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Ken Kutaragi's Famous Last Words
When we look back on this E3, I think one of the moments we're most clearly going to remember is the dead silence in the Sony press conference following the price announcement. Eurogamer and GameDaily has coverage of Phil Harrison's spin work, trying to recover from that moment, discussing how Sony is not ripping off Nintendo and Microsoft probably won't meet their 10 million units goal. More interestingly, they discuss an interview with Ken Kutaragi conducted by a Japanese website. From that piece: "SCEI president Ken Kutaragi has defended the PlayStation 3's high price tag once again, declaring that not only will consumers be prepared to pay the cost but that the console is 'probably too cheap.' In an interview with Japanese website IT Media, partially translated by IGN, Kutaragi said: 'This is the PS3 price. Expensive, cheap - we don't want you to think of it in terms of game machines ... For instance ... Is it not nonsense to compare the charge for dinner at the company cafeteria with dinner at a fine restaurant? It's a question of what you can do with that game machine. If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem.'"
When the Playstation 2 was released many people at least partially justified a purchase based on its inclusion of DVD playing capability. Even I did, and I think I've watched a total of 2 movies on it. If the public sees a PS3 as an opportunity to get a new Playstation AND a new DVD player, then the price isn't so bad.
Microsoft's add-on HD-DVD won't cut it, since history tells us that console peripherals NEVER catch on.
Me? I'll get the new Nintendo and wait for at least the first price drop on a PS3.
While we all love bashing iPods, no other player comes close with ease-of-use, particularly regarding the store and transferring. While brand loyalty and marketing definitely play a big part, I'd imagine that iTMS and iTunes' seamless integration (and its own ease of use) is what keeps people buying them. Given the opportunity to make the decision again, I'd stay with my iPod. I also just got a MBP. Yes, there are cheaper laptops out there, and certainly better-specced ones for the same price. But OSX just works. I figured out what I needed to know within a few minutes of using the OS (even Windows isn't that simple, and I won't start with Linux), and when I tell it to do something, it happens. Most things are laid out very logically, and again the integration between apps (read: Front Row) is quite seamless. I've been a Windows user since just about day one (and MS-DOS prior to that) and never really liked it, but my PC hasn't been on in two days. Admittedly, it's waiting for a part to come in, but unlike when I was trying to use Linux for a while, I don't find myself craving what I was used to using. I've got BootCamp Windows as an option, but I only use it for the odd game... and for the moment printing as I can't seem to find a Mac driver for my printer.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
The Wii/Revolution's Specs:
PowerPC CPU@729Mhz
GPU 243MHz w/3MB VRAM
80MB System RAM
XBox360 Specs:
Tri-Core CPU@3.2GHz
500MHz GPU
512MB System RAM/Video RAM
PS3 Specs
8 SPE PowerPC CPU@3.2GHz
550MHz GPU w/256MB RAM
256MB System RAM
Incorporated Ageia Physx Technology
The Wii's graphics come closest to the original XBox and will in no way be able to give you anything like the PS3/XBox360. While PS3 and XBox360 games might be cross developable, I do not see how anything released for those powerhouses could ever make it to the Wii without some serious decreases in graphics and playability. It'd be like trying to play F.E.A.R. on a Pentium I with a TNT video card. Theoretically capable, but would you really want to?
Otherwise you would realize how STUPID you come across. A fine restaurant is OLIVE GARDEN?!? ROFLAMO. Tell that to some hotty.
Try a real restaurant that has a talented kitchen staff. They can be hard to find in this era of franchises and corporate food laboratories, but they exist. Some of them are surprisingly cheap.
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"'Fancy' usually amounts to an Olive Garden or some other such chain restaurant,"
Who the hell thinks olive garden is fancy?
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I'm a cheap-ass when it comes to... well, everything... but you aren't going to impress ANYONE except maybe your cousin from Tennessee by taking them to Olive Garden. For about the same, maybe a little bit more, you can find a non-chain place with a snobbish name like "le Metro" or something. Doesn't have to be expensive, can just be "trendy" and where all the artsy fucks hang out.
And yes, I know we're getting way off fucking topic, go ahead and mod me down, I've got karma to burn.
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