Sounds like they are trying to be responsible retailers, according to their own reasonable definitions. Every store should have the right (and does in most places) to stock what games or products it wants, and if they think a title is not good for their customers, they don't stock it. Not sure why this is news.
Reasonable? How is banning a game with no death, gore or killing reasonable when they sell they are happy to sell Saint's Row (swearing, murder, drugs, gang violence), Call of Duty 3 (realistic violence), or Company of Heroes (violence, swearing), or take pre-orders for GTA 4 (what the fuck?), Hitman: Blood Money (murder, violence) all through their pcworld.co.uk website. That isn't reasonable, that's hypocrisy. Besides, the Bully game has a 15 rating in Europe. If they are being reasonable and consistent they should pull all 15 & 18 rated games.
It's one thing to stop kids from buying games that are rated. It's quite another to irrationally and erroneously single out one particular game when there are far worse ones on their shelves.
The PS3 might since it supports Linux - Yellow Dog Linux in fact. The big question is can you have Linux on your console without disrupting your ability to play games. If the answer is yes, the PS3 will kick ass.
I think the thing people don't realize is that the Xbox 360 didn't come early...
In one respect it probably did - DVD-9 simply won't cut it in a few years hence. The last-gen was already hitting the 4.5Gb barrier, so a simple doubling won't do much good for all the extra polys, textures, sounds, fmv etc that next-gen games need.
On the other hand, there has been a lot of speculation on whether the PS3's controller would be any good,
I expect that vast majority have expected the PS3 controller to behave virtually identically to the PS2 controller. About the only reported differences to the layout are the more trigger like L/R buttons, wider range & precision on the analogue controller and a Sony button instead of the analog button. The Sony button probably takes you back to the system menu.
The lack of rumble is the most peculiar change. I know they had a lawsuit, but it would have been cool to stick some kind of speaker into the controller much like the Wii remote for other kinds of effects.
- Final software have not been shipped to developers yet
Says who? What does "final" mean anyway in a system which will upgrade its firmware over time? What does it mean to developers who expect and will receive updated versions of the SDK over time?
- Final hardware have not been shipped to developers yet
Says who? A quick google of "final developers kit ps3" yields an article from August that says otherwise. Interestingly it says "Speaking of LAN play, all eight dev kits were connected over the PlayStation Network in real time, which exhibited no lag whatsoever." which leads on to...
- Final online specs have not been shipped to developers yet
Again, says who? Just because YOU don't know what the PS3 has in the way of online goodies, doesn't mean developers don't. Clearly its enough for Insomniac to offer multiplayer in Resistance Fall of Man, but multiplayer titles it is clear that the PS3 doesn't have many online multiplayer launch titles. Neither does the Wii.
Will either system offer a 1:1 mapping with XBox Live? I don't know. The list for the PNP system as shown on Wikipedia seems fairly comprehensive. I have no idea what Wii offers.
And even if either system is lacking something, does that mean it will be lacking it forever? Tell me any kind of online service that has offered absolutely everything from day 1 without a single incremental improvement or new feature.
Yet the developers are supposed to be producing games based on these shaky specifications? How are they possibly going to have time to beta test before manufacturing? How would they know how to add online support if the service isn't up yet?
So describe the network gaming on the Wii please. The fact is that Nintendo hasn't said exactly what it is yet, not even to 3rd party developers. And if you don't know, why are you slagging off Sony for not revealing details to your satisfaction when Nintendo hasn't either? Perhaps Sony & Nintendo know how disastrous it would be if their online system went down on day 1. In that regard, Microsoft had an advantage since their XBox Live service had years of development and experience to build on. Perhaps both Sony and Nintendo have in their own ways chosen to restrict online play until they have a few months to iron out any glitches in their respective systems.
It doesn't even say it's a final production controller either. From the sounds of it the machine and the controller were some late prototypes that Sony drones are dragging around and not necessarily indicative of the final product.
Attach the "Zonked" tag for such a blantant re-writing of article content.
Quite. See how far you get if you submit an article about alleged problems with the Wii and sunlight, or Wii consoles locking up.
The answer is yes Zonk does pick and choose stories and it's incredibly childish. A site like Kotaku.com is far better for gaming news which hasn't been tainted by the editor's hard-on for one particular console. Every platform gets praise and damnation as the site sees fit and there's enough to go around. Alternatively 1up.com has an excellent weekly video and radio cast where you get some very animated discussion from all view points.
