my people's time honoured fashion without a bunch of dead-jew-worshipping nut-jobs coming in and spoiling it by claiming it as theirs.
You know, if Christians are really coming into your house (or place of worship) and interfering with your holiday rituals, you can probably call the police for trespassing.
Oh wait, they're not? They don't actually give a shit what you celebrate as long as you let them celebrate their holiday? Oh. Then shut the hell up. Why do you care what Christians celebrate? I think they might have freedom of religion, kinda like you do.
Don't worry, they're trying to commercialize Passover, too.
My local grocery stores are carrying Plague Finger Puppets this year. One for every plague - there's a little dead baby for the Firstborn plage, a locust, a frog, one covered in boils... Somehow, I don't think they'll sell as well as Peeps. I wonder if Peeps are Passover Kosher. Is corn syrup allowed for Passover?
Until a year or two ago, whenever a website didn't work in Firefox, if you complained you'd get something from the webmaster saying to use IE for that site.
Now that 10-15% of internet users are using Firefox, suddenly more and more sites are actually making their sites compatible with multiple browsers - the same ones that a year ago were telling you to fire up IE to see their site.
Yes, I still have IE, and I could use it to view a site that won't open in Firefox or Safari - but I don't want to. Webmasters have realized that we don't want to use IE, and now that there are enough of us to make a dent in their traffic, they are no longer telling us that we must do something we don't want to do in order to load their site. Because 9 times out of 10, I just won't use the site.
I see something similar happening in the next couple of years for Macs. People will buy them because they have the option of booting into Windows. But once they get hooked on OS X, they won't want to use Windows if they don't have to. If something requires them to boot into windows, they'll whine about it and in some cases not buy the software if there's something comparable available that doesn't require rebooting. If Mac marketshare can make it above 10%, that's a big enough chunk of users that companies won't want to risk chasing them away by making them do annoying things like reboot to use their software. Even games - I'm sure that there will be people who will say "This better be a really fucking amazing game if I'm gonna boot into Windows for it."
Trust me, once you've gone through a couple years at MIT, you'll look upon that beaver as a scraggly, nasty, vicious sewer rat.
No pine for me, so sad. :(
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I recently found out that the school I'm headed to for my PhD (Northwestern) no longer supports Pine. Even William & Mary, which is not a very tech-savvy school, had a unix server for me to SSH to to use Pine. Looks like I'll probably finally figure out Mail.app unless I want to be stuck with their webmail.
I like Yahoo Mail much better than GMail, but either is preferable to most colleges' webmail pages...
Do they even realize what kind of a gold mine they could be sitting on if they could actually license the characters? How many little girls and their mothers and babysitters could be introduced to role-playing games this way? Talk about a gateway drug. Every study ever shows that girls are interested in narrative play more than boys. This is a no-brainer.
Ah, I hadn't noticed that. Now the completely-deceptive link text makes sense - way more people will click on that than a link that just says "Intel iBooks and long-rumored video iPod."
That article linked to with the supposed XP rumor says nothing at all about dual-booting or Windows on Macs. Just Intel iBooks and video iPods. And it's from the beginning of February.
You could probably get that if every PSP owner bought one or two UMD movies just to check it out.
Then they all said "Eh" and went back to playing games. No more UMD sales in the past six months!
I never thought my family was this stupid....
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I thought everyone knew about phishing and how to watch out for it, but then I got a great view of how average computer users obviously don't have any clue.
A few months ago, my sister freaked out when someone broke into her PayPal account.
I didn't find out until just a week or two ago that this was the direct result of her falling for a phishing attack - and that my mom fell for it too! They're lucky I live 12 hours away so I could smack them both upside the head. I'm not exactly shocked that my mom fell for it, but my sister should really know better.
Well, humans tend to start celebrating again (assuming they still have friends and/or family around) when they hit milestones like 90, 95, 100, etc - because not many humans reach those milestones right now.
Companies, unlike humans, rarely live to the age of 5. Reaching 30 is a real milestone for a company, whereas for a human (in the US, at least) it's pretty unremarkable.
Oh, don't get my hopes up.:) We're about to buy a used G3 iBook (Ok, calling it used is redundant), but with that kind of sale I could convince my husband to buy new.
I bet you tried it with crunchy little pretzels that come in a bag. Everyone knows XP likes the big soft pretzels you buy at the mall. With cheese sauce.
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1) Nintendo is sacrificing its "old" audience (that enjoys adventure games, etc that require time) for a "new" audience (casual gamers).
2) As an adult, you are pressed for time and prefer casual games, and Nintendo is overlooking you.
I think that 1 is more correct than 2, though I don't think it's totally correct. The whole point of the Revolution (and its more-intuitive controller) is to get casual gamers off of Yahoo! games and onto a console. Nintendo knows that casual gamers don't sit down for three-hour FPS sessions. They know that you want to sit down and relax for the 20 minutes you've got while dinner is the oven or whatever. That's what they're planning to deliver, though I don't think that they're going to give up on traditional gamers entirely.
And I'm not just saying this because I hope it's true. They've proven with the DS that they can and will attract the casual gamer audience - titles like Nintendogs, Brain Age, and the new Tetris are all perfectly suited for a person who has 10-30 minutes here and there for gaming. I think the Revolution will have a lot of titles like this, and I think that (like the DS's inventive control system) the controller will facilitate this. It won't happen entirely *because* of the controller, but the controller will help. First, like the DS controls, it will inspire designers to think outside the box of what a video game can be. Then, it will attract casual gamers who use their mouse button to click on card games and find ten buttons too annoying to memorize.
So playing games (whether board or video) with my husband or siblings is not "mature"? Even if it involves communicating and changing which games we play now and then? "Mature fun" must involve charity work of some sort, or in some other way "combine fun and responsibilities"? If you're not fulfilling some sort of responsibility with your fun, it's not "mature"?
