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[ziran]

i posted this in the sony press conference thread but it's too diverse in there now.

Reuters - Sony unveils range of development tools for PS3

- Sony acquired Britain's SN Systems Ltd. and formed strategic alliances with U.S. based Ageia Technologies Inc., Havok and Epic Games to provide more tools

- PS3 will feature a graphics chip with 300 million transistors, more than the combined processing power of Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation 2

- development costs of a high-end game for PS3 gen will rise to $15-20 million, from $10 million this gen

- white psp sept 15th, japan, 24,800 yen [$220] with accessories

- 5.07* million PSP units shipped worldwide, expected to ship 12 million in the current business year

- more than 150 games for PSP by March 2006

- plans to increase the monthly manufacturing of umd disks to 5 million [from 3 million] in anticipation of greater demand for movies

 

[Phoenix]

1) Acquired SN? Nice! They've been making the tool chain since forever, good to see them bring it in house.

2) Would be nice if they had increased UMD production in anticipation of greater demand for games...

 

[Calidor]

- white psp sept 15th, japan, 24,800 yen [$220] with accessories

hmm silver you mean, right?

 

[JackFrost2012]

hmm silver you mean, right?

It's "Ceramic White," so no. White.

 

[AniHawk]

- 5.7 million PSP units shipped worldwide

2.5 m Japan, 3.2 m NA?

 

[flsh]

September 15th? 220$?
It's like it's too good to be true. I guess I'll buy another PSP for my birthday :lol DS will wait (again)

if high end games for the PS3 will "only" cost 1.5\2 as much as high end PS2 games it's not so bad. I can't imagine companies not selling enough to make profits even at this cost.

 

[Andy787]

Heh, white PSP comes out on my birthday.

It is very sexy, but I think I'll stick with my current. Can't wait for firmware 2.0, though. Now I just hope the PSP makes a great showing at TGS.

 

[acklame]

nice to see the announcements on the dev tools

what about white psp for the US?

 

[jarrod]

2.5 m Japan, 3.2 m NA?

It's actually 5.07m...

Q4 2004
~0.51m JP

Q1 2005
~0.93m JP
~1.53m NA
~2.46m WW

Q2 2005
~0.89m JP
~1.21m NA
~2.10m WW

Total
~2.33m JP
~2.74m NA
~5.07m WW

 

[NotMSRP]

Finally I can buy a PSP.

 

[ziran]

It's actually 5.07m...

Q4 2004
~0.51m JP

Q1 2005
~0.93m JP
~1.53m NA
~2.46m WW

Q2 2005
~0.89m JP
~1.21m NA
~2.10m WW

Total
~2.33m JP
~2.74m NA
~5.07m WW

ooo... reuters, tsk tsk.

* edited.

 

[Duckhuntdog]

Wow. SN Systems makes great tools. Sony is really trying to make deving for PS3 easy.

 

[Chiggs]

Wow. SN Systems makes great tools. Sony is really trying to make deving for PS3 easy.

What about Nvidia' CG language? Is that a part of their tools, as well?

 

[sonycowboy]

It's actually 5.07m...

Q4 2004
~0.51m JP

Q1 2005
~0.93m JP
~1.53m NA
~2.46m WW

Q2 2005
~0.89m JP
~1.21m NA
~2.10m WW

Total
~2.33m JP
~2.74m NA
~5.07m WW

Where have you seen a shipment breakdown? Was it in a PR today, because I'm not seeing it at the SCEI site.

 

[SolidSnakex]

- Number of PlayStation 2 production shipments
21.41 million Japan/Asia
North America 37 million
Europe 33.21 million
Total 91.62 million

- Number of soft production shipments for PlayStation 2
176 million pieces in Japan/Asia
North America 395 million pieces
292 million pieces in Europe
Total 863 million pieces

- Number of PlayStation portable production shipments
2.33 million Japan/Asia
North America 2.74 million
Total 5.07 million
- The sale of Europe schedules September, 2005.

- Number of soft production shipments for PlayStation portable
3.9 million pieces in Japan/Asia
North America 7.3 million pieces
Total 11.2 million
- The sale of Europe schedules September, 2005.

http://www.gpara.com/news/05/07/news200507219126.htm

 

[Argyle]

Good move for Sony to buy SN - devs had been bellyaching about the Linux-based dev environment on PS2 that Sony provides, and almost everyone has ponied up for SN's tools (or Codewarrior) so they can work on a Windows machine. Looks like they're trying to avoid that mistake for PS3...

SN also made tools for Nintendo - so I kinda wonder what this means for Nintendo? (SN never made tools for Xbox, probably because the MS provided tools are very good - hard to compete with MS in this area)

 

[sonycowboy]

- Number of PlayStation 2 production shipments
21.41 million Japan/Asia
North America 37 million
Europe 33.21 million
Total 91.62 million


- Number of soft production shipments for PlayStation 2
176 million pieces in Japan/Asia
North America 395 million pieces
292 million pieces in Europe
Total 863 million pieces

- Number of PlayStation portable production shipments
2.33 million Japan/Asia
North America 2.74 million
Total 5.07 million
- The sale of Europe schedules September, 2005.

- Number of soft production shipments for PlayStation portable
3.9 million pieces in Japan/Asia
North America 7.3 million pieces
Total 11.2 million
- The sale of Europe schedules September, 2005.

http://www.gpara.com/news/05/07/news200507219126.htm

Hmmmm...

Not on Sony's site yet.

So for the quarter:

4.15M PS2's shipped
2.1M PSP's shipped

Those are very good numbers for a second quarter:
2001: 4.3M PS2's shipped in Q2
2002: 4.6M PS2's shipped in Q2
2003: 2.6M PS2's shipped in Q2
2004: 0.71M PS2's shipped in Q2

 

[gamewhooper]

Why the hell does Sony ship that much?

NPD numbers have the PSP at 1.3 million.
Japan numbers have the PSP at 1.6 million.

I wondered why there were like 20 PSPs at my Target. Some still have the Spider-Man UMD with it, too. :lol

 

[ziran]

i think the ps3 dev tools news is great!

anything that allows developers a quicker and easier path to creating the games they want to make is a good thing.

 

[teiresias]

SN also made tools for Nintendo - so I kinda wonder what this means for Nintendo?

Revolution Development Kit:

 

[Phoenix]

What about Nvidia' CG language? Is that a part of their tools, as well?

Yep. I thought they were going to use the standard OpenGL shading language, but they are using CG.