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Rumours of Playstation 3 in 2003

Posted by Hemos on from the probably-not-true dept.

aosgood writes "PS3 in 2003? Bloomberg's got a story from some manufactures stating that they are to begin trial runs next month. All I can say is WOW. "Cell" is ready?" I've got my doubts on the veracity of this information - unidentified sources and all. But it does indicate that even if it's not this year, Sony may be rolling the 3 out sooner then previously thought.Update: 03/10 14:50 GMT by H : Yep Sony has begun denying it.

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  1. Re:Hear, Hear! by C0LDFusion · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you thought PS2's memory card sucked, you should've got the package deal my friend got that screwed him over. His mom bought a Gamecube for him for Christmas, it came with a memory card, extra controller and "Animal Crossing" (A really sucky game). He used the memory card with Animal Crossing ONCE and it was full. FULL. No more space for you.

    I'm at least able to have an archive of PSX game saves AND a ton of PS2 saves on the PS2 card...

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  2. Not only is it vapor, it WILL NOT BE CALLED PS 3 by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Troll

    They are paying a ton of money to another company that had the Playstation name and sued them for royalties. The Playstation 3 will be called something like the SonyStation 3 or SonyGameStation 3.

    Mark my words (or not).

  3. Re:If Sony Keeps Consistent, Great by derrickh · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sony was the first major game console maker I can think of that allowed reverse compatibility with its previous products.

    The Atari 7800 says 'Hi'

    D

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  4. Sony's scheme ?? by Programmer_In_Traini · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm just speculating here but for all we know, this could be a plan from Sony just to freak out the XBox team.

    IMO, Nintendo is not really in the console war even though their GC is somewhat respectable.

    M$ is already loosing money just to keep up with the PS2, so I'm guessing that if any of this should have some truth in it that's its a plan from Sony to put some pressure on M$ and have them do a mistake...like dropping their game's price for instance.

    I don't own a XBox so I don't know much about their XBox live network but it could also be a msg to MS that Sony is coming pretty fast on their tail to win the online console war as well.

    but again....just speculating here, the article doesn't get too specific and that means maybe I've been speculating on a st00pid rumor :p

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  5. Re:Not only is it vapor, it WILL NOT BE CALLED PS by kwanbis · · Score: 2, Troll

    that was a hoax about Nintendo having the PlayStation name registered or something