The S2 sold 10 million units worldwide in 5 months, the 4s sold 1 million units by the first weekend of its release in 7 countries. The reason iPhone sales were slow during the first half of the year was people waiting for the Next Big Thing. Once the 4s was released, the iPhone 4s sold more units than all Android phones combined in October.
[www.telegraph.co.uk]
So yes, if you want to get a new Apple phone at release, expect competition.
[www.telegraph.co.uk]
So yes, if you want to get a new Apple phone at release, expect competition.
Aslo, 512MB cloud storage is not very much... but way better than nothing
Only real complaint I have is the order of the pages... it's a game machine so it would be logical if the Games page was the second or maybe third after social... not to have TV and Video in between.
Besides that it feels, like I said in reply to a comment below, like a successful mashup of the blades and NXE dashboards and gives a much cleaner, modern, experience than both (despite adds and promotions).
Besides that it feels, like I said in reply to a comment below, like a successful mashup of the blades and NXE dashboards and gives a much cleaner, modern, experience than both (despite adds and promotions).
This one is actually more resembling the old blades style. If you use the bumpers to navigate between the "blades", you still have all the info navigable in the middle. It just has a more modern layout (the blades graphics always felt like they were designed to impress pre-teen kids in the 90s, much like the blue XP style felt like it was made to impress 3 year olds).
I might get a lot of heat for this, but it's a good mix of NXE's cleaner layout and the blade functionality... so overall a step up from both. Since it opens up so much more space, it's logical to promote new products there too, I just wish I could disable the video promotes (since I don't use the video service) and the tiny little ad space in the lower right that actually promotes stuff that you can't buy directly from the Xbox. I'm actually happy to see new titles promoted without having to enter the store, especially arcade and indy titles since they're so easy to miss otherwise.
I might get a lot of heat for this, but it's a good mix of NXE's cleaner layout and the blade functionality... so overall a step up from both. Since it opens up so much more space, it's logical to promote new products there too, I just wish I could disable the video promotes (since I don't use the video service) and the tiny little ad space in the lower right that actually promotes stuff that you can't buy directly from the Xbox. I'm actually happy to see new titles promoted without having to enter the store, especially arcade and indy titles since they're so easy to miss otherwise.
I don't know much about Iran so I'm not sure if this applies here, but in some nations terrorist groups and/or organized criminals use sales of pirated media/games to boost funds to their less sympathetic activities, and if this is the case in Iran, I could very well see how EA wouldn't like to see this activity be connected with their brand.
No questions asked, from the customer?
"I want to return this unopened copy of Skyrim, here's the receipt"
"No"
"Uhh..... why?"
"Nuh uh. No questions asked! You lose the return game."
"I want to return this unopened copy of Skyrim, here's the receipt"
"No"
"Uhh..... why?"
"Nuh uh. No questions asked! You lose the return game."
The problem with a game of this magnitude is that even if you have 500 testers test the final code of game for three months before release, working 18 hours a day 7 days a week, that still only amounts as much of game time as 500.000 people that just bought the game gets in about an hour and a half.
So basically you're saying they went bankrupt for not playing it safe and gambling... so in general it's a safe cash cow anyhow?
What I was trying to say is that it isn't a safe market not that they went bankrupt (solely) because of used games, piracy or speeding tickets. It's not a safe market unless you play it safe and cut everything that isn't call of battlefield honor duty online.
What I was trying to say is that it isn't a safe market not that they went bankrupt (solely) because of used games, piracy or speeding tickets. It's not a safe market unless you play it safe and cut everything that isn't call of battlefield honor duty online.
Yeah, the already generous profit... tell that to Midway, Brighter Minds, Frogster Interactive and other small publishers that went bankrupt the past years. Tell that to any new original game that got axed because it was too high risk.
EA and Activision have high margins due to a few titles selling like hotcakes (CoD, BF, WoW etc.), but overall, gaming isn't such a certain moneymaker that a lot of people is trying to make it out to be. Just see the number of bankruptcies in the gaming industry the past years.
EA and Activision have high margins due to a few titles selling like hotcakes (CoD, BF, WoW etc.), but overall, gaming isn't such a certain moneymaker that a lot of people is trying to make it out to be. Just see the number of bankruptcies in the gaming industry the past years.
Not to be rude or anything... but by buying the games used it is you that tell Epic to go fuck themselves, like you so eloquently put it, since Epic isn't involved in any way in your used purchase.
So the PC is not a gaming device either, because it was never developed for that? And for some people, the PS2 and PS3 used to be their main DVD and blu-ray players too. Before the blu-ray players got cheaper a lot of people bought the PS3 because it cost less and could "also" play games.
I'm not saying the iPod touch is the best gaming platform out there, but discarding it because it's not the gaming that is the first thing that jumps to your mind when you hear it is wrong. The iPhone may have more crap games than any other platform out there to date, but it also has more games (crap or not) than most as well.
