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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19755 |  BubbaT (160) Feb 28, 2008 - 10:01 am
| If by that you mean stash in anonymous Swiss bank accounts, then yeah.
Lemme know when the EU sues Airbus, who holds a monopoly on making airplanes in Europe.
Lemme know when the EU sues Deutsche Telekom, who controls 90% of the broadband market in Germany.
Lemme know when the EU sues French cable and sat TV providers, whose proprietary set top boxes only work with French-made TVs.
Oh wait, those are European companies.
Nevermind. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19550 | BubbaT (160) Feb 13, 2008 - 04:11 pm
| I'm sorry, but I have to laugh at the idea of Intel kicking out MS for somehow retarding the growth of PC gaming.
The #1 graphics chip maker in the world is Intel, and they make nothing but integrated garbage that has retarded PC gaming for years because it was just barely good enough to play CS and is now barely good enough to play WoW.
As a result, people have been able to get away with having granny laptops and still play their favorite games, which means when games with actual requirements come out there's no installed hardware base to buy them.
Most people aren't about flexing their ePeen with tricked-out rigs, they're about being able to play their favorite games at the lowest cost. If they could get Halo on a DS they wouldn't buy 360s.
And if saving PC gaming is going to require some never-gonna-happen massive popular shift from Windows to Linux, we might as well eulogize and bury PC gaming now. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19332 | BubbaT (160) Jan 30, 2008 - 01:38 pm
| Pachter is the same "analyst" who keeps predicting every year is going to be "Sony's year." He predicted it about 2007, and has predicted it about 2008.
Before this gen started he said PS3 would have 55% market share and Wii only 10%, and that WoW would peak at 4 million subscribers before returning to a sustainable average of 1 million. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19305 | BubbaT (160) Jan 29, 2008 - 04:25 pm
| It's more like the SACD vs DVDA war of a few years ago. Audiophiles bickered about the various advantages of each format the way videophiles argue HD vs BRD.
Consumers are sticking with CDs and DVDs. Most HDTV owners, let alone all consumers, don't know jack about HD content. Half of them think anything they see on a HDTV is HD content.
This "war" is the equivalent of arguing SLI'd 8800s vs Xfire'd 3870s. Sure it's fun and all, but at the end of the day the most popular graphics chip is still Intel Integrated. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19300 | BubbaT (160) Jan 29, 2008 - 04:16 pm
| This is stupid. Superbowl ads are like the Sundance Film Festival of advertising. They're about who can make the most creative or funny or whimsical ads, not about actually selling any product.
Toshiba would've been better off sinking that money into traditional advertising that actually gets people to buy things, not buying the corporate status symbols that are SB ads. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19247 | BubbaT (160) Jan 24, 2008 - 12:33 pm
| "Heh, heh, well that says it all doesn't it? That they have to call it "Sync" technology because nobody would know what the hell a Zune was if they were to mention it by name."
No, the reason they don't call it Zune is because it does other stuff besides interfacing with the Zune. Sync works with multiple bluetooth and usb devices - phones, PDAs, etc. Even iPods. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19223 | BubbaT (160) Jan 23, 2008 - 12:28 pm » Edited on Jan 23, 2008 - 12:28 pm
| | Or maybe the fat kid would have used his increased hand-eye coordination from playing video games to become a life-saving surgeon, but instead goes to play in the woods and gets eaten by a bear. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17688 | BubbaT (160) Oct 04, 2007 - 11:25 am
| It's a video game, not a coup. Calm down.
These Venezuelans are big whiny crybabies, just like the Mexicans who protested GRAW, and just like the whiny Vegas people who cried about Rainbow 6 Vegas, and just like the whiny church people in England about Resistance. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17612 | BubbaT (160) Sep 28, 2007 - 10:10 am
| Agree.
Wii's primarily appeal is to super-casual gamers, including tons of non-gaming parents and grandparents. These are people who follow gaming less than Maddenites. These are the people asking for game-buying advice from the clerks at Best Buy and GameStop, which of course is heard as "Which game are you overstocked on?"
In short, huge sections of the Wii consumer base have no idea what they're doing. They're the gaming equivalent of people who go to the track and bet on a horse because they like the name, or pick a team in the NCAA March Madness pool because the team colors are pretty.
Why should 3rd parties make great games for Wii when the consumer base won't appreciate them? It's so much easier to churn out shovelware and rake in the dough. I'm surprised there aren't 1001 ____ Tycoon games on Wii yet. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17593 | BubbaT (160) Sep 27, 2007 - 12:00 pm
| "And I had to add that yes a 7 cell core PS3 is more powerful than a quad core PC even with dual 8800 GTX cards ... when the developers are given the right tools that will be evident down the line. There is no game out now that once the devs learn the PS3 better can't be duplicated almost exactly on the PS3"
This is why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The PS3 doesn't have 7 Cells, it has 1 Cell processor.
The Cell doesn't have 7 cores, it has 7 SPEs, 1 of which is entirely dedicated to running the OS and security.
The PS3's RSX (G71) graphics chip is equivalent to a 7900GT. Comparing it to dual 8800s (G80) is laughable. You're talking about a chip that's a generation ahead of PS3. RSX isn't even hardware DX10.
Of course, your PC can't teach you discipline in 4-D. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17541 | BubbaT (160) Sep 24, 2007 - 11:37 am
| First of all, Socom and MGS aren't even FPS. I'm surprised you didn't mention Guitar Hero and Tetris. MGS2 was as much a disappointment as Halo 2, both largely owing to their lame secondary playable characters (Arbiter, Raiden).
"Refer to list above, but go ahead and add in Final Fantasy, Doom, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto etc etc etc..."
Did you stop playing Doom after Doom 2? Did you stop playing MoH after Allied Assault? Did you completely miss FFs XI, X-2, and Dirge of Cerberus?
Or are you just high? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17441 | BubbaT (160) Sep 18, 2007 - 09:28 am
| Because a set number allows a user to stay right below it. If the limit is 10GB they download 9.9.
A wandering limit allows them to go after anyone they want at any time for whatever reason, no matter how much that person has actually downloaded.
It's basically "Comcast reserves the right to alter your service contract in any manner Comcast deems necessary at any time without your notice and/or approval." Flag this | Edit this post |
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