The developer might never see a penny from this deal, as the fact that they have spoken out against it suggests.
And the reason why most Movie tie-ins suck is because they are developed hastily to time with movie releases and commissioned by the rights-holders. This game is from a 25 year old movie and started by game developers.
This is very different. Bioshock for example was originally developed as a 360 game, which was later ported to the PS3, by a different developer. This is a situation where the games are finished, one month before release, and Sony decides they want to screw european gamers. And it's the regional nature too. If Sony had managed to secure a worldwide deal, I might have more understanding. But selectively screwing european gamers is just very poor.
I never heard anyone praising cash-buyout exclusivity, apart from Sony fans defending screwy deals like this one.
Not with integrated evaluation. That makes the difference of having one chip instead of at least two. Your facts are also wrong about the axis. As another poster pointed out, it's merely a matter of mounting them differently. And the dual-axis chip in the Wii senses the x-y axes, not x-z.
Cost, power and size. Having two axes and signal evaluation on one chip will effectively cut the cost by about a third and drastically simplify the design.
Microcontrollers don't offer anything that can't be done with destinct components, but they what they can much better.
But we're nowhere NEAR that argument yet. State of the art movie-quality CG is still not quite there, and you are talking rendering times of hours per frame, not frames per second.
That has to do with the rendering technologies used by film studios, and the fact that rendering times are no issue whatsoever. IMO the static-image fidelity is almost perfect. That's why screenshots and concept renders look so awesome. But Motion is an entirely different issue. If the haracters move like puppets it will completely destroy the impressive effects you may have created with high resolution and polys. Nowdays it lies much more in the hand of the 3d modellers than in the capabilities of the hardware. That's why some six year old videogames can still impress, wheras the same wasn't true at the time.
I've had issues, mainly inconvinience. There is no way to properly save some settings, things will automatically reset, dual output is messy, and I have to go through a whole checklist of settings to set it up for watching a movie from my couch. And that's on their main Windows driver, never mind the situation on Linux. Serves me right I guess for thinking I could set up a Mythbox for my TV without having to write my own drivers.
That describes almost every game to date, so I wouldn't consider it a defining feature. Games that don't have soft learning curves or difficulty settings are simply inaccessible and badly designed. Most "hardcore" games can be easily picked up by beginners and completed.
The most use of the word I've seen has been a new way to describe party games and cheap or licensed shovelware. To me this whole "casual trend" is a myth. We've had movie-tie-ins and we've had party games for a pretty long time, and they've always been the money-maker in the business. Just because Nintendo has had huge success with Wii Sports and Wii Fit doesn't mean the entire industry is heading downhill. Most developers an publishers just took a wrong bet (PS3 and 360) and are reacting unbelievably slow to tap in on the huge market for the Wii.
Okay, this is now getting very social-philosophical. So I'm not going to poke around at your numerous false assumptions. What I stated was that sales tax is effectively regressive.
As for the proportion of money..at a level of existing...that just doesn't matter any more man. So what if it is less proportionally, why should that matter at all as an argument?
Um, that was the whole argument. Sales tax is regressive. Without other forms of taxation the system would be much unfairer.
Your assumption actually proves you're not experienced in the matter. It's actually quite the opposite. Rich people aren't generally affected by sales tax. That's because rich people generally put their money into real estate or invest in shares. Proportionally they use much less on living than the less wealthy do. That's why sales tax is highly regressive. It's a little far fetched to claim that lower classes only pay for food and rent. They also spend their money on consumer goods like TVs and computers, furniture, household equipment, cars and not least leisure and going out, all of which is hurt by sales tax. For rich people all of this is mere pennies.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all videoa content I've come across has been either FLV or H264 video embedded in a flash file. It hasn't implemented agressive DRM, so you can still download the videos directly. Is there any method of encryption for flash video? If not, this seems to me a waste of time when the media companies should be heavily investing in providing a universal Video-on-demand service.
The problem is that there is a vast imbalance in the work involved in trading original work and a copy, while the result is the same. Basically copying is free. That gives the creator one customer and ruins the chance of subsequent sales.
Because Nintendo built it's business on locked-down hardware. Every other gaming console so far has done it. It's the business model.
And sorry to disappoint you early, but becoming an official developer is tedious and expensive. And it is intended for commercial companies. More info here
Do you really think 2MP is going to get much out of a tiny CMOS sensor with a static plastic lens and a focal length of a couple of millimeters?
Also light sensetivity is an issue. Many phones perform extremely poorly in low-light conditions. This would be worse for the intended uses of the DSi. Using a lower resolution sensor helps.
