Posts by Peter 48

Microsoft backtracks Ballmer's Blu-per

get real

I love these "price comparisons" that PS3 fanboys always dig up:

Xbox 360 £160 + wifi £40 + 512mb memory £40 + live for one year £35 = £275

how about £189 for the elite (120gb hdd) and a cable to the router £10. total package to get online and play all the games available:£199. If you want to play online you can CHOOSE to pay for the gold account. Not everybody wants to (I paid for a gold account and spent less than 20 hours playing online in a year). You can CHOOSE to use WIFI (at least with the 360 you get the N standard, unlike the PS3). Where is the inclusive headset for the PS3? The 360 also supports USB drives. The 360 can also output 1080p (not that you would know the difference to 720p anyway unless your tv is over 40 inches). Seriously, As a games console there is no real difference between the two, except that one is cheaper and the other has a bluray player.

DVD storage is still more than enough, the problem developers have is that they can't have mandatory installs which would make their lives a lot easier. The rest is down to efficient compression of graphics and audio. If you have 25GB to play with, why would you bother compressing the files much?

Microsoft responds to Xbox's 54% failure rate

Get your facts straight

AC - your numbers are all off - Ms didn't report global sales figures of 12million until September 2007 - nearly 1 year after the PS3 was released (6 months in Europe). Sales figures are also currently at approx 24 million for PS3 and 32Million for 360. So MS have actually, at worst, maintained their lead, and going by the latest annual sales figures, they have actually sold more consoles globally than the PS3, so theoretically they are increasing the lead, although with the release of the PS3 slim that should finally change. Sony also doesn't report sales to consumers, it reports sales to retail, which is the same as MS's shipping figures. And I seriously doubt there are that many people who would rather throw their console away than get it repaired for free.

Furthermore, Games sales are almost always in 360's favour, by a considerable margin, including GTA 4, which has sold 7 million for the 360 and 5 million for the PS3. Which reflects a larger gamer install base for the 360 than the PS3.

And sure, the 360 elite is now the same price as the PS3 slim, but the arcade is still significantly cheaper.

Apple bars Google's Voice from iPhone

where are the EU regulators when you need them?

Seriously, could Apple even try and be more fascist and anti competitive? It just amazes me what the apple loyalists will put up with. I am just waiting for the day that Mr Jobs demands your first born's life if you want the latest iwidget.

Gaming exec calls for videogame price hike

how to kill a market in one move

If you follow his logic, we would all be paying £50,000 for a new car, because the development cost and technology inside has increased considerably. Seriously, does this guy understand anything about economics? If you want to make sure you only sell 100k copies of a game, hike the price to £75. or drop the price to 1/3 (£25) and sell 1 million copies. One brings a revenue of £7.5 million, the other £25 million. Which would you prefer? The movie industry tried that with Bluray, and look where it got them.