If Sony does not have a major visit from the Fuck Up Fairy, then yes, they would be the most likely winner in the 8th generation video games arena. If they falter though, the winners in the 8th generation arena will be the 7th generation consoles.
I will eventually get a Wii-U when they start showing up cheap and used. At the very least, that looks like it would be my only good option for the upcoming DuckTales remake. Not doing XBox Live or PSN, so the Wii-U is the proverbial It.
Good thing I just recently got my first 360. Bare console was $25 at Goodwill (Other components I had gathered over the past year add about another $15 or so to the cost.) Console had RRoD, but I was able to easily fix that using a hair dryer and a little bit of fresh thermal paste.
More than enough games just from the 360 alone to last me a lifetime. So far, got Mass Effect, Rumble Roses XX, Orange Box, Ninety Nine Nights, and a few others that I can't recall off the top of my head; all purchased used and relatively cheap (except Rumble Roses. Went ahead and splurged the $20 for that on the 'bay).
Combining that with the original XBox, PS2, PS1, Wii (to include the Gamecube library), Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, Super NES, NES, GBA SP (and the GBC and GB library), Lynx, and Game Gear, I have enough titles to pick and choose from to last several lifetimes.
Now to try to unlock the secret to immortality so I can experience them all. Well, not complete immortality, just a few thousand years would be sufficient. It would get extremely boring being around after the universe goes to heat death, or big rip, or big crunch, or whatever its ultimate fate is.
It costs me about $24 to fill my humble little Metro (I usually fill it when it's at the 1/4 tank mark). And I typically fill every other week, or every week and a half, depending on how busy I am. If I were to fill from completely empty, then it would be around $32 a shot.
Why wasn't there national coverage of the march on Washington about GMO foods? Because most USians don't give a shit as long as the food tastes good, and there is plenty of it.
Or perhaps there is the possibility that Monsanto and any other groups involved in development of GMO foods have enough political and financial power to make providing any significant amount of coverage a bad choice for any of the major news outlets?
If you don't like it, start writing and calling all politicians. Have your friends and family do it, also. Have their friends and family do it. If enough people did it, it would be passed in two weeks. Screw corporate America, its time to take back Govt for the People by the People.
Don't forget to toss a couple million greenbacks in the envelope with your letter. And make sure your friends and family and their friends and family each toss i a couple million as well.
Google could step up and offer to pay him what PayPal is refusing to pay out (or more) in exchange for the information. Then they can look over the material and ensure that the same problems don't exist in their code for Google Wallet/Google Checkout/Google Whatever it is called these days.
Is paying out a bounty on bugs actually like a contest with cash prizes, or is it like receiving cash for recyclables? I take a look at a soda can and see something to the effect of "Oregon refund value: 5 cents". There is no language on the can stating that you must be at least 18 to receive that nickel. Redeeming found bugs in software seems no different (except in the cash value) than redeeming aluminum and glass for cash.
The flu to watch out for will be one discovered to be carried by wolves. You will know it by the symptoms of the wolves' eyes getting all weepy and the infected wolves whimpering and crying constantly. It will be quite ironic that the flu that will finally get us will be the Crying Wolf Flu that everyone will ignore due to so many alarmist warnings of other strains of flu over the years that ended up not being such a big worldwide threat after all.
It's always cool hearing about something like this fetching such a high price. The original Apple computer is somewhat of a holy grail among those of us who like these sort of things.
However, the knowledge that there are so few known to exist, the knowledge that most of those are accounted for, and the knowledge that the odds of one of these turning up in a thrift store, donated by some clueless mom who has no idea what it is, priced by some clueless worker who has no idea what it is, and passed up by other clueless shoppers who think that the people doing their pricing must be passing around some good weed to think that this old bare circuit board apparently from some broken Mac would be priced at $15 to $20, are pretty much zero, makes my inner Jawa sad.;)
Nintendo is also the most profitable company per employee. With only ~5000 employees they can afford a poor selling console easily.
