Article has been/.'d , but as a designer myself I find it interesting that microsoft's controller has gotten such rave reviews (at least compared to ps3's). Knowing people at MS's usability labs, they have fairly intensive usability studies and they throw a lot of money at making sure the entire experience is right. I wonder if Sony's usability department lost it's focus on PS3's controller? I have a feeling they were just lucky with the first design and never really dedicated much time (or money) towards this new one.
Maybe the decline can be linked to the fact that now these companies are turning around and offering consulting for the problems they helped propogate?
Actually it is very similiar to the VHS/Betamax format war. Customers aren't going to want to pay double just for player that will play two types of discs that offer similiar content. They are going to want either Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Manufactuers aren't going to want to distribute content on two different types of medium.
And the similiarities between this and the previous battle are pretty sharp. Blu-ray is a more robust format, it offers potential for longer, higher quality video while the manufacturer and ultimately customer have to deal with the higher inherent cost in delivering these discs.
The customer, in the end, will be exactly like you, won't care which format wins as long as they can play the content they want, but that doesn't mean there won't be a war.
I think about 99% of the comments replying to this and similar stories can be easily marked as flame bait.
The truth is, a lot of people don't fully understand what is the impact of the globalization movement. Yes, US coperation wants to crack the Chinese market; people may think that the way these companies have to cater to the Chinese government's paranoia is dangerous, but so is the global dependence upon the US market of these coperations. Do you want another depression if the market in the US dries up?
Yes, China wants US money, and yes, there is undoubtably some labour abuses going on, but their abundance of manufacturing contracts literally saved the Chinese economy from turning into Siberia.
It's a multi-faceted issue, neither side is "right" or "wrong"; there's a fine line, humans aren't perfect, the world trudges on.
My point was not actually meant to be bashing PSP's current line up of games, which are I must say much better overall then the DS's line up. My point was that some of us (cough cough) shelled out 400$+ for a system that, after we finish with the few good launch titles, can only stare at and wonder where the money went.
Nintendo is not stupid. The DS wasn't meant to compete directly with the PSP per se, only meant to stall it's growth while it readies the GBA2, this is common knowledge. With the PSP going through a dry spell of software right now, and the DS consistantly outselling the PSP, some of us are sitting by watching our investment go the way of the NEO GEO Pocket and WonderSwan. Sony really needs to do something if they are going to survive in the handheld market and keeping the fireware under tight wraps during this pivotal moment in their handheld's life, while the possibility of MAME + other emulation is available, well, let's just say I think it's a huge mistake.
The DS has a huge advantage over the PSP. Namely, there are thousands of Game Boy games compatible with the system at launch. The PSP has a dreadfully small amount of games for it, and if they opened up the firm ware, they could have the entire cataloge of MAME games available just like that. DS's advantage completely wiped out.
Sony is killing their own system, IM not so HO.
Oh, I get it. The article is about command line interfaces so that's a green light to ask any command line related question.
The ol' 1 degree of separation rule;)
So I guess you have a problem with that little freedom limiting law saying that people aren't allowed to kill one another, aren't allowed to steal, aren't allowed to lie under oath, etc.
I agree, underclocking has a wide variety of applications. I was thinking of google's server farms where the number of computers failing per day is in the double digits. If they underclocked processors as a rule they might save both money and performance.
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Article has been /.'d , but as a designer myself I find it interesting that microsoft's controller has gotten such rave reviews (at least compared to ps3's). Knowing people at MS's usability labs, they have fairly intensive usability studies and they throw a lot of money at making sure the entire experience is right. I wonder if Sony's usability department lost it's focus on PS3's controller? I have a feeling they were just lucky with the first design and never really dedicated much time (or money) towards this new one.
Last I heard companies like claria are still making a mint.
Maybe the decline can be linked to the fact that now these companies are turning around and offering consulting for the problems they helped propogate?
Actually it is very similiar to the VHS/Betamax format war. Customers aren't going to want to pay double just for player that will play two types of discs that offer similiar content. They are going to want either Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Manufactuers aren't going to want to distribute content on two different types of medium. And the similiarities between this and the previous battle are pretty sharp. Blu-ray is a more robust format, it offers potential for longer, higher quality video while the manufacturer and ultimately customer have to deal with the higher inherent cost in delivering these discs. The customer, in the end, will be exactly like you, won't care which format wins as long as they can play the content they want, but that doesn't mean there won't be a war.
"Flame"bait eh? Reminds me of a few houses victim to the xbox 1 ;)
I think about 99% of the comments replying to this and similar stories can be easily marked as flame bait. The truth is, a lot of people don't fully understand what is the impact of the globalization movement. Yes, US coperation wants to crack the Chinese market; people may think that the way these companies have to cater to the Chinese government's paranoia is dangerous, but so is the global dependence upon the US market of these coperations. Do you want another depression if the market in the US dries up? Yes, China wants US money, and yes, there is undoubtably some labour abuses going on, but their abundance of manufacturing contracts literally saved the Chinese economy from turning into Siberia. It's a multi-faceted issue, neither side is "right" or "wrong"; there's a fine line, humans aren't perfect, the world trudges on.
My point was not actually meant to be bashing PSP's current line up of games, which are I must say much better overall then the DS's line up. My point was that some of us (cough cough) shelled out 400$+ for a system that, after we finish with the few good launch titles, can only stare at and wonder where the money went.
Nintendo is not stupid. The DS wasn't meant to compete directly with the PSP per se, only meant to stall it's growth while it readies the GBA2, this is common knowledge. With the PSP going through a dry spell of software right now, and the DS consistantly outselling the PSP, some of us are sitting by watching our investment go the way of the NEO GEO Pocket and WonderSwan. Sony really needs to do something if they are going to survive in the handheld market and keeping the fireware under tight wraps during this pivotal moment in their handheld's life, while the possibility of MAME + other emulation is available, well, let's just say I think it's a huge mistake.
The DS has a huge advantage over the PSP. Namely, there are thousands of Game Boy games compatible with the system at launch. The PSP has a dreadfully small amount of games for it, and if they opened up the firm ware, they could have the entire cataloge of MAME games available just like that. DS's advantage completely wiped out. Sony is killing their own system, IM not so HO.
Oh, I get it. The article is about command line interfaces so that's a green light to ask any command line related question. The ol' 1 degree of separation rule ;)
So I guess you have a problem with that little freedom limiting law saying that people aren't allowed to kill one another, aren't allowed to steal, aren't allowed to lie under oath, etc.
I agree, underclocking has a wide variety of applications. I was thinking of google's server farms where the number of computers failing per day is in the double digits. If they underclocked processors as a rule they might save both money and performance.
um, how is it not directly their fault? they did choose to outsource the mission critical component of the system, did they not?
it seems you are releiving companies of any responsibility for outsourced operations.
Considering Windows security that should of been the pronoun a while ago...
(admit it, with few exceptions every single PS2 game is really just one of about 10 games, but with different graphics and sounds).
and story, and controls, and gameplay...