This is, basicly, a test run to see if people will even want those things...as time pass the tech to be wireless (wich is pretty much out already, but too expensive...) will be coming, price will drop, the design will improve as well all esle too and so on.
Probably some of Sony people are thinking:
"This time around we come out with it FIRST. I want to see the naysayers with their "Sony is the CoPY cat! again..."
People push the PS1 and 2 era to justify the X360 HISTORIC failure rate something fierce....it was nowere NEAR X360 numbers for those first 3 years...NO HARDWARE EVER managed to fail as hard and as much as X360. GET OVER IT.
It still sells and will keep selling till MS kill it off.
As i said somewhere else, to some it may beeen worth, but to another it wasnt/isnt.
they did it to get off from the law suits that were coming en mass....they wouldnt if they though that they could get off with it.
FUD, the biggest market campaign ever, downright LIES, the media trying to kill the competition, absurdly masoquist users...you name it.
Any other company would have killed this POS hardware (for the first 3 year is was, basically a 50-50 chance, it only got better, but to this day it still die from the same stupid design flaws..it just dont fdo RRoD anymore...another symptom that something was extremely wrong with the X360...they literaly took out the thing that got it stigm...
Problably some drivers arent up to snuff and/or the code is yet to be optimized to said drivers/hardware and such....at least I do hope so...
PC games...where the devs can simply trow the code on the hardware and HOPE it doesnt end up burning it....because we all know IT CAN happen...
I care because it may make me wait a little bit more for my next all out maxing PC build (every 3 or so years I go all out and build a top gaming PC for the fun of it - my current record is/was a 4.7k PC back in 2007)....oh well, still a few months away from my own schedule...lets see what happens till the end of the year and what the companies will be lauching then.
Like most said, WW its a given, it PS3 has been outselling the X360 most of the year anyway...in US its too hard...besides the economical problems, MS is spending/will be spending big numbers on PR and marketing (as always) while Sony problably wont....
Only thing dead or dying is your rep around here and any credibility you may have had....such weak and lame comments.
Since US = world to X360 fanboys....see what I did there? The article didnt even go as far as that and people already want to hate....
A man who is basically a PC dev praising what is, basically, a modded cheap PC.....ok. While he does have some points, its just a opinion. An opinion that is absurdly biased by the years he spend developing for a similar platform....
And as some have said, a console that has the worst failure rate in the history of ANY eletronic device SHOULD NEVER be said to be the best anything. It is F*CK YOU to all users who got burned by it.
Last time I've read, it was published by Nintendo, not owned (but if it is, IT IS STILL A WASTE IMO) and developed by Monolith Soft...so if I misinterpret it and it is a new Nintendo IP (wich would be one of the few in last DECADE) I stand corrected. If it is Monolith IP (wich made the Xeno series - Xenosaga and all that...well those were the main devs of the first game but got off from SE for whatever the reason they left...), then its even a BIGGER WASTE.
And its such a...
This so called 'savior' nearly put the industry down for sure in the 90's because it had became a tyranny that did what it could to harden 3rd parties and new devs to actually enter the industry...people like to remember only the good things(when its convenient), but Nintendo nearly killed gaming back then with their idiocy and tyranical rules about what could be launched on its arcaic media cartridges and whatnot...
As long as people remember the good and the bad...
Whenever I read anything about this game I think:
"What a waste..."
Its on the Wii, where not that many users are interested in it, Nintendo could care less (and this one confirms it...)...and so on....thats my opinion about this game...it would/could do much better on X360 or the PS3 or both.
That momment is something else...its simply the greatest wpic win IMO...simply amazing.
Its not that price cuts are bad....its the fact that they, forced by the weak salles of their newest hardware and the coming of a better spec'd one with the same price point, drove then to dive the price by practicaly a third. Its not a good PR point anyway ou try to spin it. It reeks of desperation. They know that the launch was a flop, the numbers werent nowere near what they expected and now that people whou bough may be PISSED that they could have waited a little and bough it cheaper....
@Si-Fly
Thats me being educated and reasonable, and not on Sony's butt, as you said. People wanting more ram are the same that would be piting forks if the price was above 300USD....so a bunch of hypocrites in my book. This is a multibillion dollar business, with just as much invested in tech and development in it, where the companies do what is intellingent business, not fanboy business..but it happens.....
So keep yours out of wherever you put it in.
People need to learn that the ram in specialized devices arent the same as the OEM ram sticks we buy to PCs...these are very customized (size, speed,tdp and such) ram that are made in a way to produce as much as they can with the lowest failure rate possible.
"Oh, they buy it in set lots...so its cheaper!!" - NOT ALWAYS! The more specialized it is the cheaper it isnt.
And, just to put it here:
Whats cheaper? sets of 10kk units of ram, the ty...
What we see are a bunch of devs desireing to have an easy way out of efficient coding...the more RAM the better...its alright, its true, the more mem you have you can have more things on screem and such...but then, with efficient coding you can too...and so on...more ram is good, but coming from devs it looks like they are asking to be lazy upfront...wasnt EPIC the ones that ASKED MS to put 512MB on the X360??? It was more than enough at the time....if their code was good as it is now (since ...
MS will try and settle this like always...buying part of the company and such....but then again, that is US..where someone is just a breath away from suing someone because he did breath in the wrong way....
Were are the "Sony is the COpYer" BS we've been seeing since 2006 now? Theres nothing ABSOLUTELY new under the sun....the Wii tech had been under development since 1998 and up...same with the Kinect tech and so on...
As for the similarities....it will depend how much 'similar' they'll be to see if someone gonna get sued.