Author Topic: Sony getting hit Hard lately (Read 867920 times)

Aussiedude · « **Reply #325 on:** September 10, 2006, 02:02:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
Disclaimer: Kairon's right, this is just my opinion, I know nothing about the stock market. Of course, neither does anybody, it's basically like gambling. Some informal studies have shown that randomly picking stocks works as well as expertly selecting them. But yeah, if anyone buys Nintendo stocks on my advice and subsequently loses money, that's their problem!

Well I dont work, my only income is from the stockmarket so I dont agree with this "random select" comment.

However only financial advisers can legaly give advise on what stocks to buy. I dont use them, I analyse the stock myself.
Good luck on your Nintendo stock.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #326 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:24:55 AM »

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196158&cid=16074429

I think it's real.

Arbok · « **Reply #327 on:** September 10, 2006, 08:21:50 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196158&cid=16074429

I think it's real.

The PS3 far better on paper and at pulling off senseless benchmarks than at doing actual gameplay, much like the PS2? For some reason I'm surprised, even though we have seen this all before from Sony. The source sure does sound like he knows what he's doing, and I'm inclined to believe him as considering what he's saying there is no way that the person would go on the record with those comments. Still, could be false all the same and there is no real way to check it one way or the other until the system is actually out.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #328 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:24:05 AM »

This bit caught my attention the most: An arrogant company that treats you like dirt (this year before E3 they'd refuse you approval for PS2 titles if you didn't get on board with them and do some PS3 centric announcements), with really poor tools that make you spend time wrestling with a machine and bad software instead of putting fun in your game.

Artimus · « **Reply #329 on:** September 10, 2006, 10:00:38 AM »

It's so Nintendo circa-1996 it's not funny. Actually, it's even worse than that. Nintendo never bled the customer with insane price-points and they never lied about shipments (they did push it back, but that was a uniform pushback). Really, it's almost identical.

Aussiedude · « **Reply #330 on:** September 10, 2006, 12:32:27 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196158&cid=16074429

I think it's real.

Well I'm a qualified electronics engineer (retired now) and that sounds authentic. If its fake its well done.

Ceric · « **Reply #331 on:** September 10, 2006, 02:57:48 PM »

That was a good article. Informative all around except for the Nintendo side.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #332 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:47:27 PM »

Bad news is comedy.

wandering · « **Reply #333 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:52:02 PM »

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Actually, it's even worse than that. Nintendo never bled the customer with insane price-points and they never lied about shipments (they did push it back, but that was a uniform pushback). Really, it's almost identical.

One thing you have to give Nintendo credit for: they may have treated devs like dirt, but they never treated their customers that way.

Ceric · « **Reply #334 on:** September 10, 2006, 06:22:49 PM »

Right now I sort of feel like dirt/unimportant.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #335 on:** September 10, 2006, 06:37:55 PM »

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Right now I sort of feel like dirt/unimportant.

Ah you want a hug Ceric? Maybe Reggie can give yah a hug if you see him, a big bear hug!

Smoke39 · « **Reply #336 on:** September 10, 2006, 06:39:11 PM »

Reggie's scary; I wouldn't want a hug from him.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #337 on:** September 10, 2006, 06:45:49 PM »

you'd snap in half, then crumble to dust and blow away

Ceric · « **Reply #338 on:** September 10, 2006, 07:00:10 PM »

Thats if you get close enough and don't get smited by his greatness or SeaMonster... Gotta love the SeaMonster...

Now Iwata and Miyamoto they both look sort of cuddly. They should make them into plushies.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #339 on:** September 11, 2006, 08:58:10 AM »

lol

there should be two lines:
- Iwata and Miyamoto: Plushies
- Reggie and Yamauchi: Iron Fist

JonLeung · « **Reply #340 on:** September 12, 2006, 04:55:41 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ceric
Thats if you get close enough and don't get smited by his greatness or SeaMonster... Gotta love the SeaMonster...

I was going to make a topic about "how close have you gotten to Reggie", if only to brag about the only semi-lame photo I have of him. Standing in line at Nintendo's booth at E3, after getting past the walls around the perimeter and actually in it now, about where one could chat with Charles Martinet on those two-way conversation screens, Tina Wood from G4 had just walked by, apparently hurried with something, and then Reggie walked by going the other way, talking with some other important-looking guy. I reached for my camera and went to take a picture, but by the time I did, they both had walked past so the picture is of them from behind. It's still less than a few feet away, so it's still the closest visual proof that I was near the now-President of America.

Nintendo has Miyamoto and Reggie and Iwata. Sony has Kaz and Kutaragi. Is there any wonder people like Nintendo more than Sony?

Heck, you'd think Nintendo would be a great place to work overall. It makes me wonder why high-profile Nintendo people like Ken Lobbs and Howard Philips (yes, the one who created and hung out with Nintendo Power's own Nester) moved on to Microsoft. >_<

Arbok · « **Reply #341 on:** September 12, 2006, 07:10:44 AM »

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Heck, you'd think Nintendo would be a great place to work overall. It makes me wonder why high-profile Nintendo people like Ken Lobbs and Howard Philips (yes, the one who created and hung out with Nintendo Power's own Nester) moved on to Microsoft.

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EasyCure · « **Reply #342 on:** September 12, 2006, 07:26:55 AM »

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lol

there should be two lines:
- Iwata and Miyamoto: Plushies
- Reggie and Yamauchi: Iron Fist

Reggie and Yamauchi should be transformer like action figures that come with GIANT ENEMY CRABS which they inflict MASSIVE DAMAGE to

KDR_11k · « **Reply #343 on:** September 12, 2006, 08:28:54 AM »

No, the Giant Enemy Crab will only be available with the 599$ Ken Kutaragi figure.

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #344 on:** September 12, 2006, 08:43:49 AM »

I hope Nintendo gets smart and offers a special promotion. Preorder the Wii get a Plush Reggie Chibi.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #345 on:** September 12, 2006, 09:07:32 AM »

more like trade in my digital-out gamecube and get 5 launch games for free

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #346 on:** September 12, 2006, 09:11:13 AM »

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more like trade in my digital-out gamecube and get 5 launch games for free

If that were true I would go out and buy a GC and send it into Nintendo to get the original version then trade it in for 5 free games. 5 games for $69.99-99.99 plus shipping.... sounds like an excellent deal to me

JonLeung · « **Reply #347 on:** September 15, 2006, 10:24:33 AM »

Since we've been bombarded with lots of major Wii news this week (unlike, you know, most weeks), what's the situation on what remains of any interest in the PS3? Any new catastrophes for Sony lately?

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #348 on:** September 15, 2006, 10:29:05 AM »

I'm still on the same track, not getting a PS3 until after the frenzy is over, which will be sometime in 2007. I will probably snatch up any early games that look good and get good feed back even without the system, because I do want one, just not right now. Especially considering that I'm almost positive gonna have to get a bundle for the fist 4~6 months and I'm not gonna pay out the ass for a bundle on top of a 600.00 system. Seriously, who is gonna buy the cheap system? The same thing all over again like the Xbox 360. Everybody is gonna want the better system that anyone who gets the cheap, and non-upgradable? system (unlike the xbox 360 which can be upgraded) is just asking to be ass raped!

couchmonkey · « **Reply #349 on:** September 15, 2006, 10:40:10 AM »

I think Sony's bad news is over for a little while. The last thing is that Sony's promising 1.2 million before the end of the year for North America, and I think that might fall through, which is why I'm preordering AND lining up AND making a deal with Satan for mine!

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