I predict PS4 "wins" this round but no one wins overall (esp the consumer) and Steambox and/or PC will make a resurgence... just not enough to really put it on the map.
With the craptacular experience it sounds like the XBox One will provide, and the lackluster performance of the Wii U (don't have enough info on the PS4), I am predicting that the winner of the 8th Generation consoles will be the 7th generation consoles, as people decide that the 8th gen stuff just isn't worth it, and that their PS3s, 360s, and Wiis still have several years of life left in them, what with such large libraries of quality titles to play through. And Generation 6 will be a close second place, as there is another huge treasure trove of fine games to enjoy for years to come.
You have kids and were in grade school when the original Playstation was fresh? Geez. I feel really old now.
Nice to see I'm not the only one who had that reaction. When I think about video games back in grade school, that would be Pong, followed by the dedicated Atari Video Pinball console, and then finally the beloved Atari 2600 (and then the TI-99/4a in high school).
No problems with Wiimote in my family, except for the one or two we wore out. That's my biggest complaint about the Wii: the motion controls start out okay/good, but they degrade with use, to the point that you almost have to treat them as a consumable.
My only major problem with the Wiimote has been when I try to use my bluetooth wireless headphones while using the Wii. Bluetooth devices seem to interfere horribly with the Wiimote. Hand gestures in the DDR games not registering, scores at Rhythm Kung Fu and similar activities in Wii Fit Plus suddenly dropping from nearly perfect to total noob, etc. After turning off the earphones and transmitter, things go back to normal. And I still have not found any way to fix that problem other than not using the earphones while playing games on the Wii.
It's not the conversions that are problematic. The problem is that there are still too many of us who have a much easier time envisioning an imperial measurement as opposed to a metric measurement. As useful as the Metric system is, I still find it easier to picture a mile than a kilometer. I know how it feels to lift a 10 pound item, but 10 kg doesn't mean much to me. To me, 100 degrees would describe a typical mid summer day in Eastern Washington or Eastern Oregon, for those of us who are immersed in the Fahrenheit temperature, and 98.6 degrees sounds perfectly normal. But it's mind blowing to think that those temperatures are considered too fucking hot for Humanity under the Celsius scale.
The one aspect that I did fairly easily adjust to is volume though, mostly because a liter is not too far off from a quart.
I propose we all switch to the Unwashed Masses system of measurements, with units such as the buttload, assload, shitload, crapload, fuckload, slew, fuckton, smidgen, jiffy, shebang, etc.
Not sure what Mother Theresa would print. But I do know it would not be condoms or any sort of birth control devices for the impoverished masses in the Third World countries she worked in.
Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!
It would have been even better if they had not immediately killed off Koori.
And it would have been awesome incarnate if they had simply done the bloody obvious as the basis for the second seasons of both Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica.
Yeah, I agree. Porting the game might not be much of an issue but like you mentioned the consumer will have to re-purchase the game, which will be an issue for most.
The consumers (aka, the mindless bleating masses) may repurchase all of their games, but the customers, the ones who are able to make intelligent decisions instead of just blindly accepting everything their corporate overlords throw at them, would just hang on to their 360 consoles in order to play their 360 games, and only purchase new titles for this new system, if they decide they want it.
Any word yet on if Microsoft is still going ahead with the plan to tie each purchased game to a single console, preventing a used games market from arising? If that happens, then the intelligent customers will avoid this console like the plague, and either go with the competition, or go without (aka, stay with their old systems and the huge library of games out there that can last them several lifetimes)?
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If Sony does not have a major visit from the Fuck Up Fairy, then yes, they would be the most likely winner in the 8th generation video games arena. If they falter though, the winners in the 8th generation arena will be the 7th generation consoles.
Huh? I thought to help repair their evil image, Sony announced that they are not going to be like Microsoft in the used games department?
I will eventually get a Wii-U when they start showing up cheap and used. At the very least, that looks like it would be my only good option for the upcoming DuckTales remake. Not doing XBox Live or PSN, so the Wii-U is the proverbial It.
