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General Chat / RE: Steven Kent on why Sega is "the greatest game maker of all time"
« on: October 17, 2006, 07:37:54 AM »
Well Sega definitely was innovative for a lot of their life, with games like Echo the Dolphin and NiGHTS. Although a lot of those games fell back more on graphics when all was said and done to impress the consumer. They don't hold up nearly as well today as some of Nintendo's titles like Super Mario World, or even some of their NES offerings like Kirby's Adventure. Speaking from a Genesis owner who never picked up a SNES until Donkey Kong Country, I had a lot of fun with the system... but once I got my SNES my first reaction was "man I picked the wrong console..."

I recall the fact that I could actually save my progress on games other than Sonic 3 being a big deal too... Still I love a number of Sega games like Golden Axe and the Sonic series up to "Sonic and Knuckles", but I don't think any of that compares all that well to a lot of Nintendo's canon of amazing games. Either then, and especially now when the disparity in past generation graphics not mattering much. Also, let's not even talk about the Game Gear (I never bought into a Virtual Boy, due to being able to tell this thing would hurt my eyes, so Sega's handheld was easily my most regretted system/handheld purchase).

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General Chat / RE: King Koopa's Kool Kartoons? o_0
« on: October 17, 2006, 07:26:55 AM »
Captain N is one thing, in its own cheesy way, but this... this is what nightmares are made of. I'm glad I never was exposed to this as a kid, really.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 06:30:33 PM »
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Originally posted by: capamerica
Anyway for now I'm still putting MGM in the same boat as Columbia TriStar.


It's not at all the same as Tristar, which is a subdivision of Sony Pictures as of 1991.

MGM is their own studio, they were bought by a number of collective companies that pooled their resources to stop Time Warner from getting the company, which include (according to this article):

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The Sony-led group, which includes the buyout firms Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, struck the deal with MGM on Monday, just 24 hours before the studio had scheduled a board meeting to approve a deal with Time Warner.


So a number of companies own MGM, not just Sony, each part of the agreement for their own reasons. Sony's interest being very clear, although they no longer have the home video sector anymore, just the theatrical distribution in the United States (although MGM is talking about doing their own distribution once again).

Sony owns a large part of the company, at 20%, but they don't own them, or even have a majority of the company (Providence Equity Partners has the largest at 29%) and with the move to Fox it's clear that Sony won't be able to call the shots here. The problem is that most people saw the headlines that read "Sony buys MGM" when that was only a fragment of the whole story. If it helps, as I said before, think of it like the relationship between Sony and Square after Spirits Within bombed and before the Enix merger.

Seriously, though, read up on it if you are still confused (make sure you are reading stuff that is current too), as Sony looks to be getting screwed from all of this as they paid $300 million for a seat on MGM's board which seems to be shrinking in importance with each month.  

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TalkBack / RE:THQ Pledges Four For Wii Launch
« on: October 16, 2006, 04:58:14 PM »
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Originally posted by: Smoke39
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Originally posted by: Arbok
"strong lineup" and "THQ" should never be said in the same breath...

"The Wii has a strong lineup despite pitiful offerings from THQ."


Oh touché...

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TalkBack / RE: THQ Pledges Four For Wii Launch
« on: October 16, 2006, 02:12:50 PM »
"strong lineup" and "THQ" should never be said in the same breath...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii console sales give retailers a higher profit margin than competition
« on: October 16, 2006, 12:41:05 PM »
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Originally posted by: Professional 666
That's nice and dandy, but Nintendo Power still sucks.  Nintendo should focus on disbanding the outfit or actually bundling cool stuff with the mag.

EFFING STRATEGY GUIDES DON'T COUNT FOR ANYTHING


You mean like the "Smashing Live" CD? I wish they would toss in soundtracks and what not more often, or just offer "demo" discs with the subscription to make it more worthwhile (wonders though what Nintendo Power has to do with the topic in question...).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii console sales give retailers a higher profit margin than competition
« on: October 16, 2006, 12:29:37 PM »
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Originally posted by: Kairon
Bah.


Insightful...

Anyway, if true, this sounds really good. One thing that the Gamecube suffered from was the retail push, which Microsoft had in spades. In fact, there were tons of stories told of employees at outlets like EB convincing customers out of buying a Gamecube and toward an Xbox. Penny-Arcade has a pretty good comic about that "time" in fact:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/09/21

So this can only be a good thing for Nintendo.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 12:01:01 PM »
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Originally posted by: capamerica
Also Disney is getting ready to go both formats. At the last Stock holders meeting they let slip that they were planing to start supporting both.


Must have missed that new piece of information, thanks for addressing it.

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Originally posted by: capamerica
And you can't really count MGM since Sony acquired them back in April 2005.


