No. It only would start swaying the Japanese market if it became Xbox360 exclusive (if at all). The higher price tag on the PS3 is giving Japanese gamers headaches just as it is to gamers in the West (even if it's considerably cheaper in JPN than everywhere else), but no-one I know in Japan would even consider buying that Microsoft thing.
A (slightly) more earnest approach to backwards compatibility (combined with an indefinitely more significant back catalogue) comes to mind. Add faith in a brand. I figure many Japanese feel that they'd be trading in their assets for mere glass pearls if they went the X way.
Sorry to go all grammar nazi about this, but grammar makes a difference here: Selling a console below manufacturing costs is not a definition of magical cheap chips, but of magically cheap chips instead.
I remember those days. I actually got a cheque mailed to me from MP3.COM once, it was something like 17 $. I couldn't really decide whether to frame it and hang it on a wall, or to go and cash it. It was the first money I ever made off of my music, so it had that special extra value to me.
But yeah, right, I don't remember any fuzz about someone uploading David Bowie tracks and claiming it as their own or something like that. Anyway, each and every track had to be screened in advance before going public, back then, right? Abuse like that would have been likely to be detected at that point, I guess.
Which might well be YouTube's and everybody's biggest fault these days: they will publish any video material nonetheless without delay and wait for someone to complain before they take down stuff. I know they expect to have some algorithms in place soon that are supposed to filter out copyrighted content, but I can't really see those not failing. There's just so many possibilities to just slightly modify some video.
Reasonable choice you're making between fat and happy or thin and unhappy, but let's talk again 10 years later when your joints never stop hurting, your diabetes kicks in and your heart becomes unwilling to pump blood through all that mass all day long, i.e., when fat suddenly doesn't equate happy any longer.
Be sure to get some good health insurance for the time being. Life will get expensive then. No offense.;)
More real estate in Antarctica and Greenland, maybe. Less real estate on almost all coasts, worldwide, though. We should try to compensate that by leveling some mountains, build new cities up there.
All the construction workers losing their jobs because of 'dem damn 'bots!' may shift to taking down rocks in order to save humankind from the floods. Until robots take over that business, too, that is.
The Japanese will rather take a bite, from... an Apple?
Get real. No one over there buys a Sony Walkman if they can get their hands on an iPod. So, what does this tell us? Apple is perceived as a Japanese brand? Wrong, guess again.
I've been there, and my wife is Japanese. Anecdotal as it might be, but: JP folks do love foreign brands, just look at fashion (sigh, Gucci. D&G. Rouisbiton [or what's it spelled again?]. Versace. Prada. yada, yada) or car brands, but: no doubt, American cars never flooded Japanese streets, neither do American consoles rock Japanese homes. Any correlation, what do you think?
If we rule out a specific anti-american bias (which I have yet to come by: everybody loves their Mac over there, I keep encountering Dell machines in peoples' homes) and bad jokes like: since shortly after Hiroshima, Japanese just don't like bulky and noisy American products anymore, then there is just one conclusion: someone simply hasn't done their homework properly.
If PS3 has already sold close to twice as much units in Japan as xBox360 has in like 14 months, like an earlier post suggested, then of course the race in Japan is already over for MS even before something like a system selling killer game for PS3 is anywhere near in sight. All that in a situation where Sony is admittedly doing much worse than everybody thought, makes it look even more painful for Microsoft.
OTOH, Sony always said the PS3 is not for the average customer. Which is BS, if you ask me, because they need to sell quantities. Badly.
Anyway, being Europe-based, I'll wait a little longer and then prolly get a PS3 because: my 1920x1200p monitor doubles as the family TV and really suffers (read: we do) without HD contents. If Sony can deliver downloadable TV shows etc. without too many caveats, I'm sold. The PS3 is the ONLY console out there with digital video outputs if I'm not mistaken. There's no way I'm going back to VGA connectors. My only problem: my monitor has only one digital video in, meaning I will have to get one of those ugly switchboxes if I don't want to keep replugging between gaming and work sessions.
