Sony bought your future. Get the fuck over it. My future is my own. Whether it includes BluRay is also my own choice. It's just a media for movies for chrissakes!
I find it remarkable that people honestly believe a company like Sony can hide payments of over a half billion dollars fromt heir financial statements to shareholders. Stringer just kind of put it in his pocket one day from petty cash as he walked out the door to a business meeting...
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Neither side has confirmed the size of any bids or payments. It's not like Warner or Sony would be able to keep the payment off their books. These are completely unsubstantiated sour-grapes rumors.
Took me less than, say, two minutes to pre-order online. No time in the store. Try again. Most people who don't work at the mall would include the travel time to get there.
Seriously, faster is better, period. It is amazing that you are pulling the install time out of your ass to somehow say the Xbox has an advantage. The 360 tears for God's sake.
That's just it - after the 20 minute up-front load for the PS3, the load times are identical to the Xbox 360 version! You gain nothing for that 20 minutes! Read the reviews. I have read the reviews. The load times are slightly faster. I'll take slightly faster in trade for an install time that takes less time than it does to go to the store than get the game.
I'd rather spend even double the extra time up front than wait on it during a game. I can't believe you're using increased loading times during gameplay as some sort of benefit.
And the PS3 is outselling the 360 worldwide, and that was before HD-DVD croaked. Sorry, buddy, as the other poster said, nice try.
The 360 will continue to get games, like the XBox did. But as far as the PS3 being dead, that meme is about six months out of date.
I think there must be a lot of empty space in the 360 too. Don't you mean "empty space where the 360 was sitting before it was sent back for repairs again?"
Steam is great for first party Valve games and older games that have been out for awhile and had their issues sorted out.
It absolutely sucks for newer games which have their own copy protection schemes. See BioShock and Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts. I had trouble with Opposing Fronts and had to wait for a runaround before I got my money back, after which they said they would not do another. If you do a chargeback and they disable your account you will lose access to ALL your games.
I like Steam for Valve stuff... but just be careful with untested third party software. You can check there own forums on steampowered.com to see if people are having issues.
The reason I say they need burners in high volume asap, is that whether they like it or not piracy is often times a real boost to sales Forget volume, they need to make a decent burner, period.
So does everyone here hate HD DVD because of some orrational hatred of Microsoft? I I "hate" it because it's dead. If it would have been successful I would have been behind it. I almost thought it was last August when Paramount went exclusive... but it's over now and any foot-dragging on Toshiba/Microsoft's part just delays the production of quality content being distributed to the masses.
As an insider I can attest to the fact that the online world has been nailed by one of the most successful viral marketing campaigns ever waged in a digital format war. An unnamed company (or three) got together before the recent announcement by Warner Bros in the weeks before CES to orchestrate this domino effect. I heard they also flew a missile into the Pentagon. Did you know that a real airliner couldn't have made that hole and that they stole all the tapes of the event?
Sony's Biggest folly IMO is their abhorrent lack of organization both blu-ray and the PS3 in their release configurations were running on un-finalized specs, blu-ray is just now finalizing it's spec and basically obsoleting most of the early players, and disc releases and the PS3 still feels incomplete and probably wont feel "finished" until the release of home/full integration of the x-media bar. At least the HD-DVD spec was finalized and all the players and media supported that spec on day 1. This is ridiculous. All first-generation BluRay players will play all BluRay discs. Will you get the latest features? Nope. Same thing happened with DVD. First-generation DVD players didn't have DTS sound or component out. Hell, some older DVD players won't play DVD-R or DVD-RW, never mind the +/- fiasco. Standards grow over time.
No idea why you see the PS3 as incomplete... unless you want to.
To a certain extent of course the strange behavior is explained by the separate divisions within Sony that produce the various products. Obviously some of them (notably the gaming division) do actually seem to "get it", while others (music division) very clearly do not. This is explained by the gaming group wanting to sell hardware (which is more useful when it's open) and the content wanting to sell content (more profitable when it's closed).
Also, keep in mind that the Sony BMG rootkit scandal was a scant year after they joined forces. It must have been in the works for awhile and in good Dilbert fashion the parent company may not have known about it.
Until your player stops working in a few years, as all electronics eventually do. And then you won't be able to get a replacement HD-DVD player. I'm as clear as anyone that HD-DVD as a mass-media format is deader than a doornail, but you can still buy laserdisc players on Ebay. I imagine you'll be able to find used HD-DVD players for the foreseeable future.
Hell, wait until the price drops to $20 and buy one spare!
Human psychology. The hard sell works using various techniques such as making it seem like a logical contradiction if you say "no", or making it seem like you're being mean to a nice person. People become incredibly uncomfortable with these situations and paying money is an easy way to escape. This hurts my feelings and I'm a nice person. Send me a check please. You're not a mean person, are you?
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Another draconian legal tactic by a truly evil company! I would never touch on of their prod... oh wait, Apple?
Ooh, look over there! Shiny!
... they don't realize that we all mute or FF TV commercials as well!
No need to go to all that trouble. The corpses of the US founding fathers have been doing about 500 rps (and increasing) for the last 50 years.
Seriously, faster is better, period. It is amazing that you are pulling the install time out of your ass to somehow say the Xbox has an advantage. The 360 tears for God's sake.
Really, you fanbois are reaching now.
Last you heard, you heard wrong.
I'd rather spend even double the extra time up front than wait on it during a game. I can't believe you're using increased loading times during gameplay as some sort of benefit.
And the PS3 is outselling the 360 worldwide, and that was before HD-DVD croaked. Sorry, buddy, as the other poster said, nice try.
The 360 will continue to get games, like the XBox did. But as far as the PS3 being dead, that meme is about six months out of date.
Steam is great for first party Valve games and older games that have been out for awhile and had their issues sorted out.
It absolutely sucks for newer games which have their own copy protection schemes. See BioShock and Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts. I had trouble with Opposing Fronts and had to wait for a runaround before I got my money back, after which they said they would not do another. If you do a chargeback and they disable your account you will lose access to ALL your games.
I like Steam for Valve stuff... but just be careful with untested third party software. You can check there own forums on steampowered.com to see if people are having issues.
No idea why you see the PS3 as incomplete... unless you want to.
Also, keep in mind that the Sony BMG rootkit scandal was a scant year after they joined forces. It must have been in the works for awhile and in good Dilbert fashion the parent company may not have known about it.
Hell, wait until the price drops to $20 and buy one spare!