1. Costs more. 2. Get to find all the bugs it shipped with 3. Controller may or may not respond the way you expect 4. Game manual may not accurately tell you how to do something, since the OS wasn't final.
Well, if the price they pay then drops below the $406 Japanese customers will pay, instead of the $600 plus they pay in the EU, I can see how that would make them happy.
Besides, think of all the fun they'll be getting from their new Wii's while they "wait".
The only problem will be if they forget to buy the PS3's when they actually arrive in the EU.
For one thing, instead of an old wizard continually saying "Have you checked for more quests at the Guild" while you're on a quest, it's now a young albino princess who says "Are you sure you want to open that booby-trapped door?"...
Hey, I'm just going off the articles in my print edition of the Wall Street Journal. If you have some magic story in GameStop that has as good research into the supply chain, please post it.
After all, WalMart is saying they can't even do well because gas prices are too high, and they have some of the cheapest supply contracts in the industry...
And this is why it's stupid for Sony to try to shove Blu-Ray down our throats. That said, the extra graphical horsepower of a PS3 or Xbox 360 will still be impressive on an SDTV simply due to more polygons and more budget for effects. You won't get the benefit of higher resolution textures, but PS3 games will still look much better than PS2 games on the same TV (just as 360 games look better than Xbox games).
Agreed, but I just can't see an ad for the PS3: "Now, with extra polygons!"
Yet another FPS or sports game with extra super polygons really just doesn't work. We want Hillary Duff in Sim 2: Pets, or Katamari Damacy, or Dance Dance Revolution: Sudden Death Danceoff, or Super Mario Underwater Twister Teleport Tango, or Spore.
1. Sony has already slashed the number of units being delivered, due to anticipated lack of demand in the US and EU. This will create an artificial shortage so that they can try to spin it into buzz about how people want PS3 consoles. They already figure that the Wii will sell four times as many consoles in the US and EU as the PS3 will. Shipments prove this.
2. If you don't have a really big HDTV that currently uses 1080p, you probably won't care one whit about Blu-Ray for at least three years - by which point there will be another choice of better game consoles to be concerned with.
And have a lot more fun hopping from star to star in Super Mario Galaxy than I could with a higher level game score.
If you're that short of time that you'd pay money to "raise your level", maybe you need to reevaluate your life and cut back on the time you spend reading slashdot.
I sold my 500 shares of Sony shortly after E3 when I realized Sony was clueless in pricing and packaging and Nintendo got the new game paradigm (bought 400 shares of Nintendo).
Since then Sony stock has dropped and Nintendo stock has gone up.
It will continue to get worse, at least for the next two years.
I think we should all go out and buy a DRM-enhanced set of Illumatus books by Robert Anton Wilson.
That way, the embedded RFID chips can be used to complete the grand master plan by the Eco-Terrorists (my idea) to illuminate the Tri-fold Druidic Path and transform our society into a better one in which writers and scientists are treated as gods and business owners and politicians are those we have sentenced for serious crimes against society to serve in such positions with subsistence wages.
1. Send DNA sequence for human/animal/etc from Star 1 to Star 2. 2. Use DNA sequence to grow said creature. 3. Install memory sequences, also sent as information. 4. Wake person up. 5. Keep original as slave in vast human slave army used to conquer the galaxy. 6. PROFIT!
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1. Costs more.
2. Get to find all the bugs it shipped with
3. Controller may or may not respond the way you expect
4. Game manual may not accurately tell you how to do something, since the OS wasn't final.
but, most importantly
5. PROFIT! (for Sony)
Then you can work up a sweat golfing or sword-fighting and not be quite such a couch potato in the first place?
I was just reading on Gripeline that Microsoft is suing a hacker who has already hacked the DRM components of WinVista.
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Inquiring minds with sharpies want to know
And when the dominant platform is the one at $200 developers will develop for it to sell more units.
Especially when the dev platform is only $1000 for the Wii, instead of ten times as much for the PS3 or 360 ones.
Now if we could only get 300 million of them, and ship them all to the US, all our base could belong to us!
Any idea on how many games the 7-9 million Wiis will have? Are we looking at only 30 million, or will it break 100 million by the end of 2007?
maybe if it had an Intergalactic Parking Ticket ... now that would have been fun ...
if the tracks had spelled out "When Can I Come Home?"
