Sony is going nowhere, although a little bit of problems would help their attitude.
First of all many Sony divisions operate positively, secondly, Sony has very good sellers
with the PSP and the PS3 (the psp is selling well although not in DS regions it is a successful handheld, and deservedly so, the hardware is phantastic the only thing problematic is the attitude of sony on what the users can do with it - UMD aaargh), and even if the PS3 dies on the console front, it definitely helps Blue Ray
to stay.
We are talking about a huge international corporation here, which has many divisions, if the shit hits the fan, sony can close all its non profit units or closes them down and still be very huge. We talk about a company knee deep in media business, hardware, gaming,and lots of other assets.
So sony has about the same chance to go the way of the dodo as microsoft does, although I would not mind if both companies went away!
Microsofts business practice usually is, if they cannot make a significant inroad with the third iteration of something then they slowly pull out. Axing something usually does not happen overnight.
most of the so called tech media simply is, that it is not tech media it is more business magazines with articles in between which are close on the border of rewritten ads.
There are exceptions like the Sigs magazines or Dr. Dobbs but those wont get into problems anyway, the magazines like WindowsXXX Magazine and something alike are the ones getting problems.
If I want to read ads I am not going to pay for it.
All I can say is, bring serious content then the readers wont run away.
Well it is easy 1. Listen to what the european CEO has to say, and take it seriously 2. Wait for the american CEO to start to cry and start to watch the show with a package of popcorn 3. Wait for the official confirmation of Japan then you know the show is over:-)
Unfortunately not, those assholes have given illegally software patents left and right since the US started it, with about the same invention height, now they tried to legalize it because they already cashed in lots of money, and suddenly the entire thing backfired somewhat because the affected people became scared (while big corporations which represent somewhat 5% of the european IT market pushed for it)
The funny thing is, not even the patent officers want the thing, they drown in work, and currently are on strike, because they cannot keep any good invention check due to overload, while the top people of the EPA hand in hand with some politicians try to get even more patents in (every patent means tax money and money for the EPA) and push the bar down on invention height.
The EPA as it stands is a joke enough, and the people having given the order to grand software patents should be pushed into jail, but no... we have had an ongoing battle of trying to push the software patents in which still is not over, every time they try it by different means. The first time it was the last issue on the list before the european parliament holidays, another time they tried to push it through via another bill affecting copyright etc...
Well it probably will depend on the TV on a normal tube you will get graphics probably very similar to the Wii (the psp is slightly more powerful than the PS2 graphicswise)
on a big screen lcd you will get the same blurry image as on a wii or ps2
The main problem I had was while the graphics really were amazing, there was almost no game I even was mildly interested in. I counted 10-11 shooter 9 of them first person 2 third person, 2 wannabe rpgs which in fact were just third person fighters.
Ratched and Clank was interesting though, MGS4 also (because I have not played the other parts) and then the most interesting thing was the puzzle game with the 80s style vector only graphics.
Anyway Sony did it right this year, while Nintendo was somewhat of a letdown.
But the sony lineup definitely is not a reason to shell out 900USD (that is the price in Europe) for a PS3!!! For that price I can get a decent gaming PC!
Same here some of the graphics were jawdropping, but, they showed 10 shooters 3 racing games, and 2 pseudo rpgs which just were remodeled shooters.
The interesting games were the next Metal Gear solid (which is a sneaker shooter so speaking of shooters....) and the puzzle game which used 80s non filled vectors graphics.
After the presentation I thought, all the graphics were jawdropping but the console simply fails miserably on the gameplay side of things. Playstation sequel syndrome!
But kudos to Sony they really made a good presentation while Nintendos was not even mildly interesting.
Actually the DS uses some kind of SD card system, this was a lucky move on nintendos side, the time the ds will reach its final lifespan the modules probably will have more storage than an average UMD with less power drain.
Currently 2 gig sd cards are 10-15 dollars retail so if a big vendor will start to use it the cards probably will be 1-3 dollars oem, so it already is possible to push out ds games with higher storage than one umd at almost the same price, the problem is there are no games on the ds which currently need this much of a storage,
the screens are small so are the textures and real time speech and lots of video are traditionally not found to often on nintendo systems.
Actually the problem in Europe is that we simply seem to buy that stuff no matter how much sony f**** us in the a****.
The PS3 did not do too well here, after the initial rush it is sitting like stones on the shelves, but after what Sony did here, releasing it half a year later with a 900$ pricetag and then even removing hardware emulation to cut production costs they didnt even deserve the initial rush in the UK and 2-3 other countries!
Dont count on it, the graphics dont really come from the Cell, the cell is good for many things, in the PS3 mainly for marketing.
