The Nintendo strategy would make a nice model for MS and Sony if they wanted to be gaming companies exclusively. But they aren't, and won't ever be. Gaming is just not a big enough business by itself. As profitable as Nintendo is right now, compare its gross revenues to Sony or MS. That's why games are just a part of Sony and MS business, and in MS case, a very small part. For MS in particular, any measly profits it may make from gaming wouldn't be worth all the trouble unless it played a lar...
@ jlytle
During the darkest days of the Game Cube, there was a lot of talk going on about Nintendo going software only, ala Sega. Read up on it, and you'll see why the hardware side is so important to Nintendo. Nintendo wants to control every aspect of the hardware that plays its games, and does not like, and never has made games for any machine in which they had no design input.
@ mandrake
I disagree only with the part about hardware sales being ...
To all the dolts that may insist that backcompat is still possible because it is software, not hardware based:
WTF does a press release have to say to get through your thick skulls? On the earlier revised motherboards, software emulation without the emotion engine may have been posssible, but this does not mean that emulation was 100% software based. That motherboard had to have components built in to allow emulation by firmware update. Sony is now telling you that the 40gb mod...
Yes, oh yes they are. I find the Sony boners the most annoying of all. One of the few remaining objections I have to buying a PS3 is that I might go on-line and run into the same bunch of ratpr!cks that post here. I like the machine (want one) but I loathe the fanboys. 360 fanboys can be annoying too, but their horse happened to be ahead when they were talking trash, so at least their trash packed some real kick. Why can't you PS3 pukeheads wait until PS3 actually pulls ahead of the race bef...
I feel for ya bro. At least you are smart enough to know and admit you got screwed. So many of the Sony ponies here are too dense to feel the pain in their butts after getting a##raped. I'd sign up for your email chain in support, but that wouldn't be honest because I didn't actually fall for the scam - you know, just a bit too swift for Sony. In fact, I may wait on buying a PS3 until March '08. If Sony misses its sales targets (good bet), they may drop the price even more, and I can also pic...
I think Sony was arrogant in thinking that it could sell a console for $600 w/ no games and stay on top. I think anybody that paid $600 for a PS3 is as stupid as a turkey voting for thanksgiving. Now that Sony is about to lower the price to a more reasonable $400 with some good games to boot, I don't think they are arrogant anymore. In fact, I like them enough now to actually buy one. But I still think anybody that paid $600 for a PS3 is stupid, even more now than ever before. I will soon pic...
What's not in the 40gb model that the 60/80 gb models have? If it's all the same except HD size, nobody will buy the 60/80 gb models. I'm interested, but I want to know what corners they cut to get the price down before I consider buying it.
The PS2 is the PS2, right? PS3 is the PS3, PS2 is the PS2, 3DO is the 3DO. Be a fanboy if you must, but be a logical fanboy.
Japan is a lost cause for Microsoft this gen. Everybody knows this, including MS. But I think they understand that the struggle to gain acceptance in Japan is going to take longer than one generation, so I don't expect them to pack up and leave anytime soon.
You've done your fair share of lowering the national IQ yourself, gas bag.
I think the author is a nitwit and his article is nothing more than warm piss in a mountain dew bottle. Here's why:
1. You can't bring down manufacturing costs until you are actually manufacturing. Economies of scale aren't achieved on paper. The assembly line needs to be set up and moving before you can train production workers, identify bottlenecks, tighten up the raw material delivery scheduling and sourcing, refine testing and quality control, improve yields, etc. That's wh...
Ok, this looks like a sincere invitation to an honest discussion, so I'll bite.
You can't accurately measure a "Halo effect" because it is almost impossible to filter out other potential factors that could increase hardware sales. Sure, there are a substantial number of people that will buy a 360 specifically to play Halo 3 only, but if you limit your sample to just them, your stats will be innaccurate because you set your survey parameters to narrowly. A lot of the H...
Before I disagree with you, tell me why you find a universal playback solution such an objectionable concept. Is it just this particular player, or all combo players in general? Is there some rational basis for your attitude that I'm missing, or are you just being a tw@t?
It's not much different from cheering for a sports team. You can say fanboys here are even more heavily invested in their consoles because whether the hardware maker does well can have a direct impact on their enjoyment. The better a console does, the more games get made for it, and the other way around.
I myself don't mind a good fanboy argument, even if I don't agree, as long as its clever or funny. But I really can't stand people that make stuff up or are lazy to think of so...
The 360 will have its little niche in Japan but let's not kid ourselves here. Japan is a lost cause for 360 this generation. The only reason MS cannot quit Japan now is because if they did, the 720 would have no chance either. MS has to keep plugging away because if the Japanese respect something, it's perseverance. If they see that MS hung in there through thick and thin, they MAY (that's a big may) eventually warm up to the next MS console.
That there's the ticket baby! Buy a combo player like this one and you won't have to worry about getting stuck with a lemon. MS should focus on a combo player for the 360. It has no real stake in HD DVD and shouldn't care which format wins. I see Bluray vs HD DVD ending up just like SACD vs DVD Audio - a draw where everybody loses.
No man, YOU have work to do - on your GED. There are so many things wrong with what you said that it would take a semester to straighten out. But let's start here: there is a huge difference between "debt" and "loss," especially if you are talking about a corporation. Look it up.
"Diverse" means
1 : differing from one another : UNLIKE
2 : composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities
"Diverse" has nothing to do with being new. A bunch of old things can be diverse as long as they are different from each other. Let me give you an example. That list you just posted? That's "diverse."
Not because of the bigger install base, pimp. 360 sells more games per capita. That means even if there were an equal number of 360s and PS3s, the 360 would still sell more software because each 360 owner tends to buy more games than each PS3 owner. That's how they came up with that thing called "attach rate."
Looks ok to me, but I need to know more about it before I bite. I think the external differences stem from the fact that the new model is being built by FoxCon or some other low cost outfit. If this is true, I may also wait for reliability info on the new model, since I'm not yet sure how much control Sony has over this new cut-rate manufacturer.