I don't have any numbers, and while there has been some excitement due to its launch shortly before christmas, I dunno, didn't notice an awful lot of hype.
We didn't buy the first gamecube either, you know...
Anonymous coward that you are aside, care to provide a source? There's several scientific books out on that matter as far as I remember. But maybe by propagandists, you mean Arafat and his troupe themselves?
Nope, islamic fascists are the way to go: he could have a fist fight with the former mullah of Jerusalem, Hitler-buddy and uncle of Jassir Arafat (for real!).
Not like there haven't been any muslim nazis in the older movies, hey, but emphasizing those intimate relationships a bit more would provide a tie to today's problems while avoiding to do just another terrorists-attack-what-would-Indy-do? movie.
Some secret plot story about muslim fanatics trying to evoke dark forces in order to destroy Israel, and you'd have it all in one: popcorn, blockbuster & world politics. Suggestions needed for a female sidekick (with/without love interest): Scarlett / Natalie / Tom Hanks, who else?
I'll second the other reply, it will most likely never happen. On the other hand, you seem to be implying that one such study for people of German descent already exists, or why do you take for granted that their IQs are superior? Please elaborate.
Well at least the hearing defect thingy is hereditary up to even the highest political circles over there. Here, I mean.
Frankly, the whole argument sounds like a strawman to me. I don't recall Linux on PS3 being referenced to or advertised as a gaming platform anywhere. I think it's more about offering convenience: why put another PC in your living room when you can have internet access and office applications (maybe not full-blown, considering lack of memory on the PS3, but definitely usable for a quick letter of complaint) all on your PS3? Especially considering that the PS3 seems to be a lot less noisy than the 360, that might actually work out well.
Another Microsoft spokesperson that doesn't 'get' Linux, what else is new? You might read it the other way around as well: facing fading support by major publishers, MS wants to get 'everyone' on the 360 bandwagon now, before it's too late. I can smell desperation there.
At least not from Germany, from over a year now. Maybe I'm misreading something or am simply in need of some coffee, but if I'm not mistaken Germany killed all analog aerial transmissions for TV something like a year ago.
Seems like Holland lost again to Germany, just like in every football match.;)
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Anecdotal evidence? So maybe your pet dog or your little brother urinated on your consoles, maybe you don't clean up enough and pizza leftovers find their way into your systems, maybe you got cockroaches in the house or well, maybe you are just out of luck and repeatedly bought PS2s that got assembled on mondays.
Can you factor out all the the aforementioned? Anyway, I don't buy that myth about PS2s failing regularly ON THEIR OWN, so if they do, then it may be because they get treated differently from, say, a PC. You take them to your friends' house, play them during wild parties, there's beer around, they get wet in the rain or, especially in winter, have to endure quick changes in both temperature and humidity.
The pure fact that you kept buying them suggests that a) you admit that it's partly your fault, and b) that it's well worth it.
On the other hand: how are we to know how many of those 21 million gamecubes were replacements? Or how many of Microsoft's shipped 10 million will be?
I'm sure EA can cut down on development costs like they did for some years by releasing sequel after sequel, not counting spin-offs.
EA might just be whining because they have to start from somewhere near scratch with a new architecture like the CELL within the PS3 (which unlike the Wii is not just an update of a former system); something that more respectable developers do for any new game that tries to make a new idea become reality.
EA also has more fixed costs in the licensing department, I guess. It won't be so cheap incorporating all those sports celebrities, real team & player names, car brands and technical specs and what have you. But that's up to their own conceptual decision, crazy as it may be.
Valid point. But would you call that very car still a masterpiece if the upholstery were ripped out and you can't lock it by default? Just wondering, because that's what Zonk's sequitur is essentially saying.
I've got a little exercise for Zonk: load up Wikipedia. Look up 'shiny'. Now load another instance of wikipedia in another tab and look up 'masterpiece'. Read. Compare. Now write down - in your own words - any striking differences between the two. And no, editing the articles beforehand doesn't count. Please share the results with us by rewriting your review.