Really? Fox does the MGM home video releases now, and will be the ones to release the Bond films to DVD again among other high profile titles. Sony gets the theatrical distribution still, but MGM has taken their home video catalogue else where.

Quote from the article:

"While Sony will lose access to MGM titles that it can release on Blu-ray, its efforts to promote the technology will still be buttressed by the fact that Fox also is known as a strong Blu-ray supporter."

As also stated in that article, the "buy out" was 20% of MGM for Sony, so the company is still able to make their own choices if the board gets behind them (think Square's relationship with Sony before the Enix merger).  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 10:39:57 AM »
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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
From everything I've heard, most of the heavy-hitting studios are supporting both formats, and HD-DVD players are already on the market and are MUCH cheaper.


HD-DVD:

Universal
Paramount
Warner Bros

Blu-Ray:

Sony Pictures
Paramount
Warner Bros
MGM
Disney
20th Century Fox

In respect to studio support, Blu-Ray has the better offering, but you are still having to pick and choose between the two and it makes both formats less ideal. Even with full studio support behind each I think both would still faulter against DVDs, but it being divided is pretty much suicidal to both new formats.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 09:50:12 AM »
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Originally posted by: Pittbboi
Yeah, PS3 is expensive as all hell for a gaming console, but that's not all you're getting.


The same could be said for the PSP. Problem is that the non-gaming elements didn't do much to attract people to then buy games for it, causing for Sony to have good system sales but piss poor game sales which leaves them in an even worse financial situation considering they lose money with the system sales and then aren't making it up with games.

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Originally posted by: Pittbboi
...and you're getting a blu-ray player, which by itself would cost a few hundred more than the actual PS3 does. Now, granted, blu-ray doesn't seem to be winning over HD-DVD, so eventually that blu-ray player may prove to be quite worthless. However, *right now* it's a very expensive piece of technology to come packed in with the PS3. So with the PS3 you're getting an assload of features that prices the console at a lot more than what people are going to actually be paying for it. $600 is freaking expensive, but NOT if you catalog everything you're getting with it.


The question is: who actually thinks a Blu-Ray player is worth $1,000? Better question: who thinks a Blu-Ray player is worth $600? $500? $400?

I just can't fathom people who are banking on one of the formats in the current medium war. Let's break it down: you have two different formats, each with "exclusives" from studios that won't appear on the other, and you expect the consumer to dump DVDs, which will have both, for a format that has larger storage and looks better, only if they have a HD TV? Not even going to mention that the discs themselves cost $10+ more...

Laserdisc failed horribly, but at least everyone could enjoy the improved picture quality without a better TV (and audio if they had the set up) and it had the initial support from most major studios... and even then it failed to take on VHS in every location but Japan (where it was cheaper). There seems to be this mentality that "oh, new format, well one of them has to replace DVD then!" Afraid that's not the case, and history has shown with VHS that you have to have a great offering for most to adpot you over the current choice.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 09:19:21 AM »
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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
Halo 3 might change that, though. We'll see.


That's not until November of 2007 at the earliest going by recent reports, which is a ways off versus the launch of the other two.

One thing that people have to consider is that the PS2 had Grand Theft Auto III vs. the launch of the Xbox and Gamecube. That right there pretty much won them the generation. The early launch was important to Sony, but their dominace was also due heavily to a lot of key games hitting right when the other two hit the market.

The 360 has the early head start, but I just don't see a killer lineup to fight off the launch of two systems for it. Like I said, though, a lot of the PS3 crowd will probably jump ship this Christmas, and the 360 will probably cater most to the "GTA" enthusiasts who will leave due to price. So Microsoft really lucked out as they could have been in huge trouble had the PS3 price actually been competitive.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Steven Kent: "Nintendo is like a wonderful old friend who has a drinking problem."
« on: October 16, 2006, 08:29:11 AM »
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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
My main point though was that PS2 did have a massive drought in the beginning as did Microsoft with Xbox 360, so it isn't fair to say that Sony and MS are immune to the "drought" statement.


That's exactly right. The thing is that the PS2 drought took place when the system's only competition was the Dreamcast, which sadly continued to struggle and then died. By the time the Xbox and Gamecube hit the market, the PS2's games were coming out in a steady stream, so Sony lucked out in the drought happening when it mattered least for them.

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
The problem is 360 sales aren't even that high so far, and that's not just in Japan.  As a recent study quoted by Nintendo suggested, DS has been responsible for almost all of the industry growth in North America this year - or maybe it was worldwide, but either way the point is that 360 is making a very small impression on the industry so far.


Yeah, I'm surprised about that as well. I thought the Xbox had grown its market enough that it would be doing pretty well at this stage, but that head start hasn't really paid off at all. I think a lot of people who might fall into the 360 crowd, though, are still waiting for the PS3, and it could possible be seeing the price in person that finally pushes them over.

