Depends on how fast demand drops. Generally your customers will feel screwed if you drop the price early, they might even get the idea that your product failed to live up to expectations and you're desperate. If you drop the price one month after launch expect a mob with torches and pitchforks on your threshold.
Last I checked DOA was XBox 360 exclusive so you're looking at a 400$ base system (let's assume you had the 60$ you needed to get the premium package over the core plus a memcard) plus a 60$ game and whatever the cord and controller cost for the system.
Never mind that people don't pay all that money for one game (except for fanboys but I don't count those who are beyond reason in any statement about people), they hope they'll be able to pick up more titles until the cost of the console distributed over all their games is pretty small.
We Europeans are paying the equivalent of 75$ for PS2, Gamecube and XBox games and MS (and presumably Sony) still insist on a price hike for next gen. So Japan is paying as much for next-gen as we are paying for current gen and that's suddently outrageous?
By the way, aren't games already past the optimum price? I can't imagine that the higher price won't hurt the sales enough to decrease the profit for the whole game. Even a first semester business student knows that more expensive does not necessarily equate more profit.
Don't forget that games cost more in Europe and all signs point towards games costing even more on the PS3. We're paying 60 Euros, 75$ for a console game already.
I'd say this is more due to the open nature of Firefox, when FF has a vulnerability it's discussed publicly and vulnerabilities are easier to spot since it's opensource. With other browsers you don't know how many vulnerabilities are found and patched behind the scenes and they are much more difficult to find for outside observers.
Well, unless you live in Europe where the games cost the equivalent of 75$ this gen and will probably go up (seen XBox 360 games costing 95$) and the basic package (which I haven't seen a single store advertise yet, all they show is the more expensive one) costs 640$.
I have no idea how the photosensitive surface of a digicam works but I'd guess they are built using semiconductors. Obviously a higher element density on semiconductors means more pixel receptors on the surface then.
The point is that this could happen even if the PS3 is going to win the market, it's not limited to the PS3 failing. MS is willing to lose money in order to conquer the market so if they were really daring they could eliminate their biggest competitor in one strike, allowing them to have a monopoly on the console market (well, if the Wii doesn't end up beating both consoles). Once they have the monopoly they can start gauging until they've made up for the losses. They'll also run a strategy which doesn't end resetting userbases every generation, instead attempting to lock everyone into their line of consoles like they did with Windows. Not a nice perspective for the customer but considering the losses MS has taken already to make their consoles (4-5 billion just for the original XBox?) this is pretty much the only way they'll be able to recoup that investment.
If I'm to drop $500-$600 on the console (which I'm probably not going to), I'm not dropping another $300+ on games.
I see it this way: The console by itself is useless therefore the cost of the console has to be considered a part of the cost of all games I buy for it. If I buy a PS3 and only one game for it, the entire 500-600€ the system cost me gave me one game which means I've paid 560-670€ for a single game. A PS3 plus ten games gives me a cost of 50-60€ per game for the hardware, at thirty games it's down to 16-20€ per game.
There's a chance this is just a ploy to make the PS3 seem like such a bargain. They're selling it at such a low price they're cutting their own throat!
Yes but it isn't the kind of SciFi that plays in a world where computers could realistically be much different from what we were using at the time. After all there's no point complaining about the AI of computers in Star Trek since those computers aren't anything like today's (or the 1970s') computers. Defining SciFi too broad just ends with every movie depicting unrealistic computer usage counting as SciFi.
I found 23 to be a decent portrayal of hacking (though people who know the person portrayed in the movie say it's a bad portrayal of the actual events). No idea how they got their trojan in place but I guess they didn't want to bore the viewer with technical details, the book The Cuckoo's Egg does say the hacker used trojans in that manner.
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Depends on how fast demand drops. Generally your customers will feel screwed if you drop the price early, they might even get the idea that your product failed to live up to expectations and you're desperate. If you drop the price one month after launch expect a mob with torches and pitchforks on your threshold.
You can most likely store it on the SD card. That doesn't mean you can use it on any other system, especially since SD cards were designed around DRM.
I'm guessing it's possible immediately. You remember that SD cards have built in DRM support?
A potential probem with that plan is that the DS has a lower resolution screen than most of the consoles used.
