“Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game console topped Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in U.S. unit sales for the first time in January, but the Redmond company said its sales were hurt by supply shortages,” Todd Bishop reports for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
MacDailyNews Take: Does it really matter what a company that will say anything says?
Bishop continues, “The PlayStation 3 sold 269,000 units for the month, according to statistics released by the NPD Group market research firm. That was just behind Nintendo’s Wii, which sold 274,000 units, NPD said. Microsoft sold 230,000 Xbox 360 consoles. ‘We certainly believe that this is an anomaly,’ said Microsoft spokesman David Dennis of the Xbox 360’s third-place finish.”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s also what they said when the space shuttle blew up.
Bishop continues, “Sony, in a statement, pointed to progress in areas including movie studios’ embrace of the Blu-ray next-generation DVD format, which the PS3 uses.”
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft, in stark contrast, sells HD DVD players for its third-place console which, we hear, you can get really, really cheap nowadays.
Full article here.
Too bad you still can’t find a Wii thanks to the scumbag parasites who buy them up and sell them at ridiculous, inflated prices. Why there isn’t a law to prevent this is beyond me!!!!
Hey Zuney, that one was hilarious! Keep it up!
Even funnier are the peevish idiots who take the Zunester seriously.
Speaking of the “tasteless” Space Shuttle reference in the MDN take…. which shuttle disaster were they referring to? The one with the tumbling teacher or that other one?
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@jerry
hd media will be around for a while. in the u.s. enough people lack the bandwidth to their house to even watch a streamed movie, much less download one will need physical media. there may be some codec advances beyond h.264 to relieve the bandwidth problem, but on a 1080p or even a 720p tv, the codec artifacts can be annoying, depending on the scene. maybe in 10 years, the demand will shrink to the point it is uneconomical to produce physical hd media, but for the foreseeable future, expect to see blu-ray discs in best buy and walmart.
@montex
buy the sony ps2 dvd remote. it’s $29. makes controlling movies (and dvd concerts) on your ps3 much more manageable. works and looks like a real dvd remote.
@mackle
try watching an HD movie on Apple TV and let me know you’re thoughts on the annoying artifacts…
oh wait… there arent hardly any?.. wow…. its amazing… guess I should stick with my $40 blu-rays discs that I buy to watch once or twice. Oh yeah, and I gotta run out and get that $500 blu-ray player, oh but wait, why dont I just watch them on my ps3, even though I play my games all the time, it’ll only cut the life of the drive down to 1.5 years, but thats ok… i only play Ratchet & Clank, an exclusive, wishing I still had my Halo 3… but hey, its quieter.
Considering I own both a PS3 and 360, all I really care about is the games. And currently my 360 gets turned on the most. But once MGS4 comes out, I’m sure the results will be different.
@mackle , you said, “hd media will be around for a while. in the u.s. enough people lack the bandwidth to their house to even watch a streamed movie, much less download one will need physical media. there may be some codec advances beyond h.264 to relieve the bandwidth problem, but on a 1080p or even a 720p tv, the codec artifacts can be annoying, depending on the scene.”
More people have the bandwidth than have HD/BR players. Early testing has shown that codec artifacts with H.264 are minimal compared to the artifact issues with VOD from cable companies.
@ flappo
“the ps3 is just like a mac”
You forgot that it’s overpriced, has no software and has rabid fanboys too. It’s more like a Mac than you think
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@ignore the troll
Do you really not understand? Seriously???
@ me
just because you’re poor doesn’t mean it’s over priced , dummy
maths obv. wasn’t your strong subject
add up all the crap you have to buy with a 360 to get the same spec , it’s actually £75-100 more than the equivalent ps3
DOH !!
This site should change its name to “Anti-MS Daily News”
I’m not surprised that PS3 is coming back strong with bluray winning the format war. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft releases a bluray player for the Xbox though. http://www.freegamesystems.info
Good one flappo you’re not getting ripped off you’re getting value for money.
I’ve got some magic rocks on ebay that you may want to take a look at.
@suck my mac
have a ps3 and that is my basis for comparison (btw-even have the cheat book for ratchet/clank because i’m a lame gamer). i bought an hdmi switch just for the purpose of hooking up an appletv when the time was right. there are no artifacts at all on a br dvd, even in the darkest scenes of phantom of the opera. my comments regarding artifacts of compression were lifted from another comment on a different forum. if you have directly compared the 2, i stand humbly corrected.
@KenC
agree with your comment on bandwidth than optical hd players, although both are way behind sd optical players. from the same post referred to above, your comment about the vod artifacts being worse than appletv hd was a direct comparison, so you are exactly right.