I've had good luck with Vista, but only after the service packs started coming.
The thing that annoys me about Vista is the fact that the OS just continues to consume more disk space as updates are applied. It has that side-by-side install paradigm that keeps every version of every assembly ever installed or updated to try to avoid DLL hell. Microsoft released a tool with each service pack to go back and clean some of that up, but it can only be run once. I want a way to ...
I read this earlier today. I have to agree that Microsoft is in the mature phase of their business lifecycle. They're struggling to stay relevant with the average non-business consumer.
What they really need to do, as a software company, is take advantage of some of the platforms they're competing with and release software on the platforms that do it better. Such as creating Office-compatible apps for iPad/iPhone/Android.
You have to focus on what you...
I would buy it. Day 1.
I would really love for Sega to take the old games and include all 3 in a box set somehow. Could it be that tough to port them?
And innovative developers. These companies are just milking the cash cows right now.
Are we going to start arguing about how many more people than others are planning to play games?
Not available for download yet. The website says they'll email you the link when it's ready.
I've been a fan of the PSP for a long time. I have the brickhouse-sturdy PSP-1000 and I love it. I love it for internet radio and digital movies as much as I love it for games. It's a great piece of kit.
I never purchased the Go. It didn't offer a significant enough value proposition for me to make the change. All of my games are on UMD.
I'll buy the next PSP if Sony releases one.
I'm so confused. One day AAA refers to the game's production budget. The next day AAA refers to the game's review scores.
I wish people would make up their minds.
...leading discount voucher code website...
How is an online survey from a voucher code website considered credible? And there's statistically no difference between the top 10 items.
How is this news?
Shipped vs. sold is one of the oldest arguments in the console warrior's handbook. When we're talking tens of millions of units in a market of hundreds of millions of potential customers, there's no way that any of the big three know exactly what the delta is when comparing what's been dumped into the supply chain versus what is actually in homes.
What the big three report is always their estimation anyway. They should be able to tell pretty easily what their ...
Oh, look. It's this again. Keep up the good fight I guess. I'm not quite sure what Amazon sales ranks have to do with anything, but ok.
Kameo really is a great game. Beautiful visuals and a great story, although it is a bit short.
How short our memories really are.
Xbox didn't kill Rare. Rare pretty much killed themselves starting in 1997. Most of the talent a Rare that were responsible for the games everyone is so fond of left the company to create a studio called Eighth Wonder and started working on a Playstation game. Eighth Wonder suffered from management problems and disappeared.
Rare was just a shadow if its former self when Microsoft acquired it. Granted, the studio hasn'...
Ad hominems! They're everywhere!
So much rage. No idea why.
"Hardcore gamer" is a misnomer that many opinionated, yet highly self-conscious people use to make themselves feel superior to people who don't waste as much time as they do playing video games.
The evidence is all over this thread and many others that have been flowing through as some of these new products launch. The "hardcore" types around here tend to paint the world with their own paintbrush and assert that if people don't feel the way that th...
Don't worry, Titanz. Move is going to see its share of "waggle" games over time. Very few developers seem to be good at using this kind of technology effectively. So some developers resort to cheap gimmicks to make a quick buck. My guess is that the only high quality implementations of the technology are going to come from first-party games. Just like Nintendo.
There's no sense trying to convince someone who is rationalizing, AWBrawler. There are so many things wrong on so many levels with what the post is saying that there's no sense trying to refute it. Both Wii and Move track in 3D space. Sony uses a glowing orb and a camera to provide the input data. Wii uses an IR sensor and infrared LED's. Games have shown that the Wii is capable of tracking when the remote is moving toward the screen.
Move is probably better at tr...
Oh, look. It's this article again. Let the FUD begin, I guess. Next we'll be hearing about how Microsoft is holding people at gunpoint and forcing them to buy 10 of them at once.
And it's not like this is the first time a company has asked for an embargo. I remember some other company released a game not too long ago and asked reviewers to wait two weeks before publishing reviews to make sure that the game was reviewed fairly. It happens.
We do live in a Windows world. And that's not going to change any time soon. But we do not live in a Zune world, or a Windows Mobile world, or a Bing world. The Azure cloud strategy isn't working out as well as the Amazon EC2 strategy. And internet explorer is dying a slow, painful death.
Microsoft does own the desktop, no questions asked. But that's about all they own any more. So while Windows certainly isn't going anywhere, very few of the other projects th...