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Media Create Sales: 12 - 18 June
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DefectiveReject
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simple, he's a down to earth righteous man. not a self obsessed arrogant sod.AniHawk said:
DefectiveReject
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DP sorry
Anihawk and CVX confused me with the avatar changes
Anihawk and CVX confused me with the avatar changes
Eroding_Era
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For those blank cases, the best bulk deal they offer is 10 for $7.
Any 20 for $10 or $12 floating around?
Yes 2-4 bucks. I'm a greedy bastard.
Any 20 for $10 or $12 floating around?
Yes 2-4 bucks. I'm a greedy bastard.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Eroding_Era said:
There isn't, unfortunately. I tried getting various stores to order them in, but Nintendo is the only place you can get the cases and that's the only price they sell them for.
AniHawk said:
Nintendo knows handheld gaming and will for a VERY long time. Sony is still thinking that handheld gaming needs to "get out of the gutter". With that mindset, you will produce a product and attract game development that does not relate with most previous handheld gamers/demographics. That is alot of gamers. Now if the PSP originally came with a hdd, then the PSP would have made large inroads into iPod territory. If the PSP actually played real DVDs then it would have so owned the portable multimedia market. Poor planning on Sony's part. The writing was on the wall from the beginning.
What if Analysis :
What if PSP was designed to play PS1 games (power level of PS1 chips), instead of being able to play PS2 games (power level of PS2 chips) ? Will PSP be more successful, or less successful ?
Anyone remember when Yamauchi step down and replaced by Iwata ? Is it before DS release, or after DS release ?
What if PSP was designed to play PS1 games (power level of PS1 chips), instead of being able to play PS2 games (power level of PS2 chips) ? Will PSP be more successful, or less successful ?
Anyone remember when Yamauchi step down and replaced by Iwata ? Is it before DS release, or after DS release ?
Netrunner2k2
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apujanata said:
Quite a bit of time before DS is when Iwata took over.
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Netrunner2k2 said:
I believe, before descending into the pit, Yamauchis last words were "2 screens mother****er"
Souldriver
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No, if I read correctly, it's Yamauchi who wanted to have the DS on the market, with 2 screens. The DS was already in development before Iwata became head of Nintendo.apujanata said:
Right...?
wonderfuldays
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Frankfurter said:
HOLY SHIT!
JoshuaJSlone
Member
It would certainly be cheaper, but it also then wouldn't really have anything over the DS for games. Well, a disc format.apujanata said:
And damn you avatar switchers! :lol For some minutes I doubted the hardware numbers as a possible hoax.
Grampa Simpson
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The DS started life as a single-screened GBA follow up. It was code-named Nitro. I speculate that after E3 '03 when the PSP was unveiled (as very much a beefed-up GBA) Nintendo realized that they couldn't directly compete with in successfully (as they had learned with the GameCube) and started thinking about interesting features to add to a handheld that would set it apart.
Yamauchi has claimed to have come up with the idea for the second screen while soaking in the tub.
I'm sure they had their 3 features nailed down by June or July and were busy putting together the electrical design. I know there was documentation showing it to have only two face buttons fairly late in the year, but they definately had things nailed down enough at E3 '04 to show prototypes and dev kits. The rest is well known.
From Wikipedia:
On May 31, 2002 Yamauchi stepped down as president of Nintendo and was succeeded by the head of Nintendo's Corporate Planning Division, Satoru Iwata. Hiroshi Yamauchi subsequently became the chairman of Nintendo's board of directors. He finally left the board in June 2005 due to his age and because he felt that he was leaving the company in good hands.
I wonder if EAD Ninja might be able to fill in some details.
Yamauchi has claimed to have come up with the idea for the second screen while soaking in the tub.
I'm sure they had their 3 features nailed down by June or July and were busy putting together the electrical design. I know there was documentation showing it to have only two face buttons fairly late in the year, but they definately had things nailed down enough at E3 '04 to show prototypes and dev kits. The rest is well known.
From Wikipedia:
On May 31, 2002 Yamauchi stepped down as president of Nintendo and was succeeded by the head of Nintendo's Corporate Planning Division, Satoru Iwata. Hiroshi Yamauchi subsequently became the chairman of Nintendo's board of directors. He finally left the board in June 2005 due to his age and because he felt that he was leaving the company in good hands.
I wonder if EAD Ninja might be able to fill in some details.
Joe Molotov
Member
Kangu said:
Don't hate. Celebrate.
Seriously Yamauchi was completely insane. Kutaragi is delusional, but Yamauchi was just insane.
