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Miles Baker
DieHard
Vic
66 Mustang GT Convertible, 55 Chevy Bel Air, 69 Firebird 455, 70 Dodge Challenger, 69 Corvette Convertible
Posts: 583
Reg: 08-2005
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Who cares. Get em all. That way you never have to check anything at the video shop.
The average age of a console buyer now is 28. Consoles are being sold to people who don't live with their parents, and don't care about waiting 6 months til it drops a lousy hundred bucks.
Anyone who bets against Sony eventually winning is nuts. People said this about the PS2 - oh, the xbox is coming, and sega has that thing, and the nintendo - oh the nintendo! And look what happened. They still sell truckloads of PS2s every month.
PS3 is now starting to catch up. Latest figures:
360: 10.8M
Wii: 5.2M
PS3: 2.3M
By the end of this year I reckon PS3 will be way out in front. Nobody's buying 360s any more.
Don't get me wrong, I own a 360 too and I think it's OK. But it doesn't come with HDMI or HDDVD, the games are almost all native 720 and probably always will be, it's noisy as hell, the component output doesn't even output proper 1080p that my projector can recognise, they released it with a 20GB HDD, and most weeks it sits idle waiting for a new game to come out. That and the genuine accessories SUCK. Their rechargeable batteries last about 3 months before they don't recharge right any more.
Sony started slow but they know how to win. |
Miles Baker
DieHard
Vic
66 Mustang GT Convertible, 55 Chevy Bel Air, 69 Firebird 455, 70 Dodge Challenger, 69 Corvette Convertible
Posts: 584
Reg: 08-2005
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Oh, and when the hell are they going to start stocking hddvd and bluray PC drives in Australia? |
Daniel Czechowski
Goo Roo
Western Australia
Soarer GT-T
Posts: 2583
Reg: 07-2005
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I woudln't worry about having a separate drive for HD-DVD and Blueray, surely there will be a unit released soon that will play all formats, just will take time. |
Leon Wright
DieHard
WA
V8 UZZ31
Posts: 587
Reg: 08-2006
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Fairly certain something is already in development Daniel, just can't remember where i read the article!! |
James Doughton
Tinkerer
nsw
SC400 Soarer limited v8
Posts: 14
Reg: 03-2007
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i heard a group from panasonic are in development. How's things DAN. Going to vendor show??? |
Daniel Trivuncevic
DieHard
NSW
TT
Posts: 656
Reg: 07-2005
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not all sony titles are even running 1080P, a lot of the launch titles dont support it!..
360 released their HD-DVD player the other day..a cool $250..
and yea Jimmy DEFINITELY going to vendor! haha |
James Doughton
Tinkerer
nsw
SC400 Soarer limited v8
Posts: 15
Reg: 03-2007
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i think ps3 accessories look like 3rd party stuff. They have gone very cheap on this. |
Miles Baker
DieHard
Vic
66 Mustang GT Convertible, 55 Chevy Bel Air, 69 Firebird 455, 70 Dodge Challenger, 69 Corvette Convertible
Posts: 587
Reg: 08-2005
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Yeah but 360 + HDDVD is almost the price of ps3, without HDMI and HDDVD doesnt look like its winning in the US. Havent looked lately tho. |
Roger Costello
TryHard
WA
UZZ31 V8 Limited, UZZ32 no 867
Posts: 377
Reg: 07-2005
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The build quality on the latest 360's is a bit frightening. Microsoft seem to be pushing the outsourced manufacturers too hard to get costs down. One advantage of a release run PS3 is they are built to a standard in Japan not to a contract price that is dropping 10% per quarter in China. I know over time this may all change but Sony have learnt the hard way that reliability is important in first adopter sales otherwise the word of mouth can be catastrophic.
My 9 year old thinks her PS3 is "excellent", I'm just glad the fan is quiet and it plays Sonic the Hedgehog without issues. She also like Motor Storm which while more realistic than Mario Cart on her Nintendo DS is probably not the best driver training I've seen. At least I have seven years before she wants the keys to the Active.
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Maurice Diggler
Goo Roo
Victoria
Twin Turbo
Posts: 1241
Reg: 06-2006
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Miles Baker wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 07:39 am:HDDVD doesnt look like its winning in the US. Havent looked lately tho.
The porn industry has apparently selected HD-DVD as it's format of choice.  The same thing happened back in the old days when they chose VHS, look how good VHS did. hehehe. |
Nayr Civoknar
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ30
Posts: 148
Reg: 01-2007
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porn has already been printed on blu ray. and before you say "oh but but sony arent allowing it zomg!" thats not true, they simply arent supporting the fact that its on there. they arent preventing it from happening
and back when VHS and betamax was around, high speed internet wasnt as abundant as it is now
i dont see porn having much of an influence on the winner of this war
edit: anyhow, here is just one company going with blu ray,
LOS ANGELES — U.S. adult film maker Digital Playground on Thursday said it will throw its support behind Sony Corp.'s (SNE) high definition Blu-ray format, adding spice to the multibillion-dollar standards war raging in Hollywood.
and there are more  |
Maurice Diggler
Goo Roo
Victoria
Twin Turbo
Posts: 1243
Reg: 06-2006
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Clearly I was joking noob haha, I don't know much about both Blu-Ray and HD DVD except that it'll take time to decide a clear winner.
PS: Xbox > Nayr |
Daniel Czechowski
Goo Roo
Western Australia
Soarer GT-T
Posts: 2589
Reg: 07-2005
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Hmmm, don't know about you guys, I have only ever seen pron on VHS (or DVD) for that matter, rented from a video store when we were away from home. Must have been the titles we borrowed coz they all sucked! None of the five movies were real, all simulated. Give me the internet realism anyday!!!
Oh and yeah, Nayr's got a point, pron is not going to be the decisive factor... |
Greg Nikitiuk
Goo Roo
Vic
Celsior
Posts: 1007
Reg: 07-2005
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Daniel Czechowski wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 06:29 pm:they all sucked
Daniel, there are other titles available not just oral action |
Daniel Czechowski
Goo Roo
Western Australia
Soarer GT-T
Posts: 2596
Reg: 07-2005
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Greg Nikitiuk wrote on Friday, March 30, 2007 - 07:33 pm:Daniel, there are other titles available not just oral action
Pardon the pun There wasn't just oral action, but that was even so crap you didn't even see errrr, the detail  |
Greg Nikitiuk
Goo Roo
Vic
Celsior
Posts: 1019
Reg: 07-2005
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