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SCEA President Hypes PS3 Shelf Life Over 360
kukyfrope writes "Sony Computer Entertainment America President Kaz Hirai recently talked to San Jose Mercury News about their upcoming console. His argument is that, by waiting to deliver Blu-Ray and performance hardware, even at a high price, the PS3 will be in greater standing than the Xbox 360 in the long run. Hirai also takes a cop-out on the amount of hype surrounding the PS3 hardware performance saying, 'It's all about the games. We all know that [...] This is a console that is here for the long haul and is not on a five-year cycle. Microsoft is coming out with an HD-DVD accessory for HD movies as an add-on only a year after they launched: that is exactly the kind of thing we don't want to do.'"
There's a shelf full of them at my local game store. THe shortages thing was true for a month or so due to supply issues, but there haven't been any shortages for months.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
"XBOX 360 has pretty short shelf life"
That was a dumb thing to try to brag about...
Especially when everyone can see for themselves the stacks of unsold 360s in stores right now.
Microsoft still hasn't sold through their initial 150k shipment to Japan - they are at the amazingly pathetic 130k mark as of now. So there are 360s over there with a seven month shelf life and seven months of dust on them.
Microsoft is getting killed by Sony and the PS2 in Europe right now. The 360 has sold somewhere in the 500-600k so far. People in Europe have been talking about 360s sitting in stacks unsold there in stores. I just saw a report where the PS2 was outselling the 360 in Spain by 5 to 1!
And every major retailer in the US has huge stacks of 360s. Last month was where Microsoft was supposed to have 'fixed the supply problem' and they only managed to sell a miserable 300k in the US. 'Supply problem', yeah right.
It is unlikely Microsoft will even be able to break 3 million consoles in its first year. Ouch!
The Wii will sell well at 199 or below, 250...
The gimmicky controller gets old very quick.
Considering that GTA:SA already filled an entire DVD on current-gen consoles...
No, it really didn't. Admittedly, the only Xbox size I could find was a PAL version, but it was a whopping 2.85 GB. The NTSC version of GTA III was a whopping 733MB (even the Dreamcast GD-ROM could have accommodated that on one disc) and GTA:VC was 1.20GB. Relatively few games even made it past the first layer of DVD. It's no wonder that Microsoft didn't feel a next-gen disc drive was necessary for the 360.
The difference is that those add-ons were *required* to play games specifically designed for them. In this case the HD-DVD add-on is soley for watching HD-DVD movies, games will still be DVD based. In the end all this really is is a way for people who own an Xbox 360 to get a cheap (compared to a standalone) HD-DVD player. Not buying it will not hinder game playing at all.
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"