Well that seems logical. If it aint broke, don't fix it. If they need newer feature, they can choose products which offer them. If people consider the cost/benefit from switching, surely that's better than believing in the inevitability of a Windows upgrade.
Today we are all printers. The market for copies has ended.
Our economy is more dependant on intellectual property more than ever. Until someone finds a better way to incentivise and reward copyable work we will have to stick with copyright monopolies.
The idea that all businesses could get by with advertising and donations is simple delusion. If people are really convinced of their theory then it should be easy enough for them to resist the mass media content produced by copyright-abusing corporations.
Arctic Ice melts is a very dynamic system and much is replaced in the following winter. It doesn't matter much either way, because about 90% of floating ice's volume is below water, thus sea ice (arctic) only contributes 10% of it's volume to sea level rise. Continental Ice OTOH is a different matter.
Most estimates don't account for melting of continental Ice (Antarctic). That is because most expect the antarctic climate to be stable. The observed melting of Ice is worse than the estimates suggested by climate models. This causes concern that the antarctic climate could be much more dynamic than we think.
A change in the climate of Antarctica could lead to large amounts of continental ice melting, which would lead to sea level rises much more than a couple of feet.
Considering the budgets that newer games have, compared to what NES games cost to make, you're getting a fucking great deal.
In terms of raw sales, the gaming market hasn't had that much growth since the late 1980s, certainly not enough to offset the exponential increase in development costs. That's where all the money goes. The cost of the physical medium is and always was almost negligible.
The comparison is flawed. If his main goal is to try to match the specs as much as possible, it's no surprise that he won't be getting the best deal. Most Apple apologists seem to suffer from this basic error. Laptops are usually sold "as-is". The fact that you can often add a larger capacity hard drive of more RAM is usually a convenient way for the retailers to make easy money. If you shop around and compare models from different retailers (SONY HP DELL and LENEVO definately are not the best place to look) you will probably find a much better deal.
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The developer might never see a penny from this deal, as the fact that they have spoken out against it suggests.
And the reason why most Movie tie-ins suck is because they are developed hastily to time with movie releases and commissioned by the rights-holders. This game is from a 25 year old movie and started by game developers.
This is very different. Bioshock for example was originally developed as a 360 game, which was later ported to the PS3, by a different developer. This is a situation where the games are finished, one month before release, and Sony decides they want to screw european gamers.
And it's the regional nature too. If Sony had managed to secure a worldwide deal, I might have more understanding. But selectively screwing european gamers is just very poor.
I never heard anyone praising cash-buyout exclusivity, apart from Sony fans defending screwy deals like this one.
Not with integrated evaluation. That makes the difference of having one chip instead of at least two.
Your facts are also wrong about the axis. As another poster pointed out, it's merely a matter of mounting them differently. And the dual-axis chip in the Wii senses the x-y axes, not x-z.
http://www.invensense.com/applications/gaming/gaming.html
That's actually an accelerometer.
This device is the first to implement multiple gyros on one chip.
Cost, power and size. Having two axes and signal evaluation on one chip will effectively cut the cost by about a third and drastically simplify the design.
Microcontrollers don't offer anything that can't be done with destinct components, but they what they can much better.
This product is the one that the Wii Motion+ uses. They actually unveiled it a year ago when Nintendo showed off the device at the E3.
But we're nowhere NEAR that argument yet. State of the art movie-quality CG is still not quite there, and you are talking rendering times of hours per frame, not frames per second.
That has to do with the rendering technologies used by film studios, and the fact that rendering times are no issue whatsoever.
IMO the static-image fidelity is almost perfect. That's why screenshots and concept renders look so awesome. But Motion is an entirely different issue. If the haracters move like puppets it will completely destroy the impressive effects you may have created with high resolution and polys.
Nowdays it lies much more in the hand of the 3d modellers than in the capabilities of the hardware. That's why some six year old videogames can still impress, wheras the same wasn't true at the time.
I've had issues, mainly inconvinience. There is no way to properly save some settings, things will automatically reset, dual output is messy, and I have to go through a whole checklist of settings to set it up for watching a movie from my couch. And that's on their main Windows driver, never mind the situation on Linux.
Serves me right I guess for thinking I could set up a Mythbox for my TV without having to write my own drivers.
Um, they have.
That describes almost every game to date, so I wouldn't consider it a defining feature. Games that don't have soft learning curves or difficulty settings are simply inaccessible and badly designed.
