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Question of the Day: How do you normally pay for purchases in stores?
PS3 in a Death Spiral
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doobiwan
Executive Member
Dude, that should seriously be your signature!
Lol ye it will be better than asking boys to smile and wave at me.
WebhostingTalk
Expert Member
Highflyer_GP
Honorary Master
It's the most basic concept (after binary) in electronics.
You don't know bit from byte, but you know that P$3 > 360?
So it is bits that they advertising and not bytes?
Highflyer_GP
Honorary Master
Yeah Telkom advertises kbits, divide by 8 to get kbytes. Technically that's the way, but practically you actually divide by about 10 due to overheads.
diabolus
Executive Member
JK8 said:
In South Africa you can safely assume the denomiation which will inflate the speed to a large value so it sounds faster than it is
. So when in doubt, just think "this is South Africa, what's the odds that we will be getting 384 kiloBYTES per second speeds if they can give us 384 kiloBITS per second at the same crazy price?"384 kilobytes = 3072 kilobits = 3 Mbits . Trust me, they will advertise it as 3 Mbits, not 384 kiloBytes , MEGA sounds alot faster than KILO
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Roman4604
Executive Member
I dont need to, its obvious you can't buy a smart/knowledgeable person's opinion. Given the choice, it would seem most dev houses would prefer to take on a X360 project than a PS3 one. Sure Sony could throw humungus amounts of cash at them, however a business unit thats already loosing money hand-over-fist on hardware is not going to be able to sustain subsidising the sw development as well.
No I'm a fan of rational, intelligent decision making.
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Add the Blue ray disc to the X360 and see whats the price then! Sony will bring out the cheaper version at a later date! Smaller drive etc. Sony will not die they will fix it IMHO. The winner will be the one that is most compatible with PC functions and interfacing on the end IMHO.
Roman4604
Executive Member
If you believe spelling = intelligence, I've fixed it for your benefit.In the eye of the beholder, Want to buy a bigger mirror?
You do realise were talking about "GAMES" consoles ... thought the games would actually get a mention in deciding the winner.
Adeptus Mechanicus
Expert Member
Dunno if that is even relevant anymore (for the most part). Recently there have been reports of developers of previously Sony exclusive game series planning to release on both PS3 and 360 (most notable rumors are Final Fantasy and Tekken)
If the above is true, it means that not only are gamers loosing faith in Sony, but so too are the game developers. Personally i would love to see it happen...i've been far too annoyed by exclusive titles in the previous gen.
Retro
Senior Member
Are you serious??? Do you actually believe that or are you just typing anything that comes into your head?
The original Xbox was sold at a loss and also the 360. Everybody knows that! Oh, except you...
Well Sony has declared rumble functionality a "last generation" feature
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157501
Riiiiiiight....
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157501
Riiiiiiight....
curiouswanderer
Expert Member
Well that's why XBOX 360 came out with an external HD-DVD drive. If HD-DVD fails, they change to Blu-Ray. Still offers the same HD functionality without changing the design of the console. If Sony would change their Blu-Ray to DVD then it will cost them a lot of money to change it. MS basically offers an option to choose; PS3 forces the format on you.
The PS3 will really only become a good console in around 3 years time when developers actually know how to program effectively for the Cell CPU and costs of developing software for the PS3 is lowered. Unfortunately by the time, the next gen of consoles by Nintendo and MS will be out which will prob be superior than the PS3.