Yes, Google Earth has updated images of the region. You can tell because they are obviously satellite photos and not overflight. Notice that everything is shot from straight up instead of the normal angle and also note the lack of color.
Read the article, and you'd see that they explain how authorities helped facilitate new images.
I understand your point. The wii is behind even the PS3 in terms of overall game selection (that's an opinion), but the wii is cheap and looks great on a cheap TV. That's a big deal. You can play gamecube games (And a lot of wii owners didn't have a gamecube).
If you own a wii right now, you're an early adopter. I think you should expect a drought of games. One thing's for sure: you will have your games soon enough. Developers will not ignore the wii, but it takes time for that to reach your living room.
Next time, if you get upset when your console doesn't have a bunch of games... don't buy your console until it's been out long enough to have a bunch of games. You paid a premium for early access to a cool toy, and wiser consumers (than you or me, since I buy the new stuff too) will get better systems for less money.
yeah, they are absolutely abusing their customers. The PS3 is basically like giving Sony a gift, and it's not a very cost effecgtive purchase.
Why do people ask these questions? are you being sarcastic? Perhaps you thought I love Sony or something. I do like Sony type companies, but they can just as well be apple or nintendo for all I care.
The PS2 is and will probably be for decandes the peak of success in this industry. Stating that banal fact does not a fanboy make.
I own a wii, but I'm not an idiot. Nintendo has a nice system that isn't very useful for anything but games... which is exactly what I have it for (really it's my daughter's, but it's my house and I play boxing on it quite a bit).
Zooming in on text sucks. Are you typing this from your wii? Probably not. even though that couch is so comfy, you need a higher resolution to have a decent amount of information in front of your god damn eyeballs.
Why don't you sit ten feet from your computer screen andenlarge your text to where you can read it. Is that nicer?
Get a god damn 720p TV for 600 bucks and get a nice old pc for 300 and get a nice new wireless keyboard and mouse. That's what I'm using to type right now. It's more expensive than a wii, but you get the TV.
Nobody is attacking nintendo, so you can resist your urge to chime in and defend it. How odd that people do that! I remember last time I said something benign about an iphone I got modded a troll. We truly do live in a corporate culture. To the point where corporations are devoutly worshiped. Nintendo is neat. I'm sure they will release another terrible game system eventually (soon, probably), because that's what Nintendo does usually. Sony is doing it today, and your savior will do it tomorrow. But the wii is a great system so long as you leave it to games.
This is obviously the biggest problem. The gays who have the most to lose because of unsympathetic constituents are obviously the most vulnerable to blackmail. This is extremely obvious stuff. Dems have held office after doing much more sordid things by using the "so what?" defense. It's a good defense.
Oh wait, Karl Rove is gay? Because you don't like him? I want to give you an obnoxious response explaining that this is homophobic behavior currently much in vogue on the left. But I'm really tired and don't give a shit.
Anyway, you are right to worry about this. It's apparently not uncommon for republicans to be... not only gay, but extremely irresponsible bathroom and page folding weirdos. Craig has been making some very strange moves lately. On immigration his actions were extremely unpopular and totally unlike his original positions. And this stuff was apparently being kept secret during that time. (and then they release it anyway, heh) Perhaps this is a good thing. A lot of republicans aren't going to vote for dems anyway, so they are stuck with socially liberal republicans, which is progress in my book.
Well, I imagine there were a fair number of gays in the Navy, but I doubt it was as rampant as you claim (perhaps you were in an unusual situation or your account is fictive).
The Army discharges approximately twice as many gays as the Navy. The Air Force is highest per capita, but it's a small force and I don't really consider it. The idea that the Navy is where the gays are is simply false.
The Marine Corps is pretty macho, and they call people fags a lot, but it's not like the Navy. That's just normal masculinity. I'm afraid there is a biological desire in heterosexual people to be repulsed by homosexuality. That may be un-pc, but it's also reality. IF you are straight, try to picture yourself graphically in a homosexual situation. OBviously it makes you uncomfortable.