Most "hardcore" games can be easily picked up by beginners and completed.
The most use of the word I've seen has been a new way to describe party games and cheap or licensed shovelware. To me this whole "casual trend" is a myth. We've had movie-tie-ins and we've had party games for a pretty long time, and they've always been the money-maker in the business. Just because Nintendo has had huge success with Wii Sports and Wii Fit doesn't mean the entire industry is heading downhill. Most developers an publishers just took a wrong bet (PS3 and 360) and are reacting unbelievably slow to tap in on the huge market for the Wii.
Okay, this is now getting very social-philosophical. So I'm not going to poke around at your numerous false assumptions.
What I stated was that sales tax is effectively regressive.
As for the proportion of money..at a level of existing...that just doesn't matter any more man. So what if it is less proportionally, why should that matter at all as an argument?
Um, that was the whole argument. Sales tax is regressive. Without other forms of taxation the system would be much unfairer.
Your assumption actually proves you're not experienced in the matter.
It's actually quite the opposite. Rich people aren't generally affected by sales tax. That's because rich people generally put their money into real estate or invest in shares. Proportionally they use much less on living than the less wealthy do. That's why sales tax is highly regressive.
It's a little far fetched to claim that lower classes only pay for food and rent. They also spend their money on consumer goods like TVs and computers, furniture, household equipment, cars and not least leisure and going out, all of which is hurt by sales tax. For rich people all of this is mere pennies.
Just out of interest, but what year is your powerbook? I've often been underwhelmed by the capabilities of HD "capable" hardware.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all videoa content I've come across has been either FLV or H264 video embedded in a flash file. It hasn't implemented agressive DRM, so you can still download the videos directly.
Is there any method of encryption for flash video? If not, this seems to me a waste of time when the media companies should be heavily investing in providing a universal Video-on-demand service.
The problem is that there is a vast imbalance in the work involved in trading original work and a copy, while the result is the same. Basically copying is free. That gives the creator one customer and ruins the chance of subsequent sales.
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Because Nintendo built it's business on locked-down hardware. Every other gaming console so far has done it. It's the business model.
And sorry to disappoint you early, but becoming an official developer is tedious and expensive. And it is intended for commercial companies. More info here
Do you really think 2MP is going to get much out of a tiny CMOS sensor with a static plastic lens and a focal length of a couple of millimeters?
Also light sensetivity is an issue. Many phones perform extremely poorly in low-light conditions. This would be worse for the intended uses of the DSi. Using a lower resolution sensor helps.
Well that seems logical. If it aint broke, don't fix it. If they need newer feature, they can choose products which offer them.
If people consider the cost/benefit from switching, surely that's better than believing in the inevitability of a Windows upgrade.
Today we are all printers. The market for copies has ended.
Our economy is more dependant on intellectual property more than ever. Until someone finds a better way to incentivise and reward copyable work we will have to stick with copyright monopolies.
The idea that all businesses could get by with advertising and donations is simple delusion. If people are really convinced of their theory then it should be easy enough for them to resist the mass media content produced by copyright-abusing corporations.
Arctic Ice melts is a very dynamic system and much is replaced in the following winter. It doesn't matter much either way, because about 90% of floating ice's volume is below water, thus sea ice (arctic) only contributes 10% of it's volume to sea level rise. Continental Ice OTOH is a different matter.
Most estimates don't account for melting of continental Ice (Antarctic). That is because most expect the antarctic climate to be stable. The observed melting of Ice is worse than the estimates suggested by climate models.
This causes concern that the antarctic climate could be much more dynamic than we think.
A change in the climate of Antarctica could lead to large amounts of continental ice melting, which would lead to sea level rises much more than a couple of feet.
Considering the budgets that newer games have, compared to what NES games cost to make, you're getting a fucking great deal.
In terms of raw sales, the gaming market hasn't had that much growth since the late 1980s, certainly not enough to offset the exponential increase in development costs. That's where all the money goes. The cost of the physical medium is and always was almost negligible.
The comparison is flawed. If his main goal is to try to match the specs as much as possible, it's no surprise that he won't be getting the best deal.
Most Apple apologists seem to suffer from this basic error.
Laptops are usually sold "as-is". The fact that you can often add a larger capacity hard drive of more RAM is usually a convenient way for the retailers to make easy money. If you shop around and compare models from different retailers (SONY HP DELL and LENEVO definately are not the best place to look) you will probably find a much better deal.
How the hell is styrofoam better than wax paper? Wax paper doesn't even com close. I mean, it's just wax and paper.