Duel match between Sony and Microsft Console intensified. Sony gives the first punch, Microsoft has “lack of longevity”, as then Microsoft: Sony is “out of touch”.

Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kazuo Hirai visualizes that Sony is still the video game industry leader, with his thought said

“I’d like to think that we continue official leadership in this industry.

It’s difficult to talk about Nintendo because we don’t look at their console as being competitors. They’re a different world and we operate in our world – that’s kind of the way I look at things.

And with the Xbox – again, I can’t come up with one word to fit. You need a word that describes something that lacks longevity,

Last time I checked, they’ve never had a console that’s been on the market for more than four or five years and we’ve committed to a ten year life cycle, so you do the math.

And unless things go really bad, there’s no way that at the end of a life cycle our competition is going to have a higher install base.”

However, some of us doubt if Sony would even survive

Aaron Greenberg on the other hand

“This sounds like an old hardware company that’s comfortable with its market position. That complacent attitude is out of touch with where the industry and consumer is today.

This generation won’t be won over just hardware specs, but who can out-innovate when it comes to online and software. This is the kind of stuff that’s in our DNA, and frankly moves the console war onto our home court.

I’m confident we will outsell the PS3 throughout the entire generation by providing more innovation and building the best and broadest games library while growing our entertainment experiences on the leading online network.

With a U.S. install base lead now of more than 7 million units (according to NPD), I can’t imagine any scenario where the PS3 can catch up with us. In fact, even if you doubled the current PS3 sales and Xbox 360 remained flat, they couldn’t close the gap until 2014.”

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter presents his opinion “Aaron Greenberg is right that Sony likely won’t catch Microsoft in the U.S. until at least 2014. Kaz is right that Sony will likely catch Microsoft globally,”

His extensive analysis are as follows:

“Please keep in mind that both consoles are offered in North America, Europe and Japan. Sony likely has a 4 million unit lead in Japan, is behind by 7 million in North America, and is behind in Europe by 2 million. My guess is that Sony can sell 2 million PS3s per year more than Microsoft in Japan for the next several years, and can catch up in Europe in two or three years. So by the end of 2011, Sony should be even in Europe, ahead by 10 million units in Japan, and behind by a greater margin than 7 million in North America. If the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 by 1 million units per year for 2009, 2010 and 2011, the two consoles will be in a dead heat by the end of 2011.

“You should note that the 360 outsold the PS3 in the U.S. by 1.2 million units in 2008 (according to NPD), with an average price of $300 compared to an average for PS3 of $418. If PS3 comes down to $299 some time this year, it’s likely that the two consoles will sell around the same number of units, with a slight edge to Sony because of Blu-ray. If the 360 price is cut further, Microsoft can likely sustain its advantage, but it may have difficulty selling 1 million more per year.”

He also jokingly said “Funny that nobody is talking about catching the Wii…”, perhaps nobody seriously talks about toys? Or is it the fact that the Wii could possibly uncatchable and also the best selling console ever.

Who knows?

sauce: SanCon, GameDaily

Danny Choo from DannyChoo.com tells us his experience about the new Fiber Optic/Optic Fiber/Optic Fibre Connection he recently bought.

Some of his reasons are:

-Can physically keep our private home network separate from an externally facing server – rather not have our private stuff on the same network.

-Want to have the freedom of disconnecting our private optic fiber modem for various reasons – cleaning up, moving things around etc – cant really disconnect the line for a live server all the time.

-Save 12,000 USD per year that some of the dedicated hosting costs.

-The most important reason is so that I can learn the process of how to do all the settings involved in setting up a server at home from scratch.

Surprising (at least for me) is that the optic connection he got is at 100Mbps! A Hikari line from NTT which costs a measly 1,022 yen per month for the first year and goes up to 6,720 yen for the second year. It’s a Flets Home Type promotion that he found on kakaku.com. With that promotion, he doesn’t pay the setup fees and modem rent. Nice… Compared here in my region, 768kbps with 1.2mbpsSpeed-on-Demand costs 899 php which is about 1700 yen and installation fee is 1999 php. A 2 mbps would be a luxury here…

They remove the plate covering outlet that covers the telephone outlet and they use that tool to push through a wire that will give way for the Fiber Optic cable.

Wow, they’re so well uquipped

These boxes gives the connection to the fiber optic cables.

They provide themselves a ladder to reach the boxes. Also there’s a guy that would guide traffic. We don’t have them here, why not?

The guy prepares the fiber optic cables that will be connected to the box.

Danny’s shot from the balcony.

The cable finally reached the house and is mounted on the wall.

The guy lubricates the fiber optic wire so that it can easilly slip through the tubes leading to the phone outlets.

It’s finally here

Another guy from the other floor secures the other end of the wire.

Testing the connection.

The guy tests the connection if it’s live and ready. What? We wait here for days before we get it ready!

His PR-S300SE modem, it’s also a four port router!

The back of the modem… just to feed your curiousity

His server rack.. pretty cool huh? I wonder when am I gonna have one. It is true that Philippine lag very much in IT related bussiness, no wonder a bad economy. Note that the Filipinoes/People are good with IT it’s just the Country that isn’t.

A link to my ISP BayanDSL (note: it’s not updated), here you can see the Internet Packages they offer for Residential and Bussiness types.

You can read the full blog here at Danny’s