27th September 2006, 11:44 AM
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Yeah, this is pretty stupid. I see your point about development concerns lazy, but considering that they went through all the effort to include an image editor for free, it seems that a port job of Opera shouldn't be that big a deal in comparison. Here's the thing to consider. The PSP web browser is free of charge. Sure using it on a PSP is a pretty sucky experience, but that's not the point.
At any rate, if it's a download, I may not bother getting this even for free, just to save space. Why? Well, I don't want to bother surfing the web on my game console. It should work a lot better with that controller, but have you tried surfing the web at ABF level resolutions? We'll be one level lower than that. I've seen the demos on Nintendo Japan's site. The images are as big as hams! I'll stick with a system that's always on, my lappy, for all my web surfing needs.
And Nintendo points, WEEEE! Please Nintendo, don't copy MS in this regard. This was the stupidest thing MS did with their little online market. I've said it before, having to buy "tokens" does nothing for us as consumers at all. Just list the actual price. Further, I fear that just like with MS, you can't just buy the item flat out and have it convert your money to that specific amount of tokens. No, you'll need to buy a preset number of tokens and the remained stays with Nintendo, meaning if you only intend to buy a 300 token item and the minimum amount of this magical "fun disney dollars" money you can buy (it's like real money, but it's..... fun) is 500, the item effectively costs 500 with 200 going towards STORE CREDIT! YAY!
Nintendo is a business in the end, but that side of things, the "I love your money" side, is really starting to affect us gamers.
So...
Yeah, this is pretty stupid. I see your point about development concerns lazy, but considering that they went through all the effort to include an image editor for free, it seems that a port job of Opera shouldn't be that big a deal in comparison. Here's the thing to consider. The PSP web browser is free of charge. Sure using it on a PSP is a pretty sucky experience, but that's not the point.
At any rate, if it's a download, I may not bother getting this even for free, just to save space. Why? Well, I don't want to bother surfing the web on my game console. It should work a lot better with that controller, but have you tried surfing the web at ABF level resolutions? We'll be one level lower than that. I've seen the demos on Nintendo Japan's site. The images are as big as hams! I'll stick with a system that's always on, my lappy, for all my web surfing needs.
And Nintendo points, WEEEE! Please Nintendo, don't copy MS in this regard. This was the stupidest thing MS did with their little online market. I've said it before, having to buy "tokens" does nothing for us as consumers at all. Just list the actual price. Further, I fear that just like with MS, you can't just buy the item flat out and have it convert your money to that specific amount of tokens. No, you'll need to buy a preset number of tokens and the remained stays with Nintendo, meaning if you only intend to buy a 300 token item and the minimum amount of this magical "fun disney dollars" money you can buy (it's like real money, but it's..... fun) is 500, the item effectively costs 500 with 200 going towards STORE CREDIT! YAY!
Nintendo is a business in the end, but that side of things, the "I love your money" side, is really starting to affect us gamers.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)