10 Reasons Why the PS3 Price is Actually Good

I often hear and read a lot about how the PS3 is over priced and that this certain price point will ensure Sony will lose this console war. I see several basic flaws with this logic, and I hope to enlighten my (practically zero) readers on why.

Thus I give you the Top Ten Reasons a High Priced PS3 is Really a Good Thing:

10. Less Loss by Sony
Higher prices means less lost by Sony in each sale. This isn’t neccesariliy good for the user right now, but in the long run it should prove to be a positive effect for all PS3 owners. Income is something that investors and Sony look at when deciding what to develope more. When Sony makes more money on the PS3s then they will be able to develope the system in different areas that otherwise would be left alone.

9. Usable as a PC
You get more for your money by being able to run many different distros of Linux, and if I’m not mistaken you can even install and run XP (later vista). This allows you to effectually you your PS3 as a souped up server, or even a PC platform gaming machine. The real test will be if you can install OS X…

8. No Online Fees
On a PS3 you will never need to pay for online services. Xbox Live is cheap, but the recurring fees add up over time. It is a stretch to say that not spending on Xbox Live will cover the extra you pay for a PS3, but it’s a stupid cost that can be avoided, and only ever gets in the way. C’mon, your paying for what? Server space?

7. Same Situation as Xbox last Console War
Look to the last console war, the Xbox was late the to the starting line, and showed up with a higher price tag. It is arguable who won the last war, but it is undeniable that the Xbox did very well, especially near the end. The PS3 is in that same situation, although it’s up in the air if the right strategies will be implemented…

6. Better Gaming Performance
This is (ideally) why people buy game consoles, to play games. Simply put, the PS3 has specs that completely out due any other console out there. Yes, I know, games sell consoles more than anything. But at this point in the cycle I think most people will be judging the consoles off of their potential power and prowess, and from the specs, the PS3 has that competition in the bag.

5. Games
All of those great PS3 games out there. Resistance: Fall of Man promises to be a hit, and many of the games that are just over the horizen also look like they will take full advantage of the PS3’s SIXAXIS controller. Who doesn’t want to fly a dragon with the flip of a wrist? And for the Halo fans out there, try SOCOM III, where you’ll find an absence of “plasma laser guns” and an abundance of fast paced, realistic action.

4. Blue-Ray Standard
Very simple: The PS3 ships with a Blue-Ray player installed, the Xbox 360 and the Wii don’t. For the Xbox you must buy the $200 Hd-DVD player. This additional price essentially makes the Xbox more expensive than the PS3. Although there is the inherent argument between Blue-Ray and Hd-DVD, I’m not getting into that.

3. Look at the Lines
It made the news everywhere: Long Lines for the PS3. This, if anything else, shows that the demand for a PS3 is certainly there. Nobody would wait in line for days for a crap console, or would they? Regardless, many people empiracally proved that the demand for a PS3 is high, and that they are willing to shell out the big bucks to get it.

2. Look at Ebay
This ties right in with the last point: People want a PS3! Ok, so perhaps buyers were getting a PS3 with the express purpose of turning around selling it on Ebay, but I think it’s safe to contend that people are not buying PS3s off Ebay, at an average of $2k per, and then not using them for their intended purpose. $2k per compared to $600, hmm…

1. Power Users
With a price tag, that admittedly, turns away the low-end video game players, Sony will ensure that they reach more power users. By a power user i mean someone who will give Sony a profit on the PS3. These users will buy more than just a few games and accessories. They will use the PS3 as a Blue-Ray player and subsequently will purchase many movies in that format. Essentially by only opening up ownership to those who have a bit of disposable income Sony can guarantee, or at least foster, greater profits on all PS3 units sold.

Hubert

So macheist has started mission 2. To progress, i need to post a link, so here it is:

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Meet Tangerine

I know that i don’t exactly have a huge audience of readers, but regardless I feel i must share a new found treasure. It’s called Tangerine, and it is a life saver for those of you who like to listen to music at the gym. Tangerine works by quote,

“lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It does that by analyzing the BPM and beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library. As mentioned in the previous post, it analyzes the songs blazingly fast to the tune of more than 3 per second (on an 1.83 Ghz Core Duo iMac).“

So I will admit, i don’t go to the gym all to often, but if i did then i would use this app religiously. Tangerine replaces the need for the iTune Music Store’s new feature of selling rythmically similar songs. It certainly isn’t a iTunes killer, but Tangerine proves to offer great features for a beta. Check it out at: Potion Factory.

Web2.0 bullshit generator

Wow, i now realize where ppl get all their ideas!! It’s actualy kind of scary.

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Google Down!?!?

Hmmm.. Since digg wont let me submit just www.google.com, i had to lower myself to linking to a blog when the real story is elsewhere. Sorry, and i’m probably wrong about the whole google thing anyway, as there isnt anyone else complaining.

EDIT:  Ok so now if you check its back up, but i swear to god it wasnt up earlier!!  whatev.

The Political Landscape Now

I keep on seeing the news, reading the paper, watching the videos, and reading the blogs. But no where does any one sum up what the *fuzzy bunny* the Bush Administration is doing. For the most part every one just reports on the latest scandal, and that’s about it. They never draw the connections. So here i’m going to try to link together the major problems with the world, and for the most part blame it on Bush.

[One note to start off with. When ever i say "Bush", i don't mean the guy himself, i mean his administration and all the ppl below him. Why do i simply say Bush? Well first it is shorter and easier to type, and secondly is ties a negative connotation to the word. So if Jeb Bush ever tries to run everyone with think "Bush" = Bad. Very simple mind tactics. :)]

Ok, so where to start. Let’s begin with the last election, where Bush beat Kerry.

