Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> ____/ John Bailo on Saturday 14 July 2007 17:15 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ] | Though Robbie Bach, head of Microsoft's Xbox360
>>> | Division refused to elaborate on the issue, the general
>>> | consensus is that it's one of botched thermal design management
>>> | and inadequate dissipation of heat leading to component
>>> | failure.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I think it's cool that the much underpraised PS3 sales
>> are finally going hog wild. By XMas I expect the PS3 to dominate.
>
> They recently said (someone from Sony, in Bloomberg, I think) that
> they would lower the price by Christmas.
However, this is at the cost of losing the "Emotion Engine" legacy
emulation hardware, although that was never shipped in PAL machines
anyway, much to European PS3 customer's chagrin.
It may well be that the software (firmware) solution is more flexible
though. Did the Emotion Engine provide 100% guaranteed backwards
compatibility?
Frankly, with *real* PS2s going for as low as 20 quid on eBay, I don't
see this as a massive problem.
--
K.
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