Sony is going to have a truckload of indie titles on PS VITA which VITA TV owners will directly benefit from. In total there are around 1300 games ready to be picked up and played (PS1, PSP and PS VITA combined).
I'd pick a pure gaming platform game over an Android / iOS based game any day. 100% Controller support for all games, and the games are generally of higher quality.
Sony having 100% control of the underlying platform for the device for 100% integration with their other devices (PS4, PS3, etc) is far more important than supporting Android games.
I think this is pretty much the end for Ouya, come to think of it. Android is just too fragile as a pure gaming device compared to something that was built from the ground up for that sole purpose.
Other than just gaming, the ability to watch movies, listen to music, stream PS4 to another TV, instead of purchasing 2 PS4's, (e.g. one for the bedroom and one for the living room), are excellent features. Each of which on their own are excellent selling points, except you get all of them for the same price.
I think a lot of people may be underestimating this product. If successful, they are literally taking Apple's Apple TV and Ouya's market at the same time, as well as creating a new market themselves.
So integrating with VPS providers such as Linode and Digital Ocean will be possible? If so, would this be easy to do for end-users?
Never got in to Cloud Foundry because it's overly complex and very limiting. Always went with Heroku, but wished I could have a Heroku-style infrastructure on the above mentioned VPS providers for the benefits of running better hardware, being more affordable, being multi-region, etc, etc.
Docker runs on linode and digital ocean (https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/469, https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/424) by loading a custom kernel. Assuming the requirements for Flynn aren't much more than Docker, the whole stack should run there as well. Easy for end-users is probably a matter of opinion, especially until Flynn releases some code.
Don't see Linode listed there, but between that or Jclouds (http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/documentation/reference/...) you have like a billion cloud API's available to you. I imagine teaming one/both would make Flynn a very interesting alternative to Cloud Foundry/etc.
Yes, there's no reason this can't run on VPS providers. Some have APIs for provisioning, so hooking them up for automated deployment is not complex either.
Does no one consider comparing the consoles by their hardware specs? Or is a console just a console and do specs not exist? It's seriously amazing that they priced it at $399 with what they are shipping. Could've easily been at $599+. PS4's spec are far superior.
Of course, reddit does [0]. To match the Xbox One, without the $100 Kinect, a controller, or a nice keyboard / mouse combo it's about $700 [1]. So we can imagine something matching the power of the PS4, including a controller or a nice Keyboard to be around $800-850.
Problem is that that's all that the Kinect is good for. It does more bad than it does good. Gaming wise it has been a disaster. Also, the specs of the PS4 are FAR superior to the XBOX One's. Definitely worth much more than the $100. I can't believe they priced it at $400, almost everyone was expecting north of $600 due to their specs. Golden move.
Ruby/Rails has practically become the poster child for every (modern) web hosting company. EngineYard, Heroku, DotCloud, ShellyCloud, 6Sync, Webbynode, Linode, Brightbox, and the list goes on.
Let's not forget the advancement of JRuby (JVM Ruby), Rubinius (LLVM Ruby), MacRuby (For Native OSX Desktop Apps), RubyMotion (For Native iOS Apps), mRuby (For Embedded Apps).
Not to mention the truck load of conferences every year, the new and existing, accessible and easy-to-use open source projects that are being released and updated frequently.
"Is it just me or has the world moved on from Ruby?".sub("from", "to")
Trading virtual currency for physical currency. In Diablo 3 you can purchase/sell virtual goods for real currency. Although both have "real value", you can do more with for example "USD/EUR" than with "Diablo 3 Gold".
^ This. You'll do it if you care enough or if it's absolutely required. Everyone knows in advance that this kind of shit can and will happen. Also, if people don't plan on hosting in multiple areas/AZs, I wonder why the hell anyone would even consider overpriced cloud technology while you can get practically 5 powerful dedicated servers for the same price, except that it's more performant than a shitty VM on EC2. That said, if you have 5 dedicated servers, why even bother with EC2? It's more expensive in every way. "Pay more as you grow" is actually extremely expensive for what you actually get. Infinite scalability? Please. When people think about scalability, they think about adding a few gigs of ram to their VM with a little more I/O throughput (e.g. migrating from VM1 to VM2) for hundreds of dollars, and it's still shitty VM performance compared to raw metal. Instead, why not spend that money on a few good dedicated boxes with 96-128gb+ ram and a bunch of true (not virtual) CPU cores, then you're done for a while, and for the same price. Hardware is dirt cheap these days.
The only useful/sane use case I can see in Amazon EC2 would be for services like Heroku where they need to automatically be able to manage a truckload of VM's as their rapidly growing infrastructure, unless you want to do it yourself which I imagine is quite a headache unless you work closely with someone like Amazon or Rackspace.
The "scalability" thing isnt about adding some ram or getting a larger proc. It's about adding a few dozen (or hundred) instances in minutes. Or getting hosts turned up in 7 different regions. Anyone can do that right now with AWS, let me know how your Equinox negotiations go for the next month.
Yes white boxes are cheap. Site negotiations, design, procurement, networking, operations, and maintenance are expensive in dollars and time. Personally I run "a bunch" of physical sites across the globe. It would be waaaay easier to be able to turn up rackspace/aws/google instances as needed.
> The "scalability" thing isnt about adding some ram or getting a larger proc.
You'd be surprised how many people that actually use EC2 think it is.
> Yes white boxes are cheap. Site negotiations, design, procurement, networking, operations, and maintenance are expensive in dollars and time.
It's called planning ahead of time. If not, then here's a suggestion: Use EC2 until you set it up and migrate, if you cannot wait that is.
All in all I don't mind whether people use EC2 for whatever reason. Just stating my opinion. I agree of course that in terms of "convenience" is has the upper hand. Not having to wait for boxes to be added to data centers, being able to spin up boxes in multiple regions through a single company/console. Maybe your use case does justify using EC2. Many other people clearly do not (hence all the whining because of all the downtime, which they wouldn't have had if they deployed to multiple AZs/Regions).
Which is why I brought it up, it's hilarious. I thought people were just trolling at first but man, the first time I saw it, it made my day. Relating something like "God" with natural disasters. I love how people come up with that kind of stuff.
I'd pick a pure gaming platform game over an Android / iOS based game any day. 100% Controller support for all games, and the games are generally of higher quality.
Sony having 100% control of the underlying platform for the device for 100% integration with their other devices (PS4, PS3, etc) is far more important than supporting Android games.
I think this is pretty much the end for Ouya, come to think of it. Android is just too fragile as a pure gaming device compared to something that was built from the ground up for that sole purpose.
Other than just gaming, the ability to watch movies, listen to music, stream PS4 to another TV, instead of purchasing 2 PS4's, (e.g. one for the bedroom and one for the living room), are excellent features. Each of which on their own are excellent selling points, except you get all of them for the same price.
I think a lot of people may be underestimating this product. If successful, they are literally taking Apple's Apple TV and Ouya's market at the same time, as well as creating a new market themselves.