Comments on: Why the end of PlayStation hardware will be best for all http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: j rod http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1848 j rod Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:12:14 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1848 James, If anything is just going the other way arround. You can not just do software and wait for someone to buy it if there is no hardware where to used. Microsfot KNOWS that. Is not MS the king of software, why they did not developed games only for PCs after all they rule that market. IS NOT THE SAME EXPERIENCE AND IT WILL NEVER BE. In addition, if you just do software(games) what is your advantage in the market place? Anyone can do that, but when you control the plataform you control Royalties and much more. James,

If anything is just going the other way arround. You can not just do software and wait for someone to buy it if there is no hardware where to used. Microsfot KNOWS that. Is not MS the king of software, why they did not developed games only for PCs after all they rule that market.

IS NOT THE SAME EXPERIENCE AND IT WILL NEVER BE. In addition, if you just do software(games) what is your advantage in the market place? Anyone can do that, but when you control the plataform you control Royalties and much more.

]]> By: larry http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 larry Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:54:17 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1840 Mr. Happy, you're kind of on the correct path. A non-proprietary gaming system, as the article suggests, already exists... it's called a computer. What is the difference between a computer and a gaming system anyway? Not much. Not a thing. Seems like an obvious oversight. Mr. Happy, you’re kind of on the correct path. A non-proprietary gaming system, as the article suggests, already exists… it’s called a computer. What is the difference between a computer and a gaming system anyway? Not much. Not a thing.

Seems like an obvious oversight.

]]> By: Chris http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1839 Chris Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:28:16 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1839 I just can't see the home game console venue going the same way computers have. The main reasons we ended up with non proprietary computers today are - IBM using a more 'open architechture' (please excuse my spelling) - and allowing M$ to be able to resell their software to other venders. Originally IBM wanted the BIOS to be proprietary, but eventually Compaq (I believe) reverse engineered it - using a couple legal loopholes - and overnight clones were born. Now IBM has suffered so much that they don't even make PC's anymore. I just can't see the same (or similar enough) circumstances coming true with home game console hardware. Unless - M$ decides to license the software that makes the XBOX work, then some other company might decide to build a clone. I say M$, because I doubt that SONY or NINTENDO would be willing to do that at all. Or, if someone were to build a very cheap home console based on a LINUX kernel. I don't know - it just seems kinda far fetched. 1 last thing - "The hardware/software model is archaic" - can anyone say iPod or Zune? It's not archaic. For some products it makes sense to do it that way, you (the manufacturer) have better quality control that way. I just can’t see the home game console venue going the same way computers have. The main reasons we ended up with non proprietary computers today are – IBM using a more ‘open architechture’ (please excuse my spelling) – and allowing M$ to be able to resell their software to other venders. Originally IBM wanted the BIOS to be proprietary, but eventually Compaq (I believe) reverse engineered it – using a couple legal loopholes – and overnight clones were born. Now IBM has suffered so much that they don’t even make PC’s anymore.

I just can’t see the same (or similar enough) circumstances coming true with home game console hardware. Unless – M$ decides to license the software that makes the XBOX work, then some other company might decide to build a clone. I say M$, because I doubt that SONY or NINTENDO would be willing to do that at all. Or, if someone were to build a very cheap home console based on a LINUX kernel. I don’t know – it just seems kinda far fetched.

1 last thing – “The hardware/software model is archaic” – can anyone say iPod or Zune? It’s not archaic. For some products it makes sense to do it that way, you (the manufacturer) have better quality control that way.

]]> By: Mr Happy http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 Mr Happy Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:00:49 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1838 I want Playstation or any console to come up with a solution in which they can play all types of PC games, then people would ditch buying a computer instead of a console for their gaming needs. And Playstation does not lose because they release their own unique set of games for the console which is not available for other systems(although there are some games for ps that are also for pc) I want Playstation or any console to come up with a solution in which they can play all types of PC games, then people would ditch buying a computer instead of a console for their gaming needs. And Playstation does not lose because they release their own unique set of games for the console which is not available for other systems(although there are some games for ps that are also for pc)

]]> By: Lefein http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1837 Lefein Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:54:56 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1837 It's a little too early to start playing Taps isnt it? It’s a little too early to start playing Taps isnt it?

]]> By: Lardingd http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1835 Lardingd Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:11:53 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2006/12/06/why-the-end-of-playstation-hardware-will-be-best-for-all/#comment-1835 ..., ... Wow... Um, you went really far... I grant that people are more focused on the games than the consoles, but don't you think/realize that the capability of games are related to the capability of the hardware? In fact with consoles, I blieve that people pick games on game play for sure, but they also look and feel is significant which depends on the hardware. …, … Wow… Um, you went really far… I grant that people are more focused on the games than the consoles, but don’t you think/realize that the capability of games are related to the capability of the hardware? In fact with consoles, I blieve that people pick games on game play for sure, but they also look and feel is significant which depends on the hardware.

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