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Benton, AR | Re: Typical I doubt the launch of the Wii is next week, there is though a big anouncement from nintendo next week wednesday or thursday I think. Next week just not sure the day of the "big press conference" | |
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| Re: Typical Um. Sure. Right. NightNine Nights has a horrible interface, cut scenes that interrupt play, no Japanese with subtitles, unclear instructions, objects that get stuck in scenery...
Yeah, the 3D models look good, but your decision is based on what? Some racing game? I bet your a Playstation fan boy?
Some education...and my daily rant:
Past: SONY- Standard Oil New York. First US company that was charged with violating monopoly laws. Sold name to Japan electronics firm that thought it could use the name to get sales in US.
Present Day: highly over-rated Japanese electronics company that is getting nibbled away by Korean and Chinese upstarts. Worse warranties of all the manufacturers of electronics. Just posted that it will stop making LCD monitors (for PCs).
Trying to force consumers on BluRay. Tried to force consumers on MemoryStick (CF and SD have the market and capacity and cheaper).
Not enough Bluray diodes available so Sony says, Sorry Europe, Japan and then US markets first. And to be fair, the Cell processor is awesome design but...why just a game machine?
I'm betting on Nintendo as their gaming is fun. Aim for the young kids and they will follow to teen years. DS sales are stronger than PSP. Wii games will be fun and not all about "Hot Coffee" and killing people (see Xbox/Ps2 and GTA).
Better order 2 Wii's and sell one for profit on ebay for Thanksgiving!
(Man, I gotta lay off those M&Ms!  Oh, and I play on 360, GC, PS2...and earlier on ColecoVision, Intellivision, Atari 2600, 5200, Vectrex, Sega...and even on SpaceWars, Pong, Red baron, BattleCommand....) ... oldskool | |
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| said by cableties  :Past: SONY- Standard Oil New York. First US company that was charged with violating monopoly laws. Sold name to Japan electronics firm that thought it could use the name to get sales in US. ol The inspiration for the new company name came from a brand of tape TTK had been marketing since 1950: Soni-tape. The "Soni" in "Soni-tape" was derived from the Latin sonus ("sound"), and Morita created Sony from a combination of sonus and the English phrase sonny boy, which "conveyed to him the youthful energy and irreverence he wanted at the heart of the company." (Because "o" is pronounced in Japanese with a long vowel sound, the connection between "Sony" and "sonny" is not apparent to English speakers.)
The name Sony was first used as a trademark on the company's TR-55 transistor radio in 1955, and Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo officially changed its name to the Sony Corporation in 1958. The only connection between Sony and the Rockefellers is that Sony head Akio Morita and David Rockefeller both served on the Trilateral Commission beginning in 1973. | |
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| First and foremost, the Japanese developers make the best games...period. Second, the top tier Japanese developers will always be loyal to Sony...period. Third, Japanese developers make games catered to the Japanese market...period. The US market is a drop in the bucket.
Please refrain your ignorant lesson in regards to the console gaming industry and it's culture. You're making a fool out of yourself.
I'll said it before, even before the original xbox was released, and I'll say it again...top tier Japanese developers will always side with Sony. Until those Japanese developers develop their main titles on other consoles, Sony still reigns supreme.
Everybody in the gaming industry thought the original xbox would topple Sony. While everyone was talking up xbox and went long MSFT, I short NVDA. You'd be a moron to not follow the money trail on that one. I'm no Sony fanboy...I follow the money trail. I can careless which console is the best as long as I can make money off of it. Child's play. | |
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| Re: Typical FACT - Japanese developers doesn't really monopolise all the great games. There are plenty of stinkers coming from Japanese developers, especially for PS2 console.
H-games is excluded of course. All H-games reign supreme.
FACT - US Market is not a drop in the bucket. At least it is bigger than than Japan's.
FACT - Japanese developers doesn't have that blinded loyalty to their own demographic only. At least that applies to the bigger development houses. No company worth its salt bet everything on the shrinking Japanese market.
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| wow the level of ignorance, arrogance, and pure mis-information on here is staggering.
