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More PlayStation 3 Predictions
GreyGusMan writes "On the heels of last week's report that the PlayStation 3 would be released by the end of the year, CNN/Money is now reporting that Sony will not release its next console until 2006 - a year later than most of the industry has been predicting up until now. The column points out that PlayStation 2 sales have remained stong for much longer than the PlayStation and the technology Sony has planned will take a long time to create. Meanwhile, the same column mentions that the expected May price cut may be less than expected. Most people were expecting the PS2 to drop to $149, but $179 is now also a possibility."
Because it was a PS/2 exclusive, all those people who only played GTA3 on the PC now had to buy a PS/2 to get to the sequel!
Example of this would be me, I forced my good brother to buy the PS/2 while I bought the game (two advantages : Reduces my expenses, and the machine is not "near" me so I won't be sucked out of a social life because of Vice City ;-) )
Obviously, if they expect sales to continue because of upcoming GTA4 (what was it - 2004?), they'll have some tough negotiations with Rockstar ahead of them! Rockstar will be able to demand pretty much full-margin and some additional cash upfront, with Sony recouping that loss through their margin on sales of other games.
Great stuff for Rockstar, I hope GTA4 will live up to its promise!
"gimpy media: cartridges, mini-DVDs, instead of CDs and regular DVDs." The N64 carts= no load times. Maybe they just look after players more then developer? "X-Box has also struggled with developers, but they clearly had (and still has) the best engine behind the games" Best engine? Excuse me but have you seen the textures on the GameCube??? Games that can use them, like Tony Hawk and any sports game look way better on GameCube then any other platform. Also, proc speed has almost nothing to do with these games anymore. Nintendo knew that, Sony knew that, the only one who didn?t know that is MS. Also, who do you assume is winning? Nintendo is doing just fine producing the best console games on the market, and only allowing other high quality developers develop games for their console. My main issue with XBOX, which I have played quite a bit, is the hard drive. As soon as you add a hard drive (the most unstable element of any computer) you no longer have a console, you now have a computer. Now that the XBOX is just a computer, why can't I plug in my PC controllers? Why cant I play PC games? Why can't I upgrade my machine? The XBOX possesses all he negative aspects of a PC (too many parts, instability) and all of the negative aspects of consoles (closed system, incompatibility, can't upgrade). To me the choice has always been PS2 or GC. To choose the XBOX would be choosing the worst of both worlds.