From this press release http://www.vgcharts.org/news.php?id=58 it does not look good for Sony. Released about 60 days ago and these units, with massive supply problems, sit on shelves? Sorry fan boys!
However, he continued, "The PlayStation brand doesn't appear to be helping the PS3. If NPD's numbers are correct, there are over 300K PS3s on retail shelves. That is not good for a console launch of only a million and it's not good for publishers with PS3 software."
From your pro-Sony fanboyism I shouldn't expect much, but from your own source here are direct quotes:
The top game sold was the Xbox title "Gears of War," by Microsoft.
"Xbox 360 is now poised to really take advantage of its lead in this generation's race, provided they (and third-party supporters) keep bringing the games to market that keep consumers wanting to play on that system"
"This was the biggest month yet for Xbox 360 hardware sales"
NPD said Microsoft Corp. sold 1.1 million of its competing Xbox 360 console in December, while Nintendo Co. sold 604,200 units of its new console, the Wii.
Thanks for your convincing evidence, the 360 destroyed the Wii and Ps3 in their own opening month!
Oh and I forgot one more thing, you are both wrong for another reason. The PS3 was easy to find before Christmas and after (had about a 2 week run for you fanboys), so why "settle" for the 360 ? See? You lose again. Nice try though! (I'll give you the Wii, but someone looking to spend $250 and dropping $500+++ is not a reasonable assumption, unless they are a big gamer, in which case they had a 360 already).
Then you're wrong. I don't know what the numbers are like but tons of people have come to provide us anecdotes about how they or someone they knew did just that. While the plural of anecdote is not data, at some point the numbers become compelling. Data ? 10 million 360's, 4 million Wii's and 1 million PS3's. That's data.
But I'll bite, pretend I am wrong. In that case Xbox 360 STILL wins. They now have 10m to 4m over Wii, and 600k for PS3 (or is that 1m?). Studios see those numbers and then code for the 360, and the previously "Sony only" titles will become Xbox titles also. See how it works ? When you sell more units you get more games and people keep buying your console. The Wii is a fun too, people will probably have it AND either the 360 or PS3 (looking into the next 18 month crystal ball).
As for the PS3 ? The lack of developer love, HD-DVD now winning over Blueray, and now 10:1 market adoption of 360 over the PS3, the PS3 is the biggest loser, no doubt. Oh, plus the Wii is cheap, that helps. A lot.
That's like saying a lot of people bought PS2's because they couldn't find Dreamcasts for sale anywhere. I doubt people "settled" for a $500 Xbox, +$60 for Gears, +45 for extra controller +$15 for recharge pack. They probably just kept looking for a Wii if they really wanted one. I didn't , I wanted an Xbox especially after I saw what it could do. Also, I've seen the PS3 in action, its online "service" doesn't even exist. Are they kidding ? Maybe they will get a few bones on decent games but thats about it. The Wii is fun also, but not for serious gaming or anything online related.
Just like CD's had better sound quality over MP3's ? How about the superior color of film over digital ? Neither stopped the old business model (medium) from going the way of the dodo. Dude, wake up, carrying around 1000 CD's or DVD's is laughable. Don't use the "but HD DVD hold XXX I only need 100 discs for those shows now" BZZZT your own statement of "better quality" means one movie per disc. Just like now.
Explain MP3's ? How about digital pictures ? No one I know of including 70 year olds get filmed developerd (well OK, I still do, but only for astronomy). Everyone who comes to my house and sees TV shows on a Tivo, or my 360, or movies, or pictures or MP3's and sees me using a remote to access everything remotely have about a 10 second period before their jaw hits the floor.
So you spent 700 bucks to play demos and 10 year old games that they charge $15 for ? Wow, I can see the attraction. Call me in a year when (hopefully!) Sony has a decent game out with an actual online service instead of 30 different farmed out user names and passwords.
Pretty funny, 3 comments ago on a seperate threas you said "Achievements are too tough to get for most players" , I'm summarizing your statement. So basically you are a Sony fanboy, or you can't finish GoW on hardcore difficulty, or playing online you get your butt kicked ? Pick one.
