When I was in Gamestop last week, the sales rep told me he had received many more people asking if they could reserve the PS3 than the Wii. Not only that, he claimed that a bunch of people were willing to put up the $600 now (plus some kickbacks to him) if they could get one promised the day it comes out.
Ironically, he said that gamestop as of this time has no plans to allow preorders for PS3 due to the limited numbers they expect to receive (he said they estimate 1-2 per store on release day).
If he wasn't lying, there's apparently a strong calling for it, at least in my neighborhood.
I thought Sony's price point was ridiculous, and I have no plans to buy the PS3 when it's anywhere near $600, but perhaps Sony is right in believing their fans will buy anything with the "Playstation" name, no matter what the cost.
I can't read the article at work due to firewall issues, so could someone please explain one thing to me? If they granted this license to Atari and the other companies, doesn't that mean these companies can go and sue OTHER video game companies over the exact same thing?
Ummm, your subject is "For people who don't want to read" and then you have a bunch of lines of text. Did you post it with the intention of people not reading it? If so, why? Perhaps you should've put a subject of "For people who don't want to click on the link" or "For people who's firewall blocks them from accessing the article."
Or perhaps it should've been labelled "Karma Whore"
Some people prefer the content to the games over the visual quality of the games. Those people interested in the games themselves that are present on XBOX 360, but do not have the money to buy the system AND a new TV will still buy the system.
Visual quality of video games is not all that matters.
How do I get my hands on one of these $100 laptops?
I'd love a lightweight laptop for word processing on the train ride to and from work but I don't have the money to spend what conventional laptops cost. I also love the idea of generating juice through a handcrank.
But I can't, for the life of me, figure out a way to get one. Is there going to be any offering to the general public instead of just to governments?
I don't have the time these days to waste it figuring out how compatible anything is. I refuse to buy songs online after having a terrible experience where I didn't understand the way the DRM worked, I have an mp3 player that I know plays regular run-of-the-mill mp3's, I rip all my songs myself and when I put a music CD into the drive I hold down the shift key.
It's just too confusing for me to waste time on learning.
They already did this once. It was called the combat revamp. It failed miserably and SWG lost many of its customers. Do they really expect doing the same thing again will appeal to anyone?
The reason that they sued was because he was making money off of these maps! He admitted in an interview that he has google adsense and that he was getting in money as a result! I don't think they would've minded as much if he was not making money off of it.
Every time you hear someone say "I shouldn't have to read the manual to figure out how to use it!", you're seeing another example of the problem.
The problem isn't that people say "I shouldn't have to read the manual..." the problem is that no one includes manuals anymore! Help file my ass, I want instructions!!!
What I find more impressive is that in the first week, more than 1 in 7 DS owners bought a copy. 15% of everyone who owned a DS bought one in the first week in the US. My understanding is that no game has ever sold that well after a system has launched.
I think you're forgetting about HALO. Not sure what the stats are for HALO 2 though...
As a *nix programmer forced into the mainframe world, I'd have to say that m/f programmers do not look at computers as a hobby or thing of interest. To them, programming and computers are just what they do to get paid. To the m/fers, a computer is just a tool that they have to use to do their job. They take no joy or pleasure in programming, it's just what they do.
On the other side of the coin, I think that *nix and Windows programmers tend to enjoy what they do. To them, programming is not just their job, it's enjoyable.
Honestly, I don't blame them. M/F sucks. As soon as you get your first compile error because your command isn't in the right column, or have JCL spit out a bunch of random nonsense because you didn't allocate the correct blocksize for your file you'll hate your job too.
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When I was in Gamestop last week, the sales rep told me he had received many more people asking if they could reserve the PS3 than the Wii. Not only that, he claimed that a bunch of people were willing to put up the $600 now (plus some kickbacks to him) if they could get one promised the day it comes out.
Ironically, he said that gamestop as of this time has no plans to allow preorders for PS3 due to the limited numbers they expect to receive (he said they estimate 1-2 per store on release day).
