When it comes to the Ps3 youre paying for the Bluray-Dvd feature right now that no one really even cares to have. It will take about 2 years for Blueray-Dvd to even catch on or it may go the way of the Umd formatted disc. When Sony released the Psp they tried to spoon-feed us movies on Umd formatted discs & they shot themselves in the foot because no one really wanted to pay for Umd movies when they can simply tweak their Psp to play movies from say a 4 gig backup add-on. I dont think the Ps3 will do well this Xmas because I cant see too many people that would spend (600+ games= well over 700+ bucks?!? WTF?) I personally would rather buy a used Ps2 and play catchup on all the really cool games that still rock and are dirt cheap now on the Ps2 (Kindom Hearts, God of War, Prince of Persia, MGS) with the option to tweak it and and run the games from an internal HD. The Sales of the Ps3 will eventually rely on the games & gamers that have the skill to tweak the ps3 (accept a bigger HD + run games from the HD=alot of money saved for more important things). The Xbox360 will only survive because there are alot of gamers that still Drool over Halo & games you can pretty much play on your pc (Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell).
The old Xbox will become the pefect system to run all the older consoles (Emulation) via a tweaked system w/a bigger HD and backup data to. The Nintendo revolution (Wii) will have Nintendo return as king and once again hold the flame as preventing the near console crash in the past. Nintendo has once again got the formula right. Design Simplicity = Satisfaction = Alot of Wii consoles sold.
Its almost like its 1985 all over again and History is repeating itself. Microsoft & Sony is an example of a saying from Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell "Overspecialize & Breed in Weakness...its slow death."
The next gen consoles wars has just begun. And right now Nintedo has Sony & Microsoft by the Balls.
As I compare the annual version updates OsX has against Vista its like the Microsoft team is looking at MacOsX Leopard and are like "Oh crap! We need to get some features in this next Windows Os so it can give Osx a run for its money!" So what we got is Longhorn...Vista...& probably being renamed again to only God knows what. Then after the delayed Apple keynote thats been pushed back to the 4th Quarter comes to pass I can see Microsoft advertising the next Os theve been supposedly "Scrambling" to get done (team busy trying to ground xbox360 so ps3 dosent blow it out of the water)in SinCity-style movie posters entitled Windows XP-XL: "The Long Hard Wait". I see alot of users/companies are gonna stick with the current Xp like its Windows 98 until there are enough serious strong reasons to upgrade their hard ware just to run this Os formerly known as Longhorn. In my opinion even if they hold the release till the 4th Quarter of 2k7 it will still be looked down upon in comparison to the ever-evolving-cat formerly known OsX Tiger. But if it comes out and turns out to be a very decent Os the wait will be well worth it even though it'll probably get leaked on the net and cracked long before it reaches legal purchasing channels. So if they keep the pricing the same I think alot of people will lean towards running either a flavor of Linux or a patched version of Intel OsX since it can run circles around Xp on a cheap pc for under 300. Guess time can only tell.
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When it comes to the Ps3 youre paying for the Bluray-Dvd feature right now that no one really even cares to have. It will take about 2 years for Blueray-Dvd to even catch on or it may go the way of the Umd formatted disc. When Sony released the Psp they tried to spoon-feed us movies on Umd formatted discs & they shot themselves in the foot because no one really wanted to pay for Umd movies when they can simply tweak their Psp to play movies from say a 4 gig backup add-on. I dont think the Ps3 will do well this Xmas because I cant see too many people that would spend (600+ games= well over 700+ bucks?!? WTF?) I personally would rather buy a used Ps2 and play catchup on all the really cool games that still rock and are dirt cheap now on the Ps2 (Kindom Hearts, God of War, Prince of Persia, MGS) with the option to tweak it and and run the games from an internal HD. The Sales of the Ps3 will eventually rely on the games & gamers that have the skill to tweak the ps3 (accept a bigger HD + run games from the HD=alot of money saved for more important things). The Xbox360 will only survive because there are alot of gamers that still Drool over Halo & games you can pretty much play on your pc (Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell). The old Xbox will become the pefect system to run all the older consoles (Emulation) via a tweaked system w/a bigger HD and backup data to. The Nintendo revolution (Wii) will have Nintendo return as king and once again hold the flame as preventing the near console crash in the past. Nintendo has once again got the formula right. Design Simplicity = Satisfaction = Alot of Wii consoles sold. Its almost like its 1985 all over again and History is repeating itself. Microsoft & Sony is an example of a saying from Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell "Overspecialize & Breed in Weakness...its slow death." The next gen consoles wars has just begun. And right now Nintedo has Sony & Microsoft by the Balls.
As I compare the annual version updates OsX has against Vista its like the Microsoft team is looking at MacOsX Leopard and are like "Oh crap! We need to get some features in this next Windows Os so it can give Osx a run for its money!" So what we got is Longhorn...Vista...& probably being renamed again to only God knows what. Then after the delayed Apple keynote thats been pushed back to the 4th Quarter comes to pass I can see Microsoft advertising the next Os theve been supposedly "Scrambling" to get done (team busy trying to ground xbox360 so ps3 dosent blow it out of the water)in SinCity-style movie posters entitled Windows XP-XL: "The Long Hard Wait". I see alot of users/companies are gonna stick with the current Xp like its Windows 98 until there are enough serious strong reasons to upgrade their hard ware just to run this Os formerly known as Longhorn. In my opinion even if they hold the release till the 4th Quarter of 2k7 it will still be looked down upon in comparison to the ever-evolving-cat formerly known OsX Tiger. But if it comes out and turns out to be a very decent Os the wait will be well worth it even though it'll probably get leaked on the net and cracked long before it reaches legal purchasing channels. So if they keep the pricing the same I think alot of people will lean towards running either a flavor of Linux or a patched version of Intel OsX since it can run circles around Xp on a cheap pc for under 300. Guess time can only tell.