Good thing I just recently got my first 360. Bare console was $25 at Goodwill (Other components I had gathered over the past year add about another $15 or so to the cost.) Console had RRoD, but I was able to easily fix that using a hair dryer and a little bit of fresh thermal paste.
More than enough games just from the 360 alone to last me a lifetime. So far, got Mass Effect, Rumble Roses XX, Orange Box, Ninety Nine Nights, and a few others that I can't recall off the top of my head; all purchased used and relatively cheap (except Rumble Roses. Went ahead and splurged the $20 for that on the 'bay).
Combining that with the original XBox, PS2, PS1, Wii (to include the Gamecube library), Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, Super NES, NES, GBA SP (and the GBC and GB library), Lynx, and Game Gear, I have enough titles to pick and choose from to last several lifetimes.
Now to try to unlock the secret to immortality so I can experience them all. Well, not complete immortality, just a few thousand years would be sufficient. It would get extremely boring being around after the universe goes to heat death, or big rip, or big crunch, or whatever its ultimate fate is.
It costs me about $24 to fill my humble little Metro (I usually fill it when it's at the 1/4 tank mark). And I typically fill every other week, or every week and a half, depending on how busy I am. If I were to fill from completely empty, then it would be around $32 a shot.
Why wasn't there national coverage of the march on Washington about GMO foods? Because most USians don't give a shit as long as the food tastes good, and there is plenty of it.
Or perhaps there is the possibility that Monsanto and any other groups involved in development of GMO foods have enough political and financial power to make providing any significant amount of coverage a bad choice for any of the major news outlets?
If you don't like it, start writing and calling all politicians. Have your friends and family do it, also. Have their friends and family do it. If enough people did it, it would be passed in two weeks. Screw corporate America, its time to take back Govt for the People by the People.
Don't forget to toss a couple million greenbacks in the envelope with your letter. And make sure your friends and family and their friends and family each toss i a couple million as well.
We'll have to wheat and see what their report says...
Then he was killed by a thresher.
Isn't that the penalty for gluteny?
Based on the new direction of Switchboard, do you prefer chocolate, strawberry of vanilla shakes?
Yes.
No, your fat makes you look fat.
Aha! I think we have now positively identified Anonymous Coward as Al Bundy.
Google could step up and offer to pay him what PayPal is refusing to pay out (or more) in exchange for the information. Then they can look over the material and ensure that the same problems don't exist in their code for Google Wallet/Google Checkout/Google Whatever it is called these days.
Is paying out a bounty on bugs actually like a contest with cash prizes, or is it like receiving cash for recyclables? I take a look at a soda can and see something to the effect of "Oregon refund value: 5 cents". There is no language on the can stating that you must be at least 18 to receive that nickel. Redeeming found bugs in software seems no different (except in the cash value) than redeeming aluminum and glass for cash.
The flu to watch out for will be one discovered to be carried by wolves. You will know it by the symptoms of the wolves' eyes getting all weepy and the infected wolves whimpering and crying constantly. It will be quite ironic that the flu that will finally get us will be the Crying Wolf Flu that everyone will ignore due to so many alarmist warnings of other strains of flu over the years that ended up not being such a big worldwide threat after all.
It's always cool hearing about something like this fetching such a high price. The original Apple computer is somewhat of a holy grail among those of us who like these sort of things.
However, the knowledge that there are so few known to exist, the knowledge that most of those are accounted for, and the knowledge that the odds of one of these turning up in a thrift store, donated by some clueless mom who has no idea what it is, priced by some clueless worker who has no idea what it is, and passed up by other clueless shoppers who think that the people doing their pricing must be passing around some good weed to think that this old bare circuit board apparently from some broken Mac would be priced at $15 to $20, are pretty much zero, makes my inner Jawa sad. ;)
668: The Neighbor of the Beast.
Are you referring to that smokin' hot succubus of a girl next door?
Nintendo is also the most profitable company per employee. With only ~5000 employees they can afford a poor selling console easily.
