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PS3 Production 'In Full Swing'
1up is reporting on comments from Phil Harrison, saying that the PS3 is in full production mode. There are apparently already 10,000 devkits out there, and something like 100 games in the pipe already for the console. From the article: "Sounds pretty much like the usual rah-rah, go-team kind of stuff you'd expect to hear before a major system launch, but mentions of third-party support become far more interesting when you learn that many folks, both within Sony and without, are apparently 'scared of the wrath of Phil Harrison,' according to a Guardian source. Are third-party developers as excited and supportive as Harrison would have us believe, or are they just scared of receiving a Sony-flavored beat down?"
Developer's PS3's all catching on fire, sony claims lack of fans...
Did someone say cake?
Why not link directly to the article here, instead of going via some other site?
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So modchips will be available when?
Why exactly would they be afraid of Phil Harrison? I mean, what's Harrison going to do, throw a chair at them?
Yeah, yeah. What would a reporter expect him to say?
Considering that the console is due on the scene in only 4 months, I would hope that developers had all the tools they needed by now. This isn't realy much of a statement, and actually seems like a backhanded admission that things haven't been going well up to now.
"All the pieces of the puzzle are there..."
To dust off an old chestnut, do you want a cookie or something? Why is this worthy of Slashdot news?
Homer: Hummm... Sony-flavored beat down (drooling noises).
My left arm is all scars and I consider that a valid excuse...
According to a report, about 200 thousand component sets were shipped to Asus in June, which means that the company is in position to build 200 thousand game consoles. Seems like a nice start for Sony.
My sources tell me that it's better than that, that there's a huge surprise in store for PS3 buyers.
Sit down - because you may find this one difficult to believe. But it's 100% true.
Every PS3 will come with a $2,000 coupon towards a brand new Sony plasma TV. And yes, if you use the coupon toward a TV costing less than $2,000 (and Sony markets three, right now, and that's going by MSRP, so you can find many more), the TV is free.
So for $600, you not only get the best console, but you get a high quality television as part of the bargain.
Oh, and one more thing.
Yes, the PS3 will come with Linux. But it will also come with Mac OS X. Sony's the first company since 1996 to license the Macintosh operating system. You can't get better than that.
Yahoo! Stocks Message boards, a message from an insider spills the beans.
...said the Nintendo fanboy before the launch of the N64.
...said the Atari fanboy before the launch of the 5200.
We don't know how this generation is going to play out. We don't know how good the PS3 will do. We don't know how good the graphics are. We don't know how the Wii games will look, and most of us don't know how they'll play. We don't know how adults and non-gamers will respond to the Wii. We don't know if the PS3 is going to be worth it for them.
We know nothing, and history only tells us one thing: Unexpected things do happen.
Well I thought perhaps the anti-sony slant here had calmed down, but it seems to be back again - how long did it take to find a blog with a negative slant on a story about manufacturing?
Time to re-activate the 'zonked' tag.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
100 games in the pipe...No wonder my email is so slow...
Oh wait.. tubes, not pipes.
Never mind.
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Who moded this "insitefull"..
Funny, maybe..
Please, Lord God, tell me it will!!!!!
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Just because you found a quote that can be attributed to Seamus Blackley does not mean that Sony didn't say it first.
I remember, very clearly, when the PS2 tech demos (remember the rubber duck?) came out, about boasts of Toy Story graphics by Sony. I also remember the post by a Pixar employee refuting the claim.
Unfortunately, it's gotten so buried in the 'net by trolling fanboys playing he-said-she-said that it's impossible to find a link anymore. Closest I can come with a quick search is:
here
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
Everyone knows Sony is better on its word than MS: if they say the PS3 is coming out, it's coming out, and in large numbers. Mistakes in the past aside, they won't make the same mistake MS did with the 360.
No, indeed, they are making other mistakes.
Disclaimer: I plan on getting a PS3 on the release day.
The doom and gloom talk surround Sony is based on (by order of importance):
a) the arguably prohibitively high price of the PS3
b) the staggering loss it is nonetheless taking per unit sold
c) whether or not Blu-Ray will dominate or crash and burn as a next gen DVD format
d) the difficulty of programming games for such an ubercomplex processor
In short, if the production cost per unit is too high and the price at the store is too high for customers to buy, Sony may be digging its grave one inch deeper with each unit that comes out.
But I still want one. I'm banking on the PS3 delivering what I crave - gargantuan Speedtree-enhanced environments with very smart interactive NPC's in a nonlinear universe as diverse as Morrowind and Oblivion combined plus as fast and frenzied as Ninety Nine Nights! [PS3 fan boy mode on, must stop now.]
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
That would be so nice, we could get a games editor who doesn't aspire to be a tabloid writer.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Not terribly long ago, Inquirer ran a story about how the Cell processor in the PS3 suffered from a rather striking lack of local memory (e.g. cache) bandwidth. "Striking," as in the read bandwidth being something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the corresponding write bandwidth. I'm curious whether this problem was fixed by spinning new silicon, or whether Sony must ship their flawed boxes as-is.