"In the works". I'm not buying a system just to wait a year or two to play a game that might end up being cancelled.
Then you're not buying any console of any kind. Whether its 20, 100 or more likely 1000s of games over its lifetime, the Sony will make revenues from all of them. Which was the original point that you twisted out of all recognition..
Peripherals are pocket change when you consider the costs involved, the competition from 3rd manufacturers and the fact that THEY DON'T SELL if the system itself doesn't sell.
The costs involved? A wii-mote plus nunchuk costs $60. You'd have to ask Nintendo what it costs to make but I bet $15 isn't too far from the mark. I'm pretty certain that Sony will be flogging HDMI cables for $30 that cost them $5 to make, SD/MMC/CF reader kits for $60 when they cost $10 etc. Every console maker does it. EB Games is even selling the Wii in 3 different bundles at launch with various accessories, knowing full well that buyers will bite. Even the 2 models of XBox 360 & PS3 are basically bundles with the $100 difference being an easy way for MS & Sony to make extra cash from a few trinkets that cost them far less than the price differential.
Even 3rd party accessories can make them money through patent licences, copyrights on controller layouts, proprietary formats & protocols and so on.
MMOs, downloadable content, tournaments and "Xbox Live style games" are developer decisions. Sony doesn't make anything on that. Music, radio and video are unproven due to current broadband limitations. VOIP will be free since they're using Xfire.
Sony is responsible for the portal so it is intimately their decision what form it takes, what things you pay for, what things you get in any bundled subscription model. Even if an MMO is created by somebody else, if the billing is via your PS3 account then Sony absolutely takes a cut from it. In other words they make money. Your music / radio / video comments are absurd - AOL has been pushing radio for years, iTunes & Amazon.com demonstrates that music and video downloads are feasible and practical, Napster demonstrates you could even offer some kind of monthly sub for music. There is nothing infeasible about any of them. As for VOIP, I was referring to Skype style services. A PS3 is a computer and capable of offering virtually any service that you get through your PC. The difference is that Sony provides the pipe that most of it must happen through and therefore they make money. Which was the point being made, and subsequently twisted again by you.
Hey, you know what that reminds me of? The PS2's network adaptor. It only took them 2 years to attach a network card, 56k modem and a hard drive together, but they did it!
So an internet enabled PS3 with integrated web browser, chat, friends, LAN (+ optional wifi), games & demo downloads and ultimately video & music downloads reminds you of a PS2 network adaptor? A second ago you're snorting about the basic services being free and now you're trying to dismiss the whole thing out of hand.
Hey, MS bashing AND "more space != better games" in the same paragraph! Good job there troll, now go show me a game that takes up more than 9.4 GB (a dual layered DVD) compressed.
Grow up moron. Some PS2 / XBox titles such as Final Fantasy, GTA, Metal Gear Solid etc. were already busting at the seams. Even doubling the capacity will not help that much when graphics, polys and textures need at least 4x the capacity, FMV at 10x capacity, 5:1 & stereo sound channels, multi-region versions of the same content. Sony claim 85% of their launch titles already need Blu-Ray capacity. The developers of Resistance: Fall of Man claim they use over 20Gb for the content. I have no idea what you mean by "compressed" or not - perhaps the content could be "compressed" by reducing the textures, or reducing the poly count, or cutting the sound channels, or cutting the locales, or degrading performance with on-th
Come off it. Sony hasn't exactly screamed about its online service but there have been enough nuggets along the way to know there is one. It's been known for a long time that it has a browser, demos have show the Singstar online store, demos of the UI have show the friends and chat functionality. They mightn't have sun their plans from the rooftops but it was quite obvious they were going to do something. And it's obviously going to develop over time too.
Besides, it's not as if Nintendo have fully disclosed what they are doing either. We know there are "channels" with various network snippets and an optional browser but they haven't said much at all about how the network gameplay system works. Why no snide articles about that?
Zonk is just trolling as usual. The only PS3 articles you see on Slashdot are negative or spun with some bullshit synopsis. The only Wii articles you see are positive or hyped. Kotaku.com is a far better place for rounded games news, or 1up.com's excellent video and radio casts.
