Oh yeah... MiniMii: Even though like two or three of your arguments made some kind of sense, you are still an idiot.
Toshiba owns HD, and is partnered with MS for it's software. Had MS wanted HD-DVD, they'd had full access to it and Toshiba's technical support. So there wouldn't be any higher failure rate, and could have launched alongside the PS3, not in 2007.
There is no way the 360 would have been more expensive than the PS3, although it would have been closer in ...
Tudors:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not agreeing with all of his rantings, but some of his arguments you tried to trash do make sense.
He's talking about the two systems theoretically launching together, and the price/value equations. MS wouldn't have 1080p, because MS did mandate for quite a while that all games would be in 720p, so even though the 360 CAN do 1080p, we weren't seeing it. HDMI and Wi-fi have always been therefor the PS3, and not with the 360. So what we...
You're probably right, but the only other thing I was thinking would be Microsoft's support for HD had they had a greater stake in it. Maybe they would have thrown a lot of money at Warner or other BD studios to get them HD-exclusive. Could have drug things on for a very long time, no matter what the install rate was.
But ah well.. it's over now, so we can all buy blu-rays the next big thing comes along.
Six months probably wouldn't have been long enough to give them much of a lead. The reason being that they still wouldn't have had anything resembling an real supply until later in the year. The first HD's were in the market that spring, and even then, not many could be made. With more diodes going to Blu-ray later that year, MS would have been stuck with shortages that entire six months.
I do agree he's overlooking some things like the release dates and pricing. Sony barely had a launch when they did because of the diode shortages, and they were even making the things themselves. MS, however, would have had to buy them off of other companies, along with Toshiba, JVC, Pioneer, Plextor, etc. There wouldn't have been many to go around, so their near-simultaneous launch would have been with the same shortages, and insane pricings.
But, I don't think he's totally wron...
Well, the PS2 online is mainly up to the developers making it themselves. Never really was much of a big Sony service interface like we have now with PSN.
I think a large part of why it's taken so long is because I imagine Sony just recently started working on it, and haven't gotten it even close to done.
It's the same way with Home. They introduced it just over a year ago at GDC with the notion that they had been working on it for quite a while, and that it would be ready late '07. Well now, here we are a year later, and now they're saying it will be late '08. With the time we've known about it, it's had almost two years of develo...
I'd say high 80's in ratings. Judging by videos, they have their heads around the PS3 hardware pretty well, and we know they can make good shooters. I mean come on, the TimeSplitters series was so much fun!
If he really is a shareholder, then his rantings over the years now makes sense:
Jack stirs up controversy... controversy sells game... Take-Two's shares go up... Jack makes more money.
Why didn't I see this before??
Yeah, I like that symbol, and it would probably work as a small tat somewhere. Can't say I'd want it between my girlfriend's breasts, though. lol
And not only that, but MS wouldn't have been able to come out a year earlier like they did. The first HD players launched in April '06, and even six months later Sony was barely to get a few hundred thousand blue diodes for their PS3s. Could you imagine Microsoft in that fray trying to buy up these diodes when they were so difficult to make? They'd probably had more difficulty acquiring the diodes because they'd have to buy them, where as Sony can make diodes themselves.
I think you're mixing up visionary with bats**t crazy. lol
But either way, I love his games.
I've learned that these so-called "experts" have way too much faith in the present network capabilities. "Blu-ray victory is meaningless," they say, "Downloadable content is where it's at."
Yeah, DC is the future... when we all have multi-terabyte hard drives and networks that download at hundreds of MB per second. Until then, I'll buy discs, thank you very much.
I also have no desire to rent a video for a day, when i can go buy it at Wa...
Sony has done some copying of their own, so all is fair.
In terms of hardware, Sony has MS beat.. a much better machine for not a terrible lot more money. Now Microsoft is playing catch-up now that prices are down.
In terms of software, MS has Sony beat.. Live has been better. So now Sony has been upgrading PSN, and is adding Home later.
And as a footnote, Sony copied Nintendo, too. Nintendo introduces the Wii Remote, and then six months or so later, the...
Congratulations on your recent induction into the "My 360 is broken" club. I hope you enjoy your new membership, and as a token, we will include an absolutely delightful call to the MS tech support. With this, you will be given a exciting conversation with one of their call center experts (English language proficiency not guaranteed), and promptly be sent a cardboard "coffin" for your recently deceased hardware. After a few long, painful weeks, you will be blessed with a n...
Sony ended up doing the same thing with Betamax. Although the VHS ended winning the home markets, Sony still made money on their format by juicing it up and issuing it out to professionals as Betacam in the mid 80's. It became the industry standard in television production for a decade, and is still used today in a lot of post-production.
I think it COULD possibly be a good thing for the next version of Xbox, but it putting it in now would be suicide for it. What developer would...
A complete redesign would be very costly. R@D isn't cheap, by any means. The last thing MS wants to do is pump a bunch of money into the 360 when they've just now started making money on it. Yeah, it would be good for consumers, but if MS continually lost money on consoles, then they'd eventually stop making one at all, and we'd be back to Sony vs Nintendo.
The only real choice they have is improving current cooling (which has happened), and wait for processor shrinks. It's the o...
Now, I doubt we'll see the actual Solidus in MGS4, a little reference wouldn't surprise me. Remember the Vulcan doll in MGS2. Prolly be something like that.
But then again, Hideo Kojima is one of the craziest guys on the entire planet. The Patriots may turn out to be a group of postal clowns from a Japanese circus.
Well, sadly enough, MS still hasn't completely gotten rid of the RRoD. It's still popping up (although not as much due to better cooling hardware), but it isn't completely gone yet. I'd that we prolly won't see it completely gone until the new mobo's with 65nm GPU's are released... which will be late this year.
Both, and neither:
MS for making an OS that is incompatible with planet Earth.
Intel for pushing out crap chipsets even when they knew a needier OS was coming.
And lastly, the consumers for ignorantly having no knowledge of maintenance of the computers that they buy.