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"Is Gamecube hard to program for?"

Oh dear Oh dear!!!!!

(Tuesday 26th November 2002  RALLY FUSION FALLS SHORT OF GAMECUBE

Activision admits the GameCube version of its arcade racer is "massively delayed" as canning rumours persist

15:26 Sources have confirmed today that the GameCube version of arcade racer Rally Fusion has been canned.)

What is it with the GC has it indeed done exactly the same mistake as last time and used a duff format.

The amount of delayed and canned games would suggest something is very wrong, could it be hard to program for, are the companies not willing to put it across 2 discs due to time and expense, no standard tooling, more printing, more materials. What ever the answers things are not looking rosey, when games do come out they are often a month or so behind the others anyway.

I think they have made a serious error of judgement and with games getting bigger and bigger this will only highlight the GC problems even further. I do actually feel a little sorry for them however you could say they had the chance to erase the mistakes of the N64 with the GC but is appears they have made them all over again.

HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> thppt.

errrr...Tony Hawk's Pro Part Timer?

I simply don't buy music. It's cheaper and still legal. :)

HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> thppt.

I know this is off topic but that's the best phonetic spelling of a raspberry I've ever seen. :)

thppt.

bah

I know it's wrong, but I copy CDs and return them. but not all CDs. I am more than happy pay for something like The Streets, but not anybody more mainstream.

It's the new and up-coming artists that need the money, not the well-established ones.

I think we pay about twice as much as the stuff is worth.

So when you hand over £10, there's about £5 clear profit for the shop. Look out in January for all the half price sales, and this is the only conclusion you can come to.

Top score wrote:
> the albums £11.99 is way to expensive considering how much it actually
> costs to make a cd

It's not the manufacturing costs, it's the greed of the record industry. Even the artist gets very little of what you pay for a CD.

Personally, I refuse to buy CDs in shops now. I get all of mind from http://www.cd-wow.com - £8.99 for chart CDs.

I would get pirate copies, but then the artist gets no revenue, which I don't think is right.

I think the main reason single sales have fallen is cause chart music mainly bites the big one.

This is true with anything in this country they don't call it rip off Britain for nothing the fact is the publishers do deserve everything they get for example Cd singles sell for a stupid £3.99 for one song no wonder sales have fallen sharply at least in the past the pre-releases were £2.99 now even that is not the case £1.49 would be a far better price then there are the albums £11.99 is way to expensive considering how much it actually costs to make a cd far less than a cassette however they still remain more expensive. DVD's software has hardly dropped at all yet the hardware has dropped considerably. Where is our fair trade watchdog, no wonder the economy is doing so well because they make more money with one sale than most of Europe do with two.