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Sony Promises 1M PS3s This Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they're-trustworthy-you-can-trust-them dept.

Joystiq reports that Sony is still promising 1 Million PS3 units in North America for this year. This, despite much lower estimates as released yesterday. From the article: "basically, these numbers don't mean anything. Despite what appears to be gross incompetence to much of the gaming press and the hardcore industry watchers (that's you guys), the mainstream gamer is blissfully unaware of reductions in shipping estimates. To him, it will appear that the PS3 is the hottest thing this holiday -- just like the Xbox 360 appeared to be last year and the PlayStation 2 back in '00 -- and may have no problem waiting for the demand and/or price to go down. People are still buying PS2s today, remember? Just a reality check before the hype consumes us all." For more on this, 1up has analyst reaction to the release news, and comments from GTA creator Dave Jones on his reaction to the news.

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  1. I think you're confused by hudsonhawk · · Score: 2, Informative
    Erm, too bad I already have a DVD player that does 720p.


    You may have a DVD player that upscales to 720p, but that isn't really the same thing as what you're saying. I mean, I can take my 1 megapixel camera and scale an image from it to 5 megapixels - but that doesn't mean i suddenly have a 5 megapixel camera. Upscaling DVD players don't magically make the content be 720p.

    I don't really care about 1080p anyway, which is the only real advantage of BluRay.


    HD-DVD does 1080p as well. I think you're confusing the fact that the PS3 is capable of 1080p (though games aren't required to support that resolution and most probably won't) with the fact that the Xbox 360 isn't. In terms of resolution, HD-DVD and BluRay share the same capabilities; the main difference between them is disc capacity.
  2. Re:What is Sony thinking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

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  3. Re:PS3 sacrificed for Blu Ray by alienw · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think Merrill Lynch is full of shit. There is no way in hell the blu-ray drive costs that much. I doubt the bill-of-materials cost is more than $50, since it's roughly the same thing as a regular CD/DVD drive. The vast majority of the cost is probably due to yield problems with their custom chips.