Let's say Sony somehow manages to launch with 2 million systems, 1 million systems, 10,000 systems, it really does not matter as now the demand will outstrip supply regardless of the price of the PS3 INITIALLY.
It will be very difficult to get a PS3 if they launch worldwide with 2 million systems. In fact, ebay sales will make up most of initial purchases. In the 360 line at launch at least half of the people there were buying to resell on ebay. Nontheless, where are the killer games? What is the killer app? ALL of the games shown at the E3 seemed way off from shipping and there was no mention that the Flagship title of Metal Gear Solid 8 would be ready at launch. Sony is in a very tight spot. Miss the launch and wait for the games and lose more ground, or ship unfinished, crappy games that drive their fans directly to buying an XBox 360 instead, at half the price.
Lastly, Sony is going to become the niche player this time around. Parents faced with $5 a gallon gas this year may buy a $299 360, but certainly not a $700 PS3.
Make a Million profit on ebay 2006? No way.
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I used to be on ebay as a powerseller in the heydays of 1997-2001 and made a lot of money. Now, I would not touch ebay with a 12 foot clown pole. The only way you can make a profit now is if you have something that is a true collectable or very valuable or very hot. For instance, if you got your hands on 20 PS3's you could stand to make about $20,000 if you sell the day the PS3 is released. There are rich people out there for whom money is no object and you can profit off of them. The downside on ebay today is actually paypal BUYER fraud. Let's say you do manage to get your hands on 20 PS3's and put them up for $1,500 each. You will get buyers who are legitimate and very rich. You will also get a lot of scam artists who will use paypal to try and defraud you. All the buyer has to do is say "not as described" and paypal will hold the money till they investigate fully (read actually do nothing till YOU send them proof--guilty until proven innocent).
Catch 22, if you don't accept paypal, then you can't protect yourself from dummy bids (someone using a zero or low fb id, bidding a rediculous amount or just simply "buy it now"-ing all of your auctions. Also, since you don't accept paypal it actually makes you look shady! Plus the public has gotten used to paying for everything immediately and if anything the people on ebay have gotten worse and worse over the years.
Make a million on ebay? Sure, no problem. Take home a million profit? No way.
Sony has already made so many blunders before launch I don't see how they are going to sustain the PS3 sales after fanboys and hardcore AV enthusiasts have their fill. Lets go over Sony's faults:
1. Being indignant about the price of the PS3 2. It's freakin' huge: the box will take up the same space in stores as two or three Xbox 360's or at least 4 Wii's. 3. No Rumble in the controller 4. Realistic Cost if you don't want the crappy PS3, out the door, with one game, let alone an extra controller, with tax, is over $700. 5. Being indignant about the pricing of the games which HAVE to be more expensive for Sony to make any money back on this system. ($69.99-$100.00) 5. Once again lying about the power of the system. It appears now that the PS3 may not be able to leverage any advantage the Cell chip offers till the end of the PS3 life cycle.
I see Nintendo selling as many consoles as Microsoft in the coming year, coming in a close second, if not number one. Sony, well, Sony is screwed.
Of course the liberal media would print a "retraction" of the president of Iran stating that he wanted to wipe Israel off the map, but ignore the reality that if Iran had the capability of wiping Israel off the map it would have done so already. The fact that Israel has nukes and neutron bomb, including tactical neutron weapons, has been the ONLY thing stopping Iran from annihilating Israel. What amazes me is that the so called "smart" people on slashdot would even give any credence to such obvious backpeddling. Hell, even Yassir Arafat was quoted repeatedly that he vowed to drive all of the Jews into the sea, so why would Iran, Israel's number one enemy, have a different ideology?
I wonder if they ever nailed down that "sudden decompression" problem possibility brought to light by Joseph Mangan. I tend to side with the guy because he has lost everything defending his viewpoint of using inferior automobile-grade chips to control valve hatches critical for compression as a danger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Manganhttp://www.eaawatch.net/
One thing that everyone is forgetting is the total REAL cost of getting the damn thing (ps3) out the door. Obviously you would want to have at least one game and one extra controller. Let's just round it off at $100 for the two, which is about right. So we are now up to $700, before tax. Most states, including local, are around 8% on average, if not more, but lets round that down, which adds another $50 or so bucks to the pricetag. This bumps the price up to $750 out the door; $650 if you buy the useless cheaper one. That's a lot of freakin' change, man!
If gas jumps up because of Iran, Hurricanes, mutant clowns, then $750 bucks on a game system that really is only a hair better than it's primary competitor is looking very unattractive come Christmas. That is if Sony actually makes it out the gate this Christmas, which personally, I am having less faith in every day.
The Wii/360 combo is actually sounding better as the days go by.
Nintendo is certain to release the Wii at $199 and if the core price for the 360 drops to $249 (which would be the smartest more ever by M$) there is absolutely no way that Sony could ever gain enough marketshare to be anything but number three. The only people buying the PS3 at that point would be the Japanese, the hard core Sony nuts, the Final Fantasy XIVVIXXI nuts, and rich people who own really expensive home theater systems.
