roosters93
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I want that 27" Dell Ultrasharp
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AusGAF 3.0 - Double the price, region locked and refused classification
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It's nothing Nintendo related, well maybe it is. Just pissed off with a few things on my site and have no time for anything. Can't even do it at work. Fucks sake.
Someone asked me when I was going to be home so they could buy something I put up on Gumtree or when I would be free. I said 2012. Maybe.
Only so much one man can do.
Someone asked me when I was going to be home so they could buy something I put up on Gumtree or when I would be free. I said 2012. Maybe.
Only so much one man can do.
reptilescorpio
Member
Microsoft taking win8 open source and donating a million dollars to linux.jambo said:
Nintendo raising the price of the 3ds so as to be nice to Sony over the Vita delay.
EA dropping Origin and putting up all there classics for sale on Steam et al.
Lucasarts selling all their adventure game ip to me.
codswallop
Member
Why the hell is the only SSD option in a Mac mini the 256GB option for an additional $700?
reptilescorpio
Member
Biggest company in the world now right? Smart cookies.codswallop said:
roosters93
Member
So I updated the video card drivers on my Dad's laptop (Geforce GT230M) and now the display doesn't work haaaalp
Texas Forever
Bernbaum said:
Texas Forever
roosters93
Member
AusQB said:
I'm in the middle of just reinstalling the new ones again and it has an option for a clean installation which seemed to remove the old ones.
At least the retail Cave Story 3D release on the 3DS will be close to the US one for you guys... unless you only have a DSi... The existence of that is the only reason I haven't bought the DSi version for my 3DS yet.markot said:
I think they'd rather commit seppuku than go third party. Seriously.trinest said:
Worthintendo
Member
I was going to hold out for the 3DS version, but I couldn't hold myself and had to get it. Still going to get the 3DS version when that comes out, just needed some really good old school 2d side scrolling platforming fun on my 3DS.Clipper said:
Planet_JASE
Member
So sad 
I wish everyone (that were) there all the best in the future.
I wish everyone (that were) there all the best in the future.FormallyMegadrive
Member
jambo said:
Yes. Very yes. LETS DO IT. NOW. Oh wait I need to develop a pre-alpha for viewing by high school maggotry in two weeks.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Megadrive said:Oh wait I need to develop a pre-alpha for viewing by high school faggotry in two weeks.
wut
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Box of Bunnies said:
Another AusGAF missquote. Geez guys. Megadrive obviously said maggotry, and not a similar sounding word that also doubles as a derogatory homosexual slur.
The denzines of AusGAF would never post such things, because if they did I'd have to ban them, and that would be a right shame.
bodyboarder
Member
haha.
Don't forget, the gruen transfer is on tonight.
Don't forget, the gruen transfer is on tonight.
reptilescorpio
Member
Oh snap, thanks for reminding me.bodyboarder said:
Also when did every start up with all the potty mouth? Need some fucking old english ladies to come in and clean things up.
codswallop
Member
Gawd, so few Australian development houses left, let alone anything big.
codswallop
Member
Unfortunately the industry's moving towards only the AAA guys and the casual market. The middle tier is shrinking and there's less tolerance for failure from publishers and less tolerance for anything less than perfection from consumers than ever before.
Same thing happened in the film industry, but earlier.
What we need is a revolution like with TV (The Sopranos, LOST, etc). Steam and XBL Arcade are sort of filling that need, but not quite.
Same thing happened in the film industry, but earlier.
What we need is a revolution like with TV (The Sopranos, LOST, etc). Steam and XBL Arcade are sort of filling that need, but not quite.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
EatChildren said:
Sorry. I'll be more careful when paring down quotes from now on
bodyboarder said:
Yep. Great show, shame it doesn't have a better host.
Watching a bit of Your Gen this evening reminded me I should've mentioned Kate Miller-Heidke the other night.
roosters93
Member
They took all the fun out of the skittles "ad".bodyboarder said:
bodyboarder
Member
roosters93 said:
Yeah, they weren't happy at all with it.
FormallyMegadrive
Member
EatChildren said:
I will remember this in future, in case people misquote me once more.
thx4notbanningme
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Heard about THQ Brisbane. That sucks. I work not a five minute walk from their offices in Spring Hill and my better half works across the road from them.