Yeah now imagine what PS3 games will cost. I've seen XBox 360 games go for 68€ and 75€ already.
Last I checked DOA was XBox 360 exclusive so you're looking at a 400$ base system (let's assume you had the 60$ you needed to get the premium package over the core plus a memcard) plus a 60$ game and whatever the cord and controller cost for the system.
Never mind that people don't pay all that money for one game (except for fanboys but I don't count those who are beyond reason in any statement about people), they hope they'll be able to pick up more titles until the cost of the console distributed over all their games is pretty small.
We Europeans are paying the equivalent of 75$ for PS2, Gamecube and XBox games and MS (and presumably Sony) still insist on a price hike for next gen. So Japan is paying as much for next-gen as we are paying for current gen and that's suddently outrageous?
By the way, aren't games already past the optimum price? I can't imagine that the higher price won't hurt the sales enough to decrease the profit for the whole game. Even a first semester business student knows that more expensive does not necessarily equate more profit.
Don't forget that games cost more in Europe and all signs point towards games costing even more on the PS3. We're paying 60 Euros, 75$ for a console game already.
Same procedure as always, running it with an account that doesn't have write rights to the OS or your userdata?
I'd say this is more due to the open nature of Firefox, when FF has a vulnerability it's discussed publicly and vulnerabilities are easier to spot since it's opensource. With other browsers you don't know how many vulnerabilities are found and patched behind the scenes and they are much more difficult to find for outside observers.
Well, unless you live in Europe where the games cost the equivalent of 75$ this gen and will probably go up (seen XBox 360 games costing 95$) and the basic package (which I haven't seen a single store advertise yet, all they show is the more expensive one) costs 640$.
Oh well, at least it's cheaper than a Mac Mini.
Sounds just like the aperture size on a mechanical camera.
I have no idea how the photosensitive surface of a digicam works but I'd guess they are built using semiconductors. Obviously a higher element density on semiconductors means more pixel receptors on the surface then.
The point is that this could happen even if the PS3 is going to win the market, it's not limited to the PS3 failing. MS is willing to lose money in order to conquer the market so if they were really daring they could eliminate their biggest competitor in one strike, allowing them to have a monopoly on the console market (well, if the Wii doesn't end up beating both consoles). Once they have the monopoly they can start gauging until they've made up for the losses. They'll also run a strategy which doesn't end resetting userbases every generation, instead attempting to lock everyone into their line of consoles like they did with Windows. Not a nice perspective for the customer but considering the losses MS has taken already to make their consoles (4-5 billion just for the original XBox?) this is pretty much the only way they'll be able to recoup that investment.
If I'm to drop $500-$600 on the console (which I'm probably not going to), I'm not dropping another $300+ on games.
I see it this way: The console by itself is useless therefore the cost of the console has to be considered a part of the cost of all games I buy for it. If I buy a PS3 and only one game for it, the entire 500-600€ the system cost me gave me one game which means I've paid 560-670€ for a single game. A PS3 plus ten games gives me a cost of 50-60€ per game for the hardware, at thirty games it's down to 16-20€ per game.
There's a chance this is just a ploy to make the PS3 seem like such a bargain. They're selling it at such a low price they're cutting their own throat!
No, it wasn't off, it was just in the wrong location. To the east of the Iron Curtain 1984 was reality in 1984.
1984 was inspired by the Soviets and Nazis. It's not science fiction, it is the past and present.
Monkeys, politicians, where's the difference?
Well, time to build a fence around Texas!
I'm expecting George to write political speeches.
Yes but it isn't the kind of SciFi that plays in a world where computers could realistically be much different from what we were using at the time. After all there's no point complaining about the AI of computers in Star Trek since those computers aren't anything like today's (or the 1970s') computers. Defining SciFi too broad just ends with every movie depicting unrealistic computer usage counting as SciFi.
I found 23 to be a decent portrayal of hacking (though people who know the person portrayed in the movie say it's a bad portrayal of the actual events). No idea how they got their trojan in place but I guess they didn't want to bore the viewer with technical details, the book The Cuckoo's Egg does say the hacker used trojans in that manner.
That's the reason I duct taped my old 28.8 modem to my computer, just so I can quote that line at random.
With Windows even a countdown isn't guaranteed to terminate.