Nice for some more confirmation that Australia and New Zealand are at the arse end of the world. We get to wait until "early 2006". Clearly that's not going to be January or they'd just release it in December, so I'm betting we're going to have to wait at least four months after the US as usual.
The day that sheep and kangaroos start playing video games is the day that anyone in the video game industry starts caring.
I posted on this a while back, and predicted a shortage, especially in the upcoming holiday season. I thought, and still think, this could be somewhat artificial so Microsoft can roll it out under way-too-high prices under the auspices of "rare" goods (anyone remember the Cabbage Patch Dolls?).
If the unwashed slashbot wisdom is true and the consoles are sold as loss leaders to drive game sales, where the actual profits are, what possible reason would there be to artificially restrict the number of consoles sold? Your Cabbage Patch analogy would only hold if Coleco was selling the dolls at a significant loss and counting on the sales of tiny pants to pull them into profits...in which case it would be just as silly as thinking MS is going to artificially restrict their one chance at toppling Sony to squeeze a scant few extra spacebucks out of Joe Consumer.
They have six months to a year (depending on region) to build a market before Sony comes beating down the door. If there are grubby hands desiring a 360, you can be assured Microsoft will be doing their best to fill them.
seriously, the more software/stupidly easy yet needed patent articles I read, and the more slashdot I read, the more I think that someday I'll become your average ranting psychotic revolutionary who brings arms against the state just to show the media the point.
What does the state have to do with the media?
the upper-class who make the laws are becoming further and further away from those who it actually effects. One can't help but think that one day we'll have so few rights as that such a drastic measure will be more than justified. Perhaps the 'tyranny' of the former democracy would one day be recorded as such.
Yes, the upper class bastards trodding on the poor unwashed Blackberry carrying masses. Sending out emails from the shelter about Thunderbird wine. Why, if you increase the cost of my mobile emails you might as well throw me in the gulag and heat up the iron pokers!
I realise people will probably think this is a troll, or more of the same, but think of how far rights have come in the last century, now compare them to how they've been limited in the last decade.. if it's a sign of things to come... I wouldn't want to stick around too long. If your not allowed to think because your thought may have been previously thought by someone else... what is there to do?
You can think the thoughts all you want. You just can't market them while they are patented. It's in the Constitution, dummy.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Shouldn't the first paragraph indicate we're talking about a game? Spider-Man is represented in comics, movies, costumes, toys, and for all I know, confections. The only hint before digging in was the Atari 2600 joystick icon next to the story.
Well, if the game joystick image wasn't enough, the numerous screenshots from the game might have been sufficient to power the train to Clueville.
The guy got ten years older, and in the process ended up looking ten years YOUNGER. Most of the people I know would LOVE to end up doing a similar thing - I know I sure as hell would!
Looking younger and dressing like a teenager as a stupid marketing gimmick are not the same thing.
The latter is the sign of being a giant embarrassing douche.
J. Allard's "extreme" makeover from (balding gray-haired corpodrone to earring clad, doofus, sweatshirt under the jacket, teenage-style hipster) is one of the saddest and most embarrassing things to come out of corporate America in a long, long time.
Possibly the best use of a mod point I have ever seen in my entire life. Truly a great man of character and extrodinary acumen was blessed with moderator priveleges on this fine day.
Yeah, but only Nintendo have the build quality to ensure that it will still work after "rough" treatment like that. If you think I sound bitter, well, you'd be right.
The only console I've ever had to replace because of physical damage was my Gamecube. Of course, my ex-wife threw it across the room...
I've never had backpack damage occur. Or grocery sack damage. Or damage to my sack in general.
Sweet, that means that if I consider the cost of a movie I own for 5 years, it's only a $2 per year cost...or $0.17/month or $0.01/day. I should buy every movie ever.
If you own it for two years, that works out to a whopping 3 cents per day difference! Man, I'm going to have to cut back on...nothing...to finance this one. Why pay 18 cents per day when I could be paying 15? I can finally afford that...gumball...I've been saving up for.