Obviously you have never looked through a telescope. I have a 10" relfector and mag 4.24 is my best part of the sky. I can hit mah 13 stars easily. Of course from a darker site galaxies are much better thatn the backyard. Also, you obviously never heard of CCD imaging as it pertakes to astronomy. Look it up, also play with some software called Registax (free). With my cheap digicam and a 4 second exposure I can stretch 5 stacks for get mag 6-7 in horrific conditions. Easy really.
Well, if 9th magnitude is "beyond your equipment" you must be using your own eyeballs in the city. I have mag 4.2 skies from my backyard and my SMALLEST scope (80mm) can IMAGE mag 12+ , easpecially pinpoints (like stars), EASILY.
This should be a cake walk for most imaging equipment, a 10" SCT or smaller and $500 Canon DSLR will MORE than suffice. A simple Celestron NexImage planetary imager or modded webcams won't, unless you modded your Phillips Toucam to 30 second exposures, then maybe it would work (but you'll have noise and the "bright moon" to deal with, hopefully their software corrects for that).
Well, if you were an amateur astronomer you would realize what they are referring to as "backyard astronomer". A $70 Tasco 60mm refractor is a toy, not a telescope for an amateur. Heck, I'm poor and I have 3 scopes (10", 6", and 80mm refractor, higher end) and 2 dedicated astro imaging cameras, 2 mounts , 1 tracking. Visit a few forums, plenty of amateurs with 14" SCT's and every one of them has a camera and most have observatories or pier mounts (concrete).
The Faster Better Cheeper initiative lead to a series of stupid mistakes that destroyed several Mars Missions
I too am a dedicated amateur astronomer, congratulations, but on this point you are wrong. For example,the Mars Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer was not a "cheaper" mission but over $980 million in cost (1992 dollars). The Mars rovers were approx $820 million total (development, launch and operating costs, so $410 million each in 2003 dollars. I'll even ignore inflation for you. The Mars Pathfinder mission cost $150 million in 1997 dollars. All sources found on Wikipedia.
3 $150-$410 million dollar missions and none failing is better than 1 $1 billion dollar mission failing.
This is something many stupid fail to understand. Don't feel bad, you have a lot of company.
You are an idiot. Asteroids to galactic core? That's like comparing the Atlantic ocean to tiny microscopic organisms, that only live at the bottom of the ocean floor. Actually thats not even a good analogy.
A better analogy is an asteroid to a galactic core. Moron.
Huh? I called DirecTV and got a FREE HD-DVR from them last week. The new MPEG-4 model (their unit not TiVo's). You know, the one selling for $400 at BestBuy right now ? I have a non-HD Hughes TiVo with DirecTV also, it still functions fine and DirecTV isn't "getting rid of it". Just new models are not TiVo but "DVR's". You can buy the older TiVo DirecTV units (HD and non) on Ebay if you want them. I agree, TiVo software is better and the hardware was quieter, but DirecTv is NO WHERE near as bad as Adelphia! (Also a former Adelphia "customer")
I get my news from csmonitor and the BBC, thanks! I'm still waiting for an explanation to your statement regarding Israel leaving Lebanon 6 years ago and forcibly removing its citizens from their homes to return land to Palestine. You seem to think these acts indicate "agression towards their Arab neighbors" who are peaceful and wonderful people. What did Israel get in return ? Wake up yu idiot. Realizing that the spread of extermist islamic fundies will be the downfall of modern civilation will be your first step towards the light.
The Israelis continue to go out of their way to inflame their Arab neighbors while making no serious attempt to actually find solutions.
Yeah, they never left Lebanon 6 years. Nor did they forcible remove their own civilians from their homes and return land to Palestine, in accordance with any peace road map. They really should just act like Arabs, Persians et al. Just randomly attack them after they take another step foward on the peace road map. It seems nut jobs think that's a good idea.
You don't suppose that dropping cluster bombs on civilians deprives them of their rightful access to information, do you?
Nice troll. Source for dropping cluster bomb? That's right, you have none. I find it funny that Hezbollah fires 100 rockets at civilian targets everyday for two weeks, then, when Israel attacks one launch site hitting a civilian building by mistake(since the "braze Hezbollah freedom fighters" fire rockets from behind civilians), every nut on the BBC "Have Your Say" boards is calling Israelis "war criminals". Where is Kofi Annan? Shouldn't he be calling Hezbollah "war ciminals" for firing rockets at civilians hundreds of times per day?
