This is fucking pathetic. You (and everyone else being dumbasses about this) need to get your facts straight before you go spouting off anti-christian rhetoric.
He prayed for a vacancy, not for death. And for those who have already replied to this thread: get your heads out of your asses. Ever heard of retirement?
But who am I kidding, most of you dont like Pat Robertson anyway, so go ahead and tell people he prayed to god for a judge to die -youre just playing your part.
Do you have a ridiculous game idea? Throw Donkey Kong in there and suddenly you're sitting on box-sales gold!
and this is bad because...? Nintendo doesnt usually put their big franchise characters on shitty games.
Mario Golf? It was great.
Donkey Konga? Original and very fun.
Soul Calbur II? Link was an appropriate addition (as opposed to Heihachi (sp)).
I will admit that Mario in EA sports games is pretty rediculous, but those are few and far between the numerous great games that get a supposely out of place franchise.
Some speculate that Nintendo will do their big reveal right after MS's opening keynote at TGS this month. The main idea is to let the initial ps3 and xbox2 hype die down and then have the spotlight solely on them at some point in the road.
If Nintendo does reveal the Rev at TGS, who do you think all the coverage will be on? And since the hardware for the ps3 and xbox2 were revealed at e3, I think Nintendo will debut the Rev with playable games. Then suddenly all the coverage isnt about how three consoles debuted and one was less powerful, its about how Nintendo's Rev games are more fun than a Gears of War video.
Uh, did you mean to reply to my post, or another one?
Umm... how many memorable new characters have made their debut on the Game Cube? As games mature, there become less and less new memorable characters, because games no longer require cartoon mascots. In ten years, who's going to remember who Carl Johnson is? I'd guess not many people, despite the fact that he starred in a hugely successful game.
I didnt say Nintendo debuted any new characters with the Gamecube, I said they had a long line of established characters.
The Xbox has a ton of great games. I'd still take the PS2 catalog over the Xbox catalog, but I'm buying an Xbox 360 because I suspect in the next generation they will have a better catalog. Apart from Halo. Just because Nintendo has more first party titles, does that mean they're more successful? They sure didn't sell more consoles. Excluding the GBA, but that's a different market altogether.
I didnt say that Nintendo was more successful because they have more first party titles, I said... well, i didnt say anything about this at all.
And if the Xbox was such a miserable failure, how about the PS2? The games people will remember from the PS2 era were made by Rockstar and others, not by Sony. How many memorable characters can you name from Sony's IP?
I didnt say the xbox was a failure (or even a miserable one), nor did I say that sony had memorable franchises. in fact, i never mentioned sony.
If you really think MS failed that badly in the console market, you are what is commonly referred to as a dumbass.
I suggest you read posts before you reply to them, lest you look like what is commonly referred to as a dumbass.
1) There are winners and losers: the consumers. Apparently the grandparent thinks he lost when he purchased a PSP. Just curious, but how has Nintendo's complete dominance in the handheld market hurt anyone?
Software is cheap and plentiful, small developers are allowed to participate with cheap dev kits, the hardware is cheap and featureful, and support is better than any other by supporting the entire library of all the handhelds before it (GBA takes GB and GBC while the DS takes GBA).
2) Not to say the DS is free of all dead pixel issues, but it is far less prevelant than on the PSP and Nintendo will replace the DS with any dead pixels.
3) What? So you want a PSP-sized DS with a giant screen cover and a giant touch screen for $130? Good luck with that one. The bottom touch screen and top display screen works perfectly well, and is hardly pointless. Lets see you play Ouendan, Kirby:CC, Meteos, or Yoshi Touch and Go on the PSP. Like it or not, the touchscreen allows people to make games that can never work on the PSP or any other system without a touch interface. Learn to live with it.
4) I have a DS and a PSP, and I can honestly say that the DS is nowhere near a drought. The launch was dead, but it has been rolling for the past few months and shows little chance of slowing down with Castlevania, Mario Kart, and others coming in the next few months.
5) Blah Blah Blah PSP R0XX, DS SI TEH GIMECKY -you're right, it does sound like gamefaqs in here
Nintendo has over twenty years worth of games, consoles, handhelds, toys, characters, and history.
Microsoft has two consoles, one recognizable character, and no history.
I wonder how microsoft will spin that to have something that rival's Nintendo's "store" (it is more like an exciting museum that you can buy stuff in than just a store).
