Didn't you hear they're all high on Testosterone and EPO these days? I would never have thought to see some sports cyclists and think to myself, 'Damn junkies!'
iPhone Doom? How am I supposed to read that: the iPhone business collapsing because of this, or is the author talking about a slide show of the game with the same title on the iPhone's ARM processor? Doom, ARM, duh,... no, that's not ironic.
Well, at least then it would be easier to look it up in a search engine. Hey, publishers: please use unique product names, make some shit up, we don't care what, be our guests! However, naked numbers are a no-no, what is the search term "windows 7" supposed to come up with, shopping lists for building contractors?
On a serious note, I'm rather sure it's just for internal reference, see, on a horizontal time bar we can faintly see Windows Vista Service Pack 1 looming on the horizon. Take the distance between that SP's assumed shipping date and Vista's original release date, and multiply by 7. Voilà, Windows Pinata, codenamed "Vista Service Pack 7"!
Whatever. As long as they don't make that Windows 007. But luckily all rights to that number belong to Sony.
I heard, Nigeria is about to be connected. I received mail from my new business partner down there today. If all overdue money transfers go through well, fiber optic broadband for the people is just around the corner. Or so I'm told.
You've got a lot of valid points there in your reply, but there is really no need to oppose the fructose theory, just because overeating other stuff exists as well. Fructose resorption is different: it gets into your bloodstream really late, from your guts, that is, while glucose and saccharose (the 'better' sugars) hop over from your stomach on. This is one of the reasons why glucose kicks in so quickly if you're low on blood sugar and hastily chew a dextrose plate, btw. The effect: fructose doesn't saturate your hunger nor your appetite, so you order another plate.
And maybe you forgot to point out that lots of fructose is in that quarter pounder as well. And in that cheese that comes with it. And in the ketchup and whatever dressing there might be. Not to mention the bread it is sandwiched between.
Finally, I'm sure you'll have a hard time finding lots of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) products inside any sample of those Japanese vending machines (Personally, I just love them and am positively addicted to Pocari Sweat, C.C.Lemon and one more, which I never can remember the name of, plus all those coffee and tea varieties, yum!). And people drink lots of those drinks as well. Some people say you wouldn't be able to even survive the Japanese summer if there weren't any vending machines around. They're an insane waste of electrical energy, though. But that's another discussion.
Wow, what are you smoking today?;) If 72% is not enough for you (I won't go into details about how much it matters WHAT games are within that number, if the 28% of incompatible games is just horrendous crap, then I won't shed any tears about it. So far, my Metal Gear Solid games worked flawlessly, ALL PS1 games seem to work, FFXII is what I started playing on the PS3, which had minor glitches at first, which are gone after the recent updates), then how does that compare to BC on the 360? Like, 20% at best? (Sorry, I just made that number up, but it can't be that much higher, right?)
I don't know about you, but even if it were only 1,782 PS2 games that were ever BC on the PS3, that would be more than I'd ever be able to play for the rest of my life. That number must have grown considerably since march (that was the status for the very first European update, 1.60, mind you!). All that issue is really about is anecdotal pity, if I may call it that: If your beloved fav PS2 game that your dysfunct PS2 won't run any longer, won't run on PS3 as well, you _might_ get angry, and I would sympathize. Apart from that, just move on: there's more than enough content concerning old games that will run flawlessly, plus, you could even go out and buy some real PS3 game, or download great stuff from the Playstation Network.
BTW, new lows of stupidity is something I'd rather locate within the Microsoft hardware design department than at SONY's. SONY sure have their funny ways, but usually their stuff works (well, except notebook batteries, maybe).
Or 599 EUROS even. Nevertheless, if the current console wars do justify one saying, then it must be this: You get what you pay for.
Right now, you got three choices: 1. low specs, good quality, decent QA 2. high specs, defective design, lousy QA 3. high specs, decent quality, decent QA.
The choice is yours, obviously, and consumers are better informed after MS stopped denying the problem even existed, hopefully.
