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this episode technobuffalo is brought to you by godaddy what's up everyone welcome to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger on this edition we are going to talk about the Nintendo 3ds price drop we're going to talk about the PSP go and the upcoming PSP vita we're going to talk about what's going on with Google TV and we're going to talk a little bit about me personally and my life before YouTube let's go ahead and get started so thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of ask the Buffalo you can ask me jon rettinger any question you want from the wide wide world of technology you can ask these questions one of two ways first you can send a message to me on twitter at john for lakers or at TechnoBuffalo use the hashtag ask the bee and you can ask me anything you want you can send those questions in 24 hours a day 7 days a week otherwise once a week on technobuffalo calm will put up an article asking you to send in your questions for things that you want answered it can be obscure questions it can be broad questions could be anything that you just want to know whether it's how to or how to fix something that might be wrong with your phone or tablet so without further ado let's go ahead and get started so our first question comes from user Josh to us John what do you think about the Nintendo 3ds price drop this is Nintendo's white flag wave and saying we're sorry that we put 3d on there we know it hurts your eyes we know we don't have good launch titles and we know you probably don't care that much about 3d effective August twelfth Nintendo was going to be dropping the price from $249 269 dollars effectively sticking it to those early adopters that went out and picked up in at endo 3ds when it was first released including myself so this new price point is can represent a loss on each console sold for Nintendo which is not a new thing most console manufacturers whether they're physical consoles sit under your TV or portable consoles in general do take a loss on each of those especially on the early stages of manufacturing certainly as they get older and components become cheaper manufacturer they make up that profit but they do make their money on game sales and gain licensing a Nintendo is hoping that a cheaper price is going to make more people want to hop on the 3ds van wagon I think the best thing to make people hop on the 3ds bandwagon be released with everybody wants on a Nintendo console release a mario game I've been loving playing my ocarina of time on the 3ds but I do with the 3d off so it really it hasn't been any sort of giant improvements to me I certainly if you have a week go ahead and download the game from a virtual console you get almost the same experience suming you don't want the portable side of it so what do you guys think price drop is a good things the bad thing is a harbinger of very bad things for Nintendo curious what you guys have to say alright so our next question comes from moffa 3 o's who asks John should I get the PSP go or wait until 2012 for the PS Vita that question my friend is a no brainer first of all PSP go's when pretty much been discontinued by Sony it was a non-physical media version of the PSP gonna download all the games at a smaller screen some cramp controls it was a slide out people just didn't like it now is reflected in sales so sony has laid down the act I can probably get it for a huge discounted price but don't do it don't go for the PSP go wait until evita it's certainly going to come in early hopefully 2012 and everything we were hearing looks like it is going to be absolutely awesome so Viva la Vida wait for that one our next question is about a topic I haven't talked about in quite a while Google TV a-- comes from google TV 25 who asks should i get a google TV now i want a blu-ray player and heard the sony google TV has that any can search the web should i buy it now wait to the new one and when you think that will be thanks google TV has been the stepchild of google i was launched with giant fanfare and has a cool cool new features in it but it's been sort of languished free fringe product a lack of product updates we've been promised and promised and promised android apps george hasn't been delivered are in promise and updates in the OS hasn't been delivered I would stay very far away from google TV until we see an update which is rumored coming very soon perhaps to the IFA show which TechnoBuffalo is going to be at in Germany towards the end of august so wait wait wait wait wait if you want a blu-ray player that can do all kinds of cool stuff I check out Samsung you're gonna be able to get there sort of smart player and get all kinds of cool widgets in there including netflix hulu plus mu do and all kinds of awesome video features my recommendation definitely definitely wait so I want to take a break from answering questions to thank our friends and sponsors that godaddy the guys that keep the wheels of techno 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used to hope I was going to get in a minor car accident not big enough for someone to get hurt maybe I like a hit a stop sign but an excuse not to go and I sort of looked at what I love and what I enjoy it and technology is what I love and what I enjoyed and I really tried to find a way to make technology my life I was very lucky I was in the right place at the right time but if you guys have a passion for something whether it's tech or sports whatever it might be pursue it and try and make your career if you try and fail at least you know that you will given it your best effort so that's my advice hope you guys enjoyed this episode of ask the Buffalo will be coming at your every Monday Wednesday and Friday with all new techno buff lunes i'm your host jon rettinger I'll see in the next video cool beans koo beans what does that mean what does that mean