There is a lot of stress about gays thanks to the lame policies forbidding gay behavior. But the fact that Marines say "fag" a lot does not indicate that there are a bunch of closeted gays. that's just propaganda. Like racism, there is a visceral and normal amount of politically innappropriate feelings about gays in normal people.
But no one claims that BMW sells a crappier car than gm just because they sell far fewer. The Sony PS3 is a great little toy. It's an interesting and useful device for some people.. people with lots of movies and media and blurays. It plays plenty of games, though not as many next gen titles as the 360, it still plays about 9000 games. It's not as good for gaming as the 360 (I prefer the online selection on XBOX live when I get bored). The PS3 is trying something innovative. It's pushing a format somewhat well that will earn more than ten times what Nintendo will earn from the wii and more than the PS2 earned if Sony succeeds.
Who cares if it's going to be the most popular system? Any great game will cross platforms (and probably look fine on PS3.
It is so bizarre that so many people deeply care about seeing Sony fail in an industry that is only good due to competition. Nintendo is a pretty cool company now... and so obviously would not be had Sony not shattered Nintendo's wildest dreams of success in video games. Yeah, Sony isn't the market leader. Premium brands don't work that way. The PS2 and the PS3 are different strategies entirely.
Now, this article will have what effect? It will chill people from buying 600$ 80 gig PS3s. Gee, I wonder if that's what Microsoft wants to happen? Hmmmm, it's kinda interesting how any story, no matter how benign, that mentions Halo3 is pushed to the front, and most Sony stories that are good are not covered here.
It's almost as though Microsoft was paying for some kind of editorial bias... just as they have done in the past. That last thing we want is for the XBOX brand to succeed. I love my XBOX 360, but it's so clear that it is only nice because of Sony.
60 gig drives cost more than 80 gig drives. Sony is doing wise marketing. Sure, you can change the HDD yourself, but the vast majority of consumers aren't taking that into account.
And I was exposed to all branches for long periods of time. You will not find a less gay friendly place than the Navy. Even the Marines are more tolerant. It's because of the hollywood archetyping of the navy as gay that the navy has had such a buildup of anger about it. The 1993 DADT policy greatly increased the problem, and violence against gays has increased by about an exponent from 1993-1999 (no idea of the exact recent statistic, but it has increased greatly up to today)
Gays int he military are usually quite good. dedicated to serve in spite of additional hassle. The Brits have been open for a while, and they are, man for man, extremely effective. I'm not implying that there is some kind of problem with gayness in the military.
But this is typical trash propaganda. Sounds ludicrously paranoid, but the fact is that there is an effort to portray soldiers as feminine weakling children or sociopathic monsters. You'll find most gays in the Army. You'll find the fewest in the Navy.
I know that there was a slashdot story that left out the vast majority of sales to give people the impression that the XBOX 360 is still outselling the PS3, but it's not. It's actually selling about half as many.
When you don't include qualifiers, you are implicitly saying "in the entire world" and Sony is dramatically improving their run at second place. But you are right that Sony is too far upmarket to "Win" anything but billions upon billions of dollars. The worst and best thing about the PS3 is that it is tied to bluray. It will certainly break even on its own (you'd have to be a total nut not to grant this is obvious). With bluray, it's going to make a ton of money.
I don't understand your tone. You say things like "its embarrassing" as though PS3 owner's souls are tied to this machine somehow. It's already got a small number of good games and it's got some interesting capabilities. My daughter uses it as her personal computer. Why should I care if the XBOX is more successful (if I didn't own one myself)? $600 for a toy I use often for five years is a great deal! It's over? Maybe for some Sony exec who made a ridiculous promise of domination, but that's just not important to normal people.
Remember also, the PS3 has the farthest to fall in price. What happens in three or four years? Many people really do see the PS3 as a luxury item, and if it were $350 in a few years, that thing would sell fine. Would the next XBOX be able to steal the thunder? I expect they will be serving different markets.
Brand loyalty is awesome. Sure, Chevy makes an ok car right now, but I buy Honda because they have never let me down.
