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152 days 19 hours ago
It will be interesting to see what happens to 360 sales in NA after the price cut. IMO the 360 should have been at $299 last year when PS3 had no traction & Nintendo was making 1/10th as many Wiis as consumers were scrambling for. View
154 days 21 hours ago
The PS3 is only as expensive as it is because Sony thought they would have to out spec the 360. Had they known ahead of time that the 360 could be trounced by an incremental upgrade to a stable platform does anyone honestly believe there would have ever been a $599 SKU? Sony has dominated the last two console cycles, they know good and well at what price mass market penetration is achieved and $599 sure as h*ll isn't it.

Girl gamers? There are none. Cooking Mama, Imagine Babyz & Nintendogs are interactive screen savers at best, but as video games they're complete and utter trash. View
155 days 6 hours ago
$600 :) View
155 days 6 hours ago
BS! Developers need to cut software prices because that's what's prohibitive to new audiences. Look at Wii hardware sales vs. Wii software sales. $249.99 obviously isn't discouraging anyone from buying a Wii which means the price of the crapware they're offering Wii owners is too expensive. Case in point, I would have picked up a copy of Wall-E had it been $39.99, but $49.99? Not a chance in hell when I know it will be down to $29.99 long before the movie hits DVD in 6 months. Same goes for PS3, I would have been tempted to pick up a copy of Hellboy at $39.99, but at $59.99 it doesn't interest me enough to even flip the case over to read the back. View
157 days 5 hours ago
Umm, name one movie that's been released on Blu-ray that hasn't been released on DVD. "Super DVD" is a change to how data is stored on DVD, not a new format. Not to mention the fact that if studios were so enamored with Blu-ray's attach rate that's still struggling to reach one disc per player two years into it's life cycle, why are they all feverishly attempting to upsell DVDs by including digital copies? Hell, at this point I'll even go so far as to say that resentment is likely a major contributing factor in studios dragging their feet on licensing agreements for digital distribution via PSN. Go UMD, I mean Blu-ray! View
157 days 8 hours ago
Typical playground bullies, all talk and no action. Hitman & Resident Evil: Extinction should have easily given Blu-ray a 2:1 attach rate. I don't know how Blu-ray can be two years into it's life cycle & still have an attach rate of less than 1 disc per player, but seems to me it's caught a major case of UMD. View
157 days 8 hours ago
Umm, I actually have 6 1TB drives & 4 500GB drives attached to my network :) View
157 days 8 hours ago
In it's two years on the market Blu-ray has sold 11 million discs to 13 million players, the attach rate for Blu-ray is still less than 1 disc per player. Contrast that to DVD which sold 14 million discs to 1 million players in it's first year on the market. Blu-ray is stillborn.

Yes, you can blame me for Blu-ray's abysmal attach rate! I bought the MSG4 bundle two weeks ago, own 14 PS3 games & 0 Blu-ray movies. View
157 days 9 hours ago
Good Will Hunting was released on DVD in '98 and it was the 1st DVD that my 1st generation player couldn't read, but 1 disc out of hundreds didn't force an upgrade so my 1st generation player wasn't replaced until Christmas of '99.

My 2nd DVD player upgrade came in '02. The original releases of Bedazzled & Planet of the Apes were both Nuon enhanced DVDs. Nuon enchanced DVDs didn't force an upgrade, but I just had to play Tempest 3000.

It's not only hardware that has needed to be upgraded over DVD's decade long run. Last month I repurchased Stargate because my 1st generation disc is double-sided single-layer which means I had to flip the disc half way through, a pain in the a** that DVD's dual-layer evolution resolved. I also repurchased Waterworld because the DVD-ROM in my Mac couldn't read the 1st generation disc for some reason.

Super DVD would require a player upgrade just like previous iterations of DVD, but most of those could again be made via attrition. Blu-ray also requires a player upgrade. IMO the viability of Super DVD would come down to cost & consumer reluctance to let go of DVD. If support for Super DVD can be added to DVD players without increasing the cost of players or discs Blu-ray could quickly be history. View
157 days 22 hours ago
No, actually Bladestar is being rational while you reek of something more suited to the next tab.