I predict that the PS3 will sell for about $2,500, or more on ebay the day it's released and pretty much stay that way for a long time. In fact, it's going to be a huge joke; only rock stars and the insanely rich will be able to afford it. The PS3 will become a status symbol. One thing is certain, history does repeat itself and last time around with the PS2, it took Sony 18 months to finally catch up with demand. To Sony's chagrin, this time it has serious competition already dug in and by the time Sony ramps up production to meet demand the next gen war will already be onto the next-next gen war. That's assuming that there will be demand for a $750 system.
Sony is strangling the golden goose because it wants it to lay platinum, gold and uranium eggs. Sony's goals for the PS3 are too great. It wants to be the magic black box that all consumer electronic manufacturers have dreamed of. Unfortunately, it's arriving about four years too soon. The smartest thing that Sony could do is drop Blu-Ray, forget about it, parnter up with HD DVD and call it a day and then chalk it up to another blunder and release the PS3 with a dvd drive and sell it for $299.
Personally, I can emphasize when the President of Sony says that the PS3 is probably "too cheap". The PS3 is an amazing piece of hardware for $600. It defines state of the art. Plus, it most likely is costing Sony at LEAST $800 to make the PS3, but the consumer does not care about such things. --
One thing that everyone is forgetting is the total REAL cost of getting the damn thing (ps3) out the door. Obviously you would want to have at least one game and one extra controller. Let's just round it off at $100 for the two, which is about right. So we are now up to $700, before tax. Most states, including local, are around 8% on average, if not more, but lets round that down, which adds another $50 or so bucks to the pricetag. This bumps the price up to $750 out the door; $650 if you buy the useless cheaper one. That's a lot of freakin' change, man!
If gas jumps up because of Iran, Hurricanes, mutant clowns, then $750 bucks on a game system that really is only a hair better than it's primary competitor is looking very unattractive come Christmas. That is if Sony actually makes it out the gate this Christmas, which personally, I am having less faith in every day.
The Wii/360 combo is actually sounding better as the days go by.
Nintendo is certain to release the Wii at $199 and if the core price for the 360 drops to $249 (which would be the smartest more ever by M$) there is absolutely no way that Sony could ever gain enough marketshare to be anything but number three. The only people buying the PS3 at that point would be the Japanese, the hard core Sony nuts, the Final Fantasy XIVVIXXI nuts, and rich people who own really expensive home theater systems.
I predict that the PS3 will sell for about $2,500, or more on ebay the day it's released and pretty much stay that way for a long time. In fact, it's going to be a huge joke; only rock stars and the insanely rich will be able to afford it. The PS3 will become a status symbol. One thing is certain, history does repeat itself and last time around with the PS2, it took Sony 18 months to finally catch up with demand. To Sony's chagrin, this time it has serious competition already dug in and by the time Sony ramps up production to meet demand the next gen war will already be onto the next-next gen war. That's assuming that there will be demand for a $750 system.
Sony is strangling the golden goose because it wants it to lay platinum, gold and uranium eggs. Sony's goals for the PS3 are too great. It wants to be the magic black box that all consumer electronic manufacturers have dreamed of. Unfortunately, it's arriving about four years too soon. The smartest thing that Sony could do is drop Blu-Ray, forget about it, parnter up with HD DVD and call it a day and then chalk it up to another blunder and release the PS3 with a dvd drive and sell it for $299.
Personally, I can emphasize when the President of Sony says that the PS3 is probably "too cheap". The PS3 is an amazing piece of hardware for $600. It defines state of the art. Plus, it most likely is costing Sony at LEAST $800 to make the PS3, but the consumer does not care about such things.
Lucas is essentially releasing a high grade dvd bootleg of the Uber 1993 Laserdisc release. The picture quality will be 1993 and the sound 2.0 stereo AND you still have to essentially re-buy the crappy 2004 release which comes in the same set. Lucas is such a cock. I know damn well he has perfect, unaltered, un-CGI'ed, versions of Star Wars; he has to have them. But, instead, he is pretending that they were somehow destroyed.
These ancient diseases are coming from outside the united states, specifically from the overflow of illegal aliens who cross the border seeking healthcare in the USA. I have seen it with my own eyes, having had to use public health care in California for several years. It was downright scary being in the same room with someone hacking up a lung with a facemask on.Dr. Michael Savage has been saying that illegals are bringing these ancient epidemics to the USA for almost 10 years and he's right.
Paypal has a hard on for "limiting" account access for just about any reason today. Does anyone see the nightmare of trying to use paypal on a mobile phone? You had might as well call paypal and ask them to suspend your account, because 10 seconds after you sign up for "paypal mobile" your paypal account will suddenly have "suspicious" activity (you actually using it)and will be limited for "your" protection. Paypal limited my account access when I was using my paypal debit card out of state (one state over) to buy GAS. It was just ONE transaction and -that- triggered their fraud flags?! Maybe if google was doing this, but paypal, forget it.
