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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.'"
It would take Sony a hell of a lot not to wipe the floor with Microsoft, but if they aren't trying their damnedest to fail...
English is easier said than done.
SCEA President Hypes PS3 Shelf Life Over 360
XBOX 360 has pretty short shelf life: when they put it on the shelf, someone comes immediately and buys it (well, except Japan... yet). That will happen with the Wii too. That sucks for them having so short shelf life.
But PS3 will have a great shelf life...
When Microsoft or Nintendo release a new console, Sony will have to anyway. People will move to the newer consoles because they'll have the impression that Sony isn't going with the times. Consoles nowadays seem to be released in cycles (i.e. N64, PS1, Saturn then Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox and PS2), and Sony will have to keep up with this regardless or risk losing fans.
If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.
Why not remove the Blu-Ray and drop the price $200, then, genius?
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.
Stupid Microsoft, having to come out with an accessory just an year after they launched.
Do as Sony does: they've not even launched yet.
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.