Hm, can be done. What about live video streaming to the other side, with the camera facing the road? 'Hey, watch out, what's that elephant doing on the highway?!'
No, as far as I can see (anecdotal only, mind you), the Wii is available here at European retail stores. Maybe the market is saturated already, maybe there's not enough games impressive enough. Who knows? The PS3 isn't exactly sold out, either, but people seem to be more excited about that one, even if they haven't got the cash lying around to purchase it. The only thing that's sitting on the shelves like rusting metal is the 360.
People that are in the market for a system at that price point (360 or PS3, whatever) tend to be better informed these days. They know: the xbox360 is noisier, gets hotter to the point of overheating, and is occasionally dying on people. They hear nothing comparable to that about the Playstation, just, you know, that it's more expensive. People are also used to buying the more expensive car if it's more secure, offers more mileage and comes with air condition. People with small children OTOH buy the cheaper car, knowing that it will have to be replaced two years sooner, but then it doesn't matter if the kids wreck and soil the seats, and so on.
Cheaper cars are fun as well, just like the Wii, so no offense!
And here I thought the 'civilians' in Iraq were busy killing each other, my bad. You're wrong on your second suggestion, though: Russia definitely has noticed. There has been a lot of swashbuckling lately, in case you didn't pay attention.
You get an extra prize when you can get both halves of the screen to go BSOD simultaneously. Like, a free xbox360 that will help you elevate your crashing skills to yet unchartered heights, young Jedi. Read: RROD, or red ring of death.
Wow! So, what you are saying is, 'kiyoshilionz' and 'Falladir' are one and the same person? You certainly know more than we do. In fact, GP was just being anal about the above shown twist of 'no hardware at all', which I can perfectly understand.
Legitimate military targets? Like, in Iran? North Korea? Haven't heard that much of those 'insurgents' you're talking about there, pity them.
Sarcasm aside, I do know that there are more than enough terrorist states around the world where armed resistance against the local army is by all means ethical. There's examples in Latin and South America, throughout Africa, in South East Asia, in several former Soviet states, in the Middle East, and then there is Turkey... Spare your flames, I'm hot enough already.;)
Selling better than another console did at the same delta from the release date is utterly and completely irrelevant. It matters to NO ONE. What matters is where the PS3 is compared to the Xbox 360 and the Wii today. If it's not there today, then the market isn't there today, and game developers will be planning to bring out their titles for a console that actually has been adopted by players today. Riight, leaving aside your relentless anti PS3 flamebait rants on slashdot for the last X weeks now for the time being (what is your mission anyway, crusader?), how stupid do you suppose game developers are? Do you honestly think any company would base their development plans on a momentary snapshot of installed base numbers alone? Development plans stretching one or two years in the future are something that our wise drinkypoo would solidly anchor on TODAY'S cosole sales numbers. Which is (concerning PS3 vs. x360) something like 3 million vs. 9.5 million.
Drinkypoo, time to read up upon and learn about a concept seemingly completely unbeknownst to you: m-o-m-e-n-t-u-m. Just to take an extreme example: if PS3's sales numbers were rising constantly and gaining momentum all the time (which one could argue they are, depending on where you look), and x360's being stuck at just below 10 million (which also is not all that far from reality) and not selling ANY MORE consoles from now on (this is not the case, obviously, but let's just suppose it were), where would that leave your business plan based on aforementioned snapshot? If drinkypoo were a product manager at a game development company and said, 'Hey, let's put all our efforts on the 360 for the next two years because the numbers are looking good just now!!', while next year it might just as well be 12 mio (x360) vs. 20 mio (PS3), that might still be funny in a Dilbert strip, but out here in the wild, I don't know.
With that kind of business sense, you better stay away from the stockmarket (and a couple of other things). On a related note: the 'not-selling-at-all' PS3 venture and the fact that there are hardly any titles out (= low competition) hasn't been all so bad for a small company like SEGA, don't you think? It's all about timing, and SEGA definitely had it right this time, before EA has figured out how to code for the CELL and floods the market with some rehashed crap and some pearls in between.
