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Sony - PS2 Until 2010, First PSP Game Demo?
ack154 writes "Reuters has a good article from the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, explaining how Sony is planning to milk PS2 sales until 2010. They see a lot of potential still down the road. Also mentioned at the conference was that Sony has no plans to speed up PS3 development based on the next Xbox system. There was also an emulated demo of a game for the upcoming PSP handheld." Elsewhere, GameSpy has a more detailed write-up of the same GDC keynote, and 1UP.com has in-depth information on programming the PSP from another GDC lecture. Update: 03/26 14:31 GMT by S : 1UP has added a streaming movie of Death Jr., the PSP game demonstrated, to its coverage of the keynote.
Sony does certainly hace the hype machine in the thier court. If Microsoft starts to release the Xbox next before Sony releases the PS3, then all Sony has to do is start leaking rumors that they will be releasing the PS3 at about the same time Xbox next is going to be released. Then all the people more interested in Sony will wait it out, instead of buying an Xbox next in the short run.
I do believe that this round backward compatability is key, as well as network multi-player games. In addition to those, the console that adds the most multi-media functions as an easy side-task will get my dollars. I'd love to have a game machine for fun, as well as a HTPC for DVD playback, video/music streaming, PVR functions. I want an all-in-one box at a low price, and I don't want to have to hack it to get that.
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6 years ago was 1998.
I was using a 200 mhz pentium, playing games on my Playstation 1, and surfing the internet on a 28.8 baud modem, and I think I had a Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator card.
6 years from now.. who knows what I will be doing. But there is no way I will be sitting around playing a PS2.
Like my subject says.. 6 years is a really really long time in terms of technology. If Sony sits on their PS2 for that long they are going to be left behind.
Really? I plan on buying something that'll play video games and do it well. I don't need any of that other stuff to take away from that. Don't need an iffy DVD player included(I already own one), I don't need it to play CDs(I have a stereo), I don't need it to record TV shows(I have a VCR)
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some ps1 titles still get sold.
consider that.
they can still continue to milk ps2 line after they make ps3.
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I don't think that they are planning to wait with the PS3 until 2010. They're just going to support the PS2 until then, very much like they did with PS1(PSX). Even now you sometimes see games coming out for that system. The Backwards compatibility of the PS3 will give them a certain advantage, even when the PS3 is out, they can still make PS2 games, and PS3 owners will be able to play them.
It's clever, all those old PS2s need to go somewhere. They will probably go over to people that don't want to spend their money on an expensive console and are satisfied with something older. So next to the small PS3 start-up market after the release, they can continue to make money on the PS2, until enough people own a PS3.
You do realize that its saying that Sony expects PS2 development to be active and profitable, meaning it will still have new games coming out for it, untill at least 2010 and not that they are waiting till 2010 to release the PS3. You do understand that right? Afterall, there are still new PS1 games being released.
I think the plan is that they're going to continue to milk PS2 sales until 2010 like they continue to milk PS1 sales now. There might not be anything new that's worth buying coming out, but the system and games continue to be availible. I don't think a system has ever lasted as long on the shelves after "death" as the PSOne is, actually.
In 6 years the PS2 will be as usefull as the PS1 is today.. as in not at all.
You might like its legacy games and quaint graphics, but, its useless.
What need to they have to keep around aging technology for so long?
Just because they say they're going to milk the PS2 for another 6 years doesn't mean that they aren't going to be putting out the PS3. All it said was that they aren't going to speed up the PS3 release because of the XBox2.
I still play PS1 games (and Genesis and SNES and so forth), and stores still sell PS1 games, and I'm pretty sure that there are a few PS1 games still being made (albiet rare). And I fully intend to continue playing the games I have on my PS2 (and the games still to be released) for plenty of more years, including after the PS3 is out (and probably the PS4, PS5, and so on).
The problem with that analogy is that the DC wasn't that much of an improvement over the PS1. It was still CD-driven, it didn't have that much more horsepower, and it didn't have must-have titles.
The PS2 on the other hand was promising dual functionality of dvd playback, must-have titles, and noticeably more horsepower than the DC.
If rumors of more horsepower within a year were enough by themselves to wipe out a 1 year head start, then the XBox would've hampered PS2 sales -- which it didn't at all. Even despite that the XBox has numerous, tangible, technical advantages on the PS2 (HD, ethernet, proscan, HDTV, dolby 5.1, etc). What it didn't have - was advantages that consumers were clamoring for out of the box. (DVD playback, must-have games)
If the neXtBox is just more polygons, more HDTV support, and even HD-DVD support - it likely will fail like the DC did.
If it comes with PVR functionality and stays at consumer prices - it might explode like the PS2 did. If they include PVR and a blue laser DVD RW drive - who knows how big they could get. PVR today is great technology looking for the consumer price point, just like DVD was in 2000.
(Un)fortunately for Microsoft, it appears they don't quite get it (or they're masterful at disinformation). They're talking about just releasing merely a bigger/better/faster console with the neXtBox, while Sony is already gathering market experience with a consumer PVR + console. (PSX)
With MS being wishy-washy on backwards compatibility, and waffling on the HD - they might not even be able to sell the neXtBox to current fans.
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6 more years without a new console?
No, six more years of selling the PS2 (in some form) and it's games. Consider Sony still sells the PSOne and it's games; this article says nothing about not releasing the PS3 before 2010, just about continuing to milk the current platform in addition to it.