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P.S. still need more kick ass games!]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
They need to release a decent cellphone .. maybe with the "mylo 2" form factor, or something.

They need to reinvent the HDTV .. make them all have wireless PC media center/ps3 type thing built in .. and the busy-ness of remotes should be reduced -- get rid of 90% of buttons become touchscreen and OLED button driven.

Where the hell is the PSP 2?]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/It's the best phone I've ever used. By miles. And there's still a few things they could improve!!]]>Jan 31st 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jun 9th 2009 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
I guess my old Economics lecturer was right! Companies perform best when they focus on their core competencies.]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Seems Sony start all their Playstations at a loss, but pretty quickly get them upto speed.]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Unfortunately for MS, they couldn't do the same thing because unlike the PS2, the XBox was never profitable. ]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=MFoyp71xw3w]]>Jan 31st 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
*buries HDDVD player*

I'll miss you.

*lays flower on grave*]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Although i am biased towards ps3 purely because of the impressive feature list the damn box has (i dont own either, but own a Wii); I must say PS3 taking lead over xbox360 in just its 1st anniversary of launch very impressive. And this when PS3 lags on number of quality games and more so because of the HALO effect on xbox.

Definitely a must watch space for 1Q08. We might find game publishers scrambling towards PS3 by mid-08 if this trend continues.]]>Jan 31st 2008 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
(http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/01/26/david-jaffe-comments-again-on-state-of-consoles/)]]>Jan 31st 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/15474/surprise_the_wii_ruled_2007_console_sales

"According to NPD, Nintendo sold 1.35 million Wii consoles during December, bringing total Wii sales for 2007 to 7.4 million. Microsoft sold 1.26 million Xbox 360's during the month, fueled in part by sales of Activision's Call of Duty 4 (which itself sold 1.47 million copies during December) and Halo 3, which has sold 4.8 million copies since it's much-heralded launch in September, making it the top-selling game for 2007. Sony's PlayStation 3 sold 798,000 units in December, bringing its total installed base to about 3.3 million."]]>Jan 31st 2008 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/How does this story jibe with the report that the 360 outsold the PS3 by a large margin in December?

because frankly, this world consists of places OTHER than US?

try to grasp the concept here.]]>Jan 31st 2008 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
I get the whole blu-ray thing (its a bargain). But besides that the processing speed and the RAM (which are 2 of the 3 biggest deciding factors on performace, the other factor being operating system) are the same as the 360?

I know the ps3, it has the complex sixaxis controler, many usb ports, bluetooth and blu ray capabilities. Out of that list I say the blu ray, and the sixaxis are the most inovative. With the only drawback being the lack of rumble (which will soon be adressed) The other two in the list aren't even worth mentioning. Who the heck is going to have eight different peripherals hooked up at once all being used at once?. (I own a decked out PC and the most usb ports I use at once are 5 and thats using wireless keyboard/mouse, external drive, printer, internal multicard reader and I forget the other one I think iPod).

Anyways I'm not putting down the system, personally the system is a beast from a hardware perspective.

I'm just saying "What LIST man?" for there to be a list you got to have at least 4 or more features worth mentioning. Stress on WORTH MENTIONING. I know the system has more than 4 features duh... I'm talking about things that aren't already standard in todays gadgets.. like Blu ray and the motion sensing technology.. besides that bluetooth or some other form of wireless capability is pretty much standard now..

ps.. yes I'm aware of the web browser.. it's a step foward I like it..

but it can not replace having a real pc web browser.. the way I see it the browser is as potent as my pda's web browser.. just faster.]]>Jan 31st 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
If sony does the above, the PS3 will definitely move a few units.]]>Jan 31st 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/If they did that and sold it for $399, I might just fork over the $$$ to buy one.]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Not only that but it will cost you a hell of a lot less than if you were buying it pre-installed. So now do the sensible thing, buy a 40GB PS3 and shove in a 250GB 2.5" 5400rpm drive and bask in the glory of capacious hard drive.

Alternatively you can do what I was planning and setup a UPNP media server (this includes tversity, windows media player or mediatomb on linux). That way you can shove in as many hard drive as your heart desires and not bog down the PS3.

Or even just plug in a USB hard drive to play content from (it supports almost everything out there, apparently)

As there aren't currently movie downloads and the UK/Europe DVB-T adapter hasn't been officially announced yet I'm not sure what other uses there are for the Hard drive other than game demo downloads and save games (I'm sure I'll be corrected though).

That said I recently setup a whole house system using a Media Centre PC and XBox360's as media extenders using HomePlug adapters (ethernet over powerlines) and it was a breeze and if you wanted to add DVB-T or DVB-S (or in the states DVB-C) cards it will show the EPG around the house and let you remotely schedule recording and then stream the recorded content. Very slick. And I think this is a very neat trick up the Xbox's sleeve that has been vastly overlooked.]]>Jan 31st 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
What I think Sony, or some independent company should do, is bulk buy PS3's from Sony, with no HDD, and then offer a "build your own" service.

You select your console:

a) No PS2 compat, no SACD, 2xUSB, No Card readers
b) Software PS2 compat, SACD, 4xUSB, card readers

Select your HDD size:

a) 40GB
b) 80GB
c) 120GB
d) 200GB
e) 400GB
f) 500GB

Select your preloaded games:

[x] Warhawk
[x] Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Select your shipping method:

a) express.
b) regular.

YOUR TOTAL PRICE: xxx]]>Jan 31st 2008 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Everyone can accept Blu-ray has won against HD-DVD (a point I'm not arguing with) the numbers don't lie.

But somehow the numbers over the last quarter are all that counts for PS3 vs. X360. Accept facts momentum has so vastly gone the other way that the PS3 can't some back.

It's the 3D0 of this generation.]]>Jan 31st 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
And that is so incorrect that I can't help but laugh.]]>Jan 31st 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
The PS3 just reached a manufacturing cost of approx $400, so even if the sell 10 million consoles at $400, the console itself will not profit.

Bottom line: no profit for the PS3 yet. Just the game division.]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
Some of the PS3's best games are first-party games, and offering games like Warhawk on PSN (zero cost except for infrastructure maintenance and initial startup costs) all help towards driving up the revenue and turning a profit.]]>Jan 31st 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/
If Sony sells mostly the $499 units, that is $100 profit per console. I realize the 80 GB version is being phased out, however the 80 GB unit is speculated to be replaced by another top-end model, so this will most likely continue being profitable for Sony well into its future.]]>Jan 31st 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/sonys-game-division-turns-a-profit/Jan 31st 2008 10:24AM