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Are movies always released on Wednesday in the US ? They are in France, which if memory serves is the reason why Spiderman 2 (amongst many movies) was released in France before it was released in the US. I can' t say we' re as lucky regarding video games release date though, translation is a fickle b**** ...
That being said, I' m all for worldwide release dates, it would surely help dealing with the piracy issue.

1985 : Project Nes
2012 : Project Café

What else ?

That' s basically the whole point, apparently Nintendo isn' t aiming to jump to the next generation, they' re just getting up to date (Café will support HD graphics and have more or less the same capacities as an XBox 360). It' s actually third parties developers who asked for it, they complained that developing games for the Wii (given its poor capacities and controllers) wasn' t worth the trouble.
The HUGE catch is : what is Nintendo gonna do in 2014-2015 when both Sony and Microsoft actually jump to the next-gen ? The 3DS, which has more or less the same capacities as a PSP, at last, is gonna be in the exact same situation next year when the NGP finally comes out. I know the real fuel in this war is games, but Nintendo seems hellbent on launching outdated systems, it' s really getting on my nerves. Someone should really tell them that "who can do more can do less", not the other way around.

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I watched a few of his vids, I like them. Someone here in France started to make the same kind of vids a while ago, he' s called "Le joueur du grenier" (the attic gamer). Since he speaks French he' s obviously more renowned than the AVGN here, he' s also funnier.

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I do agree that Nintendo games aren' t as great as before.
Mario : I don' t really play them anymore, depite my avy and sig, yeah, how ironic. None of the Mario RPGs ever felt as great as Squaresoft Snes Super Mario RPG.
Zelda : I enjoyed Windwaker and Twilight Princess, but I was a bit annoyed at how easy they were to complete. The two DSgames gave me the same feeling, they have a good gameplay but they' re short and way too easy. I don' t think my age is the problem, go play Zelda 1 and 2 (or Super Mario Bros, or Metroïd) on the NES and see how you suffer.
Metroid : The series went downhill since Super Metroïd IMO. Sure, Metroid Prime are good games but they don' t really qualify as Metroïd games to me, Metroïds aren' t supposed to be FPS. The GBA Metroïds were closer to Super Metroïd, but what I hate about them is that they became linear, even a skillful use of the bomb trick will get you nowhere, you just HAVE to play the levels in the exact order that Nintendo decided you should. Other M has the same problem, although the exploration is a little bit less rigid and the gameplay feels closer to the 2D games it' s an incredibly linear, short and easy game. It took me a measly week to complete it 100% (I' m not even sure I ever completed Super Metroid 100%). Seeing Samus wait for an order to use her upgrades, even if that means her own death, is fu****g ridiculous.

Those problems aren' t exclusive to Nintendo, a lot of my favorite franchises became linear, easier and shorter than before. They also took a major turn in their approach, which always feels as a treason even when the result is good (Resident Evil 4-5, Silent Hill since Origins, FFXIII).

The other two reasons I hate the Wii is that third party developers seem to have abandoned the boat (no good RE games or good RPGs like Baten Kaitos anymore), and that I hate the Wiimote. I suck at it immensely. I still think Wii games are easy, it' s just fu****g frustrating to play an easy game and end up losing because of the lame controller, it makes it all even worse. That' s the reason I' m not looking forward to Skyward Sword at all. When Myamoto said that they focused on the Wiimote gameplay while developping the Zeldaverse wasn' t really their concern anymore I lost any excitement for that game. I' m quite sure a lot of gamers feel that way towards the DS stylus gameplay too, I don' t suck at playing with the stylus but I know lots of Zelda fans who didn' t play the two DS Zelda games just because they can' t be played with the paddle.

The only Wii game I' m looking forward to is Xenoblade (and maybe Last Story) that was recently announced to be released in Europe, and the only 3DS game I' m looking forward to is KH DDD (and maybe RE, we' ll see).

