The reason is because people have had a few years time to build up a collection of UMD games, which will now become worthless thanks to the new PSP. People were right to complain when the PSP was very new, and if Sony was to do something about it, they should have done it right then instead of waiting for people to buy a library of expensive games for them to make obsolete.
Only one of those is a fair comparison, and even then it's stretching things.
1. Several people complain about Apple's tendency for proprietary parts. Myself I'm boycotting apple for their lack of openness.
2. Downloadable games are fine for Microsoft and Nintendo, because the downloadable games are secondary to the hard copies of games which you can buy at retail outlets. But in this case, there is NO retail option - you must go to the Sony store. As for Apple, I doubt that many people are buying the ipod touch mainly for its games.
3. People complained about UMD when it was new, but that isn't the case any more. A lot of the complaints were probably legitimate, for example 'why use a mechanical disk in a portable unit', 'why not use miniDVD', etc. And until recently, the Zune and iPhone weren't known as gaming devices, and the DS used a storage medium that most people didn't feel the need to complain about.
Perhaps they'll phase out the original PSP very quickly, and then when one's original PSP breaks, a replacement could be hard to find. Then their library of UMD games becomes worthless to them. Until recently, one wouldn't buy an iPhone or a Zune with the explicit intention of playing games.
Who would ever need a PC game controller while 'on the move'? In the only case I can think of (LAN parties), you'd probably want a proper game controller, anyway.
What are you talking about? Honestly, if you're talking about a game that consists of holding the direction button down, try Sonic Adventure or the other 3D sonic games, where you do nothing watch Sonic run through scripted loops and somersault scenes (where you'll fall to your death if you do anything other than hold the analogue stick forward).
The original three Sonic games are much more interesting and challenging than anything than anything that Sonic Team has put out since the 90s.
Hello, I type using a self taught method which you would probably describe as 'hunt-and-peck' typing, and I can type up to 80WPM. I don't look at the keyboard while I type, either.
Get cockin' lads. BIG DENNIS. MENIS FENIS BENIS GENIS DENIS DENNACE.
Listen to me. They're a buisiness, it's natural for them to make a fuss about a new product that they're releasing, even if it's only just an incremental update. If you were trying to make a profit, you'd do the same. And don't forget, they've got to escape from Vista's bad reputation.
But Sun, News of the World, and etc are tabloids right? So it makes sense that they wouldn't have anything about an incidence of illegal phone tapping, because it bears no relations to celebrities, evil paedophiles, sex scandals, etc.
I imagine that if these sites start trying to charge their users for access, most people will just lose interest and look for a site that doesn't suck. For example, I like to browse slashdot and youtube, but if they started charging for basic access I'd forget about both in a heartbeat.
No way man. You brought this on yourself by posting alarmist/inflammatory comments, which in some cases made it clear that you hadn't even read the article that you were commenting on. If you want to escape the automatic -1 level, then you need to climb back up the fair way like everyone else.
If you comment on an article, you can't moderate posts in it. If you moderate posts and then comment in the same article, your moderations are reversed (but you don't get your mod points back).
Heh heh! They could charge a billion for it, it won't matter to me. I'll just go and grab Debian GNU/Linux for free, and get a much better computing experience.
Your post is hard to understand. Instead of using that kind of silly phrase, you could have just said "And how is that related to the comment you just posted?". That would have been more efficient.
If you ask me, hardware became good enough when the Sega Megadrive came out. I've had more fun with old Sega games than I've had with any PS2 game. After 1996, it seems like games are getting worse with each new game system.
Myself, I don't see the need for tomboy or anything like that. If I want to keep notes, I make a text file in my home directory and edit it with gedit or some other text editor. It's much faster, just as convienient, and doesn't require any special software.
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BadAnalogyguy, I sent you some emails but you never replied. Why not?
The reason is because people have had a few years time to build up a collection of UMD games, which will now become worthless thanks to the new PSP. People were right to complain when the PSP was very new, and if Sony was to do something about it, they should have done it right then instead of waiting for people to buy a library of expensive games for them to make obsolete.
Only one of those is a fair comparison, and even then it's stretching things.
