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Playstation 3 Delay Official
Aleman writes "In this interview with Variety magazine, Sony CEO Howard Stringer confirms that the Playstation 3 will be released during the holiday 2006 season." Not very surprising given the available information.
Sony is fine with waiting given the poor execution of the 360. Ironically, if MS had given itself a few more months it may have put more pressure on Sony. However, given the numbers I am seeing on the components even another nine months may not be enough for the PS3 to come in at a reasonable amount for Sony . Sony will not price it above $400 USD retail. But losing $500 on each console sold cannot be an attractive proposition for Sony higher-ups.
As far as raw launch sales, probably.
As far as getting the Blu-Ray mind/marketshare, not so much.
I'll be picking up an Xbox 360. The more I read about Sony't PS3, the less and less I want one. Sony is now showing a lot of confidence these days and I'm jumping ship. I cen't believe how nice my friend's Xbox 360 is and I want in on the action NOW!
See you on Live.
because when the PS3 finally comes out, whatever time of year, it will likely be in limited supply, not well supported by 3rd party software, and expensive as hell. This makes it an early adopters "must have" and not much else until price goes down and support goes up.
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I'm with you. I've been a Nintendo fanboy for years, but just last night I thought I try out Shadow of the Colussus. I've read so much good press about the title, and I love out-of-the-ordinary games.
But I'll be damned if I didnt think that game was awful. The controls reminded me of Prince of Persia ala '93 and the camera angle was awful. I don't care if the designers decided to make the game entirely out of the color grey, or go only with level bosses that still doesn't make it an "innovative" or even "artistic" game.
The game *mechanics* are just like every other game I've played on the PS2; worse so since the controls were terrible.
I think I've been spoiled on Nintendo's first party games
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
Interesting that so many people are saying the 360 isn't selling well. The information that is published appears to indicate... "The system looks likely sell 6 million units by the end of June 2006, and from 10 to 12 million by the end of the year." This information came from "Research analyst P.J. McNealy, as reported by Next Generation." URL: http://games.kikizo.com/news/200603/002.asp
Now, that's ignoring the Japanese market where the 360 has positively -bombed-: "The Xbox 360 managed to sell only 1,203 units from Feb. 20 - 26 in a report from Media Create." Source: http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=2101
Try post-ordering. Wait six months after release and you'll be fine.
The launch games you want will still be available, and perhaps even marked down.
For all the effort you went through to get your PlayStation 2, wouldn't you want to keep playing it for a few more months?
The average console gamer does NOT love high def fps games. The average PC gamer DOES. Halo sold generally well on the Xbox (about 5 million per title) but it (and most fps'es) have been grossly outsold by the Marios, Maddens, Grand Theft Autos, etc.