What should be considered is that anyone absolutely seeking out a high performance filesystem is capable of installing it for themselves. For everyone else, what is important are reliability, self-repair, ease of maintenance, code maturity, general desktop performance, availability of tools and good information for when things go wrong. Nothing touches ext3 for those things. I have no idea what would be best for servers, but I suspect even many of those could function quite happily with ext3. For those that don't, Novell should build other filesystems into its kernel but leave it up to admins to decide what to do.
With few exceptions, Sony's lineup has nothing on Nintendo's all-star launch and Microsoft "our system is already out so show up or shut up."
What sort of lame comment is that? Sony will be gathering revenues through the entire life of the console, not just at the beginning. Wikipedia already lists 100 or so titles in the works, and there are 20 or so at launch.
Which are directly tied into the system's success. Peripherals don't sell systems, systems sell peripherals.
And? They're still revenue. Sony will make a tidy sum from people buying bluetooth remote controls, headsets and the like. MS and Nintendo also see peripherals as a source of easy money. Just look at the inflated price that Wii remotes sell for.
They just promised not to have monthly subs. And "premium" services are likely to be one-time purchases, not exactly a cash cow system.
No, they promised not to have monthly subs for various basic services. Doesn't mean they won't charge a sub for other things they deem to be premium. Such features might include some kinds of downloadable content, MMOs, music / radio / video streaming, XBox Live style games, VOIP, tournaments etc. Basically anything you could conceivably charge people to do on their computer on a monthly, top-up or once off basis.
Unless Sony has some kind of PS3 Online Arcade system in the works, I'm not seeing this happen anytime soon.
Sony have plans to rent and sell movies, music and games through their service. It's a perfectly natural and obvious way to make money from a system with a hard drive and the ability to download and play content. I have no idea what form that might take, but its absolutely certain it will appear sooner or later. Sony intend to reveal more info in the next week but its already known that Flow will be a downloadable game so clearly some infrastructure will exist at startup.
General concensus is: Don't hold your breath.
Blu-Ray stands a far better chance than HD-DVD and will continue to do so while Microsoft dither about supporting the format or not. Some ugly, external HD-DVD strap-on is not going to sell the format. Microsoft have to put the HD-DVD in the 360 and support HDMI if they want to compete against Blu-Ray. I expect they'll do so sometime next year. In the meantime, Sony will be selling millions of PS3s and have the jump on the format. Even if MS do support the format, their games will still be stuck on DVD and suffer by comparison.
Thats assuming Blu-Ray takes off in the first place.
Which they will if there are millions of PS3 owners. The number of HD-DVD & Blu-Ray owners is currently neglible. The launch of PS3 will flood the market with Blu-Ray players. Unless MS seriously takes up the fight, HD-DVD is screwed. If MS sits on the fence too long, the battle will already be over.
Sony is not a major seller of HD-TVs these days. They don't own the patents either. Sharp is destroying Sony (and the rest of the market) in marketshare as well.
Hogwash. A visit to any Sony Center reveals numerous HDTV models. Whether Sony are a major seller or not (I have no idea) is irrelevant. The clear fact is that they will sell more HDTVs because of the PS3. It may well be that other manufactures share in this too, but it is still revenue to Sony. Ironically they'd even coin it in from the XBox 360 too.
The only people who would probably benefit from this would be companies like Netgear. People don't exactly think Sony when they buy a wireless router.
LocationFree isn't a wireless router. Is is a room-to-room and over-internet television transmission system. The PS3 will be able to beam content such as movies to LocationFree enabled receivers, computers, TVs and the PSP in the house or over the web. It is similar to Apple's iTV but already exists.
The PS3 to PSP ties look pretty lamentable with one exception. The thing that interests me greatly is that the PSP is a LocationFree player. If the PS3 can stream movies as has been suggested, then you could stream content from your PS3 to your PSP anywhere in the house. And anywhere in the world assuming there is Wi-Fi nearby. That would be a pretty cool feature.
Otherwise I don't know how much cross over exists for Sony or Nintendo respectively. You might perhaps be able to copy file saves, or have some kind of photo / music sync function but nothing that would be that interesting.
On the subject of whether consoles make money, I think it's safe to say that all consoles make money. It may be they sell at a loss at launch, but after that it's pure gravy. Even the PS3 probably doesn't cost to make as much as anyone thinks. The "premium" version costing $100 more contains maybe $30 of additional components.
