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Sony Execs Try to Justify PS3 Price
By: César A. Berardini - "Cesar"
Jun. 8th, 2006 6:10 pm
Speaking to Japanese news site Impress PC Watch, Ken Kutaragi addressed the high price of the PlayStation 3 and explained the new business model Sony is establishing with its next-generation console.
“Our message with the PS3 is clear: Hardware is our business” explained Kutaragi, claiming that selling a game console at a loss to make a profit with game royalties is a product of “the Nintendo Era.”
“The business model changes with the PS3. The PlayStation has become a computer and since you cannot raise the price of the software, you have to make a profit with the hardware.”
The head of Sony Computer Entertainment said that Sony will make the PS3 “a common platform, on which top programmers can realize their full potential."
We can’t imagine how a $599 console will become common but Ken is not the only Sony executive who’s is trying to convince everyone that with the PlayStation 3, you are not acquiring a videogame console but a supercomputer.
The CEP of Sony Corp., Sir Howard Stringer appeared last week at The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference to answer questions from Walt Mossberg.
Referring to the PlayStation 3, Stringer said that “it has more bells and whistles than a 747”. And then emphasized the capabilities of the Cell processor and explained the advantage Blu-ray Disc had over DVD and even HD-DVD when it comes to store high-definition movies.
"The reason it is expensive is that instead of us concentrating on making it playing games, something we have done in the past, the PS3 is designed to go somewhere else; the center of the living room."
Finally, Phil Harrison, the VP of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has also emphasized that the PlayStation 3 is more than a game console. Speaking to German newspaper Spiegel, Harrison said:
"We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play, watch films and browse the Web... The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC."
I wouldn’t go that far Phil, even if the PlayStation 3 comes loaded with Linux, we don’t think it will replace a personal computer anytime soon.
The message is clear. Sony knows the price for both models of the PlayStation 3 is high and what they are trying to do is justify the high price by convincing the consumers that you are getting a supercomputer.
The question is; do people need a supercomputer to play games and watch high-definition movies?
It sounds to me like they can't afford to sell it at a loss. Are they that bad off finacially? And what's with this "Nintendo Era" crap? They are still very much around. Do they really think people will throw out their pc (or mac) for the PS3? They finally admitted that they weren't focusing on making a gaming machine, and that could be their biggest mistake.
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Rob Zombie Bringing Another HalloweenIf something inside you desired another Halloween movie, allow yourself a brief moment of excitement. It was announced that Rob Zombie, director of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, will write and direct a new version of the classic:
"I think the story and the situation is scary. All it needed was someone to come in and to take a totally different approach to make it scary again. To me, that's the challenge and that's the fun. Everything that has come before does not figure into this one. That series is done".
Hasn't Rob Zombie proved that he can't make good(ones that make money) movies?
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Here is a vid showing off the engine.
http://xboxmovies.teamxbox.com/xbox-360-hi...ard-Definition/
I hear they are looking to use it for next gen consoles also.
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Check out this side by side comparison of real life pics and in engine shots from Crysis.
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She-Hulk #8 is a Civil War tie in. It shows what happened to the other members of the New Warriors, and shows that the government has been working on technology to combat the super powered humans. Not really essential unless you want the whole Civil War story.
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Spider-Man Will Have Four Villains
In an interview with the popular hypothetical periodical iF Magazine, Spider-Man 3 producer Avi Arad confirmed that there will be four villains in the upcoming superhero film:
iF: There are four villains this time, Venom, Sandman, and Green Goblin and when is the fourth going to be revealed?
ARAD: Right we have four villains. Pretty soon [we'll reveal the fourth villain] I believe. Maybe around Comic Con we'll reveal something and the madness will begin.
Who is the fourth one? I hope it's Rhino, but it will probably be Electro.
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Check out the pics of Gwen Stacy, Spidey, and a video of filming.
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So yeah, of course the store rips you off on buying your games, that's where they make a lot of their money. If Sony tries anything, it won't hold up. If I buy a couch, I didn't buy the license to sit in it, I bought the fucking couch.
Your talking about a tangible thing. Yes, you own the actual couch, but not the design of it. With software, you only own the actual disc it is on, not the program.
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anyone got the pictures in their cache still, the link has been taken down apparently.
Cheers
I didn't save them because I'm a dummy. Here's a link to Bumblebee though.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2006/06/michael...rmers_in_c.html
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http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23472
Pictures of the tranformers in car form. I officially hate this movie now.
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****Spoiler****
Wolverine 42
Logan to Luke Cage "Cause there's registration, and there's registration. Few years back, a few decades actually, I had some friends back in Germany. Had."
He then said Sentinels, to mutants, are like burning crosses to black people. A symbol of opression and bigotry.
Amazing stuff. I can't wait to see where Civil War is going.
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http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2006/05/more_su...ns_posters.html
Here are the final posters for the movie.
Also, Have you seen the Taiwan poster? They should have left out the big wave coming towards the beach in my opinion.
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2006/05/superma..._to_taiwan.html
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Kane has an army behind him. That's pretty badass. All Lara has is pistols.
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Except for the headlights being on, the rest can probably be explained by editing. I belive there were many major parts of the movie edited out because of bad test screens. There are rumors that they were filming scenes about a month ago to fix it. I belive the parts cut out were Angel's storyline, The teen love triangle, and between the bridge being moved to the first battle on the island. These aren't confirmed, but you can tell that scenes are missing.
edit: The headlights might have been from a mutants power. There were so many of them around one of them could have made them come on. Do I win the no-prize?
