Easy to criticize what you can't afford, eh? Collectors spend the money on these editions because they want stuff like this and they shouldn't be left out or criticized because you guys wouldn't put up the money for such a thing. $60+ for the game, $30 for the DVD animated movie and a full graphic novel maybe $20+. In the end that's already about 120 separate. plus the extra stuff like the 90+ page artbook, lithograph art and Making of type DVD for the extra $30. It's not that far off left field.

We're going off in a bit of a tangent now. Only made a comment on how someones talent profited big by someone else. It wasn't a comment on him in particular. I meant get the shaft in a general term. Not that Midway ripped him off, thy didn't, they need someone to create the technology and he did it as a job. What I meant was a great idea was created by someone and wasn't used to profit themselves.

So if it's hard don't do it, if it's risky don't do it. Typical to the mind set I was talking about. I know the details of patenting and it can be high. All ventures have risks, costs, and pressures but if you determined and ambitious enough you can make it work. It's not impossible and there are people out there doing it.

No point in arguing on with this. The majority will alway have the "that's just the way it is" mental and that's why some people will always be kept down while other flourish.

It's that frame of thinking unfortunately is very common and that is why some talented people with good ideas make it big and some stay broke working paycheck to paycheck. So they paid him, now he can't afford a Wii and Midway probably made millions selling it to Nintendo. That's sad. As for paying for Patents, it's called a loan. There are many people that took that route and made a success out of it with their ideas. I myself now self publish after years of working for larger publishers and I'm now very well off while other talented people i worked with are still living paycheck to paycheck. So I'm talking from experience.

This is just another example of intelligent and talented people working for the man and getting the shaft. Why create something to be patented by someone else when he could have done it for himself, so Nintendo would have paid him the big bucks for it instead of Midway who already was making the big bucks.

Agreed my point exactly. Well put.

How do you know it won't work for you. You could be going without it for no reason. Try it and if it don't work just return it.

Granted, MS does have a tenancy to put out products without taking consideration on what type of computer/mobo/processor and I think that's where they get into trouble (Vista a great example ).

Said many, not all. In your case it's not that old so you under the "not all" I mentioned. Looks like some motherboards handle it better than others.