Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Sony Qualia-017 MiniDisc Player
Say you're Sony. What do you do when the iPod has been beating your ass for three years and your weird little proprietary disc format is swiftly losing the hearts and minds of the American digital music enthusiast? You introduce a $1900 solid brass MiniDisc player, that's ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Sony Clié PEG-NZ90
The Clié was a "Personal Entertainment Organizer," which is a fancy way of saying that it was a multimedia PDA. An $800 multimedia PDA. What's the point of being the most advanced Palm OS PDA at a time when no one really wanted PDAs? Its death in 2005 ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
#25
Sony VN-CX1A Mouse/VoIP Phone
Just because you can shove two functions into one device doesn't mean you should. In fact, you generally shouldn't! It's also a little screwy that this was marketed to business people, since they're the ones most likely to need to talk and use their computer at the ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
#17
Universal Media Disc
I understand Sony wanting to give the PSP its own special proprietary data format, I really do. But did they really expect me to buy movies on UMD? Limited storage meant that bonus footage had to largely be stripped from UMD releases, and exclusive PSP compatibility meant no ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
#33
PlayStation EyeToy
There were never more than eight PS2 games a year designed for the EyeToy, and the majority of those ended up being hugely unpopular. Whatever functionality it had was either limited or unappealing or both, and now the only new titles EyeToy owners are left with have names like ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
#42
Memory Stick:
A bit of a cheat here, since it debuted in 1998, but Sonys been torturing us with variations of its "why wont it just die already??" flash-memory format throughout the decade, so we call it fair game. Lets run down every iteration: Memory Stick, Memory Stick Select, Memory Stick ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
This photo says everything that needs to be said about Sony and their ongoing handling of PS3 marketing. A guy in a suit, looking bored and unprepared staring down at a script that describes what it is to be "really exciting".
Do notice that he says that the motion controller LAUNCH ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Here we go again with Sony's infamous bait-and-switch mess. This time, I'm going to let the quotes speak for themselves, complete with unspoken, but yet included truths. **truths are demarcated with 2 stars**
...In an interview with Nikkei Japan Sony Computer Entertainment executive vice president and chief technology officer Masayuki ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
So my newest theory (though months old and now well proven) on Sony's lying "ps3 exclusive" hype machine is this:
Pay companies with new highly-anticipated games to say "it's a PS3 exclusive" for 3-6 months regardless of if they're developing for other systems
Run hype machine in public about such things - ...
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