Is there any need for access to the system? I know with a certainty approaching 100% that if I choose to travel on certain days of the year, that there will be queues of people everywhere. I know if there is a strike or some other disruption that there will be queues everywhere. Queues at checkin, queues to go through X-ray. As a terrorist, all they need do is pick the right day, walk in the door, head for the nearest queue and kaboom. In some ways extra security has made it easier for the terrorist since the lines are longer.
People keep thinking that the PS3 has to recoup its money through games, and how can they possibly do that blah, blah, but look at the revenues open to Sony from this device:
Games (obviously)
Peripherals (like bluetooth TV remotes, headsets, controllers, keyboards / mice (?) etc.
Monthly subs from "premium" online services, whatever they happen to be
Online games, movies & music promote to buy, rent & (sell?)
Lots of licence fees if Blu-Ray wins the HD TV format war
Blu-Ray movies.
Increased sales of HD televisions.
Increase sales of LocationFree wireless room-to-room / internet streaming devices.
How well it does these things remain to be seen, but Sony has far more ways of making money than either MS or Nintendo do with their systems. The other consoles have their online systems, but all their other revenues must come from games. Perhaps that is why the PS3 sometimes appears to be a "kitchen-sink" system to catch all those revenues.
Okay, so they can keep close tabs on you in the airport. Yet, if you were intent on doing mischief, wouldn't you have done all your preparation before you even got there?
I'd be interested to know exactly what problem tagging everyone is supposed to solve. Airports are already compartmentalised and people must show their boarding card / passport to move from one area to the next . So what difference would an RFID tag make? It might actually weaken the system since humans will be less attentive than they are now. I suppose it might have marginal benefits such as when you're trying to locate a person exactly but it hardly appears to warrant the expense of the system.
Besides, a bad person who is intent on blowing themselves up on the plane makes every effort to abide by the same rules as other passengers. How does this system do anything at all to detect them? And terrorists who just want to kill a bunch of people at the airport can do that easily too - there are enough densely packed queues in airports to easily facilitate mass murder whether the terrorist has a valid passport, ticket, id or RFID or not. I'm surprised that it doesn't happen all the time. The queues are out the door on some days of the year.
Though I have reservations on what should happen if your account was hacked or Valve went out of business, Steam is by far the slickest online delivery mechanism I've seen. If I had to gripe is that I've tried to buy stuff on there before and my credit card has been rejected. But for demo delivery and ease of use, it takes some beating.
You only have to read the words of the article that you link to realise Google weren't "censoring" anything. It was a change in their stat gathering that affected all content. Their informed and reasonable response told the complainant as much. The problem of course is that Prison planet, Alex Jones and his viewer / listeners thrive on paranoid and irrational conspiracy shite. So it's no wonder that an appeal to their reason had no effect. They have none.
Why are they bitching now, and not for example when Fox attempted to yank all of the interview clips when Clinton kicked their ass a few weeks back?
Anyway, you can tell a lot about the readers of WND from the shit being peddled by the banner ads. Nuke alert keychains, gold investments, books trashing Islam, adopt a child for Jesus, send a bible to China etc. I had to laugh at this Google ad though - "Grow A+ brain in 30 days... Proven on CNN, NBC Today, CBS This Morning "
It's very hard to read what you're saying, but until AOL sacked most of the Netscape engineers, most of the work on Mozilla was done by Netscape. There were outside contributions, and some very dedicated outside volunteers. But the vast bulk of the work and the QA was done by Netscape. For close to 4 years Netscape gave away its code as open source and still paid people to work on it. It was under no compulsion to to use the GPL, or the MPL or the NPL. It was no under no compulsion to "set free" components like the NSPR, PSM or NSS which were shared with other projects like the Netscape / iPlanet suite of servers. Firefox & Thunderbird have their roots in internal projects that Netscape wanted to become AOL's standalone email client (AOL Communicator). AOL may have sacked its engineers but it was under no compulsion to set free the Mozilla brand, artwork, domains, source code, machines running all of this and give a healthy lump of startup cash to mozilla.org.
But it did. You appear to believe that just because there were outside volunteers that it somehow it entitles people to fuck around with the Mozilla or Firefox brand anyway they see fit and still pass it off as Mozilla Firefox. It doesn't. Debian has all the code, and can maintain it itself if it wants. Though I suspect most Debian users will just issue a collective sigh and get the official packages.
