Recent content by BenSkywalker

The cost curve changes to even the second the PS3 launches unless their are some price cuts. If we were talking about an edge that was lasting for years it would be one thing, but we aren't. I guess I didn't make my point clearly. You buy a nice big screen HDTV, you drop money on a new...

Not in disagreement with you, but with current production limitations we are talking a high end limit of ~600K players by the end of the year between HD and BR excluding the PS3. Toshiba is the only company currently producing HD-DVD drives, while several manufacturers are producing BR...

Of course scales of economy fix manufacturing issues due to technical limitations. It isn't due to the fact that they need to produce more, rather that they know what the demand is moving to so they drop the resources required to come up with a solution to solve the technical difficulties. They...

Raw material costs aren't fixed either. Nothing is fixed in manufacturing- raw material costs tend to go up over time fairly constantly actually, just the reduction in costs of everything else involved in the production tends to significantly more then offset that. As far as constantly...

A better analogy would be if they were working with a hypothetical au insulated silicon chip. Something that utilizes something valueable in raw material form, but not in the quantity close to large enough to have an impact on the raw materials global price point. The larger factor would be the...

All+DC- multiples of all of them except the DC(five kids, have to have something to keep them quiet :p ). Will do the same this generation without a doubt. Kids are all pumped for the Wii ATM which means I don't have to buy multiple launch PS3s(my bank account was psyched about that ;) ).

Using that same level of observation Universal is behind BR too. That doesn't change the actual real world situation. Since that press release HP reiterated their stance behind BR which in the PC space quite frankly is the only standard that makes sense. I follow all the news quite closely...

Scales of economy tend to drive costs though. Let's look at this from a slightly different perspective. Right now DVDs are flying off of shelves all over the world. Right now, BR movies are going for under $20 for the most part on Amazon. If we assume that the overwhelming majority of PS3...

It was an option that they decided to kind of not go with; although now they will sell it as an attatchment. If it was the pack in drive for the 360 despite Sony's prior dominance in the market it would have given Hollywood a clear inidicator that it would have at least ~30 Million users to sell...

Very good point. HD-DVD will be getting top quality exclusives like.... welll..... I'm sure there are a lot. So it won't be Star Wars, X-Men or Spiderman which are all BR exclusive- how many people in to high tech are into those types of movies anyway? ;) Matsushita, Mitsubishi and Sony are...

I couldn't vote in the poll, no option for 360 owners who aren't going to spend money on a dead end format that do own a HDTV and will be going with BR. Actually pretty much every company and movie studio has gone on record saying that the PS3 was a major factor in them choosing BR over HD...

Overwhelmingly, it sounds like I would never want any of you handling financial decissions at any company I am eployed with. Capital expenditure, risk assesment, potential/probable return. Taking a look at all of these factors- why would a company in nV's position want to even think about...

What does that change? Through April. Every system being discussed is using the same metric- their first month numbers include a partial month. That goes for every system we are talking about. Try and keep in mind that it isn't any different for the consoles you are trying to make excuses...

They sold 1.9Million in the US alone in the first six months of the original XBox. If what you want to believe were true they would have been @4.4Million units in April- a number they still haven't come close to hitting. This is based on actual sales data. I don't know what numbers you are...

Backwards compatability would be nice. I was in the store the other day and noticed they had a great deal on Riddick. I've never had time to play the game when it was big, and decided that it would be a great way to fill the void. Unfortunately it isn't one of the games that works. Right now I...