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Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3
will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia. What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates: * Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial. * Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad. * Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me. I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer. Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.' As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly. And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]! Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked: 'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?' Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too? We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual [goatse.cx] lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda. Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them. In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware [redhat.com] distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual [goatse.cx] practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake [slackware.c
Isn't anyone going to talk about the fucking article? Or is everyone going to quibble over editing issues all day?
actually, your housemates are busy 69ing each other.
Are you nuts? The person who buys a PS3 as only a Bluray player is NOT who they want to buy it, as Sony will never make back the money they lost selling the unit to them as that consumer will never buy any additional items for it outside of the PS3 DvD/Bluray controller for it. That said, I have a Ps3 and I like it a lot.
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It's those Metal Gear Solid-like titles that got Sony into the trouble they're in; the insane overhead of developing them is taking its toll on the industry. See: Free Radical, Factor 5, etc...
What's more, these titles appeal to people who likely have already bought a PS3. If Sony wants to compete they need a Wii Sports, not another Metal Gear Solid.
But it wasn't fixed AT THE TIME HE POSTED IT, you arsefucking just-signed-up-this-morning-because-your-favorite-pedo-porn-site-was-down cuntwit.
Sony needs about 4-5 more Metal Gear Solid like titles,
Sony is fucked. Their last "Metal Gear Solid" like title, LittleBigPlanet (the game that was supposed to push sales this holiday) sold something like 300K copies. Worldwide. MGS4 undersold to the point that Konami has confirmed that they are considering an Xbox 360 port.
The economy has tanked. No one can afford $500 to get a PS3. Even cutting it back to $300 wouldn't be enough. Sony has to get it down to be on par with the Xbox 360 and the Wii if they want a chance in this economy.
Even without the price, things look hopeless. Home is a disaster. LittleBigPlanet vastly undersold. There are no big PS3 exclusives coming out in 2009. (Unless you count EyePet, inFamous, or Nobi Nobi Boy as big exclusives, which, somehow, I doubt anyone does. So, yes, I checked for big PS3 exclusives that have been confirmed for 2009.)
The PS3 is fucked, pure and simple. There's no other way to look at it.
if you're going to post this, at least clean up the formatting, you arse-loving rim-jammer!
From NDP, rather than those figures you just gave which appear to be from out of your ass.
The game sold 200K copies in October and then 100K in November. The December figures aren't available yet, seeing as December isn't over, but given that the November figures include Black Friday, it's highly unlikely the trend is going to miraculously reverse itself.
Go ahead, Google it. There are plenty of stories about how poorly LittleBigPlanet has sold.
The general consensus appears to be that the platform is just wrong: if the game had been released on the Wii, it would have sold millions of copies. But since they went with the PS3, they just couldn't sell it to the type of retard who owns a PS3.