iPhone 1 started to sell like a hotcakes after a 33% price drop after few months...3DS was a disaster before first big price drop, i'm just saying that Nintendo need to risk short term losses. Switch played almost all its big cards by now (with Pokemon and Smash). Need to look at the bigger picture
The iPhone was $500 & $600 at launch. For a phone. A completely different product market, where you could get a phone for $50 at the time.
That’s also the price point PS3 launched at, but plenty of folks enjoyed the PS3.
Sales numbers don’t equal game enjoyment. It’s not “fanboyism” to state that. It’s reality and acceptance of life. Some people eat take out with a fork, some use chopsticks. Food is the same, just a different way to savor it.
It’s easy to get in a little tit for tat argument if all somebody wants to do is nitpick. Watch, here’s one; Sony had free online and had a massive data breach, lied about it, then admitted it.
Did that make anyone want to turn off their PS in disgust? No, because it really doesn’t make whatever they’re playing any less enjoyable.
TL;DR - If wishes were fishes, we’d all be whales. Enjoy what you enjoy, let others do the same.
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Woot BlazBlue: Central Fiction is hitting NA on 2/7/19. Can't wait! Geez if I could just get Bamco to put a non anime fighting game on switch I'd be set.
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@JaxonH Now that's a deal. Put that $50 towards the Super Mario Party bundle and you have a Switch, four Joy Cons, Mario Kart, and Mario Party for only $350.
Please hold you're hand up if you said Pokémon let's go wouldn't shift switch hardware
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (No.9) sales increased 94 per cent, Super Mario Party (No.18) sales were up 25 per cent, Super Mario Odyssey (no.19) rose 30 per cent (No.19) and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (No.28) saw a 52 per cent sales spike.
@bluemage1989 Lol, I know you didn't, just gave me an opportunity to think about what I wanted in terms of existing games and series from other companies. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced BG&E2 will come out in the Switch's lifetime from what I've seen of the game at E3, but it'd be nice. A Devil's Third sequel would be the weirdest thing ever if it happened... but if it looked good I might try it this go around.
@JaxonH That's a beautiful summation of why people get so upset about ports. If it's a game I haven't played and I want to? I'm happy. And I'm not about to let anyone here or anywhere else stomp on that.
@ReaderRagfish
Hey! I'm studying calculus right now myself. Only... I'm doing it for fun (I know, I know).
I love math, unfortunately despite passing the Duke college entrance exam in 7th grade, winning the math Olympics twice in grade school and making straight A's on every report card ever, I got mixed up with the wrong crowd just before high school and ultimately dropped out without ever even passing 9th grade. Went to college and did a semester of algebra and half a semester of trig, but never finished.
So I decided to start learning calculus in my free time when I'm not playing games. The power of the integral gives me goosebumps. Seriously, it's like magic. Finding the area under any curve is nothing short of fascinating! So I've been learning all about limits and derivatives and integrals, watching Professor Leonard on YouTube. He's incredible. It's like you are a student right in his classroom. I also just ordered a textbook today.
The thing is I'm still rusty on all my trigonometric identities and properties, and I really need to get that down because they use trig substitution in integration quite a bit. Then I have to memorize all the rules of differentiation and integration, which, I think I have the derivatives down (addition rule, subtraction rule, multiplication and division rule, and special cases like derivative of e^x = e^x), but I haven't really got into rules pertaining to exponents and roots and logs and so on. But just being able to integrate a function is mind blowing to me.
Integrating f(x) = √x
∫ √x dx = 2/3x^(3/2) + C
And evaluating the function between 0 and 1 gives the area under the curve between those bounds (definite integral) to be equal to 2/3 units squared. That's... magic. It's magic! It's so easy to calculate something that seems impossible to calculate... I'm in this honeymoon phase with calculus where I'm just in utter awe of its raw power. Moments and inertia, velocity, acceleration, center of mass, density, volume, area, work exerted up a curved surface, Fourier Transform with everything from harmonics to sonar and even quantum physics using the complex unit circle and a very simple (relatively) integral equation stemming from Euler's famous equation involving i (the imaginary number), π and e. Calculus has all the power of nuclear warfare while retaining the elegance of a symphony orchestra.
@DarthNocturnal
I think people dislike what they don't understand, and they don't understand it because they learn in a certain way and their teacher simply didn't explain it in a way that they can understand. And because they dislike it they just stop trying to understand it. This is where most people start walling themselves off to math. Even if they were good at it initially, once they get to something they don't quite understand they just close themselves off and decide it's not for them, write it off for good and never look back.
If you were good at it early on, you probably have a knack for it. But early math is boring and a lot of people hate math in the early years just because it's not all that interesting. It wasn't until algebra that I really started finding math fascinating. Like logic based puzzles that only have one solution.
