You think if Sony failed with the PS3, they'd leave the console market? I think not. I think they need to learn their lesson, fail miserable with the PS3, and then not make the same mistakes with the PS4 again.
but I consider selling a few million of anything to be a success
That's a pretty absurd statement. Apple sells way more iPods each year than the PSP has sold since its introduction early 05. Selling only "a few million" iPods next year would be a miserable failure for Apple. Obviously, selling "a few million of anything" is not always a success.
no matter how you wearing DS colored glasses would prefer to color it.
Yeah, I also own a DS. But my imaginary glasses are hardly DS colored (would that be pink?). As I said, I also own a PSP and even an N-Gage. I'm "platform agnostic." I actually bought about 20 PSP games (although I only played Lumines regularly), and I used to take my PSP with me to watch movies on train rides (I use the iPhone for that now - smaller screen, but brighter and no ghosting, and the iPhone easily fits into my pocket, unlike the PSP).
With that out of the way, I would like to point out that you did not address my point, namely that Sony expected the PSP to dominate the industry, and that it placed a distant second instead. How is that not a failure?
It's the very definition of failure. The American Heritage Dictionary says:
failure (fl'yr)
n.
1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends
If you want other metrics, I could also point out that many PSP games are poor ports of PS2 versions; that original PSP games often feel like they would be better at home on the PS2 instad of on a portable console where short bursts of playtime are more likely than long periods of playing; that UMD movies are practically dead; or that Sony didn't even bother to create a "real" new version of the hardware, instead simply making the thing thinner.
inotify and fsevents are different, as I understand it. inotify calls applications if something in the file system changes. fsevents doesn't do that; instead, the application calls fsevents, and fsevents returns a list of files changed since the last call. For something like backup, the second solution is obviously better, since it creates less overhead.
So there's no performance drag in OS X, but there would be one in Linux if a similar solution used inotify.
The DS definitely has the most education software. Tons of Brain Training sequels and clones, and a bunch of maths, reading and language training games aimed at younger kids. Some of these are only available in Japan, but a lot make it to the US or Europe (and you can import Europe releases to the US and play them on US DSs).
There are a few brain training clones on the PSP, but they are few and far between.
But maybe the best solution would be a "real" computer like the OLPC box. You can even easily create your own learning tools on the OLPC, and your kids may even learn a bit about programming.
Well, Nintendo did release some previously unreleased games in Europe and the US, so it's possible that some of these games may make it to the VC. Probably none of the unofficial games, but a translation of Mother may very well appear on the VC at some point in the future.
I bought a PSP about a year after it came out. Played a ton of Lumines, bought about 20 games, hardly ever played those. I mainly used it as a way to watch movies while riding in a train. Then, I got an iPhone. I don't use my PSP anymore.
"The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance. Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth. With the DS , it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen. But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that." - Phil Harrison, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, on comparing PSP to DS in an interview with MCV
Sony lost money. Nintendo made money. Yeah, Nintendo will have to stand behind Sony at the bank, but only because Sony will be there mortgaging their house.
UMD is alot like mini-disc (there in a big protective case)
The UMD case design is just broken. It has a big honking hole which can't be closed. If something gets into the hole, it's hard to get it out again. Maybe Sony would have done better not having a case at all.
And to further clarify things, I was poking fun at Jobs and his tendency to overreact when someone steals the wind from his sales.
But that's the thing: I don't know whether he does. All the examples of him doing extreme stuff are rumors or exaggerations or stuff that somebody heard from somebody else who heard it from somebody else. Apart from the thing with the book, which probably was very personal for Jobs, is there one single verifiable example of him overreacting to something like this?
It all seems bullshit fanboy mystique.
And btw, there's no way you can POSSIBLY know that "No product was "nixed" because ATI leaked infos about Apple."[SIC] You can't make that statement. There could have been an apple car that some ATI guy told his dog about, jobs found out, and nixed it! HA!
