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Sony Denies PS3 Delay
Eurogamer reports that Sony is flatly denying the delay of the PlayStation 3. From the article: "Sakaguchi was responding to allegations made by Merrill Lynch analyst Joe Osha in a report published late last week, in which Osha claimed that the PS3 could launch in autumn in Japan, with a US launch possibly being delayed to early 2007. 'There is no change in our original plan to release the console in spring 2006," Sakaguchi told the press in Tokyo, referring to the company's only stated goal for the launch so far - namely that the console will appear in at least one territory, most likely Japan, this spring.' They have lots of opportunities at GDC and E3 to change the public perception that their next console is still very much a work in progress.
Wow, only like 4 days to respond... They must have Dick Cheney's public relations team or something...
Screw the delay, what about the price? Are they denying the damn thing is going to cost 900 bucks? If they are not they might as well delay the thing to judgement day. I don't know anyone that is going to reach up their ass and pull out 900 bucks for a video game.
For that kind of scratch I could buy a xbox360, a few games, and still have enough left over for a night with a couple of high priced call girls.
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Agreed. I hate how people always rag on Duke Nukem Forever just because its been delayed a bit! As long as it has few bugs when released whats the big deal?
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What makes a game good is relatively independent of when it's released, be it at launch or three years later.
That's so not true. Madden '03 sucks compared to this year's. Like, that one super awesome quarterback that plays for that team in that city, he's great. He wasn't in Madden '03 at all. It was like they just decided not to put this totally great guy in the game. So I say that if a game doesn't come out right now it sucks.
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Playstation 3 will change the very definition of "spring". The rebirth of each year's springtime will become a shallow metaphore for the huge sweeping cultural and artistic changes which PS3 will bring to humanity as a whole.
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By the time DNF comes out, it should be so well tested that it fixes bugs in other programs in the vicinity.