Lots of people liked what Sony gave them for the past many years. If they want to reward that satisfaction, that seems pretty sound.
Sony will have to get the games, of course, but barring that, they will be tougher to beat than many believe. They have gone far upmarket from PS2, so that will cost them a ton of people (but I don't see most of those going to the XBOX, but rather staying with the PS2 for a long time).
That guy who always buys nintendo because he has always loved what they gave him can be called "rapid fanoy" I guess, but he's happy and you are mad enough to schreech "fucking moron", so it seems he comes out the winner in this situation (switch any console or product and this applies).
I understand why you're pissed. It's amazing how angry people are about products they don't own. But it's cool to like companies like Sony (and samsung and apple and the like). Those companies take huge risks with billions of dollars hoping that their stuff will be so cool it takes off. The result is a cool world. Personally, I really like Sony type companies for that attitude.
The PS@ was the king of hardware. Yep, I said it. It had the best hardware design. It was easy to make a shitload of those fuckers efficiently, so the price plummeted.
PS2 is the king of all video game systems of all generations. No NES or SNES can approach it. Only the Gameboy and the PSone are in the same ballpark. It brought more people into gaming than any other system, and it did it with games (and shit competition from Nintendo and Microsoft). It was cheap enough for just about any bored young man. Sony knows how to make a bunch of cheap hardware, and I have little doubt that their playbook calls for a cheap PS4 for the masses and they understand all the whines about how bloated and expensive the PS3 is. This round is about the billions of dollars they (think they can) earn from blueray.
PS2 was the king of game variety. The wii will suffer with PS2 ports for its entire lifecycle (but the wii rocks anyway).
The parent was explaining that make "fanbois" bought into the emotion engine hype and that Saddam export story and thought the PS2 was some kind of supercomputer bargain. I was shocked when it turned out that the Cell was actually genuinely impressive after so many fell for the exact same line for the EE. And yeah, it is hard for me to believe that the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2, though it objectively was (but it's hard to believe that the Wii is more powerful than the PS2, if you just look at a few good games on each system).
Um, it's good that lik-sang was shut down. Microsoft and Nintendo sued them too, you know. Because that company existed largely to help people copy games... which meant lower paid game programmers and less games out there.
You seem to think you are a "gamer" as though that's some sort of honor. I love games too, and if you really enjoy this artform, you would want people who are willing to harm it for a quick buck to be stopped.
Sony is annoying sometimes. That rootkit was bad (but they paid for it and it's over) and their marketing is arrogant and embarrassingly bad. You seem to think people can't be loyal to a company that provided them with great games and consoles (the two most popular ever, by a huge factor). Those hundreds of millions may not represent gamers to you, but that just makes you crazy.
Your crazed hatred of Sony makes you some kind of nut. Their produt isn't that compelling. Just don't buy it then, no need to be so aggressively threatened by it!
The price drop, of course, is part of why the late adopters are smart. Also, the kinds are worked out by then. Ask 360 players. I would hope that the 360s sold today are more reliable than the old ones that cost more.
Obviously hardware is better than emulation, but the fact is that the emulation is quite good right now and will be god damn close to perfect in the future.
I do realize that the hardware PS3s upscale just as well as the software versions, but they are decidedly inferior in many respects, such as heat and noise.
The paranoid side to me has always wondered why the XBOX is so mechanically unreliable. Microsoft knows how to make reliable hardware. The world is a cutthroat place, so I wonder is Sony has better relations with the better fabricators and how that affected reliability for competitors. Frankly, even the wii has had manufacturing hardship (can't make them as quickly as they should).
Sony has a lot of pull in the electronics production world.
In fact,I think most analysts expected the PS3 to be bloated and expensive and fail because so many gamers lack the disposable income for a 1080p PS3 type system. Everybody knew the PS3 was a waste of money. Even Sony had to make apologias for it.
Anyway, these numbers are wrong. Sony is so strong in Europe that to not count that section is probably just an attempt to hype the XBOX (on Slashdot? Never!!!)
