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Nah, I'm all for competition for Apple but Sony?

Their PSP is behind the DS. The PS3 is behind the Xbox and Wii. The Walkman is behind the iPod. I'd rather they focus on them machines before they dilute the market further.
It's like when the PSP and PS3 came out, Sony touted them as media machines for so long yet what gamers wanted was *trumpets!* games. When they focussed on games they did very well and started to turn their low sales around.

In other words... give us a PSP-4000 :p.

Indeed. It's Microsoft that's going to have a "hard time competing" against the PS3, which gives you Blu-ray, Bluetooth, built-in wireless, and free network gaming at the same price as the Xbox.
No sir that's incorrect.
The cheapest Xbox is £100. The cheapest PS3 is £260.
The most expensive Xbox is £180. The most expensive PS3 is £260.
 
The devices will reportedly be designed to take advantage of Sony long-standing leadership position in mobile gaming while also leveraging the company's new media service due for launch this month as a competitor to Apple's iTunes Store.
I lol'd

DS - 127 million sold as of today
PSP - 56 million sold as of today

DS - Games that have sold a million or over - 100
PSP - Games the have sold a million or over - 34

http://vgchartz.com/

The DS also has the the best library of games than ANY other handheld on the market by far.

Honestly, I think Sony should rethink their strategy. They failed miserably against Nintendo and now they are trying to go after Apple and will likely see the same fate. Sony just doesn't learn from their mistakes. They price the PS3 at $600, learn and drop the price to an actually affordable $300. But then they pull the same mistake twice with the PSPgo and instead actually enhancing something on it they ripped out the UMD slot so NONE of your previous games will work and they don't bother adding a second analog stick. Oh and they price it at $250. What a joke. They've lost billions on the PS3 and are still selling it at a loss(granted Microsoft lost billions on the 360 because of how many they've had to replace but that's another story). They screwed the pooch big time this time around.
 
Here are some features the iPad Killer needs:

Full HD Screen running Windows 7 64bit version, multitouch display

Numerous blue and red LEDs as indicator lights

Black, glossy bezzel

Printer Port

Flash
...

If anybody finds sarcasm, you can keep it ;)
 
Good for you, i just had my FIFTH Red Ring.

Dear Xbox Customer,

Would you rate your Xbox experience as:

( ) So Awesome You'll Shave Your Head and Legally Change Your Name to J
( ) Beyond Excellent
( ) Grrrrrrreat!
( ) Extremely Satisfying

Your feedback is appreciated!

Microsoft
 
Ok, so Apple, the sole proprietor of OSX sells more machines than HP or Dell alone.

Not.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/acer-eclipsed-dell-and-apple/

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2258118/pc-market-recovers-europe


http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-a...Strengthened-Global-PC-Market-in-2009-249339/
"Apple followed in fifth place,"


Not even true in the over $1K market since the NPD number do not include direct sales and significant fraction of business computers are sold direct.

Apple does manage to sell more computers than the second tier vendors, but to even remotely make them out to be the dominant unit seller is whacked. You have been in the Mac rumor reality distortion field for too long.
 
I bet Microsoft will pump out yet another version of Halo to try to keep the dream alive.


I hate to admit... I preordered Reach... I'm such a Halo fangirl. Which is odd, because the only games I have for the 360 are the Halo series, Fable 2, Mass Effect 1 & 2, and Left4Dead 1 & 2. For my PS3, I have like a couple dozen games. If I have to choose; like with BioShock 2 or FF13, I always pick the PS3.


LagunaSol said:
Dear Xbox Customer,

Would you rate your Xbox experience as:

( ) So Awesome You'll Shave Your Head and Legally Change Your Name to J
( ) Beyond Excellent
( ) Grrrrrrreat!
( ) Extremely Satisfying

Your feedback is appreciated!

Microsoft

LOLz


Nah, I'm all for competition for Apple but Sony?

Their PSP is behind the DS. The PS3 is behind the Xbox and Wii. The Walkman is behind the iPod. I'd rather they focus on them machines before they dilute the market further.
It's like when the PSP and PS3 came out, Sony touted them as media machines for so long yet what gamers wanted was *trumpets!* games. When they focussed on games they did very well and started to turn their low sales around.

In other words... give us a PSP-4000 :p.


No sir that's incorrect.
The cheapest Xbox is £100. The cheapest PS3 is £260.
The most expensive Xbox is £180. The most expensive PS3 is £260.


A) The PS3 is generally leading monthly sales now.
B) In the US the cheapest 360 is $199, it has no HDD (add $100 for a 60gb vs PS3's 120gb), so $299 for a 360 with a HDD vs $299 for a PS3.
 
