Epesodic CAN work. So can full game, in a retail box, on the store shelf. They can also both create horrible games! (SiN EP1 and SiN1 are good example of these).
Sometihng that is interesting to me is that the Fun:NotAsFun ratio was much better in HL2:EP1 then in HL2 (to me). Was this something to do with the fact that it was a bitesizes bit of gaming that could avoide some of the problems that longer games run into? I dono, we will probably only find out as more episodic content is released.
However that is the interestign thing, there are ALOT of very good games that have just come out for the PS2 (Guitar Hero2, FFXII, Okami etc), and some more still to come(God of War 2).
The thing that is really strange to me is the lack of games for the PS3, yet a glut of great games for the PS2. IT is interesting. It could also be sound marketing. the PS3 boasts full backwards compatability, so these are games that PS3 owners can pick up and play on their shiney new system, thus creating what LOOKs like a better launch line up. Also, if they actualy suspected haveing such a hortage on consoles, then focusing on the PS2, this season, for their software sales (where they really make money) is actualy a GOOD idea.
Or am I just looking into things to deaply, and trying to find paterns in chaos?
We get to see (aproximatly) how many units were shipped, something alot of people have been wondering.
We are seeing the PS2 still doing staggering sales (this is segnificant, as normaly the last gen will drop off rather quickly, however the PS2 is still just pickign up steam). Infact, I tihnk the PS2 has been one of "The Hot" items for the past few holiday seasons, something that is rather impressive for a video game system that is relatively old.
So all in all, the point is that we that are interested in these thigns have some (Relatively) hard numbers to look at.
That is the game that involves scrambling around (climbing them and such) giant friken badies, right?
I saw a little bit aobut it when it was first anounced then it went compleatly under my radar for some reason. So I am assuming that it came out and is awsome?
ummm, IANAL, but isn't the POINT of suing to recoup losses?
Justice is for criminal law, civil law is for reperation of damages/lost income/etc, etc. Not for "justice". The only place "justice" comes into is paying some one for their "psycological truama" or "pain and suffering", and those I tihnk are just rediculous anyway. If some one HARMED you then what they did is almost always illegal, and thus is covered by criminal law.
I guess that is just my oppinion on law, probably I am wrong.
True, there is a benefit to the consumer, lower costs as the licence fee would not have to be factored into their EVD (though it still would be in the DVD/EVD hybrid players). I doubt they would strip out the region locking (as that is required to get a licence to reproduce the movies I think), and the unskippable adds are also there by the manufacturer, not by the people askign for the fee.
However, getting people to buy hybrids is still not that easy. Most poeple in China probably HAVE a DVD player, and thus have no real need to get a new one (people are not just goign to go out and buy a new player that offers no immediate benefits). Also, any cost saved by not having to licence the DVD codecs is still in an EVD/DVD player, and I expec that they will still cost more then a standard DVD player would(that and we might see something like BluRay/HD-DVD where they refuse to licence a device that plays both formats).
In order to get consumers to upgrade you must either: 1) Provide a new device with segnificant advantages (lower priced is not an advantage as they already HAVE a comprable device) 2) Make current devices obsoleate (in this case stop selling DVDs, only sell EVDs), however to do that, it general requires a VERY large risk. (if some one finds away around the forced adaptations of EVD then the entire industry takes a HUGE hit).
Well, obviously the republicans did cheat, just they did not cheat enough! the voter gap was so large infavor of the Dems that those evil repubs lost even AFTER adding lots and lots of extra votes!
Or, if you are a republican:
Well, it is obvious that the dirty dems riged the vote this time around! They stole the election! And we all know that the dems ALWAYS rig elections (*point back to past casses of votter coersion*).
heh, pardon me, just felt like it:D
As for why I think they voted it down? They don't really get it, whomever explained it to them told them that the money involved in replacing the machines was far to high for a minimal risk, etc etc. I expect incompetince, not maliciousnes
I would not say they are trying to compeate with the laws, they are trying to compeate with DVDs/DVD players.
They are tryign to get AROUND the laws. I don't blame them for wanting to, having to pay the licensing fees is kinda a bummer (and that is the only reason they are doing it, money, not because it is "right"). But it was a no brainer that it would fail.
You are attempting to replace an item that is heavily entrenched in consumers' mindshare and financial investment with something that offers no real benefit to the consumer? And we are suprised this failed, why?
We are the pirates who don't do anything, we just stay at home, and lie around. And if you ask us, to do anything, we'll just tell you, we don't do anything.
Arrrrrr.
Yup, most christian rock/pop sucks. But then again most rock/pop sucks. However Reliant K and veggie tales just make me happy.
Yup, way back when they actualy said that SB:B would be out, online, onrelease. I don't mind the delay, I just want them to get it right.
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Make it durable. - Handhelds suffer more, and accidents happen. Their systems have been outright abused and they still work. There is actually an original GameBoy on display at Nintendo World in NYC that was in the Gulf War. It's half melted (Including searing the cartridge to the unit) but still will play Tetris. As long as a customer has a working system they can buy, and play your games.