Disclaimer: This is of course completely unrelated to how awesome or not the actual game might be. Not that I care either.;)
I'm not a Zonk hater or anything (though I don't exactly like his tendency towards anti-SONY marketing; but if he likes to look like a MS puppet, he is free to), buut this review abstract really reaches for some new low.
So, the game is full of flaws, yet a masterpiece? Masterpiece, eh? He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
So, it's the f+cking NY Times, but so what? If you had read the article, you'd know it's a bad write-up, full of bias and far from being a balanced review. The information I get out of it is that OMG, the author doesn't like Sony nor the PS3, and the 360 was oh so awesome in comparison.
Give us a rest indeed. I've been watching the anti-Sony FUD and BS on slashdot for a while now from a rather amused distance, but as much as I like stupid memes and their endless self-replication (and take part in 'em myself occasionally), it bothers me nonetheless to have to watch how sheepishly and baring a second thought many here flame or mod down anything pro SONY as troll or flamebait.
Get a life folks (I know, this is slashdot, but anyway)! Buy whichever you prefer, souped up Gamecube, souped up PS2 or souped up Xbox, but have some decency and respect other buyers' choices. Or are you afraid of something?
I'm sorry: I can understand the fanboy attitude of some moderators (not that I approve of it), but parent is clearly not flamebait. It's rather accurate if you had read Miyamoto-san's quotes. What you get is a gamecube update with better memory and accessories.
Note: This doesn't necessarily have to be a Bad Thing (TM) at all, Nintendo just ticks differently and focusses on other aspects than their competition does, as the NDS has demonstrated very convincingly. Anyway, there is some risk to limiting the technical specs of a new console to last gen capabilities in such a decisive manner. Those very limitations will show up sooner or later. Just my 2 cents.
AND the mailman as well. . . I'm sure you can customize the announcements to a ballooney 'How are you gentleman. All your mail are belong to us. Your invoice are on the way to destruction. You have no time to escape make your time.'
Similarly, I quite enjoyed the related products listed right below the video:
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No. It only would start swaying the Japanese market if it became Xbox360 exclusive (if at all). The higher price tag on the PS3 is giving Japanese gamers headaches just as it is to gamers in the West (even if it's considerably cheaper in JPN than everywhere else), but no-one I know in Japan would even consider buying that Microsoft thing.
A (slightly) more earnest approach to backwards compatibility (combined with an indefinitely more significant back catalogue) comes to mind. Add faith in a brand. I figure many Japanese feel that they'd be trading in their assets for mere glass pearls if they went the X way.
Sorry to go all grammar nazi about this, but grammar makes a difference here: Selling a console below manufacturing costs is not a definition of magical cheap chips, but of magically cheap chips instead.
So, yeah, you kinda missed the GP's point there.
I remember those days. I actually got a cheque mailed to me from MP3.COM once, it was something like 17 $. I couldn't really decide whether to frame it and hang it on a wall, or to go and cash it. It was the first money I ever made off of my music, so it had that special extra value to me.
But yeah, right, I don't remember any fuzz about someone uploading David Bowie tracks and claiming it as their own or something like that. Anyway, each and every track had to be screened in advance before going public, back then, right? Abuse like that would have been likely to be detected at that point, I guess.
Which might well be YouTube's and everybody's biggest fault these days: they will publish any video material nonetheless without delay and wait for someone to complain before they take down stuff. I know they expect to have some algorithms in place soon that are supposed to filter out copyrighted content, but I can't really see those not failing. There's just so many possibilities to just slightly modify some video.
Reasonable choice you're making between fat and happy or thin and unhappy, but let's talk again 10 years later when your joints never stop hurting, your diabetes kicks in and your heart becomes unwilling to pump blood through all that mass all day long, i.e., when fat suddenly doesn't equate happy any longer.
;)
Be sure to get some good health insurance for the time being. Life will get expensive then. No offense.
You gotta love that. DRM as prior art. Isn't it beautiful?
More real estate in Antarctica and Greenland, maybe. Less real estate on almost all coasts, worldwide, though. We should try to compensate that by leveling some mountains, build new cities up there.
