I think both will launch at $399 too. APUs are much cheaper than two separate chips. It's one chip for the price of two. So that alone makes the machine much cheaper. Add that the die size is far cheaper and the chips themselves will be less expensive. The number of chips that you can get on each wafer plays a huge role in the cost of the chips. Going to 32nm or 28nm chips from 90nm is a huge savings. Add the fact that it is one less chip also.
Bizzel I agree with you on...
She has already played parts in games. She just wants the lead this time. She has been a gamer for a long time and has defended the industry against nuts that blame games for their poor parenting skills. And she does have political credibility. She deserves a title role for defense of gaming alone to me.
Though I have a lot of respect for the guys at Ars, I think they are ignoring the possibility of an HSA capable machine. That would offer far more power than anything Intel is putting out. Dual 4 core Power7 APUs(even with 6670s) would be cutting edge. C++ AMP should allow them to compete with the very best the Gaming computer has to offer.
Skank of America does a lot more than predatory loans. See my post above.
Skank of America is one of the reasons for the recession. You really missed that? Recap:
They made bad loans
Forclosed on bad loans
Bet(credit default swaps) against those loans
Collected on those bets
Pretended to be broke and asked for a bailout
Used bailout money to pay huge executive bonus as they evicted people
Suddenly were able to pay loans back when they learned they would have to pay executives less to keep the money <...
The AMD APUs for this will be less than $200 for two by the time the next Xbox releases. RAM is cheap and there will be no Blu-ray player. Kinect was $60 at launch and the cost to MS has dropped since then. Kinect 2.0 will still be less than $100 to produce.
There is no reason for the new machine to cost more than the last one. Instead of two GPUs and two CPUs making four chips at 90nm, it's two GPUs and two CPU on two dies at 28nm. So it's really the same number of ...
I don't believe the online thing. I can believe a registration verification. But I would not buy any games in the store if that was a feature. I bought Ultimate Team for FIFA the first time. After it wouldn't work whenever the EA network was down(and that seems to happen often when a game is new), I never bought it again. Live is more reliable than EA, but Comcast has issues of their own and there are too many potential problems with that.
I believe HD DVD will be an option before Blu-ray. Contrary to what most believe, HD DVD didn't die completely. It became CBHD and is outselling Blu-ray in China. It would be much cheaper for MS to bring it back than to use Blu-ray. It was always a much cheaper format since it was just a DVD with smaller information pits. There are tons of replication companies that still have the equipment to produce the disc or it would be cheap to get them back online. Plus I'm sure Toshiba would l...
I think a machine with dual GPUs will be better than the tech in the average gaming PC. Consoles are closed systems so the software is optimized for the machine. PC games have to work on a bunch of different configurations.
I do agree that we are quickly approaching the point where the graphics will become a non-factor. There is only so far they can go with the hardcore games before the censors start to push back. The next move for gaming will be physics, AI and VR. Even gra...
I wouldn't be surprised about the dual GPUs. It's something I believed would happen for sometime. Using APUs, it would still be cheap to build and the heat shouldn't be an issue. At 28nm they should be cooler than the 90nm CPU and GPU machines of the past even with two APUs. The idea of two basically separate machines kinda makes sense too. It wouldn't surprise me if the APUs are HSA chips. One chip could pump AI and physics while the other handled graphics, OS, sound and Kin...
Logicwins,
marketing and common sense isn't Sony's problem. Howard Stringer railed against the companies culture for years and wasn't allowed to do much to change it. Kaz is now doing exactly what Stringer had previously asked for. Sony was a company left in the past.
Products like Move were "me too" products that went against the base of the PS ecosystem. PS owners hated the Wii-mote and called it a gimmick. It was a joke that Sony was ...
The PS brand isn't Sony's main problem right now. Sony is. They are a company struggling to find their footing. They have projected numbers for the coming fiscal year and so far they aren't hitting them. Sony projected 12 million Vitas being sold this year and they may only be selling 500,000 a month right now. Even if they hit 3-4 million during Christmas, they would miss their mark by 2-4 million. That is a lot of money.
And the only way to hit the numbers they ...
Buying a franchise like Far Cry is different. You might have ideas about the direction the title should be going that the original staff didn't or didn't think was worth doing.
Buying a company and changing the culture is the real problem. Companies succeed based on ideas and eco-systems. A new boss may change that system. That leads to people leaving. And that causes the eventual failure of a company. Buying a company and allowing it to be autonomous is best way to...
You must have never rented a movie from Zune Marketplace. They are 480 points. Or $6.
The ending was a disappointment. I wish they had used all of the decisions that the player made during the series to determine the final outcome. A final battle on the Citadel. Instead of killing off people in videos or not having them as playable characters, squad-mates and supporting soldiers would be used in the final battle. If they die, they are dead. Just like the suicide mission from 2.
The multi-player should have been released earlier and the characters promoted cou...
If the Wii U is only twice the power of the 360 Nintendo will be making a huge profit when it launches. Technology surpassed the 360 and PS3 sometime in 2006 so the parts to beat them will be really cheap.
The funny thing is that one game like Skyrim or CoD outsells all of the exclusives released combine in a given year. Unless Sony starts selling Uncharted or GT every year, exclusives are a non-factor. Two or three games that sell less than a million copies are insignificant.
If it knocks $30-50 off of the cost of each game you could afford two accounts. One for DD and one for everything else.
Obviously didn't read the article. In the authors situation, digital is far better. The price difference per game would more than cover any extra money for the occasional bandwidth overruns.
Outside what made Sony arrogant was that they thought they could use the Playstation to steal the movie market from Toshiba and that gamers would pay anything because it had the Sony name on it. Remember Kutaragi's quotes. Work harder and steak dinners. He turned out to be wrong. A lot of people that bought PS2s, didn't buy a PS3. They could have left the Blu-ray out, launched at $399 and still been the market leader. Six years in and Blu-ray is still a small share of the movie market...