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NHL March 2016 |OT| It's not tanking, it's losing with style
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God, I WISH somebody would do this to Zucc during out power play drills.
Antti Raanta gets the start tomorrow in Anaheim. Lines at practice today were:
Lindberg (Nash maintenance day)-Brassard-Zuccarello
Kreider-Stepan-Fast
Miller-E.Staal-Hayes
Glass-Moore-Stalberg
McDonagh-Klein
Yandle-Girardi
Staal-Boyle
Oscar Lindberg will be the healthy scratch, assuming Tanner Glass is healthy enough to play. He missed the last game with a lower body injury of some sort.
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ElephantShell
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PlayStation VR is $399 USD, so if you're Canadian and want one you'll probably have to take out a second mortgage on your house.
CreeperBlocks
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Does the PS3 Move Camera work with PSVR?
Same thing happened when people saw the pricetag of the other VR products... totally worth it
not
Simon Belmont
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I'll admit to not having been interested in VR in the first place, but at that price that thing is DOA. It'll sell a whole bunch to the enthusiasts right away, but the lack of software support all console peripherals struggle with will peel it into a death spiral.
MultiJhonny
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VR is dead on arrival. All of it. It will have a niche audience on PC but that is it I feel like.
either that, or it will somewhat catch on and devs like EA and Ubi will ruin it for everyone by forcefeeding VR in all their games.
the Wii motion thingy sounded like a great idea too, and we ended up with the biggest shovelware console of all time, everyone wanted that quick buck
Theyre still working that 2nd job they got to get a ps3 so they have the cash to burn.
CosmicQueso
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You guys know less about this stuff than you know about hockey.
Aroooooooooooooo!
Aroooooooooooooo!
MultiJhonny
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Then tell us why VR will be a rousing success, unlike your franchise.
I know I don't have 600$ to put on top of my 400$ machine to HOPEFULLY get something fun out of it
vive is 800$ USD, so like a million CAD and you need a good computer
OR is 600 USD AND you need a NASA computer
PSVR is 400 USD + the camera + a PS4
it's cheaper, but still not cheap enough
I'm still cautiously optimistic about VR if only because we have so damn many people saying after they tried a buggy old demo running on a devkit it totally changed their minds.
The good thing about PSVR is we will have a ton of impressions and previews on it in the months leading to release so it should be pretty easy to decide to hop on or not.
Still blows my mind that we were at par a couple of years ago. I paid $399 CDN for my PS4.
The good thing about PSVR is we will have a ton of impressions and previews on it in the months leading to release so it should be pretty easy to decide to hop on or not.
Still blows my mind that we were at par a couple of years ago. I paid $399 CDN for my PS4.
CosmicQueso
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240 developers, significant IP already announced, moderate entry price point for new tech, nothing else to compete for the attention or dollars in holiday. They'll sell every unit of PSVR they can make in 2016. Whether it fizzles after a couple years or is a new primary way people play and experience content is the question.
VR in 2016 isn't targeted at you, or the mass market. It's targeted at early adopters and price insensitive people... those who have cash to burn on this stuff.
Fata1moose
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It has that stupid virtual cinema too. :lol
Well of course not its not at the price range that the mass consumer will jump on. Right now they are probably forecasting with that price range that it will be the hardcore community that will jump on it, until maybe a year or two from now when the technology gets cheaper and streamlined and better software that the real race for VR begins.
Waiting for the eventual real SAO.
I understand all of that but it's the dev aspect that weirds me out. Unless i'm ubisoft, WHY would I make a VR thing if it's for such a small market? and if there's not much being developped, why would I buy a gen 2 or 3 VR machine?
and why are they announcing it as the revolution if it's unaffordable for most people?
Fata1moose
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I have a GTX 980ti and that might not cut it for certain games. In some cases you'd need two, VR is still a ways off from being good, but we have to start somewhere.
MultiJhonny
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While you make some valid points, just because they have those developers doesn't automatically make it a good platform. There has to be actual content there to be explored and expanded with. The price point will be still too deep for most people and it really shoe horns experiences to single player ones, for now at least, and obviously will always be first person.
Then you will inevitably get reports of shit is broke early on or people actually getting hurt and then that will hurt early sales.
I would personally love to be prvoen wrong so a few years down the line this is a real thing that is an awesome auxillary to traditional gaming but I don't see that happening. Only way I do is if it can outlive this current generation with enough support. I think VR is hitting a generation too early.
Every fan of a terrible team (say, bottom 3 or 4 in the standings) like me needs to brace themselves for the not-terribly-long odds that 3 fucking teams above them in the standings leapfrog their team in the lottery.
My god I'm going to be pissy when the Jets finish 28th overall but pick 6th.
CosmicQueso
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Won't be small for long. And you could ask the same question for why make a game for the launch of a new console.
There's a lot being developed.
What new technology launches at a mass market price? Typewriters, Televisions, PCs, laptops, cell phones, flat screen TVs, consoles, they all launch at early adopter prices.
They market it as mass market and revolutionary to make it aspirational for people that can't afford it.
Sure.
But there is a lot of content coming. We just don't know about it all yet.
Supply and demand in year one. If you can find a unit of PSVR on shelf Christmas week this year then yes, you can call it too high a price. My guess is they'll be $750+ on ebay. And of course on single player experiences for now at least.
Inevitably?
Guess we'll see.
Wait for Trump to crater the US dollar next year before making any major purchases.
Not gonna lie.
Obviously I'd love if the Leafs end up with the #1 pick but either way I'm looking forward to drowning in the salt.
If Leafs get #1 pick all the Matthews is a bust and fuck the Leafs posts will fuel me for weeks.
If Leafs drop to #4 all the Leafs-GAF salt about the lottery will also fuel me.
The inevitable Edmonton #1 pick and I look forward to burning down the NHL with all of you.
Obviously I'd love if the Leafs end up with the #1 pick but either way I'm looking forward to drowning in the salt.
If Leafs get #1 pick all the Matthews is a bust and fuck the Leafs posts will fuel me for weeks.
If Leafs drop to #4 all the Leafs-GAF salt about the lottery will also fuel me.
The inevitable Edmonton #1 pick and I look forward to burning down the NHL with all of you.
uugughghhhhh I guess, i'm just salty because I love new tech, and I can't have this one.
and the CAD is fucked, Justin will you just please legalize weed already and make the CAD dank again
Fata1moose
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I'm morbidly curious as to what would happen if Edmonton won the lottery again.
Simon Belmont
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None of that really means anything, though. Stuff gets announced that's never mentioned again all the time. Console peripherals have never been successful, and I don't see this being any different.
CosmicQueso
Member
Aspirational marketing, my friend. You are in it.
E3 will certainly not fail to mention VR lol.
It's weird but last year I was so salty about Oilers getting McDavid I almost expended my salt reserves. I feel like if they get Matthews I'm just going to laugh. A lot.
Riots, mutiny, and war
Simon Belmont
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Of course it will be mentioned. we heard about Kinect for like 7 years.
Dubbedinenglish
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"Hi Austin, It's Mess"