There was (is?) one at Nintendo's HQ in Redmond (at least up till a year ago), handily located next to their in-house shop (where one could nab a mem card and grab the date from it and use that to unlock the tracks on the home version.)
Hmm, so are people only buying Guitar Hero (and all its immitators) because it includes a guitar in the package? I mean, if you look at how well the game sold w/o the guitar (see: Amplitude and Frequency) I think it's fair to say that GH would never have climbed the heights it has either, right?
Yes, great idea! Let's take what we've managed to do with Medicare and Medicaid (not to mention at VA hospitals) and extend governmental control to *all* healthcare provided in the country! The government does such a grand job of managing things where it's the sole-provider of a particular service ($986,000 for postage on two 19 cent washers; the DMV, full stop; etc.) that it makes perfect sense to hand over control of something as incredibly important as healthcare to the machine.
Plus, then we can have the 'benefit' of European and Canadian socialized medicine where you get put on a waiting list for a particular treatment because they used up their allotment of that particular procedure for the year in March (never mind that you needed that operation yesterday, they just don't have it in the budget for the rest of the year.) Or, in the UK, you can practice self-dentistry! Fantastic!
But wait! I know what you're going to say next! The only reason socialized medicine (and communism, while we're at it) has never been succesful is because it hasn't been given a fair shake yet! So let's try one more time and, this time we'll make it work!
Hooray for socialism!
Wait, you mean we don't have sex, err, uh, thrust at us from every possible angle of every hour on every day as it is? And you need more on TV? Have you heard of this thing called the Internet...
Ya know, I had a friend like you in college who always said that and I still don't believe it: pro-choice *is* pro-abortion, period, no matter how many semantic contortions one must twist themselves into when stating otherwise.
"Hello, this is Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and I pronounce Lumines as luminous." If you pronounce it Loo-mines, you've been playing too much Minesweeper. Except for the fact that they aren't spelled the same way and, for the vast, vast majority of people (the people that would be confused by such a situation) would either be reading the name of the game or pronouncing it 'mines.
Because it's not on HP's hardware (iPAQ or Pavilion) nor on Nintendo's hardware (DS or Wii), apart from homebrew. Owners of Nintendo systems or commodity computer systems are excluded, matching the plain definition of "exclusive". Except that the "plain defintion" of exclusive is 'excluding all others.'
1. I'm not sure how Lumines=Luminous Arc (they both have Lumi in it--don't you think that's, I dunno, a bit of a stretch?)
2. How can a game be "exclusive" at all if it's on more than one platform-holder's hardware?
Amen, except that I go for the 2-day for free route--between the no sales tax and (mostly) free shipping, I actually end up getting a free game every 10-15 games (depending on retail price.)
As in Multplayer Online RPG, i.e. not Massive. The one thing I hated about TES:O was that the world felt so dead after playing years of various MMOs and just couldn't get into it (yes, yes, cast your stones this way), but I do realize that going massive would *destroy* TES as it currently stands. But why not a more limited, less massive, online RPG (more than 1 player but less than thousands)? That way you can preserve much (if not all) of what makes TES, well, TES but also allow a small army of players to complete some raid-style content and, when not doing that, go about their merry business doing the usual TES stuff. Your friends can also help you complete the regular quests and it'll give those that choose to be vampires someone 'living' to actually prey upon:)
You might have a point, but any group that would try to tear down the Mt.Soledad cross and strip a tiny little cross out of the LA county seal deserves all the "FUD" they can stomach--and then some.
The ACLU respectfully requests (read: threatens to sue) that you change "Thank you Mario, but the Christmas is in another castle" to "Thank you Mario, but the Seasons Greetings is in another castle."
Actually, the point is simply that MS is losing a lot of devs that were exclusive to them, content-wise, for the past 5 years, and are responsible for some of their biggest sellers (even if they own PGR, losing the dev isn't exactly something to be happy about.)
Yeah, these games haven't been good since Epyx did them right on C64 (the best game machine ever!) Winter, Summer and World (cliff diving!) were all fantastic!
I don't think he argued that Nintendo didn't make money on N64, but it was a very, very far cry from their halcyon days of NES (domination) and SNES (semi-domination) and set the stage for a very sizable loss in marketshare that is only now being rectified with the Wii (in the home console space.)
