PC gaming will be as strong as it has been for the past couple of years, which is to say potentially profitable yet competitive. With a larger market for indy-developers and innovation compared with consoles.
But these new-fangled vista-only/DX10 games are beginning to worry me.
Fortunately it's only Microsoft that is pushing that initiative, and MS, historically, has a relatively poor stable of games to make their push with.
So the bright side is the only games forcing a Vista upgrade are/will be available on the 360. And a 360 could be had for pretty much the same cost as Vista Ultimate.
It's not a question of impeachment in order to replace this guy.
Impeachment should be used to combat reckless use of power, it ensures The People still control its government and not the other way around.
Anytime someone even suggests the word 'impeachment', things quickly descend into a partisan hate orgy.
I understand why people are sensitive about the issue, but really, accountability in a democratic government shouldn't be a political football, it is supposed to be what defines DEMOCRACY as a system.
Does anyone else feel that the first rounders in that play-off of evil was a little unbalanced.
Personally I think NewsCorp and Monsanto could have made it to the second round, even the final four, if only they they weren't paired with super-mega-evil like Walmart and Halliburton right off the bat.
Meanwhile you got U-Haul and Best Buy on the list, who should really be moved down to the farm-league, at least until they get their evil up-to-snuff.
No Microsoft? McDonald's? Philip Morris? How about Enron, which is both dated, but still hated, am I wrong?
"not clear to me that Nintendo gives a s*** about games as an art form"
Well Spore had better really kick some ass... lest this guy earn the title 'John Romero Jr.'
No one can seriously argue that Nintendo doesn't consistently churn out some of the best, most innovative and entertaining titles on any system. And has done for decades. It doesn't even matter what hardware they are designing for it seems. GBA, NDS, and the Wii are technically inferior to current Microsoft and Sony products, sure... but are they really less fun to play game on? Oddly enough, no.
Look at any top-## games of all time, and Nintendo usually 30-50% of the top 10.
I know this guy is taking Nintendo on for its hardware design, but I think he choose his words very poorly.
I thought the Wii/Opera browser requires an additional purchase. Am I wrong here?
That isn't to say any kid who is able to buy a Wii points card couldn't browse some pr0n, but an off-the shelf Wii isn't even a web browsing machine.
Anywho, knowing how kid-centric and family oriented Nintendo is, I suspect there will be optional parental controls to come if there is enough public outcry, which there probably won't be.
I don't understand why Sony would need a marketing campaign at all, other than to just demonstrate it's making some kind of effort.
The media hype is sufficient to inform people there IS a new PlayStation, and it's coming SOON... what else is needed?
They can't fill demand for the product as it is, and if the 360 is any indication, stores won't have a problem of units sitting on shelves for more than 24 hours until late Spring, probably later.
A good marketing campaign for the PS3 would be something that actually stengthened the entire SONY brand, at least in North America and Europe.
And this current silly, vague, nondescript marketing campaign only exemplifies how blindly arrogant SONY has become, which is one of the major complaints customers have developed in the past year.
SONY, you any cool, you're chilly, and chilly ain't never been cool.
Alt fuel? Isn't coal the primary source of energy throughout the world... still?
Shouldn't we be trying to get away from this? Looking back, it was cute when coal was running steam engines 200 years ago, but let's move on already. Especially now that we can see, feel and even taste the result of a 6 billion people relying on a largely coal-fired planet.
The MK series has sucked-out-loud after Mortal Kombat 2, which was like 12, 13 years ago?
I have a hard time begrudging anyone for trying to prevent further sequels, regardless of their reasons.
But... I do get a chuckle from thinking of Mr. Thompson is a savagely bloody fighting game.
Where can I find a screen-shot of this custom-created Jack Thompson character?
The article mentions both Major Nelson and Shigeru Miyamoto... a Sony counterpart to either man wouldn't be a bad thing, but the more valuable of the two is the latter, and the reason has little to do with PR./I'm getting a Wii60!!!
''But for Posey's use of these products... he would not have killed,'' the lawsuit claims.
Could the same not be said, of the weapon used?
What is the ESRB rating on that game anyway?
Does no one else here avoid iTunes and WMP simply because neither can be trusted to do exactly what I want them to and nothing more.
No one? Just me then? Okey doke.
One major handicap SWG has always had. And something I've never seen addressed in any of the dozens of post-mordems I've read about it, including this one, is the crippling economic drain designed to make players constantly work just to maintain what they already have. I suppose it was made that way so players would have something to do, due to the lack of worth-while content.
