dktxx2, I agree that it won't take much for the MS empire to crumble, but if I were going to bet on what was going to bring MS down it would the launch of this:
http://www.pcworld.com/busi...
not a $500 Mac.
Lower price than Apple? Upgrading Windows, Office & Visual Studio will set you back around $1500 while upgrading OSX, iWork & Xcode will only set you back around $250. Does Ballmer have any idea what the MSRP on his software actually is?
Look, it's 1 year old news being rehashed:
http://www.tgdaily.com/cont...
if Blu-ray was ACTUALLY doing well you'd think we'd have heard something new by now ;)
IMO this is why Sony will likely never be a relevant consumer electronics manufacturer again. Sony wouldn't be where they are today had they not been hellbent on protecting the content of their studio divisions for the past 20 years. It wasn't the iPod that made the Walkman irrelevant as a portable music player it was a MiniDisc designed to imprison Sony content on Sony media during a decade in which consumers were clamoring for convenience.
Whether Sony likes it or not the conve...
Blu-ray only grabbed 750 million dollars of a 23 billion dollar market in 2008:
http://www.variety.com/arti...
which is ONLY slightly better than 3 percent!
Wii outsold PS3 in NA last week by nearly 5 to 1, that's hardly evidence that "apparently the fad is starting to fade." The only conclusion that can be drawn from Wiis collecting at retail at this point is that Nintendo is making a lot more Wiis!
Look at the cute little article trying to imply that Wii sales have fallen off a cliff when Nintendo sold nearly 250K units last week in NA alone! IMO this is actually good news for Wii & terrifying news for "the HD consoles" because from here on out sales figures will be a reflection of unrestricted demand.
Imagine downloading an HD movie from PSN & having it seemlessly mirrored to your Walkman, PSP, iPhone or even an in-dash media player. Problem for Sony is that their hardware division can't develop revolutionary hardware without exposing the studio division to substantial risk. Sony wasn't burdened by this internal conflict when they released the Walkman in 1979 nor was Apple when they released the iPod in 2001. Sony's hardware division will continue to rack up red ink until it's either f...
Great news, we're in the midst of a global recession but MS is still writing Mac vs. PC ads!
Is Eat, Sleep, Play still under contract with Sony because it sounds like Jaffe is looking for a new sugar daddy?
Posted Jan 31st 2009 at 1:57PM? Glad to see you're all reliving the glory days of your past, but week old news isn't news it's history:
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...
Japan may have been down 8 percent, but North America was up 87 percent. My guess is Nintendo shipped everything they had across the Pacific, maybe they're testing demand for another production increase? Regardless, with Deadly Creatures & House of Dead: Overkill hitting store shelves in the States this week Japan doesn't need any Wiis :)
The bulk of computer users couldn't be more ill equipped to operate the machines. PC manufacturers actually had to color-code the ports & cables like Garanimals to keep intellectually challenged computer users from forcing mouse cables into speaker ports!
Yes, MS is so afraid of Ubuntu that they're hiring a, as in one, person to manage the threat posed by ALL open source competitors. If MS was actually "scared" of Ubuntu then I'd expect to see a breaking news story ...
He's not condemning anyone, he's simply pointing out why we're seeing a rash of studio closings & mass layoffs in an industry that generates more revenue than home video!
Sit down with a calculator & play with the numbers. With a dev cost of $50 million you're likely looking at a title that costs roughly $100 million by the time all is said & done. $100 million budget puts you in the Hollywood blockbuster neighborhood as far as costs go, but you don't have a theatrica...
TRANSLATION: Dead Space for Wii is a bad idea because 3rd party developers are going to find a hardcore market on Wii & those $50 million development budgets for 360 & PS3 games are going to be trimmed back to Wii ports.
The Mighty Mouse ball is a little dirt magnet. I use a wash cloth & Windex to clean mine. I just dampen the wash cloth with Windex & roll ball around with it until clean. Mighty Mouse saved!
5 weeks between Dark Knight's 16 percent & last week's 17 percent, but this time it took 2 extraordinary films (Max Payne & Babylon A.D.) to land Blu-ray a double-digit market share. Conveniently missing from this latest round of "Blu-ray isn't dead, really!" propaganda is any mention of how many units Max Payne & Babylon A.D. sold for that 17 percent market share, 5 copies each? Even Ewe Bole would have been embarrassed to have his name rolling in the credits of these b...
Of course I read the links, sales of pre-packaged media fell of a cliff in the 4th quarter of '08 & Netflix is seeing a double-digit uptake of DD over Blu-ray in the rental market.
Muller pitches some new tech. to MS who says, "Thanks, but no thanks. We're already working on in house solution." Muller sees a big payday slipping away so he gets a job at MS to ensure MS' tech. steps all over his patents, then files suit against Dell, HP and Toshiba while still in the employ of MS? This isn't rocket science, MS will soon own Ancora & Muller will never work in the tech. industry again.
Blu-ray isn't a cost effective means of backing up data like DVD was when it unseated CD. When DVD hit the market you could back up your average hard drive on a handful of DVD's which was significantly cheaper than buying a spare hard drive, but today it costs roughly $200 to back up 1TB of data on BD, but a spare hard drive will only set you back $100 & most OS's will mirror your data for you.