Posts by MJI 6871 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009
Sony formats
At least have always aimed to be better than the opposition.
But think CD was a huge success.
Beta was better.
Never heard Elcassete or whatever it is called but supposed to be good.
ATRAC was a good audio compression algorithm
BluRay is more future proof than HD-DVD
Sony have developed a lot of good formats.
Also important for developers, cannot code when overheating.
Just that I have 3 PCs under my desk (2 working, XP and 7, 98 just sits there), and despite the XP being a celeryon and slow it heats my legs.
My quad core 7 is not as hot.
My old 10 year old home PC P4 I used at work for a while after the last work PC blew up, was much faster than the celeryon, it (celeryon) moved to my desk after its previous user left. it is used for XP tasks.
Make it easy to play a game, make it easy to buy and sell, and people will buy you console. Make it diffcult and people will check the competition.
Sony showed really good sense with the PS4, They interviewed the developers, they investigated architectures, they have gone into the next generation with thoughts of the PS1 and PS2 eras.
One final thing, console dominance does not matter as much as you think, because there will be a huge number of games to play - remember PS2 era?
Not many XB exclusives I actually want, but this generation ME came, Bioshock came, and latest Bioshock Infinite PS3 is great (Move support).
Now the one XB series I have wanted to try, the publishers have gone multiplatform, so I will get Destiny, on PS4.
First games will be Watch Dogs, Destiny, KZ Shadow Fall, Order 1886. Now how can that go wrong?
And we only went PS3 since we had a PS2
Set it up YEARS ago before I had an ISP. My internet access was VERY naughty. Our ISDN work ISP did not check originating number, so I used that, free internet, but high line rental (paid by work). My boss did too.
Now have ISP account, a hotmail, a work, and personals on my own domains.
The hotmail was the easiest web account to use.
Scares me.
Would rather have another child than my bits chopped around.
My wife would not mind a no. 4, nor would the twins. Daughter doesn't like the idea as her room would get used!
I have joked that we could level the playing field, (chavs outbreeding the clever people). Eldest is down for 5 A levels.
That is what they call the forces applied to the track by steam locomotives
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