Re: The Car Crash of a launch that will be the PS3s

In article <7orzf.9$LT6.693@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, blig_murk@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
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>Sony is headed for a carcrash of a launch. Looks like one, smells like
>one. The PS3 has so many problems already, and it hasn't even hit store
>shelves yet. 'Pony Gaystation Wee' as I like to call it, has so much to
>prove and so little time.
>
>Here is the evidence:
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>1. Analysts predict the PeeShitWee is going to cost upwards of $500.
>Holy Crap! The 3D0 launched at $799, and bombed. While not as high, this
>proves that a console cannot simply launch at whatever price the maker
>thinks. There has to be a maximum, and $399 seems to be it. See how the
>Saturn bombed. The GayStation and the Gaystation Poo launched much
>cheaper and were a success as a result. Sega failed miserably. Some
>developers beleive it wil cost $700. The proof that the Pretty Shitty
>Three will cost more than the market can take is that the Pioneer and
>Saumsung Blu-Ray players are costing upwards of $1000!
>Holy Crap! The Pretty Shitty Gaystation Wee is far more complex and
>expensive than a bog standard media playing box! I expertly predict that
>the Pissy*** Thr33 will cost $500 after discount from Pony.
>
>2. Games developers are complaining about the system.
>Oh dear. The wonderful Cell processor is holding back development.
>Developers are claiming that it is difficult to get to grips with, all
>that paralell processing power for floating point, and a huge bottleneck
>between it and the GPU. That and limited ram (256 system ram total vs
>up to 512mb on the 360). It has no fast framebuffer, which was
>practically the saviour of the PS2, and has boosted the 360s GPU
>performance way beyond the PShit3's.
>Finally, the Cell seems to limit the types of game code that can be run.
>Yeah, you can create great fixed angle cinematic sequences that require
>no AI, no physics, no dynamic calculating - but what about games? No -
>AI requires integers as well as floating point, and while the Pshit3 can
>do loads of FP calcs per second, it can't do much else. it's just got
>the one general purpose CPU, one that's handling everything else in the
>game. Can anyone spell BOTTLENECK???
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>3. Blu-Ray. It's going to hold back the Pshit3.
>It's an expensive gamble, and SOny is bolting out of the gates before
>the starters gun was fired. By using the Pshit3 as a trojan horse for
>another division in the company, Pony have forgotten that the only
>reason DVD boosted the PooShatoo, was that it launched 2-3 years into
>the life of the format. DVD was also a unversal format, in that everyone
>who had a TV could use it to their advantage. Blu-Ray, and by extension,
>HD-DVD do not have this kind of potential. You need to spend thousands
>to get in on the act, and HDTV penetration globally is miniscule. Sure,
>the market will grow as content expands, but until all content is High
>Defenition, there will be many many people who cannot and wont upgrade.
>Not only that, but there is a competing brand, which DVD didn't have to
>contend with. It was seen as the upgrade to VHS, rather than competitor
>to.
>So limited market for the format means limited sales, which means
>PshitWee will be stuck with a crappy BD-ROM drive that put the price up,
>delayed the console, and ultimately dragged it down.
>
>4. No coherent online strategy.
>Sure, Sony claims they have more gamers online - but it's a nightmare.
>Anyone ever tried inviting a friend to play a game they are not
>presently playing? You have to organise it via phone, then all log in.
>If you have just bought the game, you need to sign up and register,
>possibly pay a sub. Then you can play. All this is negated with XBOX
>live, and XBOX 360 shows how Online SHOULD be done.
>Sony has no such system, and I very much doubt ever will.
>
>5. Lack of Games.
>Predictions are already being made that the system will ahve very few
>launch titles. While there are hundreds, if not thousands in
>development, the system is slow and complex to develop for. As was the
>case with the Pony Pretty*** Poo, it will launch with virtually no must
>have games. All the big hitters will follow 12-18 months later.
>So with virtualy no compelling reasons beyond a hyped up, bottlenecked
>CPU, and an expensive disk drive that has no content to play, the
>PShitWee will simply sit on shelves.
>6. Silcone yeilds.
>yes, we all know that IBM is the culprit in both Microsoft and Apple's
>problems with getting high-end systems out. The PowerMac is dead thanks
>to IBM failing to get anywhere near as many PowerPC cpus fabbed as they
>need to supply demand.
>Microsoft suffered as a result of the same issues. The PowerPC does not
>do well over 2ghz and the CPUs of the 360 goes to prove that this can
>hit you hard.
>But Sony have gone further and designed a far more complex system than
>simply dual-core/triple core. They have gone for 8 co-processors AND a
>3.2 ghz CPU. Can anyone say LOW SILICON YEILD? If you think the problems
>Microsoft are having are serious, consider just how problematic the Cell
>is going to be to get into mass production???? Oh my god, it's going to
>be DISASTEROUS.
>So to add to the lack of compelling reasons to own a Pretty*** Three at
>launch, when they finally get the must-have games out, there will be no
>systems available to play them on, as Sony cant manufacture them!
>Predictably, Sony will only launch one territory at a time, so it will
>be Q4 2007 before anyone in Europe gets to see it! And only then will
>the games start coming through. It wont be until 2008 that the PShit3
>will be worth buying.
>That's a full 2 years after the XBOX 360 launched, which is just ramping
>up production, has unprecedented demand, is not bogged down by expensive
>and cumbersome and unecessary Disk formats, has a strategy for online
>play, and actually has games worth playing OUT NOW.
>
>Sony will not win this war, they have neither the power or the will to
>do so. Going up against Microsoft is like trying to push over the Hoover
>Dam with nothing more than broomhandle.
>
>Sony is in major trouble Pending legal action accross the globe with
>Rootkits, allegations and subsequent proof of fraud with their movie
>reviews (Planting of fake positive reviews of movie-flops), - a
>dead-already format war, and a failing electronics division.
>
>What more evidence do you need?
>
>Buy an XBOX 360 now, or put your name down for one - or wait for the
>Revolution from Nintendo.
>
>Neither system will disappoint, unlike the Pshit3.


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