[Playstation 3] Op zn vroegst 1 april 2006

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 11:45 schreef SocialDisorder het volgende:

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Voorlopig zijn Starbreeze, KOEI, Capcom, EA, SCE (verassing! ), Guerilla, Rockstar, Activision en THQ nog enthousiast over de PS3, en zijn er geen cancels gemeld van hun kant.

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 12:50 schreef King_of_cubes het volgende:

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Ja, maar een bedrijf als Guerilla wordt gesponsord door Sony.

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 12:53 schreef SocialDisorder het volgende:

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vandaar dat Shellshock cross-platform was?

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 12:30 schreef P-Style het volgende:

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! En uitspraken van Itagaki en Carmack die toch al nooit wat voor Sony's consoles betekend hebben zijn ook weinig boeiend!

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Atlus cancels unidentified games

Shin Megami Tensei developer scraps several projects--but won't say which ones.
TOKYO--In a statement to investors today, Atlus announced its decision to cancel an unidentified number of games. The company explained that the move is part of its reorganization of its operations and that the games in question were liable to be money-losing projects.

Atlus has not yet disclosed which specific games it has decided to cancel. Games under development by Atlus include Jam Jam Hype! for the GameCube, EX Jinsei Game for the PSP, Touge MAX for the PSP, Shin Megami Tensei DS for the DS, Choro Q DS for the DS, and a new Shin Megami Tensei for the PlayStation 3. It's also possible that Atlus may have scrapped games it hasn't announced yet.

Atlus expects to take a combined loss of 693 million yen ($6.15 million) from both the cancellations and a review of excess inventory. For the current business year, the company is forecasting sales of 23.865 billion yen ($211.7 million) and a net loss of 380 million yen ($3.37 million).

By Hirohiko Niizumi -- GameSpot
POSTED: 09/29/05 01:47 PM PST

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 19:34 schreef Notorious het volgende:
Zo dit er mee te maken kunnen hebben???
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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 12:38 schreef Ruzbeh het volgende:

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Het bericht/gerucht dat Japanse ontwikkelaars massaal de PS3 overslaan komt helemaal niet uit meerdere hoeken, dit meldt ZAKZAK alleen, een lekkere, betrouwbare bron.

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 20:34 schreef Notorious het volgende:

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Inmiddels nog een Japanse bron...

http://news.www.infoseek.co.jp/society/story.html?q=26fuji61416&cat=7

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2005 12:30 schreef P-Style het volgende:

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Dit domme hardnekkige gerucht is al minstens 3x gequote in deze topic... en jij quote 'm nòg twee keer!

De PS3 heeft helemaal niks te vrezen! En uitspraken van Itagaki en Carmack die toch al nooit wat voor Sony's consoles betekend hebben zijn ook weinig boeiend!

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Op zondag 2 oktober 2005 12:35 schreef Doc__Zenith het volgende:

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http://www.sony.net/SonyI(...)o-att/SonyAR05-E.pdf

enigste nadeel dat ze hebben is de schuld van 61 miljard (blz. 78)

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Op zondag 2 oktober 2005 12:41 schreef Doc__Zenith het volgende:
oh, ik zie nu trouwens wel dat hun current ratio is verbeterd van 2004 naar 2005.

Van die 61 miljard is trouwens ongeveer de helft pensioenkosten en verzekeringskosten, waar Sony fondsen voor heeft (Sony Financial Holdings).

dus dat maakt het wat gematigder

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Op zondag 2 oktober 2005 12:53 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:
Alsnog veel schuld hoor. Ik geloof dat de entertainment divisie de enige is waar flink aan wordt verdiend.
Dus het is essentieel dat de ps3 flink gaat scoren. En dat zal ongetwijfeld gebeuren.

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Paramount embraces Blu-ray
Warner expected to make similar move this week
By Scott Hettrick 10/2/2005

OCT. 2 | In a stunning announcement Sunday morning, Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to support Sony's Blu-ray Disc format for the next-generation of high-definition DVDs.