Well, if the price they pay then drops below the $406 Japanese customers will pay, instead of the $600 plus they pay in the EU, I can see how that would make them happy.
Besides, think of all the fun they'll be getting from their new Wii's while they "wait".
The only problem will be if they forget to buy the PS3's when they actually arrive in the EU.
or whoever will pay us more than the paltry $5000 a year we make.
Somehow, this should have been filed under the category "obvious consequences of outsourcing and offshoring".
Never mind the "consumers" word. Shouldn't it be "customers" or at least "users"?
I think you mean "DRM-enabled clients".
It costs more than US $600 in the UK right now.
If they wait, maybe they'll get the Japanese price of US $406.
You have to wonder how many of the violators are political appointees though.
You have to wonder if some are park rangers, kind of lonely (sex sites), who like to play poker over the net since the next human is 500 miles away.
Ah, bet you forgot that they're part of the Department of the Interior, didn't you?
And not Big Game sites?
Think about it. Game - as in hunting - is part of the purview of the Deptartment of the Interior.
Not sure about the Gambling though.
For one thing, instead of an old wizard continually saying "Have you checked for more quests at the Guild" while you're on a quest, it's now a young albino princess who says "Are you sure you want to open that booby-trapped door?" ...
Hey, I'm just going off the articles in my print edition of the Wall Street Journal. If you have some magic story in GameStop that has as good research into the supply chain, please post it.
...
After all, WalMart is saying they can't even do well because gas prices are too high, and they have some of the cheapest supply contracts in the industry
And this is why it's stupid for Sony to try to shove Blu-Ray down our throats. That said, the extra graphical horsepower of a PS3 or Xbox 360 will still be impressive on an SDTV simply due to more polygons and more budget for effects. You won't get the benefit of higher resolution textures, but PS3 games will still look much better than PS2 games on the same TV (just as 360 games look better than Xbox games).
Agreed, but I just can't see an ad for the PS3: "Now, with extra polygons!"
Yet another FPS or sports game with extra super polygons really just doesn't work. We want Hillary Duff in Sim 2: Pets, or Katamari Damacy, or Dance Dance Revolution: Sudden Death Danceoff, or Super Mario Underwater Twister Teleport Tango, or Spore.
Apparently the US government ordered too many for their special operations sharks.
Are those the ones with the frickin Blu-Ray lasers on their heads?
How much money will you save buying them at Wal-Mart? I'll admit, I buy shave cream and razors there but I prefer almost any other store to Wal-Mart.
About as much as you would save if you bought it at CostCo, a blue state company which pays employees more and has a real health care plan.
See, there are choices.
1. Sony has already slashed the number of units being delivered, due to anticipated lack of demand in the US and EU. This will create an artificial shortage so that they can try to spin it into buzz about how people want PS3 consoles. They already figure that the Wii will sell four times as many consoles in the US and EU as the PS3 will. Shipments prove this.
2. If you don't have a really big HDTV that currently uses 1080p, you probably won't care one whit about Blu-Ray for at least three years - by which point there will be another choice of better game consoles to be concerned with.
3. All of the DRM flavor is still baked in. Yum!
And have a lot more fun hopping from star to star in Super Mario Galaxy than I could with a higher level game score.
If you're that short of time that you'd pay money to "raise your level", maybe you need to reevaluate your life and cut back on the time you spend reading slashdot.
I sold my 500 shares of Sony shortly after E3 when I realized Sony was clueless in pricing and packaging and Nintendo got the new game paradigm (bought 400 shares of Nintendo).
Since then Sony stock has dropped and Nintendo stock has gone up.
It will continue to get worse, at least for the next two years.
I think we should all go out and buy a DRM-enhanced set of Illumatus books by Robert Anton Wilson.
That way, the embedded RFID chips can be used to complete the grand master plan by the Eco-Terrorists (my idea) to illuminate the Tri-fold Druidic Path and transform our society into a better one in which writers and scientists are treated as gods and business owners and politicians are those we have sentenced for serious crimes against society to serve in such positions with subsistence wages.
1. Send DNA sequence for human/animal/etc from Star 1 to Star 2.
2. Use DNA sequence to grow said creature.
3. Install memory sequences, also sent as information.
4. Wake person up.
5. Keep original as slave in vast human slave army used to conquer the galaxy.
6. PROFIT!
If it's Firefox it's a bug.
Features don't get fixed unless they're in danger of being sued. Bugs get fixed as people can get to them.