I will vouch for this. It is awsome to see it. The system is horribly messed up during a bombing of the baracks it was in, but the screen is still (mostly) intact and they have it plugged into an AC adapter to have it run tetris. (Blog with a picture of it)
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Probably rayman, though Exite Truck, Monkey Ball, Trauma Center, and all those other games also are great.
What happens when the same joker posts a call for nano-viruses to be released into our water supply to create a generation of flesh eating mutants from our own children?!?
However, couldn't this be done by simply recording (video) the focus group as they play? I know it isn't as hightech, and you can't record heart rate and such, however you can generaly garner alot of indications about what a person is thinking/feeling just by watching them.
And it is a heck of alot cheaper, and you get a more natural response. People will not activly notice when they are being videotaped (assuming the camera is unobtrusive), but when you start cliping things onto their bodies, they tend to notice that alot more. (note: I do not advocate secretly recording things, however the recordign set up can be unobtrusive)
Simple enough. I don't know if I am parnoid or what, but if I recieved an unsolicited "service" for one of our machines I would double check with my contact for that company.
If some one is poking around who I do not know I will check it with my boss.
Sorta true. The PS2 has THE BEST line up of games, I am 100% behind you on that, and I am really tihnking of buying a PS2 for alot of those games (GH 1/2 come to mind in a split second, the FF games, Okami, and hundreds of other come to mind in a few secodns after that).
2 points of contention: 1) The hardware is the WORST of all systems in the game atm. This does not stop it from having the best games obviously (much as to why I argue the Wii will do so well, hardware is not the be all, end all, but it helps).
2) This does not explain why the PS2 sales figgures are goign up so much. Remember, this is not PS2 vs 360 or anytihng like that, it is PS2 vs PS2, this month vs last month (well, they are breakign it down into weeks). Why is the PS2 moving somany more units this holiday season then they did last?
Another random thoguht I just had is that last year the slimline PS2 was released and sold out constantly, that might explain for some of the increase in sales, a simple increase in manufacturing.
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Epesodic CAN work. So can full game, in a retail box, on the store shelf. They can also both create horrible games! (SiN EP1 and SiN1 are good example of these).
Sometihng that is interesting to me is that the Fun:NotAsFun ratio was much better in HL2:EP1 then in HL2 (to me). Was this something to do with the fact that it was a bitesizes bit of gaming that could avoide some of the problems that longer games run into? I dono, we will probably only find out as more episodic content is released.
Fully with you on this.
However that is the interestign thing, there are ALOT of very good games that have just come out for the PS2 (Guitar Hero2, FFXII, Okami etc), and some more still to come(God of War 2).
The thing that is really strange to me is the lack of games for the PS3, yet a glut of great games for the PS2. IT is interesting. It could also be sound marketing. the PS3 boasts full backwards compatability, so these are games that PS3 owners can pick up and play on their shiney new system, thus creating what LOOKs like a better launch line up. Also, if they actualy suspected haveing such a hortage on consoles, then focusing on the PS2, this season, for their software sales (where they really make money) is actualy a GOOD idea.
Or am I just looking into things to deaply, and trying to find paterns in chaos?
We get to see (aproximatly) how many units were shipped, something alot of people have been wondering.
We are seeing the PS2 still doing staggering sales (this is segnificant, as normaly the last gen will drop off rather quickly, however the PS2 is still just pickign up steam). Infact, I tihnk the PS2 has been one of "The Hot" items for the past few holiday seasons, something that is rather impressive for a video game system that is relatively old.
So all in all, the point is that we that are interested in these thigns have some (Relatively) hard numbers to look at.
umm, that is why the FBI droped the case against him.
That is the game that involves scrambling around (climbing them and such) giant friken badies, right?
I saw a little bit aobut it when it was first anounced then it went compleatly under my radar for some reason. So I am assuming that it came out and is awsome?
(w00t for more reasons to buy a PS2)
yup, that was the big one.
The key things involved are that the sex ofenders (for reasons known only to them selfs) still register with their REAL info. Why? No clue!
It will stop some offenders I hope, but I doubt it will do much.
The biggest problem is that you just outright block them bassed on email then that enourages them to get an email and not register it.
my god! you must be a mind reader! Go get that million dollar reward, as those are exactly the reasons why! (hehehe)
Yup, lots of awsome games on the PS2, and that is ignoring the new ones!
His blog (http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/) has scans of the letter.
Reading the letter makes it sound much like the case the FBI was workign on against him (and subsequently droped).
All of the legalease (as well as I can read it) states is that you can't make these or higher some one else to make them.
Well, he didn't, he just created a program that COULD. In this case (as with the FBI one) it all seems about intent...
there we go, knew it was around somewhere.
it was also stated that it (Smash Bros) would have online play at launch.
Okami is one of the main reasons I will be buying a PS2 some time afet I buy my Wii.
ummm, IANAL, but isn't the POINT of suing to recoup losses?
