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#1  Edited By High-Res
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Never liked Pokemon. Always found it stupid. Same for Yu Gi Oh, Magic the Gathering and just about every other card game. I did try them, just not for me. Think it maybe an age thing though as I was pretty much an adult when Pokemon was new.

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@foxhound_fox said:

People are finally realizing that buying the game first day is a huge gamble and isn't necessary to pre-order since the publisher prints a million plus copies.

Agreed, I do believe the basis of the pre-order in it's earliest beginnings was legit and honest. It started around the N64 and those could be truly difficult to find at launch. In my job the pre-order is pretty crucial as well (I work for a Video Game Distributor). So basically we get the orders 45-90 days in advance, reports those numbers to the Publisher as do the Walmarts and Best Buys and Game Stops of the world. That gives them a basic idea of how much to manufacture.

But like you mentioned, there is no shortage of product anymore. Not since we went from Cartridge to Disc has there been a shortage of product manufactured!

What has changed over time is the Retailer's have taken this from an honest approach of figuring out Supply & Demand and gauging to maximize sales and satisfy customers to a way of holding onto hundreds of thousands of dollars in advance. Collecting interest and using this "cash" to help facilitate their businesses in a way it was not intended.

The other thing that bothers me is these quarterly calls to investors. For YEARS THQ railed against the used game industry, blaming it for all of their woes & financial failures. I mean, I get it, they can't tell the truth and the truth was THQ had made sub-par crap games for 5 years that no one wanted to buy. They weren't going to tell investors that "Our games suck" - Instead they blamed it on the used industry.

Seems Activision is now doing the same. What frightens me though is I see an intentional shortage of physical media in our future to "push" people towards digital.

And that sucks ballz.

Good news is with Digital now being Pre-Downloaded for people it is just a short matter of tume befoe people start getting it and releasing it to the world for free.

Publisher's are freaking insane, do they not realize they will be the first to go under when everything goes Digital?

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Sega should sue Gearbox for this! There the ones that stole the money from Aliens and used it to make Borderlands 2!

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#4  Edited By High-Res
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Amazon is hiring. Hell Amazon is always Hiring, I bet they would be well received there. Probably make a hell of a lot more money as well. I feel for anyone who loses their job. (Shit my jobs been on the rocks for like 20 years!!!)

I hope nothing but the best for all of them.

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So, Activision recently announced the Declines in the Pre-Order Business. They used the typical excuses to explain to shareholders how it had everything to do with everything but the quality of their games.

They also used this as an excuse to extremely allocate their Special Editions of Destiny. It seems the Beta may have had a bit of a back fire on them and people began to cancel.

No I firmly believe this is nothing more than a ploy for them to force people who wanted these special versions into ordering special Digital Versions by making the physical ones unavailable.

BUT What really bothered me was how they eluded to share with stock holders the reality of the situation. Which I believe is as follows:

The Gaming Consumer is the most educated consumer in the world. Not only is he tired or being burnt by buying $60.00 new releases only to be disappointed by them never living up to the hype. I firmly believe he has altered his purchasing schedule to coincide with taking advantage of buying the COMPLETE Version of the game or "Game of the year" edition that includes all the content released for a fraction of the price. I know I have been doing this the last few years. Spending $39.99 to $19.99 for everything in lieu of half of the game at launch for $60.00

But no one wants to tell their shareholders that their customers are through being ripped off and have smartened up and have stopped falling for it!

There are SO many games released now there isn't even enough time to play them all so buying them all new @ 60.00 just does not make sense.

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@evildead6789 said:

yes it's true

* graphics card from 2008

3 way 8800gtx sli : 3d mark 06 score: 31885 marks

* graphics card in ps4

hd 7850: 3d mark 06 score: 30014 marks

The cpu combined with the 8800 gtx 3 sli is a 2600k at stock (3400 mhz). The cpu combined with the hd 7850 (ps4 gpu) is a water cooled and overclocked i7-3770k running at 4400 mhz.. The gpu and the memory on the hd 7850 were also much higher overclocked than the 8800 gtx because it's better at overclocking. Still the 8800 gtx sli - 3 way comes out on top and the 3d mark06 is also cpu dependent (the i7 -3770k runs at much higher speeds here than the i7-3770k)

However , when using liquid nitrogen the mark score is 38000-ish for the 8800 gtx and 41000-ish for the hd 7850. Which is still pretty close though and I doubt sony will ever add liquid nitrogen to the system with such high overclocks. The hd 7850 in the ps4 runs at stock and stock scores are a lot more in favor for the 8800 gtx.

There isn't as much competition as well with 8800 gtx since these are very old cards. Not to mention is a lot harder to find good chips for overclocking. Besides anyone that knows gpu hardware knows that the 8800 gtx in 3 way sli is comparable with a 7850 in performance. The 8800 gtx was released in november 2006

As for the cpu: those i7's didn't exist off course back in 2006, but the sony ps4 is packing something nowhere near that as well : The core 2 quad q6600 was released in january 2007 and pretty much matches the ps4's gpu. When overclocked it easily surpasses the computational power of the ps4.

sources:

8800 gtx 3-way sli

hd 7850 (gpu ps4)

Sure it does man. Sure it does....

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If? GameSpot has already failed man. No one comes here, you post and then come back in 2-3 days to check responses. Total weaksauce.

No sympathy for self inflicted wounds. 500 Posts to start a topic? No thanks, I'll just go somewhere else.

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I've worked with 3 people who were all certified members of Mensa....all of them were social retards.

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#9  Edited By High-Res
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As far as I can tell the ONLY Next Gen game on the market is Battlefield and that just started working a month or so ago. Other than that it's nothing but Ps3/X360 games that play on Ps4/Xbox One.

Last of Us sucked.

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#10 High-Res
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Ryse sucked...and if Rise didn't suck then neither did Conan on X360 cause its exactly the same game.