I am not a real gamer i will admit, but what i am is an employee of Sony. I have been in meetings the last few weeks about among other things blu-ray and the ps3. Lets clear up a few things...
SONY brand name - cheese69 hit the nail on the head on this one
Sony having problems with Blu-ray - rubbish. The simple fact is higher demand then expected and in turn less resources to produce the product required in x ammount of time. This is the same reason for the delay on the Blueray equipped media desktop as well as the player itself. Blu-ray was on hold regardless until the new SXRD and 1080p native LCD panels dropped, which they have now (a bit backwards to release a player capable of 1080p output while no sets could currently accept a 1080p input innit?)
PS3 glitch delaying release - Incorrect. The delay can again be attributed to simple lack of resources for the internal BR components. Simple as that.
Euro PS3 launch delayed due to glitch - um no, again supply and demand. The lack of resources for the Blu-ray drives has been the biggest obstacle. The Namerican and Asian markets simply hold a larger market share of game consoles then Europe, simple as that. Sony is concentrating on it's core markets first.
400k units of the PS3 - well i can tell you that the numbers are in for the end of the year production and by Jan you can expect multiples in the 7digit realm. Underproduction for Sony expectations, yet there is no worry of the units selling. Sony would rather lower the projected number of units to be released as opposed to stating a number they couldn't meet. Simple really.
Blu-ray proprietary Sony technology - um... no but Sony is one of the main figureheads in its development. It is the work of a joint effort between many companies (Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson)Blu-ray is akin to HDDVD, sinpy put it is a new high def medium.... it has wide industry support in all areas, yet happens to yield higher capacities then HDDVD allowing for more application possibilities.
SONY is not a superior manufacturer of consumer electronics - as compared to whom? anyone looking at market reports globally the last few years would beg to argue. Other companies have challenged Sony, but rest assured they are sitting quite good for a while to come. Last time i checked Microsoft wasn't a manufacturer of consumer electronics... or any consumer bits for that matter.
I am not going to deny that Sony has hit some speedbumps over the years, but what company is able to innovate without taking risks? There will always be Sony loyalists and haters. It is all part of the game. Sony believes that their products should stand on their own, and they do. That idea still proves to be correct while other companies are having to offer sales incentives to staff to move their products just to gain market share, a practice Sony refuses to do.
Sorry for the rant, but some of the stuff said on here is just so wrong it hurts. If you like XBOX360 awesome, more power to you... all i will say is play the PS3 on a full 1080p display and then come back and voice your opinion. Many people won't have that luxury for a few years, true perhaps, but the fact is that Sony is providing that option. Innovation once again... people complain that companies take no risks and then when they break away from the pack and introduce something new they get criticized. Fact is none of you have played the PS3 yet so reserve your judgements till the release. Expect the console to sell out rapidly, that is without question. | |
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Loganville, GA | Overpriced and Late I am afraid Sony is a little too late for the next gen gaming wars, not to mention a little expensive compared to the competition.
My condolences goes out to all the playstation fan boys. | |
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| Re: Overpriced and Late said by technick :I am afraid Sony is a little too late for the next gen gaming wars, not to mention a little expensive compared to the competition. My condolences goes out to all the playstation fan boys. PS3 is going to be great. Nothing to worry about. | |
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| Re: Overpriced and Late As an XBox 360 owner, I am looking forward to the PS3. The 360 isn't bad, but it suffers from one HUGE issue...it was designed by Microsoft. Everything costs extra, everything is limited in some way as to what you can do with it, etc.
(why is a $500 console -plus another $200 worth of add on crap just to use it- the only media extender that requires Windows Media Center Edition on the host just to play video? Why does a $500 console require 3rd party software just to play the same avi files my $200 Buffalo can out of the box? Etc.)
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| Re: Overpriced and Late thats fucking FUD and you know it. If you want to watch dvr-ms video files then yes you are going to need media center since its WHAT RECORDS THEM! You can watch video files off of a WM connect enabled XP box.
And the 360 doesnt cost $500. If you paid $500 for it then you are a fool.
