tim rogers

Hey guys!! I also hear PROSTITUTION is also legal in Amsterdam!!

Also, look at Amsterdam's flag!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Amsterdam.svg

How racist is THAT? Obviously the white Xs are making an effort to disrupt the consistency of the black line.

First hookers, then marijuana, now this PSP ad -- I think it's time to load a Boeing 777 up with good old fashioned mustached, donut-munching, chubby American police officers and crash it into the Van Gogh Museum!!

That'll show them what they get for being more open-minded than AMERICA!!

Cliffy B seemed interested in the Revolution when we interviewed him for GamaSutra:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051021/sheffield_01.shtml

GS: I like that arc on the grenade [in Gears Of War].

CB: My logic here is that we give you a cursor for your gun, why not give you an arc for your grenade? If you're a soldier, and you're going to have a good idea of the weight of the thing, and how far it's going to go, so why not just give you a visual indication of it?

GS: How would you do that with the Nintendo Revolution?

CB: Just throw the controller at the screen.

MR: I'd get tired after a while.

CB: Yeah, you'll have an entire generation of gamers with Popeye arms.

Exciting!!

Actually, the article is not a paraphrase. To tell you the truth, I barely even skimmed the Famitsu article it's based on. All I did was take out their five "reasons" out and fill it in with research/understanding/"insight" of my own. Notice most of my article explains the situation in Japan; in Famitsu, which is targeted at Japanese readers, they don't exactly have to tell people what Japan is like.

So. Take that for what you will.

I wrote this article because I saw Famitsu's mention of the situation (the system being popular to the extent of being dead sold out) as an opportunity to inform people who bizarrely refuse to believe that the DS is selling at all, anywhere -- there's a guy right above this coment who says "Ha Ha Ha" at "appeal to non-gamers." Imagining that he's joking would probably be too optimistic.

The DS is real. Administrators of this website are invited to check my IP address and see where I work; that should speak volumes for my objectivity here.

And if I disparaged any readers -- well. You should all be a little more careful from now one around things that disparage you. It's unbecoming.

Oh, there I go disparaging again!

A few of you people are missing the point!

Then again, that's what happens when you get, uh, a bunch of people together.

See, the people buying the "Brain Training" games are normal people. As in, you know, that population subset marketing capitalize as "Normal People." Not "gamers." Just because a game isn't in the top ten doesn't mean it sucks or isn't selling. I mean, if you boys could see the NUMBERS for these Brain Training games, you'd realize that they're, you know, WAY up there. The reason other games can't compete with that is because they're videogames selling to videogamers.

So, yes!!

Also, at the largest electronics store in Tokyo two weeks ago (which is when these statistics report from), the Nintendo DS was dead sold out. Which is scary, because they normally have at least 30,000 in stock.

What's most noteworthy of this news is the sales of games like Animal Crossing and Mario Kart DS; they're apparently not selling to the "gamers" so much as to the Normal People. The Normal People buy the DS for Brain Training and what have you, and end up thinking, yeah, I'll buy that Mario Kart game, too.

Interesting stuff!