Just like the Genesis with the Sega CD and 32x, the Jaguar and the Jaguar CD, the Neo Geo and the Neo Geo CD, the N64 and the expansion pack.
Weee, I wanna give $ony $600 every year just to be able to play the latest edition of MGS or GT!!
Hmm, what does this kind of sound like.....Oh yeah, Oblivion.
Bethesda submitted a 60 page document detailing the violence in Oblivion to the ESRB and it got rated T for teen. Then the nude female patch hit (3rd party), and the game gets changed to M for Mature.
Lord knows that it's ok for 13 year olds to see flaming corpses hanging from nooses in the depths of hell but not breasts.
The point is that the ESRB has recently made a huge mistake when having a detailed report of violence in a game. I'm not 100% positive that they would rate the next GTA game correctly after the Oblivion fiasco.
If the past few months have shown us anything about Japan, it's that they dig innovation. Do you know what the recently surpassed #2 selling video game of all time for the first day is in Japan? Brain Age. That's right, the simple, yet highly addictive game that could have been done by one programmer in a few months sold 415,000 copies in Japan on the first day.
What's this tell us? That the Japanese are ready for innovations in games. And honestly, the only system so far to show any innovation is the Wii. The 360 is going to flop in Japan. The PS3 in my opinion is just offering the same games that only look prettier.
Nah, because buying a 360 is buying a whole separate platform. Upgrading to Vista is an upgrade (I think...) to your whole computer that will probably make it run slower.
Speaking of, that is why I run win 2k, lol. Gotta love having 23 processes running on your system.
Heh, not quite. Mario probably has appeared in 3000 games, but there are only a few platformers with him in this series: SMB, SMB2, Lost Levels, SMB3, Mario World, Mario Land 1, 2, and 3 for the GB, Mario 64, Mario Sunshine.
10 games in 21 years. A least with each version the franchise still feels fresh (Tony Hawk or FF anyone?)
As for the best games, I'd say Mario World, SMB3, and Mario 64, in that order.
"Frankly as it's under $1000 it's in impulse buy territory for me."
For you are the key words in that sentence. I don't make much money (7.45/hr in a small city, comparable to about $9-$10 in a big city), and frankly, a $40 game or something is an impulse buy to me. For me to spend $1000 on something, that would require at least 4 paychecks (8 weeks) because I have other bills that I have to take care of. I know I am not in the upper income bracket, but 8 weeks of cutting costs and other financial measures hardly constitutes an impulse buy.
As much as I'd love to see this happen, I don't think that it will. There is a reason that MS charges for Live: bandwidth costs money. As pocket deep as MS is, I don't think that they can stand to lose $500 per system, even if it is for a month or 2.
Ok, let's work off of a couple of assumptions here:
$200 for the system
$100 for games (you buy 2 at $50)
$50 for a controller (you buy 1 extra)
$50 for a memory card.
$400 + tax spent on day one and you get the system, 2 controllers, 2 games, and storage.
What does that get you with the other systems? A premium Xbox 360 with nothing else, a core 360 with a game and controller, and a laughing clerk when you tell him you want to buy a ps3 with $400. In today's economy that is not really showing signs of improvement, people are going to try and save money, especially with gas at nearly $3 a gallon.
For everyone who says that Nintendo is rethinking their pricing because of the price of the ps3, think about this: Nintendo designed their console trying to keep their costs in line. They knew about the price of the 360 yet still kept this design. It was painfully obvious to anyone who paid attention that the ps3 would cost more than the 360 due to the components involved. Why would they reprice the Wii when they probably went into the design process with a specific price point in mind?
Can anyone remember the fate of some of the most expensive systems to come out? 3d0? $700, major flop. I find it in a used game store 4 years later for $30. Neo-geo? $650 with a game, 2 controllers, and a memory card. I have never even seen a Neo-geo in person.
Here's something a lot simpler: just goto your local Wal-mart, Target, Kmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Meijer, EB Games, Babbages, Software Etc, Media Play, Toys R Us and pay $399 for the full version. And you get it that day to boot!!
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If they are going to resurrect MMO's, how about Asheron's Call 2?