I predict PS4 "wins" this round but no one wins overall (esp the consumer) and Steambox and/or PC will make a resurgence... just not enough to really put it on the map.
With the craptacular experience it sounds like the XBox One will provide, and the lackluster performance of the Wii U (don't have enough info on the PS4), I am predicting that the winner of the 8th Generation consoles will be the 7th generation consoles, as people decide that the 8th gen stuff just isn't worth it, and that their PS3s, 360s, and Wiis still have several years of life left in them, what with such large libraries of quality titles to play through. And Generation 6 will be a close second place, as there is another huge treasure trove of fine games to enjoy for years to come.
just like I did in grade school
You have kids and were in grade school when the original Playstation was fresh? Geez. I feel really old now.
Nice to see I'm not the only one who had that reaction. When I think about video games back in grade school, that would be Pong, followed by the dedicated Atari Video Pinball console, and then finally the beloved Atari 2600 (and then the TI-99/4a in high school).
No problems with Wiimote in my family, except for the one or two we wore out. That's my biggest complaint about the Wii: the motion controls start out okay/good, but they degrade with use, to the point that you almost have to treat them as a consumable.
My only major problem with the Wiimote has been when I try to use my bluetooth wireless headphones while using the Wii. Bluetooth devices seem to interfere horribly with the Wiimote. Hand gestures in the DDR games not registering, scores at Rhythm Kung Fu and similar activities in Wii Fit Plus suddenly dropping from nearly perfect to total noob, etc. After turning off the earphones and transmitter, things go back to normal. And I still have not found any way to fix that problem other than not using the earphones while playing games on the Wii.
It's not the conversions that are problematic. The problem is that there are still too many of us who have a much easier time envisioning an imperial measurement as opposed to a metric measurement. As useful as the Metric system is, I still find it easier to picture a mile than a kilometer. I know how it feels to lift a 10 pound item, but 10 kg doesn't mean much to me. To me, 100 degrees would describe a typical mid summer day in Eastern Washington or Eastern Oregon, for those of us who are immersed in the Fahrenheit temperature, and 98.6 degrees sounds perfectly normal. But it's mind blowing to think that those temperatures are considered too fucking hot for Humanity under the Celsius scale.
The one aspect that I did fairly easily adjust to is volume though, mostly because a liter is not too far off from a quart.
I propose we all switch to the Unwashed Masses system of measurements, with units such as the buttload, assload, shitload, crapload, fuckload, slew, fuckton, smidgen, jiffy, shebang, etc.
In later years, Gandhi would actually print up some kickass weaponry, then go party and have a steak...medium rare.
Not sure what Mother Theresa would print. But I do know it would not be condoms or any sort of birth control devices for the impoverished masses in the Third World countries she worked in.
Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!
At least Buck Rogers in the second season had Hawk, and what was The Most Awesome Figtrer Ship Ever.
It would have been even better if they had not immediately killed off Koori.
And it would have been awesome incarnate if they had simply done the bloody obvious as the basis for the second seasons of both Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica.
This makes me wonder what you guys do in your living room to be concerned about the slim possibility YOUR Xbox camera may be hacked.
I believe the correct answer to that is, " No matter what they are doing in their own private space, it is none of your fucking business."
They are just bound and determined to make sure this console is stillborn at release.
Yeah, I agree. Porting the game might not be much of an issue but like you mentioned the consumer will have to re-purchase the game, which will be an issue for most.
The consumers (aka, the mindless bleating masses) may repurchase all of their games, but the customers, the ones who are able to make intelligent decisions instead of just blindly accepting everything their corporate overlords throw at them, would just hang on to their 360 consoles in order to play their 360 games, and only purchase new titles for this new system, if they decide they want it.
Any word yet on if Microsoft is still going ahead with the plan to tie each purchased game to a single console, preventing a used games market from arising? If that happens, then the intelligent customers will avoid this console like the plague, and either go with the competition, or go without (aka, stay with their old systems and the huge library of games out there that can last them several lifetimes)?
Best initial post ever.