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Re: [News] PlayStation 3 Could Win Owing to Blu-Ray, XBox360 Alienates Foreigners

  • Subject: Re: [News] PlayStation 3 Could Win Owing to Blu-Ray, XBox360 Alienates Foreigners
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 12:56:15 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1351256.ybuxZRhfdy@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Pachter: PS3 Will Win Via Blu-Ray
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It takes a special kind of guy to want to write 207 page
> | reports for a living. A man of vision. A man of honor.
> `----
> 
> http://kotaku.com/gaming/the-pachter-factor/pachter-ps3-will-win-via-blu+ray-258309.php

.----
| In his 2007 state of the industry report, our favorite(sic) analyst
| suggests that motion picture studios and not we, the gaming public,
| will ultimately decide the winner of this round of the console wars.
`----

It's pretty much like the MP/RI/AA currently thinking that they decide
the future direction of home computing, and look at the abysmal failure
*that* experiment has turned out to be so far.

But the self appointed industry police will march onwards regardless, in
their arrogant obsession with greed, much like the software patent
lobbyists, although I'm happy to report *that* particular crime-family
may have suffered a fatal legal setback (and oh the irony, all thanks to
their pet monkey Microsoft's victory in court).

With the revelation that HD-DVD has been irrevocably hacked (and *again*
ironically thanks to Microsoft), that just leaves the superior
"protection (racket)" features of Bluray (BD+ and ROM Mark) to securely
line the "association's" pockets, so naturally they will favour Bluray
and leave HD-DVD to languish. It's Betamax all over again:

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/05/microsoft-hd-dvd-might-be-next-betamax-switch-to-blu-ray-sti/

And all that's before you consider what a piece of junk the eXb0rks
really is, from a technical standpoint. They're noisy, have crap audio,
overheat - causing the infamous Red Ring of DeathÂ, and have the nasty
habit of eating discs for breakfast:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/26/xbox-360-elite-vs-classic-the-test/
http://loot-ninja.com/2007/04/29/xbox-360-elite-prone-to-same-problems-as-others/

And this, folks, is their *EliteÂ* model!

As for non-American's being alienated by lack of eXb0rks services, that
would appear to be the *least* of their problems.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

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