Alan Wake = Vista Only
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That is not a problem is itthey should pay up.
I agree.
However I *suspect* (read know) that most of the people bashing it are those who dread or refuse the thought of caughing up for an O/S probably for the first time in their life.
I would like to move to vista but it's gonna cost me loads as i have 4 PC's all 64bit so that's
4 x Vista premium although i would feel i'm missing something by not getting ultimate
Most of which you most likely would never use & DreamScene can be run of Premium.
I was thinking the same thing too.
They are trying to delay the mass move to vista as much as they can because they are using hooky copy of XP & don't want development moving to vista only anytime soon
.That is not a problem is it
I don't know a single person who as an original installation of XP on there machine (accept me
) and for the first time ever it looks like these people will either have to stump up the cash for Vista or refuse and stick with XP and hold the advancement of software technology back!A happy medium would be if MS would drop the price of Vista to something more reasonable. I'm thinking Ultimate £70, Premium £50 and drop basic. OEM versions should be £20 cheaper.
They will more than make up the price drop in volume sales!
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but tbh i hardly think a pc that cost less then 260 is going to run a modern game like alan wake any way so i no way do you need to spend that much on an os plus if your pc only cost 260 then imo your not going to be a person who needs the features of ultimate as you don't need a powerful machine so its not 260 for you but like £70 or what ever the standard one costs.
i thought this game was being made for playstation as well or am i remembering wrong? if im right though how does ms have a say on which os this game is being developed for?
Not saying I am correct but I always associated it with the 360 and PC.... never heard of PS3 and Alan Wake together tho
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iirc when they first displayed the game it was showing off the stuff a ps3 can do talking about mulit core blah blah blah. i would google it but going to bed
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Heh I can get Vista Business for free from uni 
I won't be installing it until I need it, and if I do it will go on a second drive as I'm happy with XP for now
I won't be installing it until I need it, and if I do it will go on a second drive as I'm happy with XP for now
Vista sales are doing just fine, though obviously not quite as well as they expected. They have shipped over 100 million copies and it is enjoying more than a 10% market share - almost as much as every other OS, apart from XP, put together. That's not bad considering it's only been out a year!
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sorry... alan wake?!
Oh for the love of....
I am guessing here that the "Vista Bashers" have their home page set to "The Register" because it would appear that is all they are quoting.
Where are you getting your pricing from?
"I refuse to pay £350 for an OS".
OK - then don't.
Now I personally did buy a Full Retail version of Ultimate for my main machine.
My wife, who is a teacher, purchased the Academic version of Vista Premium for her machine.
If however I was looking for an upgrade fom XP right now I'd simply buy the Retail Upgrade from XP to Vista Premium.
This would set you back around £100.
Alternatively there is the Vista Premium Full Retail which would set you back £175.
If you really want to go as cheap as possible them there is the OEM version at around £70.
However you will need to budget for a new copy when you eventually get around to replacing your motherboard - but you wouldn't do that more than once a year surely?
As you can see none of these prices are anywhere near £350.
Ah, but you WANT Ultimate!
No real reason other than you want Ultimate so you can moan about how much it costs.
But wait - even Ultimate doesn't come to this magical £300+ price.
Ultimate Full retail is available for £275 and the Retail Upgrade available at £185.
Again you've got the OEM version at £110 - but again you need to decide how often you will change your motherboard and then decide if buying Retail is your better option.
I am guessing here that the "Vista Bashers" have their home page set to "The Register" because it would appear that is all they are quoting.
Where are you getting your pricing from?
"I refuse to pay £350 for an OS".
OK - then don't.
Now I personally did buy a Full Retail version of Ultimate for my main machine.
My wife, who is a teacher, purchased the Academic version of Vista Premium for her machine.
If however I was looking for an upgrade fom XP right now I'd simply buy the Retail Upgrade from XP to Vista Premium.
This would set you back around £100.
Alternatively there is the Vista Premium Full Retail which would set you back £175.
If you really want to go as cheap as possible them there is the OEM version at around £70.
However you will need to budget for a new copy when you eventually get around to replacing your motherboard - but you wouldn't do that more than once a year surely?
As you can see none of these prices are anywhere near £350.
Ah, but you WANT Ultimate!
No real reason other than you want Ultimate so you can moan about how much it costs.
But wait - even Ultimate doesn't come to this magical £300+ price.
Ultimate Full retail is available for £275 and the Retail Upgrade available at £185.
Again you've got the OEM version at £110 - but again you need to decide how often you will change your motherboard and then decide if buying Retail is your better option.
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You are correct
Alan Wake is being published by Microsoft Game Studios so there's no chance of a PS3 release on this one.
That's a little presumptuous isn't mate? I dual boot vista and xp, and whilst vista has its uses, it's a fact xp is still the better os for gaming on.
You can't presume people are using pirated software just becouse they don't want to shell out on an operating system that degrades many a games performance when compared to xp (a few fps is a few fps, I pay to gain a few fps), and point blank refuses to play or support many great games.
Nah, there's plenty of good enough keychangers out there that'll do the trick. *joke*
That been said, I'll probably be getting Alan Wake for the 360 anyway.
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tbh I don't care if Vista is far behind in gaming or not, if PC games (like Alan Wake for example) can work just as well (or better) on XPsp2 then why am I going to waste even a penny of my hard earned cash on changing my OS, Vista doesn't give me anything over XP, I browse the net, play games, listen to music and watch videos, thats it, nothing else, tbh if M$ released a naked OS for like £20 that had absolutely no apps installed nothing but just a start bar and the ability to install/uninstall programs that would be enough for me because everything else would be third party software anyway and on top of that it would probably be rock solid due to being less bloated.
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