Building 'maintenance/rent', city taxes, item decay, dissappearing factories and harvestors, etc. I played SWG for a year, and I can't tell you how many people quit because they took a week off from playing, and lost every item they owned because their house dissappeared.
It has left no incentive for former players to return to the game. It's a huge slap in the face actually... I personally had millions of creds worth of items, in about 5 different houses, when I cancelled my subcription. All that stuff is simply gone now, and if I re-opened the same account I had spent a year playing, I would have no items, short of the creds in the bank... and with this NGE I wouldn't even have any experience or any professional ranks. That is huge hurdle to getting former players back in it. Anyone who spent time playing SWG before probably doesn't want to come back and have to spend months just getting back to where they left off.
Just short-sighted MMO design at it's worst.
My personal experience with MMOs covers AC2, WoW, GW, and some more obscure korean games. SWG is the only one I know of where if you cancel your subscription for a couple of weeks, you're character loses everything... as if you've never played before. What other games do this?
I suspect the best market SWG could ever hope to attract are the ones who have shown interest in it before. Right now there are about 4 or 5 former players for every current player, and that's assuming the estimate of 200,000 current players mentioned in the interview is accurate... which I kinda doubt.
Who are these 'new players' they're hoping to attract? People who haven't heard of SWG yet? People who wanted to play before, but were sorta hoping for a full-scale redesign before trying it?
It's just stupid all-over.
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Can I get an Amen Brothers and Sisters?
PC gaming will be as strong as it has been for the past couple of years, which is to say potentially profitable yet competitive. With a larger market for indy-developers and innovation compared with consoles.
But these new-fangled vista-only/DX10 games are beginning to worry me.
Fortunately it's only Microsoft that is pushing that initiative, and MS, historically, has a relatively poor stable of games to make their push with.
So the bright side is the only games forcing a Vista upgrade are/will be available on the 360. And a 360 could be had for pretty much the same cost as Vista Ultimate.
It's not a question of impeachment in order to replace this guy.
Impeachment should be used to combat reckless use of power, it ensures The People still control its government and not the other way around.
Anytime someone even suggests the word 'impeachment', things quickly descend into a partisan hate orgy.
I understand why people are sensitive about the issue, but really, accountability in a democratic government shouldn't be a political football, it is supposed to be what defines DEMOCRACY as a system.
Does anyone else feel that the first rounders in that play-off of evil was a little unbalanced.
Personally I think NewsCorp and Monsanto could have made it to the second round, even the final four, if only they they weren't paired with super-mega-evil like Walmart and Halliburton right off the bat.
Meanwhile you got U-Haul and Best Buy on the list, who should really be moved down to the farm-league, at least until they get their evil up-to-snuff.
No Microsoft? McDonald's? Philip Morris? How about Enron, which is both dated, but still hated, am I wrong?
So can anyone say, with any amount of certainty, how a major solar storm will effect us earthlings? Or is that a silly questions?
Well I'll take your word on that.
And if true, it seems Sony dropped the ball when selecting the code-monkeys to write their emulator software on the PS3.
I remember BLEEM having more PS1 titles working than a European PS3.
FFT didn't even make the list, which I presume means it won't play on a PS3.
Tragic. It's the only PS1 game I've ever played on a PS2, because there is still no sequel to it anywhere but on a Gameboy.
"not clear to me that Nintendo gives a s*** about games as an art form"
Well Spore had better really kick some ass... lest this guy earn the title 'John Romero Jr.'
No one can seriously argue that Nintendo doesn't consistently churn out some of the best, most innovative and entertaining titles on any system. And has done for decades. It doesn't even matter what hardware they are designing for it seems. GBA, NDS, and the Wii are technically inferior to current Microsoft and Sony products, sure... but are they really less fun to play game on? Oddly enough, no.
Look at any top-## games of all time, and Nintendo usually 30-50% of the top 10.
I know this guy is taking Nintendo on for its hardware design, but I think he choose his words very poorly.
I thought the Wii/Opera browser requires an additional purchase. Am I wrong here? That isn't to say any kid who is able to buy a Wii points card couldn't browse some pr0n, but an off-the shelf Wii isn't even a web browsing machine. Anywho, knowing how kid-centric and family oriented Nintendo is, I suspect there will be optional parental controls to come if there is enough public outcry, which there probably won't be.
My computer has a 550 power supply. It's on most of the time.