All the construction workers losing their jobs because of 'dem damn 'bots!' may shift to taking down rocks in order to save humankind from the floods. Until robots take over that business, too, that is.
The Japanese will rather take a bite, from ... an Apple?
Get real. No one over there buys a Sony Walkman if they can get their hands on an iPod. So, what does this tell us? Apple is perceived as a Japanese brand? Wrong, guess again.
I've been there, and my wife is Japanese. Anecdotal as it might be, but: JP folks do love foreign brands, just look at fashion (sigh, Gucci. D&G. Rouisbiton [or what's it spelled again?]. Versace. Prada. yada, yada) or car brands, but: no doubt, American cars never flooded Japanese streets, neither do American consoles rock Japanese homes. Any correlation, what do you think?
If we rule out a specific anti-american bias (which I have yet to come by: everybody loves their Mac over there, I keep encountering Dell machines in peoples' homes) and bad jokes like: since shortly after Hiroshima, Japanese just don't like bulky and noisy American products anymore, then there is just one conclusion: someone simply hasn't done their homework properly.
If PS3 has already sold close to twice as much units in Japan as xBox360 has in like 14 months, like an earlier post suggested, then of course the race in Japan is already over for MS even before something like a system selling killer game for PS3 is anywhere near in sight. All that in a situation where Sony is admittedly doing much worse than everybody thought, makes it look even more painful for Microsoft.
OTOH, Sony always said the PS3 is not for the average customer. Which is BS, if you ask me, because they need to sell quantities. Badly.
Anyway, being Europe-based, I'll wait a little longer and then prolly get a PS3 because: my 1920x1200p monitor doubles as the family TV and really suffers (read: we do) without HD contents. If Sony can deliver downloadable TV shows etc. without too many caveats, I'm sold. The PS3 is the ONLY console out there with digital video outputs if I'm not mistaken. There's no way I'm going back to VGA connectors. My only problem: my monitor has only one digital video in, meaning I will have to get one of those ugly switchboxes if I don't want to keep replugging between gaming and work sessions.
I don't have any numbers, and while there has been some excitement due to its launch shortly before christmas, I dunno, didn't notice an awful lot of hype.
We didn't buy the first gamecube either, you know...
Anonymous coward that you are aside, care to provide a source? There's several scientific books out on that matter as far as I remember. But maybe by propagandists, you mean Arafat and his troupe themselves?
Nope, islamic fascists are the way to go: he could have a fist fight with the former mullah of Jerusalem, Hitler-buddy and uncle of Jassir Arafat (for real!).
Not like there haven't been any muslim nazis in the older movies, hey, but emphasizing those intimate relationships a bit more would provide a tie to today's problems while avoiding to do just another terrorists-attack-what-would-Indy-do? movie.
Some secret plot story about muslim fanatics trying to evoke dark forces in order to destroy Israel, and you'd have it all in one: popcorn, blockbuster & world politics. Suggestions needed for a female sidekick (with/without love interest): Scarlett / Natalie / Tom Hanks, who else?
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I'll second the other reply, it will most likely never happen. On the other hand, you seem to be implying that one such study for people of German descent already exists, or why do you take for granted that their IQs are superior? Please elaborate.
Well at least the hearing defect thingy is hereditary up to even the highest political circles over there. Here, I mean.
Well, more than you in your parents' basement, don't you think? ;)
Frankly, the whole argument sounds like a strawman to me. I don't recall Linux on PS3 being referenced to or advertised as a gaming platform anywhere. I think it's more about offering convenience: why put another PC in your living room when you can have internet access and office applications (maybe not full-blown, considering lack of memory on the PS3, but definitely usable for a quick letter of complaint) all on your PS3? Especially considering that the PS3 seems to be a lot less noisy than the 360, that might actually work out well.
Another Microsoft spokesperson that doesn't 'get' Linux, what else is new? You might read it the other way around as well: facing fading support by major publishers, MS wants to get 'everyone' on the 360 bandwagon now, before it's too late. I can smell desperation there.
And yes, it's a trap.
At least not from Germany, from over a year now. Maybe I'm misreading something or am simply in need of some coffee, but if I'm not mistaken Germany killed all analog aerial transmissions for TV something like a year ago.
