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22 hours ago
Microsoft hasn't released the number sold . . .
...and never will. They only report shipped to retailers/distributor numbers which can be used to 'stuff the channel' and can misrepresent sales to consumers.
http://kotaku.com/251281/mi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

What makes this potential issue even worse is the other thing they don't report, except to publicly state they won't report it...Exactly how millions of warranty units are accounted for.

At full-retail; $200 per warranty unit & $1.4 billion, that's at least 7 million consoles.

How exactly is this total accounted for or deducted?
Microsoft refuses to say...
"The only people that know the actual numbers work for Microsoft, and the numbers are not something Microsoft or any other company would typically disclose for competitive reasons. - Greenberg"
http://www.planetxbox360.co...

Depending on that self-proclaimed secret, the PS3 may already have met or exceeded the total number of sold/functional units.

Of note:
In immediate response to UK questions raised about a claimed PS3 defect, Sony produced & publicly disclosed exact statistics . . . Less that a single percent.

Before Microsoft quotes the 'actual' 360 installed base again they should link to the ACTUAL numbers, disclosed sold to consumer-figures and officially state exactly how they account for a minimum number of 7 million defective/replaced units.

Until then...this is, and will remain a stain on an otherwise great game console.

Gamers deserve more. View
2 days 1 hour ago
I'll try it.
It's always great to try new things & learn new things...but I also have the same questions as everyone else about bandwidth & performance.

How often do the specs needed in real life actually match those stated? 'Required specs' are often half of the desired specs...to really use a service.

Games don't strike me as something I'd be satisfied with entry-level minimums.

Happy Baby - The PS3 will prompt you to download active content now. From a development perspective and platform support already listed, this could run as flash or even a dedicated Java app.

Outgoing bandwidth for controller functions is practically nothing and incoming is similar to the compressed video we already get through Netflix or similar streaming video at or under a 3mb connection.

How well it works seems more important that if it can. I'll definitely try it out, just for the extra gaming options.

One console to rule them all? Nope...but why not all consoles IN one?

If it works...all games, anytime...sounds great! View
2 days 9 hours ago
Early Linux versions where ambitious, but not well optimized...
...the PS3 has the 512mb needed, but it took a Yellow Dog Linux version to take full advantage of it, using the second 256mb of XDR memory as a swapfile, significantly improving performance.
http://www.yellowdoglinux.c...

Ubuntu is also available with an easy install image & is more than suitable for emulation & homebrew. (this one's your best-bet Prince)
http://gizmodo.com/5143547/...

PS3 use for academic, security or research is still supported by Sony.
http://www.develop-online.n...

For a summary of the details about these Linux changes...
http://www.sonyinsider.com/...

According to Sony the OtherOS function will NEVER be removed from previous hardware versions, so you can purchase an older model or an academic kit, both with Linux support.

I disagree with, but understand the decision to drop system-wide Linux support.

It's a feature few consumers ever used or even knew about...and after it failed to lead to any meaningful exploits...was largely forgotten about. View
2 days 10 hours ago
Well . . .
...The 'Blue-Rayy is D00m3d' people had to find SOMETHING to be doomed again! View
2 days 10 hours ago
OnLive seems like the Streaming Netflix of gaming . . .
From the intended use, OnLive should work on the PS3 with nothing more than the browser...

http://www.articlesbase.com...

You'll have the best of dedicated console games, plus anything else suitable for this streaming technology.

Variety and gaming options are great.

Less isn't more...More is more! View
2 days 11 hours ago
What's the truth?
That your account's less than 60 days old...and sounds just like all the other bubble-less fanbrats...so we should care what you think?

That you actually contribute to the gaming community, instead of attacking half of it?

That all facts can be twisted...frequently including yours.

That $1.4 billion -or- 7 million defective consoles don't need to be accounted for?

That the new argument seems to be that there are over 30 million PS3's so now even good sales aren't good enough?

That you have any integrity...at...all?
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I'm glad to say that you and yours are a dead, dying breed here.

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Well . . . Don't let me keep you. View
2 days 12 hours ago
If you have any of the previous PS3's...
You can already do all that...for 3 years now.

