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PlayStation 3 Delayed, Over $800?
AWhiteFlame writes "Cnet is reporting that a research report issued by Merrill Lynch suggests that the Sony PlayStation 3's American release may be postponed until 2007. From the article: 'The analyst firm proposed the idea that high costs and Sony's decision to use an 'ambitious new processor architecture--the Cell' is making it look like the company might not be able to meet its goal of getting the PS3 out in the U.S. this year.' Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment." The official report (pdf) would also seem to indicate that the console will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $900 when it launches.
Maybe by 2007 Xbox 360s will actually be in some stores around here, and then I can have my choice.
Damn, my first car cost less than that. Granted, it was a piece of shit, and it didn't have the latest and greatest Cell HypeEngine® built in, but it did have a nice big back seat (wink, wink), which produced a lot more fun than any Sony equipment I've ever owned.
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Maybe call it the 'Neo Geo'. :P
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Anything above 600$ will hurt, as my wife would try to kill me...
Ob SONY joke:
SONY="Soon Only Not Yet"
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The thing that is interesting to me here is this: For the last year, people have been repeating the factoid that the PS3 will apparently cost $500 to produce. If you spend a little bit of time digging, though, you'll find that all such claims ultimately stem from a single oft paraphrased-and-then-meta-paraphrased report by Merrill Lynch about halfway through last year.
Now Merrill Lynch says the PS3 will cost $900 to produce.
I can only conclude that the amount Merrill Lynch believes the PS3 will cost to produce approximately doubles every nine months. At this rate, by the end of 2006 Merrill Lynch will believe the PS3 costs $2000 to produce, and by the end of the PS3's lifespan Sony will be paying a full $4,551,111 per unit to manufacture the PS3.
Clearly, Sony has a serious problem here.
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That's 'cause it'll be 35 times bigger.
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In the back seat you were at risk of contracting any number of things, but not a rootkit.
Hmm, I think the cons are winning
I think you're overestimating Microsoft's chances.
You do realize that Sony invented the blu-ray drive. They aren't going to charge themselves that much to make a drive they own all the rights to.
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