(ah, the joys of never upgrading past 1.50 so I can use my NES/SNES/Genesis/Game Boy emulators as long as I want)
Try playing them on a GP32 (or a GP2X). It has a standard screen so your emus don't have black bars on the sides nor look shitty when stretched to widescreen (you have to choose between those two when playing on a PSP).
Seriously, these PSP homebrew kiddies must not know what a real homebrew scene is...
Same here. I can't wait for the GP2X to come out and shut these PSP homebrew peeps up for good. PSP's homebrew "scene" was about as exciting as a dead Korean whore compared to Gamepark32's, and the GP2X is only gonna overshadow them both.
Expecting to play UMD's on a device other than a PSP in your lifetime? You must be one of those guys who are hoping that the PSP will take out Nintendo's handheld monopoly "any day now." Keep dreaming fanboi.
"Universal" Media Disc... biggest oxymoron (by Sony) evar.
I remember Eisner sitting in front of a congressional panel moaning about Apple and their Rip. Mix. Burn, campaign and how evil it was in light of how Dinsney's latest blockbuster, Monsters, Inc. was being downloaded over the net.
Kinda ironic being Steve Jobs's company (Pixar) MADE that Disney blockbuster...
A lot of "if's" and "would have's" this is why Sony lost a shitload of money. Maybe they should have listened to consumers like you, but instead they put their market share control as priority #1. This is probably why they're #2 to Panasonic/Matsushita in terms of their mother industry, consumer electronics.
With DVD's, the DVD Consortium makes a profit (this consists of Toshiba, Panasonic/Matsushita, Sony and a bunch of others). Lots of companies make money on the DVD. With Blu-Ray, Sony wants to hog all of the profits for themselves. The market calls for another consortium with not just one company controlling the medium. One would have thought Betamax would have taught them a lesson, cuz they were better than VHS technically anyway.
Considering that despite the lesser storage capacity, the HD-DVD seems to have better DRM and scratch-resistance than the Blu-Ray, I don't see how Blu-Ray is necesarily "better". Plus Blu-Ray players have been announced to need to connect to some kind of servers to activate otherwise they "punish" you, as well as having self-destruct codes.
how would saying "WERE FUCKED!!!!" save those jobs
Well abandoning the PSP, and consolidating with Toshiba in favor of the HD-DVD would have prevented most of this nonsense.
Sony is willing to risk jobs and billions of dollars in favor of having control (and royalties) over the Blu-Ray/BetamaxDisc medium instead of going for another open-forum standard like the original DVD was.
And regarding the PSP, that was just an obvious and total failure. I'm sure there's like 5 or 6 Slashdotters who enjoy their limited run 1.5 BIOS PSP running illegal emulators in stretched resolution (all of which can be done easier and better on the GPX2, besides the fact that all future PSP's cannot be hacked and will require BIOS updates for future games if they do get hacked), but the PSP is a general failure.
Then there's the PS3, well, the costs involved there speak for itself...
You know, for a company that doesn't have any ads on its own dot-com site, Google has billions and billions of dollars of its own.
Just cuz it is a little behind Microsoft doesn't mean they can't compete. Micrsoft doesn't always win you know. Their Xbox, MSN service, MSN search and PocketPC OS products are not, nor have ever been, the #1 product in their respective marketplaces. Ballmer is a nut, and Google is never going to be "killed" except by their own hand, if they choose too.
Ballmer can throw as much money at AOL as he can but he's not going to buy the brainwaves whioch cause most people to use Google when they need to do a search.
They just can't admit that their PSP was a failure and that Blu-Ray (aka BetamaxDisc) and the PlayStation3 are going to bankrupt them. Instead they take it out on their employees and continue to push their doomed technology. Lame Sony, lame.
Nothing stopping them from the analog attachment being a wireless reciever instead of a plug. Afterall they said it's not quite the final design yet. Remember when they showed off the DS for the first time? The final design had a bunch of improvements before it shipped.
Actually it's more like the end of PlayStation. At $500 and no real innovation, no one is going to bother buying one.
For your information, XBox 360 and Rev use the same CPU/GPU as each other so porting will be rather easy. You obviously don't know anything about industry.
Also note that the Revolution system has a IBM PowerPC-based processor and an ATI X800-based graphics card, the same two components in the Xbox 360. Pretty much the only difference to the 360 is that the 360 has three CPU cores, the Revolution has just one. But just one PowerPC 970 is overkill for a games machine as-is.
Point is, Xbox 360 and Revolution will be easy to port between each other, relatively.
PlayStation3, on the other hand, with its IBM Cell processor and NVidia 7800 GTX-based graphics core will be a little rough to port to and from. But, at USD$500 and $70 games, whose going to even bother buying one?
Link has had close to 12 chances to bang Zelda at the end of his adventures. Zelda has changed from a brunette to a red head to a blonde and he's still not pleased. If that's not gay, I don't know what is (and I do know gay).
I for one welcome our elvish, green-tailored, gay overlord.
Nintendo should release a cell shaded game where the main character is a persecuted homosexual who has to solve puzzles which refer to classical literature in order to avoid being lynched and attacked by a suspicious homophobic public.
Square already made a game similar to this. It was called Final Fantasy 7.
Nintendo has said time and time again, that the day they stop making consoles is the day they go out of business. They're never going to go 3rd party. Sony might, though (it's likely the PS3 and Blu-Ray will bankrupt Sony and you just might see Grand Turismo 6 on the Revolution).
When I first saw the headline, I thought scientists have suddenly come up with a better acid to digest food over HCl. Seriously, HCl is as old as the stone age, but I'd like to see you come up with a better way to digest your food (hint: see the "Red Hot Catholic Love" episode of South Park).
