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Re: Nintendo wii posted on 2007-01-17 13:49:51

que that noise from the price is right when you lose....
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5721

 

RIP my hero posted on 2007-01-07 13:31:56

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070107a2.html
Ramen noodles are like one of my staple foods....

 

Re: Flatlandfuel Christmas Sweepstakes winners???? posted on 2007-01-07 13:28:35

Holy poop, my friend chris won some stuff!

 

Re: Flatlandfuel Christmas Sweepstakes winners???? posted on 2007-01-06 11:26:45

Its saturday.... did the results get posted on a different forum or have they just not been posted yet?

 

Re: Nintendo wii posted on 2007-01-06 10:54:41

There are lots of games that you can just plain tell look better or worse on different systems. The xbox version of soul calibur 2 for example. If you've played the gc and ps2 versions you could immediatly tell the graphics were better on an xbox. The lines were just sharper on everything.
Who says you can't hook a computer up to your large tv? my friend plays quake 4 with a projector aimed at a wall. Computer games can be played on tv's easily.
building a gaming computer can be done for cheap... its a matter of what you want in a gaming computer... you can buy something top of the line and spend $4000 or you can buy something mid range for $600.... but the performance difference between $600 and $4000 isn't large enough to justify the price. I have a friend who spent a fuckload of cash on a gaming computer, only for the computer I built my brother to out perform it.. Its really mostly in the graphics card. My friend had an athlon fx with 6800 ultra sli with 2 gigs of performance memory.... I bought my brother a really basic computer from microcenter for $200 after mail in rebate that had a sempron 3000 in it.... threw a 7900gt in there, and it smokes his $3000 computer bought only 3 months or so after his.... so it really all depends on how you go about doing it, not how much you spend... Theres no point buying the top of the line stuff for a gaming computer because it will only be top of the line for a month if that... and the price will go down a lot in that month that it takes to get obsolete.... Gaming on a budget processor works just fine... sli is a waste of money anyway. You really don't get your moneys worth out of a second card. your just better off waiting till a new generation of card comes out and buy just 1 of those. I have an sli setup and I don't think it was worth the money I paid for it, even if I did get the 6800 ultras cheap. and with the price of the 7950gt's dropping every day, you could cheaply build a pc faster than a ps3 for about the same price.
See thats only rumor mill stuff about the hd-dvd drive not being in the newer version. Microsoft has said things before and gone against their word. It wont be used for games, but that doesn't mean its not going to come with the newer version. A few people at ms have given mixed answers on that.. so it may or it may not... but if it does, and comes at the same price... the ps3 wont have much luster left. and the hdmi port is going to have native 1080p.... which you really can't say much about the ps3's support for 1080p, because there were a lot of issues with that in a lot of games, and they still don't have it right to this day.
The ps2 may have came with a dvd player, but dvd was around long long before the ps2... This is brand new technology made by sony, thats not really taking off all that well... and they are trying to force it upon the masses, which just will not work.. it never has, and it never will... dvd and the ps2 was a different ball game... dvd was well adopted before the ps2 came out and was already an adopted standard....
Nintendo made the wii for what it needed to be. Effeciency is a good business practice... don't sell the customer something they don't need, so you can develope your product cheaper and pass the rewards down to your customer.. Theres a point at which adding unproven technology to a new product goes sour. If you can't sell your product with out fucking the customer, you shouldn't be selling that product.. I don't blame ms for not including hd dvd, its unproven technology... They'll sell it as an add on because sure theres people out there who will buy it... blue ray is just as unproven though... neither of those formats will be around long enough to call them a standard.... Laser disc had other companies behind it and that never took off... what about minidisc? that had more than sony behind it?? just because companies invest in something doesn't make it sell... Do you even know about the 3 other formats looming in the distance that will stomp blue ray and hd-dvd out?? both blue ray and hddvd are doomed to fail... several national surveys have shown the people don't want to change formats yet... a staggering 85% of people don't want to change formats... it will be a while before we see the end of dvd...
And as for the current point in time. Game developers wont be filling those blue ray discs till the systems damn near obsolete. As you've agreed theres not enough time for all that content in a cost effective manner.. SO the wii and the 360 will not be left out in the cold... the ps3 owners will be wondering where the extra cash they spent for the blue ray paid off... thats all... Theres just no way to make hd games in a time efficient manner with out adding tons of extra cost to the final product, which in the end will cut your sales because the game costs more than the other ones... Sure the first gen games don't look as good... thats a no brainer... but they really don't get that much better.... Look at the first madden game on the ps2 verses the newest one... The ps3 will never get games that make proper use of the hardware... The technology they put in it isn't proven technology. All the extra cores, the blue-ray capacity, ect... its never going to be taken full advantage of and it's a waste. Develeopers don't have time or resources to take on all of that. Maybe 5 years from now, when better development tools are available for making hd content and more developers are keen to programming for a multi-core environment, then it will be usefull... but that time isn't now.. This has happened before... The sega dreamcast was ahead of its time with technology and was too difficult to program for, which is one of the reasons developers quit making games for it... There were quite a few features in that system no one ever took advantage of...
You think I don't know anything about the industry, but your making bad assumptions again. I know a few people that work in the biz... Man, if the old backlash forum were still around for me to point out how I proved a person that worked in the industry wrong in a discussion just like this.... back when the ps2, xbox, and game cube were comin out, I had an interesting argument with nev from the obsolete flatland company ronin about which system would come out on top.... I proved him wrong despite him claiming to have inside industry know how cause he makes games... I knew the nintendo would come in dead last, but he said that the xbox would... I knew the ps2 would come out on top... he felt it would be a toss up between sony and nintendo.... He wanted to look at things from his experience, and I looked at it from a practical investor(see things as they are, not what they're sugar coated to be) point of view. The thing is... because he made games, he had a biased view on who would come out on top... just because that particular brand puts money in your pocket, doesn't mean its going to come out on top. His judgement was clouded by his paycheck... Could this be the same case?

You wanna talk about moats? sony doesn't have anything left of what it had as a moat... The competitors came out with equivilent products for cheaper. The moats been breached! During the ps2 days, they had something cause of the userbase they had.... but during the development of the competitions next gen systems, and due to some bad pr over issues with other sony products... sony has pretty much shit the bed. They no longer have a sustainable competitive advantage.... Not that they really had one you could call sustainable to begin with(the temporary customer base from the 5 year life span of a system doesn't count as sustainable)... it was only a matter of time... having the userbase they had worked as a moat for a while, but has since been breached by competition. For sony to regain their "moat" they have a lot of work to do... See the one gaping hole they put in their moat was high switching costs. it costs too much money for current ps2 users to switch to a new one, so they will more than likely go to a cheaper equivilant alternative... This barrier has and will keep most of its loyal customers from returning.... The cost has created a moat for the competitors....
Yes, I too agree, video game trash talkin doesn't affect my view of a person in the parking lot... Just don't assume I don't know anything about the industry because I don't work in it... I know people that do, and I know what the headaches of game development are like.... I've had a beer with a friend over some of these headaches...
It sure can be a real pain in the ass developing video games... especially for consoles, because they typically have a fixed price. No one wants to spend 3-5 years making a game only to sell it for the same price as the competitor who spent 2 on his... Long development times can ruin the profitability of a game.... and have put a few companies out of business and friends of mine out of a job...