Who said they didn't? But if you have to forkout $299 for a device that plays streamed content, I know which one I'd pick if the choice is a kick ass console or some dumb terminal. Apple should strike a deal with Nintendo or something.
Besides, I'm saying that the whole arrangement is silly, whether it's an iTV or an XBox 360. Why does anyone need two devices turned on just to download and play a movie? The TIVO has a LAN and a harddrive. The PS3 can play music and video from its harddrive and it has a LAN connection too. Seems far more sensible to me that either of those devices sell movies and cheaper too. Probably that's exactly what Sony intend to do.
That doesn't make any sense either. Why does a user have to own a traditional PC of any kind in order download or play movies? It's utterly pointless and pushes the cost of this solution close to $1000 whether you use an iTV or your iPod with some kind of dock.
Any device capable of playing movies should be capable of downloading and storing them too. Apple's solution is just half-assed. They'd be better off modding the Mac Mini with a TV out and a FrontRow interface so that the thing functions under the TV. It's almost there now, so why they want to push an iTV is just weird. All this shit with docks or beaming from other computers is just expensive, convoluted and impractical
Mozilla has given a lot, the entire source code in fact. Mozilla started off closed source, then NPL, then MPL, then tri-licence MPL/GPL/LGPL. Debian has benefited enormously from it. This little spat is over them wanting to modify Firefox in ways that make it inconsistent with the branding and the trademark. They're free to do that, but why should the Mozilla Foundation budge an inch when Debian is diluting their branding by hacking the artwork, changing the search engines etc?
If I took Debian Linux and called it Debian Linux Platinum with extra pr0n and advertising links, do you think Debian would be happy? A glance on the Debian site shows they have text to protect their trademark so why shouldn't Mozilla with theirs?
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Reasonable? How is banning a game with no death, gore or killing reasonable when they sell they are happy to sell Saint's Row (swearing, murder, drugs, gang violence), Call of Duty 3 (realistic violence), or Company of Heroes (violence, swearing), or take pre-orders for GTA 4 (what the fuck?), Hitman: Blood Money (murder, violence) all through their pcworld.co.uk website. That isn't reasonable, that's hypocrisy. Besides, the Bully game has a 15 rating in Europe. If they are being reasonable and consistent they should pull all 15 & 18 rated games.
It's one thing to stop kids from buying games that are rated. It's quite another to irrationally and erroneously single out one particular game when there are far worse ones on their shelves.
The PS3 might since it supports Linux - Yellow Dog Linux in fact. The big question is can you have Linux on your console without disrupting your ability to play games. If the answer is yes, the PS3 will kick ass.
Speaking of joypads, I wonder how long it will take for somebody to hack the PS3 & Wii controllers to work with other Bluetooth devices.
In one respect it probably did - DVD-9 simply won't cut it in a few years hence. The last-gen was already hitting the 4.5Gb barrier, so a simple doubling won't do much good for all the extra polys, textures, sounds, fmv etc that next-gen games need.
I expect that vast majority have expected the PS3 controller to behave virtually identically to the PS2 controller. About the only reported differences to the layout are the more trigger like L/R buttons, wider range & precision on the analogue controller and a Sony button instead of the analog button. The Sony button probably takes you back to the system menu.
The lack of rumble is the most peculiar change. I know they had a lawsuit, but it would have been cool to stick some kind of speaker into the controller much like the Wii remote for other kinds of effects.
Says who? What does "final" mean anyway in a system which will upgrade its firmware over time? What does it mean to developers who expect and will receive updated versions of the SDK over time?
- Final hardware have not been shipped to developers yet
Says who? A quick google of "final developers kit ps3" yields an article from August that says otherwise. Interestingly it says "Speaking of LAN play, all eight dev kits were connected over the PlayStation Network in real time, which exhibited no lag whatsoever." which leads on to...
- Final online specs have not been shipped to developers yet
Again, says who? Just because YOU don't know what the PS3 has in the way of online goodies, doesn't mean developers don't. Clearly its enough for Insomniac to offer multiplayer in Resistance Fall of Man, but multiplayer titles it is clear that the PS3 doesn't have many online multiplayer launch titles. Neither does the Wii.
Will either system offer a 1:1 mapping with XBox Live? I don't know. The list for the PNP system as shown on Wikipedia seems fairly comprehensive. I have no idea what Wii offers.
And even if either system is lacking something, does that mean it will be lacking it forever? Tell me any kind of online service that has offered absolutely everything from day 1 without a single incremental improvement or new feature.