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| Re: Overpriced and Late said by inteller :thats fucking FUD and you know it. If you want to watch dvr-ms video files then yes you are going to need media center since its WHAT RECORDS THEM! You can watch video files off of a WM connect enabled XP box. Yup, but you can't watch video files off of a mac, or a linux box, or a Win2K box. I don't like XP and I don't have a single XP machine in my house. 1 2K machine and the rest linux. So the media player portions of the 360 would be completely useless to me. Fortunately, I don't care since I have a MythTV box that can play any media files I want, but it is still kind of annoying that you MUST have Media Center or XP if you want to play any media on your xbox.
said by inteller :And the 360 doesnt cost $500. If you paid $500 for it then you are a fool. Nope, it costs $400, assuming you want the hard drive. If you want 2 controllers you need to pay $50 for a second controller since it only comes with one. That's $450. Add on sales tax (5% here in MD) and that comes to $472.50 - damn close to $500. And that's with no games to play on it. Add one game to that and you're over $500. | |
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North Aurora, IL | Re: Overpriced and Late Well why don't you toss in a few games while you're at it?!
The PS3 starts at $500, with an extra $50 controller and sales tax...that puts the two SKUs at damn near $600 and $700. | |
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[/bquote :I don't like XP well that's your problem, not the 360s. If you don't like it you should have read the fucking box before you bought. No one is forcing you to buy the 360.
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| said by inteller :thats fucking FUD and you know it. If you want to watch dvr-ms video files then yes you are going to need media center since its WHAT RECORDS THEM! You can watch video files off of a WM connect enabled XP box. And the 360 doesnt cost $500. If you paid $500 for it then you are a fool. FUD huh....ok lets see.
XBox 360 won't play avi files. Period. The only way to get them to run is to use Transcode360 on the host, to convert what is a STANDARD video file format for every other media player into something the XBox can handle. Prove me wrong...I certainly wish you could. I'll concede maybe there is a way to get mpg's to play with media connect, but I had no luck getting it to work.
Doesn't cost $500? $399.99 with a hard drive and a single controller. Then you buy the second controller for $49.99, 2 battery packs and a charger. Now over $500, you add on tax. And we still haven't addressed the fact that the wireless controllers, with a play and charge kit, can only be charged while the console itself is powered on! That's MS engineering for you. At this point in the price, it is nothing more than a media player, since you haven't bought a single game.
And as a side note, I know people on both sides feel way too strongly about the XBox, and that gamers tend to be a little more hot headed than the average person....but there is no reason to be an ass on the forum.
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| Re: Overpriced and Late You say that you have to jump through all these hoops to get video files to play on 360, but does the PS3 even have that functionality? I don't recall hearing that it does. If PS3 can't even play videos (avi or otherwise) then it seems that this is just an added function of the 360.
If PS3 does have this capability then how well is it going to be implemented? What's the codec support? We all know that Sony loves the proprietary format (see ATRAC and the crazy process involved in getting video on PSP). Do you believe that Sony can do video file playback better than MS? Cause I don't | |
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| said by Camelot One :said by inteller :thats fucking FUD and you know it. If you want to watch dvr-ms video files then yes you are going to need media center since its WHAT RECORDS THEM! You can watch video files off of a WM connect enabled XP box. And the 360 doesnt cost $500. If you paid $500 for it then you are a fool. FUD huh....ok lets see. XBox 360 won't play avi files. Period. The only way to get them to run is to use Transcode360 on the host, to convert what is a STANDARD video file format for every other media player into something the XBox can handle. Prove me wrong...I certainly wish you could. I'll concede maybe there is a way to get mpg's to play with media connect, but I had no luck getting it to work. Doesn't cost $500? $399.99 with a hard drive and a single controller. Then you buy the second controller for $49.99, 2 battery packs and a charger. Now over $500, you add on tax. And we still haven't addressed the fact that the wireless controllers, with a play and charge kit, can only be charged while the console itself is powered on! That's MS engineering for you. At this point in the price, it is nothing more than a media player, since you haven't bought a single game. And as a side note, I know people on both sides feel way too strongly about the XBox, and that gamers tend to be a little more hot headed than the average person....but there is no reason to be an ass on the forum. thre is no reason to spew bullshit on the forum either.
you need to go read up on AVI files dude. I know plenty of avi files that won't play on a computer if they dont have the right codec installed.