I think the first thing they need to develop is the super super glue remover, otherwise the "hyper glue" would be too dangerous to use. Or they could use it in the ads: "Our Hyper Glue -NEVER- comes off, EVER!"
Can I sue Lucent for emotional distress because they made a typo and were the reason my xbox 360 was recalled, because of their incompetence and subsequent retrial rules in favor of Lucent after the fact?
Would it be interesting if some retard judge actually makes Microsoft pull the 360 off of the shelves. Regardless of the monetary gains possible by settling, forcing M$ to actually be punished for it's misdeeds would be a first. That is if the patent claims are not your typical "Process for transimitting data between things that process data" patently absurd patents.:)
Are you freakin' kidding me?
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Paypal has a hard on for "limiting" account access for just about any reason today. Does anyone see the nightmare of trying to use paypal on a mobile phone? You had might as well call paypal and ask them to suspend your account, because 10 seconds after you sign up for "paypal mobile" your paypal account will suddenly have "suspicious" activity (you actually using it)and will be limited for "your" protection. Paypal limited my account access when I was using my paypal debit card out of state (one state over) to buy GAS. It was just ONE transaction and -that- triggered their fraud flags?! Maybe if google was doing this, but paypal, forget it.
I don't see the problem. Kinderstart.com still is number four on search results from google and the first three are offshoots of the parent company.
Wahhhhhhh! It's like blaming the phone book for a loss in sales because you were too cheap to take out a full page ad, or the newspaper for not hosting a daily column about your business.
Search engines are not illegal in the USA. You can use a search engine to search for anything. You can use a search engine to find a prostitute or drugs and other forms of illegal "entertainment" so why does copyright infringement the ipso-facto crime of the century? There are a lot of illegal bitorrent files and there are a lot of legal files. I hope someone challenges the MPAA on this.
The left wing media bias is so great (and so blatatnly obvious) that there needs to be something to counteract all of the crap coming out of Iraq. Sure, the USA has made some mistakes (abu gharib) but has done a lot of good in Iraq, something which is never shown. Journalists are kidnapped left, right and center in Iraq and they still refer to the terrorists flowing over the Syrian border from Iran as "freedom fighters" or "insurgents." As for abu gharib, the media just drug out photos from SEPTEMBER to re-incite controversy again.
12 churches have been burned down in a matter of a few weeks in the USA. The detectives are doing everything they can to prove that there it is NOT a hate crime. If it were Mosques it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the world. There would be even more massive riots than over the stupid cartoons. I would go so far as to say the media would blame Bush for the mosque attacks claiming "Bush is doing nothing." There would be massive condemnation in the UN for the USA to "let" the burning of such holy shines continue. "Fortunately" it's only happening to Christian churches, so nobody cares.
Oh, and the king of the liberals, Bill Clinton, just called for the conviction of those cartoonists and publishers "guilty" of blashphemy of Islam by publishing those parody cartoons.
I am sick of everyone sucking up to the "nation" of Islam and defending their "rights" when Islam has absolutely no tolerance for any other religion or way of life.
There needs to be an anti-propaganda machine. Every time I turn on the t.v. I see Muslims rioting, shooting something, killing someone, kidnapping someone, starving or hacking someone to death, but this is spun in the media in a good light. Nobody says anything good about this country anymore. The USA is made out to be the eternal bad guy. The rest of the world is Jealous of the USA's power and money and whereas they would love for the USA to go in right now and take out Iran and it's nukes, the rest of the world would be the first to condemn the USA.
Oh, and before I get "modded down" for being a troll, this article is a "freebie" it should have not been posted on slashdot, as it's certainly flamebait.
Jobs should have waited a few more years and maybe could have acquired Disney:) However, I seriously doubt Jobs will let any of the idiots running Disney or any "middle management" types even on Pixar's Holy Ground, let alone put -any- suggestions on anything creatively. Why attempt to break what is "money in the bank" for Disney by letter Pixar do what Pixar does best. Remember, Jobs is now "Mr. Disney" he owns the most stock out of any shareholders and is on the board of directors. Do not be surprised if you do not see Jobs as CEO in a few years of Disney. Apple who?
Yeah, that's easy for you to say when you, or your government ain't paying for anything (the intellectual rights, the ebay fees, the residuals paid to those who worked on the movie/show or the cost to create the material in the first place.) We are not talking about competition, we are talking about unfair competition. Let's see how "tolerant" you would be if the roles were reversed.