Sony has sold 2 PS3s for every XBOX 360 sold in July. Period. And that's without any good games. The XBOX already has the great lineup, but the system is boring. The PS3 hasn't even hit its stride yet.
Microsoft has to FUD out this statistic (which isn't counting most of the world because that's the only way the 360 can win) because they have run out of time to beat the PS3. And let me tell you, you would be an imbecile to buy a PS3 (the price certainly isn't going up, there will always be a 500$ version and eventually a much cheaper version). But you'd be even dumber to get a 360. It's just another clone of the playstation. Same basic idea. The PS3 really changes the idea of what a living room console is. So does the wii. The XBOX is just the cheapest possible way to get pretty graphics before breakdown. Not to even mention the fact that Sony's priority was just to establish bluray rather than win the console "war"
The Wii is competing against the PS2, and Sony already won that battle long ago (how's that original XBOX and Gamecube doing?). It's funny how Sony's winning with games in one market and winning despite not having any in another market.
Now I forget, is Sony selling three or four times as many consoles as microsoft these days? Oh yeah, it's really like five times as many if you count the PSP. And none of the Sony consoles are worth buying. But Microsoft just doesn't have what it takes.
Chances are all 12 of those games would work on the software emulation today. And chances are even higher once you realize that software emulation will be even better in a few years when he upgrades. The people with software emulation now are the ones reporting the bugs that get fixed for the smarter late adopters. That's why the software emulation has improved so quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, Google Earth has updated images of the region. You can tell because they are obviously satellite photos and not overflight. Notice that everything is shot from straight up instead of the normal angle and also note the lack of color.
Read the article, and you'd see that they explain how authorities helped facilitate new images.
I understand your point. The wii is behind even the PS3 in terms of overall game selection (that's an opinion), but the wii is cheap and looks great on a cheap TV. That's a big deal. You can play gamecube games (And a lot of wii owners didn't have a gamecube).
If you own a wii right now, you're an early adopter. I think you should expect a drought of games. One thing's for sure: you will have your games soon enough. Developers will not ignore the wii, but it takes time for that to reach your living room.
Next time, if you get upset when your console doesn't have a bunch of games... don't buy your console until it's been out long enough to have a bunch of games. You paid a premium for early access to a cool toy, and wiser consumers (than you or me, since I buy the new stuff too) will get better systems for less money.
yeah, they are absolutely abusing their customers. The PS3 is basically like giving Sony a gift, and it's not a very cost effecgtive purchase.
Why do people ask these questions? are you being sarcastic? Perhaps you thought I love Sony or something. I do like Sony type companies, but they can just as well be apple or nintendo for all I care.
The PS2 is and will probably be for decandes the peak of success in this industry. Stating that banal fact does not a fanboy make.
I own a wii, but I'm not an idiot. Nintendo has a nice system that isn't very useful for anything but games... which is exactly what I have it for (really it's my daughter's, but it's my house and I play boxing on it quite a bit).
Zooming in on text sucks. Are you typing this from your wii? Probably not. even though that couch is so comfy, you need a higher resolution to have a decent amount of information in front of your god damn eyeballs.
Why don't you sit ten feet from your computer screen andenlarge your text to where you can read it. Is that nicer?
Get a god damn 720p TV for 600 bucks and get a nice old pc for 300 and get a nice new wireless keyboard and mouse. That's what I'm using to type right now. It's more expensive than a wii, but you get the TV.
Nobody is attacking nintendo, so you can resist your urge to chime in and defend it. How odd that people do that! I remember last time I said something benign about an iphone I got modded a troll. We truly do live in a corporate culture. To the point where corporations are devoutly worshiped. Nintendo is neat. I'm sure they will release another terrible game system eventually (soon, probably), because that's what Nintendo does usually. Sony is doing it today, and your savior will do it tomorrow. But the wii is a great system so long as you leave it to games.
yeah, you are confused.
