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None of those removed the old ideas of the franchises. Metroid still got (gets with Dread) 2D games, Mario is still platforming whilst being milked, and the Zelda series has very few escapades. This Pokemon idea would be the future of the series, and that's not the right direction. The fundamentals of Pokemon don't lend themselves for any of these ideas. The franchise needs innovation, but not this generic (MMO)RPG BS. Nintendo could use Golden Sun or any of Monolith's new inventions for that. Nintendo hasn't cared half an arse about Microsoft's software in the past, and especially won't care now they're selling them out 1:2

The more the industry grows, the more production value and time is spent on games, and the better they (usually) get. Except for some exceptions, 2007 was mostly a year of production value, rather than good ideas and innovation. Quite unlike 1998.

We need more shotguns. Effective or not, it'll be good leisure time once the world's taken over. *BANG* *SPLATTER* *CHUCKCHUCK* *BANG* *SPLATTER* Now that I think about it, good clean clothes are a necessity too.

I lolled Also, I completely missed the entire Epic Thread when it happened >_< Thanks for the stuff anyway AshMat

Pokemon isn't anything like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy, nor should it be. You want some filler RPG with a Pokemon skin, not a Pokemon game.

At that temperature there are composites that'll start decomposing, and it makes the rest of the system much harder to cool. It's a silent PC, so preferrably there'll be no case fans, and it's a high end PC, so he's probably going to want SLI/CrossFire, and then I wouldn't be putting in two 110C cores.

Don't buy the 8800GT Silent, it's reported to go up to 120 degrees Celcius on load, and that can't be good. You could multiple CrossFire some Radeon 3870 Silent Editions for that money, at $200 per card. Or, buy some GF 8800 Ultras with watercooling, but that will be more expensive.

Probably, but I wonder how much PS3 sales are actually there for the games. A €400 Blu-ray player will sell like hotcakes (for a player) anyway, but if the prices inevitably come down, it's going to get a lot of competition in that sales area too.

My current 'job' is to convince people to come study Informatics at the University of Twente. I'm part of the promotions team, and it's real fun, and the pay is just ridicilously good. Anyway, my dream job is to develop new ways of interaction with computer systems. That sounds terribly boring, but working in that area allows for creativity, thinking out of the box (I love out of the box) and could potentially really change something. Might start my own company. Still on course to do that

Yeah, I've been thinking that too. A significant percentage of the PS3 sales will have to have come from Blu-ray enthusiast who don't care about games but buy it as a Blu-ray player for cheeps. Competition of other BD players going cheaper and other media might strain PS3 sales even more.

As long as you don't invite too many to use the server's services you'd be alright. You could use it to download stuff for you, set up an FTP server to share your stuff with others, host light games, run websites on it... There's a lot you can do with a server. You should check if it has the required PCI slots for the network card.As for the OS, I hear good stories about Feather Linux, although I'm a Linux noob.

XD, you could make your PC fly for that amount of money.

Full of extremes this thread :shock: I scored an 8 and I thought I was 'depressed' because of uni work and the winter in general...

What C-Dawg said ^ Get some lightweight Linux on it, install the server apps you need, and you're good to go. I would.

Research has shown that 74% of all Bluray players in the US are PS3s. Damn, if only Microsoft had ... Never mind, some timed tactics by Sony have made them king.

Wow, that explains a LOT. Thanks for sharing that, it takes a lot of courage, I'm sure. It seems so contradictory though, you have no interest in things yourself and you won't let other people tell you what to do, resulting in nothing. You're not getting anywhere either way. What is it you really want to do with your life then?

Yeah, my arguments were obviously prejudiced and not well thought out I know it's the same. HD DVD was first in adopting the new standards. That's what 'pioneer' means. It made TrueHD mandatory. Also, the disk space argument does not hold any more. Can you give me any evidence for this? PSN is open, true, but that's far from being an open company, that's just economical. How is that a reaction to me? It only supports the fact that HD DVD isn't pushed as much by companies, which often is a good thing. My interpretation of the facts is that HD DVD, as a medium, is better. But that's not because I hate Sony, which is what C-Dawg meant.

Of course, when you can't think of a proper argument, you can always blame it on the fanboys. Truth is HD DVD is pioneer in new compression technologies like H.264 and Dolby TrueHD, and is a cheaper medium. There's a lot of innovation in the format, instead of the mere promises of Bluray, like the 200 GB BD-ROM. HD DVD players are also more easily compatible with DVD (very important for the average consumer) and cheaper in general. About Sony, regardless what my opinion is about Sony Computer Entertainment, I don't like their general approach of using their fame to force consumers to use their formats. They have a way of exploiting the consumer more than any other electronics company out there. Lastly, I think it's a bad idea to have an 'owner' of a format. Bluray has a very strong consortium physically owning it, this is only true to a lesser extent for HD DVD, which is a more open format. There is truly no advantage BD has over HD DVD except for single layer storage capacity, and maybe the high-quality scratch protection that only matters when you go snowboarding with it.

For $400, I don't think that you'll get anywhere quiet. Quiet cases and cooling are expensive to very expensive. For $400 you could probably equip an existing PC with silent parts and casings, but not build a new one from scratch.

Is there much marketing though? The way I see it's just a lot of people staring blind at the Bluray's capacity whilst forgetting the things that really matter.

Looks to me they're making a game for Wii and then porting it to the PS360 for once Still, it looks shit.

I imagine taking a penalty will be great with the Wiimote I imagine you'd first pick a corner with the Wiimote, but without a cursor to see where you're aiming exactly, and then simulating the kick with the Wiimote.

To be frank, HD DVD's triple layer would solve all these issues and be compatible with all the old players (opposed to, apparently, Bluray's old players' firmware updates), whilst being a cheaper medium, a more logical continuation of the DVD standard, and having cheaper players. All advantages BD has is the disk space (the scratch protection is more than fine on HD DVD) and that has been resolved. I feel the early adopters, the HD purists, have been overwhelmed with the sheer disc size of the Bluray disc, when it isn't that advantageous at all, and HD DVD has more advantages over Bluray. Personally, as a computer science student, I think that Bluray has too much of a degree of propietariness (not a word). Sony is such a bitch about their formats, and I hate to see them winning and making their strategy of being a total ass about their formats pay off. Bluray is a great standard, but HD DVD is more sensible, and would've been better. In retrospect, I'm dissappointed that Microsoft didn't postpone the 360 launch by about six months and included a HD DVD player in it (as well as implementing 65 nm hardware and DirectX 10), because the Playstation 3 has made Bluray win, despite horrible sales as a video game console. The 360 would've easily added another 10 million HD DVD players to the tally, despite being later and possibly more expensive.

Don't believe Jordan! Metroid Prime 2 is a fanastic game. It's only the worst of the Primes because the others are two of the best games of all time. MP2 falls just short of that but is still so worth it. The controls will be a step back (altough it's as good as it gets on traditional pads), but the games are legend still. Their styles are different to MP3 too, in terms of presentation and storytelling.

Damn, that sucks. HD DVD was the more sensible format. Meh, can't say it really matters. Hope the Bluray disk prices go down though. And I hope Sony won't be such a bitch about this (although they probably will be).