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PS3 Still Possible This Year?
IGN reports that the possibility exists the PlayStation 3 may still see release this year. Sony Chief Financial Officer Takao Yuhara mentioned in a statement to a Japanese news service that a year end release of the next generation Playstation is an option they are exploring. From the article: "Most industry speculation calls for a next generation PlayStation release in 2006. Sony's third party developers have backed this assumption up with a strong list of PlayStation 2 titles planned for the rest of the year and early next."
I guess we can blame on X-box 360, althought if Sony releases the console too early there is a chanche that they rushed it. Then, they could as well already be finished with the designs and is just in the markerting phase. Still, where is the games? If the devolopers hadn't got any SDK's...
Well..the PS3 would have a huge selection of existing PS2 games that it can already run, unlike the Xblob 360.
With a blue-ray drive? I doubt it will happen
very much
I prefer to wait a bit longer for an even more bad ass system!
btw... what is an MSN advertisement doing on SLASHDOT?
If Sony decides to release PS3 this year, it's going to one hell of a rush job. I mean, they're not even ready to demonstrate it at this point -- it's unthinkable that they're going to release it this year. And don't forget the three to nine months delay from Sony releasing it in Japan before it is released in the US and Europe.
I hope they don't feel rushed by Xbox. My hope is that people will wait on buying an Xbox until they see how the PS3 will pan out.
They're 'hinting' that it's possible that they'll release the PS3 in 2005 because they want people to just get that 'shadow of a doubt' before they rush out and get an XBox2 *knowing* (supposedly) the PS3 is at least a year away.
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For them, just getting your to stop for a second and consider maybe waiting for the PS3, compairing the 2 systems and *then* deciding which one to get will be enough for them...
Then again... maybe they have a supprise for us
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.. and release your own 'news' about it.
oh, it has all the things you need for a good bullshit press story: controversy, hegelian dialectics (Sony vs. Microsoft), etc.
this isn't news. its PR-bot press-release limelighting. big deal. get over it.
(oh, wait.. people don't know what hegelian dialectics is, and certainly have no ease in recognizing it in their media... never mind. move along citizen.)
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I suspect this is all about Christmas. The simple fact is that console-wars always come down to market penetration. Sony proved this comprehensively by getting the Playstation and its successor into a vast number of homes. Once the console is out there, you can draw your profits from games sales for the next few years.
I don't think Sony are so much worried at the thought of the X-Box 360 appearing a few months before the PS3 as they are by the fact that it would, as it stands right now, have a whole Christmas - and all the attendant disposable income - all to itself. If Microsoft got the pricing and marketing right, they could make the X-Box 360 the number one Christmas item across a huge demographic spectrum. Sony would still have their hugely successful brand to trade on, but they'd still be running to catch up.
Definition of hegelian dialectics.
Just so we can all be as smart as you.
This 360 thing sure reminds me of the dreamcast's moment in the sun, and subsequent demise at the hands of the PS2. That being said, I can't imagine Sony would jump the gun with PS3 being that they already had tremendous success without allowing another company to dictate when their console was released.
PS3 devkits have been out at developers since Nov last year (to a select few).. dont doubt that Sony might even jump the gun with the PS3.. In fact .. having MS in a position where they just dont know what Sony is doing is an ideal marketing strategy.. and if they have something ready even around XBox360 release time.. what a coup.. and thats the sort of thing Sony like to pull.
Wasn't the PS2, initially, supposed to be released in 1999 (and didn't they then release in it 2000)?
I suspect that the initial release date was designed to be "smoke and mirrors" to manipulate potential Dreamcast owners so that they would wait. I expect that this is more of the same type of manipulation; soon enough you'll have developers saying that the XBox 360 has too many limitations and that everything that they can dream up will be possible on the PS3.
Does anyone else remember reading an interview where the developer claimed that "everything in a PS2 game would be modeled" and that "if you saw a paper clip you'd be able to shoot it off of the desk"?
Sony generally releases their consoles late. Maybe they decided that for once they'd like to see what happens when they release early o.o;;
You mean like the Saturn? Brilliant!
I still don't think Sony will be able to do anything here in the US this year. If they do manage to rush something out the door, then maybe Nintendo will even have a chance to make up some lost share (sacrificing time for quality is my point). Either way, I would think that we would have heard reports of manufacturers working on parts and such, like we have with the Xbox 2, and N Revoluion. Shit like that is always leaked. I have this funny feeling that the PS3 will stay on my "meh" list just like the PS2 did. Especially so if they use the same shitty uncomfortable controllers like the have for the last two consoles.
For once i want to see them just stop limiting players to one game region. if they want to stop modchip trading, this is the best strategy. Just let the console play both PAL and NTSC games, most TV sets can support both
In yesterday's interview Sony's chief financial officer Takao Yuhara said that his company is "working hard to get the PS3 ready in time for Christmas". Whatever working hard means I can't wait to get one of those monsters.