Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 7, 2008
By Todd Bishop
Las Vegas - One of Microsoft's key technological positions has taken a blow as a result of Warner's decision to choose Blu-ray in the battle over next-generation DVD formats.
The implications extend beyond movies to the hotly contested video-game console market. That's because Sony has integrated a Blu-ray drive into the PlayStation 3.
Depending on the circumstances, Sony may enjoy a "huge competitive advantage" over Microsoft in the video-game console market if Blu-ray becomes standard, said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities.
The key question, Pachter said, would be timing.
With the end of the Big Spring Sale and the lead-up to Easter, Amazon has axed the price of this stunning, high-performance Alienware display.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
Oh the Irony the next Xbox would carry blu-ray capability on its next platform. Microsoft has to pay royalty to sony and other blu-ray supporters in order to implement blu-ray on their next gen console. Even the next gen Wii will have to implement blu-ray on their console if blu-ray will win. It's a win-win for sony.
XBOX 360 will continue to kick ass. Because it's the better gaming machine at a better price.
Sony just keeps on embarresing themselves.
Sony will make billions of it.
...we're screw from day one for releasing a half assed rushed console, sure it was great for 18 months or so but thats about it. No HDD, No HD format, No wifi, No freebies, No rechargable controllers, No web browser....
Basically they upgraded a GPU and CPU and figured thats enough.
And sure in the hell won't help Sony win the console war when DVD folks are already fucing up Sony demographic helping them sell some consoles but no software.
I mean Sony already had some supposed AAA's that were boast about by Sony fanboys and they do not buy them what makes you think the PS3 fanbase is going to buy games now other than those 3 pr 4 games everybody seems to be saying warrents the PS3 purchase sence before the PS3 launched.
IS that the only reason to own the PS3? is that the only thing that can save it is thoses 3 or 4 titles thats been known even before the first Playstation launched.
How can a console win when the only thing people are excited about are a handful of sequels and not the promise of new greatness like the 360 appeal?.
PS3 will surge when those sequels come out maybe! then what?, it took 120 million PS2 owners to sell 4 million copies and less of some of those games. What makes you think consoles will be flying off the shelfs as Sony fanboys believe?.
This whats going to happen Every PS3 killer App released MSFT will have an awnser to and only Sony fanboy hype will continue despite reality.