"Sony will be selling 15-20 million PS3s a year. Most of which will want a TV that accepts component 1080p from the 499 PS3. TV manufacturers aren't going to just ignore that giant market."
Don't count your chickens before the console hits the shelves.
"One thing many North Americans cannot seem to get their heads around is that Sony is primarily a Japanese company and their strategy is long term. Everything they've done to this point bears this out: the initially high cost, the choice of 1080p as the base resolution, the choice of Bluray, an exceptionally powerful yet expensive custom microprocessor, including HDMI, and rolling out an untested Internet service."
Nintendo is also a Japanese company, and yet:
They have a low initial cost
They're aiming for 480p
They're not getting into next-gen movie playback
They're primarily using off-the-shelf parts, including component video
Are expanding upon their existing internet service that they introduced for the DS
I fail to see how where the company's headquarters is located can hand-wave away what many consider to be complete blunders
Several of those "NES Classics" cartridges were sold for $5 new as eReader card collections (before the cartridges were published). Of course, you pay for the NES emulation when you bought the eReader unit itself, but otherwise I think if they wanted to price gouge, they would have gouged for the eReader as well.
"Good, because that means that my competition will just be out a bunch of money, while I (assumably the smarter guy regarding how my money is spent) derive the benefit from my investment."
Why do you assume that is a given? If your competitor has the resources to burn, they can drive you out of business with misinformation and still have a comfortable net gain.
"The philosophy is satisfied if the best man wins, regardless of their angle of approach to the system."
How does your free market philosophy explain the continued sale of cigarettes?
"Overall benefit to society is derived by the smarter shoppers actually meeting real dates,"
You're assuming that there is a legitimate provider out there. Misinformation, bait-and-switch tactics, etc. tend to be more profitable than putting out a reliable product. Why would anybody want to be legitimate when (e. g.) spam is much more profitable?
"For example, if Yahoo dating service is able to block 98% of scammers, while Match.com is only able to block 75%, then who should win?"
The one who doesn't get caught.
The Beloved Free Market isn't about giving people the better product, it's about giving people what they think is the better product. And, in case you haven't noticed, people are fucking morons. And if you have the resources to make people think, contrary to the facts, that your product is better/safer/etc, you'll make your sale.
Um... so? You might be able to make an argument that Slashdot should change to cater to new, potential readers, but if people are already coming here while Slashdot is still US centric, why bother?
"Slashdotters all over the world are smart enough to know that the problem with those medical records is largely a local problem."
But they're just not smart enough to know that the default location for news is the US?
"Here in Sweden,"
Should Slashdot take the next logical step in your suggestion and start publishing in Swedish?
"You're deluding yourself if you think the DS has won,"
Well, the DS Lite outselling the PSP in Japan at around 8:1 right now, and at best the PSP is approaching parity with the DS in North America. Factor in the loss of one of the major features of the PSP that Sony is trying to push (UMD movie playback), and I think that the best argument you can make is "losing" vs. "lost."
"and the DS is not "nearly" half the price of the psp."
Bare-bones packages sell for $130 for the DS and $200 for the PSP, the 15% difference seems to justify the "nearly" adjective. Factor in the price of the required Memory Stick for game saves (not an issue for the DS) and the way PSP games tend to be $50 versus the $35 new DS games sell for, and we can even start talking about "less than."
"They 'barely' fill up a single dvd, because the moment you flip to a second dvd your costs go way up."
Then explain the incredibly slow adoption of DVDs for PC gaming. What was the first year the majority of PC games were sold on DVD, 2004 at the earliest? You can't fall back on "compatability issues" since the DVD-ROM marketshare hit critical mass about the same time 32 MB was more than enough video RAM to play contemporary games.
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"Sony will be selling 15-20 million PS3s a year. Most of which will want a TV that accepts component 1080p from the 499 PS3. TV manufacturers aren't going to just ignore that giant market."
Don't count your chickens before the console hits the shelves.
Nintendo is also a Japanese company, and yet:
- They have a low initial cost
- They're aiming for 480p
- They're not getting into next-gen movie playback
- They're primarily using off-the-shelf parts, including component video
- Are expanding upon their existing internet service that they introduced for the DS
I fail to see how where the company's headquarters is located can hand-wave away what many consider to be complete blundersSeveral of those "NES Classics" cartridges were sold for $5 new as eReader card collections (before the cartridges were published). Of course, you pay for the NES emulation when you bought the eReader unit itself, but otherwise I think if they wanted to price gouge, they would have gouged for the eReader as well.
You can have your Shaq Fu, I want my Superman 64!
"Good, because that means that my competition will just be out a bunch of money, while I (assumably the smarter guy regarding how my money is spent) derive the benefit from my investment."
Why do you assume that is a given? If your competitor has the resources to burn, they can drive you out of business with misinformation and still have a comfortable net gain.
"The philosophy is satisfied if the best man wins, regardless of their angle of approach to the system."
How does your free market philosophy explain the continued sale of cigarettes?
