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[Haunted]

Amazing insight in that discussion. Great stuff.

 

[vanguardian1]

Definitely good stuff... does anyone still have the link to the "Ask Iwata" series that he did with Miyamoto and Iwata?

 

[kame-sennin]

Man, I hope its in the translation, but their conversations are like robots talking to each other.

Iwata Let's see... phone calls used to have more lags in the old days. Although underwater cables are frequently used for international calls now, satellites were used before. Stationary satellites are located about 36000km away from the surface of the earth. So the voice is transmitted to 36000km above, and then 36000km down, which is over 70000km in total. When someone says "Hello", and the other answers "Hello", the signal makes two round trips, which is a total of a little over 140000km. Light and electronic waves are transmitted about 300000km per second, so the signal takes about 0.4 seconds to be transmitted 140000km. So when you say "Hello" and the other answers "Hello" back, there is approximately a 0.4 second lag.

 

[DefectiveReject]

Iwata's geekiness vindicated

Nikko Citigroups’ Soichiro Fukuda has crunched some numbers to come up with some estimates.

Japan - $13 profit on each console sold
US - $49 profit on each console sold
Europe - $74 profit on each console sold

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol