If you want to be THAT concerned, you can't very well do anything. You can't buy something at a store, because maybe the truck that brings the stock replenishment will get in an accident. Maybe if you go to work tomorrow, your weight will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and your building will collapse due to an unknown structural flaw.
Minority Report was actually a short story by Philip K. Dick before it ever had anything to do with Hollywood. Pretty good in its original form. So was Paycheck, incidentally.
If they can pull it off, it might be a good "Medium term" archive format (in other words, about 100 - 500 years), as there are many many books of those ages.
Except that in a book, if the color fades a little, we can still read it. If the paper gets folded, we can still read it. And so on.
I will accept that atheism starts from nothing, because it is simply a lack of belief. There is no need for assumptions, because there are no conclusions.
For science to work, you have to trust in the mental processes and senses of human beings in general, if not your own in particular. It's possible that every human on the planet is insane and is unable to properly read measurements.
A few months ago people were claiming Nintendo would have a many millions of unit lead over Sony by the end of 2006. Now that number is down to maybe a million at the end of 2006 assuming both consoles hit their ship numbers.
I don't believe they managed to hit 400k for a moment. For one thing, not a single store that I'm aware of received the promised number of units. For another, the number of Wii units available in stores was way higher -- around here, at LEAST five times higher. If we assume that they've shipped close to a million units, and that my region is representative, that implies that the real number of PS3's that exist in reality is closer to 200k.
And in regards to the 100k new units a week...I just have my doubts that they can ramp up production that fast. It's not impossible, I suppose, but they've supposedly had tons of fabrication problems so far and I doubt they're all over with.
Time will tell.
And about this: "The first units of the second wave of PS3s is supposed to be in stores in the next day or two." Who says? I know that the second-largest retail chain in the country, Target, hasn't heard a damn thing about any new shipments coming in. As far as I know (and I asked) Walmart doesn't know either.
This is more of an anecdote than a source, but I can state with certainty that the Target I work at got 8 PS3's in, as opposed to 51 Wii's. Both lines were full by midnight on launch day. All stores in my area (I've been given approximate numbers for a Walmart and 4 EBGameStops) have very similar ratios and reports. That may or may not be representative, but at least it's hard numbers.
I'm actually liking 2.0 a lot, so far. No stability issues (I used to have them with 1.5) and it definitely seems to be faster.
Buuut...that might be because I don't have Tabbrowser Extensions anymore. That fact is really bothering me, too, because I no longer have FF working in single-window mode, and tabs aren't behaving like I expect them to. Bah. Annoyances.
While you failed to address the ridiculous Sony-brand spin they put on it, I do realize the truth of your words. However, they raise a question in my mind.
Why do they bother to put this stuff in? I seriously doubt that it will net them any additional sales. At all. Nobody's thinking "It can display PICTURES?! Here's $600!"
It just seems like a waste of effort, from a business standpoint. It's the kind of thing that I would mess around with, but never pay for.
I mean, I don't actually care about any of it in the slightest, but it's pretty.
"Dashboard"-type things are always like that. I saw this story, and decided to take a look. I knew that nothing I saw would actually matter to me. I know there's nobody who's actually thinking, "Well, MAYBE I'll get a PS3, but I'll wait and see how good the console's built-in software is."
I just looked out of sheer curiosity. Which, really, is all these things ever are -- curiosities.
I played this at least six months ago! It's an intensely simplistic (though cool) game that will take a grand total of about an hour (tops) out of your life. It's been freely available for a long time.
Everybody's acting like it's some big deal. I don't understand why.
Actually, if a person's console of choice 'wins', they likely get many more games that they can play on it.
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I'm not sure that Sony doesn't get it. They might know perfectly well. However, they've seriously committed to the expensive parts of the system (BluRay seems like the whole POINT of the system) and not even they can back down now. The cost to build one might just be too high to sell them for less.
There is a little bit of complexity to the profits from game sales, there. Nintendo develops their biggest blockbuster games themselves, which means that they get a LOT more money per game sold -- I'd say they easily make more than double the profit from first-party boxes than third-party. Considering how incredibly popular those first-party games are, that changes a lot.
I remember reading that for third-party N64 games, Nintendo took something like $10 per game sold. I don't know if that was true and I have no idea if things are still like that, but that's a small portion of the total price.
Because it's too close to launch, and they know the graphics aren't nearly what they thought they should be by now
I think you're right. I wouldn't argue that the PS3 can't deliver the visuals Sony is looking for. However, I don't expect developers do be able to make it spit them out, at least not yet. It's a new system based on a completely new type of processor. They get all excited about how it's different, when in fact this is a case where being different is bad.
This is another thing that people don't seem to consider when thinking about the Wii's graphics. They say, it's just a more powerful Gamecube! And they're right. But they mistakenly think that's a BAD thing. Developers KNOW how to harness the Gamecube. That will translate over to the Wii.
The PS3 will undoubtedly look much better in the long run -- once the actual battle is long over. It'l look some amount of better right off the bat, but not as much as some people seem to think.
There are others, but it's hard to find articles on it. In a lot of cases the "PS3" part simply vanishes from the website and all future press releases. Longer list of cases (some of which are just conjecture) here: http://www.technophilia.org/2006/07/list-of-cancel led-ps3-games.html
Like I said, no huge companies, except THQ, which does actually plan to make the NEXT game in the series on PS3.
Seriously - this is a hugely underpowered console compared with the PS3 and XBox 360. I hope Ninntendo are right in their apparent assumption that these days consoles have enough power, and the typical consumer doesn't care about running at ultra high resolutions.
I really think they're right in that assumption, and I'll even take it farther: The average consumer isn't even going to be able to tell the difference. Hell, I myself can't really see any improvement in 360 or PS3 stuff over the best-looking Gamecube games (RE4).
You start out by complaining that the games are all continuations of franchises, and then say what would be better is something like...a Mario game. Okay. Sure.
Just because it's part of an old series doesn't mean it has the same gameplay mechanics.
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If you want to be THAT concerned, you can't very well do anything. You can't buy something at a store, because maybe the truck that brings the stock replenishment will get in an accident. Maybe if you go to work tomorrow, your weight will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and your building will collapse due to an unknown structural flaw.
Minority Report was actually a short story by Philip K. Dick before it ever had anything to do with Hollywood. Pretty good in its original form. So was Paycheck, incidentally.
How can a game be "in development" if the developer is still TBD?
...It IS coming out on the 'cube. In a few weeks.
Except that in a book, if the color fades a little, we can still read it. If the paper gets folded, we can still read it. And so on.
I will accept that atheism starts from nothing, because it is simply a lack of belief. There is no need for assumptions, because there are no conclusions.
For science to work, you have to trust in the mental processes and senses of human beings in general, if not your own in particular. It's possible that every human on the planet is insane and is unable to properly read measurements.
At the very least, science requires faith in our own senses and mental processes.
Think of it like a mathematical proof. Without some starting assumptions, you have nothing.
A single million-console lead, yes -- in the US.
You probably won't. It's in Nintendo's best interest to overstate the lifespan of their consoles.
Because Sony NEVER lies!
I don't believe they managed to hit 400k for a moment. For one thing, not a single store that I'm aware of received the promised number of units. For another, the number of Wii units available in stores was way higher -- around here, at LEAST five times higher. If we assume that they've shipped close to a million units, and that my region is representative, that implies that the real number of PS3's that exist in reality is closer to 200k.
And in regards to the 100k new units a week...I just have my doubts that they can ramp up production that fast. It's not impossible, I suppose, but they've supposedly had tons of fabrication problems so far and I doubt they're all over with.
Time will tell.
And about this: "The first units of the second wave of PS3s is supposed to be in stores in the next day or two." Who says? I know that the second-largest retail chain in the country, Target, hasn't heard a damn thing about any new shipments coming in. As far as I know (and I asked) Walmart doesn't know either.
This is more of an anecdote than a source, but I can state with certainty that the Target I work at got 8 PS3's in, as opposed to 51 Wii's. Both lines were full by midnight on launch day. All stores in my area (I've been given approximate numbers for a Walmart and 4 EBGameStops) have very similar ratios and reports. That may or may not be representative, but at least it's hard numbers.
I'm actually liking 2.0 a lot, so far. No stability issues (I used to have them with 1.5) and it definitely seems to be faster.
Buuut...that might be because I don't have Tabbrowser Extensions anymore. That fact is really bothering me, too, because I no longer have FF working in single-window mode, and tabs aren't behaving like I expect them to. Bah. Annoyances.
While you failed to address the ridiculous Sony-brand spin they put on it, I do realize the truth of your words. However, they raise a question in my mind.
Why do they bother to put this stuff in? I seriously doubt that it will net them any additional sales. At all. Nobody's thinking "It can display PICTURES?! Here's $600!"
It just seems like a waste of effort, from a business standpoint. It's the kind of thing that I would mess around with, but never pay for.
I think it looks pretty cool.
I mean, I don't actually care about any of it in the slightest, but it's pretty.
"Dashboard"-type things are always like that. I saw this story, and decided to take a look. I knew that nothing I saw would actually matter to me. I know there's nobody who's actually thinking, "Well, MAYBE I'll get a PS3, but I'll wait and see how good the console's built-in software is."
I just looked out of sheer curiosity. Which, really, is all these things ever are -- curiosities.
I played this at least six months ago! It's an intensely simplistic (though cool) game that will take a grand total of about an hour (tops) out of your life. It's been freely available for a long time.
Everybody's acting like it's some big deal. I don't understand why.
Like most people on Slashdot, including myself, you have a massively skewed definition of 'cool.'
Actually, if a person's console of choice 'wins', they likely get many more games that they can play on it.
I'm not sure that Sony doesn't get it. They might know perfectly well. However, they've seriously committed to the expensive parts of the system (BluRay seems like the whole POINT of the system) and not even they can back down now. The cost to build one might just be too high to sell them for less.
There is a little bit of complexity to the profits from game sales, there. Nintendo develops their biggest blockbuster games themselves, which means that they get a LOT more money per game sold -- I'd say they easily make more than double the profit from first-party boxes than third-party. Considering how incredibly popular those first-party games are, that changes a lot.
I remember reading that for third-party N64 games, Nintendo took something like $10 per game sold. I don't know if that was true and I have no idea if things are still like that, but that's a small portion of the total price.
Yeah, if you can get your pants off.
I think you're right. I wouldn't argue that the PS3 can't deliver the visuals Sony is looking for. However, I don't expect developers do be able to make it spit them out, at least not yet. It's a new system based on a completely new type of processor. They get all excited about how it's different, when in fact this is a case where being different is bad.
This is another thing that people don't seem to consider when thinking about the Wii's graphics. They say, it's just a more powerful Gamecube! And they're right. But they mistakenly think that's a BAD thing. Developers KNOW how to harness the Gamecube. That will translate over to the Wii.
The PS3 will undoubtedly look much better in the long run -- once the actual battle is long over. It'l look some amount of better right off the bat, but not as much as some people seem to think.
http://digitalbattle.com/2006/07/24/another-ps3-ga me-cancelled/a use-little-studio-to-bail-184195.php
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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/business/ps3-costs-c
http://www.news0r.com/index.php?p=3690
There are others, but it's hard to find articles on it. In a lot of cases the "PS3" part simply vanishes from the website and all future press releases. Longer list of cases (some of which are just conjecture) here: http://www.technophilia.org/2006/07/list-of-cance
Like I said, no huge companies, except THQ, which does actually plan to make the NEXT game in the series on PS3.
Developers are already dropping off due to the cost of creating for the console. None of the major dev houses, of course, but it's happening.
I really think they're right in that assumption, and I'll even take it farther: The average consumer isn't even going to be able to tell the difference. Hell, I myself can't really see any improvement in 360 or PS3 stuff over the best-looking Gamecube games (RE4).
You start out by complaining that the games are all continuations of franchises, and then say what would be better is something like...a Mario game. Okay. Sure.
Just because it's part of an old series doesn't mean it has the same gameplay mechanics.