I'm glad I don't live in your world.
Ah, spoken like a true Hardcore Gamer. One who doesn't realize that 90% of the population isn't made up of Hardcore Gamers like you. Sony and MS make good money by convincing all you HGs to pay out the wazoo for the next big FPS; they have decent marketshare, but out of how much of the total population? Nintendo's whole marketing concept for the next generation (including the DS) is exactly what you say - they're targeting the other 90% of us, not you 10% HGs. Sony and MS can fight over your dollars. Nintendo will be selling $200 consoles to people who have never bought one before while the only people who buy PS3s or 360s for twice that are the people who owned their predecessors. Us non-HGs might not buy EVERY GAME THAT COMES OUT OMG!, but there are far more of us, so it'll add up to Nintendo doing just fine. Like they always have.
I think you misspelled "boring". Because that's what I call people who don't have time for anything fun in their lives. And I don't really think that someone who does have time for fun, but spends it watching TV or hanging out at a bar or something can really be automatically classed as "more mature" than someone who spends it playing games.
Why can't you accept that different people enjoy different types of games? That doesn't mean that some of them *aren't* games.
Ah, but how many housewives are there without kids? I'm one at the moment for a few more months til I start grad school, but by and large, most housewives are at home for a reason - to raise the kids. And if you don't think that's a full-time job, you're not just un-PC, you're fucking crazy. *I* have time to play video games during the day sometimes. If I had kids? I don't think so.
Actually, I have been most of my life, although I did live on the east coast for a few years. I did have a friend drag me to youth group a couple times in high school, but beyond that I've never had anyone try to convert me. Even my devoutly Lutheran husband. I'm sorry you've had worse experiences.
I hope you realize that the majority of Christians aren't like that. They probably think you'd be better off if you were Christian, but they wouldn't harrass you about it or try to force it on you. But I think at this point it's rather silly to argue about who stole whom's customs or rituals or celebrations - most of the "stealing" went on centuries to millennia ago, it seems like it's time to bury the hatchet.
You know, I tried this magical Coke with real sugar in Canada, and it tasted exactly the same to me. I don't see why people get all excited about it.
You know, if Christians are really coming into your house (or place of worship) and interfering with your holiday rituals, you can probably call the police for trespassing.
Oh wait, they're not? They don't actually give a shit what you celebrate as long as you let them celebrate their holiday? Oh. Then shut the hell up. Why do you care what Christians celebrate? I think they might have freedom of religion, kinda like you do.
My local grocery stores are carrying Plague Finger Puppets this year. One for every plague - there's a little dead baby for the Firstborn plage, a locust, a frog, one covered in boils... Somehow, I don't think they'll sell as well as Peeps. I wonder if Peeps are Passover Kosher. Is corn syrup allowed for Passover?
Also, your picture shows Apple's stock as being up just like mine does. So, thanks for backing me up there.
Funny, my picture tells a different story.
Now that 10-15% of internet users are using Firefox, suddenly more and more sites are actually making their sites compatible with multiple browsers - the same ones that a year ago were telling you to fire up IE to see their site.
Yes, I still have IE, and I could use it to view a site that won't open in Firefox or Safari - but I don't want to. Webmasters have realized that we don't want to use IE, and now that there are enough of us to make a dent in their traffic, they are no longer telling us that we must do something we don't want to do in order to load their site. Because 9 times out of 10, I just won't use the site.
I see something similar happening in the next couple of years for Macs. People will buy them because they have the option of booting into Windows. But once they get hooked on OS X, they won't want to use Windows if they don't have to. If something requires them to boot into windows, they'll whine about it and in some cases not buy the software if there's something comparable available that doesn't require rebooting. If Mac marketshare can make it above 10%, that's a big enough chunk of users that companies won't want to risk chasing them away by making them do annoying things like reboot to use their software. Even games - I'm sure that there will be people who will say "This better be a really fucking amazing game if I'm gonna boot into Windows for it."
Trust me, once you've gone through a couple years at MIT, you'll look upon that beaver as a scraggly, nasty, vicious sewer rat.
I like Yahoo Mail much better than GMail, but either is preferable to most colleges' webmail pages...
Do they even realize what kind of a gold mine they could be sitting on if they could actually license the characters? How many little girls and their mothers and babysitters could be introduced to role-playing games this way? Talk about a gateway drug. Every study ever shows that girls are interested in narrative play more than boys. This is a no-brainer.
Ah, I hadn't noticed that. Now the completely-deceptive link text makes sense - way more people will click on that than a link that just says "Intel iBooks and long-rumored video iPod."
That article linked to with the supposed XP rumor says nothing at all about dual-booting or Windows on Macs. Just Intel iBooks and video iPods. And it's from the beginning of February.
Then they all said "Eh" and went back to playing games. No more UMD sales in the past six months!
A few months ago, my sister freaked out when someone broke into her PayPal account.
I didn't find out until just a week or two ago that this was the direct result of her falling for a phishing attack - and that my mom fell for it too! They're lucky I live 12 hours away so I could smack them both upside the head. I'm not exactly shocked that my mom fell for it, but my sister should really know better.
Companies, unlike humans, rarely live to the age of 5. Reaching 30 is a real milestone for a company, whereas for a human (in the US, at least) it's pretty unremarkable.
Oh, don't get my hopes up. :) We're about to buy a used G3 iBook (Ok, calling it used is redundant), but with that kind of sale I could convince my husband to buy new.
(Since when to slashdotted pages start pointing to the FBI??)
I bet you tried it with crunchy little pretzels that come in a bag. Everyone knows XP likes the big soft pretzels you buy at the mall. With cheese sauce.