alpha_dk's Posts

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A Boy and His Blob remake coming to Wii

in Nintendo Discussion on 03 March 2009

OMFG YES...

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Sega Sammy posting losses, cutting jobs...despite supporting the Wii?

in Gaming Discussion on 10 February 2009

Keep in mind many of the additional staff needed for HD development are artists creating all the HD objects and textures and the like. The same # of games released on Wii as HD certainly requires more people for the HD versions; so, a company in the middle of a transition to a more Wii/handheld centric lineup would either need to hire more programmers to make more games with the same number of...

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Recommend a 500 Wii points game

in Nintendo Discussion on 05 February 2009

How expensive are the Art Style games? If they're ...

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N'Gai: Developers should use low-spec machines as lead, up-port to HD

in Gaming Discussion on 29 January 2009

Arius Dion said: PS2 shouldn't even be in the equation anymore. If people are still buying the games - which they must be for developers to continue making the games - then I would say it very much should be in the equation....

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N'Gai: Developers should use low-spec machines as lead, up-port to HD

in Gaming Discussion on 29 January 2009

emilie autumn said: alpha_dk said: Phoenix_Wiight said: emilie autumn said: we'll he's right, but company's are better off still producing a separete version for both Xbox 360 and ps3 and another one for Wii and PS2 ya, i agree with that Would one of you like to explain why companies are better off spending more than twice as much money to...

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N'Gai: Developers should use low-spec machines as lead, up-port to HD

in Gaming Discussion on 29 January 2009

Phoenix_Wiight said: emilie autumn said: we'll he's right, but company's are better off still producing a separete version for both Xbox 360 and ps3 and another one for Wii and PS2 ya, i agree with that Would one of you like to explain why companies are better off spending more than twice as much money to recieve probably less than twice as many sales?...

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What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

in Sony Discussion on 26 January 2009

alephnull said: alpha_dk said: Region free BR (as with DVD before it) players are illegal in the US and any other part of the world with anti-DRM circumvention laws. The HD DVD spec did not include region codes. Hence, it was entirely legal, unlike with BR I'm not sure region-free players are illegal. The wiki article on blu-ray has a link to a site which has a...

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What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

in Sony Discussion on 26 January 2009

alephnull said: alpha_dk said: tuoyo said: alpha_dk said:I don't know why people are assuming HD-DVD would win. All it would have done would be to force more competition in the standalone realm; lower prices, more features and competition, and the formats battling on their own merits. Is everyone who is saying Blu-Ray would have lost also saying that Blu-Ray was...

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What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

in Sony Discussion on 26 January 2009

tuoyo said: alpha_dk said:I don't know why people are assuming HD-DVD would win. All it would have done would be to force more competition in the standalone realm; lower prices, more features and competition, and the formats battling on their own merits. Is everyone who is saying Blu-Ray would have lost also saying that Blu-Ray was worse than HD-DVD? Because even HD-DVD was too...

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What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

in Sony Discussion on 26 January 2009

I don't know why people are assuming HD-DVD would win. All it would have done would be to force more competition in the standalone realm; lower prices, more features and competition, and the formats battling on their own merits. Is everyone who is saying Blu-Ray would have lost also saying that Blu-Ray was worse than HD-DVD? Because even HD-DVD was too expensive for the mainstream at that...

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I AM ALIVE (Ubisoft Game) -- NEW DETAILS!!

in Gaming Discussion on 24 January 2009

[quote] As well as surviving, the earthquake is also a reminder to Adam that he loves his ex-girlfriend, and he attempts to track her down, as well as supplies. [/quote]I've had relationships that a killer earthquake separating me from the rest of the world would remind me of... I wouldn't track them down again....

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Wii Fit Helps Paralyzed Girl Walk Again

in Nintendo Discussion on 21 January 2009

SamuelRSmith said: WWMD. Apparently, make the lame walk....

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Kaz: We don't program the easy to develop for console that developers want

in Sony Discussion on 21 January 2009

I wouldn't take it as being anything more than spin on the statement 'We brought out this tech before the auxiliary tech (compilers, middleware, etc) had a chance to be specialized for the hardware'...

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I have the 100 Classic Books Collection for DS! What should I read first?

in Gaming Discussion on 20 January 2009

Jane Eyre should be on the list eventually, if not #1. Best book on the list....

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9 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Succeed

in Gaming Discussion on 19 January 2009

misterd said: Important to remember that due to pirating issues the studios want BR to replace DVD ASAP. They will drop DVD at the first reasonable opportunity. Important to remember that it's consumers, not providers, that decide what formats are used. If consumers still want DVDs, consumers will get DVDs... or they'll start downloading the analog rips of BR movies that are...

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Mac start-up problems

in PC Discussion on 19 January 2009

If there's an apple store nearby, bring it to the genius bar. They're actually fairly competent, for tech support. So the apple-option-P-R didn't work?Also try apple-option-c-v, if you haven't already discovered that one....

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BEST GAMING QUOTE

in Gaming Discussion on 19 January 2009

vess13 said: alpha_dk said: vess13 said: "hey,listen"(OoT) ^insert squish sound here. That is one of my friend's ringtones when he gets a text message. I want to punch him in the face whenever he gets a text message. lol, you a fan of Navi's?? Actually, I am... but he gets a lot of texts. Even my tolerance isn't that...

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Mac start-up problems

in PC Discussion on 19 January 2009

Follow Goddog's advice. If that doesn't work, come back here. I'll be watching the thread all day, and I've recently been in Mac tech support...

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BEST GAMING QUOTE

in Gaming Discussion on 19 January 2009

vess13 said: "hey,listen"(OoT) ^insert squish sound here. That is one of my friend's ringtones when he gets a text message. I want to punch him in the face whenever he gets a text message....

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9 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Succeed

in Gaming Discussion on 19 January 2009

Also, point 6 is simply wrong. The entire reason content providers want to move to blu-ray is because DVD got too cheap for them. Too many of DVD's sales are happening at the cheap 'budget' prices, and it's too hard to sell a movie at a higher price. Blu-Ray means they can prop up the prices somewhat.To the content providers, Blu-Ray disks being at the cost of DVDs means that they lose more...