Matt Rix

"250,000 distribution points? What's that?"

Basically 250,000 different stores selling it.

Also, I don't know why everyone is complaining so much: This is the **LAUNCH** price. The prices will go down quickly. If they started with too low of a price, they wouldn't have anything to go down to. This is only makes sense.

Also, the $60 for another controller is a lot... But I imagine that will come down eventually too.

Just in case all you graphics whiners missed it the first time:

THE GRAPHICS ARE CEL-SHADED

It would actually look pretty cool in realtime, I think.

I've got a Nyko Airflo mouse, and it's the best(and 'coolest') mouse I've ever had :)

I'm sure the controllers are great too.

Haha, I made one of these a long time ago in a Photoshop Battle... Check it out:

http://matt-rix.com/kirupa/PSPBattle/ElectricGrandpa.jpg

Funny, it's somewhat similar...

I used to also think that all cellphone games were terrible... But then I finally bought 'Midnight Pool' and I was pleasantly suprised! It actually doesn't suck for a cell phone game, and it seems like they put a lot of effort into it. It's got some dumb parts, but I've easily spent over 20 hours playing it on the bus, which isn't a bad cost/time ratio for a game that was only $5(CDN).

-Matt

Ok Goodwin is dumb.

First of all, World of Warcraft is an MMORPG, where you pay a monthly fee to play, but because of it, there's always NEW CONTENT. To call it the same game for 4 years(even though it's only been two) is just crazy, since it's changed SO MUCH since it was released(trust me, I was playing it back then).

Secondly, World of Warcraft is also the best selling *MAC* game... So really, who are you insulting?

"I doubt freaking youtube videos and other crap like that is out of reach for the DS. "

You would doubt it if you knew a single thing about it. It's NOT POSSIBLE. The memory-card movie player was specially made just for playing movies on DS/GBA, and it can't play all kinds of different forms of video(flv, wmv, mov, rm).

Flash and Video are definitely NOT POSSIBLE, and they NEVER WERE.

-Matt Rix

The DS is NOT nearly powerful enough to run Flash... A lot of *desktop computers* still struggle with complex Flash stuff. Trust me, I'm a full-time Flash developer and I know it's limitations. Bringing it to the DS and having it work well is **IMPOSSIBLE**

As for videos, not having Flash eliminates almost 50% of the videos on the web... As for the other formats, do you really expect the browser to be able to have Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Realplayer all bundled in? It's just not possible, and there is NO WAY this ever would have been possible.

Audio might have been possible, but it also would have complicated things and it's really not necessary.

The browser still has everything I expected, so I'll definitely be buying it... I don't know why people expect the DS to be as powerful and full featured as a PC... It's a portable device, beggars can't be choosers.

-Matt

VectorMan... and a little know game called "Greendog"

-Matt

The Ref in this game did his job... He can't just let all that crap go by without calling it! Saying it's the ref's fault is just an excuse...

"Or did you not see that nasty headbutt one of the portugese gave the dutch player? Stupid ref only gave him a yellow card for that."

That wasn't a real head-butt! He just pretended to head butt the guy... Then the dutch guy stands there for a few seconds... then grabs his head and falls... so fake!

-Matt