My question is why didn't you just keep the controller after they gave you the crap offer? I can't see losing 37 dollars and then still having to turn around and buy the damn controller again, cheaper or not.
I know we all want to crack down on Gamestop, but they're not really any different than most big retailers.
I work at Lowe's, and I see the same kind of crap. For instance, we have a no interest and payments for a year. Well, the fine print says that you have to pay off the entirety within that year, or else you get charged for the full interest amount at something like 20% APR.
And on top of that, we get a weekly lecture from the Store Manager about not even mention...
The 360 is what, 5-6 million consoles ahead and consistently outselling Sony in software? How are they in last place?
No matter how cheap they put the 360, they're still not going to surpass the Wii with this. Most of the people buying Wii's could really care less about the 360, it's a whole different market.
However, it will probably be a big boost to get them back to outselling Sony, at least short-term.
But clamping down on piracy just drives away the customers.
Just ask the music biz.
That's not to even mention the huge following of MMORPGs. Some of those people will never get off the PC.
I myself still enjoy a little Counter-Strike everyday, and occasionally buy new games to play. Several series will also be in my staple, including Total War, Civilization, anything from Blizzard or Valve, and several shooters like Crysis, etc.
I've just come out of a good long Mercenaries session. Damn I love this game. Blowing s**t up is sooooo much fun!
Or if you want real explanations, go to Anand's site and look up the articles about it. Mildly technical, but a bit informative in overviews and stuff. Also, it comes from a PC guys, so it's pretty free of "PS3 and Cell rulz!".
http://www.anandtech.com/sh...
Well, no version of Windows has came out of the gate a perfect piece of software. It always requires patches, SP's, or even a redux(I'm looking at you, 98).
While everyone is quick to bash Vista, there are plenty of us, including me, who haven't had the first problem with it. I had many more problems with 98SE than I'm having now. And even some of the most-discussed issues have been present in previous OS's. I distinctly having to upgrade some of my stuff just to get it to work o...
Chrome will make you switch from IE? WTF?
Why would a new untested browser, Google or not, make you switch when there is Firefox 3... the best browser around.
Well, I have to say that PS3-focused titles do look better than the 360-focused ones. But honestly, we haven't seen many 360 exclusives that could be graphically intensive. I think Gears 2 will probably outdo most PS3 games that are out now, but then the PS3 will come out with something that looks better than that. It's gonna be a jigsaw for a bit longer, until one does reach the limits of developer prowess.
And no matter which console you have, people should realize that both co...
The game is irrelevant to the argument. You can easily replace "Vampire Rain" with "MGS4" because the discussion is about mandatory installs, not whether the game is worth the HD space.
I'm thinking the same thing. There is nothing quite like dropping a nuke just to kill one single guy. Overkill is soooo much fun! LOL
Screw da guns, bring da bomb!!
My only problem with Achievements/Trophies is the exact method of unlocking them sometimes.
Many games require you to do a certain thing online. That's fine and dandy, until you get the Halo 3 type of Achievements where you have weapon specific things to accomplish. I hated getting into a match just to find a bunch of kids who didn't want to play, and only wanted to line up for each other.
I own three of them. And since I'm reminded of my youthful ignorance, I shall go play Star Wars: Master of Teräs Käsi.
Um, nice asses. :)
We should go back to trackballs. I miss taking out the ball to clean the lint from the bars. LOL
Menus don't amount to anything, though. You definitely won't be seeing fully raytraced cars running around raytraced tracks... not in this generation, anyway. Depending on how long it takes for the next gen to come out, we may see implications of it then. But that's pretty questionable as current GPU's are still primarily rasterizers.
But as for now, raytracing is a serious resource hog in its current state, way too much for the underpowered (compared to new PC tech) consoles. <...
Yes it is, it's mainly just more from Nvidia trying to downplay Intel's push for graphics market lately. But the whole idea of raytracing vs rasterization is quite interesting.
Well, for the computer geeks, that is.
So you're saying since non-americans came up with those things, that Americans only steal others ideas. Wow, that's retarded.
Even when Americans don't come up with these things originally, they've many times made them better. Very often, the person with the original idea only makes a barely functional prototype, if that. And then comes someone else who actually makes it work well. And that's where Americans come in... people like Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Thomas Edison, Oliver E...