PS2 to Have 10 Year Lifecycle, PS3 Not Cheap

Anonymous PC Gamer writes "CNet is reporting that Sony's Ken Kutaragi has said that he expect the Playstation 3 to have a ten year life cycle. Methinks Sony's production woes are going to be their achillies heel this time, especially in America. Will Sony be able to survive a couple of months of having another expensive, hard-to-find console with Bill and Co. bloodthirsty at their heels?" From the article: "I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households. I think everyone can still buy it if they wanted to...But we're aiming for consumers throughout the world. So we're going to have to do our best (in containing the price)."

Comments

Typo in headline

[djfray]

Should be "PS3 to have ten year life span...."

Zonk....!!!!!

[aztektum]

The DAMN TITLE of your story is completely wrong. No where in the articles linked does it say PS2 will have 10-year life span, which we know is false anyway because the PS3 is being launched next year. Hello, Mcfly???

Clarification

[interiot]

Slashdot's title and writeup are very confusing. What I got from the article is:

• PS3 will have a 10-year lifespan (not PS2...)
• this is because the PS3 will have all the high-def functionality that people might eventually want, but will have them all, up front
• as a result, some people may not need all of the features of PS3 right away. And it will definitely be expensive, so they may want to delay buying it.
• but, the PS3 will have tons of features, potentially before other consoles do, so that's the upside

10 year thing said before

[BinaryOpty]

Sony said this already with the PS2 before its release. It's just a marketing scheme to try and get people to accept their over-priced day-one purchase by saying "Hey, this console will still be sold 10 years in the future it will be so popular!" It all stems from the PSOne's popularity: the Playstation was released in 1995 and is still sold in stores, so it has a "10 year lifecycle", especially since the PS3's appearance next year will push the PSOne off of the market. The PS2 was released at the middle point of that 10 years, and the PS3 will be relased in the middle of the PS2's 10 years. The PS2 needs to last until 2010 for its 10 year lifecycle to be true, and the PS3 needs to last until 2016. The whole lifecycle thing is just speculation on Sony's part based on the PS1's sales curve. If Blu-Ray's not accepted or one of a million other things happens, the PS3's lifecycle might be cut short.

Re:Cell distributed architecture allow expansion?

[Sir_Brizz]

That's rubbish.

Especially at the current time, networking is not a viable platform to increase processing speed. I guarantee it never will be.

the only way they could promise this without lying would be to have each of the critical components removable and upgradeable, which we all know is not going to happen. Plus, it's already been shown that Cell is great for floating point math, but not for much else. It's doubtful that the "multiple core" complex people have right now is going to bear greater numbers than single cored AMD64's in the very near future.