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Basically I'm saying that sales numbers (i.e. revenue) is NOT important at all. The important thing to a business is current profit and potential (or probable) future profit. If there is no profit, there is no business so in the end yes profit is the measuring stick.

How you measure future profit is depending on the business, but I suspect console sold + a variation on attach rate is used to figure that out which I am assuming you are talking about.

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Soon we can't star any races in a game or any location because it would be racist. Even when you put in an non-human or even a fictional race it would be considered racist since you didn't include other races.

The end of the world is coming soon and there will be no more creative work!!!

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In case you didn't notice, I responded to techwiz above. He pulls out total revenue i.e. sales numbers. Sales number is insignificant to a business unless you are counting profit margin.

Therefore, profit is the measuring stick not how much revenue you got. Get it!

I'm not talking at all about unit sales. In that regard, it seems like the bulk of the sales are done around the holidays seeing how in a quarter worldwide sales was around 1.1-2 million units and annual ...

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Everything so far indicates that equal effort on both PS3 and 360 yields considerably better result on the 360. Good news is, once the infrastructure is built you are no longer limited by it. Just put more effort into the PS3.

I think that is why we now consistently see multi-platform games perform more or less equally on either console.

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Although I think the pricing is high, as far as I know it is the same as PS Home. Furthermore, as the article states you do NOT have to buy anything.

Finally, as it is XBL/PSN games for the most part are bargains in terms of what you get. Because it doesn't come in a shiny box and media, the price of the games are a fraction of retail releases. Look at it this way, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom will retail $50, but both SSFIIT HD Remix and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are $15. Zach and Wiki was at...

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Doraemon Balrog FTW!!!

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This game is a bargain at $15. Get it on PSN or XBL now!

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Good job! However, who cares about sales? It is the profit that matters and in that regard there is no question that both Sony and MS is hurting bad. At least MS is posting a profit.

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Children shouldn't be shielded from it, but rather educated about it at the proper age of course.

By the way, I just saw your comment and it is identical to mine. Of course you were almost a day ahead of me.

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Both sex and violence is as natural to humans as it gets.

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It's not needed. 720p is not needed either and neither 480p. Need is relative.

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Why you can't wait 2 weeks and risk this is beyond me....

I got into the preview program and although there were some nice additions, nothing worth risking warranty over.

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There is always the unfair market of Japan lately that Sony has made great inroads in. This market is evening out some of the gains in the US. As far as I know, Europe is a standstill for both Sony and MS.

edit: not to say that Sony created that market, but Japan certainly isn't a fair market.

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I never wish ill will on any of the three console manufacturers, because competition benefits consumers and this is bad for the industry as a whole.

A $40 million loss isn't that bad, but it makes you wonder if Sony can muster a PS3 price cut in 2009 let alone maintain the R&D budget. Furthermore all these cuts is likely to have a long term negative effect on the company from budget cuts in R&D.

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Yeah, but it came under analyst expectations by cutting spending in operations not a gain in profit from sales. That is not necessarily good since it can have a long term negative effect if for instance Sony cut Research and Marketing. About 16k people is on the chopping block too!

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I kind a like the answers on this interview! We will see what happens.

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It doesn't seem completely implausible considering computing power has doubled every 18 months. Seeing how the consensus is the Wii is a slightly upgraded GameCube processing power wise, it isn't impossible that the latest iPhone has a more powerful processor.

Another thing is the resolution on the iPhone is considerably lower so, it could be more powerful relative to processing power per pixel....

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I wonder how all these lawsuit ends up in the end. I rarely hear about the result, just the lawsuit itself.

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I guess I expected a backlash from all the Sony fanboys here, but I bought this game during the $20 sale at amazon last November I think. It was no gem, it was an above mediocre game that was once again hyped up to oblivion by the fanboys (shame on me for listening) that is being continued here it seems.

The game definitely has frame rate issues, do a Google search and you will find other experiencing the same. From what I remember only the last boss had a combos you had to execu...

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That is some funny stuff! I would like to attend the God of War II event!

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