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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 26, 2007, 02:22:36 PM »

I finally replaced my dead system on Christmas Eve. Got an Arcade (since I already had an HDD and component cables), and went and bought a 6' HDMI cable for $15 down the street. It looks fantastic, and it's a Falcon motherboard, so hopefully it will last for 3 years and 1 day, so I'm forced to buy another.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: December 26, 2007, 02:20:39 PM »

Good god, 264k in a week, that would be nearly 1.16 million in a month. Back to outselling PS3 5:1 it seems, though PS3 had a good week, compared to it's "real" usual sales.

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 22, 2007, 04:37:18 PM »

Hopefully they're trying to roll back some of the bans for people that didn't deserve it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Media streaming from a PC to Wii

« on: December 22, 2007, 04:30:36 PM »

Dodgy p2p downloads? I don't know what you're getting that there, or with the 150mb/10min encoding comment. In fact, I don't understand that post at all. XBMC is the greatest piece of homebrew to ever happen to a console.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Media streaming from a PC to Wii

« on: December 22, 2007, 06:51:23 AM »

It's actually very simple to do so, regardless of which version Xbox (there's 6 I believe) motherboard you get, but the 1.0 boards are the easiest, you get just drop in a solder-free modchip and be on your way. Alternatively, you can use a copy of 007 Nightfire (old original press) or MechAssault (same deal) and a memory card to soft-mod it. Also, the XBox outputs in 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i, if that's what you're asking. It can play some video formats in HD as well, and (quite) a few games run in 720p.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Media streaming from a PC to Wii

« on: December 22, 2007, 02:02:38 AM »

If you want a console that's a media center, go pick up a used Xbox at Gamestop for $60 or $70, then mod it and install Xbox Media Center. It's fantastic. You can swap the HDD for up to 160GB I believe, maybe even more nowadays, use many different streaming protocols, go online, view YouTube videos, Quicktime trailers, etc, etc. It plays back DiVX, xvid, WMV, MP3, DVD, VCD, SVCD, h.264, and just about anything else.

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General Gaming / RE: All PS1 Games (discs included) Now Playable on PSP Via Remote Play!

« on: December 20, 2007, 03:55:32 PM »

Thrill Kill is awesome, or at least was awesome for it's time. My game-store-owner-buddy actually got a "as close to final as possible" copy (yes, copy, as in CD-R) from one of the (pissed off) creators at an E3 show a long time ago, and burned me a copy of it. I believe the button press to pass the warning screen is different on this copy than several of the other beta versions on the internet.

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 20, 2007, 03:52:07 PM »

The system inside the Elite is no different than the Core/Arcade/Pro (now), the paint job and the hard drive are the only difference. When the Elite debuted, the only difference (besides the obvious) was the "Zephyr" motherboard, which introduced HDMI, the HANA scaler chip, and Hitachi 79K DVD-ROMs (harder to mod, a soldered-on "passkey" is required) the rest was the same crap in every other console. All 360's have had HDMI, for a several months now, the Falcons have only been rolling out to stores in the past 2 months or so, and there are several Zephyr systems still out there.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Dear Reggie: Re: Bundles

« on: December 20, 2007, 03:46:16 PM »

I believe the retailers actually do pretty well on Wii's hardware sales. The wholesale is something like $235 IIRC, so they make $15 or so on each one. That may seem like chump change, but when you sell 50 of them in 5 minutes, that's a pretty quick $750. Also, when the PS3 launched, according to my game-store-owner-buddy, retailers had to pay about $297-$299 for each system, making $0-$3 off each system.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: December 20, 2007, 03:39:59 PM »

Everyone's got to remember that the original NiGHTS (and the Satrurn itself) was a *cult* classic, and a pretty big financial flop

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 20, 2007, 02:00:50 AM »

Congrats, but I would have made sure it's a Falcon system before I bought it, as they are actually more dependable. The easiest way to tell is by the power rating - 175w is Falcon, 203w is most likely not. Also, you get all of that with the Pro system as well, but with 100GB less, though you'll probably never need it anyway.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: SSX Blur

« on: December 20, 2007, 01:55:32 AM »

I played it, it absolutely sucks. I don't think I ever nailed a single move, due to the absolute sh*t controls.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Dear Reggie: Re: Bundles

« on: December 19, 2007, 04:37:16 PM »

The key difference is there's about 135 million PS2s sold, and a pretty decent amount of PSPs as well, so it pays to stock a few games and accessories. The PS3 section at all the Gamestops near me are basically non-existent, aside from the giant stack of unsold RockBand bundles, and GH3 bundles in the "cubby holes" at the top of the wall.

