All of you looking heavily at the "PS3" logo are doing yourself a disservice there. That logo is being used because it's much easier to see in advertisements when you can have less letters but still get the idea across. Whenever they spell out "PLAYSTATION 3" unless it's a PS3 exclusive title it's usually too small to see among the tons of little logos at the bottom of the advertisement or on television.
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Totobeni said:
original spidy-like Xbox font was more " mature and bold " too but also unrememberable , the new Xbox 360's "kiddy" Xbox font is way way more catchy for the eyes , your eyes see it first in ads , same as the " Wii " font .
I think sony aim for that .
I do actually like the XBOX 360 font. >_<
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
Wouldn't that be the point? It's softer and more inviting to an audience outside of "edgy" young males. Think Wii.____ said:
I don't foresee them waiting long very long to get this out. They need to clear out current PS3 stock, and since the cat is out of the bag, the best way to do that is a price cut.
However, I think a lot of people would be pissed if they made a price cut, and then raised the price back up for the PS3 slim, and I don't foresee them selling the slim at a lower price point anytime soon.
Also, E3 is the biggest gaming event of the year, if Sony is really going for a relaunch of their console, I don't think they would want to miss this opportunity to announce it. It seems like the press it would garner would be equal to millions of dollars of advertising for a fall reveal. (Not that they wouldn't advertise it then anyway, but it just makes so much more sense to do a big E3 reveal.)
Of course this is just all my own armchair gamer speculation. Almost every business decision Sony has made this gen has completley baffled me, so it will likely be the opposite of what I think.
However, I think a lot of people would be pissed if they made a price cut, and then raised the price back up for the PS3 slim, and I don't foresee them selling the slim at a lower price point anytime soon.
Also, E3 is the biggest gaming event of the year, if Sony is really going for a relaunch of their console, I don't think they would want to miss this opportunity to announce it. It seems like the press it would garner would be equal to millions of dollars of advertising for a fall reveal. (Not that they wouldn't advertise it then anyway, but it just makes so much more sense to do a big E3 reveal.)
Of course this is just all my own armchair gamer speculation. Almost every business decision Sony has made this gen has completley baffled me, so it will likely be the opposite of what I think.
leroidys said:
if it's like this , 80GB old PS3 for $299 or 350 ( until stock sells out ) and 120GBPS3 Slim for $400 , then why anyone will be angry about that ? if you bought old PS3 it has less the storage and it's big compared to 120GB and new smaller hardware , also it's not like they will rise the price , it's just like selling 2 different SKUs for two different prices .
Totobeni said:
Sorry I wasn't very clear. I meant that if they cut the price on the large SKUS to sell stock
UNTIL the slim comes out, then the slim comes out at a higher price. It seems to me that they need to get the thing on the market relatively soon, because people don't buy a lot of consoles in the summer anyway, and I think that in this economy, knowing that a new model is coming, they would see a HUGE drop in sales unless they dropped the price.
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where? all i've seen so far is conjectures based on more conjectures. nothing we've seen so far qualifies as a 'leak' in my book.Machado said:
those chinese 'leak' shots are anything but. if you're going to go through the trouble of leaking something on the net, you could at least make it more believable. what's been 'leaked' is ufology in full force.
where are the manufacturing tidbits? where are the lithography node news? a console does not build from the lid in.
Kibbles said:
If they were releasing it later in the fall and didn't want to cut price ahead of that, they'd wait until the last minute to announce it.
blu said:
They look perfectly believable to me. The info you talk about it isn't necessarily stuff a leaking assembly plant worker would know anything about.
I think the big versions of those images are resized and "enhanced" after the fact, that's what makes them so noisy and by extension, really fishy. I think the smaller ones might be the originals though. They look plausibly shitty for a simple camera, but not deliberately fucked up to hide imperfections caused by doctoring around.
ShockingAlberto
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Sony: Hey, this redesigned system will be at released five months from now!Kibbles said:
*no one buys PS3 for five months*
Sony: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN
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Totobeni said:imo ...this
is million years better than spidy font
I agree. It's so much more appealing... smooth and sleek like the PS2 logo - the way the PS3 logo should have been from the beginning. I find the spiderman font to be kind of tacky and EXTREEEME! if you know what I mean.