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TalkBack / RE:EB Games Wii Pre-Orders - Extremely Limited Quantities?
« on: October 15, 2006, 11:17:52 AM »
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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
One thing I wonder, how many Tickle Me Elmos were made? If a gift is super popular unless you release millions of them (Even at 250$ it still is a good christmas gift price) they will sell out, now will Wii be that popular?


Suffice to say, if you don't plan to get one on launch day chances are you will be out of luck until the next shipment. Given the launch size, though, I don't think it will be too hard to pick one up on the 19th, depending on location as it will be much harder in the cities. It was the same way with the Gamecube and the Xbox around here, so I would be surprised if the same didn't occur for the Wii.

Still plan to do "line duty" that day, though, but not for more than a hour and half before the store opens.

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NWR Feedback / RE: Some of the "True" ads verge on porn...
« on: October 15, 2006, 08:58:08 AM »
Jesus, that mask one is scary... I guess they were targeting that "Phantom of the Opera" demographic...

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General Chat / RE: All the other boards are doing it! PGC Frapper!!
« on: October 14, 2006, 04:27:41 PM »
Added, so yet another CA member. Middle of the country looks pretty lonely though... where the hell is Wandering?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Red Steel Topic, MORE new details! (last post)
« on: October 13, 2006, 11:03:37 PM »
Wow, not used to that kind of honest preview reflection from the major game news sites... sounds a little mixed, but mostly positive. It has secured itself as a launch purchase title from me, though.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:I'm back and now with NEW jokes!!: The New Drink
« on: October 13, 2006, 07:25:41 PM »
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Originally posted by: Smoke39
Semen has a pretty mild flavor.  Though I suppose that probably varies for different people.


It depends largely on what the person eats, what their main diet is (vegetarian or not), etc.

Anyway, just want to chime in saying that the "Blow Job Revenge" has to be my favorite thus far.  

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TalkBack / RE:EB Games Wii Pre-Orders - Extremely Limited Quantities?
« on: October 13, 2006, 06:04:17 PM »
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Originally posted by: WindyMan
Best Buy isn't the type of retailer that does pre-orders.  They'll put whatever they get in for launch on the shelves, and then it's first come, first serve.

That's how I plan on getting mine!


Same. Toys R' Us is the best place around here to get stuff on day one, and it has served me well for both the DS and GCN.

I can't understand this new trend though of lining up for a pre-order... I mean, I assume these are the type of people who are also going to want to get theres as soon as possible when the store opens at launch... so why wait twice? Why not just do "line duty" on opening day and be done with it?

EDIT: Also, just to mention, the PS3 pre-order frenzy got covered on my local morning radio station, with people also calling in to give their stories on what happend... still amazes me that the price tag does not seem to be out right killing the launch hype for it. The host of the show even stated "$100 to secure yourself a PS3, is not that much". *sigh*

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NWR Feedback / RE:Enlisting outside help
« on: October 13, 2006, 05:46:16 PM »
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Originally posted by: 18 Days
What kind of of cake do you want?


When all is said and done, history will show that this was the first step, of many, that would eventually lead to UncleBob being hit by a car...

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TalkBack / RE:Naruto Contest Extended!
« on: October 12, 2006, 05:23:45 PM »
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Originally posted by: vudu
Does this mean you didn't even get three halfway decent entries under the old rules?  


If I would have to fathom a guess, D3Publisher probably wants to keep a tab on how many entries were sent in to get a gauge of how successful this publicity stint was. So PGC might be under pressure to get a certain number of them submitted in. But, that's just me musing.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Launch title ratings
« on: October 12, 2006, 05:10:31 PM »
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Originally posted by: Professional 666
I thought I saw bloody puff clouds in the Red Steel footage from Jeux France.


Yep, as did I after the sword strokes.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Game Pricing
« on: October 12, 2006, 12:38:50 PM »
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Originally posted by: vudu
I give up, what's Grass Stains: Female Genetalia supposed to be?


I would assume:


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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo Wii: The Revolution
« on: October 12, 2006, 07:24:34 AM »
That video is so cheesy... but the worst part is that I constantly do the same thing with "Ohhhh!" and other such noises when I get into the game (I'm the worst with Smash Bros...).

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General Gaming / RE:Sony getting hit Hard lately
« on: October 12, 2006, 07:22:16 AM »
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Usually that's because the displays are miscalibrated to oversaturate all colors since way too many people think that more saturation = better.


Worked on the PSP with UMDs for a little while...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Launch title ratings
« on: October 12, 2006, 07:16:18 AM »
No real surprises in any of the ratings. I would assume the "mild violence" in Wii Sports is for boxing.

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Originally posted by: attackslug
(whatever happened to Nemo83, anyways?).


Banned.

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