"Overall benefit to society is derived by the smarter shoppers actually meeting real dates,"
You're assuming that there is a legitimate provider out there. Misinformation, bait-and-switch tactics, etc. tend to be more profitable than putting out a reliable product. Why would anybody want to be legitimate when (e. g.) spam is much more profitable?
"For example, if Yahoo dating service is able to block 98% of scammers, while Match.com is only able to block 75%, then who should win?"
The one who doesn't get caught.
The Beloved Free Market isn't about giving people the better product, it's about giving people what they think is the better product. And, in case you haven't noticed, people are fucking morons. And if you have the resources to make people think, contrary to the facts, that your product is better/safer/etc, you'll make your sale.
"On the other hand it is a fully digital signal without paying a monthly subscription fee."
You get what you pay for.
As a Sirius subscriber, I have never, ever, ever heard any mention of any car dealership anywhere in the world. Ever. Zero. Nada. Zilch. None.
And I'm not just talking about the "We're broadcasting from Malfunctioning Eddy's this afternoon..." infomercials, either.
Turn on an FM radio to a non-NPR station and start a stopwatch. Stop it when you hear talk about car sales. See if you can break five minutes.
"Many of these assholes should be kicked out come the elections in November."
You're funny. All House elections until 2010 were decided back in 2000 at least, thanks to the drawing up of 435 safe districts.
"Since http://www.slashdot.org/ is read through out the world,"
Um... so? You might be able to make an argument that Slashdot should change to cater to new, potential readers, but if people are already coming here while Slashdot is still US centric, why bother?
"Slashdotters all over the world are smart enough to know that the problem with those medical records is largely a local problem."
But they're just not smart enough to know that the default location for news is the US?
"Here in Sweden,"
Should Slashdot take the next logical step in your suggestion and start publishing in Swedish?
"I assume the local memory is not going to be used much for 'reading'"
So what are we talking about here, write-only memory?
"You're deluding yourself if you think the DS has won,"
Well, the DS Lite outselling the PSP in Japan at around 8:1 right now, and at best the PSP is approaching parity with the DS in North America. Factor in the loss of one of the major features of the PSP that Sony is trying to push (UMD movie playback), and I think that the best argument you can make is "losing" vs. "lost."
"and the DS is not "nearly" half the price of the psp."
Bare-bones packages sell for $130 for the DS and $200 for the PSP, the 15% difference seems to justify the "nearly" adjective. Factor in the price of the required Memory Stick for game saves (not an issue for the DS) and the way PSP games tend to be $50 versus the $35 new DS games sell for, and we can even start talking about "less than."
"Less space than a Nomad."
Come to think about it, I think we need side-by-side size comparisons between the Nintendo Wii and the Sega Nomad.
"In fact, it's rare for the cheapest system to win in any given generation"
When was any version of a Game Boy more expensive than any of its competitors?
What about the DS versus the PSP with nearly double the price?
"but at the same time I'm doubtful sounding like the typical online "OMG gameplay 4 LIFE graphix r 4 NOOBS""
As opposed to "OMG graphics 4 LIFE?"
"Nobody wants to buy a new console sporting graphics from two generations ago."
Nintendo wants to sell consoles to people who didn't even buy a console in the previous two generations.
"It never did. If you're voting for a party, you're a moron. Vote for people, not parties."
So don't vote along party lines, vote for the people that vote along party lines. What a marked improvement!
So you don't mind if the government gets to hold you accountable for any of your parenting failures?
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Democrats and Republicans... Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
http://www.lp.org/"
Yes, because the Mad Hatter is a much more rational choice.
Would OSS be so popular if customers were able to hold (closed source) vendors accountable for their bugs?
"Sure, the innovative will try to work around these types of limitations, but are we teaching our kids to be afraid of science?"
No, it's the home-schooling of creationism and its ilk that leave students afraid of the ungodly lies of science.
"But where I live, there are things you can do if someone fraudulently sells you non-working stuff as working."
You're not familiar with eBay, are you?
Tell them that Real Men (TM) don't use VB, but instead write Perl scripts in ed.
Then why do you believe the same will not be true between DVD and BluRay?
"~50 gig vs. ~10 gig. Blu-ray is the obvious choice."
$60 vs. $50 dollars, DVD is the obvious choice at retail.
"Remeber...no one NEEDS a game console. Don't like the price, don't buy it"
And you should remember that the PS3 isn't consumers' only choice in console shopping. The choice isn't between "PS3 or nothing."
"They 'barely' fill up a single dvd, because the moment you flip to a second dvd your costs go way up."
Then explain the incredibly slow adoption of DVDs for PC gaming. What was the first year the majority of PC games were sold on DVD, 2004 at the earliest? You can't fall back on "compatability issues" since the DVD-ROM marketshare hit critical mass about the same time 32 MB was more than enough video RAM to play contemporary games.
"Assuming Sony's 10+ year plan for the PS3,"
They said the same damned thing for the PS2.