Justice is for criminal law, civil law is for reperation of damages/lost income/etc, etc. Not for "justice". The only place "justice" comes into is paying some one for their "psycological truama" or "pain and suffering", and those I tihnk are just rediculous anyway. If some one HARMED you then what they did is almost always illegal, and thus is covered by criminal law.
I guess that is just my oppinion on law, probably I am wrong.
True, there is a benefit to the consumer, lower costs as the licence fee would not have to be factored into their EVD (though it still would be in the DVD/EVD hybrid players). I doubt they would strip out the region locking (as that is required to get a licence to reproduce the movies I think), and the unskippable adds are also there by the manufacturer, not by the people askign for the fee.
However, getting people to buy hybrids is still not that easy. Most poeple in China probably HAVE a DVD player, and thus have no real need to get a new one (people are not just goign to go out and buy a new player that offers no immediate benefits). Also, any cost saved by not having to licence the DVD codecs is still in an EVD/DVD player, and I expec that they will still cost more then a standard DVD player would(that and we might see something like BluRay/HD-DVD where they refuse to licence a device that plays both formats).
In order to get consumers to upgrade you must either:
1) Provide a new device with segnificant advantages (lower priced is not an advantage as they already HAVE a comprable device)
2) Make current devices obsoleate (in this case stop selling DVDs, only sell EVDs), however to do that, it general requires a VERY large risk. (if some one finds away around the forced adaptations of EVD then the entire industry takes a HUGE hit).
Well, obviously the republicans did cheat, just they did not cheat enough! the voter gap was so large infavor of the Dems that those evil repubs lost even AFTER adding lots and lots of extra votes!
:D
Or, if you are a republican:
Well, it is obvious that the dirty dems riged the vote this time around! They stole the election! And we all know that the dems ALWAYS rig elections (*point back to past casses of votter coersion*).
heh, pardon me, just felt like it
As for why I think they voted it down?
They don't really get it, whomever explained it to them told them that the money involved in replacing the machines was far to high for a minimal risk, etc etc. I expect incompetince, not maliciousnes
I would not say they are trying to compeate with the laws, they are trying to compeate with DVDs/DVD players.
They are tryign to get AROUND the laws. I don't blame them for wanting to, having to pay the licensing fees is kinda a bummer (and that is the only reason they are doing it, money, not because it is "right"). But it was a no brainer that it would fail.
You are attempting to replace an item that is heavily entrenched in consumers' mindshare and financial investment with something that offers no real benefit to the consumer? And we are suprised this failed, why?
Arrrrrr.
Yup, most christian rock/pop sucks. But then again most rock/pop sucks. However Reliant K and veggie tales just make me happy.
Actualy at the first e3 that they anounced the revoloution (E32005) it was specificly stated as a launch title.
:P
I would go bak and check, but I am at work atm
Yup, way back when they actualy said that SB:B would be out, online, onrelease. I don't mind the delay, I just want them to get it right.
I will vouch for this. It is awsome to see it. The system is horribly messed up during a bombing of the baracks it was in, but the screen is still (mostly) intact and they have it plugged into an AC adapter to have it run tetris. (Blog with a picture of it)
Probably rayman, though Exite Truck, Monkey Ball, Trauma Center, and all those other games also are great.
I buy the movie rights!
However, couldn't this be done by simply recording (video) the focus group as they play? I know it isn't as hightech, and you can't record heart rate and such, however you can generaly garner alot of indications about what a person is thinking/feeling just by watching them.
And it is a heck of alot cheaper, and you get a more natural response. People will not activly notice when they are being videotaped (assuming the camera is unobtrusive), but when you start cliping things onto their bodies, they tend to notice that alot more.
(note: I do not advocate secretly recording things, however the recordign set up can be unobtrusive)
EEP!
I stand corrected, I looked at the wiki pages but missed the year, I fail it yet again.
So that shoots down another one of my ideas.
Any one else got concepts for what could be pushing PS2/PSP sales?
Simple enough. I don't know if I am parnoid or what, but if I recieved an unsolicited "service" for one of our machines I would double check with my contact for that company.
If some one is poking around who I do not know I will check it with my boss.
Sorta true. The PS2 has THE BEST line up of games, I am 100% behind you on that, and I am really tihnking of buying a PS2 for alot of those games (GH 1/2 come to mind in a split second, the FF games, Okami, and hundreds of other come to mind in a few secodns after that).
2 points of contention:
1) The hardware is the WORST of all systems in the game atm. This does not stop it from having the best games obviously (much as to why I argue the Wii will do so well, hardware is not the be all, end all, but it helps).
2) This does not explain why the PS2 sales figgures are goign up so much. Remember, this is not PS2 vs 360 or anytihng like that, it is PS2 vs PS2, this month vs last month (well, they are breakign it down into weeks). Why is the PS2 moving somany more units this holiday season then they did last?
Another random thoguht I just had is that last year the slimline PS2 was released and sold out constantly, that might explain for some of the increase in sales, a simple increase in manufacturing.