April 20, 2007 at 9:39 am
· Filed under Consuming · Tagged: Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Walmart
I’ve got two HD TVs in my house, and honestly I could give two shits about the HD format war thats waging strong. My intial hunch was the HD-DVD would trump Blu-Ray for 2 reasons: First, the combo disk sounds like a great idea; secondly, Sony pretty much sucks at inventing formats.
At any rate, the previaling logic was studio support would decide this in a timely fashion and we can carry on rebuying all the movies we just bought on DVD again and call it a day; this has not really been the case, with many studios supporting both, some flip flopping and changing their minds, and so on. Ultimately the studios are going to follow the units/money, not dictate a standard.
So who is going to nip this war in the bud? Walmart. Continue reading »
April 10, 2007 at 1:15 pm
· Filed under Consuming · Tagged: John Romero, pundit
“My prediction is that the game console in the vein of the PS3 and XBOX 360 is going to either undergo a massive rethink or go away altogether.”
My prediction is you’re a retarded jackass, and you’re next game won’t sell half as many as Carmack’s.
Seriously though, console wars are bad enough, but there are still people that like fanning the PC vs console flame war? They are different experiences, good at different things. Done.
In 5 years, yes, it probably will be time for MS and Sony to “rethink” some stuff and release a new console. Hell, they will probably even use those fancy multicore chips Romero is screaming about. Christ, I feel more retarded for even thinking about this more than 2 minutes. Next.