I agree to the other poster, though, if Square/Enix were to sell out to Microsoft, that might mean peril, but not only to SONY, ultimately. It doesn't work that way, luckily, because S/E know that intellectual and moral bankruptcy would loom just around the corner. And maybe they'd misinterpret PS3's momentum just the same. In which case they'd follow the x360 down the drain, which would be a pity, because I really want some more Frontmission games to see the light. On PS3, preferably.
This sort of anecdotal evidence keeps popping up in every console wars related thread. I'm not even saying any of that stuff is made up. But maybe we should start worrying about the American economy when no one in your tiny University towns can afford the technologically supreme console any more this time around.
It's called a recession and you know it. People here in Europe, we just thought: Yup, this is the best system, must get it. I went out and got one, without second thoughts or regrets. Man, people do spend more than 600 EUR on frigging CELLPHONES, year after year, and suddenly that price is asking too much for a BluRay drive, a Cell chip, 60 GB disc, Bluetooth, WiFi and whatnot combined? Hell, it even runs Linux. Are American buyers really that kind of cheapskates nowadays? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought your wages were higher than ours.
Note to moderators: go ahead and mod me a troll, if you like, but rest assured: this is my honest opinion, and I'm just asking questions out of curiosity. Mind the condescending tone, but I'm really sick of all that cheap schadenfreude about unsellable PS3s while at the same time whining about the unavailability of Wii consoles (a.k.a. Gamecube V1.5). You people are doing yourself a disservice. Well, flamebait then, I guess.
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Didn't you hear they're all high on Testosterone and EPO these days? I would never have thought to see some sports cyclists and think to myself, 'Damn junkies!'
If he eats up almost the entire lane then you should probably leave him alone. He can really use that workout.
Just keep calling yourself. But hey, forget about it, the iPhone gets too hot anyway.
iPhone Doom? How am I supposed to read that: the iPhone business collapsing because of this, or is the author talking about a slide show of the game with the same title on the iPhone's ARM processor? Doom, ARM, duh, ... no, that's not ironic.
Well, at least then it would be easier to look it up in a search engine. Hey, publishers: please use unique product names, make some shit up, we don't care what, be our guests! However, naked numbers are a no-no, what is the search term "windows 7" supposed to come up with, shopping lists for building contractors?
On a serious note, I'm rather sure it's just for internal reference, see, on a horizontal time bar we can faintly see Windows Vista Service Pack 1 looming on the horizon. Take the distance between that SP's assumed shipping date and Vista's original release date, and multiply by 7. Voilà, Windows Pinata, codenamed "Vista Service Pack 7"!
Whatever. As long as they don't make that Windows 007. But luckily all rights to that number belong to Sony.
I heard, Nigeria is about to be connected. I received mail from my new business partner down there today. If all overdue money transfers go through well, fiber optic broadband for the people is just around the corner. Or so I'm told.
You've got a lot of valid points there in your reply, but there is really no need to oppose the fructose theory, just because overeating other stuff exists as well. Fructose resorption is different: it gets into your bloodstream really late, from your guts, that is, while glucose and saccharose (the 'better' sugars) hop over from your stomach on. This is one of the reasons why glucose kicks in so quickly if you're low on blood sugar and hastily chew a dextrose plate, btw. The effect: fructose doesn't saturate your hunger nor your appetite, so you order another plate.
And maybe you forgot to point out that lots of fructose is in that quarter pounder as well. And in that cheese that comes with it. And in the ketchup and whatever dressing there might be. Not to mention the bread it is sandwiched between.
Finally, I'm sure you'll have a hard time finding lots of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) products inside any sample of those Japanese vending machines (Personally, I just love them and am positively addicted to Pocari Sweat, C.C.Lemon and one more, which I never can remember the name of, plus all those coffee and tea varieties, yum!). And people drink lots of those drinks as well. Some people say you wouldn't be able to even survive the Japanese summer if there weren't any vending machines around. They're an insane waste of electrical energy, though. But that's another discussion.
