The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Thorne_sl said:

I think poor Nintendo is on the path to being irrelevant, at least in the console space. My 8 year old and all of his buddies could care less about the Wii U and don't care about Mario this or Zelda that. His entire class are Minecraft addicts... I think that says a lot about the company that once captured children's attention like nothing else.

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I've been waiting for YEARS for Nintendo to just go the route of Sega and just be a software studio. I haven't played a Zeldo/Metroid/Mario game in probably a decade because Nintendos consoles have been crap. Last one I bought was the N64. I'd give my left nut to play the next Metroid on the PS4, or play Mario Kart on Xbox Live

Just a long ass gif on this stuff.

First long GIF ever that made me laugh. And the entire thing was fucking hilarious.

That got me to LOL at work. Thanks.

<3 Bane

fanaskin_sl said:

http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/

which believe it or not was still great for it's time.

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http://www.universalmediaserver.com/is what you want now. It's what used to be called the 'SubJunk build' of PMS.

And transcoding is only necessary if the person who made the video had no what they were doing with their H.264 encoder, because the main encoding profiles are fine. All the TV shows I download work with TSmuxer, which simply plays the video as a transport stream--it's only the MKV container that the PS3 doesn't recognize. Even subtitles aren't an issue. About the only thing that doesn't work is trying to fast forward or rewind. If you need to seek to a specific point, the only reliable way to do it is by having UMS create chapters every X minutes.

So new rumors have it that the dude got fired, more for his comments than actually letting the cat out of the bag.

Also, it's pretty legit. Another twitter posted that he couldn't confirm or deny, but definitely pay your ISP. Which is pretty much confirmation.

Edit: Neogaf with the timeline; dude also posts over there.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534951

LadyVex_sl said:

So new rumors have it that the dude got fired, more for his comments than actually letting the cat out of the bag.

Also, it's pretty legit. Another twitter posted that he couldn't confirm or deny, but definitely pay your ISP. Which is pretty much confirmation.

Edit: Neogaf with the timeline; dude also posts over there.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534951

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The dude should know better than fucking with Neogaf. Most of those dudes have zero lives and will dig up any shit possible to shit all over him.

LadyVex_sl said:

So new rumors have it that the dude got fired, more for his comments than actually letting the cat out of the bag.

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Honestly, I'd fire him just for his complete ignorance towards the market he's supposedly targeting. If I was his boss, the insulting of the customers would be a distant secondary concern (Lets face it, ADD kids will forget his trolls in a week or two). However, the clear lack of ability on his part to grasp the reasons why people can't compare the internet to electricity, and him believing that's a valid comparison---just god damn, that's some mighty stupid.

Either way, I'm not purchasing the next Xbox now. Even if the DRM bullshit is not in--it's enough for me to know they had an idiot like that working for them. He actually has power there, and that's a frightening thing for me if I'm thinking of sinking a few thousand dollars in entertainment money into his media device (Between initial purchase, and content). He's simply too dumb to trust with that kind of investment.

Lithose_sl said:

Honestly, I'd fire him just for his complete ignorance towards the market he's supposedly targeting. If I was his boss, the insulting of the customers would be a distant secondary concern (Lets face it, ADD kids will forget his trolls in a week or two). However, the clear lack of ability on his part to grasp the reasons why people can't compare the internet to electricity, and him believing that's a valid comparison---just god damn, that's some mighty stupid.

Either way, I'm not purchasing the next Xbox now. Even if the DRM bullshit is not in--it's enough for me to know they had an idiot like that working for them. He actually has power there, and that's a frightening thing for me if I'm thinking of sinking a few thousand dollars in entertainment money into his media device (Between initial purchase, and content). He's simply too dumb to trust with that kind of investment.

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Honestly, I'm surprised he got fired. You can do some weird shit in the industry and it'll just get swept aside - I imagine that as you said it was due to the complete idiocy of his comments. They had to know that decision wouldn't be very popular, and when you have one of your menz sitting around taunting your customers about how they live in buttfuck America and that's the only reason always online sucks, then yea.

I like Sony, but I don't love Sony. But god damn.God damn.Incoming PS4 > All others.

I remember reading that his position was not very high up the chain. Mid level management at the best. I still don't get people saying they won't buy the thing and it hasn't even been announced yet. I am very curious to see what they come up with.

Thorne_sl said:

I remember reading that his position was not very high up the chain. Mid level management at the best. I still don't get people saying they won't buy the thing and it hasn't even been announced yet. I am very curious to see what they come up with.

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The reason why people are already saying they won't be buying the next Xbox is because the system more than likely won't have that many exclusives. Sony has built up a nice first party library where as MS has what? Halo, Gears of War, and Alan Wake? Alan Wake 2 will end up on PC just like the first one did. I hope MS trots out some killer first party stuff for the 720 but their track record says they more than likely will not. The sad thing is they own a lot of IP and should have a nice first party library of games.

Yeah, it's going to be all about the games for me as well. While Sony does have more first party stuff I personally didn't care for much of it. 3rd part was better on both consoles IMO.

Well, the whole point is if it's "All about the games" for you. If so, the new xbox is looking less and less likely to really do it for you. They have exclusives sure; I really enjoyed those titles already mentioned and considered it necessary to have an xbox for them, but now? Always online is enough of a kerfuffle that it may sway me harshly to opposing consoles. I mean, you have to understand it at it's base - always on is such a travesty when it comes to gamers. What do I do when I can't get online? I go play a single player on my xbox, PS3 etc. I get that we're chugging into even more technology, and hey, maybe in 10 years we'll all be wired to the internet like a hive mind, but right now, there are still many single player campaigns that you might do when you are not online. That won't be an option in the future. And not only will it not be an option, but jesus christ forbid your internet connection sucks and your play experience becomes an exercise in frustration and futility.

I bought both Simcity and Diablo 3, and I have barely played city because of how annoyed I was with all of their issues. Diablo I played quite a bit of, but not being able to log in for about a day after purchasing the fucking game when I didn't even want to interact with anyone was bullshit.

Probably the worst offense is how they try to spin it like it's "good for the consumer". Well fuck you buddy, I can't think of a single reason why it's good for me. It won't lower costs like they always claim, and that's probably a big reason why I would consider it.

It IS always about the games for me, and sadly, if a burp in my internet connection makes it so I'm getting kicked out of a fucking interactive cutscene I will fillet someone.

joeboo_sl said:

I've been waiting for YEARS for Nintendo to just go the route of Sega and just be a software studio. I haven't played a Zeldo/Metroid/Mario game in probably a decade because Nintendos consoles have been crap. Last one I bought was the N64. I'd give my left nut to play the next Metroid on the PS4, or play Mario Kart on Xbox Live

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pshh. Nintendo keeps them honest.
And price of innovation is hits or misses.

(do wish they were a tiny bit more performance savvy. the SNES "won" for a reason.)