This is coming from a guy who hates Bush et al, is against the Iraq war, voted for Kerry for lack of a better option, and won't vote Republican probably ever again, at any level. Only difference? Hezbollah is not the Iraq War, no matter how much the nut jobs think it is.
Sorry, I assumed you would read the Wikipedia reference I provided you. From the Wikipedia entry: The name "GNU/Linux" was first used by Debian in 1994.
Whether or not its a good name is another story, hence the "controversy".
No total re-entry at that altitude (otheriwse the entire booster would fry). Also, if you watch the entire footage you can see the parachute deployed. In addition I imagine NASA has some protective covering over the camera, to help a bit.
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However, he continued, "The PlayStation brand doesn't appear to be helping the PS3. If NPD's numbers are correct, there are over 300K PS3s on retail shelves. That is not good for a console launch of only a million and it's not good for publishers with PS3 software."
The top game sold was the Xbox title "Gears of War," by Microsoft.
"Xbox 360 is now poised to really take advantage of its lead in this generation's race, provided they (and third-party supporters) keep bringing the games to market that keep consumers wanting to play on that system"
"This was the biggest month yet for Xbox 360 hardware sales"
NPD said Microsoft Corp. sold 1.1 million of its competing Xbox 360 console in December, while Nintendo Co. sold 604,200 units of its new console, the Wii.
Thanks for your convincing evidence, the 360 destroyed the Wii and Ps3 in their own opening month!
Oh and I forgot one more thing, you are both wrong for another reason. The PS3 was easy to find before Christmas and after (had about a 2 week run for you fanboys), so why "settle" for the 360 ? See? You lose again. Nice try though!
(I'll give you the Wii, but someone looking to spend $250 and dropping $500+++ is not a reasonable assumption, unless they are a big gamer, in which case they had a 360 already).
But I'll bite, pretend I am wrong. In that case Xbox 360 STILL wins. They now have 10m to 4m over Wii, and 600k for PS3 (or is that 1m?). Studios see those numbers and then code for the 360, and the previously "Sony only" titles will become Xbox titles also. See how it works ? When you sell more units you get more games and people keep buying your console. The Wii is a fun too, people will probably have it AND either the 360 or PS3 (looking into the next 18 month crystal ball).
As for the PS3 ? The lack of developer love, HD-DVD now winning over Blueray, and now 10:1 market adoption of 360 over the PS3, the PS3 is the biggest loser, no doubt. Oh, plus the Wii is cheap, that helps. A lot.
That's like saying a lot of people bought PS2's because they couldn't find Dreamcasts for sale anywhere. I doubt people "settled" for a $500 Xbox, +$60 for Gears, +45 for extra controller +$15 for recharge pack. They probably just kept looking for a Wii if they really wanted one. I didn't , I wanted an Xbox especially after I saw what it could do. Also, I've seen the PS3 in action, its online "service" doesn't even exist. Are they kidding ? Maybe they will get a few bones on decent games but thats about it. The Wii is fun also, but not for serious gaming or anything online related.
Just like CD's had better sound quality over MP3's ? How about the superior color of film over digital ? Neither stopped the old business model (medium) from going the way of the dodo. Dude, wake up, carrying around 1000 CD's or DVD's is laughable. Don't use the "but HD DVD hold XXX I only need 100 discs for those shows now" BZZZT your own statement of "better quality" means one movie per disc. Just like now.
Explain MP3's ? How about digital pictures ? No one I know of including 70 year olds get filmed developerd (well OK, I still do, but only for astronomy). Everyone who comes to my house and sees TV shows on a Tivo, or my 360, or movies, or pictures or MP3's and sees me using a remote to access everything remotely have about a 10 second period before their jaw hits the floor.
So you spent 700 bucks to play demos and 10 year old games that they charge $15 for ? Wow, I can see the attraction. Call me in a year when (hopefully!) Sony has a decent game out with an actual online service instead of 30 different farmed out user names and passwords.