Cites against that?
Wow, what are you smoking today? ;) If 72% is not enough for you (I won't go into details about how much it matters WHAT games are within that number, if the 28% of incompatible games is just horrendous crap, then I won't shed any tears about it. So far, my Metal Gear Solid games worked flawlessly, ALL PS1 games seem to work, FFXII is what I started playing on the PS3, which had minor glitches at first, which are gone after the recent updates), then how does that compare to BC on the 360? Like, 20% at best? (Sorry, I just made that number up, but it can't be that much higher, right?)
I don't know about you, but even if it were only 1,782 PS2 games that were ever BC on the PS3, that would be more than I'd ever be able to play for the rest of my life. That number must have grown considerably since march (that was the status for the very first European update, 1.60, mind you!). All that issue is really about is anecdotal pity, if I may call it that: If your beloved fav PS2 game that your dysfunct PS2 won't run any longer, won't run on PS3 as well, you _might_ get angry, and I would sympathize. Apart from that, just move on: there's more than enough content concerning old games that will run flawlessly, plus, you could even go out and buy some real PS3 game, or download great stuff from the Playstation Network.
BTW, new lows of stupidity is something I'd rather locate within the Microsoft hardware design department than at SONY's. SONY sure have their funny ways, but usually their stuff works (well, except notebook batteries, maybe).
Or 599 EUROS even. Nevertheless, if the current console wars do justify one saying, then it must be this: You get what you pay for.
Right now, you got three choices:
1. low specs, good quality, decent QA
2. high specs, defective design, lousy QA
3. high specs, decent quality, decent QA.
The choice is yours, obviously, and consumers are better informed after MS stopped denying the problem even existed, hopefully.
Hm, can be done. What about live video streaming to the other side, with the camera facing the road? 'Hey, watch out, what's that elephant doing on the highway?!'
No, as far as I can see (anecdotal only, mind you), the Wii is available here at European retail stores. Maybe the market is saturated already, maybe there's not enough games impressive enough. Who knows? The PS3 isn't exactly sold out, either, but people seem to be more excited about that one, even if they haven't got the cash lying around to purchase it. The only thing that's sitting on the shelves like rusting metal is the 360.
People that are in the market for a system at that price point (360 or PS3, whatever) tend to be better informed these days. They know: the xbox360 is noisier, gets hotter to the point of overheating, and is occasionally dying on people. They hear nothing comparable to that about the Playstation, just, you know, that it's more expensive. People are also used to buying the more expensive car if it's more secure, offers more mileage and comes with air condition. People with small children OTOH buy the cheaper car, knowing that it will have to be replaced two years sooner, but then it doesn't matter if the kids wreck and soil the seats, and so on.
Cheaper cars are fun as well, just like the Wii, so no offense!
Can't find a Wii? Hop over to Europe, they're sitting on shelves here. Nintendo's distribution practices surely are enigmatic.
Wasn't that in a Seinfeld episode once? "No Wii for YOU, come back, next year!"
And here I thought the 'civilians' in Iraq were busy killing each other, my bad. You're wrong on your second suggestion, though: Russia definitely has noticed. There has been a lot of swashbuckling lately, in case you didn't pay attention.
Nope, all wrong:
In Soviet Russia, AK-47 owns the Kremlin.
You get an extra prize when you can get both halves of the screen to go BSOD simultaneously. Like, a free xbox360 that will help you elevate your crashing skills to yet unchartered heights, young Jedi. Read: RROD, or red ring of death.
Wow! So, what you are saying is, 'kiyoshilionz' and 'Falladir' are one and the same person? You certainly know more than we do. In fact, GP was just being anal about the above shown twist of 'no hardware at all', which I can perfectly understand.
