Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
i duno if i am allowed to make my own thread so i will just post it here
http://www.obscurehideout.com/myspace/consoles.jpg
link to my new PS3 and Wii consoles!
i plan on selling the PS3 but i am opening and sorting out the contents of the wii as we speak i can't wait to play!
oh and HERE you can view my 45 pics from camping out for the PS3 for 3 days at Fry's
My condolences bro. You waited 3 days, ended up with a PS3 bundle, and prices are through the floor.
Hope you can unload those games and accessories for retail and make your money on the PS3 before the prices drop even more.
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
i duno if i am allowed to make my own thread so i will just post it here
http://www.obscurehideout.com/myspace/consoles.jpg
link to my new PS3 and Wii consoles!
i plan on selling the PS3 but i am opening and sorting out the contents of the wii as we speak i can't wait to play!
oh and HERE you can view my 45 pics from camping out for the PS3 for 3 days at Fry's
My condolences bro. You waited 3 days, ended up with a PS3 bundle, and prices are through the floor.
Hope you can unload those games and accessories for retail and make your money on the PS3 before the prices drop even more.
there are lots of ways to get rid of the game at retail without losing money, i would rather not mention it here but requires 1 trip to 1 store. as for the ps3 there is no way i can lose money on it, sell it towards xmas when demand is up and ebay listings are down. at the very least i can always return it to frys and get back a full refund or anywhere else really
by the way i love the wii! i am playing the boxing demo right now, i am sweating lol
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BillyBatson
i duno if i am allowed to make my own thread so i will just post it here
http://www.obscurehideout.com/myspace/consoles.jpg
link to my new PS3 and Wii consoles!
i plan on selling the PS3 but i am opening and sorting out the contents of the wii as we speak i can't wait to play!
oh and HERE you can view my 45 pics from camping out for the PS3 for 3 days at Fry's
My condolences bro. You waited 3 days, ended up with a PS3 bundle, and prices are through the floor.
Hope you can unload those games and accessories for retail and make your money on the PS3 before the prices drop even more.
there are lots of ways to get rid of the game at retail without losing money, i would rather not mention it here but requires 1 trip to 1 store. as for the ps3 there is no way i can lose money on it, sell it towards xmas when demand is up and ebay listings are down. at the very least i can always return it to frys and get back a full refund or anywhere else really
by the way i love the wii! i am playing the boxing demo right now, i am sweating lol
I agree, I'm absolutely sure you're not going to lose a penny on the PS3. The question is, are you going to make enough to justify 3 days of sidewalk camping.
Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company?s new video game system just isn?t that great.
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
no one on here is pumped up about the PS3 because it's an overhyped, overpriced, piece of crap bluray player. that's why.
many MANY people on here are excited about the other consoles (Xbox360 and Wii), regardless of this being a PC forum.
the main reason ANYONE at ALL in this country was excited about the PS3 launch was because people thought it would be an easy way to make some quick cash as they saw plenty of people do with the Xbox360.
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
no one on here is pumped up about the PS3 because it's an overhyped, overpriced, piece of crap bluray player. that's why.
many MANY people on here are excited about the other consoles (Xbox360 and Wii), regardless of this being a PC forum.
the main reason ANYONE at ALL in this country was excited about the PS3 launch was because people thought it would be an easy way to make some quick cash as they saw plenty of people do with the Xbox360.
Generalize much?
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
no one on here is pumped up about the PS3 because it's an overhyped, overpriced, piece of crap bluray player. that's why.
many MANY people on here are excited about the other consoles (Xbox360 and Wii), regardless of this being a PC forum.
the main reason ANYONE at ALL in this country was excited about the PS3 launch was because people thought it would be an easy way to make some quick cash as they saw plenty of people do with the Xbox360.
Generalize much?
care to elaborte much?
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s much-anticipated Playstation 3 videogame console hit U.S. stores Friday, just days after initial shipments of the system in Japan sold out in a matter of hours. Though priced starting at $499 for the more basic of the two models, the PS3 is in many ways the signature consumer electronics product of the 2006 holiday season. Some consumers even camped out overnight to get their hands on one.
But the PS3 won't be a runaway hit this holiday season, for one reason: Set back by production problems for the blue-laser diodes used in the consoles' optical disk system, Sony cannot deliver enough of them.
Sony's initial shipments?400,000 units in the States, and reportedly somewhat less than the 100,000-unit volume Sony had promised in Japan?are less than half what the company had initially planned to deliver and not nearly enough to meet demand.