If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system. Because it's a lot easier to take over to a friends house than that massive XBox, with the original massive controllers. Even the XBox 360 is a huge, I thought they learned the first time that nobody wants a 7 pound console.
Whoa! 7lbs! How can you even LIFT it? A forklift is the only way. Two forklifts, one lifting from each end. And an anti-gravity machine. Probably twelve brawny strongmen, just for good measure.
Do you take your console over to your buddy's house on your tricycle? Does it overbalance you? Any console on the market will easily fit into a grocery sack or backpack. Do you carry your Gamecube by the handle? If so, how do you hold the games, power brick, and controllers? In a bag? Why not just stick everything in the same bag? It's a magic bag of holding!
Yo are correct in thinking that looking childish does not make something bad. This has several obvious corollaries.
- Looking childish does not make something good. - Not looking childish does not make something bad. - Not looking childish does not make something good.
The lesson in all this?
If you buy groceries, you can carry a game console. Even a big 7lb whopper! If you eat your Wheaties you MAY even show off and carry it one-handed.
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Nice for some more confirmation that Australia and New Zealand are at the arse end of the world. We get to wait until "early 2006". Clearly that's not going to be January or they'd just release it in December, so I'm betting we're going to have to wait at least four months after the US as usual.
The day that sheep and kangaroos start playing video games is the day that anyone in the video game industry starts caring.
I posted on this a while back, and predicted a shortage, especially in the upcoming holiday season. I thought, and still think, this could be somewhat artificial so Microsoft can roll it out under way-too-high prices under the auspices of "rare" goods (anyone remember the Cabbage Patch Dolls?).
If the unwashed slashbot wisdom is true and the consoles are sold as loss leaders to drive game sales, where the actual profits are, what possible reason would there be to artificially restrict the number of consoles sold? Your Cabbage Patch analogy would only hold if Coleco was selling the dolls at a significant loss and counting on the sales of tiny pants to pull them into profits...in which case it would be just as silly as thinking MS is going to artificially restrict their one chance at toppling Sony to squeeze a scant few extra spacebucks out of Joe Consumer.
They have six months to a year (depending on region) to build a market before Sony comes beating down the door. If there are grubby hands desiring a 360, you can be assured Microsoft will be doing their best to fill them.
Aural realism is more important.
Yes, anal realism is necessary for a compelling experience.
seriously, the more software/stupidly easy yet needed patent articles I read, and the more slashdot I read, the more I think that someday I'll become your average ranting psychotic revolutionary who brings arms against the state just to show the media the point.
What does the state have to do with the media?
the upper-class who make the laws are becoming further and further away from those who it actually effects. One can't help but think that one day we'll have so few rights as that such a drastic measure will be more than justified. Perhaps the 'tyranny' of the former democracy would one day be recorded as such.
Yes, the upper class bastards trodding on the poor unwashed Blackberry carrying masses. Sending out emails from the shelter about Thunderbird wine. Why, if you increase the cost of my mobile emails you might as well throw me in the gulag and heat up the iron pokers!
I realise people will probably think this is a troll, or more of the same, but think of how far rights have come in the last century, now compare them to how they've been limited in the last decade.. if it's a sign of things to come... I wouldn't want to stick around too long. If your not allowed to think because your thought may have been previously thought by someone else... what is there to do?
You can think the thoughts all you want. You just can't market them while they are patented. It's in the Constitution, dummy.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
It's a pity Slashdot mods this kind of a comment "Insightful" and shows Slashdot is not what it used to be.
I hate to break it to you, but slashdot was never what it used to be.
Why don't you just buy a KVMA switch?
True, but "No games on the 360 require a hard drive to play" would have been much clearer. One negative instead of three. :)
Yes, because negatives are so hard to comprehend. I mean, that sentence had at least ten words. I had to read each of them at least once!
Shouldn't the first paragraph indicate we're talking about a game? Spider-Man is represented in comics, movies, costumes, toys, and for all I know, confections. The only hint before digging in was the Atari 2600 joystick icon next to the story.