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General Gaming / RE: All PS1 Games (discs included) Now Playable on PSP Via Remote Play!

« on: December 19, 2007, 01:35:59 PM »

PS1 has a few good games. Thrill Kill comes to mind, but you won't find this in the Playstation store, or on a retail disc anywhere, unless you play the watered-down version of the game known as "Wu-Tang: Enter the Shaolin".

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Dear Reggie: Re: Bundles

« on: December 19, 2007, 01:33:23 PM »

Are you trying to get us to feel bad for Wal-Mart?

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 19, 2007, 09:02:31 AM »

I don't think that's always the case. Some people received HDMI systems in return for their old one, right when they started selling them.

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 18, 2007, 03:52:22 PM »

Gamestop are bastards with their warranties. It's not a real 1-year warranty. I believe though, if you have to send it to Microsoft (which I would recommend anyway), they might send you a new system, which will have a new 1 year general/3 year 3 red light warranty.

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General Gaming / RE: All PS1 Games (discs included) Now Playable on PSP Via Remote Play!

« on: December 18, 2007, 07:44:56 AM »

All PSX games have worked on the PSP for a long time now (without the need a PS3...or a PS2 or a PSX...or any games). Sony only started supporting this feature today though.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Dear Reggie: Re: Bundles

« on: December 18, 2007, 07:39:37 AM »

You already own a DS too, no one's forcing you to buy another one.

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General Gaming / RE: Motion blur, the new thing in games?

« on: December 16, 2007, 01:47:37 PM »

I haven't started Episode 2 yet, guess I better get to it.

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General Chat / RE: Fox makes Family Guy without Seth MacFarlane

« on: December 15, 2007, 05:36:03 PM »

I like them both, but it hurts to watch the UK version, because it makes you realize that the US version characters are basically clones, so you lose a sense of the "those are real people" feeling you get when you watch it. I think you should watch it more, Mr. Jack, it's almost the same show, I don't think the humor is very different at all.

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General Gaming / RE: Motion blur, the new thing in games?

« on: December 15, 2007, 03:22:42 PM »

I don't think there's any motion blur in Half-Life 2, but there definitely is in Portal.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: December 13, 2007, 03:27:27 PM »

NPD for North American sales, November 2007

Hardware Unit Sales

PlayStation 2 496K
PlayStation 3 466K
PSP 567K
Xbox 360 770K
Wii 981K
Nintendo DS 1.53 million

November 2007 Top 10 Video Games Rank # Units
360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 1 1.57 million
WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 1.12 million
360 ASSASSIN'S CREED UBISOFT NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 3 980K
PS2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 4 967K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 5 564K
360 MASS EFFECT MICROSOFT (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 6 473K
PS3 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 7 444K
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 8 426K
360 HALO 3 MICROSOFT (CORP) SEP 2007 MATURE (M) 9 387K
PS3 ASSASSIN'S CREED UBISOFT NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 10 377K

U.S. Video Games Market - November 2007

Dollar Sales November 2006 November 2007
Video Games $1.74 billion $2.63 billion 52%
Video Games Hardware $772 million $1.1 billion 41%
Console Hardware $519 million $771 million 49%
Portable Game Hardware $253 million $319 million 26%
Video Games Software $804 million $1.3 billion 62%
Console Software $617 million $1.1 billion 75%
Portable Game Software $187 million $218 million 16%
Video Game Accessories $160 million $243 million 52%

PS3 is still being outsold by PS2 (and PSP, DS, Wii, and XBox 360), and Nintendo is still kicking everyone's ass, though Xbox 360 did very well, and PS3 did respectably well for about 2 weeks.

Also, GH3 on Wii outsold the 360 and PS3 version, though there was definitely a shortage of the XBox 360 version, but the Wii version is very hard to find as well.

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General Gaming / RE: Problems with my XBOX 360

« on: December 12, 2007, 03:25:20 PM »

I'm actually probably going to buy a new one soon too. Mine is working, as of now, but I've had to fix it a couple times myself (no warranty, as I opened it before the 3 years was announced), but I may sell it to my brother and use my Gamestop store credit to buy one of the new "Falcon" systems.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Ghosts 'N Goblins on the VC has me thinking...

« on: December 12, 2007, 03:22:18 PM »

No, I don't think it's anything like Viewtiful Joe. Ultimate GnG might be though.