"So miyamoto, I had this great idea while i was in the tub the other day!"
"ZERUDA?"
"I want you to make a handheld, but make it gigantic, so it can have 2 screens! We can put a map on the second screen!"
"Why?"
"DO NOT QUESTION ME! I'VE THROWN HOOKERS OUT OF LOVE HOTEL WINDOWS THAT WEIGHED 3 TIMES AS MUCH AS YOU DO!"
"So miyamoto, I had this great idea while i was in the tub the other day!"
"ZERUDA?"
"I want you to make a handheld, but make it gigantic, so it can have 2 screens! We can put a map on the second screen!"
"Why?"
"DO NOT QUESTION ME! I'VE THROWN HOOKERS OUT OF LOVE HOTEL WINDOWS THAT WEIGHED 3 TIMES AS MUCH AS YOU DO!"
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Kangu said:
Don't get your panties in a bunch. The second screen is the biggest gimmic of the three, but the touch screen doesn't work as well without it, and it's the big marketable differentiator between it and the PSP.
Remember, in the end features are to get the developers' attention. After that it all really falls on the killer app that gets the public's attention.
JoshuaJSlone
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Generic response to Having two screens is pointless.Kangu said:
cheekymunky
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moku said:
what movie is Kangu's avatar from?
JoshuaJSlone
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If an issue gets brought up quite often, my answers cease to be original.Kangu said:
JoshuaJSlone
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Thanks. I like the one-man-wiki format; easy to add or edit anything anytime with little regard to hierarchical categorization.cvxfreak said:
To make this topical, I added in a few Media Create-related things. :lol
Media Create: This Week just shows the most recent pie chart, Pac chart, and bar chart. Media Create: Request a Graph allows you to input a week for any of those same three without personally modifying the URL. Also the pie chart for time spans is included. I imagined it mostly for yearly sales, but saw no reason to not let it be more freeform. As I say each time, though, it can get pretty large since it's done at the same scale as the weekly pies. I just asked it for a pie covering the weeks of 2002-12-30 to 2006-06-12 and got a 3410x3335 image. Being a low-color PNG image, though, it's still well within avatar size limits around here.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that in that time span DS Lite has outsold GCN. Though I was a bit surprised to see that DS+DSL was greater than PS2
Eroding_Era
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Rocked said:
On any previous year of the Japanese charts, the PSPs sales would be considered selling at an excellent rate. With that amount weekly, the PS2 was often maintaining its dominance over the Gamecube.
The PSP really is only selling poorly when compared to Nintendo's version of the second coming of christ.
Frankfurter
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Eroding_Era said:
That's BS (i.e. PS2 sales before 2005 were always far better than what PSP does).
As has been said, that is an absurd amount to sell in week 4. Only Dragon Quest VII in the last 10 years as a non-xmas period game has sold more in its 4th week.
http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/japwk.php?week=4
Three million is going to be smashed through in no time!
http://www.everythingandnothing.org.uk/vg/japwk.php?week=4
Three million is going to be smashed through in no time!
Nazgul_Hunter
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Here's my (slightly more immature) take on the Pac Chart. (Areas are in proportion)
EDIT: Fixed the chart. Ghosts are a little harder to resized proportionally and accurately, but the message gets through
EDIT: Fixed the chart. Ghosts are a little harder to resized proportionally and accurately, but the message gets through
JonathanEx
Member
Nazgul_Hunter said:Here's my (slightly more immature) take on the Pac Chart
Stick the dots in a line or resize ghosts to those sizes and it's a winner!
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Always on the lookout for the latest information presentation gimmickry, I have created an animation of this year's pie charts. Text removed, but if you have any question about what each color is just check one of the stills from elsewhere in this thread.
JoshuaJSlone said:Always on the lookout for the latest information presentation gimmickry, I have created an animation of this year's pie charts. Text removed, but if you have any question about what each color is just check one of the stills from elsewhere in this thread.
Its too jumpy can you make the pie one size?
JoshuaJSlone
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I could, but the biggest reason I wanted to make pie charts was to gain extra perspective from a dynamic weekly size.Deku said:
Since it's only one line changed to make it fixed size, though, if anyone else wants to put such an animation together you can access a list of weekly fixed size pies here.
Eroding_Era
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Frankfurter said:
June 14-20 2004
PS2: 26,000
GC: 4,500
Granted, 2002 and 2003 for this period, PS2 was at lower to mid 40ks, but just how much is far better?
Hard to call those far better with what the DS is doing. In June, no less.