famousmortimer
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Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
I like the ps4 box (and I have a weird box fetish...) but yours is superior. Please mass produce.
GameStop: "the flood gates are open for PS4 system reserves"
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I like the ps4 box (and I have a weird box fetish...) but yours is superior. Please mass produce.
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
Ah, PS2 box was such a classic design. Should've reused it like this for nostalgia.
Sola Scriptura
Member
Everything is coming into focus now: Sony is aiming for October with a steady flow of shipments leading into Xbone's launch. "Why buy an Xbone when you can have a PS4 now? Available everywhere! Easy to find!"
Dead Prince
Banned
it's obvious sony has been laying traps out. they already locked in the manufacturing and already produced and island full of ps4 already under some random indian name so no one knows where to find it.
BlastProcessing
Member
They have never done an APU with this many CPU cores or GPU compute units. The memory controllers are also pretty different. It is by far the biggest, most complicated APU ever made at scale.
Both Sony and Microsoft worked with AMD to make custom chips.
The Elite
BOSS
And for $100 less.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I think Sony will be able to deliver a ton of units. Not sure about 16m but I don't think they are messing around this time.
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
People are dumb don't you know. They need actual pictures to show them what they are buying.
The ps2 did fine.
Philthy
Member
If they really do move millions, it's going to be demoralizing to the potential buyers of the XBox as well. A healthy player base for games like BF4 where you see thousands of 64person servers up at all times of the day is going to pull people off the fence, and right out of the fucking yard.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I'm very confused by Apple packaging when I was buying an iphone. I wish it had a picture on it as well. I just thought I was buying a very small ipad.
It'd be great to give 1st parties as much time as possible, but I'm getting the impression that their 3rd party publishing partners are probably jonesing to get the party started with the next gen already. So the latter could potentially carry them in the first few weeks with traditional tentpole holiday releases and maybe give 1st parties aiming for launch a little more time to polish up and release a week or two after launch.
It doesn't mean unlimited. Just that there are enough expected units that Sony don't want to keep saying 'and another 1000 units' every couple of days. Just say 'off you go' and then monitor volumes vs production and let them know if/when they start getting close to expected limits
Hell no. It actually benefits both us and Amazon. Amazon does make more money, however, scalpers don't buy bundles.
These are not the outrageous bundles of gaming generations past. Remember forced bundling of disc cleaner kits and that kind of shit? Everybody buying a PS4 is going to buy PS+ and a game, so it's not like anything is going to waste. Hell, you even save $10, which again is a better deal than past bundles.
Funcoland was the worst offender about this, IIRC. Best Buy did it too.
SRTtoZ
Member
Not only that but if the XB1 sells out from being supply constrained then people are going to look at the PS4 and say "we'll it is a 100 bux cheaper, and I have heard great things about it, and it does have all the same great multiplat titles....ahhh fuck it ill gt a PS4".
Cornbread78
Member
well, I hope Sony has plans to fill all of those orders from GS as well as teh ones from Amazon... If so, that would be awesome stuff....
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
What's wrong about it?
Classic and look expensive.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Thats my design(PS2 era baby!) I was talking about the current box design for PS4.
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
Yes this would have been best. PS2 box is still the best box design ever
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
That is pure class, son. But I still like the original as well.
Dead Prince
Banned
where's the image of that mom that bought a trunk load of wii u.
Kaz, Jack, Shuhei and Adam join together to form Sonytron!
Ah, jaja... cool. I like your box!!!
$499 is the new $599. I'm only partly joking.
Microsoft is going to learn the same tough lesson Sony did; brand loyalty means nothing to the majority if the competitive option is at a cheaper price.
In all honesty, I have yet to talk to a single person who is in on Xbone, even post-DRM removal. "I can get an extra controller and a game for $500 with PS4, I would be a moron to buy Xbone" is something I've heard several times over. And some of these people own 100+ 360 games, myself included.
Wow, I really doubt Sony can get that many systems to fab, in such short time frame, but honestly those preorder numbers are gonna be sony's own best PR.
Speaking of fabrication nightmares though, I bet the Kinect is gonna be the straw that broke the camels back when it comes to getting boxes on shelves. Not that it will sell that well, but just rubbing MS's face in how bad an idea it was to bundle that thing with the console...
Speaking of fabrication nightmares though, I bet the Kinect is gonna be the straw that broke the camels back when it comes to getting boxes on shelves. Not that it will sell that well, but just rubbing MS's face in how bad an idea it was to bundle that thing with the console...
Only thing Sony got wrong was the box design.
Should have called me Sony!
Yes yes yes
The vast majority of people buying either system has no idea who Don is.
Now that the policies have changed well before the system launches, it's going to be a much closer race than before.
Be either they secured more GDDR5 or got extra capacity from the fab for the SOC. Those be the only 2 parts that could limit them. If the hit targets on both they should be able to ramp up production and have a few million for the holiday season.
Roland1979
Junior Member
How will this play out?
megashock5
Member
A lot of people are saying this, but if they're aiming for so many units at launch wouldn't it benefit them to go mid-November? I honestly have no idea how many more they could turn out in a couple of extra weeks, but I would think it would make some difference.
It will be interesting to see what they do.
cleveridea
Member
I preordered my PS4 from amazon and best buy (make sure day one, will likely cancel 1)
nice thing with best buy is they only wanted $25 vs gamestop $100
nice thing with best buy is they only wanted $25 vs gamestop $100
JetBlackPanda
Member
I believe it. Every single gamer friend of mine has one pre-ordered and these were all pretty much Xbox people.
main reason.. $$$