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Wired Dissects Sony as PS3 Effort Falters
PetManimal writes "Wired has an excellent analysis of Sony as it struggles to overcome the failures of the 1990s and make the PS3 live up to its promise. Sony is counting on the PS3 turning around the company's fortunes, but it may have been too ambitious. Besides being hamstrung with an unusual company culture that emphasizes small hardware teams and proprietary formats, Sony's efforts to make the PS3 kill several birds with one stone and appeal to a wider customer base is turning off the PS3's core support network: gamers. From the article: 'Then there was the decision to build Blu-ray into the PlayStation 3. Sony's logic seemed ironclad: Not only would the hi-def drive's huge storage capacity allow for far-more-realistic and complex games, the PS3 would carry Blu-ray into millions of households and drive sales of HDTVs as well. As it turned out, however, Blu-ray has done nothing good for the PS3. Blu-ray was the main reason gamers weren't able to get the new machine last spring: The launch had to be postponed because the new format's digital rights management system did not yet satisfy every Hollywood studio.'"
Holy astroturfing batman!
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because they're competing in the same market space?
I wasn't aware that Snakes on a Plane was the sequel to a universally-panned movie. You know, because that's the only way your comparison could possibly make any sense.
For a sales comparison that's actually relevant, let's take a look at the opening weekend of the first Anaconda movie:
Opening Weekend
$16,620,887 (USA) (13 April 1997) (2,456 Screens)
That would be in 1997 dollars, of course. And I'm not sure what could've happened in the past decade to drastically change people's opinions on snake movies, so I can only assume you went with the comparison with this movie's sequel so your argument would look like it had some legitimacy. Which it doesn't.
You really have no clue, do you? BTW, I like your attempts to compare Snakes on a Plane's returns (campy B-Movie on a relatively low budget) to Pirates of the Caribbean (a high budget flick). Never mind that Pirates had 6 times the budget as Snakes on a Plane, SoaP must be a failure because it doesn't do better in absolute numbers.
OK, so you've completely missed the point of the argument, which is that the PS3 is the "high-budget flick" while the Wii is the "campy B-movie" with the stupid name. Fine, then.
Considering that you have been setting up strawmen, aruging with non-points, and generally stiring up trouble in thread, I'd say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Go cry in your Princess Peach body pillow.
Rob
Aside from that, there are many people who don't immediately think "urination" when they hear the word. To a Scottish person, Wee means "small." In many languages, it might not mean anything at all.
The name was designed with the English language in mind. It sounds like "We" and has two 'I's put together. The problem with that, besides what I've already noted, is that the focus of the Wii thus far hasn't been on social gaming; online is going to be pretty limited at first, for one thing. Instead, the focus has been on the "revolutionary" controller.
And "wee" is definitely used as slang over in the UK, as a number of Brits I know can attest.
The name is much more inline with current trends and fashion than "Revolution" which is incredibly dated and lame.
Says who? I'll agree that it was more popular to call things "revolutions" in the 90's, but I don't see how it's ever been popular to seriously refer to a game console as "piss." Unless it sucked, anyway.
What if it turns out not to be a revolution that changes gaming forever?
Then the Wii will be a footnote in gaming history and no one will care about its name. If the Wii doesn't succeed with its controller, then it will only do as well as the Gamecube did, at best.
Rob