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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.'"
I was waiting for The Daily Dose. And here it is!
...and I have no clue who to cheer for.
Sony didn't invent the transistor radio. An American company did with the help of Texas Instruments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio
This sounds like a truthiness challenge. I'd say Sony is TI's Portugal.
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The Wii remote had nothing to do with the decision! Stop spreading lies! Clearly it was an innovation thought up by Sony - that's what they said - weren't you listening?
Yes they were behind it all, all of it I say. WWI and WWII and the cold war! In every basement around the world they have shrines of man hate. The truth is out! Run you perfect, innocent ..dweebish uh I mean noble Nintento boys! RUN!
Morality, filters both ways.
True, but imagine how much storage space is taken up by those multitude of 15 minute Final Fantasy cinematics (you know, the ones that happen between every five or so battles your character wins). If they cut that out we'd have mo chocobo, mo chocobo, MO CHOCOBO!!!
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
However, most folks don't have $1700+ bucks to spend on a console. (you have to figure a game and sales tax in that total).
Jesus, I knew California had a high sales tax, but that's ridiculous.
Rob
Throw me a bone, dammit! I AM trying....someone HELP me!