The fact is, Sony decided to stop wasting dev time and money supporting Linux functions few, if any outside security & research facilities used.

It just didn't make sense to update hardware drivers & rigorously test their Hypervisor security for the fraction of a fraction of a percent that used Linux...

I was surprised to see the option built in from launch but when it turned out OtherOS/Linux didn't lead to the PS3 & games hacked under the guise of 'we need homebrew' hackers lost interest.

Embedded processor serialization & Hypervisor control certainly works, but no one really wanted Homebrew.

Free game copies...yeah.
Homebrew...not so much.
An 'Octipiler'...definitely

http://www.embedded.com/col...
http://www.gamesindustry.bi... View
2 days 13 hours ago
Except you already had it...
Every version prior to the latest $299 models support any kind of 'homebrew' and emulators you wanted...through Linux.

Did you use it? Ever?

'Install OtherOS' was built in out of the box for 3 years.
Few used the feature, which supported full OS functions, whatever emulators you liked, full browser & office apps, including keyboards, mice, etc.

Even if Z-Back is true, this just supports piracy & hacking...we already had all the homebrew we ever wanted.

The problem is without a l33t hax0r g@m3 r1pr nobody wanted it. View
5 days 6 hours ago
... Heavens to Murgatroyd! View
32 days 22 hours ago
You are absolutely correct . . .
But they've had all this time to release accurate specific failure rates. They actually knew them before launch, just as they know them now.

The question is why parade around a 500 unit sample, out of more than 30 MILLION?

I hope the reliability figures have improved but the transparently manufactured 'facts' are still just as bad as they ever where. View
32 days 22 hours ago
Misleading statistics is an art form . . . Please, no flash photography of these numbers!
Example:
For 2 years I've run a console repair service with a flat-rate $100 repair fee. We cover everything outside Microsoft's warranty.

I can factually state that for 3 years no one has ever sent in even a single unit for repair that had suffered a Red Ring or E-74 error!

This must be directly related to the hardware improvements and new revisions because we don't get any units for these issues at all! *

* See my point...of manufacturing numbers with some tiny 500 unit carefully controlled 'polling'?

Why this limited sample when SquareTrade knows exactly what the actual numbers are, so does Microsoft, so does Sony...

So why has only Sony released theirs? View
32 days 23 hours ago
SquareTrade's % of this failure in the first year should be ZERO
It's covered by a three year warranty...why would SquareTrade see any of the 2007, 2008 or 2009 models with this failure?

Where are the polling details? 500 New units purchased by SquareTrade or some third party? Actively used or sitting on a shelf, or a distributors warehouse?

This is as misleading as the Yellow Light Of Death sweeping the PS3 community. Microsoft & Sony both know these numbers, to the console. Sony immediately provided facts for theirs...fewer than 1/2 of a single percent.

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

The actual, accurate failure numbers are no mystery to Microsoft, Sony, or SquareTrade.

SquareTrade or Microsoft could also -- with a click, release the ACTUAL numbers & percentages of units receive and why...

...Without the smoke and mirrors statistics. View
60 days 19 hours ago
64 - I can respond intelligently to your observation . . .
I'm just not going to.

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Trust what looks best to your eyes.
Photoshop counts pixels. Gamers don't.

(sys 64738) View
61 days 2 hours ago
It was originally . . .
"...you can't believe everything you read on the Internet...
Otherwise, I'd be a Nigerian Millionaire by now."

Nigeria complained and Sony changed the ad (and cleverly got extra free advertising over the 'controversy' then changed it. Wink. Wink.)

Even though the ad was changed, I still never got that 41 million dollar check from the Royal Nigerian Bank. View
74 days 17 hours ago
I'm not trying to create an enemy here, but look at it from outside your box . . .
I also hate "fanboy's" so much so I call them "Fanbrats" because I've yet to see one that doesn't end up whining like a little spoiled brat.

From an outside point of view though, here is how your comments & comment here reads:

Say what you want . . .
People who read comments with bias and then get mad are hypocrites, hence I, Kaveti6616 am the person you should be commenting to, not anyone else.