Yet the developers are supposed to be producing games based on these shaky specifications? How are they possibly going to have time to beta test before manufacturing? How would they know how to add online support if the service isn't up yet?
So describe the network gaming on the Wii please. The fact is that Nintendo hasn't said exactly what it is yet, not even to 3rd party developers. And if you don't know, why are you slagging off Sony for not revealing details to your satisfaction when Nintendo hasn't either? Perhaps Sony & Nintendo know how disastrous it would be if their online system went down on day 1. In that regard, Microsoft had an advantage since their XBox Live service had years of development and experience to build on. Perhaps both Sony and Nintendo have in their own ways chosen to restrict online play until they have a few months to iron out any glitches in their respective systems.
Attach the "Zonked" tag for such a blantant re-writing of article content.
Quite. See how far you get if you submit an article about alleged problems with the Wii and sunlight, or Wii consoles locking up.
The answer is yes Zonk does pick and choose stories and it's incredibly childish. A site like Kotaku.com is far better for gaming news which hasn't been tainted by the editor's hard-on for one particular console. Every platform gets praise and damnation as the site sees fit and there's enough to go around. Alternatively 1up.com has an excellent weekly video and radio cast where you get some very animated discussion from all view points.
Then you're not buying any console of any kind. Whether its 20, 100 or more likely 1000s of games over its lifetime, the Sony will make revenues from all of them. Which was the original point that you twisted out of all recognition..
Peripherals are pocket change when you consider the costs involved, the competition from 3rd manufacturers and the fact that THEY DON'T SELL if the system itself doesn't sell.
The costs involved? A wii-mote plus nunchuk costs $60. You'd have to ask Nintendo what it costs to make but I bet $15 isn't too far from the mark. I'm pretty certain that Sony will be flogging HDMI cables for $30 that cost them $5 to make, SD/MMC/CF reader kits for $60 when they cost $10 etc. Every console maker does it. EB Games is even selling the Wii in 3 different bundles at launch with various accessories, knowing full well that buyers will bite. Even the 2 models of XBox 360 & PS3 are basically bundles with the $100 difference being an easy way for MS & Sony to make extra cash from a few trinkets that cost them far less than the price differential.
Even 3rd party accessories can make them money through patent licences, copyrights on controller layouts, proprietary formats & protocols and so on.
MMOs, downloadable content, tournaments and "Xbox Live style games" are developer decisions. Sony doesn't make anything on that. Music, radio and video are unproven due to current broadband limitations. VOIP will be free since they're using Xfire.
Sony is responsible for the portal so it is intimately their decision what form it takes, what things you pay for, what things you get in any bundled subscription model. Even if an MMO is created by somebody else, if the billing is via your PS3 account then Sony absolutely takes a cut from it. In other words they make money. Your music / radio / video comments are absurd - AOL has been pushing radio for years, iTunes & Amazon.com demonstrates that music and video downloads are feasible and practical, Napster demonstrates you could even offer some kind of monthly sub for music. There is nothing infeasible about any of them. As for VOIP, I was referring to Skype style services. A PS3 is a computer and capable of offering virtually any service that you get through your PC. The difference is that Sony provides the pipe that most of it must happen through and therefore they make money. Which was the point being made, and subsequently twisted again by you.
Hey, you know what that reminds me of? The PS2's network adaptor. It only took them 2 years to attach a network card, 56k modem and a hard drive together, but they did it!
So an internet enabled PS3 with integrated web browser, chat, friends, LAN (+ optional wifi), games & demo downloads and ultimately video & music downloads reminds you of a PS2 network adaptor? A second ago you're snorting about the basic services being free and now you're trying to dismiss the whole thing out of hand.
Hey, MS bashing AND "more space != better games" in the same paragraph! Good job there troll, now go show me a game that takes up more than 9.4 GB (a dual layered DVD) compressed.
Grow up moron. Some PS2 / XBox titles such as Final Fantasy, GTA, Metal Gear Solid etc. were already busting at the seams. Even doubling the capacity will not help that much when graphics, polys and textures need at least 4x the capacity, FMV at 10x capacity, 5:1 & stereo sound channels, multi-region versions of the same content. Sony claim 85% of their launch titles already need Blu-Ray capacity. The developers of Resistance: Fall of Man claim they use over 20Gb for the content. I have no idea what you mean by "compressed" or not - perhaps the content could be "compressed" by reducing the textures, or reducing the poly count, or cutting the sound channels, or cutting the locales, or degrading performance with on-th
Besides, it's not as if Nintendo have fully disclosed what they are doing either. We know there are "channels" with various network snippets and an optional browser but they haven't said much at all about how the network gameplay system works. Why no snide articles about that?
