This are corporations, not personal life coaches for them. If they want something that is theirs, develop an individual identity. Console and software companies are out to make money. It's funny people say they want unique and different things, but then they seem to mostly support what everyone else supports. Too many don't make individual decisions, that why when things go wrong, they affect so many. On the other hand, when they go right, like the Wii, it pays off. If grandma wants to play W...
I have never owned a Nintendo product. I might eventually buy a DS, but I have no plans of buying a Wii. But I don't have a problem with Nintendo spreading their horizons. Game developers are going out of business every day because they either made crap games or couldn't adapt fast enough. Sega and other companies couldn't keep up with the console business. Now Nintendo has decided to open itself to a larger market in order to stay in the game. It has worked far better than anyone would have ...
The 360 has more room for a price cut because it has been almost a year since they cut cost. It is expected that the 360 will get a new chip this summer that combines the CPU and GPU on the same chip. That will provide a pretty nice cut in cost. I'm also sure they will be able to get further cuts from the manufacture of other parts also. As other companies cut back on demand, they will have pressure from the companies still selling products to cut prices. Damn depression. Microsoft will have ...
But this is Sony we're talking about. When was the last time we could tell what was true coming from that company. They have been backtracking on everything said since the PS3 and Blu-ray were released. Just a while back they had over a million Killzone pre-orders in Europe alone, this week they say they just hit the million mark. Plus every division and country seems to have different information. Also, there was an article last week about bring GT to more outlets.
Halo 3 was no Halo. Plus, if it's announced that the company has a game coming out, it has been announced. Just because it doesn't have a name doesn't make it unannounced. Microsoft has said several times that they will not speak about games until they are ready to come out. I believe that is a better way than the over excitement of games that get semi announced and you don't actually see for four years. Killzone took 4 years, GT has been in development for over 3, they need to STFU until the...
I will admit that I didn't read it, but actually think about the opening sentence. Has anyone noticed that many of the most anticipated unannounced projects seem to be PlayStation 3 exclusives?
If they are unannounced, how can you be excited. You don't even know they are being made. Obviously a slanted fanboy rant about his favorite console. Which always means a waste of time.
The market hasn't switched yet. Blu-ray sales are still slow and aren't growing. Check the Home Media Magazine charts. It gets a boost with certain movies and then goes back down to the same low levels. Contrary to what some think, it is moving nowhere near the levels DVD did at this point. DVD doubled from year two to three, Blu-ray has remained the same.
If it's not, it could easily replace Blu-ray before it gets going. Blu-ray has all of these advances that are supposed to be coming, but none have appeared yet. There are no 400gb disc. If this comes out and moves past Blu-rays capability, it is a move forward no back. This could do everything Blu-ray does at a cheaper price.
And as far as new players go, we don't know yet if this requires new players. If the laser is the same, it might be the material the disc is made of. If th...
Blu-ray needed the protective coating because the information on the disc is a lot closer to the surface were it's read. It's deeper in DVD which is why you can take a scratched disc and have it polished to make it play again.
There has always been an argument that red lasers could be better with advancements in the reader head. This sounds like they have found an advancement. I'm not sure what their cost would be, but I can't imagine it being that much higher than DVD because it's just an upgrade.
“We have created a magical material which enables rays to pass through a very small point,” the NANOTAM head noted.
That sounds like an improvement on the reader.
“We will be able to ...
But he is not the only one. As gaming makes more money, the more "reputable" news media will start more and more gaming reports of their own. Some will actually hire gamers, others will work the same way they do the regular news. They will use the reporter with the least on their plate to push a specific agenda.
Unfortunately people will feed into it and the real games journalist will get lost in the shuffle as the corporations take over. So while it's unfortunate that ...
After so many obvious BS articles they had to throw out a headline get some hits again.
Microsoft doesn't have any money and can't be hiring. This is from a 360 fanboy. Only Sony is big enough to hire this generation. Sony has all of the money.
Hey, anything going on. I just woke up.
Only a complete fool believes that Microsoft would invest billions in games and then give up on the product once it becomes profitable. I guess Sony will quit the day they start making a profit on the PS3 too. Microsoft never expected to be this competitive so quickly. They said from the beginning they thought it would take three or more generations to get a solid position in the industry and they have that in the second attempt. The 360 will go a long way in making up the loses they had from...
It's called living in denial. Actually I think some people are pulling a "Dorothy". Closing their eyes and clicking their heels and believing they've been to another place.
Blu-ray will save the world. Blah, blah, blah. And Sony proves it's so by backing it up with strong sales numbers to impress all.
I'm sorry, they don't do that. That would show low market penetration and slow sales. Just months away from the start of the fourth year on the market and Sony still doesn't feel confident enough to show the sales numbers. But I guess if I knew "up 340% translated into a few thousand copies, I'd be pretty scared to show them too.
Get...
When I'm speaking of the loses at Sony, I'm talking company wide. Sony will lose 2.1 billion as a whole according to their estimates. And I did mention MS losing money. It wasn't as clear so let me clarify. Microsoft has estimated they will have between 14.5-15 billion in profits as apposed to 16.5 or so they were expecting. And the loses they are talking about were a restatement caused by the economic turn-down. The same economic problems that had Sony make changes to show a 2.1 billion lose...
The problem with what you're saying is this. It doesn't seem to matter for MS, because at the end of the fiscal year, they will have 14-15 billion in profits to show for what they've done. Sony, on the other hand, will have a loss of 2 billion. And before the fanboys go crazy and disagree, that loss estimate comes from Sony. But then rational thought isn't a fanboy trait so go ahead and disagree.
You are two of the delusional ones I was talking about. Yes Microsoft is closing studios. But if that was about money wouldn't Rare be the studio that would have been closed first. Rare hasn't come close to making a return on the investment in it.
Blu: A lot of the "sales" on those games you're talking about came from being packaged with the PS3 as a giveaway. Giving the game away is not a sale. You don't make money off of that. It's like when the bank gives you $25 to...
I'm surprised they didn't go after them in the original suit. And while they got 28 million out of the players association, who didn't really get much from the deal, they are going to make a killing off of EA and Madden. It's a shame that he could sit in that both talking with admiration about those players and stab them in the back all the while. They should be able to get between 200 and 300 million from EA and Madden. And they should. A lot of these players get screwed on their pensions an...