Worldwide Halo 2 Tourney Nears End 27
Team Xbox is covering a Worldwide Halo 2 tournament with contestants from around the globe. The tourney is nearing completion, and the contestants for the global championship are being finalized. The event is to take place on June 10th via Xbox live, with participants from all 24 time zones. From the article: "The United States and Japan regional contests are currently underway, with the winners being determined by the end of May. The winners from each locality will vie for the honor of being crowned Xbox Live Halo 2 World Champion, playing entirely online via Xbox Live."
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[The other day I saw a big display in Shibuya station to push (tepco) broadband service, and they were offering a completely free xbox to the first n-hundred customers to sign up. I watched for a while, and it was pretty funny: they'd get some guy to sign up, and ask him "Thanks for signing up; would you like your free xbox?" (they literally had a pile of xboxes there to hand over) -- and every single time, the answer would be something like "Oh, no I don't need one". They can't even give them away...]
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Not only were xbox games (especially the initial ones) targeted at
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Our Xboxes are made in China as well (at least mine is) but do you mention it? I hate it when people forget that games are sold in places other than North America and Japan and East Asia. FFS the UK is the 3rd biggest games market in the world!
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Sorry for the rant, just feel like a nice rant every now and again, and being a gamer in Europe gives you lots to rant about. I know where European Xboxes are made actually has nothing to do with the conver
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The reason why lots of japanese people don't buy XBoxes is because of their constrained living quarters that just can't quite accomandate and XBox. It's not the choice of games... it's the size of the gamebox.
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I can put my Xbox on the side, too, btw. *shrug*
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But what is nice is that because xboxes aren't popular, I can pick up used games for about 10 bucks. And my system was only 100.
And the number of Xboxes in Japan as of 4/10 is 46,6068 according to Famitu Xbox
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they measure theirs by the smallness of theirs.
i don't care if you live in a closet, being able to buy a ps2 and gamecube but refusing a free xbox based on size is a completely rediculous reason.
it's about some perceived coolness factor that only a weirdo (to us) native can see.
they are just plain idiots, even if i were japanese i'd tell that to people there... as long as they were smaller than me
Lag? (Score:1)
Google says light travels:
299 792 458 m
The earth's circumference is 40 076 km (we're not stringing fiber through the center of the earth so diameter would be incorrect).
If I remember correctly, current networking hardware can do maybe
So let's do some math. 40k km / (300k km *.7) ==
So a ping of 190 before we even get started on network protocols if you live across the world. Even at the speed of light, we're still go
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Anyway, a good scientist checks theory by experiment:
ping www.nintendo.co.jp (from Europe)
result: 254 ms
Yep, about right.
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