Not to mention how Sega burned a lot of its third-party developers by releasing one failed system after another. While the failure of the systems wasn't entirely Sega's fault, the damage was still done and they lost third-party support before the Dreamcast had a chance to take off.
This time, the battle is against Microsoft who is on their second console release, which apparently has more third-party developer support than their first console did. It's going to be a much tougher fight for Sony this time for that reason alone. It's going to be even harder since the market will be flooded with Wii sales in the absence of the more expensive PS3.
Funny that you mention that--I saw the movie on opening night and the first three notes he played were, in fact, the first three notes of Stairway. Those three notes were subsequently changed for TV and home video releases. Their own joke got denied!
Have you seen what some guys are wearing these days? It's like they're trying to compete with girls for the "most traditionally feminine" award or something.
Actually, it's more like you've been driving a 1995 Ford car to your favorite store for 11 years. You purchase a 2006 Ford of the same model. You find out that your new Ford's tires are incompatible with the roads that take you to your favorite store, and that you can't put the tires from your old Ford on the new one. Compatible tires are not yet available. Have you ever tried to make your own tires? And how do you get to the store?
There needs to be some sort of backward compatability. It doesn't necessarily need to span more than one generation, but then again, there aren't many generations of Firefox now are there? And what if the developers don't want to waste time developing new extensions that aren't necessarily needed? Shouldn't they have a chance to see how much the full-scale release impacts the need for their extension before taking the time to build a whole new version? The beta period may not have been enough exposure, since the average user doesn't necessarily get involved in beta testing if there's a full-release alternative available.
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Not to mention how Sega burned a lot of its third-party developers by releasing one failed system after another. While the failure of the systems wasn't entirely Sega's fault, the damage was still done and they lost third-party support before the Dreamcast had a chance to take off.
This time, the battle is against Microsoft who is on their second console release, which apparently has more third-party developer support than their first console did. It's going to be a much tougher fight for Sony this time for that reason alone. It's going to be even harder since the market will be flooded with Wii sales in the absence of the more expensive PS3.
Funny that you mention that--I saw the movie on opening night and the first three notes he played were, in fact, the first three notes of Stairway. Those three notes were subsequently changed for TV and home video releases. Their own joke got denied!
Have you seen what some guys are wearing these days? It's like they're trying to compete with girls for the "most traditionally feminine" award or something.
Actually, it's more like you've been driving a 1995 Ford car to your favorite store for 11 years. You purchase a 2006 Ford of the same model. You find out that your new Ford's tires are incompatible with the roads that take you to your favorite store, and that you can't put the tires from your old Ford on the new one. Compatible tires are not yet available. Have you ever tried to make your own tires? And how do you get to the store?
There needs to be some sort of backward compatability. It doesn't necessarily need to span more than one generation, but then again, there aren't many generations of Firefox now are there? And what if the developers don't want to waste time developing new extensions that aren't necessarily needed? Shouldn't they have a chance to see how much the full-scale release impacts the need for their extension before taking the time to build a whole new version? The beta period may not have been enough exposure, since the average user doesn't necessarily get involved in beta testing if there's a full-release alternative available.
No, that was the Xbox.
Actually, that was the Mac. It only made it to the Xbox after a buyout and a significant delay in development.