re:"I notice this problem with people talking about digital downloads. 1 dollar/euro for an iTune song? I am sorry, you just skipped all the costs of distrubuting and stocking CD's and I don't see any reduction in the cost of an album? And it is only because Jobs knows exactly how much you can get away with that the RIAA doesn't get its way and raises the price even higher. Where are the cost savings going? As if I need to ask."
Bandwidth.
Bandwidth costs for YouTube.com for example are more than a million dollars a month and rising fast. Apple's massive global service eats bandwidth galore. In the United States, CD's routinely cost 16-20 dollars, so 8-9 dollars for an entire album of downloads is half the price of physical media. In this rare case, the margins for music download profit vs apple's take from hardware revenue are reversed from the video-game model.
Not at all. China's policies in the last 50 years have killed more people than the Nazi's and it's "A-OK" to do business with them. IBM opened a big door for the rest of American business. God bless-em. 30 million plus dead doesn't mean my plastic products can't be made on their bones.
Moral business. Feh. Might as well open the trade doors with North Korea and get it over with.
And you walked 18 miles in the snow to get to school and liked it.
Boy - once these gamers get their AARP cards - they can get quite annoying.
I own 3 vintage arcade games but that doesn't preclude or deny the existance of fun games now. Games with "tutorials" that I can't skip can be annoying, but Katamari's is fairly short thank goodness.
Go back to my roots? What am I - a plant? Do my fernlike appendages amuse you?
Just a tip, do what I did. I use apple-stock but I found previous generation cinema displays being cleared out for under 700 bucks (big ones). Sure it's not as shiney as the new stock (or as high-rez) but 22 inches of LCD goodness for 600 bucks ain't bad, and will hold up until the 23 inch displays that I like come down in price. Check craigslist - they're all over the place in some of the cities supported.
(disclaimer - check ADC adapters for your computer millage may vary etc)
You're missing the point though. The point is no one in their right mind is going to say "graphics - phooey", when buying a new system.
Yes (unless you overlook repackaging characters now pushing freshness dating into the 26 year old column) Shigeru Miyamoto is god - do you hear me? GOD. Yes he interviews like Forest Gump and doesn't play games - but G.O.D. gotit. Good.
- BUT -
There's at least - 2 - or heck THREE decent PS2 games - out there - and I suspect - several games coming out for the PS3 are not going to feature ducks from Atari's Adventure. So yes - gameplay gamplay gamplay (and 39 more Mario/Wario/Yoshi & some guy named Hank who was drunk out back at the loading docks - and perhaps a new Zelda game after 3 more years of waiting) your nuts off.
Disclaimer: Unless Shigeru Miyamoto (and his non-game-playing godlike genius) wants to re-introduce the "ducks from Adventure" into his new epic "Mario-takes-a-shit-and-gives-Luigi-a-blowjob RPG Smash Mini Cart for your Wii" - in which case, it's GENIUS. Godlike Genius!
I suspect I won't be cursing the PS3's graphics though my teeth in 2 years while playing the latest 1080i/p based bloodbatch from the next Grand Theft Auto game - where the hookers will be high-rez, and you'll taste the salt in the blood. Taste it! (although if I did complain I'd be sure to do it in a Charlton Heston voice: "DAMN YOU NICE LOOKING GRAPHICS - DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! - you MANIACS!")
And as for all those superior NES games - I recall - a few - THOUSAND - generic side scrollers that didn't just beat a dead horse: It beat, pummled, scraped off the pavement, inserted the remains into a howitzer shell, fired it at the ground not once - but - 5 - times, and then took THOSE remains and put them into the bumpers of the 1973 AMC Pacer.
ALL gaming starts to add up. Or did you buy 2 games for the life of your system?
As for the rest - hey Dreamcasts are really cheap and look great on normal tv. Go nuts! As far as cost - I'm sure that computer you're typing on was a bargin. Commodore 64 is it?
