After the lines for the PS3 at store-open didn't abate, I decided "screw-this", and got the Wii (there's 4 retailers carrying the Wii all within 1 square mile near me - not that big a deal to secure).
I'll be getting the PS3 the same time I did my PSP - after the game I want has been released for it (March-April, Medal of Honor: Airborne or F1). Given that Zelda has 50-100 hours of gameplay included - and that I work for a living, I should finish it around then and still have access to the Mario / Zelda / Metroid franchises. Never been a multi-console fanatic, but in this case, it worked out nicely.
I'm also digging both Sony and Nintendo's retro support. I like the idea of classic Zelda without the lithum battery dying. The PS1 to PSP emulation looks nice as well.
Until a satire site gives the industry ideas. Seriously. What bone-headed MBA wouldn't look at this and go - hey - what a great idea! Now whose the dumbfuck?
Something blew up in manufacturing, because I somehow doubt Sony's going to crank out a quarter million a week to make their "1 million at launch". This would also indicate a very - very - long time before you'll actually be able to do the following. (a) walk into game store (b) go up to the counter (c) buy a game system.
Let me know when those lines stop forming. I might actually buy one myself - I'm thinking May at the current rate of production. Or you could get one on eBay - given the release numbers that means at least a FIFTH of them were put on re-sale. Must be a fun box when over TWENTY PERCENT of your audience doesn't give two-shits about it and would rather scalp it. Now that's a hardcore system right there, boy howdy.
Sony didn't blow up - but if you expected one before then - guess what - you're FUCKED. Fucked fucked fucked fucked FUCKED - boy are you - what's that word? FUCKED.
Fuck Xmas. The hard-core would have made for a sell-out on launch day on fucking EARTH DAY so fuck all the manufactureres in the EAR for pandering to the Xmas bullshit. A rumored to be good-guy who gets nailed to a tree's birth is so on-message with consumer electronics. Since the after T-day shoppers are fucked - why bother with this drama at all?
Put them out in the summer and get on with fucking business. Gamers want to play - not be the latest co-stars in My mommy cornholed santa and all I got was a Dreamcast - rated PG-13.
I started buying new consoles when the game I wanted was released, and ya know what? I had no problems finding my PSP at retail price. Granted Zelda fans are fucked, but if you bid on eBay you're part of the problem.
Oh - yes. To those who thought line-shootings were bad, here comes the estrogen army. You don't dare get in the way of a breeder with a mission: "To save my Bobby's Christmas". Be afraid - be very very afraid
Well at least it wasn't footnoted: "Retailers dread getting in the evil PS3 from the demon company Sony whose black-magical DRM-Rootkit will steal your soul and make you gnaw on your grandmother's unearthed bones BWA HA HA HA HA HA. Remember, if you buy a PS3, you make God cry - Love, Zonk."
The surprises keep coming fast and furious here boy-howdy.
Wii's I can believe - one gamestop got a few in today - but the rest are saying February for the PS3. If by weeks you mean months - then yes - I can stop trolling for typos.
Bingo - not like TV to troll people who might have tuned out and moved on to other things. Nooooo. Not a chance of that happening.
As ratings continue to slide - we'll be seeing some great moments in television panicking as the industry implodes. I can't wait to read about it online or in the paper.
Right. A man who misrepresents his political affiliations, his awards, and even his place of BIRTH, is far more in touch with reality than a video game fan.
Well yes - if it doesn't prevent global warming at least it will be a decent enough prevention measure against our soon-to-come AI overlords. As a human - I support this.
My own take - and btw - this needs a new thread as I didn't see any REAL posts - just the usual snarkage, meaning if you're reading this - I'm impressed beyond words.
I got my PS2 in the Meteron in 2000's line on a bit of a lark, coming into line at 3-330pm that day. I was in the last 3rd of the line and it was only in front of the metreon itself.
This time - to be safe (har har) - I'd show at noon, and see what's up. That and I didn't really want to stand for more than 12 hours. The general on the street buzz was that all passes were gone by 9am, and they made their final wrist count at 10. That said, it was basically spoiled by the Metreon not preventing all-night camping (how they avoided it then I have no idea but they did - perhaps it was because the Moscone extension was still a construction site and Minna wasn't open). Once that happened this go-around, the whole of the next day was alloted already.