Smart move by Sony, they should have a clear advantage over the iphone in Japan and have the potential to attract a desent chunk of people, looking for more then the casual games available for the iphone, in other countries. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
 
Millions of bad iMacs? O RLY???

Link please?

(I just purchased two new iMacs for family members (one 27", one 22"). No display issue with either one.)



Of course. If you'd like to peruse my comment history you'd see plenty of examples.

What you're trying to employ is something called the "strawman technique." You're inventing a phony position on my behalf so you can bash it. Alas, I don't think that Apple is perfect, nor anywhere close to perfection. But they sure are a lot better than the alternatives (Dell, Microsoft, etc.).

Jesus Christ - stop this stupid argument, will you.

If I may share my personal experience with you: I'm still using my Powerbook G4 (you know, how old that is).

I bought four (repeat 4) Core Duo 17" iMacs in 2006. I have a personal failure rate of 75% after 2.5 years. One machine is still in good condition.

Second one started vertical line syndrome with a year of age. Currently I have >50 vertical lines.

Third one just blew up after 1.5 years of usage. I still keep it, I I ever find the time to reuse the display in another machine.

Fourth one not only has annoying vertical line syndrome (started after 2 years of use) but since half a year developed a real freaky behaviour. The first 30 minutes after turning on, the right fifth of the display remains white. All of a sudden display returns to normal (i.e. solely vertically striped) mode.

So given my personal failure rate of 75% I refuse to buy an iMac ever again. Oh - lied. Had to buy a first gen aluminium iMac. But this one was only once booted in Leopard to use Boot Camp an put Vista on it - so Apple won't mess with my firmware again.

So could we return on topic?

Yeah - all hail to a new Sony product. Hopefully it will work.
 
I hate to admit... I preordered Reach... I'm such a Halo fangirl. Which is odd, because the only games I have for the 360 are the Halo series, Fable 2, Mass Effect 1 & 2, and Left4Dead 1 & 2. For my PS3, I have like a couple dozen games. If I have to choose; like with BioShock 2 or FF13, I always pick the PS3.

Thats kinda the opposite of what i do lol, when i pick multi-platform its always on 360, better frame rates, sharper images. ps3 has some great exclusives though!
 
Indeed. It's Microsoft that's going to have a "hard time competing" against the PS3, which gives you Blu-ray, Bluetooth, built-in wireless, and free network gaming at the same price as the Xbox.

I bet Microsoft will pump out yet another version of Halo to try to keep the dream alive.

As an owner of a Wii and a XBox 360 I can tell you from my personal experience: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GAMES.

No Halo needed. Alan Wake will be cool :D

And the oh so successful Wii: I just found out, that I never really considered buying a Wii game. Strange, isn't it.

But, to support you a little: God of War 3 will be cool and I'm really full of envy. But the first generation PSN issues, are they solved now?
 
Threads like this are pretty pointless until we have specs and/or pictures of the device.

It's not hard to guess that chances are it'll be yet another [Apple device]-killer that we won't be hearing about anymore two weeks past its release.

Nothing can touch Apple in terms of UI, design, and software ecosystem in the first place, so right off the bat it doesn't look too promising for Sony.
 
Nah, I'm all for competition for Apple but Sony?

Their PSP is behind the DS. The PS3 is behind the Xbox and Wii. The Walkman is behind the iPod. I'd rather they focus on them machines before they dilute the market further.
It's like when the PSP and PS3 came out, Sony touted them as media machines for so long yet what gamers wanted was *trumpets!* games. When they focussed on games they did very well and started to turn their low sales around.

In other words... give us a PSP-4000 :p.


No sir that's incorrect.
The cheapest Xbox is £100. The cheapest PS3 is £260.
The most expensive Xbox is £180. The most expensive PS3 is £260.

Well the PS3 is ahead of Apple TV as a "Media Center". Then again Apple TV is last in line, so... anyways, forget it.
 
What a joke! Sony or Nintendo has nothing to worry about! I love my iPhone and will love my iPad even more, but they will never replace my PSP or DSi! Sony needs to just release the PSP2 and let Apple do what they do...

With all that said, gaming on my iPhone is fun. I buy a bunch of games from the Appstore. But I can't play Pokemon: Heart Gold or God Of War: Chains of Olympus on my iPhone!! :cool:
 
Which are actually considered the best products of their kind. It's amazing how you can separate yourself from reality like that.

Considered "the best" by whom? Apple fanboys. Of course they are THE best. Sure.
 
