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Meh, I thought about it just to sell a couple and get one for free, but I think Im' just going to pass. I want my damn Wii!
Me but I am not gonna play it.
I am gonna save it til xmas and hope there is a shortage and sell it for 1k more
Meh, I thought about it just to sell a couple and get one for free, but I think Im' just going to pass. I want my damn Wii!
The PS3 will absolutely be worth it when Cell Factor and the new Metal Gear come out, but until then I'm passing.
any $600 system.
Where Do You Preorder It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????? I Want Two Of Them.
The hardware in that $600 system absolutely blows away what's in the $400 XBox 360. The 360 will be the better bet this Christmas, since first generation games will always suck, but there's no way it'll compete with PS3 in 9 months.
EB Games and Gamestop opened preorders today.
Most stores were told the number they would get at launch and stopped preorders at that number. Most sold out preorders in les than 15 minutes.
Umm, it doesn't blow it away at all, it's better but it doesn't blow it away...
yea dude I have a 360 and high def is the real . I can imagine PS3 ahead of 360 in terms of graphics but not by a lot or "blowing it away".
The Cell is a 7-core processor, each clocked at 3.2 GHz, with 256 MB of its 512 MB of RAM clocked at 3.2 GHz also. The PS3 kills the 360 in terms of what's in it.
Last edited by baseline bum; 10-11-2006 at 01:24 AM.
For those who are intrested, this is an article about Sony and the ps3
MySA.com
Sony's reputation is taking a few hits
Web Posted: 10/07/2006 12:00 PM CDT
Hans Greimel
Associated Press
TOKYO — It has been an annus horribilis for Sony.
The Japanese electronics company has been hit with a string of embarrassments that have dented its reputation for quality.
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Already reeling from a string of laptop battery recalls, Sony Corp. investors have fresh worries about the upcoming release of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console.
Sony has already twice delayed the product's launch amid intensifying compe ion from Microsoft and Nintendo.
The PlayStation 3 will hit stores in Japan on Nov. 11 and in the United States on Nov. 17. In Europe, it won't go on sale until March, four months later than planned.
Investors worried about the product after Macquarie Equities analyst David Gibson wrote in a report that PlayStation 3 units on display at the Tokyo Game Show about 10 days ago operated erratically and had to be reset repeatedly.
"While the reason for this is unknown, we suspect it may be due to overheating as a result of enclosing the units and the high temperatures at the venue," Gibson wrote in the report. "We are concerned that such a problem has occurred so close to full production and is clearly negative news for the company."
Last week, investment firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lowered Sony's stock rating to "neutral" from "buy," citing confusion over the release of PlayStation 3 and concerns that disappointing sales of PlayStation Portable may weigh on its earnings in electronics operations more heavily than expected.
Sony denied there was any technical problem with the PlayStation 3.
The problems come in the midst of Sony's widely publicized turnaround effort under its first foreign chief executive, Howard Stringer.
It has been hit with mounting extra costs after 7 million of its laptop batteries have been recalled on fears they could catch fire.
Desperately trying to catch up to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod in portable music players, Sony said last month it was delaying the Japanese release of its new digital Walkman by a week until Sept. 23 because of a malfunction of an unspecified part.
It is also fighting to make a comeback in flat-panel TVs after falling badly behind Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea and other rivals.
Sony shares in Japan have plunged more than 20 percent since April, before the company's battery recall woes.
Sony spokeswoman Nanako Kato said any problems at the Tokyo Game Show, where Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo showed off rival offerings under the same roof, were probably caused by one-of-a-kind temperature irregularities.
About 200 PlayStation 3 units were clustered together in close proximity and housed in kiosks that concentrated the heat generated by their processors and provided poor ventilation, Kato said. Overheating under such cir stances is a common affliction at trade shows, afflicting not just Sony products but those of its compe ors, she said.
"It's not a problem with the PlayStation 3 unit itself," Kato said. "For a normal player at home, there shouldn't be any problem."
Sony is sticking to its plans to ship 2 million PlayStation 3 units by year's end and 6 million by March 31, she said.
U.S.-based Microsoft Corp. rushed its next-generation Xbox 360 to Japanese markets last year to get a head start on its rivals, but it has seen sluggish sales in Japan, one of the world's biggest video game markets but one in which players have a deep loyalty to homegrown Sony.
Nintendo Co. meanwhile is planning to launch its new Wii game console in the final quarter of the year and price it below the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.
Sony, based in Tokyo, recorded a $278 million profit during the April-June quarter on the back of strong sales of flat-panel TVs and digital cameras. That was a big improvement from the loss posted the same period last year.
200 PS3s in close proximity could heat the SBC Center in January.
I also read it will have the new high-def blu-ray dvd player
Blu Ray movies are too expensive for the small increase in visual resolution that you get. Might as well get an up-converting dvd player and play normal dvds you already own at 1080i
You can go that rout, But even with DVDs that arent blu ray can be shown with a higher resolution on a blu ray DVD player with an HDMI cable. I only mentioned it to add to what baseline was saying about the ps3.
Last edited by THE SIXTH MAN; 10-11-2006 at 02:53 AM.
Blu ray is garbage, and something I wish the PS3 would have never included. It's one of the main reasons the system is so expensive. I heard Sony is having such low yields in its production of blu ray players that each one in the PS3 costs them $200-$300. BTW, why would an upconverted DVD look any better on 1080i? Haven't you guys seen how bad upconverted 480i is on HDTV broadcasts?
isnt sony also havin problems with there laptop batts??
anyway i wont be able to afford one, but wii is my budget
Actually looking at it from a pure technical aspect Blu Ray is a really nice product. I've been playing with the pro applications of the technology for 2 years now and it's very good and has a much better upgrade path than the other formats (who basically have none).
From a marketing point of view I agree they've dropped the ball. In today's HD hungry world people would be buying the PS3 for the Blue Ray capability alone. Of course that is if a decent number of movie les were available for purchasing. I don't follow the gaming console market very closely but looking at it from an engineering point of view Sony could have made a killing, but either announced stuff too early or hit some major problems.
I have owned several upconverting DVD/network players, and I currently have an X500 from Helios (I also use a DVDO iScan VP50 for the processing on top of it). Although the SR DVDs do look nicer played on it - it doesn't even come close to real HD movies. You put HD movies in stores and the players to play them and people will be buying them almost regardless of the price tag. The lack of HD movies is the main argument against it.
Actually I have a question: The HD/bluray DVD market in Europe is pathetic, how's the situation in the US?
Curseteh Sony!! XBOX 360 Forever Homes.
I think Blu-Ray is a joke because I feel we'll be moving towards using hard drives and internet distribution sooner rather than later.
The picture quality and audio quality on HD-DVD is currently smoking Blu-ray, despite BR having better specs.
And all that for half the price...
While hard drives are too expensive for mass distribution of films ($/GB), I agree that internet distribution is the most probable future.
I'm just not sure how distant that future is (copyright protection, bandwidth...) so something will be needed in the mean time.
Picture quality is an encoding/decoding process issue and is not dependent on the media itself.
But I really don't care, I just want affordable HD movies!!!
Are they're HD DVDs in stores in the US?
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