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 Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 18:44 Post subject: [OTHER] PS3 will be expensive |
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Developer tools, technologies and more revealed at the Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Meeting, more here;
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22/news_6129611.html
Summary;
- looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3
- Kutaragi: "the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households. I think everyone can still buy it if they wanted to" ... "I'm not going to reveal its price today. I'm going to only say that it'll be expensive"
- 450 PS3 dev kits have been shipped worldwide, an additional 200 units in August and 300 more in September
- Sony has signed licensing agreements with two of the leading developer middleware providers, Havok and Ageia (engines used in Max Payne 2 and Half-Life 2)
- nine major middleware vendors that will be releasing development programs for the PS3
- Kutaragi hinted that PS3 demos of games will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show in September
-Then Kutaragi issued a somewhat ominous warning. "I'm not going to reveal its price today. I'm going to only say that it'll be expensive," he stated.
anyone for £800 Ps3?
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 18:46 Post subject: |
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Whatever expensive means for a home console system and whatever is expensive is for a console in Kutagaris eyes.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 19:11 Post subject: |
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Probably means it'll be about £500.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 20:34 Post subject: Re: [OTHER] PS3 will be expensive |
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| mcmanic wrote: | | - Sony has signed licensing agreements with two of the leading developer middleware providers, Havok and Ageia (engines used in Max Payne 2 and Half-Life 2) |
Sony just have to follow M$, don't they? What happened to the engine used in Killzone 2? I thought that was going to become Sony's killer app...
Anyway, PS3 is probably gonna be US $500-600, which means almost double the price of an Xbox 360. That might put M$ way ahead of Sony... in the sales department.
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 21:35 Post subject: |
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i was kidding with the £800 price point, but it'll be alot more than the xbox360 i bet, even Kutaragi states it'll be the most expensive home console ever released and i doubt if Sony will be willing to make a large profit cut on launch just so they can match xbox360 price and we all know that MS will most prob drop the price even further to make a bigger widening of the two when PS3 is launched 1 year later after xbox360 here in UK. Also think that having a 10year lifespan isn't good as no doubt MS will release the xbox 720 (lol) in the usual 5 year console lifesapn probably making the PS3 even less appealing.
hoping that i wrong though but again just lets wait and see but atm things not looking to great atm and remember no console has ever won no1 console 3 times in a row
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Jul 2005 21:55 Post subject: |
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10years is kickass. Every console shuld last that long, or close to it.
And for sure now with the ps3 and the xbox360 when graphics already are absolutley brilliant. Graphics have come to a point where graphical improvements basicly means 0, in my opinion.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Jul 2005 17:14 Post subject: |
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How about the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.
This went for $700(US).
I don't think the Neo.Geo was that expensive. But I do remember that the games when they came out where $200(US) a piece.
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mag2005
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Jul 2005 04:18 Post subject: |
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The only gaming system that is worth $700 is a PC.
If you hate it, ignore it.
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... Sony wouldn't make a mistake like that and give it a high price 
, they will set it similar to the Xbox360 price