I also suspect it's rare for someone to be playing a console without one or more 60+ watt light-bulbs lighting up the room.
I the author's focus is on conservation, why is he analyzing game consoles to beging with?
Why not just correct the errors on his wikipedia article and get on with life.
He seriously needs to lawyer-up and hope for a settlement?
It's just wikipedia, it's not the frigg'n New York Times, or something that relies on credibility and accountability.
Come read my blog, where I talk about Fuzzy Zoeller's involvement with the black-market diamond trade. It's trues I tells-ya!
So does anyone know what this Questville thing-ama-bobber is?
Sounds like fun.
Yay Ottawa here too. I am so smart, I am so smart, S-A-R-T... um... ya.
I've got a sure-fire cure for internet addiction... heroin.
I don't understand why Sony would need a marketing campaign at all, other than to just demonstrate it's making some kind of effort.
The media hype is sufficient to inform people there IS a new PlayStation, and it's coming SOON... what else is needed?
They can't fill demand for the product as it is, and if the 360 is any indication, stores won't have a problem of units sitting on shelves for more than 24 hours until late Spring, probably later.
A good marketing campaign for the PS3 would be something that actually stengthened the entire SONY brand, at least in North America and Europe.
And this current silly, vague, nondescript marketing campaign only exemplifies how blindly arrogant SONY has become, which is one of the major complaints customers have developed in the past year.
SONY, you any cool, you're chilly, and chilly ain't never been cool.
Alt fuel? Isn't coal the primary source of energy throughout the world... still?
Shouldn't we be trying to get away from this? Looking back, it was cute when coal was running steam engines 200 years ago, but let's move on already. Especially now that we can see, feel and even taste the result of a 6 billion people relying on a largely coal-fired planet.
The MK series has sucked-out-loud after Mortal Kombat 2, which was like 12, 13 years ago? I have a hard time begrudging anyone for trying to prevent further sequels, regardless of their reasons. But... I do get a chuckle from thinking of Mr. Thompson is a savagely bloody fighting game. Where can I find a screen-shot of this custom-created Jack Thompson character?
Because those silly Europeans don't know what they want until you tell them.
The article mentions both Major Nelson and Shigeru Miyamoto... a Sony counterpart to either man wouldn't be a bad thing, but the more valuable of the two is the latter, and the reason has little to do with PR. /I'm getting a Wii60!!!
''But for Posey's use of these products ... he would not have killed,'' the lawsuit claims.
Could the same not be said, of the weapon used?
What is the ESRB rating on that game anyway?
Um ya... so more storage is necessary for better games... and 'Resistance' will be roughly 312 times as good as anything released on the N64, or DS.
Does no one else here avoid iTunes and WMP simply because neither can be trusted to do exactly what I want them to and nothing more. No one? Just me then? Okey doke.
One major handicap SWG has always had. And something I've never seen addressed in any of the dozens of post-mordems I've read about it, including this one, is the crippling economic drain designed to make players constantly work just to maintain what they already have. I suppose it was made that way so players would have something to do, due to the lack of worth-while content. Building 'maintenance/rent', city taxes, item decay, dissappearing factories and harvestors, etc. I played SWG for a year, and I can't tell you how many people quit because they took a week off from playing, and lost every item they owned because their house dissappeared. It has left no incentive for former players to return to the game. It's a huge slap in the face actually... I personally had millions of creds worth of items, in about 5 different houses, when I cancelled my subcription. All that stuff is simply gone now, and if I re-opened the same account I had spent a year playing, I would have no items, short of the creds in the bank... and with this NGE I wouldn't even have any experience or any professional ranks. That is huge hurdle to getting former players back in it. Anyone who spent time playing SWG before probably doesn't want to come back and have to spend months just getting back to where they left off. Just short-sighted MMO design at it's worst. My personal experience with MMOs covers AC2, WoW, GW, and some more obscure korean games. SWG is the only one I know of where if you cancel your subscription for a couple of weeks, you're character loses everything... as if you've never played before. What other games do this? I suspect the best market SWG could ever hope to attract are the ones who have shown interest in it before. Right now there are about 4 or 5 former players for every current player, and that's assuming the estimate of 200,000 current players mentioned in the interview is accurate... which I kinda doubt. Who are these 'new players' they're hoping to attract? People who haven't heard of SWG yet? People who wanted to play before, but were sorta hoping for a full-scale redesign before trying it? It's just stupid all-over.