I don't know what to say about Sony's schemes. I'm referring to, in praticular, their closing the proverbial door on PS1 emulation using the PSP.
Here's the score. Currently, there are only a few titles available that you can rip from the disk, to your PS3, and then send to your PSP. The PSP hacker community have recently announced they broke the emulation program so you can play whatever PS1 game you like on your PSP, so long as you are willing to send it.
This means that Sony is telling people who have likely spent over $750 (probably more, since the PSP originally retailed around $250, and at the least expensive, a PS3 costs $500, and odds are those same people own a PS2...) that they're not willing to give them something extra for how much support they've given to the company.
Obviously, Sony could be worried about piracy, since it's concievable that people could send their games to other people's PSPs. But at this point, numbers are down on the PSP, and really, Sony could use the positive PR and the goodwill, because right now, with their abysmal launch of the PS3 where they didn't have half the units they said they were, what goodwill they've got is pretty limited.
Why stop nickel and dime-ing your fanbase when you could lose money but gain back a bunch of support that was lost?
Sony, this is how you don't do viral marketing.
It's the all I want for xmas is a psp ad campaign that went flat. It's going for the faux-thug mentality cross-pollinating it with the "h4rdc0r3" gamer community, and I suspect the proverbial streets can tell this is fake from thee hundred miles away as quickly as we can.
What irks me though is that they can sell the PSP on its own merits. Understand, they really had to try to work to have the PSP screw up as bad as it did. It has a great looking design and graphics comparable to a last generation system. Not bad at all. Then...nothing. It was treated like a gimmicky little brother to the PS2. Eventually good games were released. There's Metal Gear Ac!d, Daxter and at least a couple other compilations of early games that don't leap to mind at the moment.
This blog doesn't make me scream "I want a PSP". This blog makes me scream target audience. And now, I'm wondering if even the port of Chrono Cross will make it worth it to get a PSP a couple years down the line, or (I hope) Nintendo will release it on the DS, but that's a pipe dream.
Happy holidays. I know I don't update this thing. Maybe over the break.
And you all really should be interested in .moneen. You'll be doing yourself well by picking up their new CD, The Red Tree.
Why do reviewers focus on themselves so much? I got more about this dude's scenester seniority than the actual show which he was reviewing. I understand that he feels old or whatever, but honestly, the whole 'people in polo shirts can't like punk rock' argument is pretty tired. People like what they like. Yes, for different reasons, but they like what they like.
I'm beginning to wonder if this guy pays attention.
It's not just the polo shirt, dude, it's the immaculately distressed jeans, it's the shell necklace, it's the beer in one hand, dumb blonde hanging off of the arm, then going "yeah, I like punk rock". Sure you do, man. While you're at it, get your fucking 300 dollar phone away from me, and quit texting when the headliner is playing, while at the same time, bitching me out for trying to get in front of you to see the band you're ignoring.
And oh by the way, did you see the part about SOCIAL DISTORTION? Or the part where I said someone should have punched me in the face? Perhaps you missed the first sentence in the review?
The point is not that I feel old, but old and out of place at a RISE AGAINST show, a band that I've been watching for 3 years now.
Brendan Urie of Panic! At the Disco had this to say about his band.
"It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone," he declared.
"Emo is bullshit!" added Urie. "If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, yes we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype."
That's fine. However, you do fit the stereotype of a hopelessly contrived, conviction-less and formulaic group. But at least you're not emo!
Wow...this is from the blog "Kings of A&R".
Even the scenester kids claim hardcore is dead. Don’t invest into
hardcore, a dying genre that never even deserved attention. Have you
attended a hardcore show recently? It looks more like ‘fight club’ than
an ‘event’. Hardcore has become nothing more than a soundtrack for an
ass beating. This is why the Ozzfest has been crumbling with poor
ticket sales. These bands are dissolving left and right, or completely
abandoning their ‘hardcore’ following, ala Avenged Sevenfold. We don’t
need more bands in this genre churning out the same cookie monster
vocals and lame guitar riffs. Do yourself a favor and sit on the side
of the stage at Ozzfest and watch these ‘calculated cloned’ bands
perform. These guys aren’t ‘rock stars’; they are dysfunctional kids
getting high on crack. For goodness sakes, rebellion is all about
originality. Today’s hardcore bands are sheep, certainly not goats with
horns.
Jesus, it's like we're living in an alternate reality. I'm seeing bands like THE CARRIER, THIS IS HELL, KILLING THE DREAM, BANE, IGNITE, HAVE HEART, CRIME IN STEREO and MODERN LIFE IS WAR carve their own way.
Please, keep talking, so I can see just how deep the hole you're digging is.
This new car ad for the Nissan Sentra is basically a hideous apparatus, made Frakenstein-esque by suits.
Let me count the ways:
1) In psuedo-blog form, ala the internet.
2) In quasi lo-fi, so the "target audience" knows Nissan is "hip" to what's going on now.
3) Professional actor.
Did you not learn your lesson from Lonelygirl15?
Shameless self-promotion:
-We currently have the new EP from COMMUNIQUE up, which I think rules, but you'd expect me to say that. We also have the reissue of a MARATHON EP streaming. 10 songs in total, 5 from each!
Enjoy.
If the Falcon's "La-Z-Boy 500" doesn't make at least 3 end of year mixtapes, they will have been robbed.
"1995 Penny" by the Fine Print is a great song, if you can track it down.
bones will heal...
It speaks to the talent and the skill of the Bad Brains that their DVD is being streamed in its entirety by AOL.
Intensity? Off the charts.
I'm trying to keep my private life a bit more private than i have in the past..it has only served to alienate the people in my life and frustrate me. and to be honest most of that was my own doing.
-Pete Wentz
Consider briefly who said that.
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