The cell is a sluggish general purpose processor with only one core, and a handful of dsps attached to it. What you get is basically blazingly fast signal processing. Excellent if you want to encode videos, or if you want to do some serious 2d imaging or physics calculation, but the number of polygons pushed are not getting higher that way. (A simple NVidia GPU is taking care of that)
in fact it makes things way harder for the people utilizing it because the cell definitely does not make multithreaded programming easier and normal program execution times are way worse, after all you cannot push a lot of algorithms which need parallel processing through a multitude of dsps!
After the initial rush the sony PS3 is like a brick in the stores. I have seen often enough people looking at the box taking it, seeing the price putting it back it is almost the same every time I am longer than 20 minutes in a store.
Oh no that the console is sold around 900$ over here does not have anything to do in a region with people generally having lower income and higher taxation than in the US. Sony get a clue, you could have a winner, but lower the price!
Tell that to the parents who have kids...
the disks are protected, after all a caddy is better than nothing, but
leaving out a hole the size of a finger seems like the typical sony management decision to me.
After all games have to be bought a second or third time if the kid is crying!
a price standpoint umd is outright weird, movies three times the price of a normal dvd which are not copyable (face it even illegal dvd backups are the norm not the exception)
from a technical standpoint a mixed bag, they finally added caddies to improve the lifespan, but they left out a hole the size of a finger, so the caddies are outright pointless.
The medium itself is a nice extension to dvds, but since they are not writable they serve only one purpose, customer lock in!
Besides that 2 gig sd cards are now somewhat 10 dollars or so, so even if sony would bring out writable umd drives, they would be bound to fail, the next medium which will go the way of the dodo will be dvds (and their rw incarnations), 4 gig memory cards soon will be in the pricerange of a no brainer!
and in case of the PSP, I have bought one recently, a phantastic machine if you flash it, it is the constant war against the homebrewers which make the machine really worthwile. The PSP is the most phantastic handheld I ever owned but it is half useless if you do not open it and install custom firmware!
Well the british healthcare system is known in Europe for being disastrous if you are too old, this is not the norm in Europe this is a british only thing!
Generally Europeans are very proud on their healthcare being covered universally, they see it as a logical thing (and christian one)
usually you get a very good treatment no matter how old you are, but if you are in GB, shudder!
actually twilight princess is very good and i love the artwork of Windwaker (sailing is a pain, but I am not too far into the game yet)
I dont think the subsequent zeldas ruined anything, they just incrementally improved occarinas already very good game mechanics.
Zelda has the problem that the concept and story has been rehashed too many times, they should have stopped with it after occarina of time and then should have tried something else within the universe instead of retelling the story again and again.
Besides that Resident Evil 4 is hardly one of the best games of all time, it is a good game, but the original System Shock still surpasses all modern survival horror games, both in game mechanics and athmosphere.
Resi 4 in the top spots, I would not agree here, the best survival horror game still is the original System Shock, this is unsurpassed.
Resi4 was just an incremental update with good graphics and better story, but it still is pale to the horror Shodan gave you.
The top 10 list probably would be
(no order)
Ultima Underworld
Civilization
Mule,
System Shock
Occarina of Time
Ultima 7
A Mind Forever Voyaging
Wing Commander
Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Prince of Persia Sands of Time (or Prince of Persia 1 depending on Taste)
This list is defintely less biased than the usual lets pick a number of decent console
games of the last years and make them a top list
Actually Daikatana could not beat ET, nothing can beat that.
There was no game before and after which
a) was utter garbage
b) unplayable
c) was filling an entire landfill
d) took an entire industry down
Wrong horse, the most complete oss ide is not eclipse, eclipse is mostly a barebones refactoring tool and editor, and hundreds of plugins of various quality.
Netbeans probably is the best all in one oss ide, and also way easier if you want to do swing.
As for a central repository, have a look at maven2, this is probably the closest you can get to cpan in the java world...
If you want to do serious swing and need a graphical tool it is Netbeans (dunno if VE in eclipse is usable by now)
Actually Nemesis was the only Myst clone out of hundreds at that time worth playing.
To bad the series was axed after ZGI, which also was an awesome game.
Actually no, if you do not have an internet connection viewing webpages is not an issue anyway.
What we are talking here is the kernel VM which is another option for the VM. Actually stripped down to the bare core so that applets and other applet based solutions are less of a pain installwise.
I personally think, 2MB is a good entry threshold which is bearable for most users.
Applets are far superior to both flash and silverlight, the main reason for not being able to adopt them for now is the current problematic 15mb download for the java plugin.
Applets in JDK6 have become really good as most java client related things. Opening the codebase really has helped a lot there.
