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What's Known About the PS3
1up has an expansive piece up exploring everything they know about the PlayStation 3. They cover rumours, prices, technology, and the limited information currently out there on upcoming games. From the article: "While the hard facts are still tough to nail down, the general consensus is that the PlayStation 3 is the most powerful of the three next-generation systems, although probably not by as much of a margin as Sony would like us to think. The arguments for the technical strengths of the PS3 go into CPU floating-point capabilities and the difficulties surrounding programming for parallel architectures, but the long and short of it is that whether or not the advantages of the PS3 are apparent will depend on developers' ability to utilize the PlayStation 3's unique architecture."
Right! With Sony's past "new console" performance, you'll just have to worry about running it upside down or buying a new one in four months when the completely untested media drive craps out! And then there's the rumored hard drive, wireless controllers, and new ethernet adapter! The new PS3 will have more points of failure than any Sony console to date!
No film at 11.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
OK, looks like xBox360 is going to lose a lot of market share when it ships, probably starting in December when most of the new titles ship.
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... not seriously thinking of selling my shares, but might do a swap of my Konami holdings and buy back into Sony (did well when I had it, sold it high before drop). Concerned about Blu-Ray and DRM impacts on that, though.
Hmm, maybe I should sell my MSFT stock
Well, of COURSE it's going to lose market share, seeing how it's at 100%. Even with the supply problems, it's still the only provider of next-gen consoles.
As for selling MSFT stock, as a fellow shareholder (read my profile), I'd hold onto it for now. Ignore the 360. As we all know, most of the money comes from the OS and Office sales, and with new versions supposedly coming out this year, it should be interesting to see how the stock does. (It's been in a funk for the past few years)
Right, I meant it looks like PS3 will regain top dog market share by December.
Personally, I think we make more money as shareholders from all the companies MSFT owns plus the returns on all those billions in cash that are just coming in
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