This is good news. :)
I don't read manuals much, either, but that's not what this article's about. This is some idiot claiming that Ubi's ditching manuals because of Al Gore.
That's like claiming that Activision's firing the heads at Infinity Ward because EA doesn't think that Obama's birth certificate is real.
Ubi ditching manuals has nothing to do with the environment and has everything to do with Ubi finding creative new ways to screw the customer, yet this dipwad pollution apologist decides to shoehorn the global warming debate into it.
I'd bury this for flagrant stupidity if I could.
Ok maybe this summary allows you to comprehend.
The Apple iPad targets people who are not readers of N4G!
Consumers that want a slim easy to use device for simple surfing emailing and app usage, combined with a media capability based on apples service. These people are not on N4G, and therefore posting dozens of Fapple iPad tales of how much said how much this product fills a void in your life that only 1% of N4G shares with you is utterly moronic!
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There were motion control games in arcades, and for the Webcam before the Eyetoy. But he's right that the EyeToy was the first major effort at motion control by any of the current Big 3.
Is probably the worst damn game commercial I've EVER seen. They ran it during the Lakers/Blazers game on ABC last Sunday.
Remember when the Xbox launched, and the Microsoft talking heads were saying stuff like, "Since the XBox has a hard drive, as opposed to those other consoles, you're going to see infinitely large levels on the XBox."
Little did I know all those PC games I'd been playing for years had infinitely large levels thanks to the hard drive.
The crazy hype machine in games these days is starting to approach sports drafts.
Actual exchange:
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Still as inexcusably broken as the first one? You know where the bosses would drop weapons and items, and the game would launch you into an unskippable cutscene, and then the items would have vanished?
Cuz that was my favorite part of the first game. That and how utterly stupid the plot and characters were.
What VGChartz lists is a bunch of bullcrap.
When will people learn. If you use VGChartz to back you up, you may as well quoting another forum user as a valid source.
Argument rendered invalid.
Even, better, he used the word "disrupt" in his article summary. The definitive hallmark of a writer who doesn't know crap about what he's talking about.
"Just shut up."
Apple products do NOT "just work". I'm tired of hearing this BS mantra recited like it's the Apple Fan's John 3:16. Apple products "just work, until they just stop working, and you just have to take them to the Apple store to get fixed until you just have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to fix them."
My iPhone locks up more than any cell phone I've ever owned, hands down. The failure rate of our G5s here at work is 1...
Hey, I'm going to review a device for gaming! Since there aren't any games for this device, I'm just going to assume that everything I want to see from this device is going to be realized! It will be the best device for portable gaming you'll ever see!
9 Unicorns out of 10!
Everything has the POTENTIAL to be awesome, jackass. It's crossing that bridge from fantasy to reality that gives you something quantifiable that you can review.
Two Worlds and X-Blades are neck and neck for worst 360 game. The controls were bad, the framerate was bad, and the story/cutscenes sounded like some guy wrote it with Mad Libs.
Is one of the few games I've just stopped playing because of how godawful the story was.
Would they even need to put Hungarian to a vote? If they did, yeah, I'd vote for it. I'm not even sure why they felt it was "necessary" to vote on Arabic. Just add it.
Dev costs may be low, but, you're not taking into account the cost of actually making the cartridges.
This should be obvious, but cartridges cost WAY more than optical discs. (Optical discs are cheaper than a penny per disc. Anything with a microchip, circuit and programmable memory is obviously going to cost way more.) DS games sell at retail for cheaper than PSP games.
What that means from a retail standpoint is that because the DS the highest manufacturing costs, ...
Yeah, everyone's doing it now. That's pretty much fact.
My objection wasn't to that part of his post. It was an objection to his revisionist history. Nintendo started the trend of recycling hardware, everyone else followed the industry standard that Nintendo started, not the other way around.
Nintendo's been doing this for decades now, but not everyone else. Especially considering Sony just started making portables. Here's Nintendo's rehashing history:
4 versions of the GameBoy:
Game Boy Play-It-Loud!
Game Boy Pocket
Game Boy Light
Game Boy Color
4 GBA's:
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance SP
Game Boy Advance SP Bright
Game Boy Micro
And now 4 versions of the DS:
Nintendo DS
DS Lite ...
Finish Shenmue, dammit!