Except for 249 Corporate Dr. Houma, La. 70360 where it is still using a decade old map. You try driving around here with those directions, you will likely run into a building.
I think the 'average' set up will be something like four remotes, two nunchucks, and two classic controllers. With some people going the extreme and getting four of everything and others being more spartan in their selection.
Also consider peripheral attach rate. There was a serious shortage of Wii remotes and nunchucks along with actual consoles as well. And at $60 a set, that's not shabby.
That little bar-codey thingy isn't a SKU, it's a UPC. The SKU would be more along the lines of SCPH-7001 (that's a Playstation SKU). Multiple SKU's can have the same UPC.
So, actually, it is kind of wrong to say the Elite SKU is getting a price cut when all Elite SKUs are getting price cuts. It would be more accurate to say that the Elite product line will be getting a price cut as all Elite packages are priced the same regardless of actual hardware in the box.
I'll give you a verbal modding up. Visual Studio is the standard to which every other IDE is judged. I'm not a Microsoftie by any stretch, but I am an unabashed fan of Visual Studio.
I had a chance to do a bit of contract work using C# and ASP.NET 2.0. First time working in that environment (I'm usually C++/Win32 API (when in windows of course)), and I was impressed by it.
It made me consider moving over to C# for application development as well.
4chan is not the place where all this gets started. 4chan is the place where all this collects. Due to 4chan having a rather large population, it is more than likely that most soon to be popular things on the internet will pass through the place.
These things then become popular on 4chan and outside of 4chan simultaneously and independently. 4chan then takes the credit for making it popular. For proof that 4chan cannot propagate a meme, look at Cracky. No one outside of 4chan cares.
Before it was named the Wii. I thought that the motion sensitive controller was a true innovation in the video game market and that Nintendo had the skills to do it justice. Based on their past successes with other such things.
I've basically learned that when everyone is mocking Nintendo for something to keep an eye on it because it will be huge.
No offense, but I saw the Wii coming. I underestimated the speed at which it caught on, but I knew that it would be the best console to own this generation.
That's because I started to realize that Nintendo knows what people want better than the people themselves. Everyone bitched about the Wind Waker. Wind Waker comes out to stellar reviews and praise. Everyone called the DS a gimmick. Now it is dominating the field. When I saw the Wii, I wasn't going to doubt Nintendo's direction.
No, I used it as the reason why past prices and current prices are the same (or lower). That we've been riding the wave down and with CD based games, we've now reached a minimum price on distribution medium and that most of the cost of a game is not tied up in the medium as it was in the past.
And now, game development costs have eaten all of the margin that was gained by riding these prices down and now companies must recoup development costs by actually raising prices.
Plus, Moore's Law will always indirectly affect game prices as a lot of game development is done on computers.
BTW, nice ad hominem. It really shows off your superior debating skills.
So, you don't have any NES, SMS, Gameboy (any variety), Genesis, SNES, Atari (again any variety), or ColecoVision games?
Not to mention, your ownership of any is irrelevant since they do exist and were priced and are made of silicon and transistors. (The physical medium, of course, let's not be retardedly pedantic).
If this is true, that there is some secret sauce in the drivers that make the card run sweet, then they should remain closed.
At least, according to ESR's point of view (as espoused in 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'.
He outlined several reason why a company _shouldn't_ open source its code. I can't recall them all in detail. But, if the value of those secret bits are sufficiently high, then ATI benefits more from closed source than open source.
Or we could go further back (SNES/Genesis) era and look at all of the $60+ games then.
Hell, look at the prices for N64 games. They generally retailed for $60 new. CD based games brought the price down to $50 (new) for two generations. The better margin on distribution medium made its way into production value for games. Now development costs have finally eaten all of the margin we've gained from switching mediums and prices for games have gone up.
As for why video games (and attendant hardware) haven't really been affected by inflation throughout the years (consoles generally debut at $300-$400) is all thanks to Moore's Law. Prices were coming down as fast as the value of the dollar.
