While I understand your opinion (it's nice to at least have something to read while the game installs), I assume you're not someone who buys a lot of games. I mean ~20 a year.
You can always fold your game boxes flat if you really need to save space. Most game boxes can be folded & unfolded without damaging them.
I prefer having something tangible when I buy software; a nice box, manual, and disk. I don't care what any shrinkwrap license says: I own this software when I buy it, and the physical nature of it is what makes it my property.
Good riddance with both, I suppose, as games will be either less expensive or better produced without the middlemen of publishers and retailers both taking a cut.
If you think programs would get significantly cheaper if they stopped selling them in boxes and made you download them instead, you're dreaming.
In corporate America, the savings made by cutting costs trickles down in this order: CEO's yacht -> upper management bonuses -> middle management bonuses -> wage increase for real workers -> reduced cost for consumers.
Yes, I'm cynical. I've seen enough of this crap in my life.
I wept after playing a few seconds of the first level of Medal of Honor: Frontline. It was such a moving simulation of what our forefathers went through in WWII.
they could followup with a lawsuit against the keyboard manufacturers for including not one but two shift keys
With the stupidity levels of judges as they are today, I can actually see it working.
"Your honor, there is no question that a shift key is necessary to allow the user to quickly and easily capitalize the odd letter, but was the motivation behind the second shift button?...
Thousands of years of development went into cylinrical things we have to grasp and hold for any period of time for a reason... example...your dicks...
On earth, penises have always been roughly cylindrical. How did your species ever survive its early stages? It must've been terribly uncomfortable for your women.
As I've said many times before, behind every stereotype, every prejudice, lies a kernel of truth. Are all southerners wife beaters? No. But that stereotype didn't just magically appear. Are all Christians a bunch of fundies who want to disavow the theory of evolution? No, but there are enough who do that this stereotype gets perpetuated.
This is, class, is a textbook example of the mindset behind the the bigot. Take special note of the positive moderation on the post.
Touted schmouted. Mode 7 wasn't even used by most games. Developers didn't know what to do with it. Chrono Trigger was the first to use it in the racing context that it was later popular for, after that it was picked up a bit.
Yeah...I'm just going to go stand over here now...
/rollseyes
Excellent troll, BTW. You had me going with your first post. The three digit ID should've given it away.
If the article were simply a summary of events between Nintendo and Sony leading up to and through the the PS1, then it would not be fanboyism. It's the fact that the summary of events, along with the idiotic comments referenced in the parent post, are flagrantly biased.
Judging from our comments, I can understand how you may have missed it. I'll post a couple for your enlightenment:
"Nintendo was still raking in the money with the NES but grudgingly accepted that it had to meet Sega head-on if it wanted to remain competitive"
"But perhaps the Super NES' most impressive feature was its DSP sound chip...And the company that provided this musical dynamo? Sony."
No, the I recall the most impressive feature was Mode 7. The sound was good, but was definately not touted as "perhaps the most impressive feature of the SNES".
"Nintendo's betrayal of a Japanese company in favor of a foreign interloper was a betrayal of the nation's unspoken corporate insularity."
"In other words, everybody ended up a loser...except maybe Nintendo, which was able to maintain control of its precious profits."
I could go on, but it's late and I'm tired. It is abundantly clear from the entire article that the write absolutely loathes Nintendo. Not quite what I'd call a simple "summary of events between Nintendo and Sony leading up to and through the the PS1". Nintendo, by far, is not a perfect company, but to write that Nintendo was such a horribly evil company while Sony is a pillar of divine grace, as the article writer does, is simply laughable.
PlayStation changed the way people played games--the way they thought about them, really.
The article just reeks of Sony fanboyism. Sure, the PlayStation was a successful 32-bit console when it appeared near the end of the 16-bit era, when the SNES and Genesis roamed the land, but the writer makes it sound like the PS1 was some sort of monumental occasion worthy of inclusion in the Civilization tech tree (Computing --> PlayStation --> Cure for Cancer).
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped,or turned back, for their private benefit.
- The Judge in "Life-Line"
Why can't judges like this exist all over the place in real life?
Personally, I take the route that I won't complain if you always use 'he' as a gender-nonspecific pronoun if you don't complain that I always use 'she'.
I'm perfectly okay when people use either (though I am accustomed to hearing 'he'). What irks me is when people switch constantly back and forth in one document. That's irritating.