I seem to remember talking about this in line in 2000 and they basically kept that scenario from happening. This time they weren't so lucky. One other factor, it was raining - alot - in 2000. There wasn't any weather factor this time around, although given the tents, not sure that would have mattered either.
One last group mutter was the ebay effect. Although ebay was happening 6 years ago, it wasn't nearly to the gold-rush degree it is now. People were offering their units for sale this time on the street once they exited the store. Understandable - but kind of sad.
I stayed in a sub-line that started that afternoon, under the vague notion of another folly that happened in 2000. Back then - there was a line-bump. Basically there were 500 passes and an undermined amount of extras. About 100 more people were bumped into the line very late - and did in fact secure game units. This was also confirmed by one line goer who was a "bumpee" last year (his line position play-by-play matched with the group we spotted that night). I only remember it because we'd refered to them as the "dry ones" as the rest of us were still dripping wet.
I entertained this not only because I wanted to see some of the "line show" (a truck pulling up with the units and other theatrics for the cameras) but because if there was going to be another bump, I was in the first 10 past the cut-off point. Of course, since this wasn't regulated, I left to hit some hangouts of mine nearby, get a couple of red bulls and return hours later closer to midnight (no I didn't stay in for 12 hours). Plus hell - I paid for all day parking anyway, might as well - again - watch the show.
Scored some chochkies and used my limited press credentials (photo pass from the devo show and some business cards of clients and various affiliates) and scored a press kit. Didn't get a ps3 - but it wasn't less memorable than 2000.
Think the Metereon is tapped out. The campers have pretty much insured that the line will begin and end in the first hour. Better to take your chances with pre-orders if you want to muck with first-day-itis at all.
Met some great people though. So hey. And since this summary is over 500 words - I'm a keepin' my press-pack.
I thought I was going to read an article about a Star Wars fan getting his cherry popped. This is a total let-down. I feel flaccid over the whole thing.
That's why content might sell. If they hired writers instead of data-entry monkeys that transcribed PR releases and "insider info" from the manufactures easter-egg list.
"But Dang it Maw - writin' is hard! Can't I just say "I peed my pants" again in this thar review? How do you spell XTREEME again?"
I noticed they chalked up the downloadable demos as thier primary reason. Good thing to see they valued a strong editorial staff over PR compilation chaff. This alone not only drives the magazine's price up and makes you feel like a sap for purchasing a "multimedia marketing solution" (aren't ads supposed to help pay the cost of the magazine, not drive it up? Basic publishing LAW anyone?), but pushes good copy further into the margins. Of course - it would have helped for them to have HAD good copy, but that's just a former Next-Generation subscriber troll reaction.
On the other hand, it clears the slate that much further for a magazine that is as good as Edge (which is getting harder to take relevant as the UK has been kicked in the nads not once but twice by Sony's release schedules - not to mention the cost) but is geared to US tastes.
The thing that has always been stuck in my craw is the industry touting of the aging of the median-gamer, but the editorial that is stuck one decade behind it. Edge magazine is on target, but lord knows - little - if anything else is.
Anyone want to angel investor a former member of the Pulitzer publishing empire?
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I did EXACTLY that.
After the lines for the PS3 at store-open didn't abate, I decided "screw-this", and got the Wii (there's 4 retailers carrying the Wii all within 1 square mile near me - not that big a deal to secure).
I'll be getting the PS3 the same time I did my PSP - after the game I want has been released for it (March-April, Medal of Honor: Airborne or F1). Given that Zelda has 50-100 hours of gameplay included - and that I work for a living, I should finish it around then and still have access to the Mario / Zelda / Metroid franchises. Never been a multi-console fanatic, but in this case, it worked out nicely.
I'm also digging both Sony and Nintendo's retro support. I like the idea of classic Zelda without the lithum battery dying. The PS1 to PSP emulation looks nice as well.
