$4 a month is nothing. Qore adds things live already has. PSN video is region locked. Video quality will get better. People forget that Netflix's new partner is extremely good with compressing high quality audio/video. I'm sure that will come into play by the time the service launches.
In a situation like that you still win. No matter what , Sony has to react. Sony now has to start helping developers to keep them exclusive, which they have said they don't like to do. They also don't have as much money to compete in that area. They have to sit back and take it. If they do that, future purchases will be based less on exclusives and price will come into play. Microsoft can beat them to the bottom there. And as games like FF13 and MGS 4come to the 360, it hurts Sony's biggest a...
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At the Japanese 360 launch Kojima was there. He stated the 360 would have no problem with MGS 4. So actually got angry because it went against their PS3 most powerful machine in the world bs. Here is another article where Kojima says the 360 can do MGS.
http://www.1up.com/do/minis...
It's not Microsoft's fault that Sony delayed their console for Blu-ray. Not their fault that Blu-ray cost so much. Not their fault that the Cell processor is so hard to program for. Companies are going multi-platform because the PS3 cost too much to develop for and it has a smaller install base. You have to sell a lot of copies to make money, and most games don't sell enough. Definitely not new IP. Sony had far more developers last generation, the cost of developing for the Cell and Sony's un...
Still far less time than installs.
That article has information from Pioneer, the people who made this disc. Pioneer says that you would need to make changes to a current Blu-Ray drive to allow it to play these disc. Sony would be the one to make those changes if you want to keep your warranty.
http://www.pcworld.com/arti...
Plus, I wonder how much Sony will charge to fix all those PS3s so that they can use these disc. Having to pay Pioneer to use this tech might be expensive too. But at least games would have enough space to be 15 hours long again. If you don't already have a PS3, I wouldn't buy one until they make the change.
If the cost of the engine gets tacked onto Gears dev cost, then all of the money from licensing that engine would have to be subtracted. That engine was made to use on all of their games and to be sold to others.
By the time Killzone 2 is released it will have been in development for 4 years. I bet it cost closer to 50 million.
The game was used at E3 '05 to demonstrate the power of the PS3. 360 development started much later. It stopped when MS and Epic couldn't agree on mods. I did think they would have done more with the 360 version too though. I believe Epic has been less than honest about the progress of the games development on the 360 though. I think they pushed the date back because they wanted more time to try to get MS to except mods. I believe the 360 version was finished long before the PS3 version. If I...
The era of huge games is long gone for the most part. For 50GBs of space MGS 4 got 10 hours of gameplay. 10-12 Hours is about as huge as it's going to get unless somebody comes up with a way to make development cheaper. Or EA stops paying overtime again. RPGs will be the only exception.
But, right now it isn't. And considering it took two years for 4x Blu-Ray and might take as long for 6x, maybe less. I'm not sure that there is a real reason for higher transfer rate for 1080p. More is usually better, but it's not necessary. Now for 4x video you might need it. Blu-Ray won't be around long enough to matter for that though. But I appreciate an argument that has a point as opposed to the blind fanboy disagrees.
But, I think you're wrong. Lots of universities are out to make money, education is just a cover. This could be valuable to companies and the school would be foolish not to sell it. Microsoft would buy this. So would Toshiba. They could quickly turn this into DVDs with HD. People need to remember that outside the PS3 there are only a few million Blu-Ray players in peoples hands. Include the PS3 and there are still less than 20 million in the world. You could sell 20 million DVD players in 6 m...
When is the last time you saw a 1x DVD player. While Blu-Ray is runs at 4x max, DVD runs at a 20x max which I think is a little faster.
Firstly, Blu-Ray has not caught on, it would not take much to get it out of the way. All future DVD players could include the ability to use these disc. Millions of DVD players get sold each year in the US alone. So many that they would almost eclipse worldwide Blu-Ray players sells in the world to date in a single year, excluding computers. If DVDs released from here on would contain an HD copy and a standard copy of the film, you would only have to advertise that all DVDs are now in true Hi...
That is what allows for web based features and software PIP. Microsoft is currently working on HDi for DVD. With this much space they could have HD video, higher quality sound and the interactive features also. Blu-Ray's only advantage would be space. And in most cases, all of the space is not needed. For games, these disc would be more than enough.
The 1 TB disc is a completely new format. The players for this format can play Blu-Ray disc, but Blu-Ray players can't play those disc.
http://www.call-recall.com/...
But if the cost are the same, why would any DVD player manufacturer leave themselves out of a potentially profitable market. If the cost are in line, manufacturers will start making their players work for these disc as soon as possible. If this is even slightly more expensive and is ready for mass market, expect it to replace regular DVD players this year. As far as the next PlayStation having faster drives, you're right. But, with all the money Sony is losing, the next PS might not hit the ...
Why should Microsoft except the installs of Blu-Ray or help save Sony on a failed format.
If this new tech is backward compatible, cost the same or similar to DVD and maintains the same read/write speeds, then Blu-Ray has a problem. Blu-Rays advantage over DVD was space, this makes that much less of an issue. Unless Blu-Ray sold 30 million stand-alones after I went to bed last night, it still hasn't established it self as anything but a niche product. Because people who say no one wants to buy new equipment again has to include Blu-Ray in that. And if I walk into an electronics st...
Their new upconversion technology could probably be run on the 360 to make picture quality better.