Zonk is just trolling as usual. The only PS3 articles you see on Slashdot are negative or spun with some bullshit synopsis. The only Wii articles you see are positive or hyped. Kotaku.com is a far better place for rounded games news, or 1up.com's excellent video and radio casts.
What should be considered is that anyone absolutely seeking out a high performance filesystem is capable of installing it for themselves. For everyone else, what is important are reliability, self-repair, ease of maintenance, code maturity, general desktop performance, availability of tools and good information for when things go wrong. Nothing touches ext3 for those things. I have no idea what would be best for servers, but I suspect even many of those could function quite happily with ext3. For those that don't, Novell should build other filesystems into its kernel but leave it up to admins to decide what to do.
What sort of lame comment is that? Sony will be gathering revenues through the entire life of the console, not just at the beginning. Wikipedia already lists 100 or so titles in the works, and there are 20 or so at launch.
Which are directly tied into the system's success. Peripherals don't sell systems, systems sell peripherals.
And? They're still revenue. Sony will make a tidy sum from people buying bluetooth remote controls, headsets and the like. MS and Nintendo also see peripherals as a source of easy money. Just look at the inflated price that Wii remotes sell for.
They just promised not to have monthly subs. And "premium" services are likely to be one-time purchases, not exactly a cash cow system.
No, they promised not to have monthly subs for various basic services. Doesn't mean they won't charge a sub for other things they deem to be premium. Such features might include some kinds of downloadable content, MMOs, music / radio / video streaming, XBox Live style games, VOIP, tournaments etc. Basically anything you could conceivably charge people to do on their computer on a monthly, top-up or once off basis.
Unless Sony has some kind of PS3 Online Arcade system in the works, I'm not seeing this happen anytime soon.
Sony have plans to rent and sell movies, music and games through their service. It's a perfectly natural and obvious way to make money from a system with a hard drive and the ability to download and play content. I have no idea what form that might take, but its absolutely certain it will appear sooner or later. Sony intend to reveal more info in the next week but its already known that Flow will be a downloadable game so clearly some infrastructure will exist at startup.
General concensus is: Don't hold your breath.
Blu-Ray stands a far better chance than HD-DVD and will continue to do so while Microsoft dither about supporting the format or not. Some ugly, external HD-DVD strap-on is not going to sell the format. Microsoft have to put the HD-DVD in the 360 and support HDMI if they want to compete against Blu-Ray. I expect they'll do so sometime next year. In the meantime, Sony will be selling millions of PS3s and have the jump on the format. Even if MS do support the format, their games will still be stuck on DVD and suffer by comparison.
Thats assuming Blu-Ray takes off in the first place.
Which they will if there are millions of PS3 owners. The number of HD-DVD & Blu-Ray owners is currently neglible. The launch of PS3 will flood the market with Blu-Ray players. Unless MS seriously takes up the fight, HD-DVD is screwed. If MS sits on the fence too long, the battle will already be over.
Sony is not a major seller of HD-TVs these days. They don't own the patents either. Sharp is destroying Sony (and the rest of the market) in marketshare as well.
Hogwash. A visit to any Sony Center reveals numerous HDTV models. Whether Sony are a major seller or not (I have no idea) is irrelevant. The clear fact is that they will sell more HDTVs because of the PS3. It may well be that other manufactures share in this too, but it is still revenue to Sony. Ironically they'd even coin it in from the XBox 360 too.
The only people who would probably benefit from this would be companies like Netgear. People don't exactly think Sony when they buy a wireless router.
LocationFree isn't a wireless router. Is is a room-to-room and over-internet television transmission system. The PS3 will be able to beam content such as movies to LocationFree enabled receivers, computers, TVs and the PSP in the house or over the web. It is similar to Apple's iTV but already exists.
Otherwise I don't know how much cross over exists for Sony or Nintendo respectively. You might perhaps be able to copy file saves, or have some kind of photo / music sync function but nothing that would be that interesting.