... not only gay, but extremely irresponsible bathroom and page folding weirdos. Craig has been making some very strange moves lately. On immigration his actions were extremely unpopular and totally unlike his original positions. And this stuff was apparently being kept secret during that time. (and then they release it anyway, heh) Perhaps this is a good thing. A lot of republicans aren't going to vote for dems anyway, so they are stuck with socially liberal republicans, which is progress in my book.
This is obviously the biggest problem. The gays who have the most to lose because of unsympathetic constituents are obviously the most vulnerable to blackmail. This is extremely obvious stuff. Dems have held office after doing much more sordid things by using the "so what?" defense. It's a good defense.
Oh wait, Karl Rove is gay? Because you don't like him? I want to give you an obnoxious response explaining that this is homophobic behavior currently much in vogue on the left. But I'm really tired and don't give a shit.
Anyway, you are right to worry about this. It's apparently not uncommon for republicans to be
I don't understand. I'm talking about hundreds of incidents of violence. Thousands over the years, but hundreds per year. Some involving death.
The Army is a place of great people, but don't ask don't tell causes unnecessary problems, and the bad apples prove it.
Well, I imagine there were a fair number of gays in the Navy, but I doubt it was as rampant as you claim (perhaps you were in an unusual situation or your account is fictive).
The Army discharges approximately twice as many gays as the Navy. The Air Force is highest per capita, but it's a small force and I don't really consider it. The idea that the Navy is where the gays are is simply false.
The Marine Corps is pretty macho, and they call people fags a lot, but it's not like the Navy. That's just normal masculinity. I'm afraid there is a biological desire in heterosexual people to be repulsed by homosexuality. That may be un-pc, but it's also reality. IF you are straight, try to picture yourself graphically in a homosexual situation. OBviously it makes you uncomfortable.
There is a lot of stress about gays thanks to the lame policies forbidding gay behavior. But the fact that Marines say "fag" a lot does not indicate that there are a bunch of closeted gays. that's just propaganda. Like racism, there is a visceral and normal amount of politically innappropriate feelings about gays in normal people.
Submariners are the most intelligent large group of people in the entire military. Of course they are more civilized.
This whole damn thread is getting ridiculous.
But no one claims that BMW sells a crappier car than
gm just because they sell far fewer. The Sony PS3 is a great little toy. It's an interesting and useful device for some people.. people with lots of movies and media and blurays. It plays plenty of games, though not as many next gen titles as the 360, it still plays about 9000 games. It's not as good for gaming as the 360 (I prefer the online selection on XBOX live when I get bored). The PS3 is trying something innovative. It's pushing a format somewhat well that will earn more than ten times what Nintendo will earn from the wii and more than the PS2 earned if Sony succeeds.
Who cares if it's going to be the most popular system? Any great game will cross platforms (and probably look fine on PS3.
It is so bizarre that so many people deeply care about seeing Sony fail in an industry that is only good due to competition. Nintendo is a pretty cool company now... and so obviously would not be had Sony not shattered Nintendo's wildest dreams of success in video games. Yeah, Sony isn't the market leader. Premium brands don't work that way. The PS2 and the PS3 are different strategies entirely.
Now, this article will have what effect? It will chill people from buying 600$ 80 gig PS3s. Gee, I wonder if that's what Microsoft wants to happen? Hmmmm, it's kinda interesting how any story, no matter how benign, that mentions Halo3 is pushed to the front, and most Sony stories that are good are not covered here.
It's almost as though Microsoft was paying for some kind of editorial bias... just as they have done in the past. That last thing we want is for the XBOX brand to succeed. I love my XBOX 360, but it's so clear that it is only nice because of Sony.
60 gig drives cost more than 80 gig drives. Sony is doing wise marketing. Sure, you can change the HDD yourself, but the vast majority of consumers aren't taking that into account.
Resolution is difficult to read for (anyone) people who wear glasses.
The PS3's browser is (barely) ok on an HDTV, but obviously that's a stupid choice at 1200$ or so.
Why not an old laptop with a livecd? If they mess it up, they reset the computer.
I served for a long time.
