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  1. Just to update on Nintendo's virtual console. Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo of America has announced that starting with the Switch, games bought on your Nintendo account will have the capability of being tied to the account. This means nothing of course besides Nintendo has figured out what Sony and MS were doing 10 years ago and I would wager that Nintendo Japan is going to ruin the idea of reusing what customers already paid for but the fact that they are talking about improving Nintendo accounts may be welcome news. The launch is terrible but depending on what you like there will be a few games in between. 1,2 Switch for $50 doesn't look like something that will last more than 15 minutes. Arms for $60 looks like a gimmick that shows off motion controls like wii sports did. RPG people may try Disgaea 5 complete for $90 in April - May Splatoon 2 for $70 is what the cool kids will play this summer. I found a list on IGN which outlines some of the year. http://ca.ign.com/wikis/nintendo-switch/Nintendo_Switch_Games Winter Holiday 2017 is important for the Switch. Mario Odyssey for Christmas will be a spendy but fun gift for a Nintendo fan.
  2. I believe Nintendo is allowing you to download all the virtual games again for a fee of course. Nintendo is gouging more than usual right now. Over the holidays many stores sold out of 3DS XL and it costs as much as the Switch. Nintendo doesn't like lowering hardware costs as history shows. The 3DS has many great time consuming games available as well as a mature home brew community. It will be a long time before I hand this kind of coin for the Switch.
  3. Nintendo should think of a way to use smartphones to generate revenue by interacting with their toy and card line. They could also sell skins for smartphones to decorate them with Toadstool and what not. Smartphones have gotten mature enough that people I think will soon realize that a smartphone is used for phone calls and other stuff you're used to. If you want a good experience with videogames, then you will need to carry the extra device.
  4. Then I wasted many hours because mine don't meat the height requirement.
  5. Play 42 http://www.mediafire.com/file/u07we41ummfhfd5/PLAY_42u.cbr Play 41 http://www.mediafire.com/file/6a9w6eh899e7938/PLAY_41u.cbr I updated my previous post. I improved the cover of Play 47 so you should re-download that. The Play 43 through 48 should all be above. I'm taking a break from this for now.
  6. On Friday pre-orders for Nintedo Switch began in the major videogame stores. All 3900 Gamestop stores in United States have filled all pre-orders of the first wave of Switch. EB Games in Canada are currently taking Preorders while supplies last. Walmart.com is out of stock Best Buy US is advertising in store on launch day while supplies last. Best Buy Canada is taking pre-orders whiles supplies last. Amazon is unavailable. Nintendo Store in New York is expected to sell out by Monday. Toys R Us unavailable Target unavailable Today the consoles can be pre-ordered in Canadian chains like Best Buy Canada and EB Games. Anyone else can look to Ebay if they want the Switch on Launch day but re-sellers are expecting a profit. The price ranges from $570- $780 U.S. and there are only a few listings right now. Many scalpers are watching to learn the value of these things. This reminds me of the NES Classic which was supposed to be a $60 toy for Christmas but Nintendo felt that 200,000 consoles would be enough. They were sold out by days end and can now only be found on Ebay for hundreds of dollars.
  7. Let me rephrase anti-trust to the competition law in the United States. The Competition Law seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti competitive conduct by companies. This law is enforced when one company has such an enormous advantage that they can control whether a competitor lives or dies, not by driving innovation but rather by manipulating the environment as to achieve domination. Nintendo makes toys. Even if Donald Trump cleaned house at Nintendo, they still wouldn't be able to make a gaming store like steam and maintain the servers. It is possible but too risky and expensive in a market which is oversaturated with stores.
  8. Sierra Online one of the titans of computer gaming from the 80's and 90's.
  9. - Agreed on first point - Working as intended, affordability of consoles. This is subjective. It's true if you drop a disk in your Playstation it will work but the same PC user can achieve higher fidelity, sound, free updates, mods and use the consoles controllers. I absolutely need a PC to work on at home there are so many things I can do with it including playing almost all the console games. If money is a concern but you like what I can do with my computer, then save the 4 or 5 hundred dollars you would have spent on the console. The console will be outdated as soon as it's released. This console couldn't be Xbox then. Maybe you weren't around when Microsoft got sued in 1998 for monopolizing the Operating system and Software industry. They paid a fortune and had their company broken up. It would be in our's and Microsoft's best interest if at least one other console remains. I think more people will move to PC this year because of the latest achievments in processors. People will get tired of buying a new console every three to four years and realize that only a small investment into a computer they can use anyway will get them playing the most popular online game right now, Blizzard's Overwatch.