And that is precisely the logic people seem to apply to Jobs. It could be true, and Jobs is insane, so it must be true, right?
Hasn't the PS3 had lackluster sales for its entire lifespan? A serious question, rather than a disagreement with parent or an attempt to troll. In the US it is lack luster. World wide it's picked up a lot. Media creates data for the 22-28th of October shows the PS3 1:1.4 to the wii and 5:1 with the 360. Couldn't find data for the US. Apparently world wide it's shows a more 1:1 with the 360 and a 2:1 with the wii.
I don't think this is true. Right now, sales numbers are for Wii:360:PS3 are about 3:2:1. The 360 sells twice as much as the PS3, and the Wii sells three times as much - which is actually a comparably good number for the PS3, possibly helped by people trying to get the remaining PS3s with backwards compatibility until those are discontinued.
These numbers are from vgchartz.com, which isn't the most reliable source, but has been pretty spot-on so far.
Wow, lack of reading comprehension FTL.
First, we're talking about racism as it currently exists in the US, not Nazi Germany in WW2. I don't see very many nazis over here beating up immigrants these days.
Is it ironic that you complain about my reading comprehension, only to then utterly miss the point of my sentence?
Second, yes racism is all in the mind. Why were the Nazis trying to eradicate all Jews, and perhaps go for world domination? Because in their minds, they were a superior race.
I think one way to fix text input would be to have a multitouch screen and an on-screen keyboard. On a tablet, it could be sized like a real keyboard; I bet this would work better than handwriting recognition.
Unfortunatly, ASUS will now suffer the Wrath of Jobs. This won't be the first time Jobs nixed a product because some dumbass at the company making it spilled the beans.
I think it would be.
Someone refresh my memory, when was the last time this happened? Was it the ZFS debacle?
ZFS was never supposed to be the main file system in Leopard.
I have no doubt that Apple is working on a tablet PC. That doesn't mean they'll ever release one. I bet they only release about 10% of the projects they research. I think Jobs himself has stated at one point that Apple is constantly working on a lot of different ideas, but will only bring few of them to the market.
Are they working on a tablet PC? No doubt. Probably more than one. Will we ever see one? Who knows.
Actualy, the ps3 wasn't in response to the 360. Sony got screwed by hardware shortages that forced a launch delay. They started talking about the ps3, however, years before the 360 was annouced.
Of course they started working on it years ago. But if you really think it was Sony's plan to release a console at 600 bucks, you're delusional. If Sony had had the option, they would have waited another year, until Bluray drives became cheaper and the Cell chip had matured somewhat, and then launched the console at 400 bucks. If you remember, they originally planned to have no GPU in the PS3; however, when Sony was forced to launch, the Cell wasn't ready, so they had add the RSX at the last minute, which explains the somewhat confused hardware design.
No, Sony's hand was forced by Microsoft. Sony tried to delay the PS3 as long as possible, but they just couldn't let Microsoft get to 10'000'000 without giving them at least some competition.
On the other hand, the 360 was a direct response to the success of the ps2 over the Xbox. Thats why MS cut the release cycle so short, they hoped to beat the ps3 to market, fearful that it woudl be another ps2.
Exactly. And they did beat the PS3 to market, thus forcing Sony to make its move early.
I have to say, if you like Zelda, but haven't played Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, run (don't walk) to your nearest import store and get it now. I have no idea why this game did not get better reviews (they were good, but nowhere near what it deserves). I wouldn't say that it's definitely better than Phantom Hourglass, but... it just might be. They're both great games, in my opinion, and both are absolute must-have titles.
Like it or not, HD sets are growing year after year and the Wii just isn't cut out to be HD entertainment. Wii games look just fine on my HDTV. As good as PS3 or 360 games? No. But not bad enough that it's any kind of issue.
You're trying to be sarcastic, but the irony is that what you said is true. Racism is entirely in the mind.
