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Does anyone know when it will be coming out? and do you think it will be better than the Xbox 360?
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Going off the pre-released specs, the PS3 is easily the technically superior model. And assuming it'll be able to read the PS2 and 1 discs, it'll have a far larger game catalogue too.
It may well end up being expensive, but I doubt very much it'll be double the price of the 360. my guess will be �299.
It may well end up being expensive, but I doubt very much it'll be double the price of the 360. my guess will be �299.
no way it will cost �299 !
the 360 premium retails for �280 and ms are losing a shed load of cash selling at that price point.expect to pay �399 minimum.
also,remember that games maketh the console ! just cos the ps3 is technologically superior doesnt necessary follow that it will be 'better'.
the xbox was superior to the ps2 but there wasnt much to tell between them.the 360 will be amazing.....just remember that release titles never truly show a consoles worth.wairt for the february wave of games to get a better idea eg gears of war
Sony themselves have admitted expecting a pricetag closer to $700 which is around �450 i think give or take a few quid. so �299 is never going to be near the mark.
It is fitted with superior hardware and chips apparently but according to designers of the games they are struggling to develope the games for the PS3 and are not impressed with the developing kit Sony supplied. They say it will be maybe 2 years or more before fully taking advantage of the extra power it has over the 360 whereas there has been nothing but praise for the 360's hardware and development tools. PS3 may never even make it to the shop shelves yet as rumour in some papers and magazines say that Sony might downgrade the PS3 in spec or may even pull the plug if they cant reduce costs and compete effectivly against microsoft. Instead rebuild a machine that is cheaper to produce, expands on what the 360 has and uses some of the innovations the PS3 prototype had.
So they say anyway.
Just found this on a news site:
Informal CNN/Money poll finds many industry insiders think Sony�s next-gen console will be mighty pricey.
Ever since the PlayStation 3 was announced, industry-watchers have been prognosticating its price point. Just over a month after E3 2005, Merril Lynch predicted the game would sell for $399, even though it would cost an estimated $494 to make--before labor.
However, when Microsoft announced the Xbox 360, which uses current-generation DVDs, would sell for $399, many thought the PS3's internal next-generation Blu-ray disc drive would push its cost higher. That assumption was reinforced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, when the first stand-alone Blu-ray disc player was unveiled--with a $1,800 price tag. (The Xbox 360 uses conventional DVDs, but will get an external drive which supports Blu-ray's rival format, HD-DVD).
In the wake of CES, CNN/Money correspondent Chris Morris decided to poll a non-scientific sampling of game analysts and developers to see how much they thought the PS3 will cost. "Several developers I spoke with (under the condition of anonymity) said their studios were expecting the system to launch at $499," wrote Morris, who included quotes from analysts who concurred with the assessment.
However, Morris said that not all insiders' estimates were the same. Some pegged the console as matching the 360's $399 price point--which, according to last year's Merrill Lynch report, means Sony could lose over $1 billion during the console's first year on the market. Several developers also low-balled the console at $450, while other said it could as much as $699. However, as Sony is staying resolutely mum on the PS3--until GDC 2006, anyway--no price is yet official.
we're all making guesses anyway.
maybe it wont be �299. but i dont think it will be as expensive as everyone is thinking it will be, and i certainly think that Sony are going to make massive losses on the console itself. I would expect the games to retail for about �50 for the first few months, just to try and make up for the losses that the console makes.
maybe it wont be �299. but i dont think it will be as expensive as everyone is thinking it will be, and i certainly think that Sony are going to make massive losses on the console itself. I would expect the games to retail for about �50 for the first few months, just to try and make up for the losses that the console makes.
As far as the performance being greater than that of a 360, remember that whatever hardware is inside the PS3 is only there because the people who make that hardware offered it cheaper than others! Sony themselves do not actually make anything...they are a name first and foremost.
Personally I'm not that enamoured with the 360, it's not the great leap forward I was expecting and inside it there's not a lot to get interested in! Sure it has a triple core CPU but it's made by IBM! IBM have been making PC chips for years and have never threatened the likes of AMD or Intel, their technology simply isn't up to scratch and the same I'm afraid goes for the PS3.
Xbox 360: Decently priced, powerful enough but could be so much more with different (more expensive) hardware.
PS3: Being released sometime by an oversized faceless corporation for an awful lot of money, will also be powerful enough but at the same time is still gonna be full of the cheapest components.
Nintendo Revolution: Released sometime this year hopefully, will be cheap (likely less than �200) and modestly specced but that is on purpose! Nintendo do not NEED to throw their specs all over the place, they know it's about games and that is what they do best! The spec may be modest but they know how to get the best out of it! Throw in full backwards compatability with Gamecube games, a gamepad that is wielded like a sword and you gotta think they are on to a winner!
I take back what I said in the above post about the 360 not being great...I've been playing the demo of "EA sports fight night 3" on my mates 360...AMAZING is all I can say! It is absolutely breathtaking...and it's just a basic boxing game! It had us playing the demo for 4 hours and we only stopped to get food.
The PS3 is likely to be released between summer and Christmas 2006 (with staggered release dates across the world) and as said before the closest thing to a definitive date we'll get will during E3 in may. The pricing is still largely unkown and will be confirmed closer to the relase date - I don't expect it to be much more expensive than XBox 360 though. Even with any expensive hardware, Sony can sell the PS3 cheaply, the number of sales will surely offset the smaller individual profits.
will the PS3 be better than the Xbox 360? At this point all we can do is speculate. Personally I'm more interested in the Nintendo Revolution, because it looks set to deliver what the name says.
Don't believe all the hype you hear from Sony about the PS3, especially concerning the Cell processor. Sony did exactly the same with the PS2 and its 'Emotion Engine' - it never lived up to the over-hyped promises. It's very likely that real world performance (i.e. games) of both the XBox360 and PS3's processors will be evenly matched. A lot of the performance of the machines also is from their graphics processors, which are derived from PC graphics and seem to be fairly equal. From most accounts, the performance of the XBox360 and PS3 will be close call, perhaps with the PS3 winning out. Note that Sony still have time to improve the speed of the PS3 before it's released, just to get the edge over Microsoft. Ultimately it's probably not performance that will determine which is better but will be down to two things 1) Marketing 2) Quantity and quality of games.
Hey Sarcaustic...I e-mailed Nintendo recently about something I heard about the Revolution. I asked if it was true that the Revolution would NOT support high definition as I have a Gamecube and since I bought an LCD TV only really high rez games (from my PC or XBOX 360) do it justice...the GC looks fuzzy and low res.
Nintendo replied in their usual patronising manner, went on about how graphics are not everything, it will be amazing etc, talked to me like I had no idea...low resolution graphics may look ok on a regular TV but those of us with more sophisticated equipment are not even gona look at the Revolution...shame really as i was looking forward to it!
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