ENEMY FUNDS CONTINUE TO BE DEPLETED BY HARDWARE COSTS
The enemy continues to waste its money pushing its “PlayStation3” “entertainment” consoles onto an uncaring and unwanting world, with the foolish hardware maker STILL losing money on every PS3 it TRICKS unaware civilians into buying.
And this despite the enemy boasting of recent engineering efficiencies!
Image taken from a propaganda leaflet air-dropped in by Kotaku, which claims PS3 costs $336.27 to make – and sells for less. And that’s before you take into account the cost of the box, and all the shit games Sony rams into the packaging in order to make it look like some sort of “deal”.
December 14th, 2009 on 1:05 pm
How much does it cost if you build it yourself, like the old days of the speccy?
December 14th, 2009 on 1:54 pm
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December 14th, 2009 on 3:03 pm
How to make a PS3:
1. Draw “Playstation 3” in the spider-man font onto an old shoe box with a marker pen.
2. Buy an old PS1 pad from a car boot sale for a quid or something.
3. Sit in front of your new PS3, not playing any games or exploring home because it’s all shit. You have accurately replicated the PS3 owning experience. So, by my calculation, it costs a quid and an old box, Giger.
December 14th, 2009 on 3:22 pm
Surely that’s better than the new ones as well? Seeing as it would have perfect backwards compatibility? Better than the original 60gb PS3 in fact, due to it having 100% perfect compatibility. I might have a go at making one of those, I have a few shoeboxes going spare and an old ps1 kicking around somewhere gathering dust.
December 14th, 2009 on 3:33 pm
You don’t even need a PS1. Just the box is enough, pretend it is in there. Or do without the box and pretend it is under your bed.
Or turn on your Dreamcast and forget about the PS3 entirely. And then never go outside and forget about the rest of humanity entirely.
December 14th, 2009 on 4:04 pm
Well, yeah, I could do that, but how’s that any different to usual?
December 14th, 2009 on 4:57 pm
Yeah, I didn’t say anything about needing a PS1. Just the controller, for a better role-playing experience. Don’t forget to paint it all black!
I think I’ve missed my calling as a Blue Peter presenter.
December 14th, 2009 on 6:20 pm
Whoops, you are indeed correct, I’d just been skim-reading.
In which case, I may as well use said shoe boxes to fill the gaps in my collection. This way I can finally get hold of that neo-geo, pc-engine and atari jaguar (with tempest 2000) I’ve always kinda fancied.
Although, knowing what my diy skills are like, they’ll look more like a trs-80, dragon 32 and atari jaguar (with cybermorph).
December 14th, 2009 on 7:28 pm
Three years on and they still can’t make any money on Kutaragi’s Folly. It sounds to me like Sony are totally fucked this generation. Microsoft and Nintendo will continue to drop the prices on their consoles and Sony will continue to languish at the back with the most expensive system. I expect Sony’s money to run out well before we get to the end of the 10 year life-cycle.
December 15th, 2009 on 9:33 am
Kutaragi has a ten-year life cycle, after which he turns into a newt.
December 15th, 2009 on 11:15 am
It’s freaking me out how GigerPunk made his words appear in bold (I think it’s even leaning sideways).
This whole internet technology thing is moving a bit too fast for my liking. Can’t we all just slow down and type with normal letters?
December 15th, 2009 on 11:27 am
Beans [b]Beans[/b]
December 15th, 2009 on 11:28 am
Haha, I solved it.
December 15th, 2009 on 11:41 am
Sorry, feel free to put a [s] (only with greaterthan/lessthan brackets instead of square ones, obviously) through all my previous posts if that helps at all?
December 15th, 2009 on 11:42 am
Oh bugger. Guess strikethrough doesn’t work then. poop.
Worked in the preview, honest.
December 15th, 2009 on 11:56 am
Haha, I solved it.
December 15th, 2009 on 11:56 am
Grr, I unsolved it. Lying preview bastard.
December 15th, 2009 on 1:09 pm
I remember the good old days on the interwebs where comment boxes didn’t do any filtering. You could open a blink tag and not close it and leave the rest of the page strobing or you could embed giant 1000×1000 buttons on the page or better still just put some javascript in and redirect the browser to goatse.
December 15th, 2009 on 1:45 pm
Oh, can you not do that anymore? I’ve always been so careful to close my tags too. Think of all the time I’ve wasted on that…
December 15th, 2009 on 2:03 pm
Literally minutes I wouldn’t doubt.
December 15th, 2009 on 2:16 pm
All this talk of shoe-box PS3s is leaving out one critical fact: the PS3 is quite a decent blu ray / network media player. Plus has direct access to the iplayer now, and the bluetooth remote is pretty cool as well.
Sorry, but yes, another UK:R reader is outed as owning a PS3. If anything though, buying a PS3 but never any PS3 games is losing Sony more money than just really hating them on the internet.
December 15th, 2009 on 2:53 pm
Can’t you do all that stuff by just putting a Bluy-gay drive in your computer? Or even better, by downloading HD films direct from the Internet instead?
Games machines are for games. Like the pure and unsullied holy Dreamcast.
Don’t bother coming here with your reasoning, friend. If the PS3 could turn into one of the flying skateboards from Back To The Future 2, I still wouldn’t be interested.
December 15th, 2009 on 3:18 pm
Assuming there were no dedicated hoverboards on sale, then I would be somewhat interested in a PS3 that could turn into one.
