I remember the SNES days. After hearing that Nintendo is developing the "Dolphin", I quickly anticipated the next Final Fantasy on it. It even had a tech demo of 3d FFVI characters. Then, when I heard that the PS1 was getting FFVII, I was shocked. It was so shocking that I had to save up money for two systems instead of one. By the way, I bought more PS1 games than N64 mainly due to the RPG selection. The only N64 games I had are the 1st party games and Golden Eye (btw, kicked ass back in the day).
It seems this a biased report. Red hat should have been ranked higher than Microsoft. Maybe Microsoft reached into it's limitless reserve and bribed the reviewer into a more favorable report. Well, if you are some Tech guy that needs to make a decision about which OS to use for your company, please for the love of God review everything before submitting your proposal. I would hate for you to have a vulnerable server ready to be exploited.
Most likely the guy is playing it via the Wii Tour amongst the Westfield malls as stated on the nintendo website. But, my point is moot if this guy isn't living/visiting America the time of writing the review.
Think of Sony playing a game of Texas hold'em. They're betting all of their chips and going all-in. We don't know if they are packing pocket rockets or unsuited 2 and 7.
I don't remember the exact quote on the movies Rounders but it goes something similar to this: "You can't earn what you can't put out on the table."
For Sony's case, they're risking everything to double, triple, 8x their income or bust.
Strategy guides didn't pave the way for more difficult games. It was the fans. With fans often bragging beating games in 1 or 2 days (or even hours), the developers make mental notes that the game isn't challenging enough or the developers are secretly collaborating with Brady and other strategy publishers for profits. Assuming the former is true, developers would add more levels or make the game world larger which requires $$$ and man hours. Or, they could simply add tedious puzzles which take less man hours and $$$ and force the users (the fans) to spend hours solving it.
Here's my personal experiences growing up. Battletoads was probably the only game my 2 brothers and I couldn't finish while renting it. From what I recall, every game we rented was conquered. 40+ hour rpgs like Chrono Trigger, FF6, UW: New Horizons (rented 4x to beat all 6 chars), and OGRE BATTLE 5 was conquered within the 3 day timeframe. Usually we took 2 days. It required rotation of brothers playing the games and/or doing the chores like dishes and lawn. Of course, I could have done it myself but with 2 brothers, 1 NES/SNES, we had to fight for time.
One nuisance with puzzles was with Lufia for the SNES. There was a puzzle where you had to press 4 buttons in a certain order and if you messed up, you had to fight a random encounter. Then, you had to leave the room and re-enter to reset the puzzle. With no hints, that puzzle took almost an hour using trial-and-error. It was back in the day, so either we were too poor to buy a strategy guide or the internet wasn't as big as it is now (gamefaqs would save the headache). This 1 memory alone made me believe in the strategy guide conspiracy.
This new invention could be useful for the Game of Life (TM). It's easier for the banker to issue money to a doctor that earns $50k (1 $50k note) each payday instead of the journalist earning $24,000 (1 20k note and 4 1k note). No one in my circle of friends ever want to be a banker. It's usually picked by random.
For the spinner, it would speed games quickly if we didn't have to wait for the spinner to stop. It could take 5-20 seconds depending on the strength of the person and/or the amount of cooking oil underneath.
In a Dilbert comic I read, Dogbert invented a time machine that can take you 1 hour into the future. But, this time machine takes an hour to operate...
Watching the opening CG animation on my 52" TV looks good (measurements are + - 10" since I don't remember the exact size of the TV).
After watching the imported FFXII, I can't wait to hook up a PS3's HDMI port and put in FFXIII. Probably some wonderful [eye] candy even snickers can't even satisfy.
A WoW addict pays a fixed subscription rate (I dunno, say $20). A hardcore gamer who buys 4 game a month pays ~$160 (assuming he/she beats 1 game a week and game price is $40 each). Now, compare $20 to $160.
When we say the games industry, what do we really mean? Blizzard is a company that is part of the games industry. It is benefitting from black marks in the payroll every single month (in the millions?). So, yes it is benefiting the games industry. But if it was $160, it would probably be $40 to four different companies. In a sense, it is benefiting 4 different companies. What I'm trying to say is that it all comes down to perspective.
But in my biased perspective, I'd say that MMORPGs are hurting the industry because it can possibly lead to less variety of games because the players will be fixed to 1 game (1 company) and the other companies lose out and may close out.
Wii is 100% for sure. If SSBB came out on launch day, I'll get it on launch day no questions asked. Since it is not, I am 75% likely to get it due to Zelda:TP, Wario Ware (very fun games for the gf and her sibs) and other blockbuster franchises.