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| Re: Overpriced and Late said by inteller :said by Camelot One :said by inteller :thats fucking FUD and you know it. If you want to watch dvr-ms video files then yes you are going to need media center since its WHAT RECORDS THEM! You can watch video files off of a WM connect enabled XP box. And the 360 doesnt cost $500. If you paid $500 for it then you are a fool. FUD huh....ok lets see. XBox 360 won't play avi files. Period. The only way to get them to run is to use Transcode360 on the host, to convert what is a STANDARD video file format for every other media player into something the XBox can handle. Prove me wrong...I certainly wish you could. I'll concede maybe there is a way to get mpg's to play with media connect, but I had no luck getting it to work. Doesn't cost $500? $399.99 with a hard drive and a single controller. Then you buy the second controller for $49.99, 2 battery packs and a charger. Now over $500, you add on tax. And we still haven't addressed the fact that the wireless controllers, with a play and charge kit, can only be charged while the console itself is powered on! That's MS engineering for you. At this point in the price, it is nothing more than a media player, since you haven't bought a single game. And as a side note, I know people on both sides feel way too strongly about the XBox, and that gamers tend to be a little more hot headed than the average person....but there is no reason to be an ass on the forum. thre is no reason to spew bullshit on the forum either. you need to go read up on AVI files dude. I know plenty of avi files that won't play on a computer if they dont have the right codec installed. I have better things to do than argue semantics. Enjoy your Xbox.
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North Aurora, IL | Re: Overpriced and Late I really don't understand your issue with it? Did you buy the 360 for a media extender or for games? | |
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| Re: Overpriced and Late said by cbrigante2 :I really don't understand your issue with it? Did you buy the 360 for a media extender or for games? My original comment was simply in reply to the idea that Sony had missed the console war, and I was pointing out that the XBox has by no means dominated, and is by no means "the perfect unit". I doubt the PS3 will be either, but Sony has now had a chance to see some of the issues and complaints about the 360, so who knows.
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| 500 dollars? Man you got ripped off. Anyhow, Sony does the same thing, as does Nintendo. It's life, get used to it. And, if you have a player that will playback those formats just fine as is why would you waste money on getting your xbox to do the same? 
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North Aurora, IL | The only $500 console I know about is the non-HDMI version of the PS3. | |
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Dan
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Eh? | Re: Xbox 690 They get me excited!
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1 edit | Re: Xbox 690 All you Sony haters can take a hike!
PS3 wil blow away Xbox 360! | |
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Eh? | Re: Xbox 690 Na, not a PS3 Hater, I just despise the arrogance of Sony.
Sony is not a superior manufactuer of consumer electronics. | |
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| said by gate1975mlm :All you Sony haters can take a hike! PS3 wil blow away Xbox 360! It's going to be a flop. | |
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join:2000-09-13
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| As it should be since it is released so much later.
That kind of like saying a Computer released January of this year is going to be as good as a computer released January of 07. Technology advances and if the manufacturer's don't, then they deserve what they get.
I foresee 2 issues with the P3: Price and Blue Ray. | |
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r81984
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St John'S, NL | This is great! I hope game manufactures use this to break contracts with PS and go with microsoft. Playstation ruined GTA with crappier graphics and forcing everyone to wait a year to get it on PC and xbox. | |
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chris
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| New Technology Can Mean Big Problems Sony is having trouble with BlueRay. Microsoft is just plain having problems. Not sure what they are.
I just bought 2 Xbox 360 Premiums a couple of weeks ago and my daughter is getting thoroughly annoyed with me because I haven't bought any games for them yet (we've been playing Halo 2 and Rainbow Six 3) because all I hear about lately is how (insert game name here) turned the thing into a paper weight.