I’ll first say that i never thought Kerry was ever a really good presidential candidate, he was just a helluva lot better than Bush. I always thought Kerry portrayed himself as too liberal to ever capture the majority vote. I thought he should have just sat back and let Bush run around *fuzzy bunny*ing himself. But no Kerry wanted to set up his own radical agenda, with gay marriage and the war in Iraq. He should have said that gay marriage is a states issue and at the very most it would only ever go through congress, so ultimately he would have very little say in the matter, but no he wanted to take a stance. Which was stupid considering that mostly old people with conservative values vote. The college kids he was targeting were to drunk to remember to vote. So that really didn’t work out.

The election really was never Kerry’s to win, it was Bush’s to lose. And Kerry never really figured that out. Bush on the other hand really had his strategy figured out. He made himself seem like the most patriotic bastard, and if you voted against him that you might as-well be pissing on the statue of liberty herself. This made people forget the whole war *fuzzy bunny*-up, corporate alliances, and draft dodging. The rest is history. Kerry lost and now is just an embarrassment, whereas Bush went on into a second term with impending issues that I’m sure makes him wish he never won at all.

There was reported voter fraud too, but ill probably get to the whole corporation/government conspiracy part later.

So what’s next? Katrina? That sounds about right.

So amidst the racism and clean-up criticism that is being thrown around, everyone seems to forget the most important *fuzzy bunny* up on Bush’s part, the prevention. What was the top 3 things that the Clinton Administration warn Bush about when they left? They said beware of Alqeada, the dams in New Orleans, and some other things that isn’t as important. It might of been oil conservation, but it doesn’t really mater so much. So what was one of the first things Bush does to New Orleans when he comes in power? He takes aways huge amounts of funding from the disaster relief and dam restoration committees. Where did that money go? THE WAR! He tried to hide the funding switch by giving to the Army Corps of Engineers, but what they do now is rebuild towns in Iraq. So bush completely *fuzzy bunny*ing got caught with his pants around is anlkes on that one. Really shows how much he thinks about his own constituents when he takes money from being spent on jobs in America and ships it to be spent building factories in other countries.

The whole claim that the Katrina thing was racist is bogus though. I would love to pin the button “Racist Bastard” on Bush, but i simply can’t push myself to manipulate the truth that much. So every one claims that Bush’s slow reaction was due to him wishing ill will on the colored man. This idea is retarded in two ways. The first is that no political party wants to be tied to being racist, and they will bend over backwards to avoid it. Would Bush really want to lose all of his constituents just because he has a distaste of blacks? No way! And the second reason the claim is retarded is that Bush just wasn’t prepared. His delayed rescue was really because he didn’t have the measures in place to respond to such a tragedy. Why? Because he spends too much money on the war.

So in the end Bush really got *fuzzy bunny*ed up the ass with the whole Katrina thing. Now, a year later, they pretty much pretend like it never happened. The media didn’t forget though. Good ol’ Brian Williams and Anderson Cooper still do regular segments about Hurricane Katrina. I think Brian has even gone as far as to say on air that NBC will continue to cover the aftermath of Katrina until it gets the attention deserved from the government.

So with the media serving as a thorn in the side of the whole republican party Bush launched that whole attack on They New York Times. Bush said that the NYT was leaking potentially harmful information. Their intent was to try to get people to stop trusting the media, and to start trusting the Gov’t more. The one really huge flaw in their case though was the fact that Bush himself had announced the record spying program publicly twice before in press conferences. Not to mention the fact that if terrorists are getting their intelligence reports from the NYT then we really should have nothing to fear.

Now for a quickie about the reshuffling of the Administration after the Abramoff scandal.

So is it any surprise that during and after the big lobbying/leaking scandal Bush moves everyone around and a ton of people “move on”? No *fuzzy bunny*ing way. All these people were connected and they wanted to get everyone that was a threat out of there. i don’t know why this didn’t get more press. I mean look! Right after the huge Scooter Libby thing everyone leaves!?!? Their running for their lives!! God i hate the administration now…

And the last big issue is the Israeli conflict. Not much scandal around it yet. Except that Bush is intent on blaming it all on Hezbollah, when the Israelis are just as much if not more responsible for the whole thing. Listen the Israelis talk about the Palestinians and such on the news! They treat them like dogs. I wish i was awake enough to try to link you to a video of some of the *poop* they say, but just turn on the good ol’ Fox News, they’ll have it on in the disaster porn rotation soon i promise.

Now to draw all the connections that haven’t already been made in list form:

The Three Things You Need to Know-

1. Bush Likes Money: The whole oil scare and *poop* (which i grossly undercover in this) is all in control of Bush, and more directly his main campaign financiers, the big oil companies
2. Bush is Stupid: He is incredibly small minded. If it benefits him now, then he’ll go after it. And then later he’ll cover it up with “leaked” stories or a different form of bad press
3. Nobody Likes Bush: Not even his own party. Bush hasn’t been featured in one Midterm congressional ad yet. And for good reason, nobody wants to be connected to him. Affiliation with the president is now political suicide. Because all the Democrats would have to do then is say the magical word, “Bush”…

I hope this sums up pretty concisely the goings on of our great nation. I hope i can edit it to improve and clarify things. I want to put more about the current party strategies, but that will have to wait until i either get more AMP, or go to sleep.

Hillary Clinton moving to Moderate ground

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Pentagon Terrorist Attack a Cover-Up?!?

This approx 3-4 min long video left me saying, “Holy Shit” A must see for any American.

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Congress Gets a Raise, but you don’t

It’s amazing to think that just days after Congress blocked an increase in the minimum wage, that they would be so crass and tone-deaf as to consider a pay increase of their own.

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Windows Noises Turned Into Music

Some guy made an awesome song out of different Windows noises, and put it into a flash animation. Awesome.

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