@ReaderRagfish
I suppose it's different when I'm not forced to do homework and can learn at my own pace. When you're forced to do something regardless of whether you feel like it or not, it becomes more of a chore. Especially with how many problems they assign in school. But, I get it. Proficiency takes practice and there's no short cutting that.
Subtraction same as addition except order matters (obviously). Worth noting anyways. It's the quotient one that I hate, g(x)/h(x) = h(x)g'(x) - h'(x)g(x)/h(x)^2
Chain rule pisses me off though. That's the one I struggle to visualize because each derivative is with respect to a different variable. I did some practice problems and I got it for simple functions where the function itself was squared and I just used substitution, but I can already tell that one's going to hang me up on more complicated problems.
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@EvilLucario
I developed equations as a function of money spent on each system, to see the multi-variable effect of spending X amount on Switch and Y on Xbox One and Z on PS4, etc, and set the equation equal to my budget. Best to stick with 2 variables though- Switch (s) and all other platforms (p) Easier to graph and can then break the other down into PS and Xbox.
Can also use algebra to figure out how many games at each price point you can buy on a given budget. 30w + 40x + 50y + 60z = B where B is your budget. Or simply 40x + 60y = B which covers most games.
@DarthNocturnal
Lol I was talking to a coworker today about algebra and she said something similar. Once you understand the concept it's actually super simple. A letter (say x) is just a substitution for a ? for an unknown number. What unknown number (?) plus 3 = 10? You could write ? + 3 = 10 Obviously the answer is 7. But there's a logical process you can follow that will give you the answer even when it's not so easy. It all revolves around that equals sign. If two things are equal they are the same, and in order to stay the same, anything done to one must be done to the other. 8 apples = 8 apples. If I add 2 apples on the right, I need to add 2 apples on the left to keep the two apple piles equal. So now I have 10 apples = 10 apples. I can multiply each side by 2 (20 apples = 20 apples) divide by 4 (5 apples = 5 apples) or even Square them (25 apples = 25 apples). But as long as I perform equal operations to both sides, they will always be equal.
So to solve ? + 3 = 10 all you have to do is isolate the ? on one side, so that it equals whatever is on the other side. And we see +3 has been added to our ? So if we subtract -3 we're right back to the ? amount, whatever it is. Because if you add 3 to anything, and take 3 away, you're right back where you started. So you subtract 3 on the left to get rid of the +3, then subtract 3 on the right (because we must do the same thing on both sides of the = sign to keep them equal).
? + 3 (-3) = 10 (-3) which becomes ? + 0 = 7 which becomes ? = 7 The answer is 7. We just don't use ? because you can have more than one unknown, and you have to tell the difference between unknown amount A and unknown amount B (hence why we use A and B, or other letters, because different letters mean different unknown numbers). Typically you'd write the original problem as x + 3 = 10
Not so bad once you understand how it works.
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into math class 😁 Just thought I might be able to shed some light on a murky topic for you.
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Oh look, we’re talking about math now. I’m pursuing a math minor (for fun, I might add) and right now I’m nearing the end of a third-semester calculus class. So yeah, I’d say mathematics is pretty fascinating to me.
I think I prefer the concept of the derivatives, though. For one, they’re much easier to evaluate than the integral. Also, derivatives are used in more common applications than integrals, since things that occur in the world are usually not constant (derivatives are used to evaluate how fast something is changing, in the simplest of words). With that said, integrals shine best when doing math in dimensions higher than 2D, though. If you think finding the area under any curve is fantastic, just wait until you start finding the volume under 3D surfaces. Pretty fun stuff actually, and it’s much better AND convenient than using single integrals (the ones used to find area under curves) to evaluate volumes.
I do think statistics can be a bit boring, although I won’t deny it provides powerful tools for analyzing data. The best part of statistics happens at the end of the analysis of data, which is usually after slogging through repetitive and boring procedures. At least I try to learn the concepts, though. Anything to get that mathematics minor!
EDIT: LOL, in what world is it that the algebra is harder than the calculus? I’ve done math all my life and I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around. Once you figure out the calculus, you end up with the algebra that should be easy to solve.
@Vee_Flames
I don't think anyone disputes Calculus is hard. But it is said by professors their students, usually when making a mistake, they make a mistake with the algebra or trig rather than the calculus itself.
Statistics and probability is actually part of my job. Working with normal distributions and standard deviations, means, sampling distributions, probability of falling certain standard deviations away from the mean, students t test of means, test of variance and test of proportions, regression analysis, analysis of variance (usually via Gage R&R) and design of experiment, etc. Not an expert by any means, but I learned enough for what I needed to know pertaining to the job. I have Minitab software at work though and it's amazing for working with data.
And wouldn't an integral for volume under a surface work the same way as an integral for area under a curve? Just would be a higher order polynomial? I figured Riemann integrals work for just about anything, although I was reading about the Leibniz integral or whatever it's called. Not sure how to do that one. But ya, if you have the equation for the 3D surface, couldn't you just integrate that function for the volume?
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