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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: August 17, 2010, 11:56:11 AM »

Like I said, depends on the gamer, but I can manage with using just 4GB usb drive (whooping $7.99)just fine.

For a bargin the $150 arcade really is a steal for those not looking at wi-fi connection. The price performance is on par with the WII because with the $50 difference you'll be able to buy a least two great games from the 360's library.

$200 WII (Sports and Resort)_
$10 Sandisk card (4gb)

$150 Xbox 360
$10 for USB thumbdrive (4gb)
$40 can buy two PH titles

=$210 for either console.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: August 17, 2010, 08:18:45 AM »

"For a gamer, a hard drive is necessary,"

Actually the Jasper's arcades came with onboard memory, the same amount as the WII so as long as you don't plan on downloading tons of DLC or XBL Arcade games then you should be fine. Also the newer updates allowed 360's USB harddrive support so additional memory is pretty damn cheap compared to a year ago when the only options where an overpriced HD or MU.

The arcade does come with tokens and a few toss away games like Pac-Man but the Xbox has the better selection when it comes to games and pricing. Alot of the WII's hits are still at the $50 price point, Mario Kart for example, while MS has tons of cheap ass greatest hits selection. Nintendo still doesn't offer Players Choice in the NA regions, not sure why because they do in Japan, not sure about Europe.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Return of the Professor Layton Love Thread!

« on: August 17, 2010, 12:45:44 AM »

What confuses people is the gameplay. You don't really solve or detect anything related to the story, instead people give you odd puzzles thoughout the story. For example, you might bump into a character A who's a baker--he'll give you a puzzle (brain teaser) and you'll have to solve it to get him to talk. You really don't "solve" anything--or at least in the the first two games you don't.

Basically it's for nutters that enjoy brain teasers like me.

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TalkBack / Re: Obituary: PSP 2000

« on: August 06, 2010, 10:59:49 PM »

I can't really comment about the multimedia aspect of it since I bought mine just for gaming but I would have to agree with you about the annoying analog stick. Damn thing is in the wrong freaking spot--it should be where the direction pad is because it's used the most.

But sadly the PSP suffers the most because it simply lacked the second analog stick which is must for any 3d gameplay. Still bought my PSP 3000 quite cheap so I at least got my money out of it but the last couple of years the software has some dry spots vrs the DS which has a couple of hits each quarter that I want to play.

Still get a few titles worth playing per year, like the latest Metal Gear: Peace Walker or the upcoming VC2, Kingdom Hearts, God of War.

I play the DS about twice as much as the PSP.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii Successor and Glassess Free 3D: How Will It Work?

« on: August 06, 2010, 10:34:09 PM »

What nintendo needs to do is lease out their engines or team up with someone like Epic, Steam, ID, ect. There's a few cheap middleware engines out there for the WII but they all seem pretty damn weak and flawed.

Sony has PhyreEngine, MS has all the XNA among other stuff, but what does Nintendo offer? Sure there's some third party middleware stuff that's fairly priced but just imagine what games you could have played if Retro licensed out the MP3 engine.

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General Gaming / Re: Microsoft's Xbox Kinect - Nov 4th 2010

« on: July 20, 2010, 11:54:44 PM »

What's even worse, Joy Ride isn't free anymore so while you do get Kinect Adventures you'll lose out JR which is the one I rather play anyhow.

Saddly people are still pre-orderring it anyways, me I might get it once more mainstream games start using it.

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