I supposed that's what you get for wanting to be on the cutting edge. I hope Halo 3 doesn't have any incompatible coding issues (I hear that's the problem with select 360 games) | |
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decadent
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Piscataway, NJ | 3 months The thing, that I cannot quite understand, why there is 3 months delay. Let's say, they are going to ship to EU 1 mil units with 3 months delay. So, why can't they ship 300K units with one month delay, if it is just a capacity issue? | |
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| Re: 3 months It's easier to just not sell in a market than to oversell a market. Look what happened to the Xbox 360. They took orders for tens of thousands of consoles they couldn't deliver on. So what you get is a whole lot of hype, but not many machines. People got pissed.
It just seems fairer to the market to wait until you have enough consoles to meet the projected demand for that market. That way there are enough PS3 systems for everybody from the start. | |
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| Re: 3 months I agree with you in principal. But as soon as they start selling in US, there will appear resellers of PS3 in Europe. And Sony will again try to sue them as Sony has done before. I don't think, it is a wise decision, especially when PS3 is already being advertised worldwide and will be more through news and sites like myspace, yahoo and etc after the launch. Instead they should have allowed on-line sales of in stock items in that markets, but without big media hype. | |
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| Re: 3 months Technically the PS3 has not been advertised anywhere. It has been announced in press releases and news articles, but no advertising that I know of. I don't think online sales will work because then you will have almost all of the inventory sold to people who are just buying them to resell on eBay and such. Much better to go with a storefront release.
We cannot escape hype because that's what the gaming industry is all about. The XBox 360 was all about hype. So much hype that they couldn't deliver on the amount of units. I think Sony is trying to learn from that mistake by not shooting for a complete worldwide release. Remember the previous consoles were released at different countries at different times, so essentially what Sony will be doing is not much different than what has been done from the beginning. | |
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join:2006-06-11
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| dreamcast dejavu? who cares if the ps3 is a bit late i can wait a bit more. Blu-ray ftw!
besides im having dejavu with the xbox 360
anyone remeber the dreamcast? and instead of going with the new DVD-Rom drive they used the GD-Rom?
doesnt that make u think of xbox 360 sticking with the dvd-rom instead of going with the hd-dvd drive?
down with xbox360 and microsoft they pushed for their release too fast :P
remeber the ps2 came out later than the dreamcast and poor sega died (i miss sega btw they were one of the best gaming console companies out there 3) | |
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2 edits | Re: dreamcast dejavu? I will buy a Wii and a 360. I can't justify a PS3. It's true you are getting a Blu-Ray Player and a game system, but I don't have a t.v. to take advantage of the player so it's pointless to me. Maybe in 3-4 years I'll have a HD t.v., but then everyone will be talking about the soon to be realesed next generation of game systems and all their new features..... | |
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| said by inurenegade :who cares if the ps3 is a bit late i can wait a bit more. Blu-ray ftw! besides im having dejavu with the xbox 360 anyone remeber the dreamcast? and instead of going with the new DVD-Rom drive they used the GD-Rom? doesnt that make u think of xbox 360 sticking with the dvd-rom instead of going with the hd-dvd drive? down with xbox360 and microsoft they pushed for their release too fast :P remeber the ps2 came out later than the dreamcast and poor sega died (i miss sega btw they were one of the best gaming console companies out there 3) u do know Microsoft is going to put out a external HD-DVD drive for the 360.
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| Sony shooting themselves in the foot It seems like more and more Sony is just taking aim at their own feet rather than their competitors. They've delayed their next-generation console to the point that it will be the last entrant (and may miss the Christmas shopping season). They've priced it so high that consumers will likely be able to buy a console of each of their nearest competitors (Microsoft's XBox 360 for about $300 and Nintendo's Wii which will likely be $200) and still save money. They're taking the position that you should lay down extra money because they are Sony and say so. They keep sticking with proprietary formats when there are perfectly good standard formats. And don't get me started on their "fabulous" root kits for our customers idea.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has had a working next generation gaming console on the market for quite a few months now. Nintendo has theirs nearing the gate very soon with an emphasis on innovative play rather than high end graphics. (The upshot of this being that it will be the most inexpensive of all of the consoles.) I'm not a big gamer (really don't have time for it), but I'd be willing to predict that a year from now we'll be talking about the console gaming industry as being a race between Nintendo and Microsoft. Sony will be in it, sure, but nowhere near first place. | |
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join:2003-12-08
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| well look at it like this.... If they are saying that they cant make the european launch because of a glitch, what does that say about the concoles that DO make it to the US and japan? Sounds like a lot of people are going to have Blu balls trying to get their flakey lasers to read a DVD format that is DOA. Sounds like to me sony is just pushing out the first run junk to their "major" markets. Maybe Sony should throw in some of those exploding batteries as a consolation to those who have to suffer a delay.
