All hail porn, oracle of industry.

Or, I could open the case and replace my current 20 with a new one, but I haven;t gotten up the wherewithal to download all the tools to migrate the filesystem.

Of course none of this will happen, but one can hope.

I think the really scary thing for Sony has to be the rumors of the xbox 360 v.2 I’ve been seeing. Integrated hd-dvd, bigger hard drive, hdmi output. If they can put that out in time for next xmas, and price it between the current 360 and the ps3, Sony be fucked.

And, of course, you have the issue of ego. Sony is not ready to give up on BluRay and concede the media war to Toshiba and HD-DVD. Thus, they will stick with BluRay, which means keeping it in the PS3. The cost of manufacturing the BluRay drive will hopefully come down quickly as such will the cost of the console.

But, BluRay is hardly the only problem with it. That being said, I don’t think there are problems that can’t be remedied over time. And, hopefully the problems will be remedies, as a 3 horse console race is probably better for consumers.

Listen, I know the PS3 is not going to win this generation of consoles. I’m just hoping Sony wakes the fuck up and redesigns the console for a new launch at the end of the year with no BluRay in it. They probably won’t, but if anyone at Sony had their head out of their ass they would.

Oh, wait, a person with a brain. Right.

Actually, if you read past the initial posting, the commentariat over there pretty much tears this guy’s argument to pieces.

A new survey shows roughly 54% of a sampling of stores currently have PS3s in stock. without any new shipments in the past week and a half or so.

Wiis, by contrast, are nowhere to be found.

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/01/13/1746234.shtml?tid=179

Remember, the console that shipped the most in December was actually the PS2.

* non-expandable memory is really, really fucking stupid. shit, even _sony_ gets this right with their walkman/camera phones.
* Jobs did say it was OSX, not unreasonable to think that they ported it to an arm processor.
* not letting people load their own apps on the phone is fucking crazy. absolutely, batshit crazy. your cheap, shitty free-with-contract phone lets you load symbian/j2me on it. and business users, who might otherwise consider using this instead of a treo/blackberry, are screwed if they can’t load office stuff on it.
* also, coming out today: not actually real widescreen. it’s 1.5:1 ratio, which falls somewhere between the 4:3 standard tv and 16:9 widescreeen tv.

(note: i’ve not actually listened to this episode yet)

The fact that the systems had different launch dates doesn’t mean you can’t talk about their relative successes, Rem. Demand for the PS3 has been way below what Sony was expecting, even given the high price and initial bad press. Shit, it’s been below what _I_ was expecting, and I had a fucking low opinion of the thing from pretty much day one. And demand for the Wii is way, _way_ higher than I think anyone could have reasonably expected. These are both facts, regardless of how well the 360 sold.

I’ll give it until the end of next year until Sony folds and rips the BluRay from the PS3 and rebuild it as the PS3.5 or some shit.