The shortfall has been blamed on problems in the production of blue-laser diodes?more precisely, blue-violet lasers with a 405-nanometer wavelength. Those problems have persisted through more than a decade of blue-laser development.
"It is really challenging to get a high yield in gallium nitride device production," said Shuji Nakamura, a professor of materials engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who is best known as a pioneering developer of volume-manufacturing technology for GaN-based LEDs and lasers. "No one has succeeded in manufacturing GaN lasers in really large volumes," Nakamura said, so it's not surprising Sony's engineers "have had a hard time."
The biggest problem, according to Nakamura, is the lack of a bulk substrate for gallium nitride crystalline growth. Current blue-laser diode fabrication uses a freestanding GaN substrate that is epitaxially grown on a sapphire substrate, with the sapphire substrate removed once the thick GaN layer is formed. But substrates made using this process include a high number of dislocations, or defects.
A lateral epitaxially overgrown method is widely used to grow GaN films with fewer defects, but this method often results in a mixture of high- and low-quality crystalline. As a result, only about half of the diodes on a wafer can be used as lasers. Worse, the substrates are subject to bowing, making it difficult to expose light uniformly on them during photolithography and thus further reducing yield.
"The ultimate solution to achieving high yields is to develop a bulk substrate for GaN," said Nakamura, adding that his team and others are doing research in that area. "Until such a genuine substrate is developed, it should be difficult to raise yields using current pseudosubstrates."
Other semiconductor lasers, such as the red laser diodes used in CD and DVD players and recorders, once faced similar yield problems, which were overcome when production efforts expanded, according to Nakamura. But that was a very different situation, he cautioned, because suitable substrates were already available.
"Executive officers without a technical background may think that the situation is the same and direct engineers to go forward," Nakamura said. "But the situation is different. There is no suitable substrate."
The metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems used in blue-laser diode production also pose a problem, Nakamura said. "The companies developing [blue] lasers are using their uniquely tuned systems," he said. "As far as I know, those MOCVD systems are not suitable for batch processing."
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
no one on here is pumped up about the PS3 because it's an overhyped, overpriced, piece of crap bluray player. that's why.
many MANY people on here are excited about the other consoles (Xbox360 and Wii), regardless of this being a PC forum.
the main reason ANYONE at ALL in this country was excited about the PS3 launch was because people thought it would be an easy way to make some quick cash as they saw plenty of people do with the Xbox360.
Generalize much?
care to elaborte much?
So nobody AT ALL bought it for the actual system?
Sony execs went through with blu-ray and using it in the PS3 even knowing there was no suitable bulk manufacturing process for the diodes yet, and no process on the horizon?"Executive officers without a technical background may think that the situation is the same and direct engineers to go forward," Nakamura said. "But the situation is different. There is no suitable substrate."
Actually, they blame softwareOriginally posted by: Queasy
Sony blames Blu-Ray for shortages
According to the Sony spokesman, the delay is not related to laser diode production but to software development.
Originally posted by: Aharami
Actually, they blame softwareOriginally posted by: Queasy
Sony blames Blu-Ray for shortages
taken from the third page of the article you linked
According to the Sony spokesman, the delay is not related to laser diode production but to software development.
Originally posted by: RapidSnail
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: binister
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i see many people asking here if anyone has simply PLAYED the damn thing, and most have responded with no. well if you really want to get down to it and start talking to people who own one, go to ps3forums.com, some guys are doing some pretty nice setups over there.
now you have to remember that this is a PC forum and we are PC guys. i mean we have been playing games that looks as good as 360/ps3 games for over a year now, so excuses me for not being overly pumped about the ps3.
i probably will get one one day, just call me when GT4 and metal gear come out...
no one on here is pumped up about the PS3 because it's an overhyped, overpriced, piece of crap bluray player. that's why.
many MANY people on here are excited about the other consoles (Xbox360 and Wii), regardless of this being a PC forum.
the main reason ANYONE at ALL in this country was excited about the PS3 launch was because people thought it would be an easy way to make some quick cash as they saw plenty of people do with the Xbox360.
Generalize much?
care to elaborte much?
So nobody AT ALL bought it for the actual system?
Do you even understand the concept of exaggeration? Of course people bought the system to play it, but his point was that a great majority of the people bought it to make quick profit.
Originally posted by: mzkhadir
attacked and pepper sprayed : http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_324085857.html
The seller met the two men around 1 a.m. at a McDonald?s restaurant on Moody Street and Orangethorpe Avenue, according to Sgt. Terry Kim of the La Palma Police Department.