Ebay has a serious, serious, problem with China and it's "goods" provided/exported. I love how they raise the rates for legitimate US sellers, but ignore the fact that now the Chinese Bootleggers list for FREE, totally screwing anyone selling dvds on ebay. Do a search for the Sopranos on ebay and you'll see what I mean. Ebay is bootleg city and has really done nothing to stem the tide of Chinese bootleggers on ebay. I have seen a LOT of Chinese bootleggers that sell only bootleg dvds that have THOUSANDS of positive feedbacks and are ebay Powersellers and are relatively untouchable. Hopefully ebay will start to take China more seriously and suspend the bootleggers, especially now that they are not making any money for ebay and are effectively tying up the ebay system. Of course, this won't happen, especially with ebay now asking sellers to waive any and all rights and protections if they want to sell on the new ebay express site coming soon.
"Customary Historic use" Something only a lawyer could come up with. Really, in 10 years everthing will be able to be downloaded relatively instantly and there ALWAYS will be rogue countries that will allow copyright infringement. Sites like Allmymp3.com will become a one stop shop for downloading media. Then, legislation will be introduced banning or making "unapproved" websites illegal to access. Heck, I would not even be surprised for the RIAA/MPAA to use whatever leftover version of the Patriot Act to stop people from downloading movies/music/media from "unapproved" countries in the guise of national security.
In a way, I don't blame the media companies for freaking out. In 10 years physical media will almost be on it's way out. You will see much more use of "keys" and "rights mangement" built into EVERYTHING. Valve's Steam network is a good example of things to come. I would go as far to suggest that there will be one world standard coming in the next 10 years for rights management. You won't be able to buy hardware that won't connect to the internet to verify the intergrated rights mangement.
The way they will get ya, is the "You can download -ANYTHING- now if you accept the new rights management built into everything." This sounds good, but the RIAA/MPAA are greedy a-holes as evidenced by the DIVX (the dvd player, not the codec) debacle; you won't own anything except limited rights that can always be revoked or blocked at any time. Let's say it's 2020 and you want to buy "A Clockwork Orange" only to find out it's blocked by your country for being subversive or obscene (like England did) Pretty much you will have no recourse, no bootlegs, no nuttin, except maybe that old dvd on ebay (if that has not been outlawed by reverse customary historic use).
I guess with the world going to a cashless society in less than 20 years, I can forsee an "all in one" digital rights card/chip that you carry around with you that will not only get you into the movie theater, but buy downloadable movies/games/music/books/etc. Find a chip/card too cumbersome to carry around? well don't worry the new ruler of europe, Anthony T. Christ, just decreed you must have a RFID chip implanted in you, for -ALL- Commerce and as a bonus will throw in digital rights mangement for free!
"Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary."
Thank God they changed it from AOL Time/Warner.
Speaking of Netscape, it's been out of the game so long is it even worth using anymore? If by using netscape will users be targeted for AOL spyware/ads? Is Netscape even secure and/or modern in 2005/2006?
I am surprised that slashdot is essentially running an anti-christian/bush article, when the truth of the matter is that the USA is losing it's edge in science and technology because kids today do not have the patience to become scientists/engineers.
Also, there was just an article on slashdot about how the nobody is going into engineering fields anymore since their jobs are getting outsourced and the Chinese are threatening to take over the lead in the scientific and engineering fields, because they don't care about low pay and go to schools paid for by the state.
I thought I was hearing good things about the 360. I though Microsoft was actually going to have a huge advantage via using Xbox live to download new content, levels, games, etc, but now that's gone. I was hearing all sorts of cool things about being able to design your own games/levels and being able to share via Xbox live. That's gone too...
I don't see how saving essentially $10, or less, now by omitting the harddrive and then charging a $100 more to get it, will drive sales. Has Microsoft forgotten that a $399.99 system will not sell, even in 2005. Also M$ has forgotten that the a-holes at the game stores will jack up the price of the system by putting everything into "packs" so that $399 system will end up costing $599 if you want one anytime soon.
I keep on hearing that M$ is going to use solid state memory. If so, I don't see how it could be any cheaper than a hard drive.
I don't understand why M$ seems to be pulling their punches, they only have $40 BILLION dollars in the bank.
No hard drive will seriously take away one of the advantagest the Xbox2 will have against the PS3, which also is planning on not having a hard drive.
The hd comes standard on the current xbox, removing it now will only confuse the consumer base
Also MS does NOT need to upgrade the optical drive at a later date to an HD DVD drive, unless the cost is as cheap a dvd drive.
Why does Microsoft think that their plan of offering three to five different versions of the xbox will do anything but segment their own market is beyond me.
Sony has always made on system and then figured out ways to shrink everything over a few years and then make money off of that hardware.
Sophia Stewart is full of shit. The "Matrix" was invented by Douglas Addams in 1978's Dr. Who episode "The Deadly Assassin." I wrote to her to point this out and the letter she wrote back showed no ability to write anything cohesive. The letter literally read like this: "You must belive that I came up with the ideas..... James Cameron ripped me off...." Note she used..... at the end of EVERY sentence.
She was even trying to get Warner Bros. and just about everyone in Hollywood prosecuted under RICO statures.