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From http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2006/...rms_xmen_4.html
[X-Men: The Last Stand] Despite the stupid title "X-Men: The Last Stand", Fox Head Tom Rothman has confirmed that there will indeed be an X-Men 4, and probably more after that as well. Now it's all well and good for him to say that now... but if X-Men 3 is a bomb (which we all know it won't be... even if it sucks) then those words will be quickly eaten.So why the title "The Last Stand" then? Well, according to the good folks over at Movie Hole, Rothman offers the following explanation:
“It's the conclusion of this trilogy. These three movies work as a trilogy. These characters in this relationship, it's the culmination of that saga. It's the culmination and the resolution of those relationships laid out in the first two movies. That doesn't mean never, I would ever say never again, but I will say that this brings that saga to an end. It's quite the way the last Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, brought that trilogy to a conclusion in terms of those characters, that's what this movie does. It goes all the way back to the first one and rounds off and completes that three-part story”.
I thought they were going to lose the license before they could make another full X-Men movie, but because of the money rolling in from The Last Stand, they will probably scrap the Wolverine movie and just make X-Men 4 instead.
edit: The date on the article is January 26th. I don't think they were actually talking about X-Men 4 so much as the solo movies. I think the 107 million dollar opening weekend will change that.
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`X-Men' Has 4th-Best Film Debut, $107 Mln in Sales (Update2)
May 28 (Bloomberg) -- ``X-Men: The Last Stand'' had the fourth-largest weekend opening in box-office history with an estimated $107 million in ticket sales in the first three days of the Memorial Day holiday.
The News Corp. film had $45.5 million in ticket sales on Friday, making it the second-largest one-day gross in history, trailing only ``Star Wars: Episode III,'' according to Exhibitor Relations Co. ``Episode III'' took in $50 million when it opened May 19, 2005.
``We knew this film was going to have one of the bigger opening weekends of the year because the buzz was strong and the box-office potential was certainly there,'' said Paul Dergarabedian, Exhibitor Relations' president, in an interview. ``But for anyone to say they expected $107 million, we'd have thought they were crazy.''
``Spider-Man,'' released in May 2002, had the biggest opening weekend with $114.8 million in sales, followed by ``Star Wars: Episode III'' at $108.4 million and ``Shrek 2'' at $108 million.
``X-Men'' stars Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart as mutants who are up against humans who want to cure them and evil mutants who try to take over the planet. The film was produced by Avi Arad.
Year's Biggest Opening
The opening, the biggest so far this year, also has surpassed those of the first two movies in the X-Men series. The first, ``X-Men'' had $54.5 million in sales when it opened in July 2000, and ``X2: X-Men United'' grossed $85.6 million in its opening weekend in May 2003.
The comic-book genre has performed well at the box office because of a built-in audience of both older and younger males, and ``X-Men'' might have attracted more women because of strong female characters, such as Berry's portrayal of Storm, Dergarabedian said.
``This one may have had appeal beyond just the typical male audience that enjoys sci-fi and comic-book movies,'' he said.
In only three days ``X-Men'' has set the record for the biggest opening over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, beating the $90.2 million ``The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' set over four movie-viewing days in 1997. Box-office statistics for the four- day Memorial Day weekend will be reported tomorrow.
No other films opened in wide distribution this weekend, Dergarabedian said.
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My top 10 gripes and/or things that I noticed about it:
1. Xavier dying that early in the movie was a shock.
2. Cyclops "dying" even earlier than that was a bigger shock.
3. Storm does not have the presense to be the leader. They should have made her role bigger to make her look more important. Personally, I thought they should have left her out of the movie.
4. Storm also can't fight for shit. She wastes too much time spinning and flying before doing anything.
5. Why does Logan have to pause every time he gets hurt so we can watch him heal?
6. Wasn't Leech in the last movie, as a different kid with different powers?
7. The Kitty/Iceman/Rogue story was pointless. It was distracting to the main story.
8. They tried to cram too many mutants into the movie.
9. The cure weapons were a copout for the writer. A way to show a hundred badguys and get rid of them in 30 seconds to get to the main bad guys.
10. Angel added nothing to the story, and shouldn't have been in the movie.
The best moments in the movie for me:
1. Fastball special+Sentinel head
2. Xavier's death
3. Bobby iced up
4. Naked normal Mystique.............I mean the escape scene
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Wasn't there a movie based on those events already? I seem to recall watching it. Maybe it was made for tv.
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I think they ended it this way because this was the last X-Men movie that the cast signed up for, and the last that Fox plans on making. By killing so many big characters, it would be harder for whichever company gets the rights next to do it.
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Japanese games giant Nintendo has confirmed that the price of its new Wii console will be much lower than its rivals.
The Wii will cost 25,000 yen or lower in Japan and $250 (£133) or less in the US, said Nintendo as it revealed its financial results.
The company added it aims to sell six million machines by March 2007.
The Wii is due out towards the end of the year, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
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http://www.specialthemovie.com/trailer_large.html
It's about a guy who takes an experimental drug and starts to belive he has super powers.
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It looks better than I thought it would.
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http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2006/05/die_har...rting_soon.html
Oh yeah, John McLane rides again! Yippie kayay!
Scorpion v Kratos
in Versus
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I've been killing Scorpion since 1991. Even ripped his heart out. He's a pussy