I think it' s interesting to notice that the PSP sold better than the 3DS in Japan since its release. OMG, Nintendo is "tanking" in Japan, with a handheld !!! Of course the explanation is probably its poor launch line-up, while Squenix is on fire on the PSP.
More about it here :
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/04/07/media_create_sales/
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/04/08/nintendo_stock_drop/

Even in France the 3DS had a little price drop a single week after its release. Knowing that Nintendo based its price on its popularity while it only costs them 70 euros to make one doesn' t help to make me want one either. It' s the same as the Wii being sold for the price of three Gamecube.

I already commented on that tittle even before Nomura stated anything about it. I' m not sure I' m allowed to copy/paste my own posts so just look there :
http://www.kh-vids.net/showthread.php?107330-KINGDOM-HEARTS-3D-Official-Name-Revealed-amp-More!&p=3314205#post3314205

Preventing you to download that pattern does NOT prevent you to find out that particular pattern by yourself and burn it. Your only problem is that you don' t know the first thing about that pattern, except that the resulting MOVIE is beautiful. If you want to try out your luck at burning any combination of ones and zeros you can come out with you' re free to do so. You' d have to be an IT crack, but still, that' s not impossible, the required knowledge is all around the web.

The same way an empty notepad would be cheaper than a novel, which wouldn' t prevent you to write that novel yourself on the notebook on the one over billions chance that you came up with the same idea. Making you pay for an idea in general doesn' t prevent you to come up with the same idea on your own. Good luck with that though.

Let me guess, your retort would be something like "well that' s why I used a program you dummy, that was my point the entire time", but honestly my main concern in this argument is rather the following :

You buy both, an empty disc would be cheaper. A copyrighted movie or game IS a product.
Since you can' t even use the lord of the ring DVD to burn anything we can state that what you really buy is the movie that comes with the DVD, i.e. the data. Unless you know people who actually bought it just to play freesbee ? There' s also movies or games paying downloads now, like the games on the PSN, what do you think people are paying for when they use those ?

Urgh ... the guy who sells the Lord of the rings DVD (or whoever profits from the DVD sales, isn' t Peter Jackson one of them ?) enters my shop, he would have to pay me to enjoy the fruit of my labor while I didn' t pay him to enjoy the data he was selling for an extra along with the DVD. How ethical would that be ? You did enjoy his product, the movie, at some point, right ? I presume you didn' t just stare at the CD scratches ?

I' m tired of asking so I' ll answer myself, it' s not ethical either. I don' t care that the geeks are whining cause preventing them to download is "restricting their liberty", they couldn' t have come up with the data they' re whining about on their own anyway (which is why hearing them whining about their liberty in that case seems to be the fallacy to me). If illegal downloading has any impact, however small, over the director' s profits then I fully approve of the law being on his side.

No you' re not, you' re turning it around. If they hadn' t produced that movie in the first place you would never have thought of that particular pattern on your own, would you ? You didn' t buy your disk thinking "wouldn' t it be fabulous to put that particular pattern on it", you downloaded a movie thinking "I' d love to have Lord of the rings for free".
The teacher that won' t allow you to look at other's copy during the exam is not restricting your copy property, is he ? He' s preventing you to cheat. You' re still free to write anything that comes to mind on it, burn it, torn it, eat it ...

Huh ? What are you talking about ?

I' ll rephrase :
I illegally downloaded the Lord of the Rings, I gave it for free to many friends. I enjoyed the fruit of Peter Jackson' s (and many others) labor for free. For some reason Peter Jackson comes to France and visits the shop I work in. If he wants to enjoy the fruit of my labor he' ll have to pay. How ethical is that exactly ?
BTW I paid the company which made my hard drive a long time ago, any guy who works for that company and happens to visit my shop will pay to enjoy the fruit of my labor just as I paid him to enjoy his.

What do you mean "for now" ? They' ll never have a right over what you produced yourself, at least I can' t see a way for them to claim such a thing. I know that they tried to, but they failed.

