The fact of the matter is, MS and many other industry experts anticipated poor sales in Japan and Europe during the XBox's initial launch. True, the sales figures were lower than expected, but not THAT much lower.
I dont believe MS would want to lose Japan market which is one of the most "rich" one out there. You know what that is? Poor business planning! Man, if I know my console would depend ONLY on USA sales would I really launch it or work a little more? Come on, not even hollywood is stupid enough to rely on USA for their movies...
As far as your post goes, fabiolrs, isn't EVERY video game system essentially a PC? What makes the XBox more a PC than PS2? A hard drive?
i know that... but I would rather spend 400 bucks on a new video card and play many other great games then spend 400 bucks on video game and wait for 1 game to be released every month..
im not saying others are not computers, im saying xbox share the same architeture of a PC which makes it more a PC than others...
Playstation One had hundreds of games available at release! Wow! (That's not the way I remember it.)
yeah... not in the begining but months later there were plenty of games. Come on, Xbox is out there for quite a while and all we see is 1 new game a month.
Ok, can you connect PS2/GC HDD on a PC and play around with it? Does PS2/GC have lame Celeron processors? (nothing against Celerons, they are just know to be pretty much inferior to many other processors)
Id rather spend 400$ on new hardware to my PC and play many other games (which are much better than xbox)...
Halo: Pretty graphics and good physics... whatelse? Microsoft did so mcuh marketing on it that you say it is good just because you dont wanna say you spend 500$ on a shitty videogame.
Spider Man: You never played that on a GeForce 4 at 1600x1200
THPS3: You never played it on 1600x1200 with 5.1 speakers (so you can here BodyJar music)
I, personally, dontt like Xbox. Its just a computer inside a pretty box that connects to your TV so you can play games. And why is it dying? Well, Microsoft has a pretty weak business planing for Xbox. It has no support from many of world largest game houses, it was born too damn expensive, it has two or three good games (out of 10 games ever launched)... what, in my opinion, made Playstation One so famous was one possibility to choose beetwen hundreds of diferent games.
Most of the stuff researched today is, unfortunately, aimed to bad stuff. Like the Anti Ballistic Missile Shield (aim a laser to the space and destroy the missile), there are documentation that clarifies the purpose of that laser, if you can shoot a laser to space having a base on earth you can pretty much do the oposite dont you? If you have a satelite, as instance, you can deliver a laser bean anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately nanotechnology will have the same end....
How can millions and millions of companies use such OS (everbody knows windows is not the best OS around)?
They do this all the time! They let people pirate their software freely them they come with this licensing bullshit. Ok, you have 25k computers around many many schools (lets take as an example this story)... you have two options: 1- use the lame OS, pay the license, and go on... 2- change OS (this may take weeks), pay training for your personal, wait every user to get user with new OS, etc, etc, etc...
"But so far, PGP is limited primarily to niche markets, like human rights and organized crime -- authorities say mob suspect Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. used it to encode gambling records."
Nice, nice!:)) I never knew they were SO organized!!
"Hard-disk drives, similar to other components for computers, have experienced sharply reduced demand and corresponding reductions in pricing."
Price reduction? This guy must be crazy... memory, for example, is costing many times more they were costing last december. Same goes for LCD monitors and HD...
"8.3 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second, 1.8 Terabytes of RAM, 170 Terabytes of disk, (including a 53 TB SAN), and 1400 Intel McKinley and Madison Processors."
in other news: "The geeks that will use the supercomputer, being loyal slashdot readers, are already planning how they will casemod that baby, they already ordered thinkgeek.com 28 window case kits and 1400 water cooling system"
man, I dont like.Net neither c#... as a Java programmer I just want to know if ximian intends to integrate their software with such idiot technology. If they dont Im not going to complaim at all!:))
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The fact of the matter is, MS and many other industry experts anticipated poor sales in Japan and Europe during the XBox's initial launch. True, the sales figures were lower than expected, but not THAT much lower.
I dont believe MS would want to lose Japan market which is one of the most "rich" one out there. You know what that is? Poor business planning! Man, if I know my console would depend ONLY on USA sales would I really launch it or work a little more? Come on, not even hollywood is stupid enough to rely on USA for their movies...
As far as your post goes, fabiolrs, isn't EVERY video game system essentially a PC? What makes the XBox more a PC than PS2? A hard drive?
i know that... but I would rather spend 400 bucks on a new video card and play many other great games then spend 400 bucks on video game and wait for 1 game to be released every month..
im not saying others are not computers, im saying xbox share the same architeture of a PC which makes it more a PC than others...
