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Should You Wait For The PS3?
News for nerds writes "Though Xbox 360 is launching tomorrow in the U.S. to usher the next-generation of game consoles, the champion of the current generation has been quiet... until now. From the CNN Money article with words from Sony's CEO, Sir Howard Stringer: 'Sir Howard said the PS3 will sell for $300 to $400 and will come with a bundle of games, movies, and TV shows, many of which Sony also makes. The question is whether the titles will be bundled on Blu-ray DVD discs or on a built-in hard drive.'" Update: 11/22 22:22 GMT by Z : Chris Morris over at CNN emailed to let us know that there have been signifiCant changes to the story since it was originally posted.
At the present moment, the current estimated cost per wafer is $9000-$10,000, with about 65 good chips per wafer. So, the current estimated cost per chip is $150 and $175 on the board. Now, don't get me wrong, Sony is pretty wealthy. But how can they afford that? $175 and no drive, GPU or anything. Sony will obviously go into the red in order to be competitively priced. Sony: A) Wants to sell it in the red to be competitively priced. While standalone Blu-Ray players will be an estimated $1,000 , you can get a killer game console AND blu-ray player for less! B) Lock consumers into the system with some good launch games and better specs. C) Once there is enough of a base, Blu-ray will be the obvious choice for movie producers and consumers as a storage format. I'm in doubt of this. Between the rootkit and Betamax, the memory stick, etc., the players/burners will be overpriced and Sony will keep it to themselves. The format will probably be designed with Sony and "movie producer rights" in mind vs. the consumer. I am in doubt that the console alone will be able to make Blu-Ray a success.
Barely? In a limited amount of time of development, they were able to ABLY develop an XBox emulator way better than anything else you'll find right now, that emulated both the CPU and GPU rather precisely. A few of the games on the list have a few problems, but many are minor and are expected to be fixed in the next update.
It also upgrades the graphics resolution quite a bit with antialiasing and 720p. Pretty nice.
Nintendo will definitely make good on their first party titles being emulated as well as possible (same as Microsoft), and their simpler machines are the only ones being emulated from what I understand (SNES, N64, etc.) If they emulate the Gamecube rather than supporting the hardware... then my hat's off to them just as much as Microsoft.
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Got love the sony fan boys. By a small collection of games you mean 200+ games that are certified to run.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?