Use a usb stick?
I keep getting those things as SWAG from convention and shows so it haven't even cost me a cent to backup my saves.
With the attach rate at around 6.2 nowadays, the loss on the console itself can be recouped by software sales alone. My WAG is that they get somewhere around 60$ to 100$ per consoles from software.
What i think Sony is trying to do at the moment is increase their installed base by 60% or more for this fiscal years. The prevision that they stated in their year end financial was 13 millions PS3 sold for the year(end in April).
There is similar laws in other countries. Here a product has a "Legal Warranty" which is not the same as the manufacturer warranty. This warranty cover, amongst other thing that you should be able to enjoy your purchase for a reasonable time depending on the price you pay and the expected life/usage of the product.
The only game i have spend more hours than the GTs is WOW.
Have you been underwhelmed by GT4P or the other prologue? I didn't buy any of the prologues so i wonder how they compared to the real deal in the past.
Considering the way Microsoft dropped Xbox support.
I can count on one finger the number of title released on xbox in the last years. Madden 2009 and that's it...
I wont bother to count the number of release since the 360 but it's probably less than 10.
PS2 on the other hands..
No wonder my Xbox is in the closet and the ps2 is still in the living room.
You don't have to do 25-man content, it's pretty easy to get a group going on 10-man Raid or 5-man Heroic dungeon without been in a large guild.
Happy with WotLK.
He's the CEO..
You know the guys that represent the interest of the shareholders and run the company?
Good napkin math!
You forgot one thing tho.. The attach rate increase as time go by.
A 6:1 attach rate in 2009 will be higher in 2010.
Means that 3rd party developper cannot ignore the userbase anymore.
Do we develop a game for 50 millions(ps3+360) or do we do it for 30 millions(360) possibles buyers?
The cost for the game will be higher by 10-20% but it is worth it.
This is why the Activision threat is so empty.
Anything that's not "Sales" or "Console Wars" is mostly quiet.
7 to 10$ per discs plus other royalties if applicable.
There's one thing in business you have to understand.. when you are in a partnership, you have to try and make the relationship a win-win. When you piss off your partner on one aspect, be ready to get less collaboration in another face of your relationship.
In this case, i would expect Sony to tell Activision, Fine..but since we are losing revenue from our licensing of PS3 game, we have no choice but to raise your company's rates on all the other aspects of our relationship. (ie....
Most FPS sell like 100k LTD in Japan. Halo 3 is about there and Resistance 2 in not far behind. We'll see about KZ2.
@crck : getting paid to do something is the definition of professional.
What bug me is that why didn't those guys anti-hype games like Halo 3, Gears 2 and GTA4 when the crazyness was in full swing?
Killzone 2 seem to be unfairly nitpicked by some media. Look at the gamesradar coverage! Knife level? I've done that with COD4. Did gameradar do a video of that? no.. 5/10 review of the game at E3-2007? A game that the previewer never played? Is that fair? no..
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so? A decade ago, i would go to the video store and the DVD selection was abysmal. THe major plus in the BR debate is that the studios have adopted it.
Killzone 2 from what i gathered will use 30-40G of space on the blue-ray.
You realize that we are talking about Microsoft here? The company that has products after products that supposedly fixed the flaws on the previous one.
It's a bad translation from French. A better translation would be bullet: "Sony still has a few bullets".
As long as the compression is lossless, there is no degradation of quality at all but decompressing use CPU power. If you're in a single threaded environment and you want to use your CPU for other thing at the same time than you are decompressing your data coming from your DVD. There will be a performance hit.
There was an article on gamasutra on this. http://www.gamasutra.com/fe...
When the rechargeable battery dies, you can get a replacement Li-Ion for less than 10$ for the DS3 and SIXAXIS.