Legitimate military targets? Like, in Iran? North Korea? Haven't heard that much of those 'insurgents' you're talking about there, pity them.
;)
Sarcasm aside, I do know that there are more than enough terrorist states around the world where armed resistance against the local army is by all means ethical. There's examples in Latin and South America, throughout Africa, in South East Asia, in several former Soviet states, in the Middle East, and then there is Turkey... Spare your flames, I'm hot enough already.
Why? In order to a) not be called a coward any longer and b) to step out of anonymity? There's an easier way to do that: just login.
Riight, leaving aside your relentless anti PS3 flamebait rants on slashdot for the last X weeks now for the time being (what is your mission anyway, crusader?), how stupid do you suppose game developers are? Do you honestly think any company would base their development plans on a momentary snapshot of installed base numbers alone? Development plans stretching one or two years in the future are something that our wise drinkypoo would solidly anchor on TODAY'S cosole sales numbers. Which is (concerning PS3 vs. x360) something like 3 million vs. 9.5 million.
Drinkypoo, time to read up upon and learn about a concept seemingly completely unbeknownst to you: m-o-m-e-n-t-u-m. Just to take an extreme example: if PS3's sales numbers were rising constantly and gaining momentum all the time (which one could argue they are, depending on where you look), and x360's being stuck at just below 10 million (which also is not all that far from reality) and not selling ANY MORE consoles from now on (this is not the case, obviously, but let's just suppose it were), where would that leave your business plan based on aforementioned snapshot? If drinkypoo were a product manager at a game development company and said, 'Hey, let's put all our efforts on the 360 for the next two years because the numbers are looking good just now!!', while next year it might just as well be 12 mio (x360) vs. 20 mio (PS3), that might still be funny in a Dilbert strip, but out here in the wild, I don't know.
With that kind of business sense, you better stay away from the stockmarket (and a couple of other things). On a related note: the 'not-selling-at-all' PS3 venture and the fact that there are hardly any titles out (= low competition) hasn't been all so bad for a small company like SEGA, don't you think? It's all about timing, and SEGA definitely had it right this time, before EA has figured out how to code for the CELL and floods the market with some rehashed crap and some pearls in between.
I agree to the other poster, though, if Square/Enix were to sell out to Microsoft, that might mean peril, but not only to SONY, ultimately. It doesn't work that way, luckily, because S/E know that intellectual and moral bankruptcy would loom just around the corner. And maybe they'd misinterpret PS3's momentum just the same. In which case they'd follow the x360 down the drain, which would be a pity, because I really want some more Frontmission games to see the light. On PS3, preferably.
Currency? Down, down, down.
Nuff said. Sorry, I had to bite.
This sort of anecdotal evidence keeps popping up in every console wars related thread. I'm not even saying any of that stuff is made up. But maybe we should start worrying about the American economy when no one in your tiny University towns can afford the technologically supreme console any more this time around.
It's called a recession and you know it. People here in Europe, we just thought: Yup, this is the best system, must get it. I went out and got one, without second thoughts or regrets. Man, people do spend more than 600 EUR on frigging CELLPHONES, year after year, and suddenly that price is asking too much for a BluRay drive, a Cell chip, 60 GB disc, Bluetooth, WiFi and whatnot combined? Hell, it even runs Linux. Are American buyers really that kind of cheapskates nowadays? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought your wages were higher than ours.
Note to moderators: go ahead and mod me a troll, if you like, but rest assured: this is my honest opinion, and I'm just asking questions out of curiosity. Mind the condescending tone, but I'm really sick of all that cheap schadenfreude about unsellable PS3s while at the same time whining about the unavailability of Wii consoles (a.k.a. Gamecube V1.5). You people are doing yourself a disservice. Well, flamebait then, I guess.
No, it doesn't. When was the last time you bought a 120 Gig HDD for 180$, external or not? Like, 2004? It's political pricing, of course.
... and that's 10 Million shipped, not installed user base. Same for the PS3 number, probably.