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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."

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  1. LOL VACANCIES LOL by LOL+VACANCIES+LOL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL VACANCIES LOL

  2. gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    niggers

  3. Hmm.. by lucidhaze · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you were saying?...

  4. next generation by quintesson · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it's looking more and more likely that, for the first time in my life, i am going to choose nintendo.

  5. Re:PS4 by ErikPeterson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    someone loves to mod me down

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  6. from by brandanglendenning · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    outerspace

  7. Re:An expensive addition... by HangingChad · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do you want to pay an extra $130 ($100 cost of drive plus 30% profit margin) on your new PS3 for a DRM-laden drive that can 'punish' you?

    For that much money it should come with a blow job.

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  8. Re:PS4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The only jokes that get modded funny are the ones that have been posted 1000 times before. If you would have said "PS2? How am I going to play games on my old mouse adaptor???" or "PSP? You can play games on PAINT SHOP PRO???" you would be +5 right now.

  9. Re:An expensive addition... by FLAGGR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  10. Re:In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    cum guzzler is pretty obvious, but wtf is a snowblower in a homoerotic context?

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  11. Re:In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cum guzzler is pretty obvious, but wtf is a snowblower in a homoerotic context?

    I think a snowball is when someone gives a blow, but doesn't swallow but rather spits in the partner's mouth. This was in the film Clerks. I would guess in this case Taco is being accused of peforming oral sex, swallowing semen, or spitting it in someone else's mouth. Either that or it's in reference to cocaine, aka snow, snorting it and then offering another male oral sex. "Pardon me sir, I am riding that train high on cocaine and desire to give you oral sex.".

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong and for the love of god don't mod this up!