I dont really see why people care so much about multiple disc games. They cost the same as any single-disc game.
Is switching discs after Xhrs of play really a problem?
Nintendo is doing their own version of Live for the DS and ultimately the Revolution (though of course it will all be free). Mario Kart DS is going to be the big plunge into online gaming for Nintendo, and that comes this November. Nintendo hasnt been falling down on the job, they have just been working on making everything work, and for free.
Otherwise, I agree completely. Local Wireless games are damn fun and great things, but this "article" is worthless.
When two products cost a signifigant amount of money and offer similar base capabilities (play games), they may not be in competition with each other, but they are certainly in competition for a customer's money.
I am one of the vast minority that can own both a PSP and a DS and purchase games for both of them.
Most people have a limited budget, and paying $400 for a DS and PSP with only the DS pack-in game to play is not an option.
Most people are going to get one or the other, and that is competition.
Perhaps because Nintendo is working on a FREE online infastructure akin to Live, but as previously mentioned: free.
It is a lot easier, quicker, and cheaper to not have that than to have it. Nintendo chose to have it and not half-ass it in the interrim.
Yes, Sony had free DIY online gaming with the PSP (which is by no means bad), but that is a far cry from what Nintendo was building.
I am not at all a fan of xbox or even Live (I'll stick to the PC for most of my online gaming), but Live set the bar high, and it looks like Nintendo is trying to match it. Sony hasnt, and doesnt seem to care to even try.
When Nintendo and Microsoft have competent online solutions and Sony has nothing, then who seems to have dropped the ball when it comes to online gaming?
I should clarify in that my idea of "tacking-on" means throwing it on at the last moment and spending little to no time testing/tweaking/fixing it. Four to six months is plenty of time to properly execute an online portion of the game.
And like someone said in a previous post, people are angry when a game gets delayed, but then it comes out and they buy it anyway. Most will even be happier with the new final product.
Zelda gets delayed, people complain, they learn it is to add content, the angry mobs are quelled. Same thing in this case.
It is nice to know that the online component isnt being tacked-on in a rush. Of course, Nintendo has never been shy of delaying things (consoles, games, hardware, whatever).
Knowing that they havent been working on the online component this whole time, that gives me a better feeling about the single-player portion of the game. I suppose that is what they have been working on this whole time, and I am quite glad.
It is becoming all too common these days that a game will sacrifice the single-player portion of the game just to add on a fleshed-out online multiplayer portion that people will only play for a week before moving on to the next one.
VHS to DVD: People re-bought their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features
DVD to HD-DVD: People will re-buy their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features
DVD to PSP: People will re-buy their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features -er, I mean
People will not re-by their movies for signifigantly reduced quality and picture size with next to no features.
Sony thinks you want to buy your movies twice because many of us do; enough to create a market for re-releasing everything on DVD now and a HD format later and on whatever is after that. They didnt seem to understand WHY people did it, though: because the new ones are better. The PSP ones arent better. Theyre worse! They cost more! They only play on a PSP!
They give you less for more money and then they lock down the way you can use it. Nice.
I am glad that I got a PSP with the free Spiderman 2 UMD. Otherwise I would have wasted good money on another UMD just to find out I dont want any.
The PSP launched with some strong games like Lumines, Wipeout, Twisted Metal, Ridge Racer, DarkStalkers, and MGS Ac!d. Those and emulators have practically carried the system up until today.
The DS on the other hand, had quite a lackluster launch. Mario64DS was marred with strange controls (Mario64 is one of my favorite games ever, but I just cant play the DS ver), and Ridge Racer was a bust when compared to its PSP brother.
I had no reason to own a DS until the Mario64 bundle came out, but then the deluge of quality titles started to hit.
Kirby Canvas Curse, Meteos, Yoshi Touch and Go, Nintendogs, Advance Wars DS, Nanostray, and Ouendan (import title). Coming soon is Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow, Mario Kart DS, Viewtiful Joe DS, and more.
The PSP started strong, but has what I believe to be a lackluster future library (from what has been announced, and GTA does not interest me). The DS started poorly but has quickly ramped up AAA-title releases since Kirby hit.
Is Sony reacting to generally underwhelming sales (see japanese aug8-aug15 week: 103k DS' sold, 25k PSPs sold) or are they toying with more features to make the PSP worthwhile to a broader range of people?