That's bullshit. If some nazis beat up an immigrant, it doesn't go away just because you pretend it isn't racism. If the justice system is x times more likely to put a black person on death row than a white person, for the same crime, that doesn't stop being racism just because people aren't allowed to discuss it.
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You think if Sony failed with the PS3, they'd leave the console market? I think not. I think they need to learn their lesson, fail miserable with the PS3, and then not make the same mistakes with the PS4 again.
I do.
but I consider selling a few million of anything to be a successThat's a pretty absurd statement. Apple sells way more iPods each year than the PSP has sold since its introduction early 05. Selling only "a few million" iPods next year would be a miserable failure for Apple. Obviously, selling "a few million of anything" is not always a success.
no matter how you wearing DS colored glasses would prefer to color it.Yeah, I also own a DS. But my imaginary glasses are hardly DS colored (would that be pink?). As I said, I also own a PSP and even an N-Gage. I'm "platform agnostic." I actually bought about 20 PSP games (although I only played Lumines regularly), and I used to take my PSP with me to watch movies on train rides (I use the iPhone for that now - smaller screen, but brighter and no ghosting, and the iPhone easily fits into my pocket, unlike the PSP).
With that out of the way, I would like to point out that you did not address my point, namely that Sony expected the PSP to dominate the industry, and that it placed a distant second instead. How is that not a failure?
It's the very definition of failure. The American Heritage Dictionary says:
failure (fl'yr)n.
1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends
If you want other metrics, I could also point out that many PSP games are poor ports of PS2 versions; that original PSP games often feel like they would be better at home on the PS2 instad of on a portable console where short bursts of playtime are more likely than long periods of playing; that UMD movies are practically dead; or that Sony didn't even bother to create a "real" new version of the hardware, instead simply making the thing thinner.
inotify and fsevents are different, as I understand it. inotify calls applications if something in the file system changes. fsevents doesn't do that; instead, the application calls fsevents, and fsevents returns a list of files changed since the last call. For something like backup, the second solution is obviously better, since it creates less overhead.
So there's no performance drag in OS X, but there would be one in Linux if a similar solution used inotify.
The DS definitely has the most education software. Tons of Brain Training sequels and clones, and a bunch of maths, reading and language training games aimed at younger kids. Some of these are only available in Japan, but a lot make it to the US or Europe (and you can import Europe releases to the US and play them on US DSs).
There are a few brain training clones on the PSP, but they are few and far between.
But maybe the best solution would be a "real" computer like the OLPC box. You can even easily create your own learning tools on the OLPC, and your kids may even learn a bit about programming.
Well, Nintendo did release some previously unreleased games in Europe and the US, so it's possible that some of these games may make it to the VC. Probably none of the unofficial games, but a translation of Mother may very well appear on the VC at some point in the future.
I bought a PSP about a year after it came out. Played a ton of Lumines, bought about 20 games, hardly ever played those. I mainly used it as a way to watch movies while riding in a train. Then, I got an iPhone. I don't use my PSP anymore.
"The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance. Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth. With the DS , it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen. But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."
- Phil Harrison, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, on comparing PSP to DS in an interview with MCV
source.
Considering what Sony set out to do, and how they obviously expected the PSP to perform, it can only be described as a horrible failure.
Sony lost money. Nintendo made money. Yeah, Nintendo will have to stand behind Sony at the bank, but only because Sony will be there mortgaging their house.
The UMD case design is just broken. It has a big honking hole which can't be closed. If something gets into the hole, it's hard to get it out again. Maybe Sony would have done better not having a case at all.
In Japan, the 360 is basically dead, of course. But in Europe, it doesn't look that great for the PS3, either: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=Europe&cons2=PS3®2=Europe&cons3=X360®3=Europe&start=39026&end=39390
But that's the thing: I don't know whether he does. All the examples of him doing extreme stuff are rumors or exaggerations or stuff that somebody heard from somebody else who heard it from somebody else. Apart from the thing with the book, which probably was very personal for Jobs, is there one single verifiable example of him overreacting to something like this?