Actually the NYT last Sunday had an interesting article about that - right now Sony's profit margins are around 2.6 percent compared to Samsung or Apple which are 14 and 12 percent respectively.
So - ja - they've tricked out the ps3 to the gills, but a whopping profit margin isn't one of them. They're hoping to raise the margins to 5 percent by 2008.
I'm more concerned by reports that there are NO GRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES between Zelda for the Gamecube, and Zelda for the Wii (wii.ign.com). That means - if you want to really save money - just get a GameCube.
re:"you and the 14 other people with HDTVs can go buy a $800 PS3 then"
(a) More than 14 people own HDTV (b) More than 14 people will buy an HDTV in the next 6 years (c) The PS3 is 500 and 600 respectively (d) You're a troll. But - still - how do you keep your apartment under the bridge looking so fresh?
I have some spices and a large grill ready! We don't want their juicy and tender little souls corrupted by video games. Tut tut, pass the tarter sauce. And don't skimp on the baby back ribs.
Well more than 100 million users weren't disapointed in the PS2, and the gross tonnage of games bears that out (compared to - say - the Jaguar which had enough retruns to effectively put Atari-Trammel out of business).
Sometime in the next 6 years I'll be looking to upgrade my entertainment system to something 1080p capable - and then I would be disapointed if my console / movie player didn't make the grade. I used (and still use) my PS2 as my prime DVD player (I have having a stack of boxes piled around the TV among other arguments) and will be curious how Blue's debut compares to the 1st gen HDDVD players. The picture from HDDVD is so robust (given that it has the highest throughput of any HD format available) you can see film grain. The boot and load times are staggering however.
Between that and capacity, I'm looking to get a cheap HD player as much as a game box, and considering my (sluggish) mac-mini was the same price, I think the capablilities are a bargin.
And if Rockstar gives me full-on chainsaw enabled goodness in 1080i to 1080p - oh - I'll be quite happy. Quite happy indeed.
Have you read the comments at Digg lately? I panned them months ago - but took a peek the other day to see if time would have raised the comment IQ over there. Not a chance. It's as bad - if not worse than something from MySpace.
Even when the comments are short here - they're at least literate.
(And if this looks like kissing ass for Karma's sake - I'm already "excelent" disclaimer blah. Of course that doesn't preclude earlier ass-kissing.)
If the thread about DVD's topping out on the 360 - already! - are true then that would not be a good idea.
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Someone killing themselves is not a criminal offense for others but only for the "suicider" if they involve public places like famous bridges and what-not. Of course I don't know anyone who was ticketed after they were dead...
Otherwise is a laugh-riot for the pathos / schedenfreude set. Perhaps we could mail him some bullets? Of course we can't include a note because that could be contituted at a threat - and that's illegal of course.
If the thin skinned want to bleed to death in the rain - then let them and cull the heard for Darwin's sake.
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re:"I notice this problem with people talking about digital downloads. 1 dollar/euro for an iTune song? I am sorry, you just skipped all the costs of distrubuting and stocking CD's and I don't see any reduction in the cost of an album? And it is only because Jobs knows exactly how much you can get away with that the RIAA doesn't get its way and raises the price even higher. Where are the cost savings going? As if I need to ask."
Bandwidth.
Bandwidth costs for YouTube.com for example are more than a million dollars a month and rising fast. Apple's massive global service eats bandwidth galore. In the United States, CD's routinely cost 16-20 dollars, so 8-9 dollars for an entire album of downloads is half the price of physical media. In this rare case, the margins for music download profit vs apple's take from hardware revenue are reversed from the video-game model.
Not at all. China's policies in the last 50 years have killed more people than the Nazi's and it's "A-OK" to do business with them. IBM opened a big door for the rest of American business. God bless-em. 30 million plus dead doesn't mean my plastic products can't be made on their bones.
Moral business. Feh. Might as well open the trade doors with North Korea and get it over with.
