No backwards compatibility. That's huge. Say what you want, but when you go to ebay and try to get an old 60Gig PS3 your going to pay a premium. People care about that feature and Sony does not want to give up on the money they are making on the PS2. Sony is in need of a wake up call. They need to drop the PS2 and focus on one console and make some big changes in their sales strategies. How about releasing a portable Blu-ray player. How about working on their relationship with Mac and getting...
I guess more and more people are playing games armed with a knife.
FYI...
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The "MS" in MSN...
month calendar? It's wrong ever month AFA release dates go.
"We were told by our source that this is to get gamers interested in original Xbox titles, and if successful they plan to make more titles available for download and backwards compatible" it appears as though the original games that we own will also have achievements added at some point next year.
and in this case were talking about console wars.. Not who sells the most PC, but who sells the most consoles. So when the word "EXCLUSIVE" is used it is to refer to "consoles" not PCs and so MS can claim that they have an "EXCLUSIVE" game that only appears on their console. Be honest, would you rather play a game on the PC or the PS3?
The next step is to make a portable player. Once the media becomes portable more people will switch from DVD...
Exclusive to a particular console. Please keep in mind, MS is a PC software company first. So it's not far fetched to see a Xbox 360 exclusive game on the PC. Any way you can spin it...
Planet Xbox claimed that Blu-rays cost $20... Check off another reason why Blu-ray will not fall way side to Netflix.. Sales...
Good post. You would be correct if we were talking about a system that MS is going to release next year. But MS is talking about 2010. By that time HS internet will be the norm, HD movie downloads will be abundant, and storage technologies that are just comming to light today will be well ready for MS to pick from. It's just a medium to store data this will not impact how software is created just stored and read from.
What are you talking about? Blu-ray is good for only two things..
Movies and storage.
MS is not a movie studio so they are going to focus on the later. MS will continue to work with NetFlix and who ever else offers HD down loads. This will allow MS to build their next gen using a storage medium that can hold more data then DVD and not use Blu-ray.
When MS made the statement they were not wrong, because there was three options and they picked DVD. They were not going to go with Sony, they would have to wait to go with HD-DVD and if they use DVD (as they did) they can put out games for less money. This is the heart of the reason why Sony is in last place. If space is an issue then there are other technologies and option other than Blu-Ray, and in 2010 who knows what options will be there.
"Which means Microsoft was wrong about saying Blu-Ray is not needed."
MS was not wrong. When MS made those statements we were up to our necks in a format war. They were backing another format and that format lost.
Sony needs to fix the Blu-Ray licensing before Blu-Ray will be adopted into any other devices. Mac even stated that they do not like the licensing Sony has and that is what is preventing them from adding a Blu-Ray drive to their laptops.
2009 Year of the PS3....
Bring it. Bring it...
We take that challenge and then sit back down and play some great games. Screw you guys I'm going to play the 360...
and BTW, Sony has paid for exclusive titles just as MS has in the past. It just sucks more for Sony this time. MS had a head start on this gen and they are at the profitable point faster so they can afford to pay for exclusive.
They have 2 Xbox 360 exclusive and no exclusive PS3 games or add-ons. So if they were hinting at a timed exclusive you would most likely be right.
I don't care if it's timed or not, I just can't wait to get back in and play the new game.
Yesterday.. I kept hearing "kotaku hates the PS3", "kotaku never posts any positive news about the PS3", "kotaku", "kotaku", "kotaku"...
Well there you have it kotaku posted some positive news about the PS3 software sales. However we are now in Q4 and so far for the year the 360 is still selling more software from Take 2. 39% more as of October 31St. It will be great to see how the year turns out.
bull in China Shop level...
Pop the champagne...
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