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Re: Shawn Layden Reveals Why He Left Sony PlayStation

nplbbs

@NEStalgia Kutaragi had to bear responsibility for PS3 launch failure, because he wasn't in a good relationship with Sony executives since day one in PS history. And after almost two decades, there aren't many reasons for Sony to get him back any more.

Re: Shawn Layden Reveals Why He Left Sony PlayStation

nplbbs

@Korgon I mean, if a certain person only says perfect answers, that would simply means he calculate every sentence, which goes on to mean that for a good chance he does not "mean it" from time to time. An example would be friendly neighbor uncle Phil. The dude just feel "fake" to me.

Re: Shawn Layden Reveals Why He Left Sony PlayStation

nplbbs

@ChrisDeku While I cannot comment on the issue regarding the "affairs", Shawn and Jim are both veteran PS employees, Jim are even there since the beginning. I just don't get why people act like Jim Ryan is some Corporate newcomer that knew nothing about PS? The dude is literally one of the longest staying employees of Playstation.

Re: Former Sony Boss Fearful of Industry Consolidation

nplbbs

@ATaco You have Sherman Anti-trust Act, which was used to break Standard Oil from the biggest oil company on earth, ever created, into 34 smaller companies. Even the biggest oil company right now, the Saudi Arabia national oil company pales in comparison to Standard Oil, so I'd say the law IS against the ones on top, it's just that when it was created, it was for a much much bigger and evil monoply such as Standard Oil. Apple or Microsoft or Amazon may be heading towads two trillion dollars, but they would never achieve the influence level standard oil could ever achieve, simply because Sherman Antitrust Act is up there waiting for "the one on top".

Re: This Could Be the First PS5 Compatible SSD

nplbbs

The thing is people forgot that MS proprietary cards can only be used on Xbox Series X,and since it's only PCIe 4.0 x2 even if you have same interface as the cards have on PC with PCIe 4.0 x4,it would still run at x2 speed. Plus the proprietary cards on XSX has only 3 year warranty whereas the standard for any PCIe 4.0 x4 TLC drive on pc is 5 year warranty. And if you plug x4 drives on x2 interface it will maxout x2 speed while on x4 it can run as fast as it could at x4 speed. MS is just selling an inferior product here. And Seagate is not known for good SSD. Hell their main products HDDs are not known for good build quality. AN D they are selling it at same price as high end PCIe 4.0 x4 price?I call THIS anti-consumer

Re: All PS5 Apps

nplbbs

Here's hoping the 4k Blu-ray software on ps5 won't be as ***** as xbox one s‘. I bought one xbox one s for my movie collections specifically because it had 4k Blu-ray drive,but boi oh boi was it disappointing.

Re: Ghost of Tsushima PS5 Console Concept Is Sharper Than a Samurai Sword

nplbbs

That is actually not japanese text. Although Japanese also use Chinese characters, the text used here was Actually written by Xiahou Xuan,An three kingdoms era writer and politician,around early to mid 3rd century AD. And the context of the article is to discuss a famous Chinese general and lord,Yue Yi, from around early to mid 3rd century BC in the Warring Period, 600 years earlier. To use this for a samurai game is like using the declaration of Independence for spartacus' resistance to the romans. Most people probably could care less about it since not many people know about the context of the text here, but it really is not appropriate to put the wrong content for wrong theme just for the sake of historical accuracy and nothing else.

Since this is late 13th century Japan, there are actually tons of more fit text to be put on there that were really about samurai era since the first shogunate just started a little short than 100 years ago from Ghost of Tsushima's time, and some of the most famous samurais were from just before the first shogunate. This concept art is all cool and things, and I will admit I don't have the appropriate skills to make such a concept image, but I just hope there could be text that actually talks about samurais on there instead of randomly picking Chinse/Japanese text and put it on there.