This is wonderfully informative and all, but one thing is missing. No explanation is given as to why SoundExchange is pushing for this massive hike. Now, as all of slashdot knows the RIAA and anything associated with them at any point in the past is pure evil, but what excuses did SoundExchange give for demanding such a massive price rise?
I got the chance to play on a MegaDrive again recently. We picked up Micro Machines 2 for 95p (less than the price of a cup of coffee) from a charity shop. We played around with that for good long while. We've also had marathon sessions on Streets of Rage 2 and several sonic games. Next I'm hoping to find a second hand dreamcast, or maybe I'll dig out my N64 and play all the great games I have on that. This rediscovery of all my old games, and finding that I still enjoy playing Perfect Dark or Road Rash 64 means that I am even less inclined to buy a PS3. I have a lot of PS2 games, but the backward compatibility is not a selling point here. I'd rather buy a Wii or even a 360 (now that they have sorted the heating problem, possibly) than the PS3.
I think they really shot themselves in the foot coming out so long after the 360 and pricing it so far above Microsoft's console. The Wii is another matter, it is so different, and relatively cheap, that it's almost as if it is not in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft. Those two consoles ARE in direct competition, because most people are going to buy only one of either the PS3 or the XBox 360. In this direct competition Sony have lost out by letting microsoft get out a good range of games and having the edge in terms of pricing. Both these factors will do a lot to swing those people who are not waiting specifically for some game on whatever platform.
At any given time since the PS3's launch I could have looked at the games available on each console and the prices of each and decided immediately that it was a choice between Wii and XBox 360. I'm sure other people have been in the same situation as I am and many of them will have acted on their decision before now. Sony has lost all of these customers because the PS3 is too expensive and the range of games is too small and severely lacking in blockbuster titles.
Pretty much all of this is really obvious, so I do wonder if Sony don't have some masterplan which involves the PS3 actually underperforming, lulling MS and Nintendo into a false sense of security, before Sony deals the death blow to their rivals...
Wide angle shot of people milling around town shouting "TP PLS" over and over again.
Some jump cuts of a sorceress of teleporting through to Baal
A few minutes of crazy-intense ultraviolence (or loads and loads of bonewalls) with heavy metal soundtrack
Then a tear-jerking soft-focus moment as one of the party lies dying. His final words are "dam lag"
Oscar winning material right there...
I'm not sure how likely this is, but that hasn't stopped anyone else speculating; perhaps they did have their site ready, but something about the fact that it was hosted on Linux servers rather than Windows ones was causing problems?
or suggesting that asylum seekers are the natural enemies of paedophiles. daily mail readers will be very confused...
(UK-centric humour will probably mean getting modded down, but meh)
The RIAA is Paris Hilton for nerds where even the most pointless story that is related to it gets too much coverage. I spent several minutes trying to come up with some witty comment about Paris Hilton catching some disease in prison and contrasting that with how Linux doesn't really get viruses, but I gave up...
Of all the websites on the internet, I would not expect this to qualify as "news" on slashdot.
I recently moved from windows to ubuntu myself. There is nothing I really miss that much about windows except occasionally playing halflife 2 or civ 4. But the lack of spyware, virus checkers and so on makes up for that... When I buy a new PC though, I will want windows, because that will be able to play games whereas this old laptop can't...
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This is wonderfully informative and all, but one thing is missing. No explanation is given as to why SoundExchange is pushing for this massive hike. Now, as all of slashdot knows the RIAA and anything associated with them at any point in the past is pure evil, but what excuses did SoundExchange give for demanding such a massive price rise?
PETAphiles?
It appears the UK might be heading in the opposite direction from the French. Sigh. [Insert lame joke about Anglo-French rivalry or similar here] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/20/handhelds_ n_laptops_in_parliament_sez_straw/
Isn't it only something like 10% of stuff that gets optioned actually ever gets produced? Or possibly even less.
And given the difficulty Gaiman has had with Sandman and movie studios, I don't think this will ever see daylight.
I got the chance to play on a MegaDrive again recently. We picked up Micro Machines 2 for 95p (less than the price of a cup of coffee) from a charity shop. We played around with that for good long while. We've also had marathon sessions on Streets of Rage 2 and several sonic games. Next I'm hoping to find a second hand dreamcast, or maybe I'll dig out my N64 and play all the great games I have on that. This rediscovery of all my old games, and finding that I still enjoy playing Perfect Dark or Road Rash 64 means that I am even less inclined to buy a PS3. I have a lot of PS2 games, but the backward compatibility is not a selling point here. I'd rather buy a Wii or even a 360 (now that they have sorted the heating problem, possibly) than the PS3.
I think they really shot themselves in the foot coming out so long after the 360 and pricing it so far above Microsoft's console. The Wii is another matter, it is so different, and relatively cheap, that it's almost as if it is not in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft. Those two consoles ARE in direct competition, because most people are going to buy only one of either the PS3 or the XBox 360. In this direct competition Sony have lost out by letting microsoft get out a good range of games and having the edge in terms of pricing. Both these factors will do a lot to swing those people who are not waiting specifically for some game on whatever platform.
At any given time since the PS3's launch I could have looked at the games available on each console and the prices of each and decided immediately that it was a choice between Wii and XBox 360. I'm sure other people have been in the same situation as I am and many of them will have acted on their decision before now. Sony has lost all of these customers because the PS3 is too expensive and the range of games is too small and severely lacking in blockbuster titles.
Pretty much all of this is really obvious, so I do wonder if Sony don't have some masterplan which involves the PS3 actually underperforming, lulling MS and Nintendo into a false sense of security, before Sony deals the death blow to their rivals...
Wide angle shot of people milling around town shouting "TP PLS" over and over again. Some jump cuts of a sorceress of teleporting through to Baal A few minutes of crazy-intense ultraviolence (or loads and loads of bonewalls) with heavy metal soundtrack Then a tear-jerking soft-focus moment as one of the party lies dying. His final words are "dam lag" Oscar winning material right there...
I'm not sure how likely this is, but that hasn't stopped anyone else speculating; perhaps they did have their site ready, but something about the fact that it was hosted on Linux servers rather than Windows ones was causing problems?
I think the point is that the move was unplanned or hastily arranged. At least according to the rampant speculation in the article, that is...
or suggesting that asylum seekers are the natural enemies of paedophiles. daily mail readers will be very confused... (UK-centric humour will probably mean getting modded down, but meh)
Of all the websites on the internet, I would not expect this to qualify as "news" on slashdot. I recently moved from windows to ubuntu myself. There is nothing I really miss that much about windows except occasionally playing halflife 2 or civ 4. But the lack of spyware, virus checkers and so on makes up for that... When I buy a new PC though, I will want windows, because that will be able to play games whereas this old laptop can't...
... wait. It does. Never mind.