You see without reading the article you simply didn't realize the ENTIRE article is nonsense...not because of anything Porcelain God wrote, biased in your opinion or otherwise. It is filled with so many inaccuracies regardless of what console is mentioned, it's just an exercise in idiocy.

See your complaints & comments where they belong...with Ed Lew the moron who wrote the 'article' and every inaccurate detail in it.
http://www.associatedconten...

By personally commenting about a COMMENTER, not the article, or even reading it, you really do yourself a disservice. You immediately turn your own biased argument on it's head...which becomes YOUR head.

Read the article.
You might gain a better appreciation for Porcelain God's comments, and that he's not as biased as you may think.

The article is just plain based entirely on stupidity...I am sure you don't want to add to that. View
75 days 9 hours ago
But WHY...
This is a clearly uninformed article.

The errors in each section, by someone, Ed Lew, with ONE post are laughable.
http://www.associatedconten...

Did Eddy even TRY to search for the basic information?

My question is, IP tracking, duplicate IP's and other SIMPLE methods of preventing multiple accounts are...well...SIMPLE.

Why aren't these used here to prevent or at least discourage this?
This does affect the quality of this site, and should be coded & corrected!

If you use multiple sign-ins, your automatically banned for 24 hours.
Do it again, it's 72 hours.
Again, and beside not commenting for a week you're blocked from even reading the news.
Finally, permanently banning the IP.

None of this is complicated, and any programmer should be able to code that in their sleep.

Please...N4G...Only You Can Prevent Flamewar Fires! View
75 days 9 hours ago
The difference between you and Porcelean God is . . .
He's commenting on the article...that you didn't read.
(too busy 'Going Galt'?)

...so you are commenting, on a commenter, about an uninformed article...by being uninformed about it.

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Is anyone else missing the . ? View
77 days 8 hours ago
Everything Matters!
Graphics - Gameplay - Story - Innovation

Too often if your competitor's game is at 700p and your's 720p, suddenly, those 20x extra pixels are all the world.

TEST IT:
We've secretly replaced these consoles with Folger's Crystals.
Can YOU tell the difference?

Any TRUE 'fan' can immediately tell Console A has 22 more crystals than Console B!

Ask any of these 'fans'...if graphics really didn't matter...why did they buy a NextGen system in the first place? It can't be just for the hypocritical BS, can it?

Here I thought it was to actually play NextGen games.

Graphics matter. Gameplay matters. Story matters. Innovation matters.
Above all...Competition matters.

It gives us all better games, cheaper consoles & each platform trying to outdo the other...which is great for gamers everywhere. View
77 days 9 hours ago
I don't see how this would be an asset
It really couldn't be used for games or the 20-30-million existing owners would be left out.

It would seem to compete with the push Microsoft is making to 1080P streaming & downloads.

It would present more of a negative comparison against the value of competing consoles:

$199 - 360
$150 - add-on HD
$100 - Wi-Fi
$100 - Blu-Ray
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$550 or $500 Elite+Wi-Fi+Blu-Ray
(Or $400 Elite+Blu-Ray - no Wi-Fi)

I don't see the point...and in some respects some of every dollar spent at OEM costs for Blu-Ray, and the Blu-Ray sales that generated goes into Sony's pocket.

Gamers might like the option, but I don't see how this would actually benefit Microsoft with a Blu-Ray "attach rate" who's profits end up in Sony's pockets?

Strange comment by Ballmer...that at this point must just be misunderstood, a misstatement, or out of context. View
77 days 10 hours ago
But on a 6-7 mbit connection?
I'm also interested in trying this, just for the same convenience that makes Cable's On-Demand...well...convenient.

I'm actually upgrading to Fios, used with digital video services like Verizon's & ATT's Uverse...that can also provide 2 HD-streams or 4 SD streams over just a 3 mbit connection. It would not surprise me that the quality of this new streaming is pretty good, but like anything, I'll reserve judgement for my own eyes & testing.

Just displaying 1080P output doesn't mean it's not a blocky, streaming mess.

The main concern I have is bandwidth needed, and if I need 6-7 megabits that seems beyond the reality of many people with 1.5-3 connections nowhere near that.

I guess I'll just have to see it for myself to be sure! View
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