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| Re: well look at it like this.... There is no glitch in the console at all. The problem is manufacturing. It's taking longer to develop the kind of manufacturing muscle needed to pump out 4 million PS3s by November. So what do they do? Delay the slowest selling market (Europe) a few months so that the U.S. and Japan will have enough to meet expected demand. By March they will have balanced out the delay with even more consoles in the market. It's that simple. | |
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ShifterX
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Sacramento, CA | Wait your all from europe right? Damn i can't believe it's supposed to come out this year in the US :O. I didnt even start saving my allowance yet lol. hopefully i can do what ppl did with the xbox 360...buy like 12 and sell em for a G each on ebay hahaha | |
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cbrigante2
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North Aurora, IL
| Re: Wait your all from europe right? said by ShifterX :Damn i can't believe it's supposed to come out this year in the US :O. I didnt even start saving my allowance yet lol. hopefully i can do what ppl did with the xbox 360...buy like 12 and sell em for a G each on ebay hahaha Good luck getting just one at this point. The demand will be pretty high for those first pre-Christmas units. | |
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join:2004-05-04
Houston, TX | Screw EU instead of few console's for NA and JP release just use some that were plan'd for the European launch for them instead. then make the european launch a short release since who cares about EU anyway they always get stuff last | |
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TFArchive
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join:2003-02-03
Gloucester, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| 500K consoles for Japan/US at launch News today came out that there will be only 500,000 PS3s released in the initial batch. Japan gets 100K on Nov 11, and North America gets 400K on the 17th.
I don't know how many 360s were available at launch but it was definately more than 500K worldwide. Granted they launched in the UK as well and Japan's stock didn't move well.
If Sony can't ramp up production in a hurry they will be in major trouble compared to the competition.
I own a 360 now (December 4AM lineup at BB). It is a great system now that there are more good games out for it.
I haven't seen a game for the PS3 that would make me drop $700 CDN on one at launch or even next year.
Now the Wii will be cheap so I can see myself spending $300 on it because it has more unique potential. | |
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join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | Re: 500K consoles for Japan/US at launch Where did you read that? I read Sony is going to have two million units at launch and will have an additional four million released by March. | |
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Gloucester, ON
1 edit | Re: 500K consoles for Japan/US at launch gamespot.com confirmed by Sony
Edit, the story says 400K, I could have sworn it said 500K. | |
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Mesquite, TX | Re: 500K consoles for Japan/US at launch LOL, next time you look it will have been re-edited to 300K. | |
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join:2003-12-05
Mesquite, TX
1 edit | my forecast My prediction of no PS3 in 2006 is slowly unfolding...I expect the next newsbite will announce a delay for Asia until March 2007.  | |
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Mesquite, TX | Re: If PS3 is living, I want to die. I'm LMAO. Thank you! | |
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join:2005-11-06
Felton, DE
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And why do people think they are sure there will only be 4 supported controllers?? because there is only 4 lights??? HHMmmmmm...What if, and I may be crazy here, they had 2 numbers lit at the same time? Like 4 an 2 would be controller 6. 4 and 3 would be controller 7. Crazy huh? | |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS | Re: If PS3 is living, I want to die. Perhaps with a multitap device of some sort, you could expand it to more than just 4 controllers, I dunno. | |
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Same Old Jets
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Pompton Plains, NJ | Well... So what, I'm in the states. | |
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