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Sony is going nowhere, although a little bit of problems would help their attitude. First of all many Sony divisions operate positively, secondly, Sony has very good sellers with the PSP and the PS3 (the psp is selling well although not in DS regions it is a successful handheld, and deservedly so, the hardware is phantastic the only thing problematic is the attitude of sony on what the users can do with it - UMD aaargh), and even if the PS3 dies on the console front, it definitely helps Blue Ray to stay. We are talking about a huge international corporation here, which has many divisions, if the shit hits the fan, sony can close all its non profit units or closes them down and still be very huge. We talk about a company knee deep in media business, hardware, gaming,and lots of other assets. So sony has about the same chance to go the way of the dodo as microsoft does, although I would not mind if both companies went away!
Microsofts business practice usually is, if they cannot make a significant inroad with the third iteration of something then they slowly pull out. Axing something usually does not happen overnight.
No worries, the press all over the world is similarily negative towards Sony and the PS3.... Zonk is the rule not the exception ;-)
most of the so called tech media simply is, that it is not tech media it is more business magazines with articles in between which are close on the border of rewritten ads. There are exceptions like the Sigs magazines or Dr. Dobbs but those wont get into problems anyway, the magazines like WindowsXXX Magazine and something alike are the ones getting problems. If I want to read ads I am not going to pay for it. All I can say is, bring serious content then the readers wont run away.
Well it is easy :-)
1. Listen to what the european CEO has to say, and take it seriously
2. Wait for the american CEO to start to cry and start to watch the show with a package of popcorn
3. Wait for the official confirmation of Japan then you know the show is over
Unfortunately not, those assholes have given illegally software patents left and right since the US started it, with about the same invention height, now they tried to legalize it because they already cashed in lots of money, and suddenly the entire thing backfired somewhat because the affected people became scared (while big corporations which represent somewhat 5% of the european IT market pushed for it)
The funny thing is, not even the patent officers want the thing, they drown in work, and currently are on strike, because they cannot keep any good invention check due to overload, while the top people of the EPA hand in hand with some politicians try to get even more patents in (every patent means tax money and money for the EPA) and push the bar down on invention height.
The EPA as it stands is a joke enough, and the people having given the order to grand software patents should be pushed into jail, but no... we have had an ongoing battle of trying to push the software patents in which still is not over, every time they try it by different means.
The first time it was the last issue on the list before the european parliament holidays, another time they tried to push it through via another bill affecting copyright etc...
This is not over yet.
Well it probably will depend on the TV on a normal tube you will get graphics probably very similar to the Wii (the psp is slightly more powerful than the PS2 graphicswise) on a big screen lcd you will get the same blurry image as on a wii or ps2
The main problem I had was while the graphics really were amazing, there was almost no game I even was mildly interested in. I counted 10-11 shooter 9 of them first person 2 third person, 2 wannabe rpgs which in fact were just third person fighters. Ratched and Clank was interesting though, MGS4 also (because I have not played the other parts) and then the most interesting thing was the puzzle game with the 80s style vector only graphics. Anyway Sony did it right this year, while Nintendo was somewhat of a letdown. But the sony lineup definitely is not a reason to shell out 900USD (that is the price in Europe) for a PS3!!! For that price I can get a decent gaming PC!
Same here some of the graphics were jawdropping, but, they showed 10 shooters
3 racing games, and 2 pseudo rpgs which just were remodeled shooters.
The interesting games were the next Metal Gear solid (which is a sneaker shooter so speaking of shooters....)
and the puzzle game which used 80s non filled vectors graphics.
After the presentation I thought, all the graphics were jawdropping but the console simply fails miserably on the gameplay side of things. Playstation sequel syndrome!
But kudos to Sony they really made a good presentation while Nintendos was not even mildly interesting.
Actually the DS uses some kind of SD card system, this was a lucky move on nintendos side, the time the ds will reach its final lifespan the modules probably will have more storage than an average UMD with less power drain. Currently 2 gig sd cards are 10-15 dollars retail so if a big vendor will start to use it the cards probably will be 1-3 dollars oem, so it already is possible to push out ds games with higher storage than one umd at almost the same price, the problem is there are no games on the ds which currently need this much of a storage, the screens are small so are the textures and real time speech and lots of video are traditionally not found to often on nintendo systems.
Actually the problem in Europe is that we simply seem to buy that stuff no matter how much sony f**** us in the a****. The PS3 did not do too well here, after the initial rush it is sitting like stones on the shelves, but after what Sony did here, releasing it half a year later with a 900$ pricetag and then even removing hardware emulation to cut production costs they didnt even deserve the initial rush in the UK and 2-3 other countries!
Dont count on it, the graphics dont really come from the Cell, the cell is good for many things, in the PS3 mainly for marketing.