  10. Nintendo can 't even get their web browsers to login to read email, how are they going to take care of 100 million subscribers playing at any given time? This would require Nintendo to make the app work on all of Apple's stuff, android stuff, and Windows. This makes sense if you understand that games need computing power and plan your upgrade cycles around gaming milestones but most people are too dumb to maintain a computer and therefore there is a demand for portable gaming, new cellphones and consoles. If Nintendo made a steam box, then antitrust could step in and allow others to make these same boxes.
  11. They reused alot of old parts to make this system. A Wii U gamepad, a couple wii motes + nunchucks and an infrared camera. I give them credit for actually getting this thing working however I don't think tabletop mode will be very popular however using it as a portable one piece will likely be comfortable. I found a beta that Nintendo was planning earlier.
  12. Yes, that's right. Get in and get you're hands dirty that's the only way you will learn.
  13. - OP starts by saying he wishes they would fail so they can make games for PC. I assume he also means other consoles. This is fair. He then makes the argument that Nintendo should give up the Blue Ocean Strategy. This strategy argue that companies can succeed not by battling competitors, but rather by creating ″blue oceans″ of uncontested market space. It's fine that Nintendo made a handheld, it's a good money maker for them. I and many others want to see Nintendo move Miyamoto to the handheld division while another division can develop new games for the current generation without the input from Nintendo's old management. Like Goldeneye 2 if they hadn't been so abusive to Rare. - Sometimes failure is the springboard to success. - Only the Japanese would make such a weak console and then blame the developers of being lazy. You need to respect the amount of work that goes into a game. Millions of hours in some cases of highly skilled workers. When they tell you to make it fit on a cartridge, this is when we have to refuse. - Developers enjoyed programming the controls to work on Nintendo's Wiimotes but many games are more fun to play with Pro controllers. So it wasn't the unique input device for Wii but rather that the hardware was too far behind technically for developers to tweak. They needed major overhauls at least.
  14. I just want to confirm that all pages are consistent in height and width because the're scaled proportionally. I followed Eday's guide for editing which states, "The general standard dimensions for a scan is 2100 pixels high, or 2200 pixels tall if that gets the width of your pages closer to 1600 pixels wide." If you quit watching after 4 minutes, then I did my job. This is some boring and tedious stuff, so it's best to have a system where you can take breaks and return while waiting for something.
  15. I think Miyamoto should be moved to the portable division and Nintendo should do something new in another division where new artists can create games without Miyamoto getting jealous and ruining new and different ideas. There is no way Nvidia gave a better deal than AMD would have. No way. Nintendo is reacting out of desperation when they drafted the switch last January. They probably thought AMD was going to be a day late and a dollar short but the fact is, if Nintendo would have pushed the release date from March 2017 to September 2017 latest, they would have got their graphics chip that used half as much power for the same price and more performance.
  16. I'd like to share my process for editing magazines. I use Photoshop CS6 inside a VM Workstation 12. I like using the VM Workstation because if my power goes out or something goes pear shape with my computer, the workstaton remembers everything the way it was, even on a different computer. It's also a good way to multitask my day to day stuff without having retromags stuff in the way. So I have been editing Marktrade's raw scans which he made available on archive org. I've made 3 videos of me working with the scans inside Photoshop that may or may not be helpful. I start by dragging a page with alot of text to make my template. I plumb it and line two corners up with the desktop. With rulers on and set to pixels I resize the image while holding shift so the width is between 1600 and 1700 pixels. I crop the desktop to fit the page plus a couple pixels on each side. I then drag another high text page onto desktop and resize it. This time I pay attention to the percent it takes to resize it to my template plus a pixel or two on each side. Now I drag all the raw pages onto the desktop. I hide all but one layer and then select all the layers in the layer panel. I press Ctrl + T and then enter the percent needed for all the layers. I run a script that rasterizes all layers http://www.mediafire.com/file/rv63nv3d71rya8a/Raterize+all+layers.jsx Now I start from the first layer and only worry about plumbing the image and centering it on the desktop. No editing yet. Everything is plumb and in my layers and saved to one file. I can work away at this a few pages at a time. I use Healing brush alot. Normal mode when I can and replace when I'm close to the edge of the page or edges within the artwork. How do you all do it?
  17. I use Photoshop. It takes practice using the shortcuts. If you can play a first person shooter with a wasd keys, you can edit magazines. Do it systematically. Make a template, resize all, straighten, fix stuff, export, rename, done. I edit almost entirely different from Eday but his is a good introductory.