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Let's say Sony somehow manages to launch with 2 million systems, 1 million systems, 10,000 systems, it really does not matter as now the demand will outstrip supply regardless of the price of the PS3 INITIALLY. It will be very difficult to get a PS3 if they launch worldwide with 2 million systems. In fact, ebay sales will make up most of initial purchases. In the 360 line at launch at least half of the people there were buying to resell on ebay. Nontheless, where are the killer games? What is the killer app? ALL of the games shown at the E3 seemed way off from shipping and there was no mention that the Flagship title of Metal Gear Solid 8 would be ready at launch. Sony is in a very tight spot. Miss the launch and wait for the games and lose more ground, or ship unfinished, crappy games that drive their fans directly to buying an XBox 360 instead, at half the price. Lastly, Sony is going to become the niche player this time around. Parents faced with $5 a gallon gas this year may buy a $299 360, but certainly not a $700 PS3.
I used to be on ebay as a powerseller in the heydays of 1997-2001 and made a lot of money. Now, I would not touch ebay with a 12 foot clown pole. The only way you can make a profit now is if you have something that is a true collectable or very valuable or very hot. For instance, if you got your hands on 20 PS3's you could stand to make about $20,000 if you sell the day the PS3 is released. There are rich people out there for whom money is no object and you can profit off of them. The downside on ebay today is actually paypal BUYER fraud. Let's say you do manage to get your hands on 20 PS3's and put them up for $1,500 each. You will get buyers who are legitimate and very rich. You will also get a lot of scam artists who will use paypal to try and defraud you. All the buyer has to do is say "not as described" and paypal will hold the money till they investigate fully (read actually do nothing till YOU send them proof--guilty until proven innocent). Catch 22, if you don't accept paypal, then you can't protect yourself from dummy bids (someone using a zero or low fb id, bidding a rediculous amount or just simply "buy it now"-ing all of your auctions. Also, since you don't accept paypal it actually makes you look shady! Plus the public has gotten used to paying for everything immediately and if anything the people on ebay have gotten worse and worse over the years. Make a million on ebay? Sure, no problem. Take home a million profit? No way.
Sony has already made so many blunders before launch I don't see how they are going to sustain the PS3 sales after fanboys and hardcore AV enthusiasts have their fill. Lets go over Sony's faults:
1. Being indignant about the price of the PS3
2. It's freakin' huge: the box will take up the same space in stores as two or three Xbox 360's or at least 4 Wii's.
3. No Rumble in the controller
4. Realistic Cost if you don't want the crappy PS3, out the door, with one game, let alone an extra controller, with tax, is over $700.
5. Being indignant about the pricing of the games which HAVE to be more expensive for Sony to make any money back on this system. ($69.99-$100.00)
5. Once again lying about the power of the system. It appears now that the PS3 may not be able to leverage any advantage the Cell chip offers till the end of the PS3 life cycle.
I see Nintendo selling as many consoles as Microsoft in the coming year, coming in a close second, if not number one. Sony, well, Sony is screwed.
Of course the liberal media would print a "retraction" of the president of Iran stating that he wanted to wipe Israel off the map, but ignore the reality that if Iran had the capability of wiping Israel off the map it would have done so already. The fact that Israel has nukes and neutron bomb, including tactical neutron weapons, has been the ONLY thing stopping Iran from annihilating Israel. What amazes me is that the so called "smart" people on slashdot would even give any credence to such obvious backpeddling. Hell, even Yassir Arafat was quoted repeatedly that he vowed to drive all of the Jews into the sea, so why would Iran, Israel's number one enemy, have a different ideology?
I wonder if they ever nailed down that "sudden decompression" problem possibility brought to light by Joseph Mangan. I tend to side with the guy because he has lost everything defending his viewpoint of using inferior automobile-grade chips to control valve hatches critical for compression as a danger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mangan http://www.eaawatch.net/
One thing that everyone is forgetting is the total REAL cost of getting the damn thing (ps3) out the door. Obviously you would want to have at least one game and one extra controller. Let's just round it off at $100 for the two, which is about right. So we are now up to $700, before tax. Most states, including local, are around 8% on average, if not more, but lets round that down, which adds another $50 or so bucks to the pricetag. This bumps the price up to $750 out the door; $650 if you buy the useless cheaper one. That's a lot of freakin' change, man!
If gas jumps up because of Iran, Hurricanes, mutant clowns, then $750 bucks on a game system that really is only a hair better than it's primary competitor is looking very unattractive come Christmas. That is if Sony actually makes it out the gate this Christmas, which personally, I am having less faith in every day.
The Wii/360 combo is actually sounding better as the days go by.
Nintendo is certain to release the Wii at $199 and if the core price for the 360 drops to $249 (which would be the smartest more ever by M$) there is absolutely no way that Sony could ever gain enough marketshare to be anything but number three. The only people buying the PS3 at that point would be the Japanese, the hard core Sony nuts, the Final Fantasy XIVVIXXI nuts, and rich people who own really expensive home theater systems.