I think the best thing we could do is come up with a set of new, gender-neutral-only pronouns, as some have suggested in the past. Good luck with that, though.
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You can always fold your game boxes flat if you really need to save space. Most game boxes can be folded & unfolded without damaging them.
I prefer having something tangible when I buy software; a nice box, manual, and disk. I don't care what any shrinkwrap license says: I own this software when I buy it, and the physical nature of it is what makes it my property.
If you think programs would get significantly cheaper if they stopped selling them in boxes and made you download them instead, you're dreaming.
In corporate America, the savings made by cutting costs trickles down in this order: CEO's yacht -> upper management bonuses -> middle management bonuses -> wage increase for real workers -> reduced cost for consumers.
Yes, I'm cynical. I've seen enough of this crap in my life.
I would say democracy. People (both in the East and the West) at least know what porn looks like.
I wept after playing a few seconds of the first level of Medal of Honor: Frontline. It was such a moving simulation of what our forefathers went through in WWII.
That's right, because I'm Spartacus.
Huh?
PS3/XBox360/Revolution = 2005/2006
PS2/XBox/GameCube = 2000/2001
PS1/N64 = 1995/1996
SNES/Genesis = 1989/1991
That's about a five year time span between generations. If anything, console upgrades are less frequent that pc video card upgrades.
And how many nuclear bombs will it take to jump-start it?
This new controller would be great for some old arcade classics like Tempest and Arkanoid.
I started laughing because this was funny, but then I stopped when I realized how sad it was that I actually know what you are talking about.
With the stupidity levels of judges as they are today, I can actually see it working.
"Your honor, there is no question that a shift key is necessary to allow the user to quickly and easily capitalize the odd letter, but was the motivation behind the second shift button?...
On earth, penises have always been roughly cylindrical. How did your species ever survive its early stages? It must've been terribly uncomfortable for your women.
OMG! Did you just make a joke about the Canadian gov't being less interested in serving citizens than the US gov't?!?
This is, class, is a textbook example of the mindset behind the the bigot. Take special note of the positive moderation on the post.
Finally, a version that's safe for my kids.
Yeah...I'm just going to go stand over here now...
/rollseyes
Excellent troll, BTW. You had me going with your first post. The three digit ID should've given it away.
Judging from our comments, I can understand how you may have missed it. I'll post a couple for your enlightenment:
"Nintendo was still raking in the money with the NES but grudgingly accepted that it had to meet Sega head-on if it wanted to remain competitive"
"But perhaps the Super NES' most impressive feature was its DSP sound chip...And the company that provided this musical dynamo? Sony."
No, the I recall the most impressive feature was Mode 7. The sound was good, but was definately not touted as "perhaps the most impressive feature of the SNES".
"Nintendo's betrayal of a Japanese company in favor of a foreign interloper was a betrayal of the nation's unspoken corporate insularity."
"In other words, everybody ended up a loser...except maybe Nintendo, which was able to maintain control of its precious profits."
I could go on, but it's late and I'm tired. It is abundantly clear from the entire article that the write absolutely loathes Nintendo. Not quite what I'd call a simple "summary of events between Nintendo and Sony leading up to and through the the PS1". Nintendo, by far, is not a perfect company, but to write that Nintendo was such a horribly evil company while Sony is a pillar of divine grace, as the article writer does, is simply laughable.
The article just reeks of Sony fanboyism. Sure, the PlayStation was a successful 32-bit console when it appeared near the end of the 16-bit era, when the SNES and Genesis roamed the land, but the writer makes it sound like the PS1 was some sort of monumental occasion worthy of inclusion in the Civilization tech tree (Computing --> PlayStation --> Cure for Cancer).
- The Judge in "Life-Line"
Why can't judges like this exist all over the place in real life?
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Did we hit a time warp or something? Is this "Slashdot: News From Ten Years Ago. Stuff That's Ancient History" or something?
I'm perfectly okay when people use either (though I am accustomed to hearing 'he'). What irks me is when people switch constantly back and forth in one document. That's irritating.
What was this article about again?... ;-)
I think the best thing we could do is come up with a set of new, gender-neutral-only pronouns, as some have suggested in the past. Good luck with that, though.
Using collective noun antecedents for a singular, gender-unknown person is often incorrect grammar.
No, becase 'he' is both used for masculine and gender unspecified/unknown in English.