;)
Seems like Holland lost again to Germany, just like in every football match.
Anecdotal evidence? So maybe your pet dog or your little brother urinated on your consoles, maybe you don't clean up enough and pizza leftovers find their way into your systems, maybe you got cockroaches in the house or well, maybe you are just out of luck and repeatedly bought PS2s that got assembled on mondays.
Can you factor out all the the aforementioned? Anyway, I don't buy that myth about PS2s failing regularly ON THEIR OWN, so if they do, then it may be because they get treated differently from, say, a PC. You take them to your friends' house, play them during wild parties, there's beer around, they get wet in the rain or, especially in winter, have to endure quick changes in both temperature and humidity.
The pure fact that you kept buying them suggests that a) you admit that it's partly your fault, and b) that it's well worth it.
On the other hand: how are we to know how many of those 21 million gamecubes were replacements? Or how many of Microsoft's shipped 10 million will be?
I'm sure EA can cut down on development costs like they did for some years by releasing sequel after sequel, not counting spin-offs.
EA might just be whining because they have to start from somewhere near scratch with a new architecture like the CELL within the PS3 (which unlike the Wii is not just an update of a former system); something that more respectable developers do for any new game that tries to make a new idea become reality.
EA also has more fixed costs in the licensing department, I guess. It won't be so cheap incorporating all those sports celebrities, real team & player names, car brands and technical specs and what have you. But that's up to their own conceptual decision, crazy as it may be.
Why, I do.
Valid point. But would you call that very car still a masterpiece if the upholstery were ripped out and you can't lock it by default? Just wondering, because that's what Zonk's sequitur is essentially saying.
;)
I've got a little exercise for Zonk: load up Wikipedia. Look up 'shiny'. Now load another instance of wikipedia in another tab and look up 'masterpiece'. Read. Compare. Now write down - in your own words - any striking differences between the two. And no, editing the articles beforehand doesn't count. Please share the results with us by rewriting your review.
Disclaimer: This is of course completely unrelated to how awesome or not the actual game might be. Not that I care either.
I'm not a Zonk hater or anything (though I don't exactly like his tendency towards anti-SONY marketing; but if he likes to look like a MS puppet, he is free to), buut this review abstract really reaches for some new low.
So, the game is full of flaws, yet a masterpiece? Masterpiece, eh? He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
So, it's the f+cking NY Times, but so what? If you had read the article, you'd know it's a bad write-up, full of bias and far from being a balanced review. The information I get out of it is that OMG, the author doesn't like Sony nor the PS3, and the 360 was oh so awesome in comparison.
Give us a rest indeed. I've been watching the anti-Sony FUD and BS on slashdot for a while now from a rather amused distance, but as much as I like stupid memes and their endless self-replication (and take part in 'em myself occasionally), it bothers me nonetheless to have to watch how sheepishly and baring a second thought many here flame or mod down anything pro SONY as troll or flamebait.
Get a life folks (I know, this is slashdot, but anyway)! Buy whichever you prefer, souped up Gamecube, souped up PS2 or souped up Xbox, but have some decency and respect other buyers' choices. Or are you afraid of something?
No, he would certainly prefer to just jump around.
Anyway, wrong campaign, as Ballmer actually and undisputedly IS GOD, says the Church of Developers Excited (C.o.D.E.).
I'm sorry: I can understand the fanboy attitude of some moderators (not that I approve of it), but parent is clearly not flamebait. It's rather accurate if you had read Miyamoto-san's quotes. What you get is a gamecube update with better memory and accessories.
Note: This doesn't necessarily have to be a Bad Thing (TM) at all, Nintendo just ticks differently and focusses on other aspects than their competition does, as the NDS has demonstrated very convincingly. Anyway, there is some risk to limiting the technical specs of a new console to last gen capabilities in such a decisive manner. Those very limitations will show up sooner or later. Just my 2 cents.
Similarly, I quite enjoyed the related products listed right below the video:
It's called, and it wants both your and the GP's it's back.