And I was exposed to all branches for long periods of time. You will not find a less gay friendly place than the Navy. Even the Marines are more tolerant. It's because of the hollywood archetyping of the navy as gay that the navy has had such a buildup of anger about it. The 1993 DADT policy greatly increased the problem, and violence against gays has increased by about an exponent from 1993-1999 (no idea of the exact recent statistic, but it has increased greatly up to today)
Gays int he military are usually quite good. dedicated to serve in spite of additional hassle. The Brits have been open for a while, and they are, man for man, extremely effective. I'm not implying that there is some kind of problem with gayness in the military.
But this is typical trash propaganda. Sounds ludicrously paranoid, but the fact is that there is an effort to portray soldiers as feminine weakling children or sociopathic monsters. You'll find most gays in the Army. You'll find the fewest in the Navy.
I know that there was a slashdot story that left out the vast majority of sales to give people the impression that the XBOX 360 is still outselling the PS3, but it's not. It's actually selling about half as many.
When you don't include qualifiers, you are implicitly saying "in the entire world" and Sony is dramatically improving their run at second place. But you are right that Sony is too far upmarket to "Win" anything but billions upon billions of dollars. The worst and best thing about the PS3 is that it is tied to bluray. It will certainly break even on its own (you'd have to be a total nut not to grant this is obvious). With bluray, it's going to make a ton of money.
I don't understand your tone. You say things like "its embarrassing" as though PS3 owner's souls are tied to this machine somehow. It's already got a small number of good games and it's got some interesting capabilities. My daughter uses it as her personal computer. Why should I care if the XBOX is more successful (if I didn't own one myself)? $600 for a toy I use often for five years is a great deal! It's over? Maybe for some Sony exec who made a ridiculous promise of domination, but that's just not important to normal people.
Remember also, the PS3 has the farthest to fall in price. What happens in three or four years? Many people really do see the PS3 as a luxury item, and if it were $350 in a few years, that thing would sell fine. Would the next XBOX be able to steal the thunder? I expect they will be serving different markets.
Brand loyalty is awesome. Sure, Chevy makes an ok car right now, but I buy Honda because they have never let me down.
Lots of people liked what Sony gave them for the past many years. If they want to reward that satisfaction, that seems pretty sound.
Sony will have to get the games, of course, but barring that, they will be tougher to beat than many believe. They have gone far upmarket from PS2, so that will cost them a ton of people (but I don't see most of those going to the XBOX, but rather staying with the PS2 for a long time).
That guy who always buys nintendo because he has always loved what they gave him can be called "rapid fanoy" I guess, but he's happy and you are mad enough to schreech "fucking moron", so it seems he comes out the winner in this situation (switch any console or product and this applies).
I understand why you're pissed. It's amazing how angry people are about products they don't own. But it's cool to like companies like Sony (and samsung and apple and the like). Those companies take huge risks with billions of dollars hoping that their stuff will be so cool it takes off. The result is a cool world. Personally, I really like Sony type companies for that attitude.
to be fair, most of those PS2 owners are just going to stick to their PS2s.
Or if they are poor, they might get a wii (some will anyway, though the wii doesn't have the games to really be compared with the PS2 yet).
But the PS2 is the best system for people with a normal TV and a budget. It's going to be the twenty year system.
The PS@ was the king of hardware. Yep, I said it. It had the best hardware design. It was easy to make a shitload of those fuckers efficiently, so the price plummeted.
PS2 is the king of all video game systems of all generations. No NES or SNES can approach it. Only the Gameboy and the PSone are in the same ballpark. It brought more people into gaming than any other system, and it did it with games (and shit competition from Nintendo and Microsoft). It was cheap enough for just about any bored young man. Sony knows how to make a bunch of cheap hardware, and I have little doubt that their playbook calls for a cheap PS4 for the masses and they understand all the whines about how bloated and expensive the PS3 is. This round is about the billions of dollars they (think they can) earn from blueray.
PS2 was the king of game variety. The wii will suffer with PS2 ports for its entire lifecycle (but the wii rocks anyway).