If he wasn't lying, there's apparently a strong calling for it, at least in my neighborhood.
I thought Sony's price point was ridiculous, and I have no plans to buy the PS3 when it's anywhere near $600, but perhaps Sony is right in believing their fans will buy anything with the "Playstation" name, no matter what the cost.
What happens when your hardware breaks?
"Sorry, you're data's gone, we don't have copies of the private keys. Looks like you need to pay a hacker to crack the data for you."
Thanks!!!
I can't read the article at work due to firewall issues, so could someone please explain one thing to me? If they granted this license to Atari and the other companies, doesn't that mean these companies can go and sue OTHER video game companies over the exact same thing?
This MMORPG already exists. It's called Second Life. Almost all content in Second Life is player created.
So now I get to see more dupes from the times when main articles are duplicated by sectional articles?
Nintendo ON was a hoax.
Wrong game. The mud mode is from Rumble Roses.
I don't want new and original games. I'm afraid of change. New games and new game genres scare me.
Ummm, your subject is "For people who don't want to read" and then you have a bunch of lines of text. Did you post it with the intention of people not reading it? If so, why? Perhaps you should've put a subject of "For people who don't want to click on the link" or "For people who's firewall blocks them from accessing the article."
Or perhaps it should've been labelled "Karma Whore"
They didn't include Link to the Past in that compilation because they had just released the GBA port less than a month earlier.
Previously announced here
Is that Kari Byron as hot in person as she is on tv?
Microsoft OWNS Rare!
Some people prefer the content to the games over the visual quality of the games. Those people interested in the games themselves that are present on XBOX 360, but do not have the money to buy the system AND a new TV will still buy the system.
Visual quality of video games is not all that matters.
How do I get my hands on one of these $100 laptops?
I'd love a lightweight laptop for word processing on the train ride to and from work but I don't have the money to spend what conventional laptops cost. I also love the idea of generating juice through a handcrank.
But I can't, for the life of me, figure out a way to get one. Is there going to be any offering to the general public instead of just to governments?
So your definition of stupidity is based on how much money a person has?
I don't have the time these days to waste it figuring out how compatible anything is. I refuse to buy songs online after having a terrible experience where I didn't understand the way the DRM worked, I have an mp3 player that I know plays regular run-of-the-mill mp3's, I rip all my songs myself and when I put a music CD into the drive I hold down the shift key.
It's just too confusing for me to waste time on learning.
They already did this once. It was called the combat revamp. It failed miserably and SWG lost many of its customers. Do they really expect doing the same thing again will appeal to anyone?
I play Trauma Center on my train commute all the time with no problem.
The reason that they sued was because he was making money off of these maps! He admitted in an interview that he has google adsense and that he was getting in money as a result! I don't think they would've minded as much if he was not making money off of it.
Every time you hear someone say "I shouldn't have to read the manual to figure out how to use it!", you're seeing another example of the problem.
The problem isn't that people say "I shouldn't have to read the manual..." the problem is that no one includes manuals anymore! Help file my ass, I want instructions!!!
What I find more impressive is that in the first week, more than 1 in 7 DS owners bought a copy. 15% of everyone who owned a DS bought one in the first week in the US. My understanding is that no game has ever sold that well after a system has launched.
I think you're forgetting about HALO. Not sure what the stats are for HALO 2 though...
As a *nix programmer forced into the mainframe world, I'd have to say that m/f programmers do not look at computers as a hobby or thing of interest. To them, programming and computers are just what they do to get paid. To the m/fers, a computer is just a tool that they have to use to do their job. They take no joy or pleasure in programming, it's just what they do.
On the other side of the coin, I think that *nix and Windows programmers tend to enjoy what they do. To them, programming is not just their job, it's enjoyable.
Honestly, I don't blame them. M/F sucks. As soon as you get your first compile error because your command isn't in the right column, or have JCL spit out a bunch of random nonsense because you didn't allocate the correct blocksize for your file you'll hate your job too.
Nobody logs onto WoW anymore because the queue's of people waiting to play are too long.