Don't you have something more important to do other than correcting typos? Like beating your children or something?
Give-em a good smack for me. You know they deserve it.
Until a satire site gives the industry ideas. Seriously. What bone-headed MBA wouldn't look at this and go - hey - what a great idea! Now whose the dumbfuck?
Oh look - there were less than 150 thousand at launch:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15854413/
Something blew up in manufacturing, because I somehow doubt Sony's going to crank out a quarter million a week to make their "1 million at launch". This would also indicate a very - very - long time before you'll actually be able to do the following. (a) walk into game store (b) go up to the counter (c) buy a game system.
Let me know when those lines stop forming. I might actually buy one myself - I'm thinking May at the current rate of production. Or you could get one on eBay - given the release numbers that means at least a FIFTH of them were put on re-sale. Must be a fun box when over TWENTY PERCENT of your audience doesn't give two-shits about it and would rather scalp it. Now that's a hardcore system right there, boy howdy.
re:"Remind me again, why do we care what Nolan Bushnell thinks of the PS3 dev environment?"
Because I'd never be able to play PONG or BREAKOUT on my PS3!
Well looky loo.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162190.html
Sony didn't blow up - but if you expected one before then - guess what - you're FUCKED. Fucked fucked fucked fucked FUCKED - boy are you - what's that word? FUCKED.
Little Bobby needs to get his ass outside more often before I put my foot in it. The miserable fat fuck.
I did mentioned that they were unearthed. She wasn't alive after all - that would be crass.
Fuck Xmas. The hard-core would have made for a sell-out on launch day on fucking EARTH DAY so fuck all the manufactureres in the EAR for pandering to the Xmas bullshit. A rumored to be good-guy who gets nailed to a tree's birth is so on-message with consumer electronics. Since the after T-day shoppers are fucked - why bother with this drama at all?
Put them out in the summer and get on with fucking business. Gamers want to play - not be the latest co-stars in My mommy cornholed santa and all I got was a Dreamcast - rated PG-13.
I started buying new consoles when the game I wanted was released, and ya know what? I had no problems finding my PSP at retail price. Granted Zelda fans are fucked, but if you bid on eBay you're part of the problem.
Oh - yes. To those who thought line-shootings were bad, here comes the estrogen army. You don't dare get in the way of a breeder with a mission: "To save my Bobby's Christmas". Be afraid - be very very afraid
Well at least it wasn't footnoted: "Retailers dread getting in the evil PS3 from the demon company Sony whose black-magical DRM-Rootkit will steal your soul and make you gnaw on your grandmother's unearthed bones BWA HA HA HA HA HA. Remember, if you buy a PS3, you make God cry - Love, Zonk."
The surprises keep coming fast and furious here boy-howdy.
Wii's I can believe - one gamestop got a few in today - but the rest are saying February for the PS3. If by weeks you mean months - then yes - I can stop trolling for typos.
Bingo - not like TV to troll people who might have tuned out and moved on to other things. Nooooo. Not a chance of that happening.
As ratings continue to slide - we'll be seeing some great moments in television panicking as the industry implodes. I can't wait to read about it
online or in the paper.
Right. A man who misrepresents his political affiliations, his awards, and even his place of BIRTH, is far more in touch with reality than a video game fan.
Shame on fucking me.
Well yes - if it doesn't prevent global warming at least it will be a decent enough prevention measure against our soon-to-come AI overlords. As a human - I support this.
re:"Here's a litmus test: is standing in line for a PS3 something you would be proud to tell your children about a decade from now"
If they want to stay in my will - I'll tell-em what I want. Thank you Mr. mind control - you may go fuck yourself now.
My own take - and btw - this needs a new thread as I didn't see any REAL posts - just the usual snarkage, meaning if you're reading this - I'm impressed beyond words.
I got my PS2 in the Meteron in 2000's line on a bit of a lark, coming into line at 3-330pm that day. I was in the last 3rd of the line and it was only in front of the metreon itself.
