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  • #31
    Grand Theft Auto 4 isn't even going to be sony-exclusive when it comes out next year

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Q Cubed
      Well, if you put it into pounds, the prices seem more reasonable.

      As long as you don't show the pound symbol, and make people think in dollar terms.
      With video games and consoles, most developers consider the exchange rate to be $1=£1, so expect this system to have a price tag of at least £400 (assuming that they realise that £500 would be bat**** insane and lower it a bit) in the UK.

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      • #33
        £400 is bat**** insane. So is €499. $499 as well, in fact.
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        • #34
          Nintendo included an image of a new Wii controller hidden within a package of hardware screenshots available for download on the Nintendo press site. The image titled "Wii_classic_0501" shows a gamepad-shaped controller with a Wii logo front and center.

          The "classic" file name suggests that the controller will be used for classic Nintendo games that use a traditional gamepad interface.

          The controller is reminiscent of a Super Nintendo gamepad with its oval shape, D pad, and x, y, a, and b buttons set in a familiar diamond formation. The controller also features what appear to be four buttons along the top of the controller. The classic controller face also has two analog sticks, which are necessary to maintain GameCube compatibility.
          Wonder if it comes standard with the Wii?

          Nintendo gives the Wii a "classic" gamepad for virtual console games.
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          • #35
            Absolutely perfect? Unlike, say, the original Xbox controller, with those two little black and white buttons way out in Timbuktu? I don't know what kind of crackhead decided to put those there. With the PS controller you just have to move your thumbs a little bit to access all the buttons and sticks except for the start and select. A good deal more comfortable in my experience as well.
            The black and white buttons are gone on the 360. They are shoulder buttons now.
            Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
              Didn't see what?
              About 5 people posted in rapid succession between the minute I saw the post about the PS3 Boomerang and when I responded to it.

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              • #37
                Heh.... people are rabid about their consoles on the Off Topic .
                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                • #38
                  Yeah, but there hadn't been any posts for about a half hour.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Trip
                    Yeah, but there hadn't been any posts for about a half hour.
                    You have "Firaxis" under your name... we have sensors .
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Gibsie
                      With video games and consoles, most developers consider the exchange rate to be $1=£1, so expect this system to have a price tag of at least £400 (assuming that they realise that £500 would be bat**** insane and lower it a bit) in the UK.
                      UK pricing hasn't been announced yet, but I guess we can assume that it will be similar to Eurozone pricing.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #41
                        I watched the Nintendo press conference and the controller is pretty cool, actually. Its too bad the system is underpowered. And its also unfortunate Nintendo games are a lame, IMO. Lets hope they'll get solid third-party support this time around.
                        Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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                        • #42
                          May as well buy a PC now. They're more versatile.
                          "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
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                          • #43
                            I think the PS3 is overpriced, and that when all the benchmarks come out that it will probably be about the same speed as the xbox360. I think that Sony is on a losing streak for the moment with Ipods, Wow, Samsung, and the xbox360 all stealing Sony's lunch money.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                              Well, the smaller Xbox controller at least.



                              And the joke isn't even on the controller...
                              I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                              • #45
                                Eek, double!
                                I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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