It all seems bullshit fanboy mystique.
And btw, there's no way you can POSSIBLY know that "No product was "nixed" because ATI leaked infos about Apple."[SIC] You can't make that statement. There could have been an apple car that some ATI guy told his dog about, jobs found out, and nixed it! HA!And that is precisely the logic people seem to apply to Jobs. It could be true, and Jobs is insane, so it must be true, right?
Again, you're wrong. No product was "nixed" because ATI leaked infos about Apple.
I think the game scores are voted on by the readers of the site. It's not the site's bias.
(Sorry, I hate when people use numbers from those sites as truth, good or bad. It's like quoting Wikipedia.)And what's wrong with quoting Wikipedia?
I don't think this is true. Right now, sales numbers are for Wii:360:PS3 are about 3:2:1. The 360 sells twice as much as the PS3, and the Wii sells three times as much - which is actually a comparably good number for the PS3, possibly helped by people trying to get the remaining PS3s with backwards compatibility until those are discontinued.
These numbers are from vgchartz.com, which isn't the most reliable source, but has been pretty spot-on so far.
For me, he waits on the continent I leave him, unless I hire another bodyguard on another continent.
Is it ironic that you complain about my reading comprehension, only to then utterly miss the point of my sentence?
Second, yes racism is all in the mind. Why were the Nazis trying to eradicate all Jews, and perhaps go for world domination? Because in their minds, they were a superior race.That's fascinating, but utterly pointless.
I think one way to fix text input would be to have a multitouch screen and an on-screen keyboard. On a tablet, it could be sized like a real keyboard; I bet this would work better than handwriting recognition.
I think it would be.
Someone refresh my memory, when was the last time this happened? Was it the ZFS debacle?ZFS was never supposed to be the main file system in Leopard.
Are you being ironic? Tablet PC, a success???
I have no doubt that Apple is working on a tablet PC. That doesn't mean they'll ever release one. I bet they only release about 10% of the projects they research. I think Jobs himself has stated at one point that Apple is constantly working on a lot of different ideas, but will only bring few of them to the market.
Are they working on a tablet PC? No doubt. Probably more than one. Will we ever see one? Who knows.
Of course they started working on it years ago. But if you really think it was Sony's plan to release a console at 600 bucks, you're delusional. If Sony had had the option, they would have waited another year, until Bluray drives became cheaper and the Cell chip had matured somewhat, and then launched the console at 400 bucks. If you remember, they originally planned to have no GPU in the PS3; however, when Sony was forced to launch, the Cell wasn't ready, so they had add the RSX at the last minute, which explains the somewhat confused hardware design.
No, Sony's hand was forced by Microsoft. Sony tried to delay the PS3 as long as possible, but they just couldn't let Microsoft get to 10'000'000 without giving them at least some competition.
Exactly. And they did beat the PS3 to market, thus forcing Sony to make its move early.
The explanation of how to do it seems a bit broken. Rolling works 100% of the time for me:
- Move the stylus to the edge of the screen
- Quickly move it back about 2 millimetres
- Without interruption, quickly move it back to the edge of the screen
Tingles rupee land assumes that negotiating prices and constant system restarts when you get it wrong are funYou do realize, though, that by restarting the game after a failed negotiation, you're only cheating yourself out of the fun of the game, don't you?
I have to say, if you like Zelda, but haven't played Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, run (don't walk) to your nearest import store and get it now. I have no idea why this game did not get better reviews (they were good, but nowhere near what it deserves). I wouldn't say that it's definitely better than Phantom Hourglass, but... it just might be. They're both great games, in my opinion, and both are absolute must-have titles.
That's bullshit. If some nazis beat up an immigrant, it doesn't go away just because you pretend it isn't racism. If the justice system is x times more likely to put a black person on death row than a white person, for the same crime, that doesn't stop being racism just because people aren't allowed to discuss it.