Although Paramount will continue to support Sony's rival, the HD DVD platform from Toshiba, the studio is the first to end its singular commitment to one format, which both sides had hoped would give the industry its best chance of avoiding a Betamax/VHS-like format war.

With Warner and Universal expected to follow suit very shortly, Paramount's decision potentially throws the decision once again into the hands of consumers and retailers next year. Both formats are expected to be introduced next spring.

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Thomas Lesinski, Paramount Pictures president of worldwide home entertainment, one of the staunchest supporters of HD DVD, said in a statement Sunday that the studio will release movies on Blu-ray in North America, Japan and Europe as soon as Blu-ray hardware launches in those markets.

"We have been intrigued by the broad support of Blu-Ray, especially the key advantage of including Blu-Ray in PlayStation 3," Lesinski said in a statement. "After more detailed assessment and new data on cost, manufacturability and copy protection solutions, we have now made the decision to move ahead with the Blu-ray format. We believe the unique portfolio of Viacom content coupled with this format will provide great benefit for consumers and our shareholders alike."

A format war is precisely what studios, hardware manufacturers, retailers and consumers desperately want to avoid. The introduction of two incompatible formats has the potential to cause a much slower adoption of a new format for their movies, games, music and other programming, as consumers hesitate to pick one for fear of selecting the next Betamax that quickly will be obsolete. Studios and hardware manufacturers managed to find a compromise solution on DVD, which led to the introduction of the most successful consumer electronics product ever.

With the DVD market rapidly maturing and slowing to single-digit growth rates, media companies, which derive most of their studio revenue and profits from DVD, are pressuring their home video and consumer electronics units to get the next-gen format into the market as quickly as possible, whichever one it is, in order to rejuvenate sales of their vast libraries of TV, movie and music programming on discs.

"All we're doing is guaranteeing a format war," said a top exec at one studio DVD division about the Paramount announcement.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president Ben Feingold said that while the Paramount announcement is very important to the Blu-ray camp, "being on both formats will confuse the consumer."

Several execs in each camp believe the Paramount announcement to publish in both formats—which is the direction Warner has been leaning for the past week or two with a similar announcement expected this week—is simply a temporary face-saving strategy and that ultimately all studios will shift completely over to Blu-ray by launch time.

"Launching with a single format is the only way to get back quickly to double-digit compound growth," Feingold said.

Universal would not comment, but if Warner does announce that it also will publish in both formats, Universal is expected to be pressured to reluctantly follow suit.

Warner's softening position was believed to be what motivated Microsoft and Intel to announce support of HD DVD last week.

But many said at the time that announcement was too little, too late.

A big setback for HD DVD was the delay of the launch of its HD DVD players from this holiday season until sometime next year. Blu-ray has always set mid-2006 as its launch date, most likely with the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 videogame system, which will incorporate Blu-ray. Microsoft will not commit to including HD DVD in its next-gen Xbox 360 system.

In fact, the PlayStation 3 factor—Sony will not be swayed from introducing Blu-ray as the format is locked as a component in millions of PS3 machines next spring—is believed to be what has turned Paramount and Warner around in their thinking.

And major hardware companies including Sony, Samsung and Panasonic are expected to announce shortly that they will have Blu-ray players in the market by next spring, regardless of when the PS3 systems are launched.

WHV is believed to be under great pressure from parent Time Warner, which has its own pressures relative to the recent stock performance challenges by Carl Icahn, to do whatever it takes to get a high-def disc to market at the earliest possible time in order to rejuvenate the maturing DVD market.

Sources say Paramount was prompted to action by the imminent announcement of Warner.

Although it would be a little more expensive to release movies authored and inventoried in two different formats, it's something the studios have done before with Betamax and VHS and even laserdisc and 8mm, in some cases. And it's something the videogame industry has become used to.

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Op maandag 3 oktober 2005 01:25 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:
MS en Intel hebben uiteindelijk gekozen voor HD-DVD.
Blijf het jammer vinden, die oorlog .
Liefst had ik gezien dat ze er samen uit waren gekomen..