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lbd_nytetraynThanks to Matrix Prime at The Allspark:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=24968
AT THIS WEEK'S Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo, company president Ken Kutaragi meandered along to continue with his solemn warnings that the PlayStation 3 will not be a cheap console, even going so far as to say that "…the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households."
Well err, who else were you thinking of selling it to? That aside, he does say that Sony is planning a lifecycle of ten years for the PS3, which is about double what its predecessors got. Sony hopes to maintain this long life-cycle by investing now in those expensive pieces of kit, saying "We're looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3. We're currently shifting from standard TVs to HDTVs.
"But in the next couple of years, most flat-panel TVs will be full HD. We're releasing the PS3 with full HD features from the start so that consumers won't have to buy another version of the console in the future. For the same reason, we're using Blu-ray as the PS3's disc format."
He also showed the first slides of the early dev kits and told the audience that Sony intends to meet the huge demand from developers to get their hands on the technology by October, as at the moment the number currently shipped to developers is only around 450, though they’ll ramp that up to 3,000 a month come October.
We can’t help but get uneasy feelings in our stomachs about the PS3 considering that it’ll be coming to market so long after the Xbox 360 and with a price tag to boot. Wonder how far that loyal PlayStation fan base will stretch?
...not for households? Oh, well then, I guess that's one less hard decision to make. I prefer the idea of a Microsoft vs. Nintendo race, anyway.
On top of that, rumor has it that it may be 2007 before PS3 comes out:
According to analysts at Wedbush Morgan, seemingly still unable to lay off the crack pipe, the PlayStation 3 will ship in 2007 if the Xbox 360 fails to ignite the hardware market.
We expect Sony to defer a decision regarding PS3 launch until it is able to assess the likely success of the Xbox 360, and anticipate that Sony will make its decision shortly after the Xbox 360 launch. We do not expect the PS3 until mid 2006, at the earliest, and should Microsoft fail to garner sufficient software support to gain an insurmountable lead, we think that there is a possibility that the PS3 launch will slip into early 2007.
Of course, this stands in stark contrast with wider expectations, set by Sony at The PlayStation meeting last week (albeit off the record) that we’ll see at least a Japanese launch of PlayStation 3 in spring 2006.
Sony is keeping tight-lipped on this as you might expect, though SPOnG cannot help wonder if the analysts quoted above have any tangible concept of what it takes to launch a videogame platform. The entire process is a massive undertaking and cannot be decided upon a whim, as suggested.
From manufacturing to retail, PR to third-party publishing/developing, SPOnG would assert that it’s simply impossible to maintain a transient console launch strategy as Wedbush Morgan describes.
Expect official comment from SCEI at the Tokyo Game Show in September.
So as one might expect, this makes my biggest concern that if Nintendo stick with their "last to market" ways, that the Revolution might not make it here for quite awhile yet. :(
LBD "Nytetrayn"
http://theinquirer.net/?article=24968
AT THIS WEEK'S Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo, company president Ken Kutaragi meandered along to continue with his solemn warnings that the PlayStation 3 will not be a cheap console, even going so far as to say that "…the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households."
Well err, who else were you thinking of selling it to? That aside, he does say that Sony is planning a lifecycle of ten years for the PS3, which is about double what its predecessors got. Sony hopes to maintain this long life-cycle by investing now in those expensive pieces of kit, saying "We're looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3. We're currently shifting from standard TVs to HDTVs.
"But in the next couple of years, most flat-panel TVs will be full HD. We're releasing the PS3 with full HD features from the start so that consumers won't have to buy another version of the console in the future. For the same reason, we're using Blu-ray as the PS3's disc format."
He also showed the first slides of the early dev kits and told the audience that Sony intends to meet the huge demand from developers to get their hands on the technology by October, as at the moment the number currently shipped to developers is only around 450, though they’ll ramp that up to 3,000 a month come October.
We can’t help but get uneasy feelings in our stomachs about the PS3 considering that it’ll be coming to market so long after the Xbox 360 and with a price tag to boot. Wonder how far that loyal PlayStation fan base will stretch?
...not for households? Oh, well then, I guess that's one less hard decision to make. I prefer the idea of a Microsoft vs. Nintendo race, anyway.
On top of that, rumor has it that it may be 2007 before PS3 comes out:
According to analysts at Wedbush Morgan, seemingly still unable to lay off the crack pipe, the PlayStation 3 will ship in 2007 if the Xbox 360 fails to ignite the hardware market.
We expect Sony to defer a decision regarding PS3 launch until it is able to assess the likely success of the Xbox 360, and anticipate that Sony will make its decision shortly after the Xbox 360 launch. We do not expect the PS3 until mid 2006, at the earliest, and should Microsoft fail to garner sufficient software support to gain an insurmountable lead, we think that there is a possibility that the PS3 launch will slip into early 2007.
Of course, this stands in stark contrast with wider expectations, set by Sony at The PlayStation meeting last week (albeit off the record) that we’ll see at least a Japanese launch of PlayStation 3 in spring 2006.
Sony is keeping tight-lipped on this as you might expect, though SPOnG cannot help wonder if the analysts quoted above have any tangible concept of what it takes to launch a videogame platform. The entire process is a massive undertaking and cannot be decided upon a whim, as suggested.
From manufacturing to retail, PR to third-party publishing/developing, SPOnG would assert that it’s simply impossible to maintain a transient console launch strategy as Wedbush Morgan describes.
Expect official comment from SCEI at the Tokyo Game Show in September.
So as one might expect, this makes my biggest concern that if Nintendo stick with their "last to market" ways, that the Revolution might not make it here for quite awhile yet. :(
LBD "Nytetrayn"
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Date: 2005-07-31 05:03 pm (UTC)He likely means that the PS3 is not being aimed at the average game player or the average household, but (obviously) people who are better off and have more money to burn.
In other words: The intention is for the vast majority of the people who made the PSOne and PS2 the "number one console" to be unable to afford it.
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Date: 2005-07-31 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-31 08:07 pm (UTC)...And since Sony's already stopped most of their promo stuff for the PS2, this could very well mean a prolonged period where the PS2 is just wasting space. Which.. not only guarantees the X-Box 360 (such a stupid name..) a goodly share, but might finally give Nintendo a chance to break back into the spotlight.
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Date: 2005-07-31 08:12 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's amazing what marketing, peer pressure, and prettiness can do for a system.
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Date: 2005-08-01 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-01 10:52 am (UTC)LBD "Nytetrayn"
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Date: 2005-08-01 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-01 02:50 pm (UTC)Had me going for a minute there.
LBD "Nytetrayn"