My PSP sits in my console games cabinet until I want to play Wipeout (which isnt so often anymore), but my DS goes with me everywhere. The web browser in the 2.0 firmware will get me to use the PSP around the house, but I am buying software for the DS and stuck with Wipeout and a few other launch titles for the PSP... Sony might be creating a problem for themselves: People buy PSPs and no software.
I suppose we will see a web browser for the DS eventually. I dont know which I would use for wireless handheld internet (big screen PSP or smaller-but-touchscreen DS), but if Nintendo (or anyone, really) sells it separately, at least they will be making money off of it (not considering the fact that Nintendo profits off every DS and Sony sells at a loss).
People throw around the word "mature" in console gaming more than they do "hardcore gamer" now. I dont think people understand what either mean.
Just because GTA has explicit sex scenes, graphic violence, and copious swearing doesnt make it at all "mature". Hell, most of the crap out there is just plain juvenile. For some reason, people equate GTA and other games of the same nature to equal mature, while games such as Mario are kiddy.
I think the real "mature gamer" is the one that doesnt give a shit about the "image" of the game theyre playing, so long as they have fun, be they a 13-year old or a 50-year old.
I didnt Read the Fancy Article, but I see a lot of people speculating that this company will go under after Nintendo crushes them with their legal might.
Not going to happen, because...
Nintendo's patent on the NES is over. There have always been Famiclones out there, but now we are seeing very nice ones being released. Wonder why? Because they are legal and products companies want to succeed in the face of other Famiclones.
Because some of the biggest and best dev studios are japanese, and if a console is failing in their home country (many times their primary market), they arent going to develop for it.
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Nice trip you took from A to B, there...
I had one typed up, but this is even less worthy of a rebuttal than the post I originally replied to.
Does anyone else have an assumption they wish to base their argument on?
You dared say that Bush did something right on Slashdot, and I dared to publicly agree with you.
That's like, +10 flamebait.
This is fucking pathetic. You (and everyone else being dumbasses about this) need to get your facts straight before you go spouting off anti-christian rhetoric.
He prayed for a vacancy, not for death. And for those who have already replied to this thread: get your heads out of your asses. Ever heard of retirement?
But who am I kidding, most of you dont like Pat Robertson anyway, so go ahead and tell people he prayed to god for a judge to die -youre just playing your part.
+5 flamebait for exposing common sense
Do you have a ridiculous game idea? Throw Donkey Kong in there and suddenly you're sitting on box-sales gold!
and this is bad because...? Nintendo doesnt usually put their big franchise characters on shitty games.
Mario Golf? It was great.
Donkey Konga? Original and very fun.
Soul Calbur II? Link was an appropriate addition (as opposed to Heihachi (sp)).
I will admit that Mario in EA sports games is pretty rediculous, but those are few and far between the numerous great games that get a supposely out of place franchise.
Kotaku has a story up with a firsthand account from a gamer trapped in the flood zone
What the hell? What kind of special insight could someone who plays video games give on the situation??
"...it's like being in an RPG."
Oh. Well... okay...
Some speculate that Nintendo will do their big reveal right after MS's opening keynote at TGS this month. The main idea is to let the initial ps3 and xbox2 hype die down and then have the spotlight solely on them at some point in the road.
If Nintendo does reveal the Rev at TGS, who do you think all the coverage will be on? And since the hardware for the ps3 and xbox2 were revealed at e3, I think Nintendo will debut the Rev with playable games. Then suddenly all the coverage isnt about how three consoles debuted and one was less powerful, its about how Nintendo's Rev games are more fun than a Gears of War video.
The PSP screen is too big and sexy to use it as a 'shut up kids' tool.
Any parent who lets their kids even touch a PSP shouldnt own one or the other.
Uh, did you mean to reply to my post, or another one?
Umm... how many memorable new characters have made their debut on the Game Cube? As games mature, there become less and less new memorable characters, because games no longer require cartoon mascots. In ten years, who's going to remember who Carl Johnson is? I'd guess not many people, despite the fact that he starred in a hugely successful game.
I didnt say Nintendo debuted any new characters with the Gamecube, I said they had a long line of established characters.
The Xbox has a ton of great games. I'd still take the PS2 catalog over the Xbox catalog, but I'm buying an Xbox 360 because I suspect in the next generation they will have a better catalog. Apart from Halo. Just because Nintendo has more first party titles, does that mean they're more successful? They sure didn't sell more consoles. Excluding the GBA, but that's a different market altogether.
