2nd May 2005, 4:54 PM
I'm getting ahead of myself here.
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Your classes actually specifically used consoles vs PC as an example of market seperation?
GR, and the PC is NOT included in that "you can only get it here!" thing... because? Maybe it's just me... and everyone else... but yeah, maybe I'm just not getting it but... what about what you just said makes consoles so different than the PC? From what I can tell, they release ports on the PC and on the consoles, and group it ALL together in the commercials. Last I checked, they DID advertise computers as competition to game machines. At least, that's what those idiots I heard arguing at Comp USA were talking about. Basically "why should I get this computer? I already have a Playstation", which, and I'm really having a hard time NOT seeing it this way, is very much the same argument as "why should I get a Gamecube, I already have a Playstation".
And OB1, you may not be angry when you type your responses, that may well be the case. But one thing is certain, you certainly come off that way to a lot of people. I've been meaning to say this for a while but... sometimes you really do come off as very rude, as though you truly don't care about the other person's feelings. Now, I know your response is likely going to be along the lines of "ooooh sorry baby, did I make you cry?" followed by one of those crybaby images, but if you did that, you'd just be proving my point.
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Your classes actually specifically used consoles vs PC as an example of market seperation?
GR, and the PC is NOT included in that "you can only get it here!" thing... because? Maybe it's just me... and everyone else... but yeah, maybe I'm just not getting it but... what about what you just said makes consoles so different than the PC? From what I can tell, they release ports on the PC and on the consoles, and group it ALL together in the commercials. Last I checked, they DID advertise computers as competition to game machines. At least, that's what those idiots I heard arguing at Comp USA were talking about. Basically "why should I get this computer? I already have a Playstation", which, and I'm really having a hard time NOT seeing it this way, is very much the same argument as "why should I get a Gamecube, I already have a Playstation".
And OB1, you may not be angry when you type your responses, that may well be the case. But one thing is certain, you certainly come off that way to a lot of people. I've been meaning to say this for a while but... sometimes you really do come off as very rude, as though you truly don't care about the other person's feelings. Now, I know your response is likely going to be along the lines of "ooooh sorry baby, did I make you cry?" followed by one of those crybaby images, but if you did that, you'd just be proving my point.
"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)