Enough is enough!
Anybody want to bet they're not paid stooges likes these wienies?
http://www.theinquirer.net/...
Sony could also go spend a couple hundred million dollars in crying-doll TV ads, but a better use of that money would be a price cut.
The plain and simple fact is that as of today, Halo has more pre-orders than Sony has sold PS3s. Without a price cut, Halo might sell more copies at launch than PS3s in the while in September.
Sony should be careful about shipping too many of their few exclusives at the same time, though; they all fall more or less into the same ge...
Just this week they announced they were tripling the size of their Fargo operation.
Now this.
(Oh, and MS has a big presence in "Silicon Valley" too, starting with their Mac group.)
Makes you wonder what they're expanding *for*...
...but they require you to actually play the game.
If you play the game through naturally, the achievements will track your progress.
They're like signposts along the various quest lines.
Other games use them differently.
Some use them to track activity (number of kills), which *can* be kinda cheap but others encourage exploration and creativity (crackdown) which prods the gamers to go beyond the obvious and can lead to some serious fun.
Eith...
Nintendo thinks there is only room for one high-power console in the market?
Hmmm...
Explains their Wii strategy but I have to wonder if it'll hold water once the price cuts begin and the margin between the Wii and competition (especially 360 Core) starts to shrink. Combined with recent comments that Nintendo is gearing up to manufacture 1.5 Million Wii's a *month*, this could get nasty...
But isn't that what gaming is about? ;-)
Gaming is about feeling good at achieving something; completing a level, finding an easter egg, beating a boss, mastering a game...
Achievement points codify and formalize this into a universal rating system.
Since gamers are by nature competitive it is only natural that the rating system would become a bragging system. And, of course, that the most competitive gamers would obsess about their score.
Basic human psychology.
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Especially at E3.
Their showmanship (E3 '05) can be dazzling.
Unfortunately, trade shows aren't playable games.
They're promises of future benefits, not immediate benefits. Showing CGI demos or snippets of beta code does nothing for us gamers out in the wild.
And E3 is a pretty useless exercise to start with.
That's why they cut back on E3 from years past: big dog and pony show that achieved nothing.
Unless there are price cut announcements nothing co...
What the lady is arguing is that anybody looking to buy a console to play GTA IV will be facing a choice of buying a PS3 to play GTA IV and little else *of that order of name-recognition* or buying a 360 and having access to both GTA IV and Halo.
Its about hype and name recognition and how she thinks mainstream (not dedicated gamer) buyers behave.
All speculation at this point, of course.
http://media.seekingalpha.c...
"Savner Thursday adjusted his forecast for 2007 console unit sales:
Xbox 360 drops to 6,030,000 units from 6,211,000.
PS3 drops to 4,290,000 units from 5,054,000.
Wii increases to 6,530,000 units from 5,139,000. "
Those are total calendar year 07 world-wide sales.
That would put the 360 at about 16 Million
Wii a...
Features and targetting alone don't define a product's competitors. Consumers also define your competitors when they vote with their wallets.
Right now, gaming console consumers that Sony expected to buy PS3 (especially in Japan) are instead choosing Wii. If you look at the pronouncements and estimates coming from Sony and MS, MS took a look at the market back in January and cut back their expectations for the first half of the year, Sony didn't.
Looking at the sales numbers sin...
...and the first console they ever played, when they were 5 years old, was a PS2. :-)
...Ferrari doesn't go around comparing themselves to Ford and bad-mouthing them. Sony goes out of their way to compare PS3 to 360 so it is only fitting to compare PS3 performance (gaming-, graphics-, and sales-wise) to the 360's.
The sales numbers out of Japan and NorthAm make it clear that the gaming market is very price sensitive (Wii at $250 sells double what the $399 360 sells, which in turn doubles the $599 Ps3 sales) and that consumers are not about to work two jobs to bu...
Now if only they'd make Invisible War bacwards compatible so I can get back to blowing up Templars!
...by Panasonic who dropped the list price of their BD-only player to under $600 with street price headed lower still.
And the Panasonic player uses a home theater compatible infra-red remote control.
In other words, Sony can't count on Blu-Ray buyers floating the PS3 much longer; they need to get the games out N.O.W.!
And we all saw how that turned out...
That should be a blockbuster for'em...
Do you feel compelled to buy any or all of the movies you watch on HBO or showtime?
Or the songs you listen to on XM or Sirius?
Most people don't.
Comparing a music subscription service to download purchases is like comparing Hertz to Honda. Both are in the transportation business but they don't compete. There is room in the market for both.
Same here; you're talking different demographics, different customers.
Music subscriptions are for exp...
All they promised was MPEG4 Basic profile and H.264.
The formats procduced by Cellphones and digital cameras.
Shoulda read last month's articles listing the changes and the level of support for the new formats.
As is, the single most important (as in, money-generating) change wasn't pre-announced: the ability to force a boot straight to the Media Center interface instead of the dashboard.
This is directed at the Home Theater Custom shops that have been adop...
On RAM bandwidth, the PS2 has dual 22GB/s channels.
The 360 has one at 20GB (system) and one at 200GB (dedicate frame buffer cache). Sony doesn't like to talk about that latter one but in rendering and anti-aliasing it is the 200GB/s bus that determines what the GPU can and cannot do.
As for the games I listed, I merely stayed with the stuff we have a chance at actually buying *this* year, for the most part. I know I stretched it a bit with Alan wake and FFXIII which are...
Folks need to understand that surface is not using a touch-sensitive panel like the iPhone or the WM Smartphones.
What Apple calls multi-touch is just touch-rejection.
Surface works by visual sensors so that it recognizes shapes and motion and patterned tags. Whole different universe of capabilities here and about 70 generations descended from Eye-toy.
Very cool stuff.