sonycowboy
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WTF is this? Somebody please enlighten us. Also, have they given any updated hardware shipped numbers???
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Sony to Release New Game Console at U.S. Expo in 2005
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SolidSnakex said:
I'd say there will be a good amount of general media coverage next E3 if all 3 are showing new home systems (as they will)..people will hear about it. But the impact of E3 '05 will be pretty much nullified if another E3 swings by before launches (as will likely happen, at least in the case of Sony & Nintendo).
sonycowboy
Member
golem said:
I don't think we've seen any meaningful speculation regarding a March 2006 launch. The PS2 launched in March 2000, but I don't think that has any bearing on the timing between the US & Japan launches for the PS3. It's a different world. BTW, The PS launched in Dec 1994 in Japan.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
cja said:
PlayStation 3 is likely to release around March 2006 in Japan and around October/November in the U.S. following the same path PlayStation 2 took if all goes well.
If there are issues I see them delaying the Japanese launch a bit and leave the American launch the same or shift it to very late November-to-mid December.
I think that thanks to the premium that PlayStation 3 will be sold at in Japan and maybe England and some other parts of Europe plus the fact that I see Blu-Ray technology dropping in price quite nicely in the next two-years should allow a $299 price-point in the U.S. with normal losses taken on the Hardware by SCE (also, Blu-Ray ROM should be cheaper to include than Blu-Ray Re-Writeable).
seismologist
Banned
2006 launch is perfect timing for PS3 by that time I should be just about caught up with the PS2 library 
and Microsoft should launch AFTER PS3 to make sure they get any type of hardware advantage they can.
and Microsoft should launch AFTER PS3 to make sure they get any type of hardware advantage they can.
Mystifizor
Banned
IAWTPSolidSnakex said:
CrimsonSkies
Member
Sounds like the tech lead for any of the three = Nil. All of them will have playable consoles at E3 2005.
what humour? Sony are a very powerful business. They do what is needed to destroy competition. You saw how cynically they succeeded in manipulating the market so that Dreamcast never had a chance. They are doing the same now.
They simply want to make sure that whenever Nintendo and MS come out with definite plans/demos, Sony have a counter too, to reassure everyone that its still OK to wait for PS3, and its only just around the corner.
Even if they delay a year, they'll promise earlier first, and by the time they delay MS has already lost potential sales.
They simply want to make sure that whenever Nintendo and MS come out with definite plans/demos, Sony have a counter too, to reassure everyone that its still OK to wait for PS3, and its only just around the corner.
Even if they delay a year, they'll promise earlier first, and by the time they delay MS has already lost potential sales.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Read the wording carefully....
To me, what this is implying is that they are upping the NUMBER of RAM chips so they can get increased bandwidth...for example, they might be using four 256Mbit RAM chips/w 51.2GB/sec bandwidth *instead of* two 512Mbit units with 25.6GB/sec bandwidth....
Same amount of RAM (1024MB) but double the bandwidth.......that is how I interpret it anyway....
Crazymoogle
Member
gofreak said:
They don't seem to be implying that at all. What they do say is that by switching to smaller (cheaper) chips, they can use more of them in parallel. Each memory chip has a set amount of bandwidth it can handle, so when you need more, you split the bandwidth between two chips instead of just one.
Memory bandwidth is a huge deal for extremely complex scenes, and if the PS3 is really as powerful as Sony's been gloating about (with CELL anyway), the system will need every megabyte per second it can get its hands on.
Playable doesn't mean that they will be running final hardware, or that they will be showing actual games.Jan said:
Their chart indicates that they are not expecting to have initial dev kits out until the beginning of '05, so it's probably unlikely that there will be much in terms of playable game content up and running by May '05.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Jan said:
Do you know what the figure you quoted refers to ?
I seriously do not think so and my PS2 GS manual tells me that I happen to be right this time
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DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
"I also think Sony will be willing to take a bigger hit on their hardware than Microsoft will (allowing them even more leeway), but we'll see..."
i can't see Sony being to happy to eat costs on possibly two fronts (PSP and PS3).
I think we'll see slightly more expensive units this time.
i can't see Sony being to happy to eat costs on possibly two fronts (PSP and PS3).
I think we'll see slightly more expensive units this time.
seismologist
Banned
PS3 is going to own.
Imagine PS2 3rd party support with graphics > Doom 3 and Far Cry.
Could be the greatest console of all time.
Imagine PS2 3rd party support with graphics > Doom 3 and Far Cry.
Could be the greatest console of all time.