Why the PS3 might fail

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Jun 2006, 17:37

Gridiron?

Yeah I know us Brits (actually I think Europeans) alone in calling it by it's original name

. I can't bring myself to call it by "that" name

Unrealnils · Post by **Unrealnils** » 10 Jun 2006, 00:01

EvaUnit02 wrote:For which console did they do this with? Saturn or Dreamcast? Cuz I remember seeing Dreamcast soccer jerseys around.

Yes it was in the dreamcast era althogu hthere marketing was poor for saturn comapered to there megadrive.

As for arsenal the home shirts had sega the away kits had the dreamcast logo or something.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 10 Jun 2006, 00:03

Really? I thought Arsenal had the Dreamcast logo on both, as an attempt to mentally isolate Dreamcast from Sega, as Sega had a 'kiddy' image, which the Saturn suffered from, just Nintendo does now with the GameCube (or did, if we want to be technical about it

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bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Jun 2006, 01:49

Man those were the day, the Megadrive and SNES rocked. The NES was before my time and the Mastersystem

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 10 Jun 2006, 04:33

bradavon wrote:Gridiron?

Seriously, you don't know what Gridiron is? Y'know, it's like the American take on rugby except they wear armour.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Jun 2006, 12:56

I've never heard of it either.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 10 Jun 2006, 13:15

Are the bells ringing yet?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Jun 2006, 19:00

Nope that looks like American football to me. Is it a Kiwi sport Gridiron? It's sure as hell never made it to Europe (like Australian Rules, what a ridiculous name for a sport).

Just play Rugby or Football and be done with all the small town sports

EvaUnit02 wrote:Prolly cuz I associate "football" with gridiron, from eons of watching American television and cinema.

Just like the Yanks do with their American football. Football (Soccer) came first!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 11 Jun 2006, 07:36

Gridiron IS American football.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 12 Jun 2006, 02:49

Seriously WTF?! Japan truly is the world's capital of sexual deviance.

source wrote:Sony's US Patent application 20060099808 describes an "electrorheological fluid device and an electronic apparatus, which realize satisfactorily changeable hardness or tension in a portion of the device or apparatus which a human body touches, enabling application to a product that needs to have portability."

Basically, the patent describes electronic devices and displays that are flexible enough to be rolled up or folded when not in use, but become rigid when a small electric current is passed through them. The application lists wide-ranging uses for the technology, and suggests it could be applied to cell phones, PDAs, PCs, remote controls, clocks, glasses, and even game systems.

"The electrorheological fluid device can be applied to, for example, part of a controller of a home-use game machine as another example of the electronic apparatus of the present invention. A user touches a control section of the controller by fingers, and the feeling of touch is controlled by the electrorheological fluid device. For example, if a game player is defeated in a fighting game, the electrorheological fluid device is controlled to become soft in order to improve the realistic sensations in the game."

As of press time, Sony representatives had not responded to GameSpot's requests for comment on the patent's planned uses.

Origami gadgets

The boffins at Sony’s Tokyo labs are working on a clever way to get bulky electronic devices into small pockets. Their plan is to create handheld computers, phones and portable games consoles that fold up for carrying and then become rigid for use.

The body and screen of folding gadgets would be made from a flexible polymer containing conductive rubber bracing struts filled with a gel of aluminosilicate particles suspended in silicone oil.

When a current is passed through the struts, the particles clump together and harden the gel, making the gadget solid enough to use. Sony has found that it would take very little power to make such a folding device harden, so the drain on its battery should be low.

The company's patent adds that the transition from soft to hard takes just milliseconds. It suggests that the same technique could even be used in a video game controller to make it jolt or change shape in response to on-screen action.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Jun 2006, 14:18

Are you sure people won't buy the PS3 anyway because of the Sony name? The DS is selling very well in Japan but AFAIK the PSP is still "slightly" ahead in Europe (or maybe its equal).