And you walked 18 miles in the snow to get to school and liked it.
Boy - once these gamers get their AARP cards - they can get quite annoying.
I own 3 vintage arcade games but that doesn't preclude or deny the existance of fun games now.
Games with "tutorials" that I can't skip can be annoying, but Katamari's is fairly short thank goodness.
Go back to my roots? What am I - a plant? Do my fernlike appendages amuse you?
I was getting fucking tired off all the gamers driving drunk on the roads. Problem solved - good job.
Those FBI warnings made the movie rippers sure take notice - boy howdy!
This one should really put the kiabosh on those piracy shennanigans. Just you watch!
Just a tip, do what I did. I use apple-stock but I found previous generation cinema displays being cleared out for under 700 bucks (big ones). Sure it's not as shiney as the new stock (or as high-rez) but 22 inches of LCD goodness for 600 bucks ain't bad, and will hold up until the 23 inch displays that I like come down in price. Check craigslist - they're all over the place in some of the cities supported.
(disclaimer - check ADC adapters for your computer millage may vary etc)
You're missing the point though. The point is no one in their right mind is going to say "graphics - phooey", when buying a new system.
Yes (unless you overlook repackaging characters now pushing freshness dating into the 26 year old column) Shigeru Miyamoto is god - do you hear me? GOD. Yes he interviews like Forest Gump and doesn't play games - but G.O.D. gotit. Good.
- BUT -
There's at least - 2 - or heck THREE decent PS2 games - out there - and I suspect - several games coming out for the PS3 are not going to feature ducks from Atari's Adventure. So yes - gameplay gamplay gamplay (and 39 more Mario/Wario/Yoshi & some guy named Hank who was drunk out back at the loading docks - and perhaps a new Zelda game after 3 more years of waiting) your nuts off.
Disclaimer: Unless Shigeru Miyamoto (and his non-game-playing godlike genius) wants to re-introduce the "ducks from Adventure" into his new epic "Mario-takes-a-shit-and-gives-Luigi-a-blowjob RPG Smash Mini Cart for your Wii" - in which case, it's GENIUS. Godlike Genius!
I suspect I won't be cursing the PS3's graphics though my teeth in 2 years while playing the latest 1080i/p based bloodbatch from the next Grand Theft Auto game - where the hookers will be high-rez, and you'll taste the salt in the blood. Taste it! (although if I did complain I'd be sure to do it in a Charlton Heston voice: "DAMN YOU NICE LOOKING GRAPHICS - DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! - you MANIACS!")
And as for all those superior NES games - I recall - a few - THOUSAND - generic side scrollers that didn't just beat a dead horse: It beat, pummled, scraped off the pavement, inserted the remains into a howitzer shell, fired it at the ground not once - but - 5 - times, and then took THOSE remains and put them into the bumpers of the 1973 AMC Pacer.
re:"and the NES controller is clearly superior to the Colecovision"
Oh well hell if you're going to nit-pick, bashing yourself over the head with a brick is clearly preferable to the Colecovision Controler.
Anyone else having to hit refresh every 3rd time to get the white background to load?
ALL gaming starts to add up. Or did you buy 2 games for the life of your system?
As for the rest - hey Dreamcasts are really cheap and look great on normal tv. Go nuts! As far as cost - I'm sure that computer you're typing on was a bargin. Commodore 64 is it?
I'm trying to imagine 2 kids in 1982 having some fanbuy argument.
Bob: Hey! I heard Atari is going to put out the 2600 which is just like the VCS graphically except it's in a black case instead of a faux-wood one.
Joe: Screw that - I'm getting a ColecoVision.
Bob: Graphics aren't everything - there's also gameplay. I don't care about graphics.
John: Anyone seen this Famicom in Japan? It's got great graphics.
At which point above do you think one of the characters blew milk out his nose?