The difference between DVD and Blu-Ray has yet to make any inroads into my life. I know it’s more ‘hi res’ than DVD and have been bored to tears by a friend demonstrating how much the quality of his life has been improved by it, but I’m not obliged to feel envious just because Sony has told me to. There was no problem, there was no need. The tech industry invented the need for commercial reasons. CDs had a point, DVDs had a point. Blu-Ray is DVD again but ever so slightly better in ways most non-technophiles can tell or care about.
When passing shop windows with TVs on display, the question that always comes up is “is that HD?” to which we say “I think so, not sure. Let’s get closer. Hmmm, I think so . . . wait until the scene changes. It might be. I think so. No wait, it isn’t. Actually, it might be RF. Is this TV even HD?”. PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY.
Surely the pink Matel hoverboard will be cheaper at launch than the PS3.
December 15th, 2009 on 4:00 pm
I’m with you on the “I’m not obliged to feel envious just because Sony has told me to” point – half the pressure to get a PS3 I’ve seen around the office seems to be from a “I’ve got one, why haven’t you? Can you only afford a 360/wii?” kind of stance – regardless of whether it’s any good or not, it’s an expensive ‘luxury’ item that then people feel they have to a) brag about having and b) justify the fact they spent that money on it by telling everyone how great it is.
Seems to me that it’s overpriced and Sony’s tactic is to say it’s worth it in the same way that Stella is made out to be reassuringly expensive and is a classy product (going by the “Manon des sources” style ads, when some twatty Guy Ritchie mockney style ad campaign would be better suited to it), thus everyone rushes out to get it proclaiming it to be better than everything else out there, just because it’s expensive and they’ve got one.
But then, isn’t that Sony’s usual tactic?
I don’t mind paying a premium for a premium product, but just accepting it’s got to be the best because it’s the most expensive? Get thee to fuck. And I certainly don’t want one as a status symbol either, thanks all the same. I have a nice house in the countryside* that can’t be seen from the road, let alone overlooked by neighbours. I don’t need Sonys latest overpriced white elephant to compete with the proles sat in their their identikit mock-tudor rabbit hutches, believing themselves superior.
And don’t get me started on Blu-ray either; in short, I have a media centre pc so have no need.
And thus ends the sanctimonious rant for today.
*and before anyone accuses me of being a snob, don’t forget I’m in Wales, so it’s not that posh
December 15th, 2009 on 4:00 pm
The Dreamcast was the first console with a web browser wasn’t it? And the Saturn had a VCD addon. You know any console made by Sega would be sullied to the max with extra guff.
And no, you cannot get HD stuff on a PC costing the same as a PS3… hence Sony losing money :)
I wouldn’t say Blu Ray has changed my life, but the PS3 also steams low-def downloads from http://eztv.it via my media server, which is actually more convenient than watching normal telly.
Anyone passing up a hoverboard is clearly mad.
December 15th, 2009 on 4:16 pm
Bugger it.
I’m confused now. PS3 = Most expensivest console currently available that can do the most stuff and is therefore the best. QED, obviously?
And yet, having a media centre pc that’s (slightly) more expensive but is a full pc, that’s sheer folly and madness? I’d much rather put my money towards having a fully fledged media centre that I can do exactly what I want with – I can upgrade it however and whenever I like too, like when the next vcd/dvd/blu-ray replacement turns up for example.
Oh, and you’ve hardly ‘outed’ yourself as a PS3 owner when you’re sat there lurking behind the name ‘Anonymous’, have you?
December 15th, 2009 on 4:25 pm
You’re failing to get with the spirit of blinkered/futile Sony hate here.
-D Anonymous, you must try harder.
December 15th, 2009 on 4:27 pm
I mean “D-” of course. Been a while since I was getting D-minuses at school, so forgive me.
December 15th, 2009 on 4:51 pm
Yo, buying a PS3 hurts Sony, that was the thrust of my post. I’m not having a pop or trying to convert anyone, God forbid!
Giger, no one said the most expensive was best, except you! (I also have a media center PC if that helps?)
In a rush to jump down my throat, logic and reading previous posts clearly had to be abandoned. You are both forgiven.
December 15th, 2009 on 4:56 pm
-D wouldn’t have been so bad on a school report. That’s a one-eyed smiling emoticon, so all would be good.
December 15th, 2009 on 5:08 pm
Oh I know you didn’t say expensive=best, that’s all the other ps3 owners I know. I’m just lumping you in with all of them as, well, that’s what you do with collaborators, don’t you?
And you have a media centre pc too so I completely fail to see the point of ps3 ownership in your case. If I owned one my my only defence would be was that it was an attempt to stop everyone inthe office wittering on about bloody killzone 2 all the frigging time. A poor defence admittedly, but fortunately also an irrelevant one that I don’t have to rely on, as I am not harbouring a ps3 in my home.
December 15th, 2009 on 7:10 pm
The thing is, it costs Sony $336.27 to make a PS3. If you buy one, Sony lose $37. If you don’t buy one, Sony lose $336.27 (or £206.84 in the Queen’s money). So you’re far better off not buying one and using the money on Punternet. £200 is enough for a couple of hours, although I think 5 minutes is plenty.
December 15th, 2009 on 11:01 pm
I keep wearing my RIP t-shirt.
Here is a quiz. See if you can guess the number of people:
1. Who know what it’s about without asking.
2. Who understand after I’ve explained.
December 16th, 2009 on 1:32 pm
Christmas is coming! That time of year when we all start posting more because we have nowhere else to be.