PS3 On Track For Spring 2006 47
Reuters is reporting that, despite some reservations by analysts, Sony's next-gen console appears to be on-track for a Spring 2006 launch. From the article: " The timing of the release of Sony's updated PlayStation console has become a matter of speculation in the $25 billion video game industry and among the studios, hardware makers and other companies looking to handicap the battle over next-generation DVD technology. A spokesman for Sony, the No. 1 provider of game consoles, said it was still targeting a spring 2006 launch for the PS3, which is key to maintaining its lead in the game console market against Microsoft Corp. which recently launched its competing Xbox 360 console."
Let the marketing spin... begin! (Score:4, Interesting)
History does have a liking for repeating itself.
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It's really the principle, though. If I buy a PS2 or XBOX and a month from now they go down $50, that means I spent around $1.40 a day extra just so I could have it now.
Plus I really don't have time to play right now, what with finals and Christmas and work, so it would just sit there taunting me.
Computer games will hold me over until the price drop.
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Basically I'm sure you had your reasons and things going on to keep you busy, but there's a limit to the depths of frugality that make sense. If I still had time for PC gaming, I wouldn't spend $500 to upgrade my video card, nor even $300. The
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We all have busy schedules and limited income, but I figure I can wait until things get cheaper to buy a console I'm only going to play a few hours a week.
Damn. I wish I had all the money I had now when I was younger and had more free time.
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If you bought a PS2 in November 2000 for $300, that's $5 per month going to today.
If you bought a PS2 in May 2002 for $200, that's $4.65 per month
If you bought a PS2 in May 2003 for $179, that's $5.77 per month
If you bought a PS2 in May 2004 for $150, that's $7.89 per month going to today.
Yes you'll get to keep playing the PS2 after today, but the newest systems have the "hottest" games. Anyway, the most bang for the buck is if you'd paid $200.
Likewise you should
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I'd like to point out that if I did indeed wish to play the latest and greatest games, I would already have an XBOX or a PS2. I don't have that need, or the time, so I'm going to wait until the price drop.
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That's my prediction.
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Guess which console I want! (Score:1)
We're releasing soon! Well they've hardly shifted the launch date, and I'd say one season is pretty soon relatively. check.
Quantum supercomputers? Well not quite quantum, but clusters of PS2s have been used for supercomputing [bbc.co.uk]. check.
I do hope history repeats itself, if they make good on the promises this time, like they did last, we're all in for a real
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Er, yes they did [slashdot.org].
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What part of that was hard to understand? Sony barely beat MS online (with a year head start), the HDD barely even released in the states, and Sony promised pretty much what Xbox Live currently is back when the console was in its infancy, and they failed to deliver. But it's ok, they're Sony and not MS so we're allowed to look the other way and not hold them resp
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Whoa, I made that comment without even first deciding to RTFA. I take the second part of that quote back, Sony hasn't changed their tune at all. All that Sony's done is reiterate the point that was made at E3, and I figure we should only take this statement seriously for the Japanese launch.
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They did? Where? They say the same thing about the PS3 they said about the PS2... that the hardware would be there, and the developers could use it as they saw fit. Where did they ever say they'd deliver XBOX Live?
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Yes, they did. I can't find a more damning article because it was so long ago and most searches bring up retail sites, but Ctrl+F "movies" and the statement is there. I've seen screens for the PS2's proposed all-encompasing online multimedia network (that almost made me vomit at the time, I'm
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Again, still no claims of any sort of "PlayStation Live" in this article. We have:
So, MS promises Live, Sony is going to ship a network adaptor.
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Like I said earlier, that's the best I can find right now because searching for "PS2 movie downloads" just gets me a bunch of crap results. A network where movies and music can be downloaded (an agreement with AOL was also announced, IIRC) that also features possible web browsing and/or (not too sure about this one) email check
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Well this is true for the most part; my point is that Sony didn't really promise anything other than what was delivered.
If you remember the PSX... not the PS1, but the PSX that was a PS2 with extra networking and TiVo-like abilities... they actually did try some of this. And it didn't re
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I'd like to add some detail to this. There are two big myths regarding PS2 pre-launch claims:
The first myth is wrong; Sony never said this. If you don't believe me, try and find a quote, from a Sony spokesperson, that says this. Given all the articles are still on the web, this should be fairly easy to do, if this is true. However, it's fairly easy to find quotes from Microsoft spokespeople, like Bill Gates [weekly.org], that the XBOX would have "Toy Story quality graphics" (this particular case is from CES 2001).
The second myth is a result of people being wowed by realtime graphics that blew away the current stuff, and forgetting how crappy the graphics at the time were. Here are two screenshots I managed to find from the FF8 tech demo:
Decent. Way better than the PS1 [ign.com]. (Note, in that screenshot, only the characters are 3D, the background is prerendered.) However, the original FMV was still far superior:
Now, regardless, the claim is that the original demo was faked, and they haven't matched the quality. You be the judge:
Most of these are at least as good, if not better than the screenshots for the FF8 demo, and most of them are early to mid PS2 games. There are many more examples, but this is enough to compare.
Re:Guess which console I want! (Score:2)
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The question is of course (Score:1, Troll)
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How can the PS3 top the PS2? (Score:4, Funny)
What they need to top (Score:2)
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I can't imagine the PS3 being ready (Score:1)
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That's disgusting! This is a family site!
That's fine and good (Score:1)
Re:That's fine and good (Score:3, Interesting)
Here's a list of the backward compatible games. [xbox.com]
Just about every game I still want to play is on that list.
so wait... (Score:1)
I'll wait until... (Score:3, Insightful)
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