...or maybe the deal is announce Sylpheed (an 07 release, in April) and the 08 release of FFXIII in july at E3. :-)
Its happened before, you know.
And just as likely.
Or unlikely.
The MS guys cooking up the deals for these games are the same MGS guys who greenlighted Gears, Crackdown, and Mass Effect in the US and Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Lost Planet out of Japan.
The least a semi-rational knuckle-walker would assume is that they saw something in those games worth spending a couple million worth of up-front money.
But then, even knuckle-dragging troglodytes don't get worked up in a petition-writing frenzy when the caveman next door comes home with a...
You don't even have to wait until they come out and you see them to know they will suck, sight unseen.
After all, they are XBOX360 exclusives published by MS, right?
They *have* to suck.
By definition.
<sigh>
Next?
Specialty Retailers like Gamestop already buy used systems so a trade-in program at the retailer level would be no different.
If MS were a partner, they could agree to take whatever units the retailer can't move and then factory-refurbish them (say replace the noisy DVD drive for a quiet one, maybe replace the case, etc) and sell them through a "Factory-refurbished" ; outlet. Might be a way to hit $199 this year for a core config.
Would make *some* sense.
Not muc...
...on the server or the network that was causing the downloads to drop halfway through, so the Playstation had to restart the DL from the beginning.
Can't imagine a path so big it needs 45 minutes worth of broadband.
How many of those signees will put their money where their mouth is. ;-)
He seems to think that Apple *invented* multi-tiered product pricing (AKA, "good, better, best" pricing).
Somebody tell him about the varying versions of Windows (since 1995) like XP Basic, Home, and Pro.
Or going back before he hit puberty, GM's old strategy of folks moving from starter Chevys to mid-range Buicks and high-end Caddys...
Sheesh, get out more guys!
MS isn't copying anybody; they just figured that if somebody wanted to throw ...
Black case? Not a problem.
http://www.decalgirl.com/br...
And now you can buy a black controller to go with it.
EA and UBIsoft have big portfolios and have big multi-platform cash cows so they can afford a few slow performers amoung their "active" games without it significantly hurting them. Second tier developers like Eidos, however, need to keep the cashflow balanced with fewer games "active" at a time so their threshold of pain is lower. For all the carping of PS3 fans, it is the 360 installed base that is allowing EA and Ubisoft to feed the PS3 with any titles at all.
Con...
...but he's got it wrong...
It is a *good* thing that developers target the Core because the Core is Microsoft's defense against Wii.
Sony has no Core and hence have no defense against Wii; witness japanese sales. Microsoft is staying close to Wii's sales rate in the US, but Sony is getting buried in Japan.
The difference? The Core SKU.
It gets no respect but in the long haul it will be the most important 360 SKU. especially once the price cutting s...
...when you consider how they're doing it; the software doesn't copy *files*; instead, it clones the 20GB partition onto the 120GB disk and then resizes it. This, of course, wipes out the previous partition on the big drive.
No shock, clone software for the PC works exactly that way.
And the deletion of the partition of the old disk is to prevent "drive piracy" and account theft so to an extent it is to protect MS but its also, to an extent, to protect unwary ...
...is becoming a boulder.
Live and let die, children.
Can't we all just get along?
...these, however... ;-)
http://www.ps3today.com/Blo...
With Heroes on Hiatus there's nothing on TV tonight so I've been checking every half hour in the new releases section.
Nothing there.
But it definitely is there in the All Downloads section.
And for those complaining about price: its a full 1 GB download! (Give or take 10 Mb) ;-)
I can see how its going to offer at least 40 hours.
Yay!
Now to go off into Oblivion for the next week or so...
Japan. :-)
Nintendo is taking care of business where it matters most to them, first.
Time enough to fight MS for "first to $199" later in the year; for now their obvious plan is to bury PS3 as a force in Japan.
Wouldn't be surprised if they were diverting boxes from NorthAm and Europe to Japan to make sure they nail the home market down.
Sony has no plans for IPTV simply because they can't.
Not unless they buy Siemens.
There are only two companies on planet Earth that can deliver a true IPTV solution (servers, management software, clients, etc) and they are MS (which has been working on the tech for 15 years) and Siemens, that bought out a startup that was getting ready to show off a rough protype. As is Siemens is about a year away from their first field trials. A third player, an alliance of Open Source vendor...
And a lot more important than HDMI.
It means they are on schedule with the quieter, cooler box *and* the significantly lower price.
The inside stuff is almost more important.
Black case?
Feh, meaningless!
65nm chips?
Big news.
Like the DMC4 one?
Won't work; even the most rabbid XBOX fanboy has *some* self-respect and sense of dignity.
Besides, there's no need to beg.
Good things come to those who wait.
(And buy the dominant console of the generation. ;-) )
Won't make a difference.
Japan is Nintendo country right now.
They'll never buy an american console as long as *one* local manufacturer is still standing.
Sony is dropping the 20GB HDD model because:
1- it is too small, given the way developers are using it to install and preload game content
2- the rash decision to add HDMI and WiFi to the 20GB model means there isn't enough difference between the two models to keep them both, especially since the drive is user-replaceable. They should've stuck to their guns with the original config if they were going to do two SKUs.
3- it is too expensive to build relative...