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Continued existence
May. 17th, 2007 03:29 amSometimes I feel like, news-wise, I'm in the eye of the storm. I go out of my way to not keep up and everything just swirls around me and I snatch glimpses of it out of the air.
Okay, for those of you who didn't roll their eyes at that and go away here's the rest of the post...
Sony's lost a metric fuckton of money on the PS3. Can anyone say with a straight face that they're legitimately surprised? Now, Sony's probably going to make a bunch of that back when a game worth playing comes out for the system, but their insistence on getting the PS3 to market at Christmas and expecting online play to keep people distracted until MGS4 releases is what is colloquially known as "dropping the fucking ball." In a gaming market where system loyalty has been more or less bred out of the fans by the combined factors of the N64's failure, the loss of Sega as a console manufacturer and the subsequent takeover by the Playstation, has any individual company been helped by establishing competing launch dates where all of the launch titles are ported to every other system anyhow? Especially when your console costs almost as much as the other two put together.
What's going to establish dominance in the console market isn't who gets out a machine just in time for Christmas; it's going to be who gets a game that no other system has that is worth getting the system for. I haven't bought any of the new systems yet because I'm not seeing any games that grab me (hell, I only recently bought a Nintendo DS). I haven't seen anything out for the new systems that has gotten my attention[0]; I'm not going to get a system just for MGS4, there's nothing on the Wii that's caught my attention, and I couldn't care less about Halo.[1] As soon as they come out with a few decent games for the system that the other consoles aren't going to get, then I'll drop money on them. But either way, I'm not dropping five-fucking-hundred dollars on a console.
Also, I myself neither have nor plan to get any of the paid radio systems (Sirius or XM), but I still respect all of the protests headed XM's way from the Opie & Anthony incident. If I was paying for radio for the sole purpose of hearing filth that I can't hear on regular radio and the pay-radio people say "No." I'd be pissed too.
( And if you've stuck around this far (or are just skipping down for LJ-cuts)... Promethean! )
Oh, that reminds me, now that the DVD set for Venture Brothers Season 2 is out, I need to get around to updating that 'Nuclear Promethean' icon of mine now I can do a decent screen capture from the DVD and not a Youtube-type website. Although since I don't think there's a way to replace an icon's image without deleting it and putting it back, I'm probably just going to create a new one and only use that in new posts so I don't have to go back and edit all of the past entries that use it. Maybe I'll do that and then go back and edit the old entries to match the newer icon, and... I dunno. I'm overthinking this.
Later.
[0]-- I'm sure anyone who's actually been paying attention to my LJ remembers my "Six games" rule, which contributes to this.
[1]-- I got tired of first-person shooters sometime between the release of Quake 2 and the time I completely dominated a Deus Ex multiplayer match simply by taking over the automated turrets.
Okay, for those of you who didn't roll their eyes at that and go away here's the rest of the post...
Sony's lost a metric fuckton of money on the PS3. Can anyone say with a straight face that they're legitimately surprised? Now, Sony's probably going to make a bunch of that back when a game worth playing comes out for the system, but their insistence on getting the PS3 to market at Christmas and expecting online play to keep people distracted until MGS4 releases is what is colloquially known as "dropping the fucking ball." In a gaming market where system loyalty has been more or less bred out of the fans by the combined factors of the N64's failure, the loss of Sega as a console manufacturer and the subsequent takeover by the Playstation, has any individual company been helped by establishing competing launch dates where all of the launch titles are ported to every other system anyhow? Especially when your console costs almost as much as the other two put together.
What's going to establish dominance in the console market isn't who gets out a machine just in time for Christmas; it's going to be who gets a game that no other system has that is worth getting the system for. I haven't bought any of the new systems yet because I'm not seeing any games that grab me (hell, I only recently bought a Nintendo DS). I haven't seen anything out for the new systems that has gotten my attention[0]; I'm not going to get a system just for MGS4, there's nothing on the Wii that's caught my attention, and I couldn't care less about Halo.[1] As soon as they come out with a few decent games for the system that the other consoles aren't going to get, then I'll drop money on them. But either way, I'm not dropping five-fucking-hundred dollars on a console.
Also, I myself neither have nor plan to get any of the paid radio systems (Sirius or XM), but I still respect all of the protests headed XM's way from the Opie & Anthony incident. If I was paying for radio for the sole purpose of hearing filth that I can't hear on regular radio and the pay-radio people say "No." I'd be pissed too.
( And if you've stuck around this far (or are just skipping down for LJ-cuts)... Promethean! )
Oh, that reminds me, now that the DVD set for Venture Brothers Season 2 is out, I need to get around to updating that 'Nuclear Promethean' icon of mine now I can do a decent screen capture from the DVD and not a Youtube-type website. Although since I don't think there's a way to replace an icon's image without deleting it and putting it back, I'm probably just going to create a new one and only use that in new posts so I don't have to go back and edit all of the past entries that use it. Maybe I'll do that and then go back and edit the old entries to match the newer icon, and... I dunno. I'm overthinking this.
Later.
[0]-- I'm sure anyone who's actually been paying attention to my LJ remembers my "Six games" rule, which contributes to this.
[1]-- I got tired of first-person shooters sometime between the release of Quake 2 and the time I completely dominated a Deus Ex multiplayer match simply by taking over the automated turrets.