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Kagari said:
It SHOULD be $299 but I think they'll drop it $50 to $349.
I just can't see the PS3 costing the same as the X360 Pro.
Kagari said:
My expectation is that while the old stock and new stock co-exist that only the old stock will have a price drop. The new stock won't, or rather it will be bundled with stuff to justify a higher price point. Once the old stock gets cleared out (in time for christmas) the slim will be unbundled and available at the lower price.
Kagari said:
yup ..no one can deny that , but so far Sony against selling Ps3 with a lose .
thing is , Sony need/must know they are a publisher too , the bigger and the best one on their system too , but now because of their system price they are losing their own Software sales too .
because they kept their " sell PS3 with minimum lose " strategy , they don't sell games too , because that strategy actually don't work ( you still selling with lose , system don't sell well and because that software don't sell too ).
if Sony don't want to cut at least $50 from a fucking discontinued PS3 model ( they were losing way way more on BC units anyway ) for better 1st party games sales , then they are buttfucked in their brains by a monkey .
I guess they should " sacrifice " what left of the old model for the good of their own games .
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____ said:
What the hell do you do to your ps3 to warrant two replacements?!
Well I'm going to state that I believe the PS3 Slim is real. We'll see in a week I suppose. :lol
From the Infamous thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15994780&postcount=2127
I'm not saying taht you're right or wrong, obviously Sony is probably looking at projected sales of lower priced hardware versus currently first party sales and third party royalty revenues, but had Killzone 2 launched along side a 299 PS3 it easilly would have sold more... but that's fairly obvious.
From the Infamous thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15994780&postcount=2127
Totobeni said:
I'm not saying taht you're right or wrong, obviously Sony is probably looking at projected sales of lower priced hardware versus currently first party sales and third party royalty revenues, but had Killzone 2 launched along side a 299 PS3 it easilly would have sold more... but that's fairly obvious.
Totobeni said:
original spidy-like Xbox font was more " mature and bold " too but also unrememberable , the new Xbox 360's "kiddy" Xbox font is way way more catchy for the eyes , your eyes see it first in ads , same as the " Wii " font .
I think Sony aim for that .
From a design point, you have it backwards. The original Xbox font is not mature and bold and never was suppose to be(just look at action figure box's, similar style). The new one is suppose to be minimal, sleek and mature.
SouthernDragon
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I sure hope they announce it.
I don't mind buying a fatty PS3, I just want to know their plans before making a decision.
I don't mind buying a fatty PS3, I just want to know their plans before making a decision.
Discussed in the inFamous thread but seems like Sony is going back to it's roots with the latest PS3 advertising.
Instead of the evil PLAYSTATION 3 Darth Vader ending to TV Promo's, the inFamous one ends with the shortened 'PS3' logo and the nostalgic (and great) robot voice going 'Play-Stay-shon'.
inFamous TV ad @ Viddler
Looks like they are rebranding the PS3 back to the PS1/PS2 glory days...
Instead of the evil PLAYSTATION 3 Darth Vader ending to TV Promo's, the inFamous one ends with the shortened 'PS3' logo and the nostalgic (and great) robot voice going 'Play-Stay-shon'.
inFamous TV ad @ Viddler
Looks like they are rebranding the PS3 back to the PS1/PS2 glory days...
Goldrusher
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Wtf. Isn't that the Japanese "PlayStation Free" with the "free" cut off ?Wollan said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQVCem3JBMg&#t=12s
Goldrusher
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For PS2, they clearly said PlayStation TWO. In fact, in Europe, a girl screamed it at you.Wollan said:
And in that inFamous commercial, you clearly hear the same as in this Japanese ad, only without THREE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQVCem3JBMg&#t=12s
Oh well, I guess we'll have to live with the fact there's absolutely zero communication and unity between SCEA, SCEE and SCEI. They even had unique system specs at one point.
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