I didnt say that Nintendo was more successful because they have more first party titles, I said... well, i didnt say anything about this at all.
And if the Xbox was such a miserable failure, how about the PS2? The games people will remember from the PS2 era were made by Rockstar and others, not by Sony. How many memorable characters can you name from Sony's IP?
I didnt say the xbox was a failure (or even a miserable one), nor did I say that sony had memorable franchises. in fact, i never mentioned sony.
If you really think MS failed that badly in the console market, you are what is commonly referred to as a dumbass.
I suggest you read posts before you reply to them, lest you look like what is commonly referred to as a dumbass.
1) There are winners and losers: the consumers. Apparently the grandparent thinks he lost when he purchased a PSP.
Just curious, but how has Nintendo's complete dominance in the handheld market hurt anyone?
Software is cheap and plentiful, small developers are allowed to participate with cheap dev kits, the hardware is cheap and featureful, and support is better than any other by supporting the entire library of all the handhelds before it (GBA takes GB and GBC while the DS takes GBA).
2) Not to say the DS is free of all dead pixel issues, but it is far less prevelant than on the PSP and Nintendo will replace the DS with any dead pixels.
3) What? So you want a PSP-sized DS with a giant screen cover and a giant touch screen for $130? Good luck with that one.
The bottom touch screen and top display screen works perfectly well, and is hardly pointless. Lets see you play Ouendan, Kirby:CC, Meteos, or Yoshi Touch and Go on the PSP. Like it or not, the touchscreen allows people to make games that can never work on the PSP or any other system without a touch interface. Learn to live with it.
4) I have a DS and a PSP, and I can honestly say that the DS is nowhere near a drought. The launch was dead, but it has been rolling for the past few months and shows little chance of slowing down with Castlevania, Mario Kart, and others coming in the next few months.
5) Blah Blah Blah PSP R0XX, DS SI TEH GIMECKY -you're right, it does sound like gamefaqs in here
What would the Xbox store even have in it??
Nintendo has over twenty years worth of games, consoles, handhelds, toys, characters, and history.
Microsoft has two consoles, one recognizable character, and no history.
I wonder how microsoft will spin that to have something that rival's Nintendo's "store" (it is more like an exciting museum that you can buy stuff in than just a store).
I dont really see why people care so much about multiple disc games. They cost the same as any single-disc game.
Is switching discs after Xhrs of play really a problem?
Seriously, who needs another distibution with a weird name? Linux? Wha?
I'll stick with Debian.
Nintendo is doing their own version of Live for the DS and ultimately the Revolution (though of course it will all be free). Mario Kart DS is going to be the big plunge into online gaming for Nintendo, and that comes this November. Nintendo hasnt been falling down on the job, they have just been working on making everything work, and for free.
Otherwise, I agree completely. Local Wireless games are damn fun and great things, but this "article" is worthless.
I disagree completely with this
When two products cost a signifigant amount of money and offer similar base capabilities (play games), they may not be in competition with each other, but they are certainly in competition for a customer's money. I am one of the vast minority that can own both a PSP and a DS and purchase games for both of them.
Most people have a limited budget, and paying $400 for a DS and PSP with only the DS pack-in game to play is not an option.
Most people are going to get one or the other, and that is competition.
Perhaps because Nintendo is working on a FREE online infastructure akin to Live, but as previously mentioned: free.
It is a lot easier, quicker, and cheaper to not have that than to have it. Nintendo chose to have it and not half-ass it in the interrim.
Yes, Sony had free DIY online gaming with the PSP (which is by no means bad), but that is a far cry from what Nintendo was building.
I am not at all a fan of xbox or even Live (I'll stick to the PC for most of my online gaming), but Live set the bar high, and it looks like Nintendo is trying to match it. Sony hasnt, and doesnt seem to care to even try.
When Nintendo and Microsoft have competent online solutions and Sony has nothing, then who seems to have dropped the ball when it comes to online gaming?
Zonk news day: when everything is news (Every Monday through Monday)
I should clarify in that my idea of "tacking-on" means throwing it on at the last moment and spending little to no time testing/tweaking/fixing it. Four to six months is plenty of time to properly execute an online portion of the game.
