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Why Sony is Ready to Self Destruct
jammmma writes "Before even launching the PS3, Sony is ready to self destruct." From the article: "PS3 is doomed, thanks to Sony's ignorant attitude. None of us had the chance to seriously evaluate PS3 and the experience it has to offer. It's impossible without a series of titles and an official product at hand, but from where we stand, Sony's damaging attitude is all it takes to diminish the value of PS3. Kutaragi may be right in defending PS3; after all, he can't criticize his own product, but instead of exciting users with valuable features and winning them over so they can start saving, Kutaragi makes bearish statements in response to Nintendo's announcement and Microsoft's take on Sony. Last I heard companies were at E3 to impress media personnel, which yielded positive publicity, not make childish remarks when chances were against them."
Remember the Sony Music rootkit fiasco last year? They were really installing a rootkit so they could hide their killer app - Playstation@Home, a distributed computer for running video games.
Because people on the internet hate them. I mean, just read any Slashdot article and you'll see. And just look at these cooltechzone.com people. They're clearly really cheesed off.
With the combined might of the Slashdot userbase and "cooltechzone.com" aligned against them, how can Sony possibly survive?
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Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
This is a non-issue because -
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a SONY is, so why should they care about it?"
(Stolen sig) Remember: it's a "Microsoft virus", not an "email virus", a "Microsoft worm", not a "computer worm
For those of you who can't be bothered to read TFA...
Unless their server can pick up its own pieces and reboot, that would be all of us.
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Excellent, now I have your IP address, SSN, home address, bank account # and PIN. Thanks!
And $400 for a video card isn't?
I just bought a new card for around $50.. No, its not the best performer out there, but it works well enough with all modern games that they are nicely playable. In a year or 2 I'll get me a new one.. total expense over 5 years.. 2 1/2 * $50.. which doesn't come close to what you suggest spending on one card.
Ah.. you were talking about a hardcore gamer who does spend $400+ on a graphics card? those same people won't have a problem spending $600 on a console either if the games are convincing enough.
"I want a serious game console."
Yeah, that's what I look for in a console. Not fun...seriousness.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
So when I see $600, I just wonder, are these going to be available in stores, or is Sony moving the first batch directly on E-bay ?
Ken Kutiragi? You post on /.?
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>wich I am wery pleased with
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Ensign Chekov?
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"As for costs, the POWER chips and Intel CPUs you find in an Xbox or a desktop will never ever be able to match the price per performance. Ever. There's no way to go from ten gigaflops to terraflops with those general purpose CPUs. And the Sony's will only get cheaper with time, and the games get better at taking advantage of it."
Whew! Let me get a windbreaker...there's quite a fanboy out here.
So what you're saying is that if a person you don't like owns the same thing you own, your enjoyment of that thing is diminished?
I don't say this too often: you're a douchebag.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
2 teraflops is the claim. And that's if all you do is run adds, subtracts, and multiplies all day with no flow control/branching, function calls, cache misses, pipeline stalls, or any of that other stuff that happens in "reality".
And reality has a well known anti-Sony bias.
So they turned "Star Wars Galaxies" into "Kingdom Come" (DC)?
*And by "field recordings", I actually mean "recordings of live concerts" - fellow privacy fanatics, have no fear, I'm not recording your private conversations.
:-D
And by the way - Steve B. - the guy who codes for Microsoft, who used to hack into bank accounts on his mom's Commodore C-64, who drives a Segway in his private time? You should change the combination on your safe. The one where you store the alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.transsexual "backups"? Just reminding you, since it seems that "Edwina", your Personal Assistant (single/white/39yo/TV) failed to do so, even after you reminded hir, not once, but twice, to remind you. I suppose that the AIDS results are still weighing heavily on hir mind.
But seriously... I'll just let the phone companies take care of the monitoring. In the meantime, I've got... "backups"... to be making.