every program written in C is future proof because most of C++ comes from C?
The PS2 survived because of it's price and the ace that sony was making a profit off of it. It had VERY little to do with the technical specifications of the PS2.
the streak of taking a reasonable quote from a microsoft executive, and turning it into something offensive or aggressive.
Why is it guaranteed? do you have a source of some sort? or are you just following some insane logic structure where exclusivity contracts don't exist?
Keeping it as an extra marketing gambit during the launch of the next xbox would probably be the most bang for the buck. a new console with a completely free live service would be pretty awesome.
The biggest problem would be, like with PSN, people would make a lot more than 1 account. With XBL, the price keeps most users as unique users. It keeps databases small, and people from switching gamertags constantly, so your friends stay the same.
That could be worked aroun...
@"Coming from the development side of the house myself"
as a game journalist?
the PSN store competes with M$ video marketplace. Netflix is a service outside that.
also, why would netflix be available to people outside the US on 360 before it's even available outside the US on their own website?
Orange box is a horrible... HORRIBLE example.
I could blow up a building with Raid for the money you'd spend JUST on that gun.
not to say it's not sweet or effective. That said, this metaphor has been entirely overanalyzed.
http://www.wired.com/scienc...
"Raid uses a mix of propylene, butanes, and butylenes as propellant. These are flammable and can cause breathing difficulties; you might want to stub out that Marlboro Light before spraying indoors."
Grenade launcher : approximately $600 (no grenades)
Can of Raid: $5/can (usually comes in packs for foggers)
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I take issue with this.
The game industry has always been a risky industry. The "recession proof" statement comes from earnings over the whole of the industry, not individual studios. Before the recession, the number of video games that was actually profitable was around 80% (I think maybe more).
The recession didn't exactly help this fact, because now if you're in that 80%, you could completely lose funding, and it could very well mean the closing of your ...
"There are five six SKUs of Windows 7: Starter, Home Basic (developing markets only), Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate."
"There's no more Home Basic in the civilized world, which was a gimped version of Vista that didn't have Aero or Media Center that a lot of consumers unwittingly got stuck with. Ultimate, for the most part, won't be very visible to the average guy says Microsoft. So you'll only get Ultimate if you know that's what you want from...
And it's scoring about the same as halo 3. What's your point?
they haven't released a single SKU since before windows 95. 95 had at least 3, 98 had 2, 2000 had 2, XP had 2, Vista had realistically 4 to the consumer (6 if you include enterprise(large businesses only) and starter(emerging markets only)) and would have been reasonably ok if they didn't totally gimp lower versions and made an OS that performed worse than their previous OS.
7 is going to have 3 versions to the consumer. Home, Professional, and Ultimate. The feature difference is...
READ PLEASE!
"Regular people won't ever see Starter or Enterprise. Basically, you'll walk into Best Buy and pick either Home Premium or Professional, whether you're buying a new PC or a copy to install. It's a lot more like the Windows XP Home and Professional dichotomy."
If you are getting one for home, you buy home. If you're getting one for work, you buy professional.
I doubt anyone read past "Today Microsoft confirmed the six flavors o...
neither of you read it. There's actually only really 2 versions of vista that the average user would need (Home Premium and Business)
All the other versions are for specific things. Enterprise for large business contracts, Home Basic and Starter are for developing markets, and Ultimate is still pretty hush hush.
This was a very positive article if you actually read it. "Microsoft wouldn't discuss pricing, but the general sense was that there will be full retail ...
wat? how are you supposed to rank anything then? Would you give pong a 10/10? Name one thing wrong with the game without naming a feature it doesn't have.
Would you give goldeneye a 10/10 BY TODAY'S STANDARDS? it's pretty hard to control once you're used to dual analogue, and most people would mark it down for that, but according to you, you can't fault a game for missing an analogue stick.
this guy needs to QQ more. The game is rated within 2 points of almost all the top rated games of all of 2008. cry me a river.
people will never be happy. First they complained about pop ups all the time, now they complain that they didn't make that the default anymore.
the problem isn't HHG himself, it's just the people that aren't him that put articles up on his site.
They are seriously quite ridiculous, and would 9/10 times be failed out of a composition 100 class in even a community college. The logic structure usually doesn't even agree with the argument being made and jumps to conclusions. The grammar is laughable, and the sentence flow is pretty bad.
Again, I'm not talking about HHG himself. I'm talking about other people tha...