As for the PS3, it's mainly to feed my JRPG cravings. If the PS3 bombs and rpg developers move to Wii, then that'll be 1 less system to buy. If the rpg developers move to the 360 (shudders), I'll be forced to buy a 360. I'm hoping MistWalker pulls a Capcom (RE4) and release Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey for the PS3 (or the Wii).
So in summary, the Wii for the franchises and PS3 for the JRPGs.
China has a big problem concerning piracy. If tourists and locals are buying $1 "real" dvd without hesitation, what makes them think they'll report it to the police. So, I doubt the DS Lite is going to have any problems being sold. China, Malayasia, and I think Thailand have huge problems with this issue. Last time in China, one could buy the entire Snoopy collection of cartoons for a thrifty price. How about 10 dvds of Stephen Chow movies with about 4-8 movies per dvd? Very cheap indeed.
I am not knowledgeable in game programming nor the complexities of the xbox and 360 architecture, but couldn't something be done similar to how pirates create those emulation programs to play snes, etc onto a computer? Or is the architecture so complex that such a one-to-one conversion isn't possible.
There's the possibility that instead of a PS4 (if that happens), SONY will release an upgrade kit containing various hardware components to create the PS4. This way, consumers won't need to buy a brand new console and instead buy the upgrade kit to get the next-gen console.
This may be a way to curb costs on future generations. Of course, there will be a regular PS4 for sale for those who never bought a PS3.
NOTE: This is not confirmed. This is only 1 idea I think they are approaching it this way.
Halo 2 sold 6.4 million copies. On the other hand, Nintendo has several different titles selling at least 1 million. Usually, quality is better than quantity but in this case I think Nintendo has the upper hand still.
Please note that Nintendo makes quantity "Quality" games so this isn't really a fair comparison. If it was Random Port or Sequel VS Halo 2 then it would clearly be Halo 2 being the winner of quantity vs quality.
As of June 1st, EBGames and GameStop in the USA stopped accepting PS1 and N64 games. The pricing explains the need to discontinue collecting antiques from the customers. There's no way the B&M stores can compete with the relatively lower price of the Wii Virtual Console.
Let's say the ps3 is built to last. Then, when the next gen consoles come out, we wouldn't have to spend money on the ps4 but on the games instead. So, in Sony's point of view, they are making money where it counts - license fees of games. I'm all for the ps3 built like a computer. Only when it is absolutely necessary to upgrade (eg. Final Fantasy 20 needs a quad core) will I upgrade the ps3.
On a side note about game pricing: Won't some games still be in DVD9 format for the ps3? Like budget-esque games such as Katamari or not so graphically oriented like Lumines?
$200 seems like the most likely choice considering the history of launch prices. But remember, this is Nintendo. They surprised us with the wiimote and the "Wii" name. At this rate, they'll be launching a price less than $200 (say $150) or have a really nice bundle that'll be $200.
I'm an ABC (American Born Chinese) and I speak some conversational Chinese to my parents. Mainly, it's common words. I don't think I can watch a Chinese Drama and understand the complicated love triangle and the various slangs and such. Imagine a 6th grade kid talking to their parents. That is how I think my Chinese language comprehension skills are at.
In regards to Pac-Man, I really meant Ms. Pac Man. My fault for being lazy and not typing "Ms." but I just wanted to illustrate the point. Another game that my family enjoyed was Combat and Space Invaders.
Amongst my friends and I, we call it "Wii". Amongst my FOB parents and FOB relatives, all video game products are called "Nintendo" with the exception of "Atari". Btw, the last game my parents played was Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. It requires no English skills, easy to learn, and fun for the whole family. With the remote style controller, I wouldn't need to explain how to play a game with my broken foreign language skills to my parents and/or relatives.
FOB = Fresh Off the Boat (slang for immigrants coming from Asia to America)
There's a reason the codename is revolution: they are planning a coup de tat of the console emperor -- Sony.
Taken from dictionary dot com, these two definitions seems appropriate: 1. A sudden or momentous change in a situation. 2. The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.
Obviously, Nintendo changed the marketing situation of the console wars. All eyes are upon Nintendo and E3 for the "Wii". After E3, the throne will be usurped by Nintendo and Sony will either be beheaded (die in the console war) or sent to peasant land (2nd place) or exiled (last place).
Of course, any rebels that fail to achieve their goals usually result in death.
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I remember the SNES days. After hearing that Nintendo is developing the "Dolphin", I quickly anticipated the next Final Fantasy on it. It even had a tech demo of 3d FFVI characters. Then, when I heard that the PS1 was getting FFVII, I was shocked. It was so shocking that I had to save up money for two systems instead of one. By the way, I bought more PS1 games than N64 mainly due to the RPG selection. The only N64 games I had are the 1st party games and Golden Eye (btw, kicked ass back in the day).
