But movies only take two hours of your time on a boring Saturday afternoon. Games require a relatively significant investment of your time, and thus are not suitable products to be used as part of a Christmas rush.
I don't know anything about FOLEDs, but I know that one big deal about e-ink is that it doesn't require any power to maintain a static image. Hell, that would be great at higher resolutions and truer colors just because it would allow us to replace all the maps I have in the office closets that only get used once and are re-ordered when they're needed again.
There are plenty of casual games that work fine with throughput 500ms. Does chess need broadband? Does a monopolistic property trading game need broadband? Does a multiplayer tetramino game need broadband?
No, but does Chess need an Xbox 360? Would anybody pay $300 (much less $400) for a machine if playing Chess on it is that important? Sure, there are potentially popular applications that are completely at home on a narrowband connection, but all-in-one boxes disguised as consoles make me a bit uneasy.
I'm not necessarily billing Microsoft for the whole deal. Even so, if both the local cable company and the local telephone company have high speed Internet products that come "with MSN Premium", then I'm still paying Microsoft.
But in geographic areas without affordable residential broadband Internet access, such as most of the United States of America, Nintendo still has the same-screen multiplayer market cornered.
So you seriously count narrowband gaming as a significant facor in anything at this point? And why are you billing MS just for internet service? If Xbox Live costs $50 a month (rather than the real figure of
But what I pay for is a persistent name throughout all games. I pay for friends lists that exist on Xbox Live rather than on only a single game's servers. I pay for game invites in Halo 2 when I'm playing a game of Ghost Recon 2. I pay for voice chat enabled as a standard.
No, Xbox Live is not perfect, but it is FAR ahead of anything Sony or Nintendo are offering and even seem to be offering any time soon.
That makes sense until you factor it motivation. The RIAA stands to gain a lot by proving that all these lawsuits actually benefit artists. And I neved said that artists would announce it, just that the RIAA would be proclaiming their great deeds to anybody who'd listen. I think I'm done here because from the first post here you've been unable to grasp simple concepts (like hypothetical questions). Good day.
The reason I have for believing that they don't is that they haven't made it public. If an artist ever did get any money, they'd make huge deal out of it because there would be an actual artist's face as the victim who has suffered injustice which was set right thanks to the richeous efforts of the RIAA.
I wish. I've been active on the forums since April 2003 but I'm just a fan trying to advertise an already popular series. But we're getting off-topic, I was just replying to the grandparent's claim of credit card spam originating from the US.
Personally, I'm curious since the grandparent refers to the RIAA as suing on behalf of other members of an organization. Maybe I'm a bit naive, but if you sue somebody on somebody else's behalf and don't give that person anything afterwards, that pretty much makes you the bad guy, right?
It seems to me that the RIAA is only the enemy because they are the face of the body which has made it inconvenient to steal music. I think the majority of people who are hopping on the "I Hate The RIAA!" bandwagon are forgetting some crucial information. The RIAA is a trade organization. They represent MEMBERS of that organization. They are suing on behalf of their members, not on behalf of themselves. They're not the top of the chain, they are in the middle of the chain. The artists who join, support, and ask the RIAA to represent them are the ones at the top.
If someone gets sued by the RIAA it's not because the RIAA wants to sue them, it's because the artist they represent wants them to. Because Britney Spears, Metallica, or whoever else has, in essence, asked them to do it. Maybe the artists don't directly demand it in most cases, but they did indirectly demand it at the point they signed with a record company which was a member of the RIAA.
Umm, just a quick question... how much of that settlement money has gone to the artists on whose behalf the RIAA is suing all these people?
"You mean the same as the VirtualBoy was the one that changed the way games were played and the one that didn't fail, because it was different? Oh, wait, it did fail, and it didn't change anything. Shucks, there goes that theory."
Way to pick out a single example that suits your needs.
No, he means like the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS. He means like the N64's standard 4 ports. He means like the SNES's shoulder buttons. He means like the N64 controller's analog stick and rumble pack. And yes, in a few years the Revolution's controller will be added to this admittedly incomplete list.
As far as Argumentum an numerum, he's just relaying the impressions from those who have seen it first-hand, or have at least reported doing so. I haven't read a single credible source say anything that wasn't optimistic about what they've seen or heard about the controller. Have you?
Which were those? And why haven't any of the xbox games come close to the xbox raven tech demo?
But Xbox games have come close. Steel Battalion looked stunning and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory looked even better. The PS2 demos looked even better, showing facial detail that I'm not even sure we'll see in the next generation.
Whatever happened to Microsoft's xbox live free mmorpgs? Where are the free xbox live downloadable game demos?
What free MMORPGs? True Fantasy Live was all I've ever heard of in that department, and it was never planned to be free. Downloadable game demos? Well we got levels, but demos are the developer's and publisher's call. They just didn't want to.
??? It was released...
With what support? People try to make comments about the 360, ignoring that the PS2's HDD solution fell flat on its face.
See above. I'm still waiting for Toy Story graphics on xbox just like Bill Gates and Seamus Blackley promised.
Again, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory looks MUCH better than Toy Story. I won't say the same for The Incredibles or Finding Nemo, but Toy Story's been easily met. Also, I've only heard those claims regarding PS2 previews.
