Well, I'm glad I guess they had THAT high of an expectation. Just 36,000 is double the hardware sales last week that just about tied the 360 with the PS3. And this is just from a single retailer, I would really like to see the hardware sales for Japan for this week now.
Despite these reports, mark my words that there will be 360 and anti-Sony fans who will still try to stir things up with FUD by mentioning a 40% failure rate to scare off the ill-informed potential buyers.
I remember reading something on Kotaku earlier this week about the new RRoD on the Falcon 360s, and a 360 fan tried to sidetrack the situation by saying "But even the PS3 has 40% (maybe 90%) failure rate". Every PS3 owner or well informed consumer knows it is compl...
Well Foxconn makes these new units I believe, and they have been making the PS2s for Sony for awhile now, so I expect them to have just about as low of a failure rate as the current models. And they have lower power consumption and 65nm Cell (though 90nm RSX), so they should have even less heat dissipation, though it was never even an issue.
Sony should try to help Free Radical with their development problems (some tips from Insomniac and Naughty Dog wouldn't be a bad thing) so that we can get it this year in a good shape. I would hate to see a great game marred by graphical/performance issues.
Is this Lindich guy spamming about HD-DVD, didn't we just get a column from him earlier today? He's making an editorial reply to his own column? He sounds like an HD-DVD advertisement, mainly because he strategically left out a lot of recent developments and understated a lot of important things Blu Ray has going for it.
You have to love how analysts are just looking at standalone player sales and Paramount's switch, but not the sales. If you look at the recent chart of sales ratio, it has been increasing in BD's favor in spite of the spike in HD-DVD player sales.
All I know and care about is that the Ocean's trilogy and a bunch of Pixar movies just came out this week, so I won't run out of movies to watch in the BD camp anytime soon.
Strange that HD-DVD fans are nowhere to be found for this thread...
Right, and the reason why BD still slaughtered HD-DVD last week is because of what? Spiderman 3 (not even the best movie IMHO) sold more than the Transformers. And for last week, only a single HD-DVD title made it to the top ten hi-def movie list, while BD dominated the rest of the list.
So basically as long as 3rd party developers don't release games when Nintendo's own AAA comes out, they'll support those developers.
As far as I know, I don't think any other console does that. Some 360 games simply chose not to come out when Halo 3 did, and PS3 games can't wait to come out since they haven't really been much interference in the same genre yet.
If you add this up with the low attach rate, hardware limit (no HDD and etc), and the mass amount of ...
I'd like to see what happens this week since the 40GB model just came out this week for Japan.
I'm getting one at launch in the U.S. since it really won't cost more than $50 I think. I've read people saying that its battery life is pretty good and it handles PS2 games well, so I'm definitely getting at least one to complement the two SIXAXIS that I already have.
Same here, I hope it stays on the PS family.
Yeah, every family man bought a next gen player for hi-def porn just to share with his family...
Agreed, hope it comes out later this year and is region-free so all PS3 owners can import it.
This could just be D3 crying out for attention because according to wikipedia, they really made a big impact game since Puzzle Quest. All their hope right now depends on Dark Sector and it really hasn't been attracting that much attention last time I checked.
Does CNBC have anything to do with MSNBC (which is owned by MS)?
So much for the whole debate about leaving Pandemic and Bioware as separate entities. Why would people even want to work at EA anymore? You get a bad reputation and you're constantly living in fear of your job security. I believe EA is having an info session at my college next week, and you better believe I'm not going, despite the enticements of cheap pizza and shoddy sports games they are giving out.
I'll cheer as well. Even with HD-DVD's big price slash and accompanying sales from retailers, Blu Ray still beat HD-DVD by 7:3, more than 2:1. And with the release of Pixar films, I believe we will only see this trend continue.
My problem with their used games is that its so hard to tell their condition. I've been buying used games from Newbury Comics, whose used games are always in like-new condition.
Well if they want to reduce overheads, they can just buy the chips from the IBM fab in NY.