The DS is the mass market device. PSP is the upper end of the market with nice graphics, nice screen etc. Both has a place, and for their target markets, both do well.
Great work Nintendo to spot the market and give the market what it wants at a good price. I will get a PSP eventually, because of the PS3 integration and nice features. Kids will get a DS mostly... and that is the mass market for portable consoles.
PSP will most likely never overtake the DS. But both ...
HD-DVD was winning - that was until BR was released. BR just overtook it within the space of a few months and is just pulling away. It was a no contest from the start.
So your statement is wrong. Since a month or three after BR was released, HD-DVD was never beating it. We did not "not give up". We did not even try. It was just successful from the start.
I have Linux on my PS3 as well. But there is a huge difference in the software / hardware variations with PC's. With PS3, the hardware is locked. It stays the same. The BR / DVD plays on all the SKU's without a problem and no difference. With a PC it is different every machine sometimes. And sometimes it does not support your Graphics card. Or won't run under Vista.
I bought Empire Earth a while ago. Would not run on my new PC with XP. eventually got it running under Linux with...
I have a PS3. But this gen - Nintendo seems to be winning. Wii owners will most probably get a PS3 due to it being a great Blu Ray player. XB360 will be left in the cold because of all the RRoD failures. At this point the market is savvy on this... it is not the first year anymore...
But I suspect the Wii got many people into gaming - and it being their first console will most probably wait for the Wii 2.
Could be that the word on the street is that this might actually be a reliable model... so everyone would not want to take the older models. Or maybe they are replacing the RRoD ones with this one.
Any which way - MS seems to not have enough in stock to feed the demand. Could be many reasons why. Maybe ramping up for the 65nm chipset models (CPU & GPU).
This format lasted the shortest... Sign of the times. Decades ago it took many years to determine a winner. Now it took barely a year in the open market and the format with support from even MS could not survive.
RIP HD-DVD. It is truly over now.
Of course it makes sense. 65nm RSX and Cell... new Blu Ray drive with new smaller parts, smaller power supply, less assembly... so it will be slimline.
Of course would cost less, which is the real point of rapidly redesigning the console. The performance specs will be the same... so nothing new for the consumer really. Like PS2 and PSTwo... same performance playing games... just smaller package a few years later. And of course the hardware can be sold at a profit.
I used to think I would never buy a console. But after spending money on a CD many a time, only to find out that on this particular configuration or that specific graphics card or something... due to a DLL outdate, update etc... the game will not work. Or only work on one of the 5 PCs or notebooks.
Then got a PS2 - and oh bliss... you put the disk in and it.... works!!!
PC gaming sucks... because you are always out of date, not compatible, not enough GPU horsepower,...
No confusion... If you are confused, it is because you want to be confused.
Disk drives become cheaper. People look at the HD size as a critical spec. So the XB360 is 120GB, now the PS3 is also.
Because the 120GB HD cost the same, they give you the 120GB for the same price. You win. What confusion? It is a common of the shelve component that they just give you the benefit of passing the saving on to the consumer.
Maybe it plays Atari 2600 games with rumble...
Or it could even be a low spec PC with SNES emulator or MAME on a lightweight Linux distribution.
So the retailers massively discount HD-DVD for clearance sales. Give away titles. Some of the HD-DVD players make good up-converting DVD players. And they manage to claw back to 30% in their best selling region. The pricing can not continue - as it is being sold at a loss.
No retailer or studio reversed decisions to re-stock HD-DVD or support with new titles. So basically - it is a clearance sale - and the attitude of the retailers and publishers prove it. Done. HD-DVD is dead. ...
After massive giveaways and price drops... they manage to get outsold 2:1 in their best performing territory. Signs of life there yeah...
Hi Marty boy... see you are back in the dungeon again manning the account ...
GT5:P already shows the difference in performance between the two consoles. Uncharted is widely recognized as a notch above in terms of graphics. Ports sucked because the tools was not mature for PS3, and the programming is different to take advantage of the SPE's. That has changed quite a bit now. As we already start to see in new ports, the usage of the EDGE tools is beginning to benefit ports - but...
The "XB360 has 512MB, PS3 has 256MB" statement is getting very old... and those making the statement knows it is not true. They just keep repeating it hoping that noobs will think it is true - and buy their choice of machine - which comes down to viral marketing of course, and also exposes what the purpose of their posts is...
For those still not knowing how it works... Both has 512MB. PS3 is split 256 GDDR, 256 XDR. XB360 has 512MB GDDR. XDR of course is a hell of a ...
One of the things thrown around not so long ago in the "DVD9 is big enough" debate... was the use of procedural textures as a way to have big textures fit on DVD9. Now it turns out that if procedural textures take off in a big way... that XB360 will get murdered by the Cell CPU.
Now suddenly procedural texture technology is not so relevant anymore? Come on kids... all this means is that we will see procedural textures... otherwise content will not fit on the XB360's D...
Quick - here comes the "Report as Rumor", "Spam", "False" etc band to can this story...
The dual player thing will fail... There is no point to it. HD-DVD is dead.. so why make a more expensive player when you will not find new content for it?
It is possible... just have to run an emulator for Intel... I think bochs or some such thing will do it. Just with so little memory it would be kind of pointless. Easier to install Wine, and run the Windows programs under Wine.
All they can claim now is more sales as "add-ons" for consoles... that will most probably last a month or so... until the add on drive disappears totally.
Well, we can all relax now. The war is over. Not even The Microsoft Action Response Team or Zhuk will argue with it anymore...
I got Age of Empires (MS published)
Could not get it working on XP!
Got it working on Wine with Linux...