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I will probably pick it up during the sale.

I'm mad at myself for not getting this one.

So I was gonna launch into a discussion about temperature ratings on transformers but didn't because I didn't know if you could get those specs on a PSU or not. Well it appears on some of the good ones you can so it may be worth noting what your peak demand usage on the PSU is and for how long you can reach that peak against what the PSU is rated to run indefinitely. If you only game for an hour or two you may be able to use a smaller PSU since transformers can typically perform over their rating for a short period of time (a couple of hours). If you're an MMO guy you're going to want to make sure your PSU is rated for your system at a continuous load.

Well, the developers that are good update their games with balances and fixes to prevent that sort of thing from happening.

Yeah, Wii sales really don't matter so much now. They've got the installed base so the shovelware will continue to flow for some time.

Wind Waker was a letdown if you wanted more than 4 dungeons and didn't enjoy hours of unabated sailing.

Tonight is gonna be some Black Ops for me. I do love that game.

I'm sure if you have a 3DS the ladies will be all up ons.

They had the whole problem with people buying HL2 and not being able to play it or return it because of the internet connection thing. The conversation is very similar. I just think that if we're going by history it would indicate that publishers are going to induce controls and attempt to kill sales of used games. I don't see the PC backtracking on it at all.

I had a steakhouse burger at whataburger for lunch. Dang that was some good foods.

I'm actually a little sad that it's actually going to be released. I liked the mythical game that never got released story. It seems like the DNF jokes just wont be as funny anymore.

I haven't played an MK game since 4 on the N64. I wonder if the AI is finally decent because it was super crappy cheap in the old games.

Yeah, but you've got to think in terms of profits and ask yourself if you're going to make more money if you eliminate 25% of possible buyers or if you're going to make more money by killing all 2nd hand sales of your game. I'm going to guess the later. Also, I wonder what the software attach rate for those 25% of offline consoles is. I bet it's lower than the online consoles. Anyway, I bet the accounting guys could crunch those numbers and make it work.

So yeah, you've got a good majority. I'd think you could probably make those numbers work in favor of killing the gray market. You just wait, it's coming.

Don't we have figures on how many xboxes are online? Hmmm... 30million XBL subscribers. Still not an overwhelming majority but definitely getting there.

Hmmm... wasn't that exactly what they said about Half-Life 2 though? That not everyone had an internet connection and they were gonna lose a lot of sales.

Oh yeah, well they could make the games have an online security check requirement like PC games.

It would kill the single player market if you had to have a key to play and the key wasn't transferable. The second hand market for PC games is pretty much dead for this reason. Also, why do people keep saying that piracry is worse on the XBox. The only way to pirate on the xbox that I'm aware of is through mod chips and mod chips aren't nearly the type of security breach we're talking about with the PS3. The PSP had development almost completely cease because of the piracy brought by pandora batteries and unless Sony gets a handle on this you may see more developers not bring their games to the PS3.

Piracy isn't the key. It's the second hand market they're trying to kill so why not just use single use cdkeys and kill it once and for all. Why play games?

Yeah, I've been surprised by just how slowly the tech has evolved over the years. RF1 really proved just what was possible and I had high hopes that RF2 would expand and make the destruction thing a permanent staple of FPS. True destruction though has been very very slow coming.

...but I like knocking over big buildings.

Play Red Faction 1. but Red Faction 1 had a tunneling system that this game doesn't so it doesn't make as much sense.

I can't post pictures in the playground forum. It says " You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board. "

Ah, I see. So confusing all the mess. I feel as a gamer that I want West and Zampella to be innocent as the driven snow but maybe they were trying to get out of Activision.

Hell just froze over.