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There was (is?) one at Nintendo's HQ in Redmond (at least up till a year ago), handily located next to their in-house shop (where one could nab a mem card and grab the date from it and use that to unlock the tracks on the home version.)
Mod this guy up some more.
Hmm, so are people only buying Guitar Hero (and all its immitators) because it includes a guitar in the package? I mean, if you look at how well the game sold w/o the guitar (see: Amplitude and Frequency) I think it's fair to say that GH would never have climbed the heights it has either, right?
Yes, great idea! Let's take what we've managed to do with Medicare and Medicaid (not to mention at VA hospitals) and extend governmental control to *all* healthcare provided in the country! The government does such a grand job of managing things where it's the sole-provider of a particular service ($986,000 for postage on two 19 cent washers; the DMV, full stop; etc.) that it makes perfect sense to hand over control of something as incredibly important as healthcare to the machine. Plus, then we can have the 'benefit' of European and Canadian socialized medicine where you get put on a waiting list for a particular treatment because they used up their allotment of that particular procedure for the year in March (never mind that you needed that operation yesterday, they just don't have it in the budget for the rest of the year.) Or, in the UK, you can practice self-dentistry! Fantastic! But wait! I know what you're going to say next! The only reason socialized medicine (and communism, while we're at it) has never been succesful is because it hasn't been given a fair shake yet! So let's try one more time and, this time we'll make it work! Hooray for socialism!
As if they aren't doing this right now? It's not as if MS is stupid (at least not in this regard.)
Yeah, and nobody you knew voted for Nixon...
Funny, they said that all of last year, too.
Wait, you mean we don't have sex, err, uh, thrust at us from every possible angle of every hour on every day as it is? And you need more on TV? Have you heard of this thing called the Internet...
Yeah, I mean it isn't as if Sony is giving you online play and demos for free, right? Wait, what? They are?! This changes everything!
Ya know, I had a friend like you in college who always said that and I still don't believe it: pro-choice *is* pro-abortion, period, no matter how many semantic contortions one must twist themselves into when stating otherwise.
Someone mod this guy up!
As if we needed more proof that Canada is located on another planet.
1. I'm not sure how Lumines=Luminous Arc (they both have Lumi in it--don't you think that's, I dunno, a bit of a stretch?) 2. How can a game be "exclusive" at all if it's on more than one platform-holder's hardware?
Amen, except that I go for the 2-day for free route--between the no sales tax and (mostly) free shipping, I actually end up getting a free game every 10-15 games (depending on retail price.)
As in Multplayer Online RPG, i.e. not Massive. The one thing I hated about TES:O was that the world felt so dead after playing years of various MMOs and just couldn't get into it (yes, yes, cast your stones this way), but I do realize that going massive would *destroy* TES as it currently stands. But why not a more limited, less massive, online RPG (more than 1 player but less than thousands)? That way you can preserve much (if not all) of what makes TES, well, TES but also allow a small army of players to complete some raid-style content and, when not doing that, go about their merry business doing the usual TES stuff. Your friends can also help you complete the regular quests and it'll give those that choose to be vampires someone 'living' to actually prey upon :)
I love it: so like prescription drugs, America (and the rest of the 'Western' world) are now subsidizing the costs of games.
So IBM is doing it better than Intel/AMD?
Like this?: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39256676,00.htm (a bit old but it's the first thing I found.) Or do you mean like a desktop PC?
You might have a point, but any group that would try to tear down the Mt.Soledad cross and strip a tiny little cross out of the LA county seal deserves all the "FUD" they can stomach--and then some.
What is with the hatred for Mario Sunshine?! Why do people not like this gem? Because it's not as good as their memories of Mario 64?
The ACLU respectfully requests (read: threatens to sue) that you change "Thank you Mario, but the Christmas is in another castle" to "Thank you Mario, but the Seasons Greetings is in another castle."
Actually, the point is simply that MS is losing a lot of devs that were exclusive to them, content-wise, for the past 5 years, and are responsible for some of their biggest sellers (even if they own PGR, losing the dev isn't exactly something to be happy about.)
Yeah, these games haven't been good since Epyx did them right on C64 (the best game machine ever!) Winter, Summer and World (cliff diving!) were all fantastic!
I don't think he argued that Nintendo didn't make money on N64, but it was a very, very far cry from their halcyon days of NES (domination) and SNES (semi-domination) and set the stage for a very sizable loss in marketshare that is only now being rectified with the Wii (in the home console space.)