Wow, talk about selective memory from the mainstream...
It was Sony's tech demos that never came close to coming true, what ever happened to Sony's elaborate online network that included movies and music videos being downloaded? What happened to browsing and chatting on the PS2? What about the hard drive? And exactly what promises did MS fail to fulfil with the Xbox? Also, you realize that "later" for MS may very well come before "now" for Sony, right?
It's cute that you posted anonymously. I wonder why...
So you're calling MS's subscription-based online gaming network a failure? So what would you call Sony's gaming network setup for the PS2? I'd really be interested to see what the statistics are for households that COULD get Xbox Live but don't. I think that's the figure you should be bragging about, how many homes have an Xbox and access to a broadband conenction but choose not to pay?
When you consider that Xbox Live Silver will be free, will have barely any features, and will likely be forced down people's throats. Though I guess some of that expectation can be attributed to increased utility withing Xbox Live itself and more people with broadband.
"When asked if the there was a possibility the design of the prototype PS3 controller--already derisively being called the "batarang"--might be changed before launch, Chatani replied that there may be some "minor changes." However, he said that its form factor will probably stay the same."
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Exactly.
How's it go?
"A game's only delayed until it's released, but it's bad forever."
But movies only take two hours of your time on a boring Saturday afternoon. Games require a relatively significant investment of your time, and thus are not suitable products to be used as part of a Christmas rush.
I don't know anything about FOLEDs, but I know that one big deal about e-ink is that it doesn't require any power to maintain a static image. Hell, that would be great at higher resolutions and truer colors just because it would allow us to replace all the maps I have in the office closets that only get used once and are re-ordered when they're needed again.
So you seriously count narrowband gaming as a significant facor in anything at this point? And why are you billing MS just for internet service? If Xbox Live costs $50 a month (rather than the real figure of
But what I pay for is a persistent name throughout all games. I pay for friends lists that exist on Xbox Live rather than on only a single game's servers. I pay for game invites in Halo 2 when I'm playing a game of Ghost Recon 2. I pay for voice chat enabled as a standard.
No, Xbox Live is not perfect, but it is FAR ahead of anything Sony or Nintendo are offering and even seem to be offering any time soon.
That makes sense until you factor it motivation. The RIAA stands to gain a lot by proving that all these lawsuits actually benefit artists. And I neved said that artists would announce it, just that the RIAA would be proclaiming their great deeds to anybody who'd listen. I think I'm done here because from the first post here you've been unable to grasp simple concepts (like hypothetical questions). Good day.
The reason I have for believing that they don't is that they haven't made it public. If an artist ever did get any money, they'd make huge deal out of it because there would be an actual artist's face as the victim who has suffered injustice which was set right thanks to the richeous efforts of the RIAA.
I'm saying that they probably don't give any settlement money to any artists at all.
Ever.
I wish. I've been active on the forums since April 2003 but I'm just a fan trying to advertise an already popular series. But we're getting off-topic, I was just replying to the grandparent's claim of credit card spam originating from the US.
Those cultural assumptions only pinpoint the US as the target, not the source.
Personally, I'm curious since the grandparent refers to the RIAA as suing on behalf of other members of an organization. Maybe I'm a bit naive, but if you sue somebody on somebody else's behalf and don't give that person anything afterwards, that pretty much makes you the bad guy, right?
No, he means like the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS. He means like the N64's standard 4 ports. He means like the SNES's shoulder buttons. He means like the N64 controller's analog stick and rumble pack. And yes, in a few years the Revolution's controller will be added to this admittedly incomplete list.
As far as Argumentum an numerum, he's just relaying the impressions from those who have seen it first-hand, or have at least reported doing so. I haven't read a single credible source say anything that wasn't optimistic about what they've seen or heard about the controller. Have you?
Wow, talk about selective memory from the mainstream...
It was Sony's tech demos that never came close to coming true, what ever happened to Sony's elaborate online network that included movies and music videos being downloaded? What happened to browsing and chatting on the PS2? What about the hard drive? And exactly what promises did MS fail to fulfil with the Xbox? Also, you realize that "later" for MS may very well come before "now" for Sony, right?
The Final Fantasy brand matters more than a Final Fantasy game...
FYI: Q3A let PC and DC players play each other, both using a mouse and keyboard (and I think Q3A supported the DC's BBA).
It's cute that you posted anonymously. I wonder why...
So you're calling MS's subscription-based online gaming network a failure? So what would you call Sony's gaming network setup for the PS2? I'd really be interested to see what the statistics are for households that COULD get Xbox Live but don't. I think that's the figure you should be bragging about, how many homes have an Xbox and access to a broadband conenction but choose not to pay?
When you consider that Xbox Live Silver will be free, will have barely any features, and will likely be forced down people's throats. Though I guess some of that expectation can be attributed to increased utility withing Xbox Live itself and more people with broadband.
Second paragraph.
So would that include Japanese researchers?
But 26.4 feet = 8.04672 meters.
Heh, thought you got mad halfway through your sentence.
http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/wand/defaul t.htm
The potential's there, Nintendo's just a step ahead. Or fifty...