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Blu Ray Drive Will Cost $100 Per PlayStation 3
fembots writes "The Inquirer is running an article detailing how Blu-Ray drives for the PlayStation 3 will cost Sony a small fortune. It turns out that at the release of the console in the first half of 2006, Sony will have to pay more than $100 per drive which will dramatically increase the unit cost of the PS3."
it's looking more and more likely that, for the first time in my life, i am going to choose nintendo.
For that much money it should come with a blow job.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
If you read the rest of the post, you'll understand the point I was making. While the xbox is theoretically superior to the gamecube by far, because of ill design the gamecube can produce graphics comparable to - and sometimes surpassing the xbox. Examples? Metroid Prime (1 & 2) and RE4. The one thing the xbox has going for it is better shader support. It's just easier to roll out games that use them than it is for the gamecube (where it requires more work) However, as you'll see by playing most any game, the gamecube kicks ass with things like particles (which is a more raw and implementation specific benchmark than shader support, but it speaks for how the gamecube can be more poweful than the xbox under certain conditions, equal in others and *slightly* less in the rest.
Bottom line: You're buying a console based on pretty graphics. Do you:
A) go for the system with bigger numbers, even though it can never utilize them -or-
B) Go with the system that can get better real world benchmarks, or in this case nearly equal, but for a lesser cost?
Of course you go with A), because you're a dumb AC that doesn't understand.