1. Several people complain about Apple's tendency for proprietary parts. Myself I'm boycotting apple for their lack of openness.
2. Downloadable games are fine for Microsoft and Nintendo, because the downloadable games are secondary to the hard copies of games which you can buy at retail outlets. But in this case, there is NO retail option - you must go to the Sony store. As for Apple, I doubt that many people are buying the ipod touch mainly for its games.
3. People complained about UMD when it was new, but that isn't the case any more. A lot of the complaints were probably legitimate, for example 'why use a mechanical disk in a portable unit', 'why not use miniDVD', etc. And until recently, the Zune and iPhone weren't known as gaming devices, and the DS used a storage medium that most people didn't feel the need to complain about.
Perhaps they'll phase out the original PSP very quickly, and then when one's original PSP breaks, a replacement could be hard to find. Then their library of UMD games becomes worthless to them. Until recently, one wouldn't buy an iPhone or a Zune with the explicit intention of playing games.
Like you said, look at Apple. And also Microsoft. I don't think being Japanese has anything to do with it - greed can be found in any country.
The person you replied to was obviously joking, and they never said that they didn't like the video or the fact that it was made.
It is bad, when you end up requiring 2GB of RAM and a dual core 2GHz+ CPU to run Firefox and the flash plugin.
I do. Windows Me is a fantastic operating system for older computers. If you know how to maintain it, it isn't that bad.
Who would ever need a PC game controller while 'on the move'? In the only case I can think of (LAN parties), you'd probably want a proper game controller, anyway.
The weighing is to detect the presence of hardware keyloggers and other such things.
What are you talking about? Honestly, if you're talking about a game that consists of holding the direction button down, try Sonic Adventure or the other 3D sonic games, where you do nothing watch Sonic run through scripted loops and somersault scenes (where you'll fall to your death if you do anything other than hold the analogue stick forward).
The original three Sonic games are much more interesting and challenging than anything than anything that Sonic Team has put out since the 90s.
And also voice acting.
Heh heh! PENIS!
Hello, I type using a self taught method which you would probably describe as 'hunt-and-peck' typing, and I can type up to 80WPM. I don't look at the keyboard while I type, either.
Get cockin' lads. BIG DENNIS. MENIS FENIS BENIS GENIS DENIS DENNACE.
Listen to me. They're a buisiness, it's natural for them to make a fuss about a new product that they're releasing, even if it's only just an incremental update. If you were trying to make a profit, you'd do the same. And don't forget, they've got to escape from Vista's bad reputation.
...The more attractive my old Megadrive and SNES look.
But Sun, News of the World, and etc are tabloids right? So it makes sense that they wouldn't have anything about an incidence of illegal phone tapping, because it bears no relations to celebrities, evil paedophiles, sex scandals, etc.
Don't expect us to buy this crap.
I imagine that if these sites start trying to charge their users for access, most people will just lose interest and look for a site that doesn't suck. For example, I like to browse slashdot and youtube, but if they started charging for basic access I'd forget about both in a heartbeat.
No way man. You brought this on yourself by posting alarmist/inflammatory comments, which in some cases made it clear that you hadn't even read the article that you were commenting on.
If you want to escape the automatic -1 level, then you need to climb back up the fair way like everyone else.
Heh heh! Oh, boy! Oh man! DENIS. DENIS.
If you comment on an article, you can't moderate posts in it. If you moderate posts and then comment in the same article, your moderations are reversed (but you don't get your mod points back).
Apparently he uses gNewSense.
Heh heh! They could charge a billion for it, it won't matter to me. I'll just go and grab Debian GNU/Linux for free, and get a much better computing experience.
Your post is hard to understand. Instead of using that kind of silly phrase, you could have just said "And how is that related to the comment you just posted?". That would have been more efficient.
If you ask me, hardware became good enough when the Sega Megadrive came out. I've had more fun with old Sega games than I've had with any PS2 game.
After 1996, it seems like games are getting worse with each new game system.
Myself, I don't see the need for tomboy or anything like that. If I want to keep notes, I make a text file in my home directory and edit it with gedit or some other text editor. It's much faster, just as convienient, and doesn't require any special software.