I predict that the PS3 will sell for about $2,500, or more on ebay the day it's released and pretty much stay that way for a long time. In fact, it's going to be a huge joke; only rock stars and the insanely rich will be able to afford it. The PS3 will become a status symbol. One thing is certain, history does repeat itself and last time around with the PS2, it took Sony 18 months to finally catch up with demand. To Sony's chagrin, this time it has serious competition already dug in and by the time Sony ramps up production to meet demand the next gen war will already be onto the next-next gen war. That's assuming that there will be demand for a $750 system.
Sony is strangling the golden goose because it wants it to lay platinum, gold and uranium eggs. Sony's goals for the PS3 are too great. It wants to be the magic black box that all consumer electronic manufacturers have dreamed of. Unfortunately, it's arriving about four years too soon. The smartest thing that Sony could do is drop Blu-Ray, forget about it, parnter up with HD DVD and call it a day and then chalk it up to another blunder and release the PS3 with a dvd drive and sell it for $299.
Personally, I can emphasize when the President of Sony says that the PS3 is probably "too cheap". The PS3 is an amazing piece of hardware for $600. It defines state of the art. Plus, it most likely is costing Sony at LEAST $800 to make the PS3, but the consumer does not care about such things.
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One thing that everyone is forgetting is the total REAL cost of getting the damn thing (ps3) out the door. Obviously you would want to have at least one game and one extra controller. Let's just round it off at $100 for the two, which is about right. So we are now up to $700, before tax. Most states, including local, are around 8% on average, if not more, but lets round that down, which adds another $50 or so bucks to the pricetag. This bumps the price up to $750 out the door; $650 if you buy the useless cheaper one. That's a lot of freakin' change, man!
If gas jumps up because of Iran, Hurricanes, mutant clowns, then $750 bucks on a game system that really is only a hair better than it's primary competitor is looking very unattractive come Christmas. That is if Sony actually makes it out the gate this Christmas, which personally, I am having less faith in every day.
The Wii/360 combo is actually sounding better as the days go by.
Nintendo is certain to release the Wii at $199 and if the core price for the 360 drops to $249 (which would be the smartest more ever by M$) there is absolutely no way that Sony could ever gain enough marketshare to be anything but number three. The only people buying the PS3 at that point would be the Japanese, the hard core Sony nuts, the Final Fantasy XIVVIXXI nuts, and rich people who own really expensive home theater systems.
I predict that the PS3 will sell for about $2,500, or more on ebay the day it's released and pretty much stay that way for a long time. In fact, it's going to be a huge joke; only rock stars and the insanely rich will be able to afford it. The PS3 will become a status symbol. One thing is certain, history does repeat itself and last time around with the PS2, it took Sony 18 months to finally catch up with demand. To Sony's chagrin, this time it has serious competition already dug in and by the time Sony ramps up production to meet demand the next gen war will already be onto the next-next gen war. That's assuming that there will be demand for a $750 system.
Sony is strangling the golden goose because it wants it to lay platinum, gold and uranium eggs. Sony's goals for the PS3 are too great. It wants to be the magic black box that all consumer electronic manufacturers have dreamed of. Unfortunately, it's arriving about four years too soon. The smartest thing that Sony could do is drop Blu-Ray, forget about it, parnter up with HD DVD and call it a day and then chalk it up to another blunder and release the PS3 with a dvd drive and sell it for $299.
Personally, I can emphasize when the President of Sony says that the PS3 is probably "too cheap". The PS3 is an amazing piece of hardware for $600. It defines state of the art. Plus, it most likely is costing Sony at LEAST $800 to make the PS3, but the consumer does not care about such things.
Lucas is essentially releasing a high grade dvd bootleg of the Uber 1993 Laserdisc release. The picture quality will be 1993 and the sound 2.0 stereo AND you still have to essentially re-buy the crappy 2004 release which comes in the same set. Lucas is such a cock. I know damn well he has perfect, unaltered, un-CGI'ed, versions of Star Wars; he has to have them. But, instead, he is pretending that they were somehow destroyed.
These ancient diseases are coming from outside the united states, specifically from the overflow of illegal aliens who cross the border seeking healthcare in the USA. I have seen it with my own eyes, having had to use public health care in California for several years. It was downright scary being in the same room with someone hacking up a lung with a facemask on.Dr. Michael Savage has been saying that illegals are bringing these ancient epidemics to the USA for almost 10 years and he's right.
Paypal has a hard on for "limiting" account access for just about any reason today. Does anyone see the nightmare of trying to use paypal on a mobile phone? You had might as well call paypal and ask them to suspend your account, because 10 seconds after you sign up for "paypal mobile" your paypal account will suddenly have "suspicious" activity (you actually using it)and will be limited for "your" protection. Paypal limited my account access when I was using my paypal debit card out of state (one state over) to buy GAS. It was just ONE transaction and -that- triggered their fraud flags?! Maybe if google was doing this, but paypal, forget it.