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Well if arctic winter is the case, I can't think of anything better than a Pentium to keep me warm.
(ah, the joys of never upgrading past 1.50 so I can use my NES/SNES/Genesis/Game Boy emulators as long as I want)
Try playing them on a GP32 (or a GP2X). It has a standard screen so your emus don't have black bars on the sides nor look shitty when stretched to widescreen (you have to choose between those two when playing on a PSP).
Seriously, these PSP homebrew kiddies must not know what a real homebrew scene is...
Same here. I can't wait for the GP2X to come out and shut these PSP homebrew peeps up for good. PSP's homebrew "scene" was about as exciting as a dead Korean whore compared to Gamepark32's, and the GP2X is only gonna overshadow them both.
Expecting to play UMD's on a device other than a PSP in your lifetime? You must be one of those guys who are hoping that the PSP will take out Nintendo's handheld monopoly "any day now." Keep dreaming fanboi.
"Universal" Media Disc... biggest oxymoron (by Sony) evar.
A lot of "if's" and "would have's" this is why Sony lost a shitload of money. Maybe they should have listened to consumers like you, but instead they put their market share control as priority #1. This is probably why they're #2 to Panasonic/Matsushita in terms of their mother industry, consumer electronics.
Actually Sony Computer Entertainment consists of about 10% - 30% of Sony's overall sales.
With DVD's, the DVD Consortium makes a profit (this consists of Toshiba, Panasonic/Matsushita, Sony and a bunch of others). Lots of companies make money on the DVD. With Blu-Ray, Sony wants to hog all of the profits for themselves. The market calls for another consortium with not just one company controlling the medium. One would have thought Betamax would have taught them a lesson, cuz they were better than VHS technically anyway.
Considering that despite the lesser storage capacity, the HD-DVD seems to have better DRM and scratch-resistance than the Blu-Ray, I don't see how Blu-Ray is necesarily "better". Plus Blu-Ray players have been announced to need to connect to some kind of servers to activate otherwise they "punish" you, as well as having self-destruct codes.
Try:
1) 23 2) IT professional and graduate student 3) Better at making preditions than you, apperently.
Also lets not forget that Sony is the head of *both* of Slashdotters' favorite two orgainaizations: the RIAA and the MPAA.
Sony is willing to risk jobs and billions of dollars in favor of having control (and royalties) over the Blu-Ray/BetamaxDisc medium instead of going for another open-forum standard like the original DVD was.
And regarding the PSP, that was just an obvious and total failure. I'm sure there's like 5 or 6 Slashdotters who enjoy their limited run 1.5 BIOS PSP running illegal emulators in stretched resolution (all of which can be done easier and better on the GPX2, besides the fact that all future PSP's cannot be hacked and will require BIOS updates for future games if they do get hacked), but the PSP is a general failure.
Then there's the PS3, well, the costs involved there speak for itself...
You know, for a company that doesn't have any ads on its own dot-com site, Google has billions and billions of dollars of its own.
Just cuz it is a little behind Microsoft doesn't mean they can't compete. Micrsoft doesn't always win you know. Their Xbox, MSN service, MSN search and PocketPC OS products are not, nor have ever been, the #1 product in their respective marketplaces. Ballmer is a nut, and Google is never going to be "killed" except by their own hand, if they choose too.
Ballmer can throw as much money at AOL as he can but he's not going to buy the brainwaves whioch cause most people to use Google when they need to do a search.
They just can't admit that their PSP was a failure and that Blu-Ray (aka BetamaxDisc) and the PlayStation3 are going to bankrupt them. Instead they take it out on their employees and continue to push their doomed technology. Lame Sony, lame.
Nothing stopping them from the analog attachment being a wireless reciever instead of a plug. Afterall they said it's not quite the final design yet. Remember when they showed off the DS for the first time? The final design had a bunch of improvements before it shipped.
You'd rather use Sony's SNES rip-off or Microsoft's Dreamcast rip-off?
Actually it's more like the end of PlayStation. At $500 and no real innovation, no one is going to bother buying one.
For your information, XBox 360 and Rev use the same CPU/GPU as each other so porting will be rather easy. You obviously don't know anything about industry.
Also note that the Revolution system has a IBM PowerPC-based processor and an ATI X800-based graphics card, the same two components in the Xbox 360. Pretty much the only difference to the 360 is that the 360 has three CPU cores, the Revolution has just one. But just one PowerPC 970 is overkill for a games machine as-is.
Point is, Xbox 360 and Revolution will be easy to port between each other, relatively.
PlayStation3, on the other hand, with its IBM Cell processor and NVidia 7800 GTX-based graphics core will be a little rough to port to and from. But, at USD$500 and $70 games, whose going to even bother buying one?
You'll find them on the likes of GameFAQs and RPGamer, where they pledge their alligence to Sony and Square Enix at the same time.
Beat you to it
(OK so it's technically not CG...)
Yeah, his name is Fred Phelps.
Link has had close to 12 chances to bang Zelda at the end of his adventures. Zelda has changed from a brunette to a red head to a blonde and he's still not pleased. If that's not gay, I don't know what is (and I do know gay).
I for one welcome our elvish, green-tailored, gay overlord.
Nintendo has said time and time again, that the day they stop making consoles is the day they go out of business. They're never going to go 3rd party. Sony might, though (it's likely the PS3 and Blu-Ray will bankrupt Sony and you just might see Grand Turismo 6 on the Revolution).
When I first saw the headline, I thought scientists have suddenly come up with a better acid to digest food over HCl. Seriously, HCl is as old as the stone age, but I'd like to see you come up with a better way to digest your food (hint: see the "Red Hot Catholic Love" episode of South Park).