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Offline Mefustae

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #100 on: May 16, 2006, 04:26:56 am
I can imagine the head of Sony's games division watching that video and weeping silently.
 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #101 on: May 16, 2006, 05:43:54 am
Quote from: Mefustae on May 16, 2006, 04:09:26 am
It's been mentioned quite a lot, but there's nothing like actually seeing it:

Lining up to have a Wii! *Giggle*

What are they lining up for ? To see the Wii, or play on it ?
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #102 on: May 16, 2006, 06:06:04 am
Quote from: Col. Fishguts on May 16, 2006, 05:43:54 am
Quote from: Mefustae on May 16, 2006, 04:09:26 am
It's been mentioned quite a lot, but there's nothing like actually seeing it:

Lining up to have a Wii! *Giggle*

What are they lining up for ? To see the Wii, or play on it ?

Play.
 

Offline Ulala

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #103 on: May 16, 2006, 10:44:04 am
That's quite a Wii line. That's no wee line.

...*apologizes*
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Offline Ulala

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #104 on: May 17, 2006, 01:02:25 am
I finally finished watching the MS press conference all the way through. So I have to buy Windows Vista to play games "at their best" or some such thing? And for the first time my games will be accessable right from the start menu?!!?! OMGZ0R!


Hmmm...
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Offline Fury

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #105 on: May 17, 2006, 01:46:51 am
Considering that DX10 will be available only for Vista, you kind of have to get it to play games that no longer support DX9. The first Vista games at least will support both but a year or two later that might not necessarily be the case. Well, Windows XP being 5 years old now it is about time to upgrade Windows anyway, or rather early next year unless they slip again...
 

Offline Ulala

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Reply #106 on: May 17, 2006, 02:27:11 am
Valid points. Now if only I weren't poor.  :(
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Offline Ghostavo

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #107 on: May 17, 2006, 02:27:22 am
I assume DX10 will allow us to play games that require former DX, right?
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Offline Ulala

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Reply #108 on: May 17, 2006, 02:30:09 am
If not, that'd be unbelievable.

Also, the compatibility of XBox360 games and Windows vista being able to play together on XBox live looks pretty cool.  :yes:
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #109 on: May 17, 2006, 02:31:31 am
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Well, Windows XP being 5 years old now it is about time to upgrade Windows anyway,

I still don't think it is right to force us to upgrade to software that is full of DRM retardedness.........
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #110 on: May 17, 2006, 02:54:49 am
Bloody hell,  I have no wish to upgrade from 2000 to XP, let alone to some cpu-hogging monster of security holes and pain-in-the-arse wizards and whatnot.  Hell, my work doesn't even officially support XP.
 

Offline Deepblue

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Reply #111 on: May 17, 2006, 09:33:14 am
Quote from: Ulala on May 17, 2006, 02:30:09 am
If not, that'd be unbelievable.

Also, the compatibility of XBox360 games and Windows vista being able to play together on XBox live looks pretty cool.  :yes:
Extremely awesome. Just please get better cross-compatible games than Shadowruin. My god, FASA is full of idiots. They had a great IP and they ruin it with crappy graphics and counterstrike clone gameplay. It's not even in the "Shadowrun" universe. It's in bloody Brazil, and the art is nothing like the pen and paper game. I hope after this game bombs that FASA gets back to making Crimson Skies 2 or Mechwarrior.
 

Offline Ulala

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #112 on: May 17, 2006, 12:57:54 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 17, 2006, 02:54:49 am
Bloody hell,  I have no wish to upgrade from 2000 to XP, let alone to some cpu-hogging monster of security holes and pain-in-the-arse wizards and whatnot.  Hell, my work doesn't even officially support XP.

Doesn't surprise me.
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #113 on: May 17, 2006, 03:22:50 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 17, 2006, 02:54:49 am
Bloody hell,  I have no wish to upgrade from 2000 to XP, let alone to some cpu-hogging monster of security holes and pain-in-the-arse wizards and whatnot.  Hell, my work doesn't even officially support XP.
Every piece of software you've ever used probably has security holes. It's just that no one cares about them.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #114 on: May 17, 2006, 03:46:13 pm
Quote from: Grey Wolf on May 17, 2006, 03:22:50 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 17, 2006, 02:54:49 am
Bloody hell,  I have no wish to upgrade from 2000 to XP, let alone to some cpu-hogging monster of security holes and pain-in-the-arse wizards and whatnot.  Hell, my work doesn't even officially support XP.
Every piece of software you've ever used probably has security holes. It's just that no one cares about them.

Aye, but given MS' record, it's scarcely likely that the big-expensive-OS-upgrade will be justified by security, and if you don't want shiny UIs.....
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #115 on: May 17, 2006, 04:08:57 pm
They apparently sought out to fix most of the old security problems. Of course, that probably produced new security problems...
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: E3 Conferences.
Reply #116 on: May 17, 2006, 04:22:51 pm
Quote from: Grey Wolf on May 17, 2006, 04:08:57 pm
They apparently sought out to fix most of the old security problems. Of course, that probably produced new security problems...

Nah, they might have just massively restricted what 3rd party programs could do......
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #117 on: May 17, 2006, 04:35:32 pm
The only feature that comes to mind is that programs won't automatically run with full administrative rights.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #118 on: May 17, 2006, 05:03:23 pm
Quote from: Grey Wolf on May 17, 2006, 04:35:32 pm
The only feature that comes to mind is that programs won't automatically run with full administrative rights.

I believe they were talking about removing socket access, as an example.  Lower level hardware stuff that'd break programs from, I'd expect, anyone not licensing low level APIs from MS.
 

Offline Deepblue

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Reply #119 on: May 18, 2006, 09:25:22 am
OUCH!


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Sony Computer Entertainment UK MD Ray Maguire has revealed that PlayStation 3 will retail for GBP 425 when it launches in the UK on November 17th, but has defended the price point as "a bargain" for consumers.



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"I don't think it's an expensive machine; I think actually, it's probably a cheap machine," he commented. "If you think a Blu-Ray player by itself might be GBP 600-700, and we're coming in at just GBP 425 - it's a bargain."

Isn't that about twice the price of the 360 in the UK?
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