The parent was explaining that make "fanbois" bought into the emotion engine hype and that Saddam export story and thought the PS2 was some kind of supercomputer bargain. I was shocked when it turned out that the Cell was actually genuinely impressive after so many fell for the exact same line for the EE. And yeah, it is hard for me to believe that the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2, though it objectively was (but it's hard to believe that the Wii is more powerful than the PS2, if you just look at a few good games on each system).
Um, it's good that lik-sang was shut down. Microsoft and Nintendo sued them too, you know. Because that company existed largely to help people copy games... which meant lower paid game programmers and less games out there.
You seem to think you are a "gamer" as though that's some sort of honor. I love games too, and if you really enjoy this artform, you would want people who are willing to harm it for a quick buck to be stopped.
Sony is annoying sometimes. That rootkit was bad (but they paid for it and it's over) and their marketing is arrogant and embarrassingly bad. You seem to think people can't be loyal to a company that provided them with great games and consoles (the two most popular ever, by a huge factor). Those hundreds of millions may not represent gamers to you, but that just makes you crazy.
Your crazed hatred of Sony makes you some kind of nut. Their produt isn't that compelling. Just don't buy it then, no need to be so aggressively threatened by it!
And fuck lik-sang.
secret gays can be blackmailed. overt ones are fine, of course.
kinds=kinks and me=didn't preview
The price drop, of course, is part of why the late adopters are smart. Also, the kinds are worked out by then. Ask 360 players. I would hope that the 360s sold today are more reliable than the old ones that cost more.
Obviously hardware is better than emulation, but the fact is that the emulation is quite good right now and will be god damn close to perfect in the future.
I do realize that the hardware PS3s upscale just as well as the software versions, but they are decidedly inferior in many respects, such as heat and noise.
The paranoid side to me has always wondered why the XBOX is so mechanically unreliable. Microsoft knows how to make reliable hardware. The world is a cutthroat place, so I wonder is Sony has better relations with the better fabricators and how that affected reliability for competitors. Frankly, even the wii has had manufacturing hardship (can't make them as quickly as they should).
Sony has a lot of pull in the electronics production world.
No, I don't remember that.
In fact,I think most analysts expected the PS3 to be bloated and expensive and fail because so many gamers lack the disposable income for a 1080p PS3 type system. Everybody knew the PS3 was a waste of money. Even Sony had to make apologias for it.
Anyway, these numbers are wrong. Sony is so strong in Europe that to not count that section is probably just an attempt to hype the XBOX (on Slashdot? Never!!!)
Sony has sold 2 PS3s for every XBOX 360 sold in July. Period. And that's without any good games. The XBOX already has the great lineup, but the system is boring. The PS3 hasn't even hit its stride yet.
Microsoft has to FUD out this statistic (which isn't counting most of the world because that's the only way the 360 can win) because they have run out of time to beat the PS3. And let me tell you, you would be an imbecile to buy a PS3 (the price certainly isn't going up, there will always be a 500$ version and eventually a much cheaper version). But you'd be even dumber to get a 360. It's just another clone of the playstation. Same basic idea. The PS3 really changes the idea of what a living room console is. So does the wii. The XBOX is just the cheapest possible way to get pretty graphics before breakdown. Not to even mention the fact that Sony's priority was just to establish bluray rather than win the console "war"
The Wii is competing against the PS2, and Sony already won that battle long ago (how's that original XBOX and Gamecube doing?). It's funny how Sony's winning with games in one market and winning despite not having any in another market.
Now I forget, is Sony selling three or four times as many consoles as microsoft these days? Oh yeah, it's really like five times as many if you count the PSP. And none of the Sony consoles are worth buying. But Microsoft just doesn't have what it takes.
Chances are all 12 of those games would work on the software emulation today. And chances are even higher once you realize that software emulation will be even better in a few years when he upgrades. The people with software emulation now are the ones reporting the bugs that get fixed for the smarter late adopters. That's why the software emulation has improved so quickly.