Pretty funny, 3 comments ago on a seperate threas you said "Achievements are too tough to get for most players" , I'm summarizing your statement. So basically you are a Sony fanboy, or you can't finish GoW on hardcore difficulty, or playing online you get your butt kicked ? Pick one.
Obviously you have never looked through a telescope. I have a 10" relfector and mag 4.24 is my best part of the sky. I can hit mah 13 stars easily. Of course from a darker site galaxies are much better thatn the backyard. Also, you obviously never heard of CCD imaging as it pertakes to astronomy. Look it up, also play with some software called Registax (free). With my cheap digicam and a 4 second exposure I can stretch 5 stacks for get mag 6-7 in horrific conditions. Easy really.
This should be a cake walk for most imaging equipment, a 10" SCT or smaller and $500 Canon DSLR will MORE than suffice. A simple Celestron NexImage planetary imager or modded webcams won't, unless you modded your Phillips Toucam to 30 second exposures, then maybe it would work (but you'll have noise and the "bright moon" to deal with, hopefully their software corrects for that).
Well, if you were an amateur astronomer you would realize what they are referring to as "backyard astronomer". A $70 Tasco 60mm refractor is a toy, not a telescope for an amateur. Heck, I'm poor and I have 3 scopes (10", 6", and 80mm refractor, higher end) and 2 dedicated astro imaging cameras, 2 mounts , 1 tracking. Visit a few forums, plenty of amateurs with 14" SCT's and every one of them has a camera and most have observatories or pier mounts (concrete).
I too am a dedicated amateur astronomer, congratulations, but on this point you are wrong. For example ,the Mars Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer was not a "cheaper" mission but over $980 million in cost (1992 dollars). The Mars rovers were approx $820 million total (development, launch and operating costs, so $410 million each in 2003 dollars. I'll even ignore inflation for you. The Mars Pathfinder mission cost $150 million in 1997 dollars. All sources found on Wikipedia.
3 $150-$410 million dollar missions and none failing is better than 1 $1 billion dollar mission failing.
This is something many stupid fail to understand. Don't feel bad, you have a lot of company.
So the end result is that the tyrant has the people afraid of said tyrant ? So TJ was correct, thanks for playing.
Aliens? Turn in your geek badge. If you said Aliens 2 then I'd let you keep it (same actor) but no, you are totally wrong.
A better analogy is an asteroid to a galactic core. Moron.
Huh? I called DirecTV and got a FREE HD-DVR from them last week. The new MPEG-4 model (their unit not TiVo's). You know, the one selling for $400 at BestBuy right now ? I have a non-HD Hughes TiVo with DirecTV also, it still functions fine and DirecTV isn't "getting rid of it". Just new models are not TiVo but "DVR's". You can buy the older TiVo DirecTV units (HD and non) on Ebay if you want them. I agree, TiVo software is better and the hardware was quieter, but DirecTv is NO WHERE near as bad as Adelphia! (Also a former Adelphia "customer")
I get my news from csmonitor and the BBC, thanks! I'm still waiting for an explanation to your statement regarding Israel leaving Lebanon 6 years ago and forcibly removing its citizens from their homes to return land to Palestine. You seem to think these acts indicate "agression towards their Arab neighbors" who are peaceful and wonderful people. What did Israel get in return ? Wake up yu idiot. Realizing that the spread of extermist islamic fundies will be the downfall of modern civilation will be your first step towards the light.
This is coming from a guy who hates Bush et al, is against the Iraq war, voted for Kerry for lack of a better option, and won't vote Republican probably ever again, at any level. Only difference? Hezbollah is not the Iraq War, no matter how much the nut jobs think it is.
Sorry, I assumed you would read the Wikipedia reference I provided you. From the Wikipedia entry:
The name "GNU/Linux" was first used by Debian in 1994.
Whether or not its a good name is another story, hence the "controversy".
Actually, the article summary is correct. It is Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. Some good history on this topic can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_cont roversy
No total re-entry at that altitude (otheriwse the entire booster would fry). Also, if you watch the entire footage you can see the parachute deployed. In addition I imagine NASA has some protective covering over the camera, to help a bit.
the NASA site suggests. The MPlayer plugin for Firefox (same thing you use for CNN's video) works fine. Great footage.