[360] Market forces and you or "Why popular stuff costs lots" for beginners

Originally Posted by YOU MAD

Frankly I'm surprised they didn't come out with crap you can buy for your silly mini-me sooner.

Honestly I thought they already had. I just don't care to look, since I'm perfectly happy with a basic avatar that mostly resembles me. They can introduce all the customisation they like, I doubt I'd ever want to pay for any of it or even take it for free.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Yes I did, as on this screen that is a little one pixel high line just above your signature.

That's the best way to do a disclaimer.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

So, we're SURPRISED . . . that DJ Hero's gonna cost a good bit, what with having a special peripheral? What game with a game specific peripheral DIDN'T cost 20-?? bucks more (STELL BATTALION I'M LOOKING AT YOU) than your average game?

I'd hope the table was heftier than a guitar or that Beatmania controller that came when they released the home edition in the US.


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I wanted that game SO BAD, if only for the stupid controller.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It's fantastic, by the way. But you knew that.

Also, no one was surprised.

Can no one read anymore or is this whole showing up in a thread and not paying attention a week late just a wivvle thing these days?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Man, Street Fighter II Turbo was fucking expensive!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I bought the Guitar Prop just because I wanted to have a prop and I didn't think anything else they had would fit my avatar. But seriously WTF? A lightsaber that does nothing costs the same as making Darth Vader playable in Soul Calibur IV? That's kinda retarded.

FELIPE NO

I wish they'd make an adapter to use the Steel Battalion "controller" with the 360 and maybe release a revamped version of the game on XBL. My SB has been sitting in a box for 3 years.


I know, I have a better chance of wishing for world peace, regular flights to the moon, and $100 million and it coming true than this happening.


But really, would anything else in the world rock harder than playing Steel Battalion in HD in front of a 46+" Samsung? Besides piloting an actual mech, of course.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

There are PC drivers. Use those.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm not really sure how this is an issue of drivers when I'm talking about a) the ports on X-Box controllers not being USB, b) wanting a new/remade SB game in High Def, and c) playing on 360, not PC.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Uh, obviously.

But since you're pipe dreaming and wishing for something that isn't going to come along, I'm offering the next best alternative. Something that actually exists.

You want a good mech game? Mech 4 is free now. The SB controller will work with it. Original Xbox to USB convertors are dirt fucking cheap. It's not the most gorgeous game but you can easily output it to your TV.

"I want a golden toilet wouldn't that be awesome"
"Well here's how you can poop in a regular one and still have a good time"
"THIS DOES NOT HELP MY GOLD DREAMS"

Don't be a twatrocket.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Alright, and you didn't just say that the first time, why? I mean, if I were a little bit psychic "PC Drivers" might stand as an in-depth answer, but otherwise it just seems completely out of context.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

Can no one read anymore or is this whole showing up in a thread and not paying attention a week late just a wivvle thing these days?

No, it's more that I didn't care about the back and forth between Shin and Omagnus so I went back to the part of the conversation just beforehand where (you) were bitching about the "overpriced widget."

I was speaking idiomatically.

Steel Battalion is (was) overpriced, sure, but compared to the premium they're charging for DJ Hero, what you got for that stupid price seemed like a much easier pill to swallow. Or the extra 30 dollars for Ride when it's essentially the same thing as Wii Fit's balance board.

Extra single (or maybe two, if you're lucky) use peripherals always cost a shit tonne more, but my point is that charging an even larger premium than usual, saturating the damn market, in a recession of all things, and then expecting it all to sell a fuckload seems a tad bit shortsighted.

Who knows, maybe I'll eat my hat. But I don't expect all that from this.

Not like Harmonix is doing better with the RB:Beatles price point of 250 dollars, of course. What the hell.

And even if you directly responded to my overpriced widget commentary, you still didn't read what was being said, but that's cool too.

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Like I mentioned earlier, I hope that the deck is going to be somewhat substantial (the Guitar Hero guitars are at about a 1:2 scale to MOST electrics, especially the ones they're emulating physically; judging by pics I've seen the DJ Hero set seems to be possibly 1:1.5 scaled... at least the platter. I dunno about the rest of it.)

If the size/action of it is reasonable, I don't see a huge issue with the price, since I figure it'll be good for future iterations of the product.

FELIPE NO

I think the DJ deck is a comparable size to a cd mixer and who actually mixes vinyl anymore? Shit, to be a really accurate depiction of djing they need an option where you pre-load your setlist onto a laptop then stand behind the decks pretending to mix and doing lines of coke all night (Sup Lilly Allen, Peaches Geldof, Pretty much every indie band member who's played a dj set in the last five years?).

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE7CXZ1Lyu4

excuse me? do you see the fucking work that is going on there?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

... I do premade mixes, but that's because I mix for CD and not for live. At least I'd be out on the floor getting my dance on instead of pretending to mix if they were played out.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

People just rent out wvlf instead of getting a disco ball. The way the light refracts off his balding head is the real attraction, the music's just a bonus.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.