  18. They sold the same. Playstation 2 sold tremendously because American zealots had a good experience with PS and felt an attachment between their childhood memories and Sony's first console. Japanese bought only PS2 and 25 M of them. China didn't allow sale of foreign videogames, but counterfeit was widely popular. The life of PS2 was longer than any other console. People try to explain how good N64 was because everyone had both N64 and PS but by the time PS2 was out people picked the winner and rejected the loser Gamecube. You want to tie the failure of these console with the graphical capabilities, I want to add my opinion to it. -Turbografx 16 / CD Failed in US, did not bad in Canada and did very good in Japan. Nintendo had exclusive deals with game developers in US and destroyed any competition for the entire lifespan of NES. Genesis was the underdog who brought it's widely popular arcade games to the home and were the first to have mature games. -3DO 3DO was only about $1000 at launch but compared to a similar spec computer it was a third the price. Too much money for a multimedia game console right now. Wait for 3D accelerators -Jaguar Atari name not popular, price is too high. Two 32 bit Motorolas combined didn't do well. CD games were multimedia and not real games. Wait for 3D accelerators -N64 I think the early launch of the new kid in town and the preorder of the Playstation exclusive Final Fantasy VII was the signal that N64 was in trouble. Had some fun party games and of course Goldeneye but everyone bought Playstation -Dreamcast -Xbox They called it the Xbuck$ because it cost $100 more for a while but Xbox is far from failure. Microsoft is actually doing well. -PS3 This was actually less powerful than 360 and the 360 sold about 3M more worldwide. Also if you subtract all sales in Japan, 360 sold about 28M more.
  19. It made me laugh as I waited throughout 2016 for news on the Switch. Everybody thought it was going to be roughly Playstation 4 Pro level hardware, even the fanboys. Then late summer there was a leak from credible sources telling us it is a handheld you can plug into the television with the power level of an Nvidia Tablet. The Nintendo fanboys began going into damage control mode for Nintendo saying graphics don't matter, gameplay does. Then more leaks came out about the exact chips used and the engineers proceeded to derive the capabilities. Well the results were disappointing to say the least. We expected Nintendo to take a risk and not only build a powerful system, but to gain 3rd party support and evolve their own brand of characters into true 4K. Instead, they achieved none of these. Now I come here and besides the original poster who seems unhelpful at best, I find a bunch of yes men who kow-tow to whatever decision Nintendo makes like they are somehow innovating with a child's gameboy. Most people here don't even plan on owning a recent Nintendo product, so it's easy to talk about something you know very little about yourself when you have no skin in the game.
  20. Simply put Japanese exceptionalism is why Japanese reject Microsoft like it's the plague. First we need a brief history lesson. The majority of the gene pools in China and southeast asia as well as Japan originated out of Afrika as homo sapiens about 60k years ago and none so far have indicated homo erectus genes. During the last ice age approximately 15k years ago, Japan was connected to mainland China as well as Taiwan, Korea and what is now called Russia by land which is now submerged. Japan's first migrants came to Okinawa from China and Austronesia about 35K years ago. The Ainu came from Siberia and settled in Hokkaido and Honshu about 15K years ago just before the water began to rise and the Jomon arrive during the Ice Age. These classes of people and the belief that they are a special type of being has led to what is know as nihonjinron. Nihonjinron more or less means Japan as a people and society really like to market itself as utterly unique and in a class of its own and still affects the country socially politically and is baked in to their culture. Many Japanese unknowingly feel this superiority. It can be obseved by these points. 1 The japanese race is uniquely isolated and have no affinity with any other race. 2 Isolation is due to the circumstances due to living on an island. 3 Grammatical structure and unique lexicon Sapir-Whorf hypothesis "the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken. " 4 Japanese psychology is influenced by the language 5 Japanese social structure have different human associations women in the household vertical strategic management
  21. Exactly. Everybody benefits from graphical upgrades. Whether it's 4K or VR. You need to step into the 2016 offerings from Intel Nvidia or AMD. I played Forza Horizon 3 on my PC and it was a rush of adrenaline. No need to attack me, I have already accepted that Nintendo is only interested in developing for Gameboy level specifications.
  22. You bought a Playstation 4 Pro why? You bought a Playstation 4 Pro why?
  23. And maybe you haven't been paying attention, cartoons have always scaled well when compared to live action film. Nintendo games are essentially a cartoon and so they scale well on the Wiiu or any console for that matter. When the Wiiu tries to play the big boy games it craps the bed.
  24. "The 2016 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry was released by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in April 2016. The annual research was conducted by Ipsos MediaCT for ESA. The study is the most in-depth and targeted survey of its kind, gathering data from more than 4,000 American households. Heads of households and the most frequent gamers within each household were surveyed about their game play habits and attitudes." The US has approximately 230 million people and 4000 homes is too small to give an accurate measure. They ask these people if they play video games at least 3 hours a week and a videogame is defined as being played on a console, desktop or smartphone. Maybe 1000 of these women played candy crush or angry birds while waiting for a hair appointment meanwhile 1000 dudes shelled out hundreds of extra dollars for some new games on their desktop and played for 12 hours in one weekend.
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