Playstation One had hundreds of games available at release! Wow! (That's not the way I remember it.)
yeah... not in the begining but months later there were plenty of games. Come on, Xbox is out there for quite a while and all we see is 1 new game a month.
Ok, can you connect PS2/GC HDD on a PC and play around with it? Does PS2/GC have lame Celeron processors? (nothing against Celerons, they are just know to be pretty much inferior to many other processors)
Id rather spend 400$ on new hardware to my PC and play many other games (which are much better than xbox)...
Halo: Pretty graphics and good physics... whatelse? Microsoft did so mcuh marketing on it that you say it is good just because you dont wanna say you spend 500$ on a shitty videogame.
Spider Man: You never played that on a GeForce 4 at 1600x1200
THPS3: You never played it on 1600x1200 with 5.1 speakers (so you can here BodyJar music)
hey, it was a typo ok?
never heard of the killer bean?
I, personally, dontt like Xbox. Its just a computer inside a pretty box that connects to your TV so you can play games. And why is it dying? Well, Microsoft has a pretty weak business planing for Xbox. It has no support from many of world largest game houses, it was born too damn expensive, it has two or three good games (out of 10 games ever launched)... what, in my opinion, made Playstation One so famous was one possibility to choose beetwen hundreds of diferent games.
Hope Micros~1 does a better job next time!
Obligatory Idiotic Slashdot Reader Comment: IMAGINE A BEWOLF CLUSTER OF THESE!!!
I agree completely!
Most of the stuff researched today is, unfortunately, aimed to bad stuff. Like the Anti Ballistic Missile Shield (aim a laser to the space and destroy the missile), there are documentation that clarifies the purpose of that laser, if you can shoot a laser to space having a base on earth you can pretty much do the oposite dont you? If you have a satelite, as instance, you can deliver a laser bean anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately nanotechnology will have the same end....
Scarfo was using Windows and AOL
Not VERY smart? Oh... youre being nice dont you?
How can millions and millions of companies use such OS (everbody knows windows is not the best OS around)?
:(((
They do this all the time! They let people pirate their software freely them they come with this licensing bullshit. Ok, you have 25k computers around many many schools (lets take as an example this story)... you have two options: 1- use the lame OS, pay the license, and go on... 2- change OS (this may take weeks), pay training for your personal, wait every user to get user with new OS, etc, etc, etc...
Thats how MS achieved monopoly...
I found it at the bottom of that article (under "Related Stories"):
:)))
Hidden sex cameras may soon be banned
This is much more interesting!
"But so far, PGP is limited primarily to niche markets, like human rights and organized crime -- authorities say mob suspect Nicodemo S. Scarfo Jr. used it to encode gambling records."
:)) I never knew they were SO organized!!
Nice, nice!
"Though a free version remains available elsewhere, the company won't update it or make it compatible with newer operating systems, like Windows XP."
:))
Im "starting" to get worried about XP privacy!
user: slashdotted69
pw: slashdot
no more registering required! (i really hate registering)
maybe microsoft made IE slow so they can say XP is much faster... thus making costumer chosing PC (windows) instead of Mac computers...
But my Pentium 100, about the same age, is now useless.
:))
How come such a powerfull computer be useless for 3D gaming?
"Hard-disk drives, similar to other components for computers, have experienced sharply reduced demand and corresponding reductions in pricing."
Price reduction? This guy must be crazy... memory, for example, is costing many times more they were costing last december. Same goes for LCD monitors and HD...
"8.3 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second, 1.8 Terabytes of RAM, 170 Terabytes of disk, (including a 53 TB SAN), and 1400 Intel McKinley and Madison Processors."
in other news: "The geeks that will use the supercomputer, being loyal slashdot readers, are already planning how they will casemod that baby, they already ordered thinkgeek.com 28 window case kits and 1400 water cooling system"
All people who likes child porn should die... :(
:((
last month a doctor was arrested here near my city because he was caught molesting children... motherf***er...
dude come on I was just kidding have you ever saw a method called install_windows()?? come on :(((
thats why i like computer games more than videogames... :)))
it seens MS is threating AMD to stay on their side otherwise they will put this piece of code on windows:
if (processor == "AMD") {
crash();
} else {
install_windows();
}
"All your base are belong to us"
"Somebody set up us the bomb"
Is there any pattern there?
man, I dont like .Net neither c#... as a Java programmer I just want to know if ximian intends to integrate their software with such idiot technology. If they dont Im not going to complaim at all! :))