TheFlyingGerbil
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do any of those sorts of games actually play on Steam OS though? Are there any AAA that will run on the machine rather than stream from a windows PC? Have any publishers/developers said they will support it so you may see an elder scroll/BF/dragon age/witcher or anything of that ilk on it? That's the problem with a steam box as far as I can see... I keep getting (semi-) excited that I could get a hassle free PC gaming experience under my TV, and then I realise that I either have an unnecessary indie gaming box or a very expensive streaming machine that needs an expensive PC sat behind it. I may just be missing something but it doesn't seem to be an easy/cheap way to get in to PC gaming but more an expensive accessory for people who are already in to it and I can imagine a lot of people buying one firing it up and being extremely disappointed when they can't play half the games they bought it to play. ... since I took so long to write this it seems Dean's answered one of my questions, which just reinforces my point. I guess a few years down the line if the OS does well enough to get the support from major games I will look at it again.
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guy re-enacts classic movie scenes with his boss's dog. I'm only posting it becasue of this one which absolutely cracks me up.
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well I bought my first game of the year yesterday and I'm not off to a good start. It was the Wii U version of a link to the past. I didn't get very far in it on the wii but can have a proper crack at it now with the off screen play and I want to complete it so I can play a link between worlds, and because it's one of the few Zelda games I've not really played.
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Since I just watched deathly hallows part one I can whole heartedly agree with that.
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Jesus, I know I'm a bit of a Nintendo defender but even I found that embarrassing to read. One week of good sales (when Wii U is the only choice in Japan for a "new" home console) and this guy is saying Nintendo has won the generation... And he's boasting that they " continue to roll out more hard hitting titles " and then cites New Super Mario Bros U which is over a year old and boasts that it's just sold more than dead rising 3 that's only been out a month? He is completely deluded.
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What Have You Received for [Holiday]?
TheFlyingGerbil replied to TheMightyEthan's topic in Off-Topic
I was pleased with all my presents this year. I did get a battleships shot game that I doubt I will ever use but it was from three friends at work that decided together to treat me "because you always make us nice things" so I genuinely a bit choked by the thought if not the gift itself. -
That's a good list of games you've played there. What was fragile moon like? I've got it tucked away in a cupboard somewhere but would have to dig out my gamecube or Wii to play it.
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If they continue to sell at a slow rate would that mean they would never really reduce production costs without a redesign? Do Nintendo even do redesigns on home consoles? Apart from the Wii redesign where they took out the GC backwards compatability and that weird black and red thing they released last year I can only think of them making different colours for their other consoles, though I suppose they could improve the internals without advertising it as a new version of the console. Do you think they're more likely to make a redesign if they sell well or poorly?
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in other words, I was right
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maybe if they weren't making a loss on the hardware it wouldn't be so bad but with a low install base and not many compelling games I can't see how they'll be making their money back, at least in the shortish term
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I was reading a Christmas gifts for anglophiles article and two of the items were mince pies and christmas crackers. Are these not that popular in America? After Christmas roast dinner I would say mince pies would arguably be the food British people most associate with Christmas and I can't imagine there is a dining table in the land come Christmas Day that isn't set with crackers.
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if they stop making hardware and go software only, which is what I said was being posited by many investors/people who act like they're investors, then where are all these big new games going if not mobile phones? Would they just stop making new games and only sell their legacy games? cos that would be dumb as fuck
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not really - if you have a smart phone already and want to play the new mario game most people would be happy to pay for the game on the phone and a slightly less optimal experience rather than for the game and the console to get a slightly better experience. Doesn't mean the game isn't any good. There's also the problem that people will buy the game for £30 on the handheld, but would be really unlikely to pay that on a phone.
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I'm not saying investors aren't right to want money (obviously that is why they invested...) What I'm saying is that because investors want to maximise profit (and often in the short term at the expense of long term growth) at all costs we often don't get what may be the best decision for consumers in the short term or for anyone in the long run. E.g. people wanting Nintendo to put their IP on mobile may rake in a bit of short term cash and big moves like that often appeal to investors but in the long term it means people have no reason to buy Nintendo's portable hardware and if people don't have their Nintendo hardware and their precious few Nintendo games to play on it would the games even seem that special to them after the novelty of playing them on a phone wore off? Without investors to satisfy Nintendo could have it's core business strategy as building a console that they only plan to sell 10 million of to the Nintendo fans that will always buy Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo games. That is a perfectly valid long term business plan if you don't have investors clamouring for more.
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There should always be enough Nintendo fans to buy a Nintendo console and Nintendo games even if other consumers and publishers ignore it so the Wii U can survive if Nintendo can push the costs down to make a profit on the hardware. They could carry on like this for generations if it weren't for investors wanting more. I think it could do semi OK (or maybe it's successor) if they push the price low enough that it is an easy choice for a second console, and would only need a couple of games you're interested in to justify the low price of entry. It would obviously have the NIntendo first party games. With middle tier games getting increasingly difficult to sustain on the high end consoles (they seem to be polarising toward mega budget and indie games) if Nintendo could try and push to get the second tier games (like Bayonetta) and have the console seen as a testing ground for new ideas that can't afford to be tested on the other two people who are keen gamers could see it as a viable choice. The problem with that is that Nintendo doesn't seem to have good enough relationships with the publishers to pull it off so I guess we're stuck with the first of my two scenarios.
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cutest attack in history what on earth...
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the real shock there was the previous sales record was for the PSP. Blimey, I'd never have guessed that one.
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hmmm, it was all a bit disturbing the way everyone was perving over him when he was rather young, Pretty much everyone thought he was flaming though. Must be hard to come out as bisexual as there always seems to be a contingent of people who will refuse to believe you.
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Thanks for the answer, Pojodin - I didn't read the bits in spoilers, but rest rest set my mind at ease. "I then got jumped by an assault squad of ducks" LOL, if reading that quote doesn't make you want to play a game, you're on the wrong forum.
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Not embarrassing at all
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Anyone used one of those bluetooth adapters you stick on an iPhone speaker dock connector?
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the dock i want doesn't have bluetooth and i'm hoping that's a work around
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it's near enough that price just for Pandora's tower over here - good bargain hunting skills!
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Shame it's missing on the extra content. Zelda games seem to have moved towards minigames and away from sidequests (e.g. the item trading sequence in Link's Awakening). I was hoping since this was harking to the past it would have more of the sidequests I prefer. Never mind. "could have been better had they mixed it up a bit to require more than just a single primary tool per dungeon" Could that be a limitation due to the fact that you're renting the items so you'll only have one at a time? Would it be too expensive to rent two so people who keep dying wouldn't be able to afford it? Can you actually rent two at a time?
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You say that but many of Nintendo's games sell steadily at full price for the life of the console. Other games drop in price to maintain sales when the initial marketing blitz is over and people are less excited for it. It's not unusual for a game to be half it's launch price a month or two later. You think if people were still willing to buy it at £40/$60 they wouldn't be selling it at that price? Maybe it's a lack of quality alternative game choices on Nintendo consoles, maybe it's that people are less likely to trade in a nintendo game so they don't flood the second hand market forcing prices down, maybe Nintendo has a lot of mum's buying games that don't know any better. Whatever it is it is definitely something and Nintendo would be mad not to capitalise on it