The last refresh to the DVD format was the addition of DVD+R/DVD+RW. There isn't a single 1st generation DVD player that can read this format and hardware iterations as recent as the PS2 have trouble with it depending on the brand of disc and how it was recorded.

Fact is the original single layer DVD that was introduced in 1993 has already undergone two extreme evolutionary changes (DVD DL and DVD+R/DVD+RW) yet survives to this day as the dominant media format for video distribution.

Consumers aren't exactly beating a path to Sony's door for Blu-ray now that HD DVD is out of the way, so why are you so quick to discount DVD undergoing a third extreme evolutionary change (Super DVD) to remain the dominant media format for video distribution? View
158 days 7 hours ago
360's 1.8 million unit head start has dwindled to 3/4 million in 18 months, I wouldn't exactly call that winning. View
164 days 12 hours ago
This virus is "currently being distributed from a hacker website" and "the user must download and open the Trojan horse in order to become infected."

I thought a virus was malicious code that was installed without your consent, looks to me like you have to actually seek this one out. Seems more like malware to me than a virus. View
165 days ago
PS3: $399
MSG4: $59

Falling asleep in the middle of Act 3 & not waking up the next morning in a panic: Priceless View
165 days ago
I'd wanted a 360 for the past year, but MS let RRoD become so pervasive that I began to view the 360 as disposable hardware at a premium price. I waited for MS to announce that the 360 had been re-engineered to remove all known defects, but instead they offered a warranty extension. Last week I simply threw in the towel & bought a PS3. View
167 days 18 hours ago
"...users will be able to rip DVDs that include copyright protection and lay it in the storage area to refine its video quality.” (Ken Kutaragi, President, Sony Computer Entertainment, 5/25/2005)

Interesting that Kutaragi was working on a DVD library solution that I actually want. Sony likely would have delivered on this promise if it weren't for their studio division. Makes me long for the good old days when Sony offered top of the line hardware & let us decide how many cases of copyright infringement we want to engage in. View
168 days 14 hours ago
I picked up one of the 80GB bundles last week so I'd be ready for BioShock come fall. This is THE game that had me considering the purchase of a 360, but MS hasn't really done enough to convince me that the reliability issues with 360 have actually been resolved.

Eventually I'll get around to playing MGS4, but right now I'm playing through my newly acquired PS3 library in alphabetical order which currently has me wondering how Midway managed to screw up a game with "Area 51" in the title. View
168 days 19 hours ago
Let's keep 4:

Little Big Planet
Killzone 2
Resident Evil 5
Resistance 2

and make the rest 360 exclusive :) View
170 days 12 hours ago
I think Wii is absorbing a lot of the sales that would have gone to PS3 had PS3 launched at $299.

MS has been playing a game of cat & mouse with Sony, but their Windows monopoly has created a corporate culture of arrogance that won't let them see that they are in fact the mouse & Sony is the cat.

IMO the longer the 360 remains at $350 the more reasonable it makes the PS3 appear $400. 360 is not going to be able to compete with PS3 over the long-term which is why it was imperative for MS to bleed Sony out while they had the chance, but that window of opportunity slammed shut the instant Warner announced they were switching to Blu-ray. View
170 days 17 hours ago
I don't see any reason for MS to be boasting about GTAIV sales given that GTAIV on 360 only outsold GTAIV on PS3 by 2:1 with an install base that's better than twice that of PS3. Frankly, had the 80GB SKU been reintroduced for GTAIV I bet GTAIV on PS3 would have outsold GTAIV on 360. View
170 days 17 hours ago
MS can't compete with Wii on price. The Arcade SKU is already €50 cheaper than the Wii in Europe & the Wii is still outselling 360 by 2:1. I doubt things will be any different on our side of the Atlantic. View
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