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PS3 Showing At Taipei Game Show

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-something-new-even dept.

Gamespot reports that Sony will be devoting a quarter of its booth to the PS3 at next week's Taipei game show. The question is, will there be anything new? From the article: "It hasn't been disclosed whether Sony is planning something similar [to 2005's E3] with the Taipei Game Show, or if the console will finally appear in a playable form. Sony's appearance at 'the other TGS' comes just one month before Microsoft launches its Xbox 360 in Taiwan on March 16."

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  1. Next Gen Is About To Begin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Next Gen timeline looks like:

    Feb: PS3 Taipei Show & PS3 developer only conf & retailer/publisher invite only shows up in SF

    March/April: Another PS3 showing in Japan

    May: E3 Big PS3 and Revolution - PS3 hits the shelves

    August: Revolution hits the shelves

    October: PS3 available in all regions

    Where this leaves the 360 is unclear. It is being outsold in Japan by the GameCube and 5x by the PS2. And the manufacturing problems are said to have no end in sight for most of 2006. Add to the fact that 360s appear to be sitting on eBay unbid and unsold in large quantities and people are reporting 360s sitting unsold all over the US in major retailers.

    Japan: 50/50 split between Rev and PS3 - 360 essentially 0 share
    US: 35/60/5 split between Rev, PS3, and 360
    Europe: 20/70/5 split between Rev, PS3, and 360

    Huge numbers of people are going to own both a PS3 and Rev if Nintendo can really get the price down in the 200-250 dollar range.

    1. Re:Next Gen Is About To Begin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Just check his post history...

      He's doing his best to get that 360 hype out there in the public. Doesn't seem to be working very well.

      The reality of the 360 situation looks like:

      1) Malfunctioning 360s on display in stores - has anyone ever seen a working/non-crashing 360 in a store?

      2) Boxes of unsold 360s in major retailers - who the hell wants to spend 400 bucks on a defective piece of hardware that has jaggy but a little bit better graphics than last gen

      3) Sitting unsold/unbid on eBay - where's the millions of people desperate to get their hands on a 360?

      I remember the Dreamcast launch. Microsoft wishes they were even close to doing as well as the Dreamcast. And it died within a year or so.

  2. Re:this should be interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go back to teamxbox little fanboy.