And like someone said in a previous post, people are angry when a game gets delayed, but then it comes out and they buy it anyway. Most will even be happier with the new final product.
Zelda gets delayed, people complain, they learn it is to add content, the angry mobs are quelled. Same thing in this case.
It is nice to know that the online component isnt being tacked-on in a rush. Of course, Nintendo has never been shy of delaying things (consoles, games, hardware, whatever).
Knowing that they havent been working on the online component this whole time, that gives me a better feeling about the single-player portion of the game. I suppose that is what they have been working on this whole time, and I am quite glad.
It is becoming all too common these days that a game will sacrifice the single-player portion of the game just to add on a fleshed-out online multiplayer portion that people will only play for a week before moving on to the next one.
VHS to DVD: People re-bought their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features
DVD to HD-DVD: People will re-buy their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features
DVD to PSP: People will re-buy their movies for signifigantly increased quality and features -er, I mean
People will not re-by their movies for signifigantly reduced quality and picture size with next to no features.
Sony thinks you want to buy your movies twice because many of us do; enough to create a market for re-releasing everything on DVD now and a HD format later and on whatever is after that. They didnt seem to understand WHY people did it, though: because the new ones are better. The PSP ones arent better. Theyre worse! They cost more! They only play on a PSP!
They give you less for more money and then they lock down the way you can use it. Nice.
I am glad that I got a PSP with the free Spiderman 2 UMD. Otherwise I would have wasted good money on another UMD just to find out I dont want any.
I think it is backwards here:
The PSP launched with some strong games like Lumines, Wipeout, Twisted Metal, Ridge Racer, DarkStalkers, and MGS Ac!d. Those and emulators have practically carried the system up until today.
The DS on the other hand, had quite a lackluster launch. Mario64DS was marred with strange controls (Mario64 is one of my favorite games ever, but I just cant play the DS ver), and Ridge Racer was a bust when compared to its PSP brother.
I had no reason to own a DS until the Mario64 bundle came out, but then the deluge of quality titles started to hit.
Kirby Canvas Curse, Meteos, Yoshi Touch and Go, Nintendogs, Advance Wars DS, Nanostray, and Ouendan (import title). Coming soon is Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow, Mario Kart DS, Viewtiful Joe DS, and more.
The PSP started strong, but has what I believe to be a lackluster future library (from what has been announced, and GTA does not interest me). The DS started poorly but has quickly ramped up AAA-title releases since Kirby hit.
Is Sony reacting to generally underwhelming sales (see japanese aug8-aug15 week: 103k DS' sold, 25k PSPs sold) or are they toying with more features to make the PSP worthwhile to a broader range of people?
My PSP sits in my console games cabinet until I want to play Wipeout (which isnt so often anymore), but my DS goes with me everywhere. The web browser in the 2.0 firmware will get me to use the PSP around the house, but I am buying software for the DS and stuck with Wipeout and a few other launch titles for the PSP... Sony might be creating a problem for themselves: People buy PSPs and no software.
I suppose we will see a web browser for the DS eventually. I dont know which I would use for wireless handheld internet (big screen PSP or smaller-but-touchscreen DS), but if Nintendo (or anyone, really) sells it separately, at least they will be making money off of it (not considering the fact that Nintendo profits off every DS and Sony sells at a loss).
Think:
"To believe; suppose"
It's called an opinion, and there are still some people out there that have them. Learn to deal with it.
People throw around the word "mature" in console gaming more than they do "hardcore gamer" now. I dont think people understand what either mean.
Just because GTA has explicit sex scenes, graphic violence, and copious swearing doesnt make it at all "mature". Hell, most of the crap out there is just plain juvenile. For some reason, people equate GTA and other games of the same nature to equal mature, while games such as Mario are kiddy.
I think the real "mature gamer" is the one that doesnt give a shit about the "image" of the game theyre playing, so long as they have fun, be they a 13-year old or a 50-year old.
I didnt Read the Fancy Article, but I see a lot of people speculating that this company will go under after Nintendo crushes them with their legal might.
Not going to happen, because...
Nintendo's patent on the NES is over. There have always been Famiclones out there, but now we are seeing very nice ones being released. Wonder why? Because they are legal and products companies want to succeed in the face of other Famiclones.
Because some of the biggest and best dev studios are japanese, and if a console is failing in their home country (many times their primary market), they arent going to develop for it.