Yes I do, I still maintain the box analogy is valid. You own the box, you can store items you made or paid inside it, entering a shop and filling your box of unpaid items doesn' t make them yours. They didn' t claim any right over your storage unit, you' re still free to put anything you made or paid inside it. They claimed a right to not see THEIR intellectual property inside YOUR box without you paying for it first.

So of course we' re not talking about items per say, you can call it a stack of zeros and ones, a mere electric signal, a bunch of CD scratches, bladiblablablah, that' s what I called playing around with words. Maybe it' s enough to fool yourself, maybe it' s enough for you to raise a logic point, but it' s not gonna fool me, potato potayto, it' s a copyrighted game or movie that you never paid for.
I' m afraid that arguing that it' s stored in an intangible form appears to be the little point to me.

Let me put it this way :
Some people made a movie spending millions that somehow ended up in my storage unit, and now I can enjoy it anytime or give it to others without having paid a single cent for it, of course the ones I gave it to won' t pay a single cent for it either. If somehow the movie director comes to France and visit the shop I work in he' ll have to pay to enjoy the fruit of my labor. How ethical is that exactly ?

You' re still free to put pictures, music and movies of your own design on it, aren' t you ? There' s plenty of free material and programs for that. Owning a box (or any sort of storage device) doesn' t mean any unpaid item you put inside it becomes yours. The only way to support the work and effort of an artist remains to pay him to enjoy his work, one way or another.

Look, I' m not a lawyer, you' re not gonna get a very precise definition of what forgery is by law standards out of me. IMO replicating someone else' s work using a machine isn' t a moral problem if the original material/data was either free or yours.

The lowest profitable cost, they do it for a living. They have their interest at heart first.
The lowest profitable cost probably isn' t 20 bucks, I' ll give you that.

You copied something you should have paid for otherwise, someone in there has indeed been deprived of money.
As someone French would put it "Tu as eu le beurre et l' argent du beurre" (rough translation : "you got both the butter and the butter's money")

I already noticed that you' re very skilled with words so there' s probably a way for you to twist that around. I' m not that skilled, I know there' s plenty of ways to play with words around piracy issues. Morals are subjective anyway, if you refuse to consider copying copyrighted data without paying its author a single cent as a theft/forgery/you name it, a moral issue of some sort, there' s not an argument in the world that could convince you otherwise.

The third time it happened to me was the charm, I always ctrl+c my posts before sending them now.

First, selling a DVD for 20 bucks when said movie required millions to be made in the first place is not "outrageous" in my book.
Second, you DON' T know how it was made, you werent there to see them make it, and even if you were you certainly don' t have the same technical skills and material as a hundred professionals. Please recreate Star Wars or Kingdom Hearts in your backyard. Even better, make us KH3, since you already "know" the process.

Would pedophilia or crime photos be legal if they were to be found on your hard drive ? You didn' t "simply change the physical form of your property", you used a computer to replicate the photo, which is the same as replicating reality taking the photo yourself.
My point is, you didn' t put an ounce of effort into downloading or replicating a DVD, chances are you just pushed a button.


I know pirates love to argue about law issues, but at the end of the day duplicating someone else' s professional work using a machine is forgery, whether you sell it or give it for free. I get why people don' t feel too guilty when they download, after all artists still manage to make a living, and in some cases it' s very useful since it' s the only way to obtain the coveted data. Hell, I do it myself. However when someone tries to justify downloading as not being a moral issue at all, whatever the data is, whether it' s a legal issue or not, I just laugh my ass out. It reminds me of what P said about the invisibility ring, in one of the threads about moral : if stealing didn' t require any skill or effort and that it couldn' t have any consequences to you then you would soon stop viewing it as a moral problem.

I do download, but I still watch movies in theaters, I buy lots of DVDs, BluRays and games, so I don' t feel guiltier than when I used tapes to record TV or CDs with my VCR or my radio when I was younger. Downloading allowed me to play games that weren' t released in Europe and never will be (like Chrono Cross or Xenogears), and it' s also very useful in order to watch TV shows at a convenient time rather than having to watch them one year later on TV, often in French (translations usually aren' t great).