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Prognosticating Sony's Downfall

Posted by Zonk on from the monday-afternoon-speculation dept.

Via Evil Avatar, an article on About.com theorizing Sony's defeat at the hands of Nintendo and Microsoft. An interesting piece of speculation. From the article: "Sony introduces the PS3, sporting far more powerful hardware than either alternative system, limited online system support, and a fairly solid launch line-up. Nintendo introduces the Revolution. At the same time that the Revolution and PS3 hit the store shelves, Microsoft reduces the price of the Xbox 360 and releases Halo 3. Halo 3, combined with the price reduction, effectively undercuts the momentum of the PS3 launch. Customers have to decide between the 360 with Halo 3, the PS3 with a potentially high price tag, and the Revolution, priced near current generation game consoles."

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  1. Good news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't wait until those computer-destroying sons-of-bitches Sony go down in flames and honest consumer-friendly companies like Nintendo and Microsoft take over.

    1. Re:Good news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seeing as this is /., and the gamer section to boot, just take all posts as sarcasm unless otherwise noted. Only way to be safe.

    2. Re:Good news. by NVP_Radical_Dreamer · · Score: 2, Funny

      I typed Microsoft + Consumer Friendly into my thesaurus and it gave me Oxymoron.

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      The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

      - Winston Churchill
  2. And Then by ViperG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't forgot about sony's DRM stuff. Nobody wants a rootkit included in their PS3.

    if (Halo.3 > DRM.rootkit)
            DONT_BUY_PS3

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  3. Insufficient by dbhankins · · Score: 5, Funny

    All this is not enough to ensure the PS3's failure. To make it complete, Sony needs to:

    - Reduce or eliminate backwards compatibility, like the Silver Slimline PS2 but more so
    - Implement nodelocking of game- and video-disks, using the technology they've recently secured a US patent on
    - Make game development as difficult as possible and as different from conventional architectures as possible to reduce the number of game companies willing to crossdevelop for or port to the new system

    Only then can they guarantee the PS3 will flop.

  4. Man, it's so early yet this getting old already by Morinaga · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=2005- 02-05 Yes, it's true.

  5. Duplicate Article by esampson · · Score: 3, Funny
    http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/25/ 2034217&tid=10

    This article was posted on Slashdot on October 25th talking about how the Microsoft's game console was going to be released and completely crush Sony's.

    I realize it's a different author but its pretty much the same talking points. Microsoft has endless supplies of money, it will be easier to program the XBox than the PS2, people will have to choose one or the other (since we all know that at night when everyone is asleep the two systems would fight to the death), blah, blah, blah.

    Do we really need to have such similar articles posted within the same 1,846 day span?