On the subject of whether consoles make money, I think it's safe to say that all consoles make money. It may be they sell at a loss at launch, but after that it's pure gravy. Even the PS3 probably doesn't cost to make as much as anyone thinks. The "premium" version costing $100 more contains maybe $30 of additional components.
Is there any need for access to the system? I know with a certainty approaching 100% that if I choose to travel on certain days of the year, that there will be queues of people everywhere. I know if there is a strike or some other disruption that there will be queues everywhere. Queues at checkin, queues to go through X-ray. As a terrorist, all they need do is pick the right day, walk in the door, head for the nearest queue and kaboom. In some ways extra security has made it easier for the terrorist since the lines are longer.
How well it does these things remain to be seen, but Sony has far more ways of making money than either MS or Nintendo do with their systems. The other consoles have their online systems, but all their other revenues must come from games. Perhaps that is why the PS3 sometimes appears to be a "kitchen-sink" system to catch all those revenues.
I'd be interested to know exactly what problem tagging everyone is supposed to solve. Airports are already compartmentalised and people must show their boarding card / passport to move from one area to the next . So what difference would an RFID tag make? It might actually weaken the system since humans will be less attentive than they are now. I suppose it might have marginal benefits such as when you're trying to locate a person exactly but it hardly appears to warrant the expense of the system.
Besides, a bad person who is intent on blowing themselves up on the plane makes every effort to abide by the same rules as other passengers. How does this system do anything at all to detect them? And terrorists who just want to kill a bunch of people at the airport can do that easily too - there are enough densely packed queues in airports to easily facilitate mass murder whether the terrorist has a valid passport, ticket, id or RFID or not. I'm surprised that it doesn't happen all the time. The queues are out the door on some days of the year.
Though I have reservations on what should happen if your account was hacked or Valve went out of business, Steam is by far the slickest online delivery mechanism I've seen. If I had to gripe is that I've tried to buy stuff on there before and my credit card has been rejected. But for demo delivery and ease of use, it takes some beating.
You only have to read the words of the article that you link to realise Google weren't "censoring" anything. It was a change in their stat gathering that affected all content. Their informed and reasonable response told the complainant as much. The problem of course is that Prison planet, Alex Jones and his viewer / listeners thrive on paranoid and irrational conspiracy shite. So it's no wonder that an appeal to their reason had no effect. They have none.
Anyway, you can tell a lot about the readers of WND from the shit being peddled by the banner ads. Nuke alert keychains, gold investments, books trashing Islam, adopt a child for Jesus, send a bible to China etc. I had to laugh at this Google ad though - "Grow A+ brain in 30 days ... Proven on CNN, NBC Today, CBS This Morning "
Does it have to mention who was behind the piece in order for the target to figure it out?
But it did. You appear to believe that just because there were outside volunteers that it somehow it entitles people to fuck around with the Mozilla or Firefox brand anyway they see fit and still pass it off as Mozilla Firefox. It doesn't. Debian has all the code, and can maintain it itself if it wants. Though I suspect most Debian users will just issue a collective sigh and get the official packages.
Who said they didn't? But if you have to forkout $299 for a device that plays streamed content, I know which one I'd pick if the choice is a kick ass console or some dumb terminal. Apple should strike a deal with Nintendo or something.
Besides, I'm saying that the whole arrangement is silly, whether it's an iTV or an XBox 360. Why does anyone need two devices turned on just to download and play a movie? The TIVO has a LAN and a harddrive. The PS3 can play music and video from its harddrive and it has a LAN connection too. Seems far more sensible to me that either of those devices sell movies and cheaper too. Probably that's exactly what Sony intend to do.
Any device capable of playing movies should be capable of downloading and storing them too. Apple's solution is just half-assed. They'd be better off modding the Mac Mini with a TV out and a FrontRow interface so that the thing functions under the TV. It's almost there now, so why they want to push an iTV is just weird. All this shit with docks or beaming from other computers is just expensive, convoluted and impractical
Or:
3. Use a dist which combines a decent package system with a healthy dose of pragmatism. i.e. Ubuntu.
Debian is a good dist, but very sedentary, very political and increasingly looking like an also-ran. Great package system though.
If I took Debian Linux and called it Debian Linux Platinum with extra pr0n and advertising links, do you think Debian would be happy? A glance on the Debian site shows they have text to protect their trademark so why shouldn't Mozilla with theirs?