It seems this a biased report. Red hat should have been ranked higher than Microsoft. Maybe Microsoft reached into it's limitless reserve and bribed the reviewer into a more favorable report. Well, if you are some Tech guy that needs to make a decision about which OS to use for your company, please for the love of God review everything before submitting your proposal. I would hate for you to have a vulnerable server ready to be exploited.
Whenever I think of the word penetration, I think of some organ and yeah....
Yes. Jennifer Strange was a runner up and received Justin Timberlake tickets.
I am one of those people. I am waiting to beat Wind Waker (bought it when it came out but never touched it) and waiting for a component cable.
Seriously though, don't buy any games until you have time to play them. I still have 8 other unopened new games.
Objection! (points finger like Phoenix Wright)
Most likely the guy is playing it via the Wii Tour amongst the Westfield malls as stated on the nintendo website. But, my point is moot if this guy isn't living/visiting America the time of writing the review.
Think of Sony playing a game of Texas hold'em. They're betting all of their chips and going all-in. We don't know if they are packing pocket rockets or unsuited 2 and 7.
I don't remember the exact quote on the movies Rounders but it goes something similar to this: "You can't earn what you can't put out on the table."
For Sony's case, they're risking everything to double, triple, 8x their income or bust.
Strategy guides didn't pave the way for more difficult games. It was the fans. With fans often bragging beating games in 1 or 2 days (or even hours), the developers make mental notes that the game isn't challenging enough or the developers are secretly collaborating with Brady and other strategy publishers for profits. Assuming the former is true, developers would add more levels or make the game world larger which requires $$$ and man hours. Or, they could simply add tedious puzzles which take less man hours and $$$ and force the users (the fans) to spend hours solving it.
Here's my personal experiences growing up. Battletoads was probably the only game my 2 brothers and I couldn't finish while renting it. From what I recall, every game we rented was conquered. 40+ hour rpgs like Chrono Trigger, FF6, UW: New Horizons (rented 4x to beat all 6 chars), and OGRE BATTLE 5 was conquered within the 3 day timeframe. Usually we took 2 days. It required rotation of brothers playing the games and/or doing the chores like dishes and lawn. Of course, I could have done it myself but with 2 brothers, 1 NES/SNES, we had to fight for time.
One nuisance with puzzles was with Lufia for the SNES. There was a puzzle where you had to press 4 buttons in a certain order and if you messed up, you had to fight a random encounter. Then, you had to leave the room and re-enter to reset the puzzle. With no hints, that puzzle took almost an hour using trial-and-error. It was back in the day, so either we were too poor to buy a strategy guide or the internet wasn't as big as it is now (gamefaqs would save the headache). This 1 memory alone made me believe in the strategy guide conspiracy.
This new invention could be useful for the Game of Life (TM). It's easier for the banker to issue money to a doctor that earns $50k (1 $50k note) each payday instead of the journalist earning $24,000 (1 20k note and 4 1k note). No one in my circle of friends ever want to be a banker. It's usually picked by random.
For the spinner, it would speed games quickly if we didn't have to wait for the spinner to stop. It could take 5-20 seconds depending on the strength of the person and/or the amount of cooking oil underneath.
In a Dilbert comic I read, Dogbert invented a time machine that can take you 1 hour into the future. But, this time machine takes an hour to operate...
So if I were to get a five-finger discount on a ps3 game with that DRM, technically I never agreed to any license.
Stealing all the way!!!
Watching the opening CG animation on my 52" TV looks good (measurements are + - 10" since I don't remember the exact size of the TV).
After watching the imported FFXII, I can't wait to hook up a PS3's HDMI port and put in FFXIII. Probably some wonderful [eye] candy even snickers can't even satisfy.
A WoW addict pays a fixed subscription rate (I dunno, say $20). A hardcore gamer who buys 4 game a month pays ~$160 (assuming he/she beats 1 game a week and game price is $40 each). Now, compare $20 to $160.
When we say the games industry, what do we really mean? Blizzard is a company that is part of the games industry. It is benefitting from black marks in the payroll every single month (in the millions?). So, yes it is benefiting the games industry. But if it was $160, it would probably be $40 to four different companies. In a sense, it is benefiting 4 different companies. What I'm trying to say is that it all comes down to perspective.
But in my biased perspective, I'd say that MMORPGs are hurting the industry because it can possibly lead to less variety of games because the players will be fixed to 1 game (1 company) and the other companies lose out and may close out.