Just like the Genesis with the Sega CD and 32x, the Jaguar and the Jaguar CD, the Neo Geo and the Neo Geo CD, the N64 and the expansion pack. Weee, I wanna give $ony $600 every year just to be able to play the latest edition of MGS or GT!!
Hmm, what does this kind of sound like.....Oh yeah, Oblivion.
Bethesda submitted a 60 page document detailing the violence in Oblivion to the ESRB and it got rated T for teen. Then the nude female patch hit (3rd party), and the game gets changed to M for Mature.
Lord knows that it's ok for 13 year olds to see flaming corpses hanging from nooses in the depths of hell but not breasts.
The point is that the ESRB has recently made a huge mistake when having a detailed report of violence in a game. I'm not 100% positive that they would rate the next GTA game correctly after the Oblivion fiasco.
If the past few months have shown us anything about Japan, it's that they dig innovation. Do you know what the recently surpassed #2 selling video game of all time for the first day is in Japan? Brain Age. That's right, the simple, yet highly addictive game that could have been done by one programmer in a few months sold 415,000 copies in Japan on the first day.
What's this tell us? That the Japanese are ready for innovations in games. And honestly, the only system so far to show any innovation is the Wii. The 360 is going to flop in Japan. The PS3 in my opinion is just offering the same games that only look prettier.
Nah, because buying a 360 is buying a whole separate platform. Upgrading to Vista is an upgrade (I think...) to your whole computer that will probably make it run slower.
Speaking of, that is why I run win 2k, lol. Gotta love having 23 processes running on your system.
"3,000 Super Mario Bros sequels"
Heh, not quite. Mario probably has appeared in 3000 games, but there are only a few platformers with him in this series:
SMB, SMB2, Lost Levels, SMB3, Mario World, Mario Land 1, 2, and 3 for the GB, Mario 64, Mario Sunshine.
10 games in 21 years. A least with each version the franchise still feels fresh (Tony Hawk or FF anyone?)
As for the best games, I'd say Mario World, SMB3, and Mario 64, in that order.
Agreed. I paid $95 for my Panasonic 27" flat screen tv, and I absolutely love it.
"Frankly as it's under $1000 it's in impulse buy territory for me." For you are the key words in that sentence. I don't make much money (7.45/hr in a small city, comparable to about $9-$10 in a big city), and frankly, a $40 game or something is an impulse buy to me. For me to spend $1000 on something, that would require at least 4 paychecks (8 weeks) because I have other bills that I have to take care of. I know I am not in the upper income bracket, but 8 weeks of cutting costs and other financial measures hardly constitutes an impulse buy.
As much as I'd love to see this happen, I don't think that it will. There is a reason that MS charges for Live: bandwidth costs money. As pocket deep as MS is, I don't think that they can stand to lose $500 per system, even if it is for a month or 2.
Ok, let's work off of a couple of assumptions here: $200 for the system $100 for games (you buy 2 at $50) $50 for a controller (you buy 1 extra) $50 for a memory card. $400 + tax spent on day one and you get the system, 2 controllers, 2 games, and storage. What does that get you with the other systems? A premium Xbox 360 with nothing else, a core 360 with a game and controller, and a laughing clerk when you tell him you want to buy a ps3 with $400. In today's economy that is not really showing signs of improvement, people are going to try and save money, especially with gas at nearly $3 a gallon. For everyone who says that Nintendo is rethinking their pricing because of the price of the ps3, think about this: Nintendo designed their console trying to keep their costs in line. They knew about the price of the 360 yet still kept this design. It was painfully obvious to anyone who paid attention that the ps3 would cost more than the 360 due to the components involved. Why would they reprice the Wii when they probably went into the design process with a specific price point in mind?
Can anyone remember the fate of some of the most expensive systems to come out? 3d0? $700, major flop. I find it in a used game store 4 years later for $30. Neo-geo? $650 with a game, 2 controllers, and a memory card. I have never even seen a Neo-geo in person.
If you're talking about the 360, it's because the hard drive comes in a shell, it's not a standard PC HD that we're talking about here.
Here's something a lot simpler: just goto your local Wal-mart, Target, Kmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Meijer, EB Games, Babbages, Software Etc, Media Play, Toys R Us and pay $399 for the full version. And you get it that day to boot!!