I think the first thing they need to develop is the super super glue remover, otherwise the "hyper glue" would be too dangerous to use. Or they could use it in the ads: "Our Hyper Glue -NEVER- comes off, EVER!"
Can I sue Lucent for emotional distress because they made a typo and were the reason my xbox 360 was recalled, because of their incompetence and subsequent retrial rules in favor of Lucent after the fact?
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Would it be interesting if some retard judge actually makes Microsoft pull the 360 off of the shelves. Regardless of the monetary gains possible by settling, forcing M$ to actually be punished for it's misdeeds would be a first. That is if the patent claims are not your typical "Process for transimitting data between things that process data" patently absurd patents.
Paypal has a hard on for "limiting" account access for just about any reason today. Does anyone see the nightmare of trying to use paypal on a mobile phone? You had might as well call paypal and ask them to suspend your account, because 10 seconds after you sign up for "paypal mobile" your paypal account will suddenly have "suspicious" activity (you actually using it)and will be limited for "your" protection. Paypal limited my account access when I was using my paypal debit card out of state (one state over) to buy GAS. It was just ONE transaction and -that- triggered their fraud flags?! Maybe if google was doing this, but paypal, forget it.
I don't see the problem. Kinderstart.com still is number four on search results from google and the first three are offshoots of the parent company. Wahhhhhhh! It's like blaming the phone book for a loss in sales because you were too cheap to take out a full page ad, or the newspaper for not hosting a daily column about your business.
Search engines are not illegal in the USA. You can use a search engine to search for anything. You can use a search engine to find a prostitute or drugs and other forms of illegal "entertainment" so why does copyright infringement the ipso-facto crime of the century? There are a lot of illegal bitorrent files and there are a lot of legal files. I hope someone challenges the MPAA on this.
The left wing media bias is so great (and so blatatnly obvious) that there needs to be something to counteract all of the crap coming out of Iraq. Sure, the USA has made some mistakes (abu gharib) but has done a lot of good in Iraq, something which is never shown. Journalists are kidnapped left, right and center in Iraq and they still refer to the terrorists flowing over the Syrian border from Iran as "freedom fighters" or "insurgents." As for abu gharib, the media just drug out photos from SEPTEMBER to re-incite controversy again.
12 churches have been burned down in a matter of a few weeks in the USA. The detectives are doing everything they can to prove that there it is NOT a hate crime. If it were Mosques it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the world. There would be even more massive riots than over the stupid cartoons. I would go so far as to say the media would blame Bush for the mosque attacks claiming "Bush is doing nothing." There would be massive condemnation in the UN for the USA to "let" the burning of such holy shines continue. "Fortunately" it's only happening to Christian churches, so nobody cares.
Oh, and the king of the liberals, Bill Clinton, just called for the conviction of those cartoonists and publishers "guilty" of blashphemy of Islam by publishing those parody cartoons.
I am sick of everyone sucking up to the "nation" of Islam and defending their "rights" when Islam has absolutely no tolerance for any other religion or way of life.
There needs to be an anti-propaganda machine. Every time I turn on the t.v. I see Muslims rioting, shooting something, killing someone, kidnapping someone, starving or hacking someone to death, but this is spun in the media in a good light. Nobody says anything good about this country anymore. The USA is made out to be the eternal bad guy. The rest of the world is Jealous of the USA's power and money and whereas they would love for the USA to go in right now and take out Iran and it's nukes, the rest of the world would be the first to condemn the USA.
Oh, and before I get "modded down" for being a troll, this article is a "freebie" it should have not been posted on slashdot, as it's certainly flamebait.
Jobs should have waited a few more years and maybe could have acquired Disney :) However, I seriously doubt Jobs will let any of the idiots running Disney or any "middle management" types even on Pixar's Holy Ground, let alone put -any- suggestions on anything creatively. Why attempt to break what is "money in the bank" for Disney by letter Pixar do what Pixar does best. Remember, Jobs is now "Mr. Disney" he owns the most stock out of any shareholders and is on the board of directors. Do not be surprised if you do not see Jobs as CEO in a few years of Disney. Apple who?
Yeah, that's easy for you to say when you, or your government ain't paying for anything (the intellectual rights, the ebay fees, the residuals paid to those who worked on the movie/show or the cost to create the material in the first place.) We are not talking about competition, we are talking about unfair competition. Let's see how "tolerant" you would be if the roles were reversed.
