Sony must seriously be losing it. Expecting any consumer electronic device to have a 10-year lifetime is insane!
Can you even remember what computers were like 10 years ago? That’s before Windows 95 was released. No one was on the internet, except very early adopters. Netscape didn’t exist and the web, barely. That was before digital cameras were viable (and now disposable after a couple of years). That was before large flat-panel displays. That was before multi-core processors. That was before wireless networking. That was before broadband communications to the home (can you remember dialup?). That was before iPods. That was even before blogs. :-)
Who could have predicted where we are today? Yet Sony believes they can create a machine that will still be competitive in 10 years… I’d think designing a game machine that would be competitive over a 3-year lifetime would be tough.
In their attempt to create a 10-year machine, Sony designs a machine that they admit is expensive. So in addition to not being competitive in 10 years, they’re not competitive now…
Donkey comments:
Yes it hurts . . . and on top of that, the kits are slow getting out . . . just imagining Bill Gates saying . . . "Let's dip into our cash reserves and take a bit of a loss and sell our console for $195.00."
Will Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. please muzzle their president, Ken Kuratagi?
Sony makes Rambus' spin doctors appear well, simply brilliant!
Thursday, July 28, 2005
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"Expecting any consumer electronic device to have a 10-year lifetime is insane!"
As I read your stuff, I'm watching FNC on my 1984 [?] Sony KV27XBR, the first hi-tech TV monitor. [with computer-VGA input port, 2-tuner PIP, 3 component input/output/variable audio_out sets, etc.] I'd buy a new set for my office, but this one has a fine picture - until it dies... [I ordered it from 42ndStCamera. its box had Japan Air Lines freight stickers when I got it; thought I'd paid too much @ $1000+ [in 84$].]
gluck, TX
I love it!
I am guessing that you are a rare bird - but not extinct. My folks just replaced a refridgerator they bought in 1963 - maybe they were called "ice boxes" back then?
I still have a Pentax MX I bought in person at the same camera store in NY in '77. Great camera - but I don't use it . . . and I have bought several camera's since.
I was using Linux 10 years ago.
I still am.
Windows 3.1 sucked
Respectfully I note, of the last 20,000 +/- Treowth visitors only about 2.0% were running Linux - more cult than religion?
Update: Stopped by my parents' this evening and checked their garage . . . the 1963 refridgerator was still running. That thing has to cost them three bucks a day worth of electricity!
"rare bird - but not extinct."
Well, my grandmother's 1970 GE refrigerator runs on about $0.35 of power/day. My Dad's collection has a 1928 GE fridge [wooden frame inside white sheet metal insulated box, compressor mounted on top] which works but is not in use.
Tx_Gunsmith
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