Wii is 100% for sure. If SSBB came out on launch day, I'll get it on launch day no questions asked. Since it is not, I am 75% likely to get it due to Zelda:TP, Wario Ware (very fun games for the gf and her sibs) and other blockbuster franchises.
As for the PS3, it's mainly to feed my JRPG cravings. If the PS3 bombs and rpg developers move to Wii, then that'll be 1 less system to buy. If the rpg developers move to the 360 (shudders), I'll be forced to buy a 360. I'm hoping MistWalker pulls a Capcom (RE4) and release Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey for the PS3 (or the Wii).
So in summary, the Wii for the franchises and PS3 for the JRPGs.
China has a big problem concerning piracy. If tourists and locals are buying $1 "real" dvd without hesitation, what makes them think they'll report it to the police. So, I doubt the DS Lite is going to have any problems being sold. China, Malayasia, and I think Thailand have huge problems with this issue. Last time in China, one could buy the entire Snoopy collection of cartoons for a thrifty price. How about 10 dvds of Stephen Chow movies with about 4-8 movies per dvd? Very cheap indeed.
I am not knowledgeable in game programming nor the complexities of the xbox and 360 architecture, but couldn't something be done similar to how pirates create those emulation programs to play snes, etc onto a computer? Or is the architecture so complex that such a one-to-one conversion isn't possible.
There's the possibility that instead of a PS4 (if that happens), SONY will release an upgrade kit containing various hardware components to create the PS4. This way, consumers won't need to buy a brand new console and instead buy the upgrade kit to get the next-gen console.
This may be a way to curb costs on future generations. Of course, there will be a regular PS4 for sale for those who never bought a PS3.
NOTE: This is not confirmed. This is only 1 idea I think they are approaching it this way.
Halo 2 sold 6.4 million copies. On the other hand, Nintendo has several different titles selling at least 1 million. Usually, quality is better than quantity but in this case I think Nintendo has the upper hand still.
Please note that Nintendo makes quantity "Quality" games so this isn't really a fair comparison. If it was Random Port or Sequel VS Halo 2 then it would clearly be Halo 2 being the winner of quantity vs quality.
As of June 1st, EBGames and GameStop in the USA stopped accepting PS1 and N64 games. The pricing explains the need to discontinue collecting antiques from the customers. There's no way the B&M stores can compete with the relatively lower price of the Wii Virtual Console.
Let's say the ps3 is built to last. Then, when the next gen consoles come out, we wouldn't have to spend money on the ps4 but on the games instead. So, in Sony's point of view, they are making money where it counts - license fees of games. I'm all for the ps3 built like a computer. Only when it is absolutely necessary to upgrade (eg. Final Fantasy 20 needs a quad core) will I upgrade the ps3.
On a side note about game pricing: Won't some games still be in DVD9 format for the ps3? Like budget-esque games such as Katamari or not so graphically oriented like Lumines?
So do we expect speed run videos from this game soon ?
$200 seems like the most likely choice considering the history of launch prices. But remember, this is Nintendo. They surprised us with the wiimote and the "Wii" name. At this rate, they'll be launching a price less than $200 (say $150) or have a really nice bundle that'll be $200.
I'm an ABC (American Born Chinese) and I speak some conversational Chinese to my parents. Mainly, it's common words. I don't think I can watch a Chinese Drama and understand the complicated love triangle and the various slangs and such. Imagine a 6th grade kid talking to their parents. That is how I think my Chinese language comprehension skills are at.
In regards to Pac-Man, I really meant Ms. Pac Man. My fault for being lazy and not typing "Ms." but I just wanted to illustrate the point. Another game that my family enjoyed was Combat and Space Invaders.
Amongst my friends and I, we call it "Wii". Amongst my FOB parents and FOB relatives, all video game products are called "Nintendo" with the exception of "Atari". Btw, the last game my parents played was Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. It requires no English skills, easy to learn, and fun for the whole family. With the remote style controller, I wouldn't need to explain how to play a game with my broken foreign language skills to my parents and/or relatives. FOB = Fresh Off the Boat (slang for immigrants coming from Asia to America)
There's a reason the codename is revolution: they are planning a coup de tat of the console emperor -- Sony.
Taken from dictionary dot com, these two definitions seems appropriate:
1. A sudden or momentous change in a situation.
2. The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.
Obviously, Nintendo changed the marketing situation of the console wars. All eyes are upon Nintendo and E3 for the "Wii". After E3, the throne will be usurped by Nintendo and Sony will either be beheaded (die in the console war) or sent to peasant land (2nd place) or exiled (last place).
Of course, any rebels that fail to achieve their goals usually result in death.