Well, if the game joystick image wasn't enough, the numerous screenshots from the game might have been sufficient to power the train to Clueville.
It's not irrelevant. He's trolling. Note that his name is very similar to non-troll /. user FidelCastro.
Your mom was trolling.
First gen games are almost always less polished than later games on a new system.
Yes, with enough polishing even the foulest turd can become a shining diamond.
Common knowledge.
Nintendo , every game on Gameboy advance , Nintendo DS , cartridge .
Wow, that's like, so totally relevant.
Like, oh my god.
The guy got ten years older, and in the process ended up looking ten years YOUNGER. Most of the people I know would LOVE to end up doing a similar thing - I know I sure as hell would!
Looking younger and dressing like a teenager as a stupid marketing gimmick are not the same thing.
The latter is the sign of being a giant embarrassing douche.
J. Allard's "extreme" makeover from (balding gray-haired corpodrone to earring clad, doofus, sweatshirt under the jacket, teenage-style hipster) is one of the saddest and most embarrassing things to come out of corporate America in a long, long time.
Some idiot used a mod point on this?
Possibly the best use of a mod point I have ever seen in my entire life. Truly a great man of character and extrodinary acumen was blessed with moderator priveleges on this fine day.
Outstanding!
Sooner or later you'll drop it or shock the drive and bye bye XBOX.
Such a pessimist. Not "bye bye XBOX."
"Hello lots of tiny XBOXES!"
Yeah, but only Nintendo have the build quality to ensure that it will still work after "rough" treatment like that. If you think I sound bitter, well, you'd be right.
The only console I've ever had to replace because of physical damage was my Gamecube. Of course, my ex-wife threw it across the room...
I've never had backpack damage occur. Or grocery sack damage. Or damage to my sack in general.
Sweet, that means that if I consider the cost of a movie I own for 5 years, it's only a $2 per year cost...or $0.17/month or $0.01/day. I should buy every movie ever.
Hello, dummy.
I think the faceplates on the Micro have screen covers built-in to them.
I own a DS and it's gigantic.
I was trying to make a joke about wanking. I wasn't as successful as I would have liked.
Ooooh, $20.
If you own it for two years, that works out to a whopping 3 cents per day difference! Man, I'm going to have to cut back on...nothing...to finance this one. Why pay 18 cents per day when I could be paying 15? I can finally afford that...gumball...I've been saving up for.
Thank god I'm frugal.
If the GC looks childish because it's small and square, then I want a childish system. Because it's a lot easier to take over to a friends house than that massive XBox, with the original massive controllers. Even the XBox 360 is a huge, I thought they learned the first time that nobody wants a 7 pound console.
Whoa! 7lbs! How can you even LIFT it? A forklift is the only way. Two forklifts, one lifting from each end. And an anti-gravity machine. Probably twelve brawny strongmen, just for good measure.
Do you take your console over to your buddy's house on your tricycle? Does it overbalance you? Any console on the market will easily fit into a grocery sack or backpack. Do you carry your Gamecube by the handle? If so, how do you hold the games, power brick, and controllers? In a bag? Why not just stick everything in the same bag? It's a magic bag of holding!
Yo are correct in thinking that looking childish does not make something bad. This has several obvious corollaries.
- Looking childish does not make something good.
- Not looking childish does not make something bad.
- Not looking childish does not make something good.
The lesson in all this?
If you buy groceries, you can carry a game console. Even a big 7lb whopper! If you eat your Wheaties you MAY even show off and carry it one-handed.
Here I am sitting on the crapper...without even the slightest telltale bulge in my pocket to give away what I'm doing.
Suuuuure...
So not liking Ender's Game is equivalent to being a troll?
Your pathetic life is retribution enough for your moronic distribution of mod points, moderator.
Other suggestions?
Yes, do not reproduce.
Thanks.
You beat me. I gave up half way through the third one. This should have been a two book series.