This is also why the PS3 is more expensive. Nintendo, and to some extent Microsoft, are leveraging Moore's Law to keep hardware prices at some level. Sony decided to go balls to the wall.
You know, it took me a while to realize how many unknown calories I was consuming by what I drink. And I'm a thirsty guy. So I've cut most of it out. It's a bit too early to hang the "Mission Accomplished" banner, but I think there has been a positive change.
I'm not even going for the performance argument. I'm basically going for the necessity argument. C exists because it is the easiest way to write a portable operating system. That is exactly what it was designed for.
For applications, there are many better choices than C. Python with wxWidgets and Java if you want reasonable cross compatibility, C# if you don't mind the monoculture associated with it, etc.
C needs to be able to access memory the way it does because sometimes memory just has to be memory. And I think C will probably be more regarded in the same since that Lisp currently is; that it is good to know because it fundamentally affects the way you think about programming.
Harry gets the perks because he's King Arthur. The King that will be. He was forced to live in peasantry until the time of his ascension as way to prepare him to benevolently rule over all.
It didn't dawn on my at first, and I forget when I realized it, but after that moment I saw Harry Potter for what it was. A thinly veiled slight on the Royal families. I fault my American upbringing for not seeing it sooner. All of the old wizarding families live in castle and have tons of gold, except for those deemed "blood-traitors". They get to be poor in the books. Poor, but happy and truly noble.
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Except for 249 Corporate Dr. Houma, La. 70360 where it is still using a decade old map. You try driving around here with those directions, you will likely run into a building.
I think the 'average' set up will be something like four remotes, two nunchucks, and two classic controllers. With some people going the extreme and getting four of everything and others being more spartan in their selection.
Also consider peripheral attach rate. There was a serious shortage of Wii remotes and nunchucks along with actual consoles as well. And at $60 a set, that's not shabby.
That little bar-codey thingy isn't a SKU, it's a UPC. The SKU would be more along the lines of SCPH-7001 (that's a Playstation SKU). Multiple SKU's can have the same UPC.
So, actually, it is kind of wrong to say the Elite SKU is getting a price cut when all Elite SKUs are getting price cuts. It would be more accurate to say that the Elite product line will be getting a price cut as all Elite packages are priced the same regardless of actual hardware in the box.
I'll give you a verbal modding up. Visual Studio is the standard to which every other IDE is judged. I'm not a Microsoftie by any stretch, but I am an unabashed fan of Visual Studio.
I had a chance to do a bit of contract work using C# and ASP.NET 2.0. First time working in that environment (I'm usually C++/Win32 API (when in windows of course)), and I was impressed by it.
It made me consider moving over to C# for application development as well.
Ah yes, an elitist bastard. How do you do?
4chan is not the place where all this gets started. 4chan is the place where all this collects. Due to 4chan having a rather large population, it is more than likely that most soon to be popular things on the internet will pass through the place.
These things then become popular on 4chan and outside of 4chan simultaneously and independently. 4chan then takes the credit for making it popular. For proof that 4chan cannot propagate a meme, look at Cracky. No one outside of 4chan cares.
Don't mistake your fishbowl for the ocean.
Flashbacks of time traveling. :D
Before it was named the Wii.
I thought that the motion sensitive controller was a true innovation in the video game market and that Nintendo had the skills to do it justice. Based on their past successes with other such things.
I've basically learned that when everyone is mocking Nintendo for something to keep an eye on it because it will be huge.
No offense, but I saw the Wii coming. I underestimated the speed at which it caught on, but I knew that it would be the best console to own this generation.
That's because I started to realize that Nintendo knows what people want better than the people themselves.
Everyone bitched about the Wind Waker. Wind Waker comes out to stellar reviews and praise.
Everyone called the DS a gimmick. Now it is dominating the field.
When I saw the Wii, I wasn't going to doubt Nintendo's direction.
