sony's rising heat.
sony is in trouble. no not financially. financially theyre doing wonderfull with their commercial tvs and the like. their game division however is in true and significant trouble. everything in the news as of late corresponding to sony has been bad news. from the ripping of the emotion engine from europe ps3s to phill harrison doing damage control interviews and even rumors turning out to be true. what rumors you say? well, when the ps3 first showed up on the e3 floor people were upset at the lack of rumble. sony claimed it would interfere with their new motion sensor and denied it had anything to do with immersion techs lawsuit leveled right at sony's head. now it turns out it was the lawsuit after all. in a recent interview one of sony's head peoples spoke saying "i've used the rumble and honestly, i don't miss it and it's not something we are worried about losing." oh really? is that why you're looking into putting it back into controllers with immersion's permission? if they do indeed put it back in it will only lead to more negative press as people who bought the ps3 controller originally will have to upgrade for rumble. sony better stop the bleeding soon or they won't be able to ever recover.
the ps3 isnt the only problem sony has, the psp is doing very poorly at this point. there are now more active dses in operation than there are 360's. the psp itself is being outsold FIVE TO ONE! why is this the case?! how can the largely inferior BY FAR ds wallop the super portable so bad? price point namely.
when people defend the psp the only thing they can usually say is that it play movies and music. so does a video ipod! AND it doesnt use umds which are being phased out slowly but surely! movie studios are even cutting back on psp umd production ten fold.
so lets do the math,
video ipod 30 gig - 249.99$ (price from apples website.)
psp and enough 4 gig sticks to equal 32 gigs. 838$
(4 gig stick prices taken from newegg.com, i did not include shipping and handling charges.)
bad news..... for the price of a psp and the sticks required to equal a little over a 30 gig video ipod you could buy......
totals will be in ( )
a video ipod 249.99
a ds lite 129.99 (379.98 )
a skin for ds lite 14.99 (394.97)
two games for the ds at 34 a piece (462.97)
might as well throw in a wii 249.99 (712.96)
ya know what? throw in a wii game too at 49.99 (762.95)
so for the price of a psp and enough sticks to equal a video ipod 30 gig you can buy a portable system, 2 games for it, a console, a game for the console, a skin to trick out your portable, and more than enough money to order some pizzas on the way home.
ive always known the ds lite had the upper hand even when faced with superior odds, if youll remember the original gameboy went against the atari lynx.... which was color..... AND BACKLIT! the guys behind the atari lynx were laughing at the gameboy at a convention... they never wouldve guessed a year later they wouldnt have anything to laugh about.
sony, come close..... you've done great with the ps1 and 2. you kicked MAJOR kester and you didnt let up from one generation to the next. most importantly, you gave us what we wanted, a cheap, functionable system with oodles and oodles of great games, being somewhat of a nintendo fan guy myself i cant say anything ill of the ps2 as it still sits upon my shelf proudly next to the wii with ff12 spinning away in it. you need to go back to the good ole days and give us what we want, not what you think we want. nintendo did that with the 64 and cube and look where it got them! with the wii theyve learned their lesson.... i think its time you followed suit and regained your former glory. thats right, youre not on top anymore.....deal with it and get yourself back up the hill before nintendo makes themselves comfortable up there with the 360.
till the next time, keep on playin gamers!
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