I'm not sure why it's only Anonymous Cowards who are pointing this out, but it's an important point that should be seen by everyone. Harmonix didn't invent the rhythm genre. Harmonix didn't even invent the hold-one-or-more-neck-buttons-while-strumming-the-bidirectional-lever guitar rhythm genre. Konami released the first version of Guitar Freaks in 1998.
Southwest is not the only airline making money. Delta (post bankruptcy) has started turning a profit as they shifted a lot of capacity to more profitable transatlantic routes. Meanwhile, American (which never went through bankruptcy) posted a $175M profit last quarter, which is its sixth consecutive profitable quarter.
We took Detroit once and gave it back. I'm sure the auto companies would retreat if we tried to take it again, so we're probably best served by not bothering.
Mostly your opponents for the Gundam or card games will be strangers. Your teammates may be people you know, if you bring them with you. Don't online gamers prefer to play co-op mode with teammates they know (at least from online play, if not real life) rather than strangers?
Part of the reason the 360 will have trouble cracking the Japanese market is that the big selling point of the console is Live--in other words, social gaming. In Japan that niche is filled by the arcade. $400 for an Xbox plus a monthly Live subscription on your home TV (probably not very large due to floor space constraints) can't compare to 4-on-4 Gundam with panoramic display, or action CCGs like World Club Champion Football or Sangokushi Taisen where you control the game by moving your soccer player or Three Kingdoms general card around the pitch/battlefield. And let's not even get started on Idolmaster...
I think Microsoft is deluding itself if it thinks any amount of marketing will make casual gamers ask themselves, "Hmm... do I want to play Cooking Mama, or Halo 3?"
Because researchers at Appalachian State subsequently proved that the atoms would remain entangled even if carefully taken two points beyond Jupiter, perhaps by blocking a field goal attempt shortly after the asteroid belt.
Obviously wouldn't work for the ascii filter, since it's pretty much guaranteed that a given object would not be aligned to a character boundary for both eyes, but for the other effects it would be that much cooler.
please don't put the "we hope to avoid a return to arrogance" quote immediately before a montage of Nintendo's arrogance in the intervening years. That would be a devastating edit.
Seriously, since MP3:C got the controls right, and it does such a good job on the graphics, it seems like licensing the engine out is an obvious step. When you consider that Nintendo owns Retro, and Nintendo stands to benefit from the quality of games on the Wii going up (in both hardware sales to hardcore gamers and in software licensing revenue), not to mention that they can collect engine licensing fees, it seems like an obvious choice.
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You know the one I mean. "Instead of office chair, box contained bobcat. Would not buy again."
As long as it doesn't inform me that I can donate one or all of my vital organs to the Nissan Self-Esteem Fund for Girls, we'll get along fine.
11 words is too, in case I want to bust out, "So that's why you said you had to meet that ghost."
This bodes well for that movie I hope to make. It has a vampire and an explosion.
I'm not sure why it's only Anonymous Cowards who are pointing this out, but it's an important point that should be seen by everyone. Harmonix didn't invent the rhythm genre. Harmonix didn't even invent the hold-one-or-more-neck-buttons-while-strumming-the-bidirectional-lever guitar rhythm genre. Konami released the first version of Guitar Freaks in 1998.
Remember that Robot Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of disobedience.
Southwest is not the only airline making money. Delta (post bankruptcy) has started turning a profit as they shifted a lot of capacity to more profitable transatlantic routes. Meanwhile, American (which never went through bankruptcy) posted a $175M profit last quarter, which is its sixth consecutive profitable quarter.
to the Aperture Labs Self-Esteem Fund For Girls.
One of the top posts on that discussion was an Al Gore joke of a completely different nature than the modern Al Gore joke.
There'll be a short term peak of demand for bandwidth from places that were starved, before demand settles to its stable state.
By rocket to the moon
By airplane to the rocket
By taxi to the airport
By front door to the taxi
By throwing back the blanket hanging down the legs
Do you know what a housing bubble is? Or a bubble economy? It's like that for network capacity.
Asia Pacific != Japan and South Korea. There's a lot of archipelagos in the Pacific.
We took Detroit once and gave it back. I'm sure the auto companies would retreat if we tried to take it again, so we're probably best served by not bothering.
What's worse is when you consider how many cars are now made in Canada. You're paying a premium for them to _not_ ship it across the border.
Mostly your opponents for the Gundam or card games will be strangers. Your teammates may be people you know, if you bring them with you. Don't online gamers prefer to play co-op mode with teammates they know (at least from online play, if not real life) rather than strangers?
Part of the reason the 360 will have trouble cracking the Japanese market is that the big selling point of the console is Live--in other words, social gaming. In Japan that niche is filled by the arcade. $400 for an Xbox plus a monthly Live subscription on your home TV (probably not very large due to floor space constraints) can't compare to 4-on-4 Gundam with panoramic display, or action CCGs like World Club Champion Football or Sangokushi Taisen where you control the game by moving your soccer player or Three Kingdoms general card around the pitch/battlefield. And let's not even get started on Idolmaster...
I think Microsoft is deluding itself if it thinks any amount of marketing will make casual gamers ask themselves, "Hmm... do I want to play Cooking Mama, or Halo 3?"
Because researchers at Appalachian State subsequently proved that the atoms would remain entangled even if carefully taken two points beyond Jupiter, perhaps by blocking a field goal attempt shortly after the asteroid belt.
It's the other way around, actually.
Obviously wouldn't work for the ascii filter, since it's pretty much guaranteed that a given object would not be aligned to a character boundary for both eyes, but for the other effects it would be that much cooler.
so it would be a nice full-circle for Kid Icarus Prime to use the Metroid Prime engine.
please don't put the "we hope to avoid a return to arrogance" quote immediately before a montage of Nintendo's arrogance in the intervening years. That would be a devastating edit.
Seriously, since MP3:C got the controls right, and it does such a good job on the graphics, it seems like licensing the engine out is an obvious step. When you consider that Nintendo owns Retro, and Nintendo stands to benefit from the quality of games on the Wii going up (in both hardware sales to hardcore gamers and in software licensing revenue), not to mention that they can collect engine licensing fees, it seems like an obvious choice.
But you would have to prepare to jump without preparing to deliberately hold back.