The cell is a sluggish general purpose processor with only one core, and a handful of dsps attached to it. What you get is basically blazingly fast signal processing.
Excellent if you want to encode videos, or if you want to do some serious 2d imaging or physics calculation, but the number of polygons pushed are not getting higher that way. (A simple NVidia GPU is taking care of that)
in fact it makes things way harder for the people utilizing it because the cell definitely does not make multithreaded programming easier and normal program execution times are way worse, after all you cannot push a lot of algorithms which need parallel processing through a multitude of dsps!
After the initial rush the sony PS3 is like a brick in the stores. I have seen often enough people looking at the box taking it, seeing the price putting it back it is almost the same every time I am longer than 20 minutes in a store.
Oh no that the console is sold around 900$ over here does not have anything to do in a region with people generally having lower income and higher taxation than in the US. Sony get a clue, you could have a winner, but lower the price!
Tell that to the parents who have kids... the disks are protected, after all a caddy is better than nothing, but leaving out a hole the size of a finger seems like the typical sony management decision to me. After all games have to be bought a second or third time if the kid is crying!
Actually the most mature game on the Wii is Resident Evil 4 ;-)
a price standpoint umd is outright weird, movies three times the price of a normal dvd which are not copyable (face it even illegal dvd backups are the norm not the exception) from a technical standpoint a mixed bag, they finally added caddies to improve the lifespan, but they left out a hole the size of a finger, so the caddies are outright pointless. The medium itself is a nice extension to dvds, but since they are not writable they serve only one purpose, customer lock in! Besides that 2 gig sd cards are now somewhat 10 dollars or so, so even if sony would bring out writable umd drives, they would be bound to fail, the next medium which will go the way of the dodo will be dvds (and their rw incarnations), 4 gig memory cards soon will be in the pricerange of a no brainer!
Well Sony did one thing wrong... price...
and in case of the PSP, I have bought one recently, a phantastic machine if you flash it, it is the constant war against the homebrewers which make the machine really worthwile.
The PSP is the most phantastic handheld I ever owned but it is half useless if you do not open it and install custom firmware!
Well the british healthcare system is known in Europe for being disastrous if you are too old, this is not the norm in Europe this is a british only thing! Generally Europeans are very proud on their healthcare being covered universally, they see it as a logical thing (and christian one) usually you get a very good treatment no matter how old you are, but if you are in GB, shudder!
actually twilight princess is very good and i love the artwork of Windwaker (sailing is a pain, but I am not too far into the game yet) I dont think the subsequent zeldas ruined anything, they just incrementally improved occarinas already very good game mechanics. Zelda has the problem that the concept and story has been rehashed too many times, they should have stopped with it after occarina of time and then should have tried something else within the universe instead of retelling the story again and again.
Besides that Resident Evil 4 is hardly one of the best games of all time, it is a good game, but the original System Shock still surpasses all modern survival horror games, both in game mechanics and athmosphere.
Resi 4 in the top spots, I would not agree here, the best survival horror game still is the original System Shock, this is unsurpassed. Resi4 was just an incremental update with good graphics and better story, but it still is pale to the horror Shodan gave you. The top 10 list probably would be (no order) Ultima Underworld Civilization Mule, System Shock Occarina of Time Ultima 7 A Mind Forever Voyaging Wing Commander Pac Man Donkey Kong Prince of Persia Sands of Time (or Prince of Persia 1 depending on Taste) This list is defintely less biased than the usual lets pick a number of decent console games of the last years and make them a top list
Actually Daikatana could not beat ET, nothing can beat that. There was no game before and after which a) was utter garbage b) unplayable c) was filling an entire landfill d) took an entire industry down
Wrong horse, the most complete oss ide is not eclipse, eclipse is mostly a barebones refactoring tool and editor, and hundreds of plugins of various quality. Netbeans probably is the best all in one oss ide, and also way easier if you want to do swing. As for a central repository, have a look at maven2, this is probably the closest you can get to cpan in the java world... If you want to do serious swing and need a graphical tool it is Netbeans (dunno if VE in eclipse is usable by now)
Actually Nemesis was the only Myst clone out of hundreds at that time worth playing. To bad the series was axed after ZGI, which also was an awesome game.
Actually no, if you do not have an internet connection viewing webpages is not an issue anyway. What we are talking here is the kernel VM which is another option for the VM. Actually stripped down to the bare core so that applets and other applet based solutions are less of a pain installwise. I personally think, 2MB is a good entry threshold which is bearable for most users. Applets are far superior to both flash and silverlight, the main reason for not being able to adopt them for now is the current problematic 15mb download for the java plugin. Applets in JDK6 have become really good as most java client related things. Opening the codebase really has helped a lot there.