I think I only did the prediction league once without giving it a whole lot of thought for what it's worth, which is nada.

The stock market is the ultimate prediction league. When you're own money is on the line, you think things through a little more carefully. 

For example Be Inc was worth over a billion dollars at one point, as technically their product was superior to Microsoft Windows and this generated a lot of hype. But when Microsoft blocked 3rd party PC builders to deal with Be Inc (don't use BeOS or pay more for Windows), stocks crashed rapidly and Be Inc bankrupted.

Be Inc. never made a profit.

Be Inc for the most part was in its investment period, building up their impressive tech. Amiga was in a similar position until Commodore bought the company.

A Windows competitor isn't built in a day, neither was Rome. But Be Inc had PC builders interested in their operating system, there were signed deals, until Microsoft (ab)used its anti-competitive monopoly advantage.

Chairman Michael Dell has denied that the way Dell constructs its PCs played a part in a spate of battery-related fires. He instead laid the blame entirely with the manufacturer of the battery cells, Sony.

"We know exactly why there was a problem. Sony had contaminated its cells in the manufacturing process," Dell told ZDNet UK at the company's Technology Day event here on Tuesday.

Dell refuted reports by Sony that the way his company integrates the battery cells into its PC designs made its machines more susceptible to problems than devices from other computer makers.

"The batteries were contaminated and were no good no matter what you did with them," Dell said. "We know the batteries, under rare circumstances, catch fire, (which is why we recalled them)."

Dell recalled the batteries last month after several of its laptops overheated and caught fire. Other manufacturers are known to use Sony battery cells, but only Dell and Apple Computer have been affected by any problems."

http://news.com.com/2100-1005-6115710.html

You've completely lost me.

I've made money off Nintendo. I plan on making money with Nintendo for a long time. That is my position and I'm sticking to it until I see evidence to convince me otherwise.

Wow, this has turned from the question why so much hate for sony, to I HATE SONY CUZ THEY SUCK thread. Not one person hear has a very good reason to hate sony . All they say is becuz of fanboys or some other stuff, the fanboys have nothing to do with the company what do you think sony pays them to talk shit?! Fanboys were created when another person mocks another persons console, if you have an xbox and the guy says it sucks you start to defend it, the guy has a gamecube and you say it sucks to defend ur system, you my freind are a fanboy. They have nothing to do with any of the three companies, but because of fanboys, ps3 sales are low.

I find all the games systems great.
I think some people get too wrapped up in who sells the most etc.

The least likeable system I ever used was the Emerson Arcadia, and even there the story of the system came out at http://www.videogamearchive.com/emu/arc.htm

What an interesting story! All good toys!!!

close this crap thread, now now now.

The reason is the same their was so much hate for Nintendo over the last ten years. Seriously after 10 years of having Sony and MS fans criticize Nintendo systems as kiddy systems I am sure their are many of them enjoying the spotlight now. However their is much nintendo hate among many PS3 fans and some 360 fans though it has been getting less and less as the Wii sells better. It is still the same as it was over the last ten years. However instead of Nintendo fanboys saying wait for game X it is now the Sony fans that and the Ninendo fans saying the exact same things to the Sony fans used to say.

Seriously fanboyism feeds fanboyism. I don't hate Sony in fact I would say the amount of Sony hate is aboutthe same as the amount of Nintendo hate tehre used to be.