PS3, Blue-Ray, and RSX

SFOSOK

First things first, the blue ray disk player inside psp will cost Sony $3,000

Second, Sony lied about RSX, RSX will NOT be twice the power of a 6800, it will be the exact same if not less power than a 7800.








Sony tries to lead the industry with new disk formats, but this may be their final downfall in the gaming industry. They believe they can sell a system from 400-1000 to a large percentage of consumers looking to use it as a Blue-Ray disk player. Sony believe Consumers will see it as a bargain because a blue-ray disk player will cost 3,000 by itself. Why this will not work you ask? First of all no one but the rich will buy an exclusive blue-ray disc player (may it be PS3 or by itself) for $400 - $1000, let alone $3,000. Blue-Ray disk format is also supported by most dvd players now and HD-DVD players in the future.


What does all that mean? Sony will have a horrid production cost that will have to be cut down to $1,000 or less. So you looking at a rig that costs nearly $5,000 to make (factoring mass production deals) and only selling retail for at most $1,000. This plan may work if they had ten years and no one in the market to share competition with.




Bottem line its one hell of a master plan, but in my opinion will not work. If gamers can get a rig that is $200 less and has little or no quality difference from the PS3, then they will go for the less expensive rig. Sony also does not control all the game titles like they used with PS2. A lot of japanese game designers have gone over to Microsoft not to mention companies.









Recent FYI I found out (its actually quiet obvious). PS3 will use linux and Mac software to bring all this together.

SFOSOK

Also another bit of FYI, Elder Scrolls oblivion has been in development since 2002. 3-4 years devotion to a game. I pray it is a launch title.

MiDri

LOl, no ones going to pay 1000 for a gaming system, you'd have to take out a god damn loan for it... I'd rather put a downpayment on a muscle car or somthing...

nitrousoxide52

AMD FX-57, processor thats main use is for gaming, tag - around 1020 dollars. That's just the cpu lol . These things are selling, now don't tell me noone is going to pay 1000 for something just for gaming.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta

it will be a SHOCK if they announce to be the same price as the xbox 360. xbox games are not the same ps2, but very comparable. and if they can continue that much they may win. funny thing might be this: microsoft is REASONABLY pricing a product!

SFOSOK

Computers are different than consoles. Cumputers you can always upgrade, consoles you have to keep buying.

SFOSOK

Microsoft is also losing quiet a bit of mone yin the long run on consoles, but they won't take a chance with super expensive and uneccesary equipment.

SFOSOK

Xbox at most could be 400, but the range they are looking at right now is about in the 300 range. PS3 could be anywhere from 400-1000. Both uber hyped up their system. But the only thing that would make PS3's graphix card better than the custom ATI is if it was dual (like SLI) which it is not. The ATI is supposed to be pretty damn good. But its mostly completely custom. Here is the stats for it.

MSX

People like their playstations. I would not be alarmed by people buying the thing for that alone. Even if it may defy all logic they will sell.

Though I will guess that b-ray will not go through as a new video standard. The reason? One word: Betamax. Looked almost DVD quality all on a little tape. Why did it fail? Sony was charging crazy prices. People would rather buy a big screen TV for that much. It's like they forgot what happened fifteen years ago.