I would check your setup if you're getting hiccups. None for me. Software is not release so could be. But I never get hiccups since I moved from cable to DSL.
$63/month > $40/year
I have no problem with people that can't afford $40/yr or don't want XBL if they can. I only care about what I like. I did PSN for a year. All I can say is you get what you pay for.
Actually, it was Friday not yesterday, and it was Live. I don't pay for cable. I don't need to with OTA HD and XBL.
@Jason: and Netflix. Even before Live got ESPN I went with OTA HD and Netflix. Refuse to pay $100+ when I watch only a couple series on local channels and sports.
Yesterday I watched Miami vs. Orlando Live HD Stream on ESPN Live!
I'll buy that for an extra .83 cents a month.
The real deals? Imports, or japanese chinese forgeries. Especially with regards to Nike. Chances are greater than 50% any Nike product sold in Japan is not a genuine Nike product.
That was a foul comment by Zerodin. Japan and Chinese are not similar. America and Russia helped China fight off Japanese. Japan treated Chinese horribly, horribly. As bad as holocaust. Many don't know how Japan made Chinese suffer during WWII. Terrible stuff.
Good point, as many Americans find the PS3 controller too small. Still, I don't think a mini controller would make a difference.
There was an Xbox game called N.U.D.E, now a bunch more of those in HD might make a difference. I'd like to try it myself. Not sure if MS actually ever released it. I think they may have felt it would tarnish their image in US.
Anyone who knows the history of WWII and why we dropped 2 nukes when the war was basically already lost for Japan know how "superstitious" and cultural they can be.
Because Japanese prefer flip phones to smartphones. Flip phones dominate. iPhone is big with smartphone users but that's a small part of the market. Not like America. Becuase flip phones are so dominant, that's what most japanese phone suppliers provide.
There are 3 major console makers, 2 Japanese, 1 American. They don't buy the American console. The few that are bought are absolutely negligible. Do you really think the Japanese are going to go out and buy tons...
It's not about her responsibility to MS/Kinect. It's the credibility of her show and influence. Just as she had to apologize for hawking a book in which the authored lied, she will have to respond to a Kinect failure. Without a doubt. Or, her marketing power will suffer. Her wor(d) will no longer be gold. Her influence is based on the fact that those hundreds of millions of viewers trust her word.
Whether she apologizes, or convinces viewers to stick with it until i...
You've got to be kidding. I'm not saying it was not going to do well without Oprah. But doubt Oprah helped, come on now ... If Oprah even mentions a book, once, it's on the best seller list. She probably doubled Kinect sales. Millions of viewers oblivious to gaming and Kinect, now have it on the Christmas Shopping list.
She's a talk show host, what do you expect. But she is far from Jerry Springer. I gave up when she had an entire show on how the rich spoil their dogs.
But, there are millions of dog onwers (who let their dogs crap all over public trails) who will love her forever for that show.
Oprah didn't have any Jerry Springer class stuff but she has had low rent days. More uncouth than trashy I would say.
They'd better be careful what they ask for. If there's a major glitch in Kinect, it will be a PR disaster. Because they went balls out and went on Oprah, if it bombs, Oprah will have to apologize to her audience.
Sales will be great, but if it bombs, they will realize that Oprah is on a different level. If she has to apologize for helping promote Kinect, the platform may never recover.
That's worst case scenario but very real possibility. The ...
Hard is subjective. In the early days of PC gaming, take Bard's Tale. Great RPG. Well, to make it hard, there were darkness areas with spinner rooms. Dramatically increased the difficulty and play time as you had to map and remember spinner rooms on dark grids.
Is that really hard, or artificial difficulty? I found it to be a waste of my time. Yeah, I could spend hours memorizing in the dark, but that's not particularly enjoyable. Depends on what makes the game hard...
It is an odd Article. Microsoft's brand is only on certain things:
OS - Windows 7
Console - XBox 360
Music - Zune
Productivity - Office
All doing well. Zune is doing as well as any iPod competitor. Customers haven't turned their backs, market is transitioning. We're in a period where consumers will not tell developers what they want.
There is a new market with lightweight needs. Cloud, pfft, buzzwo...
Who said anything about forcing, oh yeah, you did. Current franchising dominating - influx of new gamers, new tastes, new franchises.
Bubble up. Intelligent comment. Wasted on fanboys. Don't waste your time.
I supppose shooting random sparl(ling) pixels in Uncharted 2 and call it a Treasure hunt is great game design. Right.
Bubble up. Good for you for not being simple-minded enough to listen to ridiculous PS3 fanboys mad at Ninja Theory.
Based on the idiotic photo the author chose to use, a white man in blackface. If it is true, it only effects white men in blackface. Not real black people.
BTW, I love Sgt. Osiris in Tropic Thunder and Robert Downey. But using this photo in this article is not the best choice.