No, I used it as the reason why past prices and current prices are the same (or lower). That we've been riding the wave down and with CD based games, we've now reached a minimum price on distribution medium and that most of the cost of a game is not tied up in the medium as it was in the past.
And now, game development costs have eaten all of the margin that was gained by riding these prices down and now companies must recoup development costs by actually raising prices.
Plus, Moore's Law will always indirectly affect game prices as a lot of game development is done on computers.
BTW, nice ad hominem. It really shows off your superior debating skills.
So, you don't have any NES, SMS, Gameboy (any variety), Genesis, SNES, Atari (again any variety), or ColecoVision games?
Not to mention, your ownership of any is irrelevant since they do exist and were priced and are made of silicon and transistors. (The physical medium, of course, let's not be retardedly pedantic).
I also like the fact that the whole article is about explaining away the points in the graphs where their pet theories don't hold up.
Oh I see. Because video game console prices and cartridge prices aren't affected by how many transistors we can put on a silicon wafer.
Because these are made with magic pixie dust and not integrated circuits as I was mistakenly led to believe.
Thank you for your correction on how the price and function on the main component of the system has no bearing at all on the price.
If this is true, that there is some secret sauce in the drivers that make the card run sweet, then they should remain closed.
At least, according to ESR's point of view (as espoused in 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'.
He outlined several reason why a company _shouldn't_ open source its code. I can't recall them all in detail. But, if the value of those secret bits are sufficiently high, then ATI benefits more from closed source than open source.
Or we could go further back (SNES/Genesis) era and look at all of the $60+ games then.
Hell, look at the prices for N64 games. They generally retailed for $60 new. CD based games brought the price down to $50 (new) for two generations. The better margin on distribution medium made its way into production value for games. Now development costs have finally eaten all of the margin we've gained from switching mediums and prices for games have gone up.
As for why video games (and attendant hardware) haven't really been affected by inflation throughout the years (consoles generally debut at $300-$400) is all thanks to Moore's Law. Prices were coming down as fast as the value of the dollar.
This is also why the PS3 is more expensive. Nintendo, and to some extent Microsoft, are leveraging Moore's Law to keep hardware prices at some level. Sony decided to go balls to the wall.
Some people just have a "chief" complex. They call everybody chief. Regardless of context. They'll just come up and say "What's up, chief?"
You know, it took me a while to realize how many unknown calories I was consuming by what I drink. And I'm a thirsty guy. So I've cut most of it out. It's a bit too early to hang the "Mission Accomplished" banner, but I think there has been a positive change.
Virtually nobody in New York drives, but it has some of the worst traffic in the nation.
Weird.
I'm not even going for the performance argument. I'm basically going for the necessity argument. C exists because it is the easiest way to write a portable operating system. That is exactly what it was designed for.
For applications, there are many better choices than C. Python with wxWidgets and Java if you want reasonable cross compatibility, C# if you don't mind the monoculture associated with it, etc.
C needs to be able to access memory the way it does because sometimes memory just has to be memory. And I think C will probably be more regarded in the same since that Lisp currently is; that it is good to know because it fundamentally affects the way you think about programming.
You do realize that C's flaws are inherenet to C's strengths?
C is essentially a portable assembler. For C to function as it should, it needs to be able to do potentially bad things.
I've not seen one (usable) operating system not written in an "unsafe" language. Because eventually, we must get down there.
Harry gets the perks because he's King Arthur. The King that will be. He was forced to live in peasantry until the time of his ascension as way to prepare him to benevolently rule over all.
The Aristocracy are cunts.
It didn't dawn on my at first, and I forget when I realized it, but after that moment I saw Harry Potter for what it was. A thinly veiled slight on the Royal families. I fault my American upbringing for not seeing it sooner. All of the old wizarding families live in castle and have tons of gold, except for those deemed "blood-traitors". They get to be poor in the books. Poor, but happy and truly noble.
Let's ignore the fact that that code isn't either C or C++.
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In my spare time I develop video games for the Dreamcast. Your point?
The hardcore gamer is a myth of the industry.