As an owner of a Wii and a XBox 360 I can tell you from my personal experience: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GAMES.

And the oh so successful Wii: I just found out, that I never really considered buying a Wii game. Strange, isn't it.
Yes, it is strange because here a few quality games that you are missing out on:
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Little King's Story
Muramasa The Demon Blade
Madworld
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Punch Out!!
Boom Blox
Wario Land: Shake It
Mario Kart Wii
Excitebots
de Blob
Zack & Wiki

Wiiware games such as:
Nyxquest Kindred Spirits
Tetris Party
Lost Winds
Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias
World of Goo

As well as games coming out later this year including:
Monster Hunter Tri
Red Steel 2
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Xenoblade
Metroid Other M
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Zelda Wii

But yeah, if it's all about the games then you should buy some. ;)
 
I hate to admit... I preordered Reach... I'm such a Halo fangirl. Which is odd, because the only games I have for the 360 are the Halo series, Fable 2, Mass Effect 1 & 2, and Left4Dead 1 & 2. For my PS3, I have like a couple dozen games. If I have to choose; like with BioShock 2 or FF13, I always pick the PS3.

Thats kinda the opposite of what i do lol, when i pick multi-platform its always on 360, better frame rates, sharper images. ps3 has some great exclusives though!

Yeah FF13 is going be better on the PS3! :)
 
In other words... give us a PSP-4000 :p.

I got a psp-3000, I won't be touching a psp-4000 at all. Now that you've brought it up, I should look at selling my psp-3000. It's been totally replaced with the iPhone.
 
B) In the US the cheapest 360 is $199, it has no HDD (add $100 for a 60gb vs PS3's 120gb), so $299 for a 360 with a HDD vs $299 for a PS3.

I've made do with just a 20gb drive which I was given for free, but lets not throw opinion into the ring. It's still much cheaper to start gaming on the Xbox. Over here you also get a free bunch of arcade games as standard, some shops also throw in extra controllers and games. Whereas the PS3 comes with no free games unless the shop does, and perusing the Game website you don't get any extras
 
40% failure rate says otherwise...

It has nothing to do with experience. I have one of the first XBOX 360 and it still runs like Swiss clock. It's sad that so much had defects, but it's still great. Great performance and a lot of good games. Stop trolling.
 
It's not that Sony is bad, its just that every thing they make you can get a different product thats 10x better for the same exact price, ...

No sir,, no one ever came close to Sony portable DAT players. Mine was one of the best products (and last Sony product) I have ever owned.
 
Yes, it is strange because here a few quality games that you are missing out on:
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Little King's Story
Muramasa The Demon Blade
Madworld
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Punch Out!!
Super Paper Mario
Boom Blox
Wario Land: Shake It
Mario Kart Wii
de Blob
Zack & Wiki

Wiiware games such as:
Nyxquest Kindred Spirits
Tetris Party
Lost Winds
Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias
World of Goo

As well as games coming out later this year including:
Monster Hunter Tri
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
Metroid Other M
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Zelda Wii

But yeah, if it's all about the games then you should buy some. ;)

Thanx for that comprehensive list. I have to admit, I considered some of them (especially Madworld) - but, hmmmm, how to put it...

...I just found out I'm not into that Mario/Zelda stuff anymore. Great games they may be (and I won't argue about that, as it's a matter of taste), but not my style. YMMV.

I'd rather use Street Fighter IV, Forza 3, Dantes Inferno or BioShock 2 currently. Just my taste. As I said, YMMV, so thanks for that list. Maybe I will have some of those titles as rentals in the near future. :D
 
As an owner of a Wii and a XBox 360 I can tell you from my personal experience: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GAMES.

Uncharted 2 & Little Big Planet.

The days of the PS3 having no good games are over. Microsoft has only one arrow left in their quiver in this battle, and that's XBL (which they charge for). Sony seems to have the clear upper hand going forward.

And the oh so successful Wii: I just found out, that I never really considered buying a Wii game. Strange, isn't it.

I own a Wii and a bunch of games (and many hundreds of fun gaming with the family and solo), but I've lost interest in the little fella since I got the PS3. If Nintendo thinks they can keep rolling with this gen without a serious hardware update they're deluded.

But, to support you a little: God of War 3 will be cool and I'm really full of envy.

Me, I wish I had L4D2 for PS3. Ah well.

But the first generation PSN issues, are they solved now?

I dunno, I have the Slim. My understanding is the problem has been resolved - a calendar issue with the processor (apparently the same one that killed the Zune last year?).
 
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