Ebay has a serious, serious, problem with China and it's "goods" provided/exported. I love how they raise the rates for legitimate US sellers, but ignore the fact that now the Chinese Bootleggers list for FREE, totally screwing anyone selling dvds on ebay. Do a search for the Sopranos on ebay and you'll see what I mean. Ebay is bootleg city and has really done nothing to stem the tide of Chinese bootleggers on ebay. I have seen a LOT of Chinese bootleggers that sell only bootleg dvds that have THOUSANDS of positive feedbacks and are ebay Powersellers and are relatively untouchable. Hopefully ebay will start to take China more seriously and suspend the bootleggers, especially now that they are not making any money for ebay and are effectively tying up the ebay system. Of course, this won't happen, especially with ebay now asking sellers to waive any and all rights and protections if they want to sell on the new ebay express site coming soon.
"Customary Historic use" Something only a lawyer could come up with. Really, in 10 years everthing will be able to be downloaded relatively instantly and there ALWAYS will be rogue countries that will allow copyright infringement. Sites like Allmymp3.com will become a one stop shop for downloading media. Then, legislation will be introduced banning or making "unapproved" websites illegal to access. Heck, I would not even be surprised for the RIAA/MPAA to use whatever leftover version of the Patriot Act to stop people from downloading movies/music/media from "unapproved" countries in the guise of national security.
In a way, I don't blame the media companies for freaking out. In 10 years physical media will almost be on it's way out. You will see much more use of "keys" and "rights mangement" built into EVERYTHING. Valve's Steam network is a good example of things to come. I would go as far to suggest that there will be one world standard coming in the next 10 years for rights management. You won't be able to buy hardware that won't connect to the internet to verify the intergrated rights mangement.
The way they will get ya, is the "You can download -ANYTHING- now if you accept the new rights management built into everything." This sounds good, but the RIAA/MPAA are greedy a-holes as evidenced by the DIVX (the dvd player, not the codec) debacle; you won't own anything except limited rights that can always be revoked or blocked at any time. Let's say it's 2020 and you want to buy "A Clockwork Orange" only to find out it's blocked by your country for being subversive or obscene (like England did) Pretty much you will have no recourse, no bootlegs, no nuttin, except maybe that old dvd on ebay (if that has not been outlawed by reverse customary historic use).
I guess with the world going to a cashless society in less than 20 years, I can forsee an "all in one" digital rights card/chip that you carry around with you that will not only get you into the movie theater, but buy downloadable movies/games/music/books/etc. Find a chip/card too cumbersome to carry around? well don't worry the new ruler of europe, Anthony T. Christ, just decreed you must have a RFID chip implanted in you, for -ALL- Commerce and as a bonus will throw in digital rights mangement for free!
"Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary."
Thank God they changed it from AOL Time/Warner.
Speaking of Netscape, it's been out of the game so long is it even worth using anymore? If by using netscape will users be targeted for AOL spyware/ads? Is Netscape even secure and/or modern in 2005/2006?
I am surprised that slashdot is essentially running an anti-christian/bush article, when the truth of the matter is that the USA is losing it's edge in science and technology because kids today do not have the patience to become scientists/engineers.
Also, there was just an article on slashdot about how the nobody is going into engineering fields anymore since their jobs are getting outsourced and the Chinese are threatening to take over the lead in the scientific and engineering fields, because they don't care about low pay and go to schools paid for by the state.
The average student loan bill is what, $50,000?
I thought I was hearing good things about the 360. I though Microsoft was actually going to have a huge advantage via using Xbox live to download new content, levels, games, etc, but now that's gone. I was hearing all sorts of cool things about being able to design your own games/levels and being able to share via Xbox live. That's gone too...
I don't see how saving essentially $10, or less, now by omitting the harddrive and then charging a $100 more to get it, will drive sales. Has Microsoft forgotten that a $399.99 system will not sell, even in 2005. Also M$ has forgotten that the a-holes at the game stores will jack up the price of the system by putting everything into "packs" so that $399 system will end up costing $599 if you want one anytime soon.
I keep on hearing that M$ is going to use solid state memory. If so, I don't see how it could be any cheaper than a hard drive.
I don't understand why M$ seems to be pulling their punches, they only have $40 BILLION dollars in the bank.
No hard drive will seriously take away one of the advantagest the Xbox2 will have against the PS3, which also is planning on not having a hard drive. The hd comes standard on the current xbox, removing it now will only confuse the consumer base Also MS does NOT need to upgrade the optical drive at a later date to an HD DVD drive, unless the cost is as cheap a dvd drive. Why does Microsoft think that their plan of offering three to five different versions of the xbox will do anything but segment their own market is beyond me. Sony has always made on system and then figured out ways to shrink everything over a few years and then make money off of that hardware.
Sophia Stewart is full of shit. The "Matrix" was invented by Douglas Addams in 1978's Dr. Who episode "The Deadly Assassin." I wrote to her to point this out and the letter she wrote back showed no ability to write anything cohesive. The letter literally read like this: "You must belive that I came up with the ideas..... James Cameron ripped me off...." Note she used ..... at the end of EVERY sentence.
She was even trying to get Warner Bros. and just about everyone in Hollywood prosecuted under RICO statures.
The woman will never get a dime, never.