I love my PSP and DS, but the iPhone is the one I always bring with me, and the past 2 years it has seen way more game time than the other two together because it's not the best portable gaming device out there, but it's the easiest to access. You always keep it charged and even with minimum equipment you bring it. I have to pack a bag of some kind to bring the PSP or DS.
So you can diss it all you want, but no matter what Apple's original intention with iOS was, it's now definitely a gaming OS just like Windows.
I'm not saying the iPod touch is the best gaming platform out there, but discarding it because it's not the gaming that is the first thing that jumps to your mind when you hear it is wrong. The iPhone may have more crap games than any other platform out there to date, but it also has more games (crap or not) than most as well.
I love my PSP and DS, but the iPhone is the one I always bring with me, and the past 2 years it has seen way more game time than the other two together because it's not the best portable gaming device out there, but it's the easiest to access. You always keep it charged and even with minimum equipment you bring it. I have to pack a bag of some kind to bring the PSP or DS.
So you can diss it all you want, but no matter what Apple's original intention with iOS was, it's now definitely a gaming OS just like Windows.
In that case, work must be bad for you as well! After working really hard creating population models, I keep imagining trying to do everyday tasks in matlab syntax and I see branching tree processes before my eyes too...
...in other words, focusing too hard on anything will leave a residue of it in your head for a while...
...in other words, focusing too hard on anything will leave a residue of it in your head for a while...
DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION THE WISDOM OF NINTENDO!
I expected them to take it even further...
Nintendo 3DS, now with THREE analogue thumbsticks, one for every dimension!
Nintendo 3DS, now with THREE analogue thumbsticks, one for every dimension!
You seriously would grade a car (or game) from how many parts of a standard car (or game) it has? Let's see... 4 wheels... a steering wheel.... pedals... gearbox .etc... yup... it's definitely a 100% car! Way to go Skoda!
The current review system (as used by most) is flawed, there's no way around it. Why have a 10 or 100 grade system when there's only the last 20%-30% that matters and everything else below it is basically a fail? I grew up reading a newspaper that had a 5 grade system for movie reviews, and it basically read as 1 = waste of money, 2 = ok, if nothing else is going, 3 = entertaining movie, 4 = Really good movie and 5 = masterpiece. And you were lucky to see more than four or five 5-star movies a year reviewed. I think that system makes a lot more sense than 0-7 = waste of money and then we have a small spectrum of grades for good to awesome.
Start with three grades instead. "Not Recommended", "Recommended" and "Really Recommended". That speaks more than decimal numbers on a system that's unproportionate.
The current review system (as used by most) is flawed, there's no way around it. Why have a 10 or 100 grade system when there's only the last 20%-30% that matters and everything else below it is basically a fail? I grew up reading a newspaper that had a 5 grade system for movie reviews, and it basically read as 1 = waste of money, 2 = ok, if nothing else is going, 3 = entertaining movie, 4 = Really good movie and 5 = masterpiece. And you were lucky to see more than four or five 5-star movies a year reviewed. I think that system makes a lot more sense than 0-7 = waste of money and then we have a small spectrum of grades for good to awesome.
Start with three grades instead. "Not Recommended", "Recommended" and "Really Recommended". That speaks more than decimal numbers on a system that's unproportionate.
Been there, done that. Several departments at Swedish Universities have a 50% pass limit and 75% to pass with distinction on tests. But then the tests are probably harder than you would be used to to really make 75% a feat and 50% a good indicator of knowledge in the area. Plus... we only have a 2 grade system (unless you count fail, which isn't a grade).
@Orian: If I remember correctly, the mother's egg was emptied of native DNA and infused with the complete Logan DNA clone, so there's none of the Doctor's DNA left. The correct relationship term is clone and nothing else :) This is pretty close to how actual cloning and DNA engineering works, you infuse a "living" cell with artificial DNA since it's really hard (bordering to impossible) to create it all from the ground.
Not sure wether the TV show created her differently though.
Not sure wether the TV show created her differently though.
@Orian: As a clone she's more sibling than daughter though... most resembling a twin since her DNA is identical to Logan's besides the Y-chromosome that was damaged so they replaced it with a second X.
A daughter can only get half the parents genome while siblings can share more (or less) in common depending on pure chance at the meiosis. It usually evens out to 50% shared genome anyways outside of identical twins though...
Pure technicalities I know :)
A daughter can only get half the parents genome while siblings can share more (or less) in common depending on pure chance at the meiosis. It usually evens out to 50% shared genome anyways outside of identical twins though...
Pure technicalities I know :)
@DocSeuss: There were games for the Nintendo 64 that required the N64 Expansion Pak. Perfect Dark and Zelda Majora's Mask comes to mind, so it's not a new thing really. Other games required the Zapper accessory to the NES which isn't quite a system req but still.
@erikwoods: Electromagnetism. Basically Cole could turn into Magneto with lightning bolts if he becomes powerful enough ;)