This time - to be safe (har har) - I'd show at noon, and see what's up. That and I didn't really want to stand for more than 12 hours. The general on the street buzz was that all passes were gone by 9am, and they made their final wrist count at 10. That said, it was basically spoiled by the Metreon not preventing all-night camping (how they avoided it then I have no idea but they did - perhaps it was because the Moscone extension was still a construction site and Minna wasn't open). Once that happened this go-around, the whole of the next day was alloted already.
I seem to remember talking about this in line in 2000 and they basically kept that scenario from happening. This time they weren't so lucky. One other factor, it was raining - alot - in 2000. There wasn't any weather factor this time around, although given the tents, not sure that would have mattered either.
One last group mutter was the ebay effect. Although ebay was happening 6 years ago, it wasn't nearly to the gold-rush degree it is now. People were offering their units for sale this time on the street once they exited the store. Understandable - but kind of sad.
I stayed in a sub-line that started that afternoon, under the vague notion of another folly that happened in 2000. Back then - there was a line-bump. Basically there were 500 passes and an undermined amount of extras. About 100 more people were bumped into the line very late - and did in fact secure game units. This was also confirmed by one line goer who was a "bumpee" last year (his line position play-by-play matched with the group we spotted that night). I only remember it because we'd refered to them as the "dry ones" as the rest of us were still dripping wet.
I entertained this not only because I wanted to see some of the "line show" (a truck pulling up with the units and other theatrics for the cameras) but because if there was going to be another bump, I was in the first 10 past the cut-off point. Of course, since this wasn't regulated, I left to hit some hangouts of mine nearby, get a couple of red bulls and return hours later closer to midnight (no I didn't stay in for 12 hours). Plus hell - I paid for all day parking anyway, might as well - again - watch the show.
Scored some chochkies and used my limited press credentials (photo pass from the devo show and some business cards of clients and various affiliates) and scored a press kit. Didn't get a ps3 - but it wasn't less memorable than 2000.
Think the Metereon is tapped out. The campers have pretty much insured that the line will begin and end in the first hour. Better to take your chances with pre-orders if you want to muck with first-day-itis at all.
Met some great people though. So hey. And since this summary is over 500 words - I'm a keepin' my press-pack.
It's about the brand stupid.
e nt&task=view&id=4220&Itemid=2
When 100 plus million people buy into a logo - you get headlines like this:
"Study: PlayStation Brand Strong as Ever"
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_cont
60 percent retention rate kind of puts a crimp on niddling things like "crossover-forecasting".
I thought I was going to read an article about a Star Wars fan getting his cherry popped. This is a total let-down. I feel flaccid over the whole thing.
That would have been an interesting controller. If it ever existed outside of photoshop. Got one with 8 joysticks?
Tell me that when you get your pet dinosaur. Oh wait - they were blasted into cosmic oblivion. Enjoy that target on your back.
That's why content might sell. If they hired writers instead of data-entry monkeys that transcribed PR releases and "insider info" from the manufactures easter-egg list.
"But Dang it Maw - writin' is hard! Can't I just say "I peed my pants" again in this thar review? How do you spell XTREEME again?"
I noticed they chalked up the downloadable demos as thier primary reason. Good thing to see they valued a strong editorial staff over PR compilation chaff. This alone not only drives the magazine's price up and makes you feel like a sap for purchasing a "multimedia marketing solution" (aren't ads supposed to help pay the cost of the magazine, not drive it up? Basic publishing LAW anyone?), but pushes good copy further into the margins. Of course - it would have helped for them to have HAD good copy, but that's just a former Next-Generation subscriber troll reaction.
On the other hand, it clears the slate that much further for a magazine that is as good as Edge (which is getting harder to take relevant as the UK has been kicked in the nads not once but twice by Sony's release schedules - not to mention the cost) but is geared to US tastes.
The thing that has always been stuck in my craw is the industry touting of the aging of the median-gamer, but the editorial that is stuck one decade behind it. Edge magazine is on target, but lord knows - little - if anything else is.
Anyone want to angel investor a former member of the Pulitzer publishing empire?
Typos aside, I've always prefered to spell it "Fat Fuck Assclown CEO". But that's just me.
I believe it refers to a Penny Arcade strip:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/10/23