Actually the NYT last Sunday had an interesting article about that - right now Sony's profit margins are around 2.6 percent compared to Samsung or Apple which are 14 and 12 percent respectively.
So - ja - they've tricked out the ps3 to the gills, but a whopping profit margin isn't one of them. They're hoping to raise the margins to 5 percent by 2008.
I'm more concerned by reports that there are NO GRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES between Zelda for the Gamecube, and Zelda for the Wii (wii.ign.com). That means - if you want to really save money - just get a GameCube.
re:"you and the 14 other people with HDTVs can go buy a $800 PS3 then"
(a) More than 14 people own HDTV
(b) More than 14 people will buy an HDTV in the next 6 years
(c) The PS3 is 500 and 600 respectively
(d) You're a troll. But - still - how do you keep your apartment under the bridge looking so fresh?
Yes kids everywhere will be running home to play with their wee's.
OH damn.
Eat the fucking children.
I have some spices and a large grill ready! We don't want their juicy and tender little souls corrupted by video games. Tut tut, pass the tarter sauce. And don't skimp on the baby back ribs.
Then congress can get down to implimenting the largest LAN party in the DC area during filibusters.
Live on CSPAN:
John Gilshore: Colorado (D):"To The senator from Maine - YOU'RE SO PWNED! Noob BIATCH - Boom! Headhshot!"
George Crawshank: Maine (R):"I move to censure the camping rocket whore from Colorado"
re:"I'm not suggesting you get a Xbox 360, I'm suggesting you get the next one."
(c) You're SUCH a retard.
(a) within 6 years means sometime during the next 6 years - not after.
(b) the X360 isn't 1080p capable - so I'm not interested in getting one of those.
(c) You're a retard.
Well more than 100 million users weren't disapointed in the PS2, and the gross tonnage of games bears that out (compared to - say - the Jaguar which had enough retruns to effectively put Atari-Trammel out of business).
Sometime in the next 6 years I'll be looking to upgrade my entertainment system to something 1080p capable - and then I would be disapointed if my console / movie player didn't make the grade. I used (and still use) my PS2 as my prime DVD player (I have having a stack of boxes piled around the TV among other arguments) and will be curious how Blue's debut compares to the 1st gen HDDVD players. The picture from HDDVD is so robust (given that it has the highest throughput of any HD format available) you can see film grain. The boot and load times are staggering however.
Between that and capacity, I'm looking to get a cheap HD player as much as a game box, and considering my (sluggish) mac-mini was the same price, I think the capablilities are a bargin.
And if Rockstar gives me full-on chainsaw enabled goodness in 1080i to 1080p - oh - I'll be quite happy. Quite happy indeed.
Apple should release another game console - PIPPEN TWO!
Or - not.
Yeah - fighting a war every 20 years is so fucking great. Wave that flag.
re:"There will always be more terrorists."
Not if we had any balls and did the logical steps required to erradicate it.
See much terrorism in China? Why is that do you suppose?
Have you read the comments at Digg lately? I panned them months ago - but took a peek the other day to see if time would have raised the comment IQ over there. Not a chance. It's as bad - if not worse than something from MySpace.
Even when the comments are short here - they're at least literate.
(And if this looks like kissing ass for Karma's sake - I'm already "excelent" disclaimer blah. Of course that doesn't preclude earlier ass-kissing.)
HEY! - That's GREAT! Thanks for the heads-up!
If the thread about DVD's topping out on the 360 - already! - are true then that would not be a good idea.
Someone killing themselves is not a criminal offense for others but only for the "suicider" if they involve public places like famous bridges and what-not. Of course I don't know anyone who was ticketed after they were dead...
Otherwise is a laugh-riot for the pathos / schedenfreude set. Perhaps we could mail him some bullets? Of course we can't include a note because that could be contituted at a threat - and that's illegal of course.
If the thin skinned want to bleed to death in the rain - then let them and cull the heard for Darwin's sake.