Problem with the games industry is that it's just hugely expensive to make anything you can sell, costs of failure are astronomical and there's not a lot of maturity to the dev process (industry best practices are still being invented / fine-tuned and making a good game is a different beast to, say, making a good asset tracking system). Doesn't help that the Aussie dollar is so high either.
Distribution channels and the size of the market are also big issues. Console games are more expensive than they need to be for mass market penetration because retailers get too big a slice of the pie, but paying more than a pittance for games is still an alien concept for everyone but 18-35 year old males.
Bah.
Don't even get me started on the countless opportunities Nintendo squandered with the Wii. They had a chance to help to fix it all. They expanded the market and then did everything they could to lose it. For years, I thought they had a plan - attract the non-gamers, graduate them up the ranks until they were just as big in terms if spending as the faithful and create a self-sustaining market segment out of that.
Nope. Turned out they had one big idea and just went back to doing what they always had.
They should have massively expanded via acquisition at the outset and just had their new studios churning out one traditional title after another to 1) fill out the schedule and 2) keep their traditional big-spending customers spending and 3) leave their top-tier teams free to work on the next big thing.
They should have invested in a proper online system or at least partnered with someone who knew what they were doing and done everything they could to fix the impediments to purchases that arose in the first six months of the console's life (fridge cleaning, piss-poor online shop implementation - a web page, really?).
I could fill a book with the list of things they should have done. They certainly had the cash to do it and it would have given them the manpower to have made the PS2 look like an amateur effort, third parties be damned.
Sorry about the rant.
That it took them all of five years to even partly address these issues
Problem with the games industry is that it's just hugely expensive to make anything you can sell, costs of failure are astronomical and there's not a lot of maturity to the dev process (industry best practices are still being invented / fine-tuned and making a good game is a different beast to, say, making a good asset tracking system). Doesn't help that the Aussie dollar is so high either.
Distribution channels and the size of the market are also big issues. Console games are more expensive than they need to be for mass market penetration because retailers get too big a slice of the pie, but paying more than a pittance for games is still an alien concept for everyone but 18-35 year old males.
Bah.
Don't even get me started on the countless opportunities Nintendo squandered with the Wii. They had a chance to help to fix it all. They expanded the market and then did everything they could to lose it. For years, I thought they had a plan - attract the non-gamers, graduate them up the ranks until they were just as big in terms if spending as the faithful and create a self-sustaining market segment out of that.
Nope. Turned out they had one big idea and just went back to doing what they always had.
They should have massively expanded via acquisition at the outset and just had their new studios churning out one traditional title after another to 1) fill out the schedule and 2) keep their traditional big-spending customers spending and 3) leave their top-tier teams free to work on the next big thing.
They should have invested in a proper online system or at least partnered with someone who knew what they were doing and done everything they could to fix the impediments to purchases that arose in the first six months of the console's life (fridge cleaning, piss-poor online shop implementation - a web page, really?).
I could fill a book with the list of things they should have done. They certainly had the cash to do it and it would have given them the manpower to have made the PS2 look like an amateur effort, third parties be damned.
Sorry about the rant.
That it took them all of five years to even partly address these issues
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Thats Nintendo in a nut shell. Good ideas and philosophy diluted by incompetence and short sightedness. I have no doubt in my mind that their deliberate avoidance of a high tier online and digital service will near kill them in the long run, if they fail to adapt.
Same goes for nearly every company in every industry. The future is networking. Adapt or perish.
Same goes for nearly every company in every industry. The future is networking. Adapt or perish.
reptilescorpio
Member
The rant about the wii is correct. It went from being the cool thing to derided as a fad by most noncore gamers I know. Even the ds revisions left them pretty cold towards Nintendo. Since they are basically giving the Wii away at the current price they really could have brought about a huge change in the market size but alas their effort was poor and people are more willing to play iphone games right now.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
It's because they're miserly and are reluctant to spend any cash on something that can't be immediately monetised. Nintendo are immensely rich, but the number of employees they have is ridiculously small for a company that has